Chapter 675 Rommel to North Africa (Plus 1)

There are endless deserts everywhere, and just after getting off the boat, a heat wave hits my face.

Standing on the yellow sand, a handsome German officer was suddenly enlightened.

North Africa, here I come!

Rommel said to himself in his heart.

A long time ago, Rommel received an order, and his fate was in North Africa! He is very satisfied with this arrangement.

After all, there are too many excellent generals in Germany. Guderian and Manstein are all outstanding representatives. Rommel can continue to win one after another in Europe, but he will always be a supporting role.

But in Africa, it's different! Here, he is the supreme commander of Germany, he leads two armored divisions, and his mission is to completely occupy North Africa!

Originally, in the coordination with Italy, Germany was responsible for solving the French army, and Italy was responsible for solving the British army, but now, the situation has changed a lot.

France has surrendered, and the French colonies, according to reason, should also obey the orders of Marshal Pétain and surrender to Germany. Then, in North Africa to the west, the French colonies have no more battles to fight.

At the same time, their east, Egypt, and the Italians were faring rather poorly.

Since the start of the war, the combat effectiveness of the Italian army is obvious to all. Italy originally wanted to fight the southern part of France, but was beaten and bruised. Later, France surrendered. Germany generously helped the Italians and ceded the territory of southeastern France to the French. In Italy, Mussolini had some face.

However, in North Africa, the Italian army is still helpless. The Italian army of 250,000 people has fought for so long, but there is no progress at all!

This endless desert area is the stage for Rommel to display his military talents!

"General, it's nice to see you." In the port, while waiting for the armored vehicle to unload the ship, a voice came from Rommel's side.

After learning of the arrival of his own army, Neuer, the general manager of the Libyan base, came to the port to greet him in person.

"Neuer, hard work." Rommel couldn't help saying looking at Neuer's tanned face.

"It's not hard, but our strength is too weak, and the Italians always lose battles. Fortunately, the British are now on the defensive. If the British attack aggressively, our bases may be in danger." Neuer said: "Now , our big troops are here, I'm relieved."

According to the original agreement, the bases in Libya belonged to Germany, and Germany deployed some fighters here, but they were still too few to cope with a large-scale war.

It was not until Rommel's arrival that they were relieved, and finally they didn't have to worry!

"Is it always so desolate here?" Rommel said to Neuer.

In the future, Rommel will become the governor of North Africa and the Middle East. Thinking of his wife and children, he will come here to suffer with him, and he is a little uneasy.

Rommel is the god of war in Germany, and he is a man who is extremely doting on his wife.

"Not exactly. This is our oil export pipeline. Our construction time here is not long. Now, our base has become an oasis in the desert."

Over the years, Libya's oil base has been under construction, and the continuous planting of trees has made the oil base initially present the beauty of an oasis.

Anyway, the oil here has been mined on a large scale. There are oil refineries in the base. There will be no shortage of energy. In addition to using oil as power, nuclear power reactors are running to provide a steady stream of electricity. Pumping into groundwater, the ecology of the base has long been much better than before.

"General, follow us to the base first." Neuer said: "The environment at the base is better."

After the end of the French war, Rommel was promoted two ranks. In addition to directly commanding the Seventh Armored Division, Rommel also has the Fifth Armored Division, which has also followed. It will take several days to unload these equipment.

The off-road vehicle was galloping in the desert. Soon, Rommel saw the high kowtow machine, the newly built oil refinery near the oil field, and the tenaciously growing trees.

The Libyan base, Cyric has been developing for more than ten years!

"Our oil refinery here is still relatively small, but in addition to being used for our base, it is still more than enough for our armored divisions." Neuer said: "The biggest problem is food, I hope we supplies can keep up.”

In history, Rommel lacked fuel the most. Now, there is no need to worry about fuel. There are tens of thousands of people who need sufficient food.

Rommel smiled: "Don't worry about the grain, the grain we shipped this time is enough for us to eat for half a month."

Hearing Rommel's words, Neuer turned his head and glanced at him: "It's only half a month?"

"Yeah, after half a month, we have already hit Egypt, and the food that the British army reserves is enough for us to eat." Rommel was extremely confident.

The desert area is most suitable for armored soldiers to charge at high speed. Thinking of the difficult advance in the mud pits of Dunkirk, this is a tailor-made battlefield for him!

Half a month, solve the Egyptian problem!

"Crench." The car stopped at the door of a building on the base. Neuer looked at several Italian military vehicles listening outside the door and said, "The Italians are here."

The Italians are here! When they got the news, it was too late to go to the port to meet them, so they came to the oil base and waited here.

Italo Garibaldi, the new commander of the Italian Tenth Army, because his predecessor had just been killed, and now, after taking over the command of the Tenth Army, his troops are still in a thousand miles.

The Tenth Army was stationed on the border of Egypt, so their troops also suffered the most losses and were chased and beaten by the British!

Now, hearing that the German troops had finally come up, he dropped the troops and ran over to ask for help.

"General, welcome to North Africa." At this time, seeing Rommel getting out of the car, Italo remained calm: "Our Italian army is looking forward to your arrival."

"I need to take over the command of the Italian army." After seeing the commander of the other side, Rommel didn't show up, and immediately stretched out his hand to ask for the command: "What about your supreme commander here?"

Rommel only had two armored divisions in his hands. He could charge forward, but he was worried about these Italians. If they didn't follow quickly, his forwards would be in danger.

"Marshal Italo Balbo, who is coming by plane, may arrive in an hour," Italo said.