Many book friends mentioned that the update is slow, which is indeed true. But I hope that all book friends understand that as the saying goes, everything is difficult to start, and the beginning of a new book is no exception. Moreover, book friends have also seen that plots like soldiers are very brain-burning. The current situation is that it is good to write a thousand words in an hour. This has not included the time to check the information, and the update will be accelerated after a while. I hope that book friends will be more grateful!

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According to preliminary statistics, the German army seized enough 30,000 people to use the last quarter's supply and 10,000 tons of fuel in the port of Tobrook.

The seized materials were so abundant and so tempting that Rommel couldn't believe it when he received the telegram.

"What you said is true? Colonel!" Rommel asked in the telegram: "Why don't those stupid British people blow them up but leave them to us?"

"I don't know, General!" Colonel Slain replied: "I'm also curious about this question. I even asked a few prisoners. Their answer was that they were not soldiers in charge of the warehouse, nor did they receive orders to blow up the warehouse, so it's not their business!"

"Incredible!" Rommel replied.

After pausing, Rommel continued, "You must keep Tobrook, do you understand? Only in this way can those supplies truly belong to us!"

"I understand, general!" Colonel Slain replied, thinking about it, he added: "General, but we are short of troops, with a line of defense of 30 miles long, and we only have one infantry regiment with severe reductions!"

"I will try my best to hold the British with the main force!" Rommel said: "On the other hand, I will send troops to reinforce you immediately. They will arrive within a day. Before that, you must defend Tobrook at all costs, at all costs!"

"Yes, General!" Colonel Slain couldn't help but feel relieved when he heard this.

The First Infantry Regiment was indeed insufficient, but it had an advantage, that was, it had almost endless ammunition, and the British had not yet arrived in Tobrook until now... Then it should not be a big problem to wait for reinforcements to arrive for one day.

Colonel Slain's estimate was correct, because the British army was in a state of chaos at this time.

First of all, the disappearance of two important British commanders, General Nime and General O'Connor... The British army did not know that they had been captured by the German army, and the British army thought that these two generals might have been lost in the desert or damaged the radio station, so they did not appoint a new commander, and only Lieutenant General Greenhill, the commander of the 13th British Army.

Lieutenant General Greenhill was stunned when he heard that Tobrook had fallen.

"What a fucking hell!" After a while, Lieutenant General Greenhill cursed: "There are only more than a thousand Germans, and there are no cannons or tanks. I want to know how they broke through our five thousand defense and the Tobrook line assisted by the Air Force?!"

"General!" the staff officer replied: "The problem may be in our air force..."

"What did you say?" Lieutenant General Greenhill was shocked.

"We received a telegram from the Tobrook defenders..." The staff officer replied: "They complained that the Air Force dropped bombs on their heads, which directly led to the Germans breaking through their defense!"

Lieutenant General Greenhill was so angry that he blushed when he heard this, but the British gentlemanly demeanor made him try to control himself, and finally he only gritted his teeth and uttered a few words: "Very good... The Air Force has really helped me. If I have the chance, I will discuss this issue with them in the military court!"

"General!" said the staff officer: "I have contacted the Air Force. Judging from the information they have... this is probably not an ordinary mistake, but a misleading of the German army. In other words, they are actually deceived by the German army, and we cannot send them to military court for this!"

"Doing?" Lieutenant General Greenhill felt a little incredible: "What kind of deception can make the Air Force throw bombs on our own heads? It's more like an excuse!"

"General!" The staff officer handed over a document to Lieutenant General Greenhill and said: "The Air Force's 'mosquito' reconnaissance aircraft captured the whole process. The Germans drove the car into our defense line. Just as the bomber flew over it, the pilot took it for granted that it was the enemy's position, so..."

Lieutenant General Greenhill no longer knows what to say. He can't imagine that there is such a thing on the battlefield...

But this seems not surprising, because the battle has repeatedly come out of everyone's expectations from the beginning:

The Germans should have been eliminated in Tengger, but they won a beautiful victory there without them; the Germans were originally staying in Tengger, but they didn't expect that the British army would find that it was empty when they attacked the next morning; the Germans were supposed to have been attacking Tobrook, but they easily occupied this important port and snatched all the supplies that originally belonged to the British army.

The British don’t like this uncertainty, which is not like fighting a war to them, but gambling!

"Where is the Fifteenth Armored Division?" Lieutenant General Greenhill asked angrily.

The staff officer found a location on the map and replied: "Just crossing Lukadayi, seventy kilometers away from Tobrook!"

"God, there are still seventy kilometers!" Lieutenant General Greenhill ordered in a bitter way: "Ask General Evans, are they marching with their butts?!"

"Yes, General!" replied the staff officer: "I will let them arrive at Tobrook as soon as possible and launch an attack!"

In fact, this is not a mistake for the Fifteenth Armored Division. You should know that they are equipped with "Matilda" and "Valentine" infantry tanks... These infantry tanks are only 24 kilometers per hour on the road, which is the highest speed at the best state. In fact, no one dares to drive them for more than 10 kilometers per hour in the high temperature environment of the desert, because that means these bulky guys will soon malfunction due to overheating of the engine.

What's worse is... the Germans are still burying mines and traps on the road.

Landmines may be easy to deal with. British scouts can use mine detectors in front of them, but traps are hard to defend against.

The reason is that it is too easy to dig a trap against a tank in the desert... The Germans would dig a pit in the middle of the highway, then fill it with soft fine sand, and lay some sand like other highways on the surface to disguise it as if it were no different from other highways. They would even use cars to compact it, which would not have any problems when people and cars walked on it, but the 26-ton "Matilda" tank was deeply trapped in it and could not move as soon as it drove up.

This made the tank soldiers of the 15th Division of Armored Time and Time, using other tanks again and again to drag out the tanks trapped in the pit... Then they found that this was not a good idea, because in the process, more tanks would malfunction due to towing.

Simply put, it is possible that towing one tank may break two tanks.
Chapter completed!