Imperial Overlord

In North Africa, the Said military port in Egypt, on the outer defensive positions, British soldiers are in a hail of bullets, avoiding the cannonballs dropped by Italian artillery.

A shell exploded near the trench, kicking up sand and nearly burying the defenders in the trench. The British soldiers struggled from the sand and continued to fire on the German tanks not far away.

The determination of the British ** team to defend Port Said is still very big. General Auchinleck organized troops to deploy defenses along the Suez Canal, and defended the military port of Said on the other side.

Relying on the transport ships blocked in the Mediterranean Sea, the British Army could support the defenders in the Said military port across the canal. The battle lasted for more than a day, and Rommel's troops still failed to achieve satisfactory results.

"Your Excellency! We have already killed more than 300 people! If we continue to fight like this, we will lose at least 500 people before it gets dark." The commander of the 90th Infantry Division watched with distress as his infantry was repelled again and again. Rommel said.

Rommel removed his eyes from the artillery mirror, turned his head to look at his division commander, and replied: "Without war, no one is dead, and losses are inevitable."

But then his words still let the commander of the 90th Infantry Division breathe a sigh of relief: "Let your troops withdraw and give it to the Italians to try."

Rommel gave priority to attacking with his own direct German troops. In fact, he was also trying to appease the Italians. He wanted to balance the relationship within the coalition, so he thought more.

"The Suez Canal is now unusable, but the fact that the other party replenishes supplies across the canal is really annoying." Rommel turned his hands behind his back, walked to the chair in his headquarters, sat down and said.

He picked up the water glass in front of him, took a sip of water and continued: "The instructions given to me by the head of state are for me to cross the Suez Canal and advance the battle line to the Jerusalem line as soon as possible."

Lieutenant General Alfred, the chief of staff who had been standing beside him, was stunned for a moment, then looked at Rommel and said, "Isn't the Führer afraid that this will annoy the Soviets?"

"Even if I push the front to Jerusalem, it is still a long way from Iraq and Iran, and even further from Baku in the Soviet Union... The head of state feels that this has not touched the bottom line of the Soviet Union." Rommel closed his eyes and recalled I remembered how I looked when I saw the head of state's message.

As the commander of the African Corps, Rommel was also taken aback by the Führer's order. The reason for his delay in attacking Port Said was the fear of triggering a huge military conflict in the far Eastern Front.

Therefore, Rommel has been watching, resting the troops for three days, and has not pressed the whole line to attack the remnants of General Auchinleck's defeated soldiers.

However, when he was not ready to attack the Suez Canal, the Fuhrer suddenly sent him a telegram in the name of the Supreme Command, ordering him not to hesitate to seize the Suez Canal as soon as possible.

This matter became much more interesting. Of course, Rommel was not a person who was afraid of things. He dared to fight back with his troops when he had no orders. Now that he has orders, he naturally has more reasons to attack.

So he immediately took his troops to the west bank of the Suez Canal, and then began to besiege the important port of Port Said.

The more interesting thing is that his attack really aroused tension in the Soviet Union. The eastern frontier is now fully tense, and the war seems to be unavoidable and imminent.

"The Führer is certain that the Russians will not attack? What are you kidding?" Lieutenant General Alfred muttered in a depressed tone, closing his mouth and not speaking.

He would never dare to ask him to evaluate the head of state's decision for a small mid-term future. But to make him applaud this hasty national decision, he really doesn't have such a thick skin.

To be honest, if Li Le hadn't known that the Soviet Union was not ready for war at all, he wouldn't have dared to make such a bold gamble.

So outsiders came, Li Le's gamble this time was simply a big gamble that was carried away by victory, a reckless madness!

"I think that what the Führer said makes sense." Rommel tried his best to make excuses for his attack. This is not how wise he is. He sees the meaning of Li Le's choice. He is just putting money on his attacking face. That's it.

"Boom!" Just as he was speaking, the Italian infantry's attack began, and the cannons began to roar, which suddenly set off the atmosphere.

On the defensive positions of the British army, explosions began one after another, and black smoke rose everywhere. The battle became fierce again, but this time the two sides were Italians and British.

On the river surface of the Suez Canal, a ship full of soldiers and ammunition is heading to Port Said. It is responsible for ferrying the wounded back and forth, and delivering supplementary soldiers and ammunition materials to Port Said.

