On a hot morning when the sun was shining, everyone was dizzy from the scorching sun. The temperature of the surface steamed up the little water vapor that was already left, causing everything near the surface to writhe with the violent churning of the air.

There are large areas of desert in Egypt, although it is nourished and irrigated by the Nile, but most of the land here is still barren and barren, this is a natural desert, a desert of despair.

But in addition to the Sphinx, the pyramids, and the Nile River, Egypt also has another well-known place, and that is the Suez Canal. This canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean, and the presence of this canal is enough to make this a battleground for soldiers.

The Suez Canal had not been passed by a single ship for almost several months, because the artillery positions of the Third Reich were on the west bank of the canal, but unfortunately American and British artillery were stationed on the east side of the canal. No one allowed each other's ships to pass, so it was what it was - no one should pass through here......

However, the Third Reich did not intend to share the world transportation hub with the United States, and Rommel's Afrika Korps was actively preparing for the battle for the Suez Canal after being silent for a long time and accumulating enough fuel for the attack. For this plan, Germany stockpiled a large amount of ammunition, and Alexandria, as well as the whole of Egypt, provided the Germans with a large amount of supplies.

The British had arsenals in Cairo and many other Egyptian cities, which could repair tanks and aircraft, although they could not produce large weapons and equipment. Ammunition could also be produced in small workshops, but the defeat of Britain and the United States in the Soviet Union did not give them time to destroy them, so most of this heritage was appropriated by the Germans.

Alexandria moved the supply lines of the German and Italian troops from the far rear to closer to the front, and the Germans multiplied the supplies they received, but the consumption was much reduced by the shortening of the routes of transportation. Coupled with the slow start of oil production from Libya's oil fields, Rommel has never had such an abundance of supplies.

So on this hot morning, the Germans were finally unwilling to be lonely and kicked off the battle for the Suez Canal. The silence was completely shattered by the heavy fire of the four German artillery regiments, and one shell after another fell on the embankment, kicking up a large area of gravel.

Startled by the sudden artillery fire, an American officer at a concealed observation post on the front line hurriedly crawled to the observation post and held up his binoculars to observe the movement on the other side, only to find that the Germans did not seem to be organizing a river-crossing attack. He put down his binoculars, pouted and scolded: "Bastards, these damn Germans, can't they be honest for a while?"

Before he could finish his complaints, he saw that thousands of Italian soldiers from Germany on the side of his embankment, carrying assault boats and rubber rafts, began to rush in the direction of the positions of the British and American forces. Behind these Italians, German soldiers began to set up machine-gun positions on the river embankment, and mortars and other weapons began to roar in an attempt to cover these attacking Italian soldiers.

"Enemy attack! Signal quickly!" the American officer quickly shouted. As if in response to his shouts, not far from his concealed lookout post, an American machine-gun emplacement opened fire, tracer bullets swept across the not-so-wide Suez Canal, knocking several Italian soldiers to the ground.

However, seeing that the opponent's assault boat had been pushed into the canal, and a large number of soldiers had jumped onto the assault boat, the firepower on the side of the American position began to become dense. The American officer saw with his own eyes a rubber boat packed with Italian soldiers sink into the river because of American fire, and a group of heavily armed Italian soldiers sank to the bottom of the river before they could struggle a few times.

"The time of your infantry attack is 3 minutes ahead, dear Marshal Garibaldi. Standing behind the artillery mirror, Rommel straightened up with a trademark smile on his lips and said, "So my air force has not yet arrived, and your men will have to face death there alone." ”

Beside him, Garibaldi held his hands behind his back and said nothing. It was very uncomfortable to witness the slaughter of one's own troops. The recent frequent contact between the Germans and him disturbed his heart, and his ambition was also slowly expanding in the situation of riding a tiger, which made him unable to concentrate on military command at all.

Of course, the combat level of the Italian troops was not as high as that of the Germans, this is an objective fact after all, and they always had to make such and such a mess when they fought, and the current unfavorable situation was only a small scene for them.

