Chapter 595

Just as the Japanese soldiers looked at the desert and were at a loss, thousands of people on the other side of the world were used to the desert life.

Three German soldiers jumped out of their armored vehicles, wearing shorts, sun tanned knees and carrying rifles, standing in front of a huge stone monument. It says "Egypt" in Egyptian and English.

"Send a signal to the troops behind that we have entered Egypt and have not found any British reconnaissance troops." An officer stood on the roof of the armored car, holding a telescope to observe the surrounding scene for a long time, and found that there was really nothing to report.

Recently, the British Army adopted tight defense in Egypt, and many of the defense lines originally deployed outside Egypt were abandoned. Montgomery concentrated his troops in key areas, hoping to rely on complete fortifications to stop Rommel's attack.

But Rommel did not rush into Egypt this time, but humbly accepted the advice of his deputy general Frederick, and began to play a steady routine. He built a complete water station supply line in the rear, and sent special forces and elite armored forces to pursue and kill the British destruction unit. Although it didn't seem to have won any large-scale victory, it managed its own supply line without leaking.

"General, the forward troops have entered the territory of Egypt, and the main force of our army is assembling and camping on the Egyptian border." The staff officer put down the phone, looked up and yelled to Rommel who was studying the map: "the armored forces are still moving slowly. According to the plan, they will arrive at the designated position in two hours."

"Order all units to slow down and expand the search area." Rommel moved his line of sight from the map, and then gave the order: "let the air force go out, scout all suspicious areas, make sure that there is no threat from the enemy on both sides of the army, and then arrange the defense line to wait for the follow-up troops."

"General, do we really have to wait for sherner's K army to arrive in North Africa before we start the Egyptian campaign?" The staff are puzzled. Rommel is not difficult to win the war in North Africa now. As long as Rommel shows the momentum of crazy attack in France, Cairo can even win in 10 days.

"Don't worry, chief of staff. When necessary, I can order the troops to advance 200 kilometers a day, but it's meaningless now. The enemy is waiting for me to make mistakes. This is their only chance to turn defeat into victory. " Rommel said with a smile: "but as long as I don't make mistakes, then the battle of North Africa will be my final victory. What I have to do now is not to take risks to win, but to hold on to the moment of waiting for victory. "

It's not that Rommel doesn't want to attack, but that akado orders him to slow down the attack time. Sherner, who is responsible for supporting Rommel's expansion of the North Africa battlefield, is on his way now. If the two group armies join together, it will be the critical moment for akado to kill in North Africa. Akado hopes to make a time difference, so that the United States can't add more troops to the Middle East, and Germany can drive straight in, Occupy the world's largest oil production base.

However, even akkado himself felt that it was impossible for such a large-scale troop movement to hide everyone's eyes. That's why he started the Balkan campaign at the same time, seeking to disturb the sight of local spies and achieve the purpose of audio-visual chaos. As for the effect, only God knows.

"The oil transport forces just heard that a 30 member British attack unit appeared near Benghazi, but they were found by our helicopter raiding forces. After fierce fighting, the other side lost 17 people and the other 13 were captured." An officer came in from outside the tent and handed a document to Rommel: "they've also sent the prisoner's interrogation record. There's some information you need to see in person, general."

"What information?" Rommel was stunned. After receiving the report, he found that the above problem was really serious - Britain was using some immature special forces to try to build some attack sites on Rommel's long supply line, and then these forces would destroy and attack Rommel's supply line, paralyzing Rommel's logistics transportation.

"What did the Italian army commander in charge of road safety say about this?" Rommel frowned and asked, "send a telegram to general Garibaldi, asking him to urge the Italian army in the rear to clean up the enemy's attack positions as much as possible."

"If the black shirts under Garibaldi are allowed to go back to deal with these strongholds, it is possible to win. It's no different to send weapons and ammunition to the second rate Italian troops who don't have enough basic supplies. " The staff officer was obviously not at ease with the combat effectiveness of the Italian rear garrison, and said, "give it a try with the desert scorpion special forces."

