Chapter 966

Sitting in the office of akkadoyuan's residence, it seems that all the battlefields filled with gunpowder are far away from us. Here are the most exquisite works of art in the world, a collection of all the crystallization of human civilization. On the wall are paintings by famous artists, and in the corner of the living room are Medieval Knights' armor, all of which are really precious antiques.

"My Fuehrer!" Gascol was asked by akado to sit down, so he sat respectfully opposite akado. Akado seemed to be holding a small meeting. In his office, there was Prime Minister dominis, who replaced Augustus, and foreign minister ribendrop of the Empire: "40 minutes ago, the" leap operation "in North Africa officially started."

Akado listened to gascoir's report and nodded, which was a reaction to gascoir. Then he looked at ribentrop and said, "you're in charge of diplomacy. What do you think of that?"

The leapfrogging operation was planned by the head of state, dominis and many other political figures as well as military generals. The purpose is to strengthen Italy's determination to fight in a battle. Akado and dominis still hope to resolve their differences within the axis, rather than passively clean up the mess after a complete reversal.

"My head of state. I don't know where the mobilization of Marshal Garibaldi is going, so I can only analyze the current situation. " Ribentrop is a diplomatic genius. His thorough analysis of international relations and situation was an important help to Hitler in another time and space. In this time and space, he was also the most powerful diplomat in the Foreign Ministry of akado.

He thought about it and then continued to say to acardo: "I heard that the Americans have been active around the king of Italy and Mussolini's regime. They want the powerful Axis powers to split up inside, which is more in line with the interests of the United States in fishing in troubled waters in the Middle East. It is obvious that Italy is leaning towards the United States. They think that it is in Italy's long-term interests to be partial. Moreover, in some occupied areas, the head of state has started to carry out cultural reform, which has indeed caused a certain degree of panic to the allies in the axis countries. The Italian diplomatic envoy has met with me, and he hopes to get the bottom line of the third empire's territorial claims from you. "

In the past hundred years, wars in Europe have been going on one after another, but we all have a reasonable bottom line, that is, to fight a "Knight" war. After the end of a war, some border territories will be ceded and some compromise will be made in colonial and foreign policy, then peace will be ushered in.

But this war has changed in the end. What Germany is doing is a war of permanent occupation and resource integration, which makes all countries feel the seriousness of the situation. Before that, there was still a chance for us to make a copy, but this time, Germany did not intend to give any chance to the defeated countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg had been clearly put under the rule of the Third Reich, the occupied areas of France and Britain had completely become German territory, even Poland, Norway, Ukraine and Belarus, They will join the arms of the Third Reich in the future.

Therefore, the German occupation brought pressure on Italy. Now the independent countries in Europe, apart from the neutral countries, Romania, Vichy, France and northern Britain are obedient to Germany. Only Italy is an independent existence - and this existence is not honest now, often imagining to break away from the war with the enemy.

"Only those who do not advance and retreat together with the third empire will worry about the threat of the third empire!" When dominis heard what Ribbentrop said, he gave a cold Snort and said sarcastically, "Mussolini, that guy, is just making an abacus. Of course, he's afraid we'll settle with him."

That's true, but after all, Germany and Italy have a very deep connection. If we turn our backs on Italy just because of some bad news, it's not worth the loss. Ribentrop did not care about dominis's interruption, but continued to say to akado: "but this time, we and Garibaldi started the attack on the Middle East, and Mussolini must have hesitated for a while. After all... He also wants some of the benefits of the Middle East oil fields. "

The main purpose of acardo's war in North Africa is to postpone Mussolini's vacillation in a planned way. As long as Italy doesn't make any trouble when the German front line is tight, it will be very easy to deal with him when the eastern Germany turns over.

The whole Suez Canal War was actually launched for such a strategic purpose. Just in case, Rommel even threw the Italian troops in the African Legion to the front line, preparing to brutally consume these soldiers, so as to avoid any trouble for these troops when Italy went against the water.

