Chapter 968

In general montbarton's office, a group of staff officers were busy. ∽ ↗， After the oil line was ignited, American troops were rapidly retreating to the third line. Explosives have been laid in all the front airports, and oil has been laid where there is no explosives. In a word, nothing will be left for the Germans.

In the rear oil producing areas, a large number of American and British soldiers were stationed, which was also a plan based on the German tactics in the previous campaign. Montbarton looked at the reports of the Soviet German battlefield and the North African battlefield as well as the records and analysis of the campaign. He believed that the main reason for the failure of the British and American allied forces was that the German forces often used innovative tactics to induce their opponents to make wrong judgments.

For example, the German army likes to use helicopters, a new type of technical weapon, to quickly deliver troops and sweep occupied areas. For example, the German Paratroopers often appear in the most lethal places by surprise. For example, the German army has an elite special force in its hands, which always uses indiscriminate means to suddenly use cold arrows.

In fact, it's very simple to gather them together. The Germans extended a linear battlefield, blurred the front line and the rear, and formed a new air ground integrated and deep assault method.

After reaching this conclusion, the senior commanders of the United States and Britain realized how terrible the Germans were. In a short period of 20 years, they broke the restrictions of Versailles and completed the transformation and understanding of the future war.

Although there is no generational difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides, the German generals are indeed one generation ahead of the British and American countries in the understanding of the command form of the two sides and the ability of the troops in the opposite hands. This generational difference in command consciousness has made the myth of Germany's invincibility on the battlefield.

After analyzing the means of German war, montbarton drew up a new defense plan. He no longer concentrated his forces on the Suez Canal line. After all, there were too many loopholes for the German army to make use of.

As a matter of fact, the Allies no longer had any hope for the defense of the Middle East. Roosevelt and other high-level Americans initially planned to prevent akado from using the Middle East oil fields to further strengthen the war potential of the third empire. So the Allies' understanding of the Middle East defensive war is actually very simple: it is not so much defending as destroying.

Therefore, montbarton was determined to prevent German special forces from raiding and seizing oilfield facilities, and to prevent German Paratroopers from suddenly parachuting and other means to occupy the oilfield area. In order to achieve this goal, he scattered his troops throughout the Middle East instead of concentrating near the line of defense. This effectively prevented the German army from using the new tactics to attack the oil field, but it made the troops too scattered to resist the German frontal attack.

Fortunately, montbarton never expected to defend the Suez Canal line. All he has to do is delay and give him a chance to turn the whole Middle East into a sea of fire. Burning oil can not only slow down the German army's pursuit speed, but also consume oil resources, destroy oil production equipment and factories, making it impossible for Germany to use Middle East oil to expand its production capacity in a short time after occupying the Middle East.

What's more, after oil burning, it not only pollutes the environment and destroys the equipment, but also has a lot of toxic gases in the burning area. In this way, it will be at least two years before Germany wants to use Middle East oil. It's hard to say what the world situation will be like if you give Britain and the United States two years.

Judging from the current situation, it is only a matter of time before the Allied forces composed of the United States, Iceland, Britain, the Soviet Union and China defeat Japan. In two years, the United States, which has defeated Japan, will have more warships, and it is not impossible to defeat the German fleet in the Atlantic Ocean. So the United States needs these two years, and so does Iceland and the United Kingdom.

"Report! The whole second line of defense has now been ignited, and we have completed the ignition of the part that has not been accidentally ignited. With 40000 tons of crude oil, Germany will definitely be held back for a long time. " A staff officer reported triumphantly. It is a very proud thing to be able to stop the German army from advancing. The generals who can do this are all famous generals in the Allied series. In the first battle after montbarton's arrival in the Middle East, he was able to make desert fox shrivel, which has exceeded everyone's expectation.

Montbarton was not dazzled by the advantages he had already gained. He was able to be the leader of the Asian theater of the British Empire. His mind was mature and steady enough. He looked at the map in front of him, pressed his finger on the red line representing the fire, and did not speak for a long time.

