Five Hundred and Ninety-Five Egypt

While the Japanese soldiers were looking at the desert at a loss, thousands of people on the other side of the world had already gotten used to life in the desert.

Two German soldiers jumped out of their armored vehicles. They wore shorts, exposed their sun-tanned knees, and stood in front of a huge stone-carved boundary marker with their rifles on their backs. It says "Egypt" in Egyptian and English.

"Signal to the troops behind, saying that we have entered the territory of Egypt, and no British reconnaissance troops have been found." An officer stood on the roof of the armored vehicle, observed the surrounding scene with a telescope for a long time, and found that there was indeed nothing to report Case.

Recently, the British army adopted a tight defense in Egypt, and many of the lines of defense that were originally deployed on the periphery of Egypt were abandoned. Montgomery concentrated his troops on 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 suggestion of his deputy, General Frederick, and began to play steadily. He built a complete water station supply line in the rear, and sent special forces and elite armored troops to hunt down the British sabotage unit. Although it does not seem to have achieved any large-scale victories, they have managed their supply lines along the way impeccably.

"General, the forward troops have entered the territory of Egypt, and the main force of our army is gathering and camping on the border of Egypt." The staff put down the phone in his hand, raised his head, and shouted loudly to Rommel, who was studying the map: "The armored troops are still on the ground." Moving slowly, according to the plan, they will arrive at the designated location in an hour."

"Order all the troops to slow down and expand the range." Rommel looked away from the map, and then issued an order: "Let the air force dispatch, scout all suspicious areas, and ensure that the two wings of the troops are not threatened by the enemy. The defensive line awaits the arrival of follow-up troops."

"General, do we really have to wait for Scherner's K-Army to arrive in North Africa before starting the Egyptian campaign?" The momentum of the attack, then Cairo can even be won in 10 days.

"Don't worry, Chief of Staff. When necessary, I can order the troops to advance 200 kilometers a day, but it is meaningless to do that now. The enemy is waiting for me to make a mistake. This is their only chance to turn defeat into victory." Rommel smiled Said: "But as long as I don't make mistakes, then the North African campaign must be my final victory. What I have to do now is not to take risks to win, but to wait for the moment of victory."

It's not that Rommel didn't want to attack, but that Accado ordered him to slow down the attack time. Scherner, who was responsible for supporting Rommel's expansion of the North African battlefield, is now on the way. If the two armies converge, it will be Accador's pain in North Africa. At the critical moment of the killer, Accado hoped to make a time difference so that the United States would not have time to send more troops to the Middle East, so that Germany could drive straight in and occupy the world's largest oil production base.

However, even Akado himself felt that such a large-scale mobilization of troops could not be hidden from everyone's eyes. That's why he started the prelude to the Balkan campaign at the same time. To achieve the purpose of confusing audiovisual. As for the effect, only God himself knows.

"The oil transport unit has just received news that a 30-member British assault unit appeared near Benghazi, but they were spotted by our helicopter sweeping unit. After a fierce battle, the other party lost 17 people and the other 13 were captured. An officer walked in from outside the tent and handed a copy to Rommel: "They also sent the prisoners' interrogation records. There are some information that you need to read personally, General."

"What intelligence?" Rommel was taken aback for a moment, then took the report and found that the above problem was indeed more serious-the British were using some immature special forces in an attempt to build some attack bases on Rommel's long supply line, and then these troops Rommel's supply line will be sabotaged and attacked, and Rommel's logistics transportation will be paralyzed.

"What does the commander of the Italian army in charge of public security say about this matter?" Rommel frowned and asked, "Send a telegram to General Garibaldi and ask him to urge the Italian army in the rear to clean up these things as much as possible." The enemy's attack base."

"If Garibaldi's blackshirts are allowed to go back and deal with these strongholds, they may still win. Letting those second-rate Italian troops who don't even have basic supplies to do this kind of thing is no different from sending weapons and ammunition to the opponent." Staff Officer Obviously worried about the combat effectiveness of the garrison troops behind Italy, he said, "Let's try it with the 'Desert Scorpion' special forces."

