The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 415

There is no sense of depression here at all. On the contrary, the morale of the British army here is extremely high.

They first defeated the large-scale attack of the Italians, and then they all pressed the allied forces of the famous French general Berente and Italy to the defense line. Even after the German reinforcements joined, they were also able to repel the attack of the famous German general Rommel. attack.

Italy used 5 times more troops to sneak attack, but in the end it was pushed back. Not only did it not harvest an inch of land, but it lost many of its colonies.

The famous French general Berente rose to fame and was hailed by the French as "modern Napoleon". In the end, it was not impossible to defeat General Wavell.

As for the German army, they are unimpeded all over the world and have not lost a single defeat.Only in North Africa, in the hands of General Wavell, he suffered a defeat!

In the eyes of the Commonwealth Army in North Africa, no country's army can defeat them.

When Montgomery just got off the plane and saw a staff officer of General Wavell's headquarters, the staff officer asked Montgomery in surprise: "Why is the local army so useless? It's fine if it can't defeat the German army, but it can even resist the German army." not!"

Montgomery was really surprised at the time. Having personally witnessed the combat quality and powerful combat effectiveness of the German army in Dunkirk, he could not imagine why the British army in North Africa was so confident.

Just because they organized a probing attack by the Germans?

On the plane to North Africa, Montgomery also put in a lot of effort to study the previous North African battle reports in detail.

He found that the German offensive stopped by the British army in North Africa was basically a defensive battle with no technical content.

Although this was a battle personally commanded by Rommel, the commander of the German-Italian African Army, based on the scale of the German dispatch, it reached the standard of a tentative attack at best.

When did repelling an enemy's tentative attack become the proud capital of the soldiers of the British Empire?

Not only that, but Montgomery felt that the famous German general named Rommel showed so many levels in this tentative attack that he couldn't help applauding him.

Especially in the storm launched by using the sandstorm, Rommel simply used the force he had at hand to the extreme!

Montgomery was a little scared. When such a terrible opponent had an equal force to his own, could Wavell's soldiers still be as confident as they are now?

You must know that in Africa, the combined total strength of the German, French and Italian Allied Forces is much superior to that of the Commonwealth forces in Africa.

Moreover, last time the German army only used less than half an armored division to launch such a beautiful battle against Brutok.When Rommel brings the entire German African Army, what level will it play?!

With anxiety, Montgomery walked into Wavell's headquarters with the staff.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw an even more incredible scene.

"This is an opportunity! We should take advantage of Rommel's offensive and face-to-face with them to defeat the main German army in Africa!"

A young general with the rank of major general was yelling loudly.

Montgomery could easily infer the reason from the opponent's age that was not commensurate with his military rank.

Being able to be promoted to general at a young age must have made a lot of military exploits.In the battle with the armies of Italy, France and Germany some time ago, this major general must have made his mark.

Having already tasted the sweetness, he will of course continue to clamor for war.

Montgomery was not eager to participate in the discussion of the combat meeting in Wavell's headquarters, he just found a colonel sitting on the side to get a general understanding of the situation.

From the mouth of the staff officer, Montgomery learned that after the arrival of the seven French native divisions sent by the Allies to Africa, Rommel, who had solicited the approval of Reinhardt this time, launched another tough battle against Brutok .

The opponent's attitude was very firm, and Rommel obviously wanted to avenge his shame and use a successful battle to regain the trust of the Führer in him.

Montgomery was almost sure that Rommel, the German commander, attacked Brutok this time with the attitude that he must win!

Moreover, Montgomery learned that the information in Wavell's hands also showed that the famous French general Wavell and the commander-in-chief of the Italian African Army, Garibaldi, also participated in the joint operations organized by Rommel under the instructions of their own governments. Most of the troops on hand formed a coalition with the German army.

The combat coalition forces of the Allies have exceeded the total number of African Commonwealth troops!

On Montgomery's side, he was getting more and more frightened, but on the other side, Wavell's generals saw a completely different scene.

"We only found out not long ago that the reinforcements Rommel received after his last defeat were only two armored battalions. Those tanks that looked like two regiments were just models made of wood and cardboard!"

Another middle-aged general who was a little older, but also a high-ranking lieutenant general, vowed to analyze loudly:

"Rommel will pretend to receive more reinforcements, which means that he is afraid of us. If he hadn't received 7 divisions of French reinforcements this time, he would not dare to launch a new offensive!"

The lieutenant general's analysis almost killed Montgomery.

Rommel, the general who dared to storm the Brutok Fortress with his armored regiment, was actually said to be a cowardly and cowardly commander!

As long as you have a little bit of brain, you can figure it out. Rommel, who is already quite famous, has never been timid?

Isn't it normal for others to pretend that there are a huge number of reinforcements on the battlefield?

It seems even more embarrassing that Rommel didn't understand the side of himself who was deceived until Rommel launched his offensive again!

"London needs us. Only by completely defeating the allied forces in Africa can we support the local operations. If the local army cannot do it, let us do it!"

"Every army in the coalition on the opposite side has been defeated by us separately. A group of losers united, it is not worth worrying about!"

"Annihilate the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms in Africa, and witness General Wavell's promotion to Marshal!"

...It seems that every general under Wavell's command has been dazzled by the previous victory, leaving only fanatical confidence in their eyes.

"It is the most stupid act to wage a risky war just for fame!"

Amidst the clamor, Montgomery finally couldn't hold it back any longer, and objected out loud, very out of gregarious.

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"This is no adventure!"

Montgomery's words immediately aroused the disgust of the generals.

An anxious general immediately stood up and retorted: "It's not just the enemy who has received reinforcements. We have also received a large number of weapons and ammunition reinforcements not long ago, and our military strength has at least doubled compared to before!"

The large number of reinforcements that the general talked about was the supplies and equipment that Churchill ordered to supplement the British army in North Africa before the German army launched the landing operation.

At that time, the German landing operations against the mainland had not officially begun.Churchill, who still had enough strength, relied on the English Channel as a barrier, regardless of the scarcity and shortage of local equipment, and decided to strengthen the British army in North Africa.

Unlike Reinhardt, who regarded the African battlefield as a secondary battlefield, Churchill almost regarded the "North African flank position" almost as important as the British Empire itself!

While Reinhardt was staring at the British mainland aggressively, Churchill still wanted to guard the distant African colony.

For this reason, Churchill drew a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition from the scarce local inventory, even including Type IV Crusader patrol tanks that were enough to equip an armored regiment.

In order to avoid the Italian navy, which had already controlled the Mediterranean Sea at that time, the British transport fleet had to detour around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and sailed to Egypt by the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.This caused them to be delivered to Wavell not long ago.

With this batch of supplies, Wavell, whose strength has greatly increased, has assembled the 7th Armored Division, 7th Armored Brigade, 4th Armored Brigade, 4th Indian Division and 22nd Guards Brigade on the Egyptian border. Two independent Australian infantry battalions, together with Tobruk's 3 defenders, were used to wipe out Rommel's German armored division, German infantry division and three useless Italian divisions.

For Wavell, Brutok's 5 defenders could not actually mobilize and move.

On the one hand, Tobruk has become the target of Rommel's obvious attack, and it is bound to need defense.

On the other hand, among the defenders of Tobruk, there are more than 2 African native troops recruited by the British army.