Desert scorpion is an elite special force characterized by desert special operations, with only 120 members. However, this "company" is definitely not an ordinary company, but a "land aviation special force" that uses helicopters as its own means of transportation. They are specially responsible for dealing with the enemy scattered behind their own lines of defense and protecting the supply lines of their own main forces.

This unit relies on helicopters to maneuver in the desert, so it comes and goes like the wind. It relies on rockets on helicopters and 13mm heavy machine guns to provide firepower suppression, which is more than enough to deal with the British surprise attack unit with only light weapons and armored vehicles. This unit was set up at the instigation of acardo, because in another time and space, the British surprise unit caused incalculable losses to Italy's logistics supplies.

But now the situation has changed. The maturity of German special forces' operational theory, as well as the research and development of special operations weapons, are more than a little advanced than the British team. Although these German special forces can't be regarded as ten in the frontal battlefield, they are just like fish in water in such a small-scale conflict. Unfortunately, although this unit has been divided into four groups to carry out tasks in different areas, it is still unable to protect the safety of the whole supply line. There are still a large number of defensive vacuum areas and the areas that the Italian army is responsible for. The fighting capacity of the Italian troops in these areas is uneven, some of them can repel the invading British troops, some of them can be easily defeated. Although the German army has moved the transportation and supply location from the remote city of Tripoli to the newly restored and put into use port Brega. However, the German army's long supply line still had to pass through the whole Benghazi and Tobruk area. As a result, the German army's logistics supply was once again stretched. This time, what the African Army needed urgently was not weapons and equipment, but ammunition, precious fresh water and oil. Montgomery, who was very careful, naturally found the weakness of the German army. In order to delay the German army's attack time, he sent a small number of troops to strengthen the survival training in the desert, and then secretly crossed the German defense line from the depth of the desert by taking an armored car to attack the fragile German supply line“ ok Let the desert scorpion run more. After all, their way of fighting is more resource-saving, and their losses are relatively small, which makes me very satisfied. " Rommel nodded, then added, "apply to the supreme command for more special forces."“ Yes The staff officer stands at attention and turns to the telegraph room. Long yellow sand is the main theme of northern Africa. What the two armies compete for is not courage, not perseverance, but every ton of oil and every artillery shell transported from thousands of miles away. To elaborate more deeply, what the two sides compete for is the comprehensive national strength of the country, integrating the final strength of a series of links such as production, transportation and distribution. For the first time in the war, it was so clear that every commander could not avoid the superiority of every link, and every commander shook his head and sighed. Smart command and whimsical strategy are ultimately inseparable from the logistics supply, and the vehicle by vehicle supplies are inseparable from the boring statistics. The work of deceiving opponents has become extremely complicated. There are countless materials and various kinds of equipment that need a huge rear to support. How many additional rounds does a unit need. There are 92mm caliber bullets, 13mm caliber machine gun ammunition and 20mm caliber machine gun ammunition. How many 40mm caliber anti-aircraft shells, 75mm anti-aircraft shells, 88mm shells, 105mm, 150mm and so on need to be transported. All these ammunition have to be manufactured and distributed by the rear arms department, and there are no 10 or 7 departments that have ever handled them. If we take into account the clothing, tents, daily necessities, food, fuel, spare parts of equipment, as well as the salary of the army, the vacation personnel go all over the place talking and boasting - as long as one data is known by the enemy in hundreds of links, there is basically no secret. Of course, the German k-forces are moving North Africa bit by bit, and American spies have already known. A British spy in the Quartermaster's office got an important piece of information, which showed that the German army had ordered a batch of North Africa summer uniforms urgently. The spy knew that Rommel's l group army's summer uniforms had been sent to North Africa a month ago. This loophole was immediately discovered by the US intelligence department, who began to mobilize spies in Italy, hoping to find some clues. It turns out that the intelligence services in Italy are not as good as the two intelligence agencies in Germany. American intelligence got everything they wanted to know in Italy: Italian ships arranged for transportation, the establishment of the K group army, and the approximate number of heavy weapons. If it wasn't for the Italian member of the Ministry of transport who didn't know much about it in detail, he would have told all the colors of sherner's underpants to the forthright "American friends" who drank together.