The Desert Scorpion is an elite special force characterized by desert special operations, with only 120 members, but this "company" is definitely not an ordinary company, but an "Army Aviation Special Forces" that uses helicopters as its means of transportation. force". They are specially responsible for dealing with the enemy's skirmishers scattered behind their own defense lines and protecting the supply line of their main force.

This force relies on helicopters to maneuver in the desert, so it comes and goes like the wind, relying on the rockets on the helicopters and 13mm heavy machine guns to provide fire suppression, which is more than enough to deal with the British surprise squad with only light weapons and armored vehicles. This force was formed at the behest of Akado, because in another time and space, the surprise attack unit of the British army caused incalculable losses to Italy's logistical supplies.

However, the situation has changed now. The maturity of the combat theory of the German special forces, as well as the research and development of special operations weapons, are more than a little more advanced than the British army. Although these German special forces can't stand up to ten on the frontal battlefield, they are like ducks in water in such small-scale conflicts.

It is a pity that although this force has been divided into 4 teams to perform tasks in different areas, it still cannot protect the safety of the entire supply line. There are still a large number of defensive vacuum areas, and there are also areas in charge of the Italian army. The combat effectiveness of the Italian units in these areas was uneven, some could repel the incoming British squads, while others were easily defeated.

Although the German army has moved the transportation and supply location from the distant city of Tripoli to the port of Brega that has just been repaired and put into use. However, the long supply line of the German army still has to pass through the entire Benghazi and Tobruk areas. As a result, the German army’s logistical supplies are once again stretched. This time, what the African Army needs urgently is not weapons and personnel, but ammunition, precious fresh water and Oil.

The meticulous Montgomery also discovered the weakness of the German army. In order to delay the German army's attack time, he sent a small number of troops to conduct intensive desert training for survival, and then secretly crossed the German defense line from the depths of the desert in an armored vehicle, attacking the weak German supply lines.

"Okay! Let the desert scorpions run more. After all, their combat methods are relatively resource-efficient, and their combat losses are relatively small, which makes me very satisfied." Rommel nodded, and then added: "To the highest The High Command has requested that some more special forces come over."

"Yes!" The staff officer stood at attention, turned around and went to the telegraph room.

In northern Africa, where the long yellow sand is the main theme, what the two armies are competing for is not courage or perseverance, but every ton of oil and every shell shipped from thousands of miles away. The comprehensive national strength integrates the final power of a series of links such as production, transportation and distribution.

For the first time in the war, the advantages of every link are so clearly laid out, so that every commander cannot avoid it, and every commander shakes his head and sighs. Shrewd command and whimsical strategies can't get around the truckloads of logistics supplies in the end, and they can't do without the boring statistics.

The work of deceiving the opponent has become extremely complicated, with countless supplies and a wide variety of equipment requiring a huge rear to support. How many rounds of 7.92 mm caliber bullets, 13 mm caliber machine gun ammunition, 20 mm caliber machine gun shells, how many 40 mm caliber anti-aircraft shells, 75 mm anti-aircraft artillery shells, 88 mm Cannonballs, 105mm, 150mm and many more ammo types. These ammunition have to be manufactured, distributed and produced by the rear munitions department, and there are 7 if not 10 departments. If you count quilts, tents, daily necessities, food, oil, spare parts for equipment, and the salaries of the troops, the personnel on leave are talking about the mountains and bragging everywhere-as long as one piece of data is lost by the enemy in thousands of links up and down. Know, then basically there is no secret at all.

Of course, the German Army Group K is moving to North Africa little by little, and American spies already know about it. A British spy in the quartermaster department got an important piece of information, which showed that the German army urgently ordered a batch of North African summer uniforms, and the spy knew that the summer uniforms of Rommel's Group L Army had been delivered a month ago North Africa region.

This loophole was immediately discovered by the US intelligence agencies, and they began to mobilize spies in Italy, hoping to find some clues. It turns out that the Italian intelligence agency is not a little bit worse than the two German intelligence agencies. American intelligence agencies got everything they wanted to know in Italy: the Italian ships that arranged the transportation, the establishment of the K Group Army, and the approximate number of heavy weapons. If it weren't for the fact that the Italian Ministry of Transport officer didn't know the details, he would probably tell the bold "American friend" who had a drink together with the color of Scherner's underwear.