Mercedes really does not refuse a gift from Rome, and even in her opinion, this gift is absolutely not to be refused. People are selfish, especially when a mother is fighting for her son's interests, don't expect her to put away her strange ideas. Looking at the blonde baby in her arms, Mercedes's maternal love overflowed like the Yellow River bursting its banks. So the title of the Grand Duke of the Iron Cross was firmly fastened on her son's head, and no one could touch it.

If a person really loves another person with all his heart, it must be his children. Every parent will pour all their love into their offspring, whether they are poor or rich, whether they talk too much or say little, maybe in the wrong way or clumsy in the way, but it is undeniable that they love their children, without exception.

Of course, Accardo knew what Mercedes wanted this title for, once he ascended to the throne of the German emperor with the support of his subordinates, then the title of the Grand Duke of the Iron Cross would make Accardo's descendants the legitimate heirs of the German emperor, and a mother would fight for the best interests of her children, and even Accardo could not bear to veto this selfishness.

"Okay, Mercedes, don't use the problems on the White Lanhua Group to increase your leverage, I did hurt you about the White Lanhua Group, and I promised to leave the title of Grand Duke of Iron Cross to our son?" Accardo sighed and surrendered under the Mercedes attack.

However, surrender is surrender, and he finally reminded his wife: "My dear, although I understand your feelings and choose to support your decision, you must know that leaving a wealth to your children is always inferior to teaching your children to fight for wealth by themselves." I still think that if our child really has no interest in developing in business and politics, then cultivate other hobbies. ”

Putting a man full of artist cells in the position of the leader of the country is either a tragedy or a disaster. For example, we are familiar with Li Yu, Song Huizong and Hitler, who proved the accuracy of this sentence with their own personal experience.

"Don't worry, our child has the blood of the two of us in his body, he is the child of Accardo Rudolph and Mercedes von Cassia, so his life is destined to be extraordinary!" Mercedes gently ran his finger across the tip of the baby's nose, causing the little one to twist his body and pout.

To say that Accardo doesn't like this child, it's impossible, he has no descendants of his own in two lives, and now he is close to 40 years old before he has his own son, it can definitely be said that he is a late child, how can he not like it?

This son gave him a real sense of belonging to this world, and looking at this son, he felt that he had finally left his mark on this time and space. So when Mercedes fought for his son's interests, Accardo did not object too much, but chose to nod in agreement.

Being able to leave something to one's descendants is a tradition of Chinese thinking that has been inherited from ancient times. Since Accardo has a soul from China, he still very much hopes to inherit his father's business in his bones. And the family foundation he has worked hard for in this life is not thin, even if a huge empire is removed, there is a business miracle waiting to be inherited.

"Accardo, what do you call the child?" Mercedes asked softly to Accardo, still immersed in the joy of happiness.

What is the name? Accardo was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that he had joked with his girlfriend that if he had a son in the future, he would be able to spoof him by calling him Gu Long or Gu Tianle or something. Of course, now it seems that this wish is difficult to achieve, because in Germany, children's names are never related to Chinese.

If you have to bring an ancient character, it's not impossible. If Accardo really wants to come up with a name with ancient pronunciation, there is still a way, such as naming the child Gustav.

Unfortunately, the name always reminds Acardor of the 800 mm supertrain cannon in his memory, which was given to Stalin by Accardo and Krupp to fool the fragile productive forces of the Soviet Union, so Accardo did not want his children to be associated with a cannon that was not so symbolic.

"I don't think it's necessarily good...... Or ask Old Man Augustus?" Accardo was stumped by the name of his son, and presumably all fathers in the world would be stumped when they named their children. It seems that there is no name in the world that can be worthy of his son.

Mercedes also had no idea, several names she had been very optimistic about were rejected by Accardo, and later she realized that those names seemed too ordinary for her son, so she had to wait for Accardo to give him a nice name. After going back and forth, the name of Accardo's son was not yet chosen on the third day of the child's birth.

