Chapter 491: Enter

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Among the thousands of miles of yellow sand, a force is marching hard. This is the battlefield most suitable for the decisive battle of the German armored forces, and this is the most desirable position for generals. The reason is simple: it is vast and uninhabited, there are no cities to block the pace of progress, here is simply a paradise for war.
The battle on the periphery has been over for more than ten days, and Rommel has achieved brilliant results. But he did not have time to pull the skin against the British captives. After handing over the British captives to the Italian troops, he led his African army to start a long expedition.
He chased the retreating British 9th Army, and drove all the way to the core area of ​​the British defense, hoarding a large amount of materials in Tobruk. Over the past ten days or so, his troops have been fighting every day, biting the troops behind the British 9th Group Army Hall and hunted down hundreds of kilometers in one breath.
Rommel was leaning on his convertible car seat at this moment. The German official hat with a border was covered with a plexiglass goggles without a border. This goggles was seized by the British surrender general. He was very I like this unique goggles with some exaggeration, which allows him to cover his eyes when the wind blows.
There was no rest for a few days. The chasing made Rommel exhausted, so the troops had just stopped to rest and he had fallen asleep in his seat. A huge armored command vehicle was parked beside the convertible car, and several combat staff were smoking and chatting in the wind.
No one knows where this long-distance raid is going to hit, everyone just sees from the map that he is getting closer and closer to the British Tobruk who is heavily guarded. German and British tanks and cars were scattered everywhere along the way, which was completely a self-destructive expedition.
The Germans hunted down from two tank regiments all the way into a tank battalion, and General Frederick of the 7th Infantry Army was left halfway. A supply station and a water supply station were built approximately 110 kilometers away.
Only a tank battalion of the 7th Armored Division and a mechanized infantry regiment of the 7th Infantry Army were keeping up with Rommel. So now the army in Rommel doesn't even have the size of a division, at most it can only be regarded as a strengthened regiment. Just two hours ago, the British forces were forced to fight back against Rommel again, and a division of British troops turned around and stormed Rommel. Under the fierce counterattack of the German forces, although this attack was repelled, Rommel also consumed his precious ammunition.
Now the sand is getting bigger and bigger, and the time is getting closer to the night, so Rommel's troops stopped to rest. Only one-third of the ammunition is left, and there is not much left for food and fresh water. The most terrible thing is that the oil supply is interrupted, which makes Rommel anxious.
After about ten minutes of sleep, Rommel opened his eyes. He got up from the car, jumped onto the gravel and walked to his armored command vehicle. The radio has been set up, and some ammunition and empty oil drums are scattered around. Rommel took a kettle from a staff member, drank a sip of gasoline-flavored water, then screwed the lid of the kettle and handed it back to the staff member.
Because the containers for storing fresh water are very limited, the Germans like to use empty gasoline barrels to fill more drinking water. Although this method makes the water less tasty, it can save your life in a crisis. As for things like washing clothes-you can put the clothes in the sand and rub it a few times, this is how the African Legion does the laundry, how? Is there a gap with the imagination?
"Where is General Frederick now?" Rommel was very concerned about when his followers could catch up. He knew he had become a legend, a star of the Third Reich. In more than ten days, he commanded the troops to advance hundreds of kilometers. Such a fast attack speed set a new world record. And such a rapid progress has also made the people far away in Berlin crazy. This feeling of being sought after by people has made Rommel a bit floating, which is one of the reasons why he is eager to win Tobruk.
Another reason why he kept attacking was the pressure of logistics supplies. This kind of pressure could originally make the attacking forces stop, but Rommel used this pressure as a horn to urge himself to move forward.
He was used to the fact that someone was arranging trivial logistical problems for him in the rear, and he was used to the efficient and timely logistics supply in Germany. So when the Italian military officer around him regretted that the supplies had been almost consumed, he was angry, and he decided to beat Torbrook and subsidize himself with British oil and fresh water.
However, it turns out that Rommel still underestimated the importance of logistics supplies to the German armored forces. Under the condition of nearly severing supplies, the combat capabilities of the German forces were greatly impaired. Not to mention the 150mm caliber artillery and the bulky 88mm anti-aircraft artillery under General Frederick, Rommel found that the more mobile Leopard assault guns could not keep up with his fast progress.
