Chapter 967: Battle of the Middle East

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Sitting in the office of the multi-capital capital of Akha, it seems that the smoke-filled battlefields are far away from themselves. Here is the most exquisite artwork in the world, which gathers the crystallization of all human civilization. Hanging on the walls are paintings of famous artists, and medieval armor of medieval knights arbitrarily placed in the corner of the living room are really precious antiques.
"My head!" Gascol was asked by Akado to sit down, so he sat across from Akado with respect. Akado seemed to be holding a small meeting, and there was Domi who succeeded Augustus in the office. The Prime Minister of Nice, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, Ribbentrop: "40 minutes ago, the 'crossing operation' in North Africa officially began."
Akado listened to Gascole's report and nodded his head. It was a reaction to Gascole. Then he looked at Ribbentrop and said, "You are in charge of diplomacy. What do you think of this issue?"
The leapfrog operation was planned by many politicians and military generals such as the heads of state and Dominis, and the purpose was plainly to strengthen Italy's determination to war with a battle. Akado and Dominis still hope to resolve their differences within the Axis Powers, rather than passively clean up the mess after turning over their faces.
"My head of state. I don't know what step to mobilize Marshal Garibaldi, so I can only analyze the current situation." Ribbentrop is a diplomatic genius. A thorough analysis of the situation used to be an important boost for Hitler in another space-time, and in this space-time, he was also the strongest diplomat in the Akado Foreign Ministry.
He thought for a while and then continued to Akado: "I heard that Americans have been active around the King of Italy and the Mussolini regime. They hope that the powerful axis will split internally, which is more in line with the United States in the Middle East. The interest of touching fish in muddy water. Italy is obviously leaning towards the United States. They think that Pian'an is more in line with Italy's long-term interests. And in some occupied areas, the head of state has begun to carry out cultural reforms. Panic. The Italian diplomatic envoy once met me, and he hopes to get the territorial demands of the Third Reich from you. "
In the past hundred years, there have been wars one after another in Europe, but everyone has a more reasonable bottom line, that is, the war of "knights". After a war is over, the indemnity service cedes some border territories, compromises on colonies and foreign policy, and then can usher in peace.
However, the war finally changed. Germany is engaged in a permanent occupation and the integration of resources. This has made all countries feel the seriousness of the situation. Before, everyone had the possibility to turn over, but this time Germany does not intend to give the defeated country any chance: the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg has been clearly placed under the rule of the Third Reich, and the occupied areas of France and Britain have completely become German territory. Even Poland, Norway, Ukraine and Belarus will join the Third Reich in the future with the federal situation.
Therefore, the German occupation has brought pressure to Italy. In addition to the neutral countries, the remaining European countries, Romania and Vichy France and the northern United Kingdom are the first to Germany. Italy is the only independent country. Existence — and this existence is not honest now, often dreaming of breaking away from the war with the enemy.
"Only those who do not advance and retreat with the Third Reich will worry about the threat of the Third Reich!" Dominice snorted coldly after hearing the words of Ribbentrop, and said ironically: "The Mussolini Guy, it's basically making an abacus, and of course I'm afraid we will ask him to settle the bill. "
It is a good saying, but after all, the connection between Germany and Italy is very deep. If it is just because of some news that it is not possible to get on the table, it is not worth the effort to flip the face with Italy. Ribbentrop did not care about the interruption of Dominis, but continued to say to Akado: "But this time, we and Garibaldi started to be strong first, and opened the prelude to the attack on the Middle East. Presumably Mussolini He has to hesitate again for a while. After all ... the benefits of oil fields in the Middle East, he also wants a part. "
The main purpose of Akado's war in North Africa was to postpone Mussolini's shaking time in a planned way. As long as Italy does not have any trouble when the German front is tight, waiting for East Germany to turn over and clean up him can be described as easy.
The whole battle of the Suez Canal was actually launched for such a strategic purpose. Just in case, Rommel even threw the Italian troops in the African Legion with a vague position on the front line, preparing to brutally consume these soldiers to avoid any disturbances in these forces when the Italians were fighting against the water.
