The command of the Eighth Army of the British Army.

"General!" As soon as Lt. Gen. Romney entered the headquarters, he shouted to O'Connor, "We can't go any further." ”

"Don't worry, Major General, speak slowly," O'Connor seemed to be in a good mood, ignoring the Major General's faux pas, "and if you want to persuade me to give the order to halt the advance, you must have a convincing reason. I'll start with your reasoning, and I'll be able to agree with you more easily, right? ”

"When in North Germany, the German army also retreated unhurriedly like this! And then the result we all know! ”

"What do you mean, Mr. Major General, are we not going to attack in the future?" O'Connor shook his head, "And now, considering the intensity of the engagement, the amount of equipment abandoned by the Confederates when they retreated, and the number of prisoners of war, the enemy's retreat was far from unhurried, and there was no doubt that they were driven back by the heroic fighting of our soldiers. Major General, we seized the rare opportunity and launched a surprise attack, and then relied on the hard work of all the officers and men to get to the current situation, do you want to deny the hard work of our officers and men? ”

In order to lure the enemy into fighting smoothly, Lin Youde invested in the elite of the German army, and he fundamentally did not believe that the Turkish troops had enough combat will and organization to carry out such a retreat war. Because it is the elite of the German army, the British army naturally fought very hard, and now most of the British troops on the front line have played in Libya and the French on the Western Front, and there are many troops with combat experience withdrawn from the Netherlands, so the combat effectiveness is not low, and the result of the real battle between the two sides is that the fighting is extremely fierce, and the German army has to abandon the equipment that could have been repaired when retreating, as for the prisoners, most of them are Turks and Greeks.

O'Connor's words silenced the major general for a few seconds, but then he said: "I don't want to deny the fighting of the front-line soldiers, nor do I want us to stop the attack and retreat to the same place, I am just worried that we are going out too much, our forces to defend the Sinai Peninsula are not sufficient, we have 400,000 people seems to be a lot, but our defense area is a hundred kilometers wide front, and a hundred kilometers deep, even if we do not count the mountains of Mount Sinai." ”

Major General Romney came to the map, took the commentary stick from the staff officer, and tapped it on the map to reinforce the weight of his words: "Now we have also put the main force into the attack, advancing nearly a hundred kilometers behind the enemy's flank, and our main force has lost Yan Zòng when crossing this hundred kilometers, and more importantly, their input has created a large force vacuum in our defense area." ”

The Major General drew a circle on the map and continued: "If Lin Youde now throws in a counterattack and breaks through the defensive line composed of our troops who are not so good at fighting, then he can drive straight in and outflank us in turn. When the time comes, what we look like is a big deal will turn into a big deal. Even if Lin Youde did not counterattack, the Allied forces in front of our attacking troops would gradually become fully supplied because of their proximity to their supply base Tel Aviv, while our army itself tended to weaken due to attrition, and at this time, if the back road was copied, the consequences would be catastrophic. ”

O'Connor took a leisurely sip of coffee: "But the information we have obtained so far shows that all of Lin Youde's armored troops have been engaged in the operation of blocking our army's offensive, and we have captured prisoners of different ranks, and a large number of military badges and military ID cards have been found from the corpses, which can prove this." Even if it was possible to falsify the unit insignia on the chariot, it was impossible for Lin Youde to prepare the military registration plates of all the soldiers and the military ID cards of all the junior officers in such a short period of time.

"In addition, our aerial reconnaissance showed that there was a large amount of smoke and dust from the movement of cars on the easternmost road, which did not decrease from day to day, indicating that there was a large amount of supplies on this road to the front line, compared to the much less intensive road traffic near the central and western coasts. This indicates that on the eastern side, near the mountains, the main combat forces of the Allied forces were concentrated. They are doing their best to resist the offensive of our troops. ”

The Major General stopped talking.

"Major General, I've always thought you were an excellent quartermaster," O'Connor said in an easy-going, reasonable tone, "and I know what a great achievement you have used your talents to ensure the supply of the entire Eighth Army." I just want to ask you to trust us a little more in terms of military command. ”

"Well, Admiral," Major General Romney finally spoke, "yes, I think I was thinking too radically......"