Modern warfare is not only about the number of front-line aircraft and tanks, but also about the brave and fearless spirit of soldiers. It is still the total amount of stored ammunition, and it is also fuel, spare parts, transportation, and even dispatch.
It is precisely because of various failures in the tank that is constantly advancing that Rommel has fewer and fewer tanks. First, several tanks are left behind because the engine air filter needs to be replaced, and then later the whole The tanks of the entire battalion were forced to stop to clean their engines and exhaust pipes because of this problem.
However, British tanks are more scrapped. On average, a German tank is faulty, and several British abandoned cars and tanks can be found around. This is why Rommel keeps chasing it. As long as the British lose more, Will suffice.
He constantly used paralyzed tanks to remove spare parts to ensure the integrity of the armored forces in his hand. At the beginning, he could ensure the strength of a regiment, and now he can only barely maintain a tank of the armored battalion to continue to advance.
At the time of departure, Rommel was leaning against the Italian military airport. As long as his troops called for reinforcements, they would get a response from the Air Force in a few minutes. But now he has almost completely lost the air force's superiority, and the military airports around can't guarantee air control near Tobruk.
Looking at the dozens of tanks not far away, Rommel moved back for the first time. He received an order from the Army ’s General Staff to stop advancing. Tobrook had never been so close, but looking at the map he felt that the British fortress was so far away from him at this moment. There were more and more British defenders in front of him, and the counterattacks became more and more fierce, which made him smell of a crisis.
"General Frederick is still here to gather the fallen soldiers. He arranged a circular defensive position and built a fresh water purification station by the sea." A staff member pointed to the location on the map and said: "A dozen He sent a telegram a minute ago, saying that he was investigating a place and was preparing to build a front-line airport. "
"The British counterattack just now. They dispatched 3 planes and blew up our 4 trucks. We lacked air defense firepower. The British counterattack was just in front of the 1st battalion. We lost two armored reconnaissance vehicles and belonged to the armored battalion. Department. 27 soldiers were killed and 35 others were wounded. "Following Rommel was the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 7th Armored Division. His clothes were covered with gravel and looked a little sloppy.
Rommel nodded. He just saw the encounter in the first encounter. At that time, he was confirming his position. An armored reconnaissance vehicle not far away was hit by a sudden British shell. After that, there was a fierce battle between the two sides, and the battle lasted for nearly two hours before it ended.
"Send reconnaissance troops to both wings! I want to confirm the position of the British troops on both wings." Rommel thought about arranging for the 1st Battalion Commander: "If British troops appear on both sides of us, then we will immediately begin to retreat ... order all The troops are ready to fight, and I worry that the British counterattack is about to begin. "
After assigning the task of the front-line troops, he turned to look at his chief of staff: "Check the information with General Friedrich. I need to know whether the commander of the opposing British team is Montgomery ..."
He paused, and then continued: "Also, let him not rush forward, and lay out defenses on the spot."
"General!" A telegraph officer jumped from the command vehicle and stood next to Rommel. He handed a telegram to Rommel: "A call from the Supreme Command! The war command issued by the head himself."
"Head of State?" Rommel froze, and then continued, "Nian!"
"I'm Akado Rudolph, order you to temporarily stop the attack, and wait for the new Supreme Command order to arrive." The telegraph officer Zheng Xin read the message.
Rommel smiled bitterly and took a look at the telegram: "It seems that the head of state does not approve of my attack on Tobruk, but now it seems that I can't run even if I want to run. Maybe the British attack has already begun. "
While Rommel smiled bitterly, across from his position, an American with a steel helmet on his head was watching his tankron pierce in front of him. He was holding a cigar, with a proud look on his face.
The soldiers behind the tank were not wearing British helmets with large eaves, but American helmets with flat eaves. This unit is the U.S. Volunteer Force that Montgomery took over, and the commander of this unit just spit out a white smoke and sneered and said, "Let me let the American tank unit under Barton command to meet you This world-famous tank warfare expert. Elvin Rommel. "