Akado waved his hand and signaled Ribbentrop to stop speaking, then he smiled and pointed to Gascol, and then said: "The reason why the battle in Africa was allowed to start was because last month, Gary Marshal Bodi has made it clear that he will be on our side. So the battle for the Suez Canal will be approved, and the 'crossing operation' will officially start. "
Rather than saying that this battle was to drive out the British and American coalition forces in the Middle East, it was better to say that this battle was launched to strengthen Mussolini ’s position. Fortunately, Germany's fuel consumption in North Africa is almost self-sufficient, which undoubtedly gave Rommel a lot of choices and made it possible for German two-line combat.
"Since that is the case, then my head of state. I know what to do next." Ribbentrop nodded and understood Akado's plan. His next diplomatic strategy was to paralyze Mussolini and try to delay Italy's withdrawal from the war.
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The embankment of the Suez Canal was almost covered with the bodies of Italian soldiers. Although the US position has been bombarded by German artillery and the air force, the entire Suez Canal defense line is still there, and the counterattack of the US team is still very strong.
Another assault boat rushed up the river bank, and a dozen Italian soldiers jumped off the assault boat in the rain of gunfire, carrying their guns to find the bunker made of corpses and avoiding the bullets shot from the opposite side. They are no longer the first Italian soldiers to board the river bank, because in this neighborhood, there are already more than 200 Italian soldiers who are fighting back.
Moving his eyes away from the artillery mirror, Rommel was very satisfied with his surprise tactics. He proudly pointed to the direction of the front line and issued orders to continue to attack some of the staff and officers around him: " It's almost time to invest in the reserve team and start attacking. "
A staff member grabbed the field phone next to him, and after a few seconds of silence, began to issue combat orders: "... Is it General Frederick? The Field Marshal ordered the attack, and you can start acting."
On the other side of the phone, the voice of the commander of the 7th Infantry Corps, the general of the African Legion, General Frederick came: "Yes! I am Frederick, I understand, the attack will begin immediately!"
It took less than thirty seconds after the communication ended. Some hidden firepower points began to join the artillery battle on the German artillery positions. The artillery fire was doubled and the artillery shells of the African Legion poured out like no money. To the US military position.
For a while, there were explosions and fire on the frontier positions of the Americans. Hundreds of artillery pieces were concentrated and used by Rommel, which formed an overwhelming firepower advantage for the American defensive positions crossing the river.
Rommel once emphasized in his "Infantry Attack": "No matter how small the caliber of the weapon is, and no matter how small the number of weapons, always use firepower to support the infantry attack." Now the German caliber of weapons, the number of weapons are more than In addition to his opponent, Rommel emphasized the tactics of concentrated firepower, so that he has a terrible to the extreme firepower density locally.
Just as American soldiers curled up in their trenches and prayed that the nightmare would pass quickly, across the Suez Canal, the German infantrymen launched the second wave of crossing the river. Every assault boat was covered with gun fire, and the Germans on the other side even used mules and manpower to push 20 88mm cannons directly to the river bank.
Under the cover of machine guns and artillery fire, German engineers quickly built simple bunkers along the canal with sandbags. The 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery of the Luftwaffe was pushed to the front position. After a lot of trouble, these artillery became the support fire of the German army crossing the river.
The terrible anti-aircraft weapon has become a super weapon for destroying civil fortifications here. It fires directly and has a straight trajectory. The 88mm caliber anti-aircraft gun with ultra-high rate of fire and initial muzzle velocity can easily handle fixed bunkers. Within a minute, the German air defenses can pour more than 15 shells at the target, enough to sift the target.
Although it was impossible to use a booster loading device when shooting flat, the rate of fire was still more than 10 rounds per minute. This kind of artillery was born in air defense operations, but it showed unparalleled power when shooting flat targets.
Soon German engineers began to build a pontoon under the cover of these anti-aircraft guns, and German infantry crossing the river were also desperately expanding their front positions from the bridgehead built from Italian cannon ash. When more than 1,000 German soldiers crossed the river successfully, all the American defenders seemed to realize that their canal defenses might not be able to be defended.
"Retreat!" With an order, American soldiers began a planned retreat to the second line of defense.