The decisive battle against the Third Reich

While Rommel and Garibald were fighting openly and secretly, Major General Evans breathed a long sigh of relief.

Because he knew very well that bombers' bombardment of the Italian fleet was very limited, especially since the Italian fleet also had a battleship and several destroyers...

This is partly because the British army lacks dive bombers. Medium and heavy bombers are only suitable for fixed-point or carpet bombing because of their low accuracy. The "Mosquito" light bomber with higher bombing accuracy has a small carrying capacity because it has a wooden structure. , conducting low-altitude dive bombing can easily be shot down by enemy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.

Therefore, if the Italian fleet forcibly docks at the port, the British bomber group will probably be helpless, and at most it will cause the Italian fleet to suffer some losses.

But now, the Italian fleet actually retreated without a fight... This is tantamount to giving a big gift to the British army.

At this time, Major General Evans received a telegram from Lieutenant General Greenhill: "The 7th Armored Division is on its way to Tobruk and is expected to arrive in five hours!"

Major General Evans couldn't help but feel that the heroes saw the same thing.

After the plan to seize the warehouse failed, the British army actually had no capital to compete with the German and Italian troops in Libya... The British army had too many people and needed too many supplies, especially when fighting against the main force of the German army. It requires a large amount of ammunition, which requires supplies in the warehouse.

In other words, if the British army lost control of the warehouse, they would have no choice but to retreat.

And if the British army wants to retreat safely, the best way is to capture the port of Tobruk.

What Lieutenant General Greenhill is doing now is to retreat... Among all the British troops, the Armored Division is the slowest. On the other hand, the Armored Division also has the strongest combat effectiveness. Of course, the 7th Armored Division is brought back to join the 10th Armored Division. Five Armored Divisions attacked Tobruk together.

In the absence of reinforcements from Tobruk, no matter how strong its defense lines are and no matter how abundant its ammunition, two armored divisions bombard it indiscriminately and then attack it fiercely, there is no reason why it cannot be captured.

The news that the 7th Armored Division had withdrawn from the battlefield soon reached Colonel Sline from Rommel, which gave Colonel Sline a headache.

Colonel Slaine took the time to visit the port. He saw the German soldiers at the port, all well-organized and ready to fight. He couldn't help but hold Bazel's hand, and then the other soldiers' hands, and said: "Well done, you have already done it." Try your best!”

Soldiers all know what "try your best" means.

"It's bad, isn't it?" Bazel asked.

Colonel Slaine did not speak. He patted his military uniform, and a cloud of dust immediately rose around him... After commanding the defense line all night, his whole body was almost completely covered in gunpowder smoke and dust.

Then, Colonel Slain took out a map from the inner pocket of his uniform, spread it out on the ground, thought for a while and said to the adjutant: "Call the sniper, I hope he can know more about the situation! "

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So Qin Chuan joined this meeting that only military officers could attend.

"The British 7th Armored Division has left the battlefield!" Slain pointed to the map and said: "In fact, they set off in the dark last night. Their intention is obvious, which is to fight with the 15th Armored Division. Eat us together!"

The officers were stunned when they heard this.

A full armored division of the British army has more than 20,000 people and 300 tanks. Even discounting the battle damage, there are at least 10,000 people and more than 100 tanks. This force will join the attack on Tobruk. ...Then Tobruk cannot be defended even with an iron wall.

"Will the Seventh Armored Division arrive before dawn?" Qin Chuan asked.

Colonel Slaine glanced at Qin Chuan approvingly... Qin Chuan got to the point.

"Yes!" Colonel Slaine replied: "It is estimated that they will arrive in the afternoon, and then they will have half a day to attack, and our reinforcements... they will probably not be able to enter the port until after dark!"

Kuhn said: "This time, the British plan to launch a fierce attack on us during the day!"

"Yes!" Colonel Slain said: "They will pour all the artillery shells on our position, blow up the barbed wire, mines and trenches, and then use tanks to cover the infantry advance... We all know they will fight like this, But we can’t stop it!”

Qin Chuan understood the meaning of Colonel Slaine's words. War does require tactics, such as mobile defense and firepower allocation... But if the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves is too great, then any tactics will be nonsense.

This is somewhat similar to two boxers competing on the stage: if the strength of the two sides is not much different, then choosing suitable tactics can lead to victory, but if a child fights a professional boxer... no matter how good the tactics are, it will not help.

On the battlefield of Tobruk, the German army is equivalent to a child, while the British army is a strong professional boxer.

"Maybe we have another option!" Colonel Slain said.

"What choice?" Bazel asked.

"This inspiration comes from your use of cruise ships for defense!" Colonel Slain said hesitantly: "We may choose to leave by ship, after blowing up the ammunition in the warehouse!"

The soldiers' eyes couldn't help but light up, this was a way to survive.

As Colonel Sline said before, they had tried their best, and it would not be a shame to escape at this time.

But Qin Chuan shook his head and said, "The British will find out soon. There are many British informants in Tobruk!"

There is no doubt about this, the underground organization is one of them, and there may even be British spies... Britain is a veteran espionage country, and no one can compare with him in terms of intelligence.

"What they want is Tobruk, and maybe they don't care where we go!" the adjutant said.

Bazel smiled and said: "Maybe not before, but after we captured their strongholds and blew up the warehouses, and then captured Tobruk and affected the logistics of their entire army... do you think the British will still do it? Let us go?"

When Bazel said this, the officers fell silent.

"So!" Colonel Slaine added: "The result of what we do is that we will be hunted down by the British Air Force and then buried under the sea!"

"Why don't we choose to do this at night..." the adjutant said.

Colonel Slain glanced at the adjutant sideways and said: "The point is that we have to hold on until night, Lucas. If we can hold on until night... we don't even have to escape, because our 'Italian friends' dare to The warship enters the port and brings us reinforcements!"

"Is there nothing we can do about reinforcements?" Kuhn still held on to a glimmer of hope.

"Forget it!" Colonel Slain said with a disdainful expression: "Italians, you know!"