O'Connor stood up, came to Romney, patted the quartermaster on the shoulder, who was not as senior as him but older than him, like a good friend, and whispered softly in his ear: "I know that your son's death in the attack on North Germany has left a shadow on you (see the chapter on the defense of Bremen), and I also know that you are anxious to remind us for the sake of the entire British Empire." But Romy, we are winning, and it turns out that Lin Youde is just a guy with empty theories, and the real power is his generals. We are defeating him, you know what that means, his myth is about to be shattered by us, and his followers will find that he is also a mortal, making mistakes, and failing. ”

O'Connor pulled away a little and continued in a voice that could be heard by all who were present: "Now the whole British Empire is rejoicing in our progress, we have been shrouded in defeat since Isabella's betrayal, and now, with every kilometer we advance, we can make the masses of the British Empire cheer!" Are we going to betray the expectations of the people of the motherland? No, we will defeat the man who is boasted of being a god by our enemies, and we will tear off his hypocritical mask so that the whole world can see his true face! ”

At this time, a major wearing goggles walked into the headquarters and pulled out a stack of photos directly from Wen Jiàn's bag.

"The photos taken by the reconnaissance plane yesterday have been washed out, sir."

O'Connor immediately took the photos, flipped through them cursoly, pulled out one of them, and handed it to Major General Romney, who still looked like he was still speechless.

"Look, this smoke, these days this highway is like this day and night, Lin Youde put all his trucks on this highway, he has no capacity to allocate to other aspects."

Romney took the photo suspiciously, looked at it carefully for a while and nodded: "Yes, I think your judgment is correct." ”

**

At this moment, on the dirt road known as Highway 3 at the easternmost end of the Confederate defense zone, a large number of trucks were speeding forward, and the trucks were loaded with supplies.

However, unlike ordinary convoys, each truck in this convoy also dragged something like a climbing plow, and when the truck moved forward, these things dragged behind the car kicked up a cloud of sand and dust, so that the combat engineers who were responsible for directing traffic and dealing with emergencies on the roadside could not help but wear gas masks to resist the sand and dust.

Some of the young combat sappers complained a few words, and the veteran reprimanded: "Be content, those car repairers are tired and stupid for a few days." It's a gearbox, a rotating bearing, or something, and it's full of sand. ”

No one knows what the point of Lin Youde doing these things is, but everyone sticks to their posts and works hard to carry out the tasks they have received.

**

To the southwest of Abu Ogra, the German 1st Parachute Division has been on standby in the wilderness for several days.

Although the Sinai Peninsula was dry, there was a little bit of water, and there was a stream from groundwater where the 1st Paratrooper Division was standing, so that the 1st Paratrooper Division would not die of thirst before it was put into battle.

The British reconnaissance plane had to fly over the head of the paratrooper division almost every day, and on one occasion the reconnaissance plane even flew to a low altitude and flew close to the ground, only to be killed by the paratroopers showing a concealed 40-mm anti-aircraft gun. The captured pilots confessed that their mission was to confirm whether the 1st Parachute Division had combat vehicles.

The officer in charge of the interrogation thought it was incredulous, so he said to the British: "How can we have chariots if we are paratroopers?" You see, we're still digging fortifications here. ”

That's right, the 1st Parachute Division was given the order to build fortifications here, but the superiors strangely did not allocate them the materials they needed to build the fortifications, so these days the 1st Parachute Division could only dig trenches and machine gun bunkers with the sapper shovels they carried with them.

On May 30, 1942, another paratrooper division and a Turkish cavalry unit were transferred to the vicinity of the 1st Parachute Division.

Everyone was speculating about the intentions of Commander Hayashi, but in the end, there was no discussion of a statement that everyone could accept.

But one thing is certain: Mr. Lin will definitely lead everyone to victory.

The paratroopers were particularly convinced of this, and Scholes's training not only allowed them to master superb combat skills, but also the fanatical trust in Lin Youde from the heart, which was also one of the results of the training.

On 31 May, an artillery unit equipped with heavy artillery was deployed to a makeshift artillery position that had been erected by the paratroopers.

On June 1, the new order finally reached the 1st Parachute Division.

The order was simple: your troops immediately broke through the enemy's defensive line from the hills southwest of Abu Ogra and advanced at a forced march pace towards Bilkavert. The 202nd Independent Paratrooper Battalion will land there first, and you must join the unit as much as possible.

The second phase of Operation Rolling Stone began.

(I finished writing this chapter at 11:20 on the 10th, but the website author's background couldn't be opened.) As soon as I asked everyone about the situation, the author's many posts/bars and discussions/altars were all wailing. So it's really not my pot. I don't believe in the update time of 811, I uploaded these two chapters together. ）