Chapter 662

Just when Rommel and Barton's troops were entangled, a group of Italian soldiers were trying to level up a field airport with various machines and other individual equipment in the rear of the German front line. The hot construction scene proved that this huge construction site project scale was quite large.

It seems that Italian soldiers are not suitable for fighting on the front line. They are weak when attacking, and they are as uneasy when defending as leaky houses. However, once they are not allowed to fight on the front line, these soldiers will be full of energy. The construction process is exquisite and the quality is excellent.

So Rommel ordered the Italian soldiers of the two armies to build a large number of front-line airports secretly after the war plan was drawn up. As for what these front-line airports do, no one knows.

"The German is willing to toss, they have nothing to repair fortifications, dig trenches, and then everywhere to investigate the terrain, collect information, as if it is a machine that can not stop." A Italy soldier complains with his comrades at the same time with the shovel levelling the sand around the runway. "We were very grateful that they had brought us here and did not participate in the battle at the front line, and they have made us a living, and we are half dead all day."

While working, his companion did not raise his head and said, "well, we are lucky. It's said that the black shirt soldiers have suffered thousands of casualties. It's a very good job for us to build the airport in such a safe place. If we are really short of troops on the front line, it will be miserable to push us up. "

No one knows what these German temporary front-line airports are used for. There are no pre-set air defense positions in these airports, and there are no cover measures. The most pitiful thing is that there are few ground crew for maintenance except for some fuel trucks and supply trucks.

These places may only be false targets of the opponent's air force, or they may be temporary runways used for the forced landing of the returning faulty aircraft. As for why we need to build so many field airport runways, this is not something ordinary Italian soldiers can know. Anyway, they just build them, and they build them endlessly.

"You don't see the German cans supplied by the black shirts. That's the real food." When you complain, you feel that you have been treated unfairly. This Italian soldier saw the supplies of the black shirt army, which was about the same level as the German regular army. Naturally, these second-line Italian soldiers were envious.

Originally, the food supply of the Italian army was good, but Rommel didn't plan to evenly distribute the supplies provided by his long supply line. He ordered the front-line troops to receive even more than 100% of their supplies, while the second-line troops maintained supplies at 70% or even 50%.

As a result, many Italian second-line troops received pitiful supplies. In many places, the garrison even had only two meals a day. With the advance of the German army, the black shirt troops and the German army's own troops had canned and fried noodles every day, and sometimes even beef and chocolate candy.

"What about the food? Eating means going to the battlefield. Is it easy for the British to get into trouble? That is to say, the Germans are more powerful. If we were to replace them, we would have lost Tunis by now. " An Italian veteran sighed and said, "you're new here. You've never heard of that..."

"What's the matter?" Obviously, several young Italian soldiers who came to Africa had never experienced the defeat of the Italian troops by the British, so they were very curious about this kind of thing.

"Well, when the Germans didn't come, our generals didn't listen to us and tried to provoke the British. As a result, we were defeated. I was a guard at that time, and I was not captured by the encirclement. However, I heard that in the report of the British at that time, when they mentioned the capture of Italian troops, they said so. " The old Italian soldier sold a pass, and then when everyone's curiosity reached the peak, he continued: "the British said: 'we captured five acres of Italian officers, and 200 acres of Italian soldiers'..."

"..." now everyone knows why they were crammed into the German corps of engineers to build such a front-line Field Airport. With the good foundation laid by such a group of predecessors, it is estimated that they need more than courage to go to the front line.

"We captured about five acres of officers and 200 acres of Anglo American soldiers!" Just as a group of Italians lamented the humiliating achievements of their predecessors, a German official was reporting to Rommel the achievements of the German army today.

Everyone felt that button didn't join his reserve team because of a hidden counterattack plan, and there was a sense of conspiracy everywhere in the whole fighting process. The German army finally decided to ignore the trap that Barton might set and use their superior armored forces to collide with the core position of Barton's army.

