Just as Accardo's groping hands roamed back and forth in front of Anna's full chest, there was a knock at the door, and the two of them quickly packed up their clothes and tidied up their slightly messy hair. Anna blushed and stood beside Accardo's desk, who pretended to sit on the couch a little further away and picked up a file.

"Come in. It wasn't until the two of them had taken their respective positions as if they were on stage that Accardo shouted the command, which should have been shouted a long time ago. For a moment, he even felt that he and Anna should go to the movie, and it would definitely be vivid.

At this time, no one will come except Fanny and Sindra who will knock on Accardo's office door. This is also the reason why Accardo and Anna couldn't help themselves just now: when basically no one comes, a little indulgence is actually harmless, isn't it?

"My Führer!" Sindra walked up to Accardo with a pair of beautiful-looking myopic glasses, and saluted, "The latest news from the front." ”

"Is there news from Smolensk?" "Now Accardo's main concern is nothing more than the battle situation in the Smolensk region, as long as a beautiful annihilation battle is fought in Smolensk, then the German army's supplies can go south smoothly, so that the German army in the south has a more flexible battle plan.

Sindra glanced at Anna, who was standing there unbelievably unthinking, and then withdrew her gaze: "Yes, Führer. Rundstedt has just sent back an operational report that the units of Army Group A have entered Smolensk, and the last Soviet nail behind our line of defense has been pulled out. ”

"Whew!" Accarda let out a sigh of relief. The Battle of Smolensk was an important part of Germany's foreign war, and now that it has been successfully won, it will be up to the final word of the Battle of the Caucasus. After the German army occupied Smolensk, there was no obstacle to attacking Moscow, and whether it was Stalin or Zhukov, they had to carefully ponder whether the direction of attack in the next battle plan of the German army was Moscow or Stalingrad.

"Is there any news from Rommel?" Got Smolensk and put Accardor in a very good mood, he picked up the remaining half-cup of coffee on the coffee table and took another sip before asking.

The news of the Afrika Korps has not been a strategic priority for the Wehrmacht for a long time, and Mussolini has had little interest in attacking the Middle East since the capture of Cairo, and he has recently been eye-to-eyed with secret representatives of the United States, hoping that the Axis powers and the United States will achieve mutual understanding and restore real peace in the world.

Disillusioned with the Italian army, he went from a supporter of foreign expansion and waging wars of aggression to a man who hoped to achieve greater benefits through diplomacy. He preferred to take advantage of the invincibility of the German army to find a suitable critical point to make peace with the United States and end the war. The secret envoy sent by the United States gave Mussolini quite a few hints, making him feel that the United States was weak and could be bullied, and that Italy could obtain the right to extract a large amount of oil in the Middle East through diplomatic blackmail.

The discovery of a large amount of oil in Libya also gave Mussolini the idea of withdrawing from the war. After all, his scarce resources had in fact been satisfied to a large extent, and the war had lost most of its significance for Italy, so Mussolini's support for North Africa had become sluggish and procrastinated.

Without the full support of Italy, Rommel's supplies became tight, and it became very difficult to cross the Suez Canal defense line built by the remnants of the United States and Britain, at least with the full defense of the United States, and the plan to capture Suez to complete the army into the Middle East was somewhat too aggressive.

Instead, there was a plan called "Turkish Express", which was to transport part of the main forces of General General Scherner's Army Group L to Turkey by Turkish, German and Italian transport ships, and from Turkish territory, lead a Turkish force of 150,000 troops to attack Iraq and Syria southward.

This plan called for Germany to secretly transport the most elite 12th Panzer Army under Schellner to Turkey, and cooperate with Turkey's 150,000 elite troops to go south to the Middle East, bypassing the Elaborate Suez Canal defense line laid out by the United States, and occupying important oil-producing areas in the Middle East in one fell swoop.

But the plan was so complicated to carry out that even Rommel himself, who had been talking about reopening the North African battlefield, did not believe that it could be successfully carried out, first of all, the silent transport of tens of thousands of troops to Turkey, which was full of British and American spies, almost condemned the plan to death.

Then there was the fact that Turkey's offer was so high that it was almost unaffordable for the Germans, and they went so far as to exchange such a campaign for a tenth of Germany's share of oil in the Middle East, a price that seemed more cost-effective to Accardo if it had been used to bribe Italy.

