The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The anti-aircraft guns began to roar into the sky, and the Vickers machine guns also fired out bullets. The sky was immediately filled with rain of bullets and black mist from the anti-aircraft shells.

Three "Mosquito" bombers braved the rain of bullets, broke through the fire net, made a dive and dropped the bombs...

"Boom", with several explosions, the cruise ship immediately exploded into two fireballs, and a bomb was dropped into the sea on the other side of the cruise ship. The exploded water column shot straight into the sky like a tornado.

Then several medium-sized bombers flew over the port and dropped aerial bombs one after another. The sound of explosions, roars, and counterattacks from anti-aircraft guns immediately resounded throughout the port.

But what is very strange is that the British bombers stopped soon after. They neither attacked the port nor the Italian fleet. Instead, they hovered in the air. From time to time, one or two Mosquito fighters demonstrated in the direction of the Italian fleet. Like a dive.

"What are they doing?" asked the baker.

Kuhn looked at it with his telescope and replied: "They are sending a warning to the Italian fleet, or it can be said to be a demonstration. They hope that the Italian fleet can retreat in spite of the difficulties!"

"What?" Werner was a little unbelievable: "Ensign, you mean...the British can scare the Italian fleet back like this?"

"Why not?" Kuhn replied. "Italians run away all the time, don't they?"

When the soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but glance at Alfredo who was hiding in the trench.

"No, they won't!" Alfredo replied: "They will definitely not escape!"

But the look on Alfredo's face gave him away.

The British did this very cleverly. They first blew up a cruise ship and bombed the port to show their power, and then made it clear to the Italian fleet: We don't want to start a fight with you, go away!

For the Italians, they can not fight, they can not take risks, and they can exit safely, so why not?

For the Germans? To bring reinforcements up? Or for the honor of the country and the dignity of the military?

No, Italians don't care about that.

So not long after, the warship turned a corner on the sea in the eyes of everyone, and then gradually moved away...

"No, no, no..." Alfredo jumped out of the trench, waved at the warships and shouted: "Hey, I'm here! Don't leave..."

Then the shouting became smaller and smaller, and soon there was no sound anymore, because Alfredo knew that no matter how loud he shouted, it would be useless, and they would not come back.

Barzel called Colonel Sline.

"Are reinforcements coming?" Colonel Slain looked forward to it.

"They did come!" Bazel replied: "But they left again!"

"Gone?" Colonel Slaine asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"The British plane performed a show in front of them, and they fled!"

"These bastards!" Colonel Slaine couldn't help but cursed.

Then Colonel Slain contacted Rommel.

Rommel was stunned when he saw the telegram sent by Colonel Slaine: "What? That's not what the Italians said. They told me that their fleet was severely bombed by the British aircraft fleet and could not dock, and it was expected that The fleet would suffer heavy losses if it docked, so it was withdrawn.”

"Go to hell!" Colonel Slaine couldn't help but curse: "The British planes didn't drop a bomb on them at all, and they didn't fire a single artillery shell. The British just dropped a few on our people. bomb and then they ran away like rats!"

Rommel was stunned when he heard what he said. He believed that Slain was telling the truth, but he could do nothing about the Italians, because even he himself had to be commanded by the Italians, albeit in name only.

"Okay!" Rommel could only reply helplessly in the end: "I will try to persuade them to let the fleet return to Tobruk port. Continue to maintain defense, Colonel, you are doing a good job!"

But everyone knows that Rommel's "attempt" will have no effect, because they are the Italian army, the Italian army with high ambitions and low hand, the incredible Italian army.

Rommel sent a telegram to Garibald's admiral explaining the situation. He hoped that Garibald would order the fleet to return to Tobruk as the admiral's commander, and repeatedly explained how important Tobruk would be to the German and Italian forces.

However, what Garibaldo said was: "General, we have tried our best. I don't know where your statement that the Italian fleet was scared away came from. I only know that General Jacob (the fleet) Commander)’s idea is correct. The fleet needs air power cover. It is very dangerous to force ashore without fighter plane cover..."

"But do you realize that Tobruk is more dangerous?" Rommel could not believe that there was such a thing in the world. He said angrily: "And considering the importance of Tobruk, it is worth taking any risk for it!"

"I don't think so, General!" Garibald replied slowly and politely: "That's just a one-sided statement you heard, isn't it? I believe that my soldiers will make the right judgment based on the situation! General, please You have more confidence in the Italian army!”

Rommel on the other end of the phone was choked by Garibal's words. He soon realized that no matter how much he argued, it was useless. If he continued to argue like this, he might wait until Tobruk's 1st Infantry Regiment was finished. There is no reason why.

So Rommel could only settle for the next best thing.

"Admiral!" Rommel said: "Then may I propose that the fleet retreat to a safe area temporarily and return to Tobruk when it gets dark... If the fleet sails at night, it will not be bombed by the British, right?"

"I will pass on your advice, general!" Garibaldo said and hung up the phone, which only made Rommel on the other end of the phone furious.

In fact, Garibaldo didn't know what kind of troops he had in his heart. He answered this on the one hand to protect the face of the Italian army, and on the other hand, he disobeyed his orders before taking revenge on Rommel.

What's more important is... Rommel disobeyed his orders and actually achieved great success. The German army not only attacked Chile, but also recaptured Tobruk, the most important port in Libya.

And Rommel's success indirectly proved that Garibald's previous judgment was wrong and had no foresight. How could this make Garibald willing?

Therefore, Garibal's subconscious actually hoped to make Rommel suffer some losses, and there was an opportunity right in front of him.

Rommel was a soldier, so how could he have imagined that Garibald would actually disregard the cause of the entire North Africa because of this little thought.