As he spoke, the agreed German bomber unit flew over the heads of Rommel and Garibaldi, and these Stuka and DO-217 bombers were full of bombs, but in terms of numbers and momentum, they were enough to destroy the withering and decaying. Once upon a time, the German Iron Cross began to dominate the skies of the whole world, making everyone tremble under his wings? Rommel saw the German plane sweep over the position in front of him, and slapped the dust on his trouser leg twice with his leather gloves with satisfaction.

"Well, now that my troops have been covered, they will take the entire Suez Canal under the cover of your long-range fire. Garibaldi saw the Luftwaffe appear in time, and his heart finally let go. He watched as more and denser columns of black smoke began to rise from the American positions in the distance, and the solemn expression on his face at first began to fade.

In an obscure formation, German bombers flew over the positions of the American troops, and in the open bomb bays, one aerial bomb after another was dropped, and these bombs fell to the ground in a free-fall form, and then a flower of steel and flame bloomed on the ground.

One such flower bloomed one by one on American positions, and then a storm of shrapnel and shock waves raged everywhere, and many artillery positions that had been disguised and desperately fought back were completely destroyed in this storm. These artillery positions were instantly muted, and the attacking Italian infantry suddenly felt the pressure drop sharply.

German machine guns began to roar, tracer bullets weaved together in a web of fire across the river, and the Italian troops in the assault boats kept their heads down as much as they could, praying that they would get to the opposite shore as soon as possible. A huge column of water rose up on the river, and several small boats around it were all overturned, and soldiers struggling in the water could be seen everywhere, as well as fragments of wood from boats that I didn't know where they came from.

It was a very sudden battle, and it was not until the German planes began to bomb the American large-caliber artillery positions that Mountbatten got the exact news from his own command, he did not know how many Rommel offensive troops were, only that this time the other side did not seem to be joking.

The U.S. military has been gathering information about the Germans' upcoming military operations in North Africa, including Rommel's start to control the troops' fresh water consumption a few months ago, and the fact that a large amount of fuel has been hoarded by the Germans in the past few months, all of which are signs that the Germans are preparing for a large-scale offensive in North Africa.

However, the American intelligence services did not have a precise account of where the Germans were going to attack. Some believe that Rommel was not stockpiling supplies, but that the Germans were running out of supplies and Rommel had to control the attrition of his troops, while others suggested that the United States should do everything possible to strengthen the Suez Canal defense.

The U.S. response was simple: desperately reinforce all of its defenses in North Africa, preparing to make the Germans pay a heavy price when they broke through these lines: Patton, an offensive general, was transferred to India, and Mountbatten, a defensive general, became the commander of this position.

He turned it into a large bunker, and in addition to laying mines and other means, he ordered all the oil fields in the Middle East to be pre-loaded with bombs, leaving nothing for the Germans. After deploying these defenses, Mountbatten began to do one of the most important things - rush to the direction of India to rush crude oil.

For Mountbatten, all he could do now was to amass as many resources as possible for post-war Britain. He didn't know who would win the war and how he would, or whether the British in Iceland, to whom he was allegiated, would be orthodox.

But he didn't have to think about it at all, all he needed to do was scavenge everything he could, and then when peace came, send the supplies to the only Britain, and that's it. As for whether this Britain is pro-German or pro-American, it doesn't matter.

Rommel couldn't help it after all...... I thought he'd put up with it a little longer. Mountbatten smiled bitterly, and then said to the staff officer who came to report on the start of the battle: "As far as the overall situation is concerned, it is not an irrational decision for Germany to start the North African battlefield when the Eastern Front is tight. ”

"General, perhaps...... Is it because Germany began to lack crude oil reserves, so it hastily ordered Rommel to seize the oil fields in the Middle East?" The staff officer thought for a while and said: "It is actually an extremely unwise choice to start a two-front battle at this time. ”

Even if Libya's oil fields are producing oil, they can only be Italian oil fields, and Rommel's use of Italian crude oil to seize Middle Eastern oil fields at this time is actually not a decision without consideration. On the contrary, it is entirely possible that it will be a deliberate move by the Supreme Command. As for whether this move is aimed at the United States or Italy, then we have to ask God.

In May, just as Stalingrad was occupied by Germany, Rommel kicked off the battle for the Middle East.