But that doesn't stop Accardo from doing more at a cheap price. Eventually, the High Command drew up a more feasible plan, code-named "Roast", which was the first time that the master strategist Manstein had drawn up a genius plan of action without being reminded by Accardo.

With his precise and unique strategic vision, Manstein changed the original Turkish express plan a little, turning an absurd plan into a genius strategic deception.

In fact, the whole plan has not changed, only the troops implemented have changed somewhat. Let the Vichy French Navy and the Italian Navy contribute to transport the three infantry divisions of Army Group J under the idle Balkan Hawke to Turkish territory to carry out the plan of attacking southward.

Compared with the 12th Panzer Corps, the three infantry divisions had much less supplies to transport, and the main body of transportation changed from Turkey to defeated Vichy France, so that Turkey could not ask for sky-high prices. Although the ability to attack southward has been reduced a lot, it is really a question whether the American army, which has lost the canal defense line, can stop the three divisions of German infantry.

This created an inconsumable dilemma for U.S. forces in the Middle East: whether to divide forces or not to prevent German troops from moving south from Turkey. Once the troops are divided, then the armies of Rommel and Schellner, who are eyeing the other side of the Suez Canal, can still be stopped.

The barbecue program began secretly a month ago, and the main delay was that the North African Corps had barely scraped together the fuel and ammunition needed for the operation until a month ago. One of the reasons Accardo supported Rommel in launching another campaign in North Africa was to prevent Musoniri from continuing on both sides of the ladder with a brilliant victory.

Accardo, who knows the history of the Liberation War in another time and space, certainly understands the tactics of the United States, using negotiation promises as a means of delaying time, and then immediately overturning the negotiating table and going to war when he is ready, which is the consistent style of the United States with foreign countries. If anyone really believes the stupid statement that the United States is willing to share the world with it, then it is really a brain in the water.

Fortunately, the oil found in Libya somewhat eased the Afrika Korps' dependence on oil, at least allowing Rommel's troops to produce their own oil locally. In addition, the initial results of the renovation of arsenals in Cairo and other places have relieved the Afrika Korps of a lot of logistical pressure. A few months ago, Rommel would not have dared to imagine that he could have been given the opportunity to attack the Middle East before the battle for the Caucasus began.

We have to admit that with the exploitation of Libyan oil fields and the gradual development of African logs and other resources, the strategic resource reserves of the Axis countries began to gradually improve. Except for rubber products, which are still stretched due to geographical restrictions, most of the other important resources have been supplemented and developed by expansion and war. In the case of Germany in 1937, it was obviously an unrealistic fantasy to launch the war in North Africa and the Caucasus at the same time. But now it's all achievable, and it's underway.

"The barbecue plan is slowly being implemented, because of the constraints of the Turkish side and the Italian side, the 2nd Infantry Division has just been shipped, and it will be at least a month before the battle in North Africa can be successfully launched. Sindra reported: "Our spy personnel have confirmed that the US intelligence organization in the Middle East has been informed of our army's plan of action, and the US mainland is urgently transporting two divisions of troops to the Middle East, but the time should not be as fast as ours." ”

In what ultimately made the barbecue plan easier to carry out than the Turkish express plan, the Germans simply changed the attack in the Turkish direction to a feint, and told the Americans that it was a feint - a plan that was much more feasible in terms of secrecy.

"I see, and then I will personally send a telegram to Field Marshal Rommel to confirm the progress of the plan of action. Accardo thought for a moment, then waved his hand and motioned for Sindra to go out.

But before Sindra could go out, an officer in a navy uniform stood at the door of Accardo's office. He knocked on the open door, then stood up and raised his hand in a German salute: "Report!

"What's the matter?" Arcardo asked, looking directly at the officer. The Navy's recent offensive plans to go to sea have all been canceled, and there will be no important matters that must be reported in person.

"My Führer, because of the use of wartime emergency production regulations and new shipbuilding techniques, the newest naval aircraft carriers, No. 7 and No. 8, began sea trials an hour ago. The naval officer replied, "This time the navy has used a large number of escort ships to ensure that there will be no accident on the No. 6 ship." The Navy already has 7 aircraft carriers!"

The supplement was offered, and the dragon spirit asked for a monthly ticket to reward the flying kiss and hug...... There's another chapter.,Long Ling is desperately coding words.,Don't stay up late and wait.,Let's read it tomorrow morning!