"Berlin hopes that in the next three to five days, we will exclude seven transport ships except the normal supply ships and deliver some equipment of the 12th armored division and important supplies to General Rommel." The secret sweet voice continued to interrupt Mussolini’s thoughts.
"This Rommel has responded to his troops. I have starved almost half of the Italian troops. What else does he want?" Mussolini hates it. It is obvious that there are others besides secrets in the room, and many people.
A naval general complained while wiping his sweat, "Leader, we are not a transport team. Now we transport our fleet and even destroyers every day in the whole Mediterranean, but we still can’t meet the endless supply requirements of the Germans."
"Yes!" An army general also nodded. "An army wants more things than our regiment. Since the number of fighter units has increased, our army has restricted the number of take-offs except e19!"
Obviously, this military commander is a German-led military victim. It seems that the commanders of the German army are still fighting, except for a small number of e19 fighters. The heavy and slow planes of the Italian army are simply not qualified strike forces. With a stroke of the pen, the Germans allocated all the Alitalia fuel to themselves, Stuka and d217 bomber units.
The Italian army general glanced at the navy and the army and complained that it was obviously more wronged, but he was interrupted by Mussolini before he could speak. "All right! All right! I know it’s even worse on Army Day, and you don’t give me a stomachache expression! "
Everyone smiled wryly. Compared with the Italian navy and army, the Italian army was simply an aggrieved daughter-in-law. There was no better day to meet the huge supply of the German army. The daily food of some Italian troops dropped a lot, and some even distributed ammunition from time to time.
Mussolini won the opinion of Germany * *, and he even privately revealed his dissatisfaction to Marshal Brauchy, demanding that the German frontline commanders maintain the friendship between Italy and Germany. However, his protest was easily countered by Brauchy, and the German marshal sneered. "Mr. Leader, which Italian army can I give the arms to besides your black shirt army to defeat the British like the German team?"
"Move out seven ships! Send the supplies to Rommel! I don’t care what you do! But this command must be carried out to the letter Is it white? " Mussolini finally gritted his teeth and said that he must give an explanation to the German General Staff and the High Command, because the German-Italian Coalition forces in North Africa are Italy’s interests in North Africa. If he doesn’t work hard, the Germans can pat their asses and go home and throw a law to the Italians.
Italy has gradually adapted to the war situation. In April, Mussolini passed the temporary wartime bill and established the Italian logistics supply department, which temporarily stabilized Italy’s chaotic logistics support workers. However, Italy’s preparations for the war were really terrible, and now the whole of Italy is not ready to fight a war.
Arcado certainly knows what Italy is like. At another time, what it does is simply funny. You said that the unfavorable situation of a national war suddenly announced that it would leave the Axis against Germany, and then it was occupied by the German soldiers without bloodshed. Then it was announced that we would continue to fight the Americans with German allies. From here, we can see who the Italians are fighting. We really mean it. Anyway, you can’t expect us to win.
"Now we have to study how to divide our allies with Germany." Mussolini rubbed his temples because there are too many facts that have made his veins stand out recently.
It is obviously unrealistic to expect his Italian troops to maintain the two countries. It is estimated that if Italy is so weak again, it will be necessary to discuss with Turkey how to divide Italy after the Balkan Peninsula is carved up.
"Leader, are we walking around with the Vatican Pope? Didn’t the German head of state just have a son? We must find a good title for his son. I think the head of state won’t refuse this gift." The most excluded army general quickly advised that if it weren’t for his somewhat sinister record, he would have been killed several times by Mussolini.
This way, Mussolini’s eyes lit up and nodded. This gift is definitely more suitable for arcado than ordinary physical gifts. Even if Aka can’t see it, arcado’s wife Mercedes will certainly accept this good news from the Pope’s Office. After all, it can disturb Vatican children and look at the whole world very rarely.
"Let the Pope Hall give this boy a title … a duke title. Recently, the Great German Party has been advocating that arcado proclaimed himself. If his son has such a title, he will accept it if he has proclaimed himself." Mussolini muttered while nodding.
Before Italy, it paved the way for the Mercedes family. Soon after arcado, the head of state, got married, Mercedes became an aristocrat recognized by the Vatican, Italy and other countries, and now it is logical to seal the aristocrat for Mercedes.
