Chapter 116 Crusaders
Rommel is right, the number of British soldiers is not large, they have gained an advantage in this local area in a short time because they disguised themselves as German soldiers.
Now that the German reinforcements arrived, the British army raised their hands to surrender after a burst of powerless resistance.
After interrogating the prisoners, I found out that the British commando was sent from the Island of Malta, with a total of 120 people. They arrived at the waters near Tobrook Port on two submarines. They only landed on a rubber boat on a rubber boat on the beach when it was dark.
What's funny is that the Italian soldiers singing and dancing on the beach even found them immediately, but they had no doubts when they saw the commando wearing German uniforms, and even pointed out the location of Rommel's temporary command for the commando.
"A wonderful battle, Sergeant!" Rommel shook Qin Chuan's hand and said, "I have always wanted to see your marksmanship. Today I finally got what I wanted. In addition, you have great command talent and adaptability!"
"Thank you, General!" Qin Chuan replied: "This is not what I want, because if I hadn't been these, I would have been on the battlefield a long time ago!"
Rommel nodded, and then said a little apologetically: "I should have expressed something to you, the savior, but now..."
As he said that, Rommel looked at the mess around and spread his hands.
Although the British commando's sneak attack failed to achieve the purpose of assassinating Rommel, it destroyed a lot of intelligence and documents. Rommel should take some time to sort it out.
"No, general!" Qin Chuan expressed his understanding: "These are all things I should do, I think I should say goodbye!"
Rommel patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder and said, "Good job, go back with your rifle and honor, of course there is that chicken!"
Qin Chuan indeed took a chicken back.
What surprised Qin Chuan even more was still behind. When Qin Chuan jumped out of the car and walked back to the camp, the German soldiers enthusiastically rushed up:
"Good guy!" said the baker, "I did another big thing when I went out!"
"What?" Qin Chuan was surprised because he thought Rommel would treat this matter as a military secret.
"We all know!" Alphredo explained: "You thwarted the British plan to assassinate General Rommel in Tobrook!"
"Oh!" Qin Chuan responded casually, thinking that Rommel should have wanted to use this victory to boost morale.
"How many enemies have you killed?" Werner asked.
"Five...or more!" Qin Chuan said: "I'm not sure, because I threw a few grenades in the dark. You know, I don't know how many people were killed!"
"The important thing is not to kill a few, but to control the situation!" General Streck appeared next to him for no reason, and the soldiers hurriedly stopped the words and stood up to salute.
General Streck walked up to Qin Chuan and said, "Sergeant, I have heard of your performance in Tobrook, well done!"
"Thank you, General!" After pausing, Qin Chuan picked up the chicken placed at his feet and put it in his hand and sent it to General Strek: "General, General Rommel asked me to bring it to you as compensation!"
General Streck didn't even look at the chicken, and he replied coldly: "Sergeant Flick, General Rommel suggested that I promote you. Now you are already a sergeant. But you have to understand that this is not a reward for you to use the sniper's lurking skills as a thief!"
"I understand, general!" Qin Chuan replied.
General Streck glanced at the German soldiers and said, "And you, if you do such a thief next time, it would be better than being punished to stand!"
"Yes, General!" the soldiers answered in unison.
General Streck didn't say much, and turned around and left with the guards.
"General!" Qin Chuan shouted behind him: "Your chicken!"
"It's yours!" General Streck replied without looking back: "I don't want you to steal it again!"
The soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then laughed at each other.
The soldiers did not cook the chicken like they did last night because they thought that the whole company had paid the price for the chicken stealing incident, and most of them were even innocent. Of course, the soldiers were embarrassed to enjoy the chicken alone.
So Qin Chuan handed the chicken to Bazer, hoping that it would be compensated for the innocent punishment of other soldiers in the company.
But Bazel replied, "Forget it, Sergeant... Maybe you should call Sergeant. There are 175 people in our entire company. Is this chicken enough for each person to eat?"
(Note: A standard German company has 201 people in total)
So the chicken didn't know what to do in the end, and finally Werner thought of a solution... and handed it over to the logistics officer for raising it, and then the eggs laid every day were transferred to General Strek by the logistics officer.
Perhaps because this was a good opportunity to flatter General Streck, the logistics officer agreed without thinking too much.
When the matter came to an end, the soldiers surrounded Qin Chuan and asked him to tell in detail the battle in Tobrook... Qin Chuan knew that the soldiers were not interested in the battle itself. The battles they participated in were much larger in scale and thrilling than this sneak attack.
The reason they were so interested was that the British attack was like the commander of the African Legion... Rommel.
Of course, Qin Chuan would not hide anything. Even Qin Chuan knew that Rommel was willing to use this to increase morale, so he added fuel to the battle, and only heard the soldiers were shocked.
However, what Qin Chuan and even Rommel did not expect was that this sneak attack was actually part of the "Crusade" plan formulated by Ochinlek.
General Ochinlek had the mentality of giving it a try. If he failed, he would not suffer much damage to the British army. He was just a commando of more than 100 people.
But if it succeeds, it will cause the German and Italian troops to be incapable of leadership and their morale will be disintegrated. Then his "Crusader" plan, that is, the British counterattack, will be unstoppable.
The news of the failure of the sneak attack plan soon reached General Ochinlek. After reading the telegram, he ordered the staff officer: "Pay the orders and everything goes according to the plan!"
"Yes!" The staff responded and sent a telegram to each unit with only the words "Crusader".
So in the dark night, the British tanks and troops were divided into several parts and quietly covered them towards the German army.
Chapter completed!