Chapter 860 Montgomery's Judgment

"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded from the outside, the soil on the roof kept falling down, and the people in the room seemed to be used to it, turning a blind eye and seriously studying the situation.

"During this time, the Germans drove the Italian soldiers and launched a total of six attacks on us," said Lieutenant General Nori.

When they retreated to Alexandria, the advantages of the soldiers were shown instead. After all, there were many of them. Now that so many troops are gathered in Alexandria, they can even take turns to fight in the positions, and they can even fight once or twice. The counter-charge made the Germans suffer.

Although the Germans surrounded the outside, Alexandria was a port, and at night, there would still be transport ships sneaking ashore to bring them supplies and take away the wounded soldiers. In this way, they are fighting here. , still very comfortable.

Everyone knows that perseverance is useful to them, after all, they are waiting for backup.

However, the Germans didn't seem to be in a hurry and just kept stalemate.

"Everyone, now, we have to think, why are the Germans doing this?" The tight string in Montgomery's mind was telling him that it's not a good thing for the Germans not to attack now!

Montgomery's words calmed everyone down. Sometimes they just didn't want to think about it.

"Could it be that the Germans will bypass our Alexandria and go straight to Cairo?" Finally, someone said it.

Since the inland is desert, the German army can only continue to capture ports along the way, so as to save the terrible logistical supply.

There are many mechanized troops in the German army, and the demand for logistics is even greater. Only after they have captured Alexandria can they use it as a logistics base and continue to capture Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

This is the view that almost everyone agrees with. They stick to Alexandria, which is the consensus.

But what if this judgment is wrong?

In other words, the German army did not intend to use Alexandria as a springboard, but ran directly to attack for a few hundred miles to capture Cairo?

If it was just a hunch a few days ago, these days, the Germans have been playing and stopping here, which would have explained the problem.

"However, our reconnaissance aircraft did not find any special circumstances!" said a general: "On the road from Cairo to Alexandria, there was not a large number of German armored troops advancing."

"Our reconnaissance planes are only reconnaissance during the day, the Germans, what if they are operating at night? If the Germans have been feinting here for the past few days, then tonight, maybe they will be able to fly to Cairo. "Montgomery continued to analyze: "Everyone, I only know that we were prepared for a bloody battle, but, for a few days, our battle was not cruel, which has explained the problem."

The German tank unit has a very powerful impact. If the Germans are not afraid of sacrifice, then Alexandria will definitely have to go through a hard fight!

But what about now?

There is no hard fight, the daily battle is just a small fight, like now, there is not even a lot of artillery fire!

If the Germans really wanted to siege the city, those battleships at sea would have already moved over and bombarded at close range! It's not like they haven't done this before!

The abnormal performance of the past few days has finally made Montgomery make this bold and terrible inference that no one is willing to accept.

The Germans are heading to Cairo!

Montgomery's words made the faces of the people present become serious. Everyone knew that Cairo was now an empty city. If the German armored troops were really heading for Cairo, then they would have almost no possibility of counterattack.

Cairo, may fall quickly.

In particular, His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister, and some senior officials who have been transferred from the United Kingdom are all in Cairo!

How to do how to do?

"So, I suggest that we retreat immediately, we can't wait any longer!" Montgomery said: "Wait until tonight, after night falls, we will immediately take a transport ship, leave Alexandria, and return to Cairo!"

In the daytime, it was the Luftwaffe's world. Although the British occasionally took off reconnaissance planes, they were sneaky, and once discovered by the Germans, they were often shot down.

Only at night is it safe, and the same is true for the transport ship. If it is daytime, I am afraid that more than half of the casualties will be paid. As long as there is a transport ship, the black Stuka will fly over.

Although the periphery was surrounded by German and Italian troops, there was no problem in sneaking away from the sea.

After hearing what Montgomery said, many people stopped talking.

Now, just relying on an inference, without any tangible evidence, it is necessary to withdraw, which is unreasonable!

However, since Montgomery came, at least the precarious situation has been saved, and every judgment of Montgomery has hardly been missed.

Therefore, the following people still believe in Montgomery, or, more importantly, it is enough that someone directs and takes responsibility.

To retreat, retreat.

"Tonight, leave the South African Second Division to guard Alexandria, and the rest of the army, leave by boat!" Montgomery thought for a while, and continued to add: "The equipment cannot be taken away, so it can be left to the South African Second Division."

We can't wait any longer. We must retreat quickly. Breaking out from the land is very difficult. It is more suitable to walk on water. Some heavy equipment, such as tanks, may not be able to be taken away temporarily, at least someone has to leave first. No matter when, there are people, there are soldiers, there will be hope.

Equipment, you can continue to get it from the United States!

Montgomery made the move to withdraw troops only by his own judgment and his own intuition, and his judgment was actually extremely accurate.

A village near Giza, west of Cairo.

The origin of any civilization must have water sources, and all civilizations were born near rivers.

For example, in Egypt, the ancient civilization developed along the Nile River. There are more and more villages near the Nile River. This is the main population gathering area.

After breaking through the Alamein line of defense, the British army actually retreated to Alexandria, which made Rommel feel extremely excited. Montgomery was simply too stupid!

Almost without hesitation, Rommel made the decision to leave the Italian army, and a German infantry division, besieged Alexandria and make an offensive appearance, while the main armored division, turned south, and headed for the Egyptian capital. Cairo!