And while the Führer was racking his brains to think of a name for his son, Accardo's confidant Rommel was organizing his summer offensive in North Africa.

The scorching heat of North Africa was even more unbearable, and most of the German and Italian soldiers wore shorts and leggings bare to cope with the weather. The working conditions of tank crews have become even worse, and many of them even fight naked in tanks without clothes.

There were times when Rommel really hated the weakness of the Italian soldiers. The fortified defensive line around Tobruk, which had been built by the Italian defenders against the British, now captured Tobruk with almost no firing and used the fortifications built by the Italians against the Germans.

Rommel asked the commanders of the Italian allies for a topographical map of Tobruk, and in the end the Italians delayed for a week before handing over a rough map of the fortifications to Rommel. However, when Rommel looked at this Italian military map, he couldn't see what kind of mess was drawn on it.

Admiral Garibaldi, an Italian, also felt disgraced because of this incident. However, the German capture of Malta did make the long supply lines very smooth in an instant. The British submarines and planes seemed to be extinct in the Mediterranean, and from mid-April to mid-May alone, Rommel received more than 150,000 tons of supplies, more than three times as many as he had received in the previous month.

The increased logistical supplies gave Rommel an unprecedented sense of abundance, and for the first time, the German mobile artillery units in his hands could squander artillery shells with impunity. 40 Frederick rockets fired a full 10 salvos at the British defenders on the territory of Tobruk.

With the "whirring" sound, the chassis of the Friedrich's rocket launcher swayed slightly back and forth with the launch of the rocket, and this slight shaking ensured that the rocket had a very reasonable dispersion, and finally covered a large area at the same time.

The Italians visited this terrible weapon and saw with their own eyes that in just a few minutes it had exhausted the ammunition that had been accumulated for several days. However, the results of this rocket attack were very remarkable, and the British army in Tobruk reported that no less than 400 soldiers had been killed or wounded by the rockets because they had not had time to dodge, and the remaining 3,000 or so were frightened by the heavy German fire.

Rommel valued his firepower and concentrated most of his artillery fire on the Tobruk area. Immediately afterwards he organized his troops and began to infiltrate Tobruk, seizing some of the British defensive positions. His idea was very simple, which was to encroach on the entire Tobruk perimeter defense line little by little, ensuring that the entire Tobruk area was covered by Frederick rocket artillery.

The German Afrika Korps in North Africa was now very wealthy, and after a period of silence for about three weeks, they had restored the number of tanks to their original level, or even increased slightly, while the British forces in the Tobruk area were weakened as a whole.

The Australian 1st Division, which was capable of fighting well, was transferred to the Middle East to prepare for war because the Turkish troops were extremely active in the Middle East, and the American expeditionary force was also resting in the hinterland of Egypt because of losses and other problems, and the only remaining troops in the Tobruk area were two Indian divisions with low combat effectiveness and one British division with high combat capability.

Montgomery's front-line troops, especially those in the Tobruk area, have been reduced to 3 divisions, with only a pitiful 49,000 men, while Rommel has 1,050 tanks at this time, in addition to the elite 7th Panzer Army, the 12th Panzer Corps belonging to Army Group K also has a division that has been sent to the North African battlefield, and Rommel's troops are unprecedentedly strong.

This time, Rommel laid out all the line-up he could must, including 70,000 Italian soldiers, and more than 100,000 German-Italian North African forces attacking Tobruk.

"General Frederick, your troops are attacking from the front!" Rommel pointed to the map before the battle began, "General Garibaldi, your Italian legion is responsible for launching simultaneous attacks from the southern regions." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the easternmost part of the map with his whip: "I will lead the armored troops and mechanized infantry regiments into battle from the east and capture the fortress of Tobruk in one fell swoop!"

"Yes!" replied Admiral Garibaldi and Frederick with both nods. After a month of silence, the North African battlefield once again became the focus of the world's attention.