The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 480

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Looking at the endless desert, the already famous Rommel suddenly found that he seemed to have some emptiness in his heart.

He entered Egypt, and together with the famous Italian general Garibaldi and the famous French general Berente, the three led their troops into Cairo peacefully.

However, the final battle, which was supposed to be the climax, did not make Rommel feel excited and fulfilled at all.

Previously, he led the African Army Staff to attack Alamein, blitz Cairo, and surprise troops stationed to control the Suez Canal. At that time, it seemed that at least more than one month, or even several months, would be in the future.

But now, as Montgomery led a group of British military officers to make an announcement in the government hall in Cairo, after the reporters finished taking photos and writing the manuscript, the war in Africa was over.

Before the Battle of Alamein, Rommel had more than 20 troops in his hands.Most of them are Italian servants sent by the Italian Prime Minister Rossi.

As the core German army, there is only one armored division and one infantry division.

In addition, Berente also followed Petain's instructions and symbolically handed over the command of a French colonial division to Rommel's African Army Command.

These soldiers are not weak at all.

First of all, the core infantry division of the German army is the famous meritorious division-the 30th Mechanized Infantry Division.This division is good at fighting, trained all the way in the European battlefield, and participated in the Battle of Poland, the Battle of Norway, and the Battle of France.In terms of combat experience, no other infantry division in the German army can surpass the 30th Division.

In addition, during these days of fighting in Africa, the German 15th Armored Division has also accumulated a lot of combat experience, and has completed the run-in with Rommel's command method, becoming a well-deserved elite.

As for the servants in Italy, Rommel generously distributed them a lot of equipment seized from the British army.The Italian and British artillery in the African theater were all unified and assigned to the artillery column of the African Army, under the centralized command of Rommel.

After Montgomery's surrender, Rommel also distributed Italian equipment seized from Egