Chapter 673： Rommel to North Africa

There are endless deserts everywhere, and as soon as I disembark, a heat wave hit my face.

Standing on the yellow sand, a handsome German officer suddenly felt bright.

North Africa, here I am!

Rommel said to himself in his heart.

Long ago, Rommel received the order, and his fate is in North Africa! He is very satisfied with this arrangement.

After all, there are too many outstanding generals in Germany. Guderian and Manstein are all outstanding representatives. If they continue in Europe, Rommel can continue to win one victory after another, but he will always be a supporting role.

In Africa, it's different! Here, he is the highest commander of Germany, he led two armored divisions, and his mission is to completely occupy North Africa!

Originally, in the coordination with Italy, Germany was responsible for the settlement of the French army and Italy was responsible for the settlement of the British army, but now the situation has changed a lot.

France has surrendered, and the French colonies, according to reason, should also obey Marshal Petain's orders and surrender to Germany. Then, in North Africa, the French colonies to the west, there is no more battle to fight.

At the same time, the progress of the Egyptians and Italians in their east is not smooth.

Since the beginning of the war, the fighting power of the Italian army is obvious to all. Italy originally wanted to fight the southern part of France, but was beaten and bruised. Later, France surrendered. Germany generously helped the Italians and cede the territory of southeastern France. In Italy, Mussolini has some face.

However, in North Africa, the Italian army is still at a loss. The 250,000 Italian army has been fighting for so long, and it has not made any progress!

This endless desert area is the stage where Rommel displays his military talents!

"General, it's nice to see you." While waiting for the armored vehicles to unload in the harbor, a voice came from Rommel's side.

After learning of the arrival of his own army, Neuer, the head of the Libyan base, came to the port to greet him.

"Neuer, it's been hard work." Rommel couldn't help but said looking at Neuer's tanned face.

"It's not hard, but our strength is too weak, and the Italians always defeat the war. Fortunately, the British are now on the defensive. If the British attack aggressively, our base may be in danger." Neuer said: "Now , Our army is here, so I can rest assured."

According to the original agreement, the base in Libya belongs to Germany. Germany has deployed some fighters here, but it is still too few to cope with large-scale wars.

It was not until the arrival of Rommel that they were relieved, and finally there was no need to worry!

"Is it always so desolate here?" Rommel said to Neuer.

In the future, Rommel will become the governor of North Africa and the Middle East, thinking about his wife and children, who want to come here to suffer with him, he feels a little uneasy.

Rommel is the **** of war in Germany, and a man who dotes on his wife very much.

"Not exactly. This is our oil output pipeline. We haven't been building it for a long time. Now, our base has become an oasis in the desert."

Over the years, the oil base in Libya has been under construction, and the continuous planting of trees has given the oil base a preliminary appearance of the beauty of an oasis.

Anyway, the oil here has been extracted on a large scale. There is no shortage of energy in the base, there are also oil refineries. In addition to using oil as power, there are also nuclear power reactors in operation that provide a steady stream of electricity. With the extraction of groundwater, the ecology of the base is much better than before.

"General, let us go to the base first." Neuer said: "The environment on the base side is better."

After the French War ended, Rommel was promoted to two ranks. In addition to direct command of the 7th Armored Division, Rommel now also has the 5th Armored Division, which also followed him. It will take several days to unload these equipment.

The off-road vehicle was galloping in the desert. Soon Rommel saw the tall kowtow, the newly built oil refinery near the oil field, and the stubbornly growing trees.

Cyric has been developing the Libya base for more than ten years!

"Our oil refinery here is still relatively small, but in addition to the use of our base, the armored division provided to us is more than enough." Neuer said: "The biggest problem is food. I hope we Can keep up."

In history, Rommel lacked fuel the most. Now, there are tens of thousands of people who don't need to worry about fuel. They need enough food.

Rommel smiled: "Don't worry about the food, the food we brought this time is enough for us to eat for half a month."

Hearing Rommel's words, Neuer turned his head and glanced at him: "It's only half a month?"

"Yes After half a month, we have already fought to Egypt. The food stored by the British army is enough for us to eat." Rommel was extremely confident.

The desert area is most suitable for armored soldiers to attack at high speed. Thinking of the difficult advance in the mud pit of Dunkirk, this is simply a battlefield tailored for him!

In half a month, solve the Egyptian problem!

"Crunch." The car stopped at the door of a building on the base. Neuer looked at the Italian military vehicles listening outside the door and said, "The Italians are here."

The Italians are here! When they got the news, it was too late and there was no time to meet them at the port, so they came to the oil base and waited here.

Italo Garibaldi, the new commander of the 10th Italian Army, had just been killed because his predecessor had just been killed, and now, after taking over the command of the 10th Army, his troops are still decimated.

The Tenth Army was stationed on the border of Egypt, so their troops, which suffered the most damage, were chased and beaten by the British!

Now, I heard that the German troops finally came up. He dropped the troops and ran over to ask for help.

"General, welcome to North Africa." At this time, seeing Rommel getting off the car, Italo still maintained a trace of composure: "Our Italian army is looking forward to your arrival."

"I need to take over the command of the Italian army." After seeing the opposing commander, Rommel didn't see him, and immediately stretched out his hand for command: "Where is your highest commander here?"

Rommel has only two armored divisions in his hands. He can charge forward, but he is not assured that these Italians will be in danger if they don't follow up quickly.

"Marshal Italo-Balbo, is coming by plane and may be there in an hour." Italo said.