So Italian leader Mussolini personally went to the Vatican, gave a large sum of money to the archbishops in the Pope’s Hall, and donated more than a dozen luxury Mercedes-Benz cars to the Pope. The results were remarkable. Later that day, the Pope announced an amazing news that the emperor darling of the German Chancellor’s residence in Berlin fell from the sky, and the Italian king and former Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard Wilhelmina singled out Akkadoor almost at the same time-the Grand Duke of Iron Cross, a boy who didn’t even open his eyes.
The little guy doesn’t know that he is a grand duke yet. His head is sparse and his golden hair is as soft as brocade. He is snuggling up to his mother’s arms with his eyes closed, enjoying the world’s smallest neglect and care for the frontier, the smoke all over the sky and the bloody sea in the middle camp. He seems to be lying quietly with him, and his skin is as smooth as coagulate fat with the kind eyes of people around him.
"The little guy sleeps so sweetly. He is like a wild animal when he is sucking milk." Mercedes smiled and quietly told the Fuehrer and Anna sitting next to him that she was cute and naughty.
"Look at what this group of people sent as a gift?" Anna left the pie mouth and obviously shrugged off the gift-giving level of high-level celebrities in the Third Reich. She looked at the gift table and picked up a gold pistol with a contemptuous expression.
Field Marshal Krupp gave the little guy a model tank. Master Augustus gave him a huge map of Germany. Krupp gave him a castle at the foot of the Alps. Jelinek gave his grandson a 3% tax. Politicians from all over the world sent gems and watches. There are countless car gifts. Of course, the most frightening thing is that SS commander heydrich sent this gold-plated pistol in Anna’s hand.
"Good gifts are the right way" arcado Nai smiled. It seems that these guys really can’t keep up with Italian leader Mussolini’s "A Mercedes and I can refuse gifts"
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Mercedes really won’t refuse a gift from Rome. It seems to her that it is absolutely forbidden to refuse this gift. People are selfish, especially when a mother strives for benefits. Don’t expect her to put away her strange ideas. Looking at the quiet blonde baby in her arms, Mercedes’ maternal love is flooding like the Yellow River burst its banks, so the title of Grand Duke of the Iron Cross is firmly buckled on her head. No one can move it.
If a person really loves another person, it must be his child. Every parent will pour his love into his offspring. Whether they are poor or rich, whether they talk a lot or talk a little may be wrong or clumsy, but it is undeniable that they all love their children.
Of course, arcado knows what Mercedes wants this title. Once his own family supports the throne of the German emperor, this title of the Grand Duke of the Iron Cross will make arcado’s descendants the legal successors of the German emperor, a mother and her own children strive for the best interests, and even arcado can’t bear to veto this selfishness.
"Well, Mercedes doesn’t want the problem of white orchid flowers to increase your chips. I did hurt you with the problem of white orchid flowers. I promised to leave the title of the Grand Duke of Iron Cross for our son. Isn’t it okay?" Arcado lamented that Mercedes had surrendered.
But surrender to surrender, he finally woke up with his wife. "Dear, although I understand your mood and choose to support your decision, you should know that leaving a child with a fortune is always worse than teaching the child to fight for it by himself. I still think that if our child is really not interested in business and political development, then cultivate him with other interests."
It is either a tragedy or a disaster to let a person who is full of artist cells sit in the position of national leader. For example, we are familiar with Li Yu, Song Huizong and Hitler, and their own experiences have proved the accuracy of this sentence.
"Don’t worry, we two people’s blood is flowing in our child’s body. Is he arcado? Rudolph and Mercedes? Feng? Cassia’s children are doomed to be extraordinary all his life! " Mercedes’ fingers lightly crossed the tip of the baby’s nose, causing the little guy to twist and pout a little.
It’s impossible to say that arcado doesn’t like this child. He doesn’t have his own offspring. It’s almost four years old before he has his own son. It’s absolutely late. How can he not like it?
This gave him a real sense of belonging to the world. Looking at this, he felt that he had finally left his mark in this time. When Mercedes was fighting for its own interests, arcado did not object too much, but chose to nod in agreement.
What can I leave for my descendants is an inheritance of China’s thinking? Since arcado has a soul from China since ancient times, he still hopes to inherit his father’s business in his bones, and his family background is not thin. Even if a huge empire is excluded, there is still a commercial miracle waiting for people to inherit.
"arcado, what do you think the child’s name is?" Mercedes is still immersed in happiness and joy and asks arcado lightly.
What’s your name? Arcado was stupefied and then suddenly remembered that he had joked with his girlfriend and said that if he had a child in the future, it would be fine to make a spoof called Gu Long or Louis Koo. Of course, it seems that this wish is difficult to realize now because the German child’s name is absolutely not compatible with Chinese.
