The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"No, we can't go any further!" Major General Strike refused to carry out Rommel's order.

"This is crazy, General!" Major General Strike said: "With fifteen tanks and no air force cover, it is already a miracle that we can capture Tobruk. To advance further is simply suicide..."

"Don't use Tobruk to show off to me!" Rommel became angry when he heard this: "It is not your credit to capture Tobruk. The First Infantry Regiment independently completed this almost impossible task, and they did not do anything like you Use it to bargain with me!"

"That's not fair!" Major General Strike retorted: "At that time, I was commanding the troops to fight in Meiji!"

"On your armored command vehicle?" Rommel raised his head towards the command vehicle outside the door and said sarcastically: "When your soldiers are bleeding and dying, when they are looking for water from the corpses of their comrades, While you were looking for bullets, you were tasting red wine in a captured armored vehicle?”

"The truth is not what you think!" Major General Strike looked at Rommel angrily: "General, I don't want to argue with you anymore. I think we should consolidate the positions we have obtained now and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Attack the enemy, otherwise we will probably lose everything!"

Objectively speaking, what Major General Strike said is actually reasonable. The German army is too weak, with only one division in total. Although there are Italian troops, they can only be counted as heads and cannot be calculated as combat effectiveness.

Especially at this time, the German army did not have air cover. If the losses were too great during the pursuit, the British army would accidentally kill them. Once the German army was defeated, all important places and strongholds occupied would be lost. Meaning...The Italians can't keep them.

But Rommel also had his own ideas. Having fought in World War I, he knew that the taboo in war is for the enemy and us to engage in positional warfare and a war of attrition. If it develops to that point, the German army without numerical superiority will definitely fail.

In order to avoid this, Rommel must take the initiative to prevent the British army from stopping at a certain place and building a defense line with confidence. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the German army to achieve such great results at a very small cost as it does now.

In other words, Major General Strike saw reality and his own crisis, but Rommel saw fighter opportunities.

After some debate, both men made a compromise, and Major General Strike agreed to send troops to pursue the British army, but only to occupy strategic locations on the Libyan border thirty kilometers away.

Rommel was obviously not satisfied with this compromise, but he had nothing to do because he only had the 5th Light Division at this time, and there was no one to replace Major General Strike.

This also made Rommel secretly determined to drive this subordinate who disobeyed orders out of his own team.

Perhaps because the 1st Infantry Regiment was successful in capturing Tobruk, the 1st Infantry Regiment continued to garrison Tobruk.

This is obviously a good job, because the soldiers can go for a swim in the sea during their rest, and then return to the beach to enjoy the supplies moved from the British army warehouse... Although the supplies in the warehouse have been handed over to the troops as trophies, But as a reward for capturing Tobruk, the 1st Infantry Regiment received additional rations sufficient for the entire regiment to last for a week.

"Extra", so soldiers can eat canned corned beef in various ways under the envious eyes of other troops, such as roasting it in a fire, or making a pot of beef soup...

Qin Chuan is better at this aspect, because compared to the Chinese, the cooking skills of foreigners can be regarded as that of elementary school students. The Italians are not satisfactory in this aspect. After all, they care more about pasta than fighting. But any one of China’s eight major cuisines can beat Italian food instantly, let alone other countries that only have hamburgers and sandwiches.

Qin Chuan asked Alfredo to go to the Italian army to get some chili peppers and seasonings, and then cooked a pot of hot and sour beef soup using canned corned beef.

Originally, the German soldiers were full of doubts. They didn't believe that the food cooked in this way was edible, but after taking a bite, they were amazed.

"God, this is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten!" Werner looked at Qin Chuan with an incredible expression: "How did you do it?"

"You saw me do it!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's very simple, isn't it?"

"Do you know?" the baker said while drinking greedily: "After the war, we should cooperate to open a restaurant. I will make bread and you will make what you call this... hot and sour soup. We will definitely be very rich by then. !”

"It's indeed delicious!" Even Alfredo, an Italian who is very picky about food, praised: "If there were delicious food like this every day, I wouldn't be afraid of war!"

The soldiers couldn't help laughing.

However, the enjoyment enjoyed by the First Infantry Regiment is still far behind that of the Italian army...

During this period, Italian transport ships docked at the port one after another and kept unloading supplies, both German and Italian.

Germany's special equipment includes ammunition, some cars, three-wheelers, etc., and occasionally you can see a few Panzer III tanks... I heard that they are all equipment of the 15th Armored Division. After Rommel achieved such great success, Hitler and Mussolini finally believed that they only needed to work harder to completely defeat the British and drive the British into the sea.

Therefore, they also accelerated the reinforcements to Rommel. In addition to sending the 15th Armored Division, this reinforcement also replenished the 5th Armored Division with tanks and armored vehicles lost in the battle.

Of course, this is just the beginning, followed by air power and sea power (mainly submarines).

However, everything has its two sides. It was precisely because Rommel achieved great success with only a small number of troops that Hitler thought that the war in North Africa would end soon, so he did not move Malta across the middle of the Mediterranean at all. The island is in his eyes... He believes that the German and Italian troops do not need to capture the island of Malta at all, they only need to suppress it with the air force and wait for the victory in North Africa.

But the facts proved that this idea was extremely wrong. The island of Malta is in the center of the transportation route from Italy to Libya... Historically, the British used this island to continuously attack the German and Italian supply lines, which ultimately led to the final failure of the Afrika Korps. end.

This is something.

Italy has a lot of supplies, including jeeps, tanks, soldiers, food, etc. The most unexpected thing is the girls who are dressed up in flashy and revealing clothes.