69novels Chapter 762
Chapter 762
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Kailuo City, the British commander became more and more anxious.
He began to regret that he should not have given up the Suez Canal so easily. Even if he could not defeat the Germans, he should at least send a large force to stop the Germans and prevent them from easily controlling the Suez Canal.
Now, after the Germans controlled the Suez Canal, the British logistics supply was cut off. They were fine, and they could still rely on the supplies from the enemy, but the British Mediterranean Fleet trapped in the Mediterranean was miserable. After the fall of Malta, this fleet had no home port to dock.
Moreover, after the supply line was cut off, the fleet even had a problem with fuel replenishment. They had no oil to use, nothing to eat, and less ammunition. In addition, they had to face the dilemma of the Germans’ relentless pursuit. If this continued, the destruction of the Mediterranean Fleet was only a matter of time.
Therefore, the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet scolded the British troops stationed in Aiji, scolding them for easily giving up the Suez Canal, cutting off the retreat of the Mediterranean Fleet, and leaving them with no way to retreat!
The powerful navy of the sun never sets is now almost gone. Except for some warships that followed George V to South Asia, the remaining main fleet is almost all here in the Mediterranean. If this fleet is destroyed, the naval strength of the British army will be at least weakened by 75% compared to before the war!
In other words, once the Mediterranean Fleet is destroyed, the once extremely powerful sun never sets navy will quickly become a second-rate navy. They will lose most of their main battleships, leaving only two or three battleships, and there are no aircraft carriers, no submarines, and the number of various auxiliary ships is also very small. Such a navy, let alone compared with the peak time, even compared with Italy or even the native chicken, may not be able to win!
The sun never sets has always been a maritime power. For them, the navy is far more important than the army. The terrain of South Asia determines that if they want to fight, they must develop the navy. Judging from the current industrial base of South Asia, they want to design and build large warships in South Asia. They have to wait at least five to ten years. In such a long time, Hans has already eaten up their homeland and digested it completely!
So they must preserve their current navy and not let the navy suffer a major loss. However, because of a mistake made by the British army, their main fleet was trapped in the Mediterranean and could not get out. Once this fleet was completely destroyed, the sun never sets would be trapped in South Asia for at least five years!
Therefore, after learning of this news, King George V was furious and ordered the British army to act immediately. They must take back the Suez Canal before the German army eats up the Mediterranean Fleet, so as to assist the Mediterranean Fleet to retreat safely!
The British had obviously accepted the reality that the Germans had turned the Mediterranean into their own inland sea. After the two important strongholds of Gibraltar Fortress and Malta fell one after another, they had clearly realized that the Mediterranean could no longer be defended!
Since there was no way to hold on, at least they had to stop the loss in time and not let the Mediterranean Fleet in!
So they gave the British army in Aiji a death order, requiring them to recapture the Suez Canal, otherwise they would be sent to the military court for trial!
This personal order from the king made the British army in Kailuo City and the British commander upset, not knowing what to do next!
The German army outside the city had surrounded Kailuo City. Whether they could rush out was two things, not to mention taking the German attack to recapture the Suez Canal hundreds of miles away!
However, if they did not take it back, they could not explain to the country, and they would be cut off from supplies.
Although the Aiji area could provide supplies of living materials and other aspects, weapons and ammunition could not be provided, so being besieged for a long time was quite disadvantageous for them!
However, he felt unsure about leading his troops to break out or even launch a counterattack!
In this situation, the British army thought of their allies: the Gauls in North Africa!
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When Dai Gaole received the telegram for help from the British, he had already returned to West Africa with his army.
The landing of the German army in Morocco scared Dai Gaole out of his wits. Although he later found out that the German landing was only to attack the Gibraltar Fortress on the other side of the strait and had no intention of continuing to move south, the German army still stationed 50,000 troops in North Africa. These 50,000 troops were just to the north of Morocco and could move south at any time!
In this situation, he did not dare to be careless, but he could not ignore the British army’s request for help.
If the British army was eliminated, the next target of the German army would be him, so he left part of the army and let another army attack eastward to threaten the German army from the flank, hoping that the German army could divide its troops to deal with him, thereby reducing the pressure on the British army in Kailuo City!
The movement of the French army was discovered early by the German reconnaissance plane. Rommel guessed the intention of the British army in the city, so he pretended to send two armored divisions to the west to fight the French army, but actually let the army turn back halfway and ambush in the preset battlefield in advance, waiting for the arrival of the British army!
The British commander was unaware of the fraud. After seeing the two German armored divisions marching westward, he was overjoyed. After leaving 50,000 troops to defend the opening, he led all the British troops and the main force of the troops to rush towards the Suez Canal!
This posture, he planned to retreat with his army and the navy while covering the retreat of the navy after controlling the Suez Canal!
The German army has already established a foothold in North Africa, and the German army is very powerful. He feels that there is no chance of winning if he continues to fight, so it is better to run away quickly and take this opportunity to withdraw to South Asia!
If they retreat at this time, at least they can retain the main force of the British army, and maybe they can even retreat with a group of Aiji troops. In this way, even if they lose Aiji, they will not be punished too much!
The British commander thought well in his heart, but when he led his army to the Suez Canal, he found that something was wrong!
There are too many German troops on the Suez Canal, right?
Shouldn’t the main force of the German army be under the city of Kailuo?
Why do I feel that this is the main force of the German army?
The British commander could never have imagined that their plan had already been leaked to the German army through Aiji people who secretly defected to the German army, and it was precisely because Rommel had mastered the British plan in advance that he chose to open the passage and let the British army out of the city, luring them to fight in the wilderness!
Fighting in the wild is the favorite battlefield of the German armored forces!