Acardo waved to Ribbentrop to stop speaking. Then he pointed to Gaskell with a smile and said, "the reason why the campaign in Africa is allowed to start is because Marshal Garibaldi made it clear last month that he would be on our side. That's why the Suez Canal battle will be approved and the "crossing operation" will officially begin. "

This battle was not so much to drive out the British and American allied forces in the Middle East as to strengthen Mussolini's position. Fortunately, Germany's fuel consumption in North Africa is almost self-sufficient, which undoubtedly gives Rommel a lot of choices and makes it possible for Germany to fight on two lines.

"In that case, my head. I know what to do next. " Ribbentrop nodded and understood akado's plan. Next, his diplomatic strategy is to paralyze Mussolini and try to delay Italy's withdrawal from the war The banks of the Suez canal are almost covered with the bodies of Italian soldiers. Although the U.S. positions have been bombarded by German artillery and air force, the whole defense line of Suez Canal is still there, and the counterattack of the U.S. military is still very strong. Another assault boat rushed up the river bank. A dozen Italian soldiers jumped out of the assault boat in the hail of bullets, carrying their guns to find the shelter made of corpses and avoid the bullets coming from the opposite side. They are not the first Italian soldiers to climb the river bank, because there are already about 200 Italian soldiers fighting back nearby. He moved his eyes away from the mirror of the artillery team. Rommel was very satisfied with his surprise tactics. He pointed to the direction of the front line with pride, and gave orders to some staff officers and officers around him to continue to attack: "it's almost time to join the reserve team and start to attack." A staff officer grabbed the field phone beside him, and after a few seconds of silence, he began to give the order: "is it general Friedrich? The marshal orders the attack, and you are ready to move. " On the other side of the phone, the voice of general Frederick, commander of the 7th infantry army and infantry General of the African legion, came: "yes! I'm Frederick. I see. The attack starts immediately Less than 30 seconds after the end of the communication, some hidden firepower points on the German artillery positions began to join the artillery battle. The dense artillery fire was twice as much as before, and the shells of the African Legion poured into the US Army positions like no money. For a time, there were explosions and flames everywhere in the American front positions, and hundreds of artillery were used by Rommel, which formed an overwhelming firepower advantage over the American defense positions at the crossing site. Rommel once stressed in his book infantry attack: "no matter how small the caliber of weapons is, no matter how small the number of weapons is, we should always support the infantry attack with firepower." At present, the caliber and quantity of German weapons have surpassed those of its rivals. Rommel's emphasis on the concentrated firepower strategy has enabled him to have the most terrifying firepower density in some parts. Just as American soldiers huddled in their trenches, praying that the nightmare would soon pass, German infantry launched a second wave of river crossing across the Suez Canal. Every assault boat was covered by machine gun fire, and the German army on the other side even pushed 20 88mm cannons directly to the bank with mules, horses and manpower. Under the cover of machine guns and artillery fire, German engineers quickly used sandbags to build a simple shelter along the canal. The 88mm antiaircraft artillery of the German air force was pushed to the front position. After some confusion, these artillery became the support fire of the German Army crossing the river. The terrible air defense weapon here has become a super weapon to destroy civil fortifications. The 88 mm caliber air defense gun, which can shoot directly and has a straight trajectory, has super-high firing speed and muzzle speed, is easy to deal with fixed blockhouses. In a minute, the German defense air force can pour more than 15 shells at the target, enough to sieve the target. Although it is impossible to use the power loading device in flat fire, the firing rate is still more than 10 rounds per minute. This kind of cannon is born in air defense operations, but it shows incomparable power in flat fire target. Soon German engineers began to build pontoons under the cover of these anti-aircraft guns, and the German infantry crossing the river were desperately expanding their front positions from the bridgehead built by Italian cannon fodder. When more than 1000 German troops succeeded in crossing the river, all the American defenders seemed to realize that their Canal line might not be able to hold“ Retreat With the order, American soldiers began to retreat to the second line of defense.