If you have to bring an ancient word, it’s not impossible. If arcado really has to give up a name with an ancient word pronunciation, there are still ways to name the child Gustav, for example.
It’s a pity that this name always reminds arcado of the mm caliber super train gun that was given to Stalin by arcado and Krupp to fool the fragile productivity of the Soviet Union into going to arcado, and he didn’t want his children to be associated with a cannon with less symbolic meaning.
"I don’t think it’s necessarily good … otherwise? Ask Master Augustus? " Arcado is stumped by his son’s name. I think all fathers will be stumped when they name their children. It seems that there is no name worthy of his son in the world.
Mercedes also lost her mind. She was very optimistic about several names before, but arcado rejected them one by one. Later, she found that those names seemed too common for her son, so she waited for arcado to give her son a nice name, and so on and so forth. Akadore’s name had not been picked up on the third day after the child was born.
While that Fuehrer was rack his brains to think of a name, Rommel, arcado’s confidant, was organizing his summer offensive in North Africa.
The hot temperature in North Africa is even more unbearable. Most German and Italian soldiers wear shorts, bare knees and leggings to cope with this difficult weather. The environment of tank soldiers is even worse. Many people even fight naked in Tanqueray.
Sometimes Rommel really hates the weakness of Italian soldiers. The strong defense lines around Tobruk were originally built by Italian defenders to deal with the British, but now the British almost occupied Tobruk without a shot and the Italians built fortifications to deal with the Germans.
Rommel asked Italian friendly commanders for the topographic map of Tobruk. Finally, the Italians delayed for a week before giving Rommel a rough protection map. However, when Rommel looked at this Italian military map, he just didn’t see what the paintings were.
Italian garibaldi will also feel ashamed because of this incident, but the German invasion of Malta really made the original long supply line very smooth in an instant. The British submarines and planes seem to have disappeared in the Mediterranean. From mid-April to mid-May alone, Rommel got more than 150,000 tons of supplies, more than three times what he got in the previous month.
Increasing logistics supplies brought Rommel an unprecedented feeling of affluence. For the first time, the German mobile artillery unit in his hand was able to squander shells recklessly. Four Frederick rockets fired a full volley at the British defenders in Tobruk.
With the "whoosh" whistling, the chassis of the Frederik rocket motor vehicle shakes slightly back and forth with the launch of the rocket. This slight shaking can ensure that the rocket has a very reasonable distribution and can eventually cover a large area at the same time.
Italians visited this terrible weapon and saw with their own eyes that it ran out of ammunition accumulated for a few days in just a few minutes, but the rocket attack was still very outstanding. On the same day, the British team in Tobruk reported that at least four soldiers were killed by rockets because they didn’t come to escape, and about three people were frightened by the heavy German artillery fire.
Rommel attached great importance to developing his own firepower. He cleaned the Tobruk area with most of the artillery fire, and then he organized troops to infiltrate Tobruk and seized some British defensive positions. His idea was very simple, that is, nibbling away the entire outer defense line of Tobruk bit by bit to ensure that the entire Tobruk area was covered by Frederick rockets.
At present, the German North African Corps is rich in money. After almost three weeks of silence, they have restored the number of tanks to the original level, even slightly higher, while the British troops stationed in Tobruk have been weakened as a whole.
Australia’s 1st Division, capable of being good at fighting, was transferred to the Middle East to prepare for the American Expeditionary Force because of the unusual activity of Turkish troops in the Middle East. Also, due to losses and other problems, the Egyptian hinterland was rested in Tobruk, leaving two Indian divisions with low fighting capacity and one British division with high fighting capacity.
Montgomery’s frontline troops, especially those in Tobruk, have been reduced to three divisions, with more than 49,000 people pitifully, while Rommel has 15 tanks at this time. Besides the elite 7th Armored Army, another division of the 12th Armored Army of the K Regiment was sent to the North African battlefield, and Rommel’s troops were powerful before.
This time, Rommel laid out his hand array, including 70,000 Italian soldiers, and the German-Italian North African Coalition forces attacked Tobruk with more than 10,000 troops.
"General Friedrich, your troops attacked from the front!" Rommel pointed to the map before the war and finally deployed "General garibaldi, your Italian legion is responsible for attacking from the southern region at the same time."
As he spoke, the pointer pointed to the easternmost part of the map. "I will lead armored troops and mechanized infantry to fight from the east and seize Tobruk fortress in one fell swoop!"