He is thinking about Rommel's countermeasures. After all, it is not so easy to put out the fire after the oil is ignited. If Rommel tries to pursue quickly, he will have to rush out of the fire from several preset positions.

He has laid mines in those places, which is also an important reason for the chaotic and slow withdrawal of the US and British forces. In addition to the British death squads and the US rear forces, the German army should not be able to get any advantage.

Thinking of this, he took back his fingers, then turned to his assistant and ordered: "let all air defense forces enter the alert, and the oil field garrison will immediately enter the combat state. As long as there is any disturbance, there is no need to ask the headquarters, and the explosion plan can be directly implemented."

After finishing his command, montbarton finally felt a little relaxed. Instead of bombing the Middle East oil fields strategically, the German army is considering the possibility of seizing the oil fields. Montbarton made a tit for tat defense plan for the oil field, so for him, Rommel could not get any advantage this time.

In the distance directly opposite montbarton headquarters, on the Bank of the Suez Canal, next to Rommel's command car, the atmosphere in the German headquarters was a little heavy. Rommel's plan to cross the Suez Canal successfully completed, but everyone was not happy. The sudden oil burning war of American local tyrants made the German army, which was short of oil resources, realize the cruelty of the battle. It seems that the original operational plan is basically unusable now. Looking at the infantry general Frederick who just came back from the front battlefield, Rommel asked his most interesting topic: "is there a problem with the strength of the US defense line General Friedrich, holding his helmet, stroked the golden hair on his forehead, pointed to the map and said, "marshal. According to my experience in fighting with the U.S. military, the U.S. military has only about four to seven divisions on the front line, and the firepower allocation is not much. This is not the preparation for sticking to the defensive line. This is the way to delay our attack. " Rommel nodded. Frederick is the most capable general under his command and the commander of the seventh army of the most elite infantry of the African Legion. In this case, what he analyzes is often the most intuitive and correct thing. Since the US and British forces have not concentrated so many main forces on the frontal battlefield, it is self-evident where these forces are. It seems that the opponent already knows what the German army really wants and is ready to destroy it. At this time, it is obvious that we are sending our achievements to the enemy by using special forces and parachutists to raid those oil fields and factories. Even though the German Paratroopers and special forces have obvious advantages in number, they can't be wasted. The enemy is waiting for the German army to fall into the trap near these original targets, and then send someone to die. That's a complete fool. Combined with some ground photos provided by German reconnaissance planes, Rommel gave a wry smile, then looked at his favorite general and marshal Garibaldi, who was a little further away: "originally, we planned to use special forces and paratroopers to cooperate with armored forces to attack, so that we could capture about one tenth of the oil fields. Now it seems that we are too optimistic about this plan... "Then Rommel, the German commander-in-chief in Africa and one of the three field marshals of the army, finally made up his mind:" since you don't let me take the part I deserve, then you don't want to take the part that belongs to you! " After murmuring this, he immediately turned to Garibaldi and the air force liaison officer, pointed to some marks on the map, and gave his operational order: "dispatch all air forces immediately, and destroy all the oil field facilities in these places at any cost! Including oil fields and oil processing plants, oil pipelines and reserve areas! All of them! Destroy them all“ Hiss... "Garibaldi took a cool breath, and Rommel's courage to change his plan frightened him. Even if you know that your opponent is ready, it takes a lot of courage to give up so many resources: "send out all the air forces? Even our rags? "“ yes! As many as there are, we will send out as many as there are! According to the aerial photos detected by the reconnaissance plane, all suspicious targets are destroyed! " Rommel did not hesitate, firmly said: "since they do not want, do not want us to, then burn it all!" Maybe three months ago, Rommel would have hesitated to make this decision easily. But now Libya's oil fields have begun to produce oil. Rommel's African Legion is not as rich as the Middle East, but it also has less worries. That's why Rommel immediately began to fight back, using air superiority to defuse the enemy's delaying tactics. About an hour after Rommel changed his battle plan, the German do-217 bombers appeared in the sky again. However, this time, these planes did not drop bombs on the heads of the US troops at the front line. Their engines roared and flew over from high altitude towards their targets.