"No, we can't move on!" Major General Streck refused to execute Rommel's order.

"This is crazy, General!" Major General Streck said: "Fifteen tanks, and without the cover of the Air Force, it is a miracle to be able to take Tobrook off. Advancing again is simply suicide..."

"Don't show off to me with Tobrook!" Rommel was angry when he heard this: "It was not your credit to take Tobrook. The First Infantry Regiment independently completed this almost impossible task, and they did not use it to bargain with me like you!"

"This is not fair!" Major General Streck retorted: "At that time, I was commanding the troops to fight in May's intelligence!"

"Are you on your armored command car?" Rommel raised his head toward the command car outside the door, saying sarcastically: "When your soldiers were bleeding and dying, when they were looking for water from their comrades' bodies to drink and bullets, were you tasting red wine in the captured armored vehicle?"

"The facts are not as you think!" Major General Streck looked at Rommel angrily: "General, I don't want to argue with you. I think we should now consolidate the positions we have obtained and launch an attack on the enemy when reinforcements arrive. Otherwise, we are likely to lose everything!"

Objectively speaking, what Major General Streck said makes sense. The German army was too weak, and there was only one division. Although there was an Italian army, they could only be considered as heads and could not be calculated as combat power.

Especially at this time, the German army had no air cover, so if the loss was too great in the pursuit process, the British army would accidentally be killed and retaliated. Once the German army was defeated, all the occupied key areas and strongholds would lose their meaning... The Italians could not defend them.

But Rommel also had his ideas. From the first battle, he knew one thing that the taboo in the war was that the enemy and us fought a positional war, a war of attrition, and if it developed to that point, the German army without the advantage of numbers would definitely fail.

In order to avoid this, Rommel had to take the initiative to attack so that the British army could not stop at a certain place and build a defense line with confidence, otherwise it would be difficult for the German army to achieve such great results at a very small price as it is now.

In other words, Major General Streck saw reality and his own crisis, while Rommel saw fighter jets.

After arguing, both of them made a compromise. Major General Streck agreed to send troops to pursue the British army, but was limited to occupying strategic areas of the Libyan border thirty kilometers away.

Rommel was obviously not satisfied with this compromise, but he had no choice but to do anything because at this time he only had the fifth lightweight division in his hands, and no one could replace Major General Streck.

This also made Rommel secretly make up his mind to drive this subordinate who disobeys the order out of his own team.

Perhaps because the First Infantry Regiment made great contributions to capturing Tobrook, the First Infantry Regiment continued to garrison Tobrook.

This is obviously a bad idea, because the soldiers could swim in the sea while they were resting, and then return to the beach to enjoy the supplies brought out of the British warehouse... Although the supplies in the warehouse had been handed over to the troops as spoils, as a reward for seizing Tobrook, the First Infantry Regiment received an additional enough ration for the whole regiment to use for one week.

"Extra", so soldiers can eat canned corned beef in a variety of ways under the envious eyes of other troops, such as baking in the fire, and cooking a pot of beef soup...

Qin Chuan is better at this aspect, because compared to Chinese people, foreigners can be considered elementary school students, Italians are not satisfied with this aspect. After all, they care more about pasta than combat. But if you pick one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, you can instantly kill Italian food, not to mention other countries with only hamburgers and sandwiches.

Qin Chuan asked Alphredo to go to the Italian army to get some chili and seasonings, and then cooked a pot of spicy and sour beef soup with canned corned beef.

Originally, the German soldiers were full of suspicion. They didn't believe that the things cooked like this could be eaten, but after taking a bite, they called it magical.

"God, this is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten!" Werner looked at Qin Chuan with an incredible expression: "How did you do it?"

"You saw me do it!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's very simple, isn't it?"

"Do you know?" the baker said while drinking greedily: "After the war, we should cooperate to open a restaurant. What is the name of I make bread?... Hot and sour soup, we will definitely be very rich by then!"

"It's delicious!" Even the Italian, who is very picky about food, praised: "If there are such delicious food every day, I will not be afraid of war!"

The soldiers couldn't help laughing.

However, this enjoyment of the First Infantry Regiment is still quite different from that of the Italian army...

During this period, Italian transport ships docked one after another at the port and kept unloading supplies, including Germany and Italy.

Germany's special funds include ammunition, some cars, side three wheels, etc., and occasionally you can see several No. 3 tanks... I heard that they are all equipment of the 15th Armored Division. After Rommel achieved such a huge success, Hitler and Mussolini finally believed that just by working harder, they could completely defeat the British and drive the British into the sea.

Therefore, they also accelerated reinforcements to Rommel, which in addition to sending the 15th Armored Division, also supplemented the 5th Armored Division with tanks and armored vehicles lost in combat.

Of course, now it’s just the beginning, and there are air and sea power (mainly submarines).

However, everything has its own two sides. It is precisely because Rommel achieved great success with only a small amount of troops that Hitler thought that the war in North Africa would end soon, so he did not take the Island of Malta, which lies in the center of the Mediterranean... He believed that the German and Italian troops did not need to capture Malta at all, they just needed to suppress it with the air force and wait for North Africa's victory.

But the facts proved that this idea was extremely wrong. The Island of Malta was at the center of the transportation route from Italy to Libya... Historically, the British used this island to continuously attack Germany, and the Italian military supply line eventually led to the failure of the African Legion.

This is a later story.
Chapter completed!