"Yes!" Garibaldi will nod his head at the same time as Friedrich and answer that after a month of silence in the North African battlefield, it once again became noisy and once again became the focus of world attention.
Chapter 574 574 Dinner
In the end, the name of the Fuehrer was finally confirmed. He came to arcado and chose "Caesar" from more than a dozen names selected by Augustus, so everyone was very satisfied with this name, and people who supported arcado’s promotion to the German Third Reich seemed to hear some overtones from this baby name.
Caesar, first of all, this is a great man who once placed arcado’s ardent expectations for children. The word means successor. Everyone has heard the meaning behind the name arcado.
Liu Bei named his son Liu Feng and Liu Chan together, which is what Feng Chan said in many cases. I’m sorry to say it, but I can express my good wishes by giving my child a suitable name. For example, if I’m embarrassed to usurp the throne, I’ll name my child the throne. If I can’t afford a house, I’ll name my child Million …
So our little Caesar pinned his ardent hopes on several people and became the successor of the German supreme leader, the Grand Duke of Iron Cross, who was under one year old and was acquiesced by almost everyone.
Just high-level Germans around Caesar? Rudolph was preparing for a power struggle, and a real battle in the distant North Africa battlefield had already begun. One by one, the bombers swooped down from the clouds and roared, dropping one blockbuster after another to the British garrison position.
Huge columns of smoke rose, and anti-gun tracer bullets still flew into the sky in a bright straight line during the day, but with the arrival of German bombers at the same time, there were Frederic rockets and artillery fire all over the sky, and the Italian army’s large-caliber howitzers were constantly suppressed
The whole British position is a sea of fire. It seems that the Germans have no intention of leaving any more ammunition to attack them. They just vent their anger and seem to have a mentality of wanting to light up their shells in the shortest time.
One shell after another was pushed into the gun bore by the soldiers, and another artillery howled in a drunken roar. One warhead after another was squeezed out of the gun barrel by the firing charge, and then it was cut and screamed until it hit its target.
Followed by the sand being lifted by the huge air billow, the soldiers curled up in a huge explosion, crying and shouting until the explosion left them, but unfortunately, a round of shelling has not really left them, and the second round of shelling has exploded around them.
As the British soldiers endured the marginal artillery attack, more German dive bombers followed them. These planes poured their ammunition and attacked them madly. They could see every moving target on the ground.
The superior artillery and military forces covered the Germans, nibbling away at the defensive positions on the periphery of the British garrison in Tobruk. A large number of Germans did not take a breakthrough in serious play, but adopted a small-scale plane attack to cooperate with the special forces and artillery to clear the British garrison positions on the periphery.
This new style of play has gradually spread to the eastern front, and many special action teams have played a decisive role in defending against Soviet troops’ attacks. Many times, the Soviet troops suffered heavy losses, but even the German main defense line was not touched. This time, Rommel brought special tactics to the attack, which also played an eye-catching effect
From time to time, British soldiers’ arms or legs were rolled up by bombs and then flew to more than ten meters away with violent airflow. The British soldiers helped to cry out for the injured, and they begged the medics to help them over and over again, which deepened the pain of these British defenders. The German army moved napalm and the raging fire burned mercilessly and scorched this fortress that was already full of yellow sand.
The whole Tobruk is now a one-person hell. Every bunker and trench that has been detected in advance when attacked by Italian troops are taken care of by artillery shells. The British defenders in it suffered heavy losses. Some areas reinforced by concrete were destroyed by artillery shells, and no one inside was lucky.
Montgomery certainly won’t attend a reception hosted by a local politician when Tobruk and his German army attacked. Many British people were unhappy about the occupation of the land, and most businessmen were able to stay in Egypt because of heavy losses.
If someone had told these businessmen half a year ago that the German navy would defeat the British navy, everyone would have laughed, but now no one would laugh, because the Royal Navy has indeed been beaten by the German high seas fleet and even lost its soil to its once weak opponent.
"General Montgomery, we have lost the soil to the Germans, so it’s better to be safe here?" A businessman wearing a white west asked Montgomery, who was meditating, and Montgomery was discussing the war situation in North Africa with Barton, a retired army around him.
"Of course, sir, it’s still very rare here. The Chinese fleet can’t appear in the nearby waters. Without us, they can’t be stupid enough to want to pass through the Suez Canal, right?" Montgomery raised his glass. He came here to appease these British businessmen. Now the British royal family in Iceland can rely on these British businessmen scattered all over the world. Their materials are slowly gathering in some British-controlled areas. This is the future counterattack money.