In the end, the Germans found the largest tank force they could organize, including 40 Tiger tanks and 110 leopard tanks. They formed an attack team and stormed the core position of the Patton army. There, they destroyed about 40 US Army's latest M4 Sherman tanks, and then the whole Patton army collapsed completely.

The main force of the Patton army, which had been afraid and wary of, did not appear on the battlefield, or even made a decent counterattack. The whole army was defeated by the German army. The battlefield has become a one-sided pursuit. Many American soldiers are very different from their previous performance. They quickly raised their hands to surrender, which is completely opposite to the stubborn style of resistance in previous times.

Because a terrible rumor spread among them, the rumor is that "Alexandria has changed hands, the flanking 9th British army has collapsed. There are a large number of German soldiers in the rear of the whole army, and the 8th group army has been surrounded by the German army. " Even this rumor is most directly supported by the fact that the headquarters of the 8th group army have begun to retreat, and everything has been defeated like a mountain. Sitting in his armored command car, Barton looked tired and depressed. Even his favorite cigar was not in his mouth at the moment. Next to him is the main force of the eighth armored division, which retreats backward. This is the "coffin book" in Barton's hand, and it is all the valuable family he can take away now. As for why he left the front-line troops and chose to escape with humiliation. In fact, we have to start from a few hours ago, because a few hours ago, Barton's supply line from Cairo to the south of Alexandria was suddenly cut off, and his guards were ordered to fight back. As a result, the information sent back surprised everyone. Intelligence shows that the German army appears in the supply line and rear, and the force is very large. As for where this deadly German army comes from, Barton really can't figure out. All he could do was lead all the American troops he could find, break through eastward, recapture the supply lines and go back to Cairo. A battle organized by Barton and Montgomery, just in a sharp turn, suddenly collapsed and came to an end. The German army won an all-round victory from the sticky battlefield. Soon they would encircle Alexandria from the side, or they would encircle Alexandria in the situation. After that, Rommel's army will drink the Nile, and the garrison in Cairo will not be able to resist the decaying steps of the German army. The only way to defend the Suez Canal is to rely on Barton's troops“ Asshole! Where are these goddamn Krauts from? Is there any reply from the British? No news yet? " In the rocking armored car, Patton asked his combat staff with a pale face. He had to abandon most of his troops and rout all the way with his elite, which was a great shame for him. His carefully prepared counterattack plan could not be implemented, and his idea of consuming the German forces' living strength and dragging the war into a stalemate was smashed by his opponents before he started“ Some witnesses claimed that they saw a large number of German planes flying westward. Some said they were bombers taking off from Turkey. Some said they were bombers on Crete Island. However, no one saw these planes dropping bombs, so we can't confirm what happened now. " The combat officer put down his walkie talkie and replied to his commander“ Aircraft? It's airborne Barton's eyes suddenly lit up, and he knew that if he could, he could still earn a sum of interest and run away. If the German troops behind were really paratroopers, they would not be able to fight against their own torrent of armor“ It's airborne! German Paratroopers on Crete! They didn't go back to Germany, they were in Crete, waiting for this surprise attack! They are the fastest reinforcements. They are the German troops that can reinforce Rommel with the fastest speed In Alexandria, Montgomery slapped his desk and yelled at his panicked men: "draw troops from Alexandria and fight back immediately! Do you have any news from general Barton? Get in touch with me! Come on“ general! General Patton's side must be retreating. After all, they don't see the huge German fleet like us A staff officer's face was as sad as his mother's death. He saw at least 500 German planes flying over the positions of both sides. Because of the delay in air defense communication, when the British air defense artillery fired, only a dozen German planes were shot down. After all, no one thought that the German army would appear from behind, so when we reacted, part of the anti-aircraft gun positions had been bypassed by the German army - the war was 70 years away, but the blood and pain are still worth pondering. Forgetting history is betrayal, and we can stand tall in the world only by constantly striving for self-improvement!