At this moment, two Stuka dive bombers rushed down in the sky, their wings ripped apart the airflow and made a shrill sound.

"Woo... woo..." The terrifying voice seemed to be the **** of death summoning from hell, scaring the British soldiers on the deck of the ship.

"Tutu! Tutu!" Before the anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the strait and the anti-aircraft machine guns temporarily installed on the ships opened fire, the cannons on the wings of the German Stuka dive bomber began to roar.

Two rows of tracer rounds rushed towards the ship on the river, leaving two rows of dense bullet holes on the deck of the British ship.

The bullet smashed the wood on the deck and hit some British soldiers who could not dodge on the deck. It spread from one side of the ship to the other side of the ship, leaving a drain on the sea far from the other side of the ship. column.

"Bang! Bump!" The British air defense weapons also began to sound, forming a dense firepower network on both sides of the strait. The anti-aircraft guns hoped to interfere with the bombing of the Stuka dive bombers and allow their ships to reach the other side safely.

The German planes rolled and hovered in the sky like smart birds, throwing off the barrage that was chasing them.

The planes quickly found new angles of attack, and once again aimed their noses at targets on the distant river.

The battle was going on tensely, leaving no chance for breathing at all, and while holding one's breath, the German plane dived down again, pouring ammunition onto the ship's deck.

The parts on the deck were shattered and exploded by the shells of the machine guns, and the wood and steel parts flew everywhere, taking the lives of nearby British soldiers.

Soon, a Stuka dropped the bomb, which exploded on the ship's broadside, causing the entire ship to tilt with the rising water column.

Although it didn't hit the ship, it still caused everyone on the ship to suffer. Many people were overturned into the river, and the side of the ship was twisted and deformed because the explosion was too close, and the water began to enter.

"Oh my God! The Karnak was hit! The Karnak was hit!" An English officer who had been observing friendly ships from the shore shouted in despair with a telescope.

His shouts were drowned out by the sound of an anti-aircraft gun firing from a distant defensive position. The battle was still going on fiercely, and both sides were desperately trying to prevent the other from achieving their goals.

"For God's sake, there are 150 soldiers and a lot of ammunition on that ship... They can't swim." Looking at the swaying ship in the distance, the British officer chanted a prayer.

But his prayers were not over yet. The second bomb, dropped by the Stuka dive bomber, hit the hapless Kanak.

A huge explosion suddenly rose on the river, and the sound of fire was deafening. After all, the Germans sunk the ship that was rushing to transport supplies and achieved their goal.

"Boom!" As the ship caught fire and exploded, the boilers and ammunition inside finally couldn't stand the scorching of the flames, and a more tragic explosion occurred.

The huge force blew the superstructure of the ship into two pieces, and part of it flew directly into the sky.

At the same time as the explosion of the ship, a German Stuka dive bomber was also hit by artillery fire on the ground, sending billowing smoke.

The plane wobbled in the sky, then fell from the sky with a long tail of black smoke.

No one was seen parachuting, and the plane crashed into the river at a near-vertical angle, where it was torn apart by resistance.

The inverted seagull-shaped wing was smashed by the sea water and flew high all of a sudden, and the entire fuselage was also broken due to resistance, and it didn't take long to disappear into the sea.

The culprit who sank the ship was a few minutes faster than the ship sinking~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The battlefield is so cruel and so dramatic.

Another German Stuka dive bomber that had dropped bombs before saw its companion's plane crash and did not stop. It quickly turned around and broke away from the dense British anti-aircraft fire nets like fishing nets.

For both sides participating in the war, this fierce battle on the river was just a trivial episode. It could not stop the battle, nor could it make the battle more brutal.

In fact, the truly brutal battle still broke out on the ground. The outer defense line of the British army was being eroded little by little, and for every inch of land lost, they would exchange many of their own lives for many Italians. life……

On October 22, German troops began a systematic siege of Port Said, and the battle for the Suez Canal officially kicked off. Rommel's offensive brought the Soviet Union and Germany to the brink of war.

At this time, another famous person in history took a submarine and arrived at the front line in Africa.

This man was General Montgomery, who had just been appointed by Churchill to succeed Auchinleck as the commander of the newly formed Eighth Army.