The Third Reich in Desperation

"Who?" Hans, whose curiosity was aroused, couldn't help asking subconsciously.

"The SS general who led the 25 SS troops in the southern province, Model!" Rommel directly revealed the answer: "Many years ago, when Hitler's rebels were suppressed, he was still a colonel of the SS. Model, already has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and equipment, but he has to wait until the National Defense Forces I lead arrive before he is willing to attack together."

"Although we won in the end, this victory was half a day late."

Smiling slightly, Rommel looked firmly into Hans's eyes: "But this time, I will not let the empire, and our victory, be delayed by half a year just to wait for the slow French reinforcements!"

Text Chapter 543 You Can Understand Being Stupid

When Rommel got off his command car, he almost slammed the car door shut.

That's right, he made up his mind to disobey. This was the first time he disobeyed Reinhardt's instructions, in order to show his military talent to the maximum, and then strive for the return of the marshal's scepter.

Then, the German-Italian-African Army, which had just been assembled, hardly waited for a moment. Only on the 7th day after the end of the highland counterattack, they broke into Libya with their commander Rommel.

Contrary to expectations, before Rommel started to exert his strength, Garibaldi's side reported another defeat.

After Cedles was defeated, Garibaldi sacrificed two regiments as prisoners by leaving prisoners on the road, delaying the pursuit of the British army.

However, with the Italian kingdom facing derisive international reports, Garibaldi was determined to wash off the stigma a bit and try again.As a result, this attempt made the last main force of the Italian army miserable.

When Rommel, who got the news, rushed to Garibaldi's new headquarters, the German general was almost mad by the losses reported by the Italian army.

Rommel felt a little regretful. After so much experience, from the last world war to this one, he still expects the Italians to play a big role in the war? !

Perhaps, Germany chose to pull Italy into the camp of the Allies, and now it has gradually become a mistake.

If Italy is a member of Churchill's Axis, let Rommel lead another attack on Italy as he did more than 20 years ago.Annexing this decadent and weak country, he will not have any complaints, let alone any embarrassment!

"General Rommel, this failure is really unexpected..."

Hearing that Rommel was coming, Garibaldi even left the headquarters room in person and greeted him at the gate of the small building set up as the frontline headquarters.

He took the initiative to walk towards Rommel with interest, and extended his right hand early to express a friendly welcome: "At that time, I heard the report from the staff that the British army was urgently mobilizing reinforcements to Heights 3 and 4, and was going to stop you. troops..."

Walking in front of Rommel, Garibaldi's hand was still hanging in the air, but the other party didn't seem to shake hands with him at all, and just responded coldly: "And then?"

Together with Rommel, he rushed to Garibaldi's headquarters, and the major general of the Italian army, who was planning to build a division of the Italian army, stepped forward at the right time with some gloating, and looked at Garibaldi proudly for the first time.

If Garibaldi had listened to his advice before, not to send troops to Libya, but to quickly withdraw behind the French, there would be no failure today.It's a pity that Garibaldi thought he was capable and wanted to be a hero, which led to his subsequent failure.

Garibaldi gave the major general a cold look, and watched the major general, who was aware of his identity, retreat to the back, and then he pretended to lift his hat in embarrassment, and took back the outstretched right hand .

He continued to explain to Rommel: "At that time, we got news that the British army supporting the highlands was not large in scale. There was at most one division, about 1 people, but I still had more than [-] combat troops on my side. I An army from the Ministry rushed to intercept the British army, but unexpectedly, the British army on Sedleis' side would suddenly move out at this time, appearing behind the troops we sent."

"Which army commander gave the order to attack?" Rommel stopped when he walked to the door of the temporary command building, and asked Garibald the first sentence coldly.

"The one who gave the order..." Garibaldi, as the supreme commander of the Italian army who personally issued the order, once again felt extremely embarrassed.

Originally, after he failed once at Sedleis, he was also prepared to wait and see what happened, waiting for the final battle report from the German and French allied forces.But when he learned that the German and French allied forces had won a complete victory, at the same time the Italian army was discredited internationally.

Therefore, the somewhat patriotic Garibaldi shook his teeth, and decided to destroy a small British army first. Even a small victory could save the face of the Italian army a little bit and save Italy's future in the Allied forces. , and strive for a greater right to speak.

But what he didn't expect was that a small-scale battle that seemed to have no problems at first suffered huge losses because of the tactics of the British army sending out another army from Sedleis. A main force with nearly 5 troops was almost Lost all.

To poke such a big basket right now has lost half of the troops in hand.Garibaldi really didn't dare to continue to bear this charge.

Since he went to Africa to preside over the war situation, apart from the fact that the strategy of "both east and north, going hand in hand" had some effect at the beginning, he has been losing troops and losing ground since then.The defeat of the Italian army in Africa was terrible, and coupled with the huge defeat in southern France before, the military strength of the Italian army in the eyes of the outside world now, let alone compared with the British Empire where the sun never sets and the iron-blooded German Empire, even if it is compared with Compared with Vichy France and the Kingdom of Spain, it is estimated that not many people are still optimistic about the victory of the Italian Army.

If it weren't for the population and territory of the Kingdom of Italy, if it weren't for the fact that Italy was the first member of the Allies to follow in Germany's footsteps and the first member to sign a steel treaty with Germany, I am afraid that with two consecutive major failures, Italy would have already It's time to lose its status as a major member of the Allied Powers.

"Actually, this order..." Just as Garibaldi was hesitating whether to find a scapegoat or simply stop the responsibility himself, Rommel waved his hand impatiently to interrupt him.

"No matter which of your generals gave the order, I suggest you that you can prepare to send him to a military court. You can handle this matter yourself, and I will leave it alone. Now I only have one request... .”

Hearing that Rommel, who had shown his sharpness now, did not want to delve into this matter, Garibaldi nodded gratefully: "If you have any request, just say it."

"Immediately reorganize your remaining troops, and bring the reorganized troops into the sequence of the German-Italian African Army Group. The officials in charge of the logistics department immediately coordinate with Rome to ensure the logistics supply after the merger of your two departments." Long Mei. Er looked at Garibaldi with some force, and said seriously: "Besides, from today onwards, I don't want to see any order in the African Army that was not issued by our army headquarters!"

"Okay, no problem!" Garibaldi, who had already made up his mind to escape this time and never take any risks and responsibilities, nodded his head in a cold sweat.

In fact, Garibaldi didn't know that Rommel was more nervous than him when he said this...

Main body Chapter 544 Civil war without gunpowder smoke

(Ask for opinions, do you want to continue to watch the African battlefield, or do you want to watch the European battlefield.)

On the streets of Berlin, Germany, a group of children were laughing and joking and fighting with each other on the way home from school. They ran to the bakery for a while to buy some bread with the food coupons given by their parents, and then ran to the alley to play hide-and-seek with their classmates. He returned home with a smile.

At home, the mother had already prepared dinner and put it on the table, waiting for the children to return. Although most of the fathers of these children went to the front line, their lives were relatively comfortable, at least not hungry.

In addition, because Reinhardt did not want to enter the full-scale wartime system prematurely before the Soviet-German war, in addition to the "three-shift rotation system" for factory production, in terms of food, although there are restrictions on food stamps, this restriction is true. It's not too much, and it can fully meet the needs of people's lives.

Compared with the well-off society of the German people, the British civilians are much more miserable.

London, England.

Because of the war, the school has been completely closed, and the children have also ushered in a very long vacation.

While five-term holidays are fun, these kids are nostalgic for the old days.Although there is no academic burden now, it is very difficult for them to even provide a meal, and their life is far worse than before.

The bombing of the London area by the Luftwaffe has never stopped.Those German bombers roared over London all day long.

Because the British Royal Air Force lost too many fighter planes on the French battlefield, and was killed in a sneak attack on German ports, the current British Air Force is no longer able to protect the people of the British Empire. Countless London citizens are in dire straits all day long.

Faced with this situation, what Churchill could do was to send additional manpower urgently and build more air-raid shelters to deal with the German bombing.

But there are tens of thousands of people in London, and the few air-raid shelters built in a short time can only be said to be a drop in the bucket, and they can't solve any problems at all.

Among the refugees in London, only a very small number found a safe place in the air-raid shelter, and most of them were still shrouded in fear of German bomber shells. These people had nothing to do with each other, and they were not nobles. In the age of nature, there is no guarantee for the safety of life.

In London, the self-proclaimed "Gentlemen's Capital", it is difficult to find so-called gentlemen.

For example, Bill and several of his colleagues are the kind of people who can't be allocated a place for an air-raid shelter.Before the war, Bill and his team all worked in a small company, and they treated people politely on weekdays. When they met people they knew, they would definitely greet them with a smile on their faces.

But now, because it has nothing to do with the limited accommodation area in the air-raid shelter, Bill and the others have gradually lost their good-natured appearances and developed in a more selfish and dark direction.

And John's family is just the opposite of them, because John is a staff member of the London City Government. Before the war, he had a good time in the government department, but now he also used his relationship to naturally live in the air-raid shelter.

In the air-raid shelter divided into less than 5 square meters of accommodation, John looked at his wife and several children, eating rye bread that most people could not eat while smiling happily, and he suddenly felt that this Although the day is bad, it is still full of hope.

Sitting on the ground with a thin cushion, John leaned his back against the concrete wall of the air-raid shelter, smiling contentedly.

Although life is hard these days, at least he protected his family from the war and exposed them to the shells of German bombers.

But what happened next really made John laugh no longer.

"Hey, boy, it's fine if you can live in the air-raid shelter, but you can still eat bread. Some of this bread should be given to us! Otherwise, you have to move out of here and give us the place!"