Chapter 35 Muses Oasis

Berger's body fell on the side of the road, his hands tied behind his back, his legs bent because of the pain before death, his head tilted to one side, and there was a clear blood hole on the right side, still bleeding.

No one buried it. It was not that the German army had no sympathy, but they were ordered not to bury Berger. To be precise, it was not allowed to bury too early. Berger's body must be displayed in front of the whole team so that everyone knows the fate of killing comrades.

As an army, it is indeed necessary to do so, because unity and trust are important to the army. Only with these two points can the soldiers win on the battlefield as a whole.

Therefore, the commander of the army needs to use this method to shock others in order to increase cohesion.

But for individuals, Qin Chuan still thinks that this is a bit too much, especially many German soldiers spit in the direction of Berger's body when passing by.

It was not until the army was almost at the end that Kuhn waved to Qin Chuan and others and began to bury Berger.

The burial method was very simple. A pit was dug in the sandy ground nearby with an engineer shovel. Two people carried the body into the pit one after the other. After covering it with sand, Berg's engineer shovel was inserted in front of the grave as a tombstone. One soldier even put Berg's helmet on the tombstone.

After Qin Chuan and others left, only a lonely helmet was left swaying in the wind and sand under the setting sun. Several vultures appeared in the sky. They had smelled the blood and were waiting to come down for a meal.

The next day, the troops arrived at Muses Oasis smoothly.

Muses Oasis was not really an oasis as imagined. It was actually a small pond of several hundred square meters, surrounded by some weeds that were withered by the sun. Only near the pond or in the pond could you see a little green.

But this was enough to inspire people walking in the desert. The soldiers excitedly ran to the oasis and drank water greedily. Some people even jumped into the pond and cheered loudly.

Qin Chuan could certainly understand their feelings, because Qin Chuan himself could hardly suppress his desire for the pond in front of him... If it were any other time, Qin Chuan would not even look at this unremarkable pond, but now, this pond seemed to have a kind of magic, making Qin Chuan want to "stay here and not go anywhere".

However, this was just a luxury, because the order was quickly passed down: "Rest for fifteen minutes!"

Fifteen minutes... At this time, the soldiers who jumped directly into the pond regretted it, because they had to go on the road in wet clothes.

"Do you know why it's so urgent?" Werner was well-informed. He went out for a walk and came back and said: "Because our troops are about to reach Meizhili, we must rush to Tengerten as soon as possible, otherwise the enemy will escape from our encirclement!"

"God!" The baker exclaimed: "Our troops have already reached Meizhili, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true!" Werner answered confidently.

The baker took out a map from his pocket, looked at it and said, "That's more than 700 kilometers, and they only took ten days. Didn't the British put up any resistance?"

"What else can we expect from the British?" Werner squinted his eyes.

Werner's words caused laughter among the German soldiers around him. They were all very proud of the British army's vulnerability to the German army.

The baker didn't understand what was going on, but Qin Chuan did.

The British army's combat effectiveness was not as bad as it appeared. The problem was the judgment of the British commander-in-chief, Werner.

Werner always believed that Rommel would not attack again, so there was no effective plan and deployment for defense or counterattack.

In fact, it is not Weiwei's fault, because the British army had "super secrets" at that time.

The so-called "super secret" refers to an intelligence organization located in Bletchley Manor in the UK. To be precise, it is the first primary computer made by British intelligence personnel. It can mechanically and violently crack the German code... This is a bit like using permutations and combinations to guess other people's passwords.

Originally, it took more than ten years to decipher the code in this way... This is obviously not practical, because by the time the code is deciphered, the war may be over.

But the German army always added the words "Heil Hitler" at the end of the code. After the British intelligence personnel entered these words into the "super secret", the deciphering time was shortened exponentially.

Finally, in May 1940, the British army successfully deciphered the first code with "super secrets". From Therefore, the contents of the German telegram were almost exposed to the British army.

The reason why Wevil judged that the German army would not attack was because he obtained Hitler's orders to Rommel from the "top secret", all of which were to stop Rommel from attacking and garrisoning.

So Wevil believed that Rommel was only conducting an offensive patrol war, not a real offensive war.

However, who would have thought that Rommel completely ignored Hitler's orders and launched "real offensive wars" against the British defense line again and again, which Wevil believed would not happen.

This put the British army in a passive position again and again in the battle.

As a result, the several regiments that Rommel deployed to the front took only ten days to advance more than 700 kilometers... This speed even exceeded Rommel's own imagination.

And this was the result after the troops were hit by a sandstorm...

The sandstorm was called "Kibli Wind" by the locals. It swept most of Cyrenaica and raised the temperature in the area to 54 degrees Celsius.

The sandstorm caused the least damage to the regiment where Qin Chuan was...Only more than 100 people were missing in the first regiment, and more than 50 people were confirmed dead. The main reason was that the regiment was relatively concentrated and prepared.

Other regiments, such as the second regiment, were scattered around chasing the British army when the sandstorm came, so they didn't know where they were when the storm passed, and they didn't know whether the opposite and next to them were British or German troops.

What's more, even Rommel couldn't find his troops...At this time, Rommel himself was only ten kilometers away from Mezhili. He wanted to gather troops to attack Mezhili, but he could only find dozens of soldiers around him.

Among them, the 5th Armored Regiment, which had the most tanks, could not be contacted at all, as if it had disappeared.

It was later discovered that this was because their radio stations all broke down and could not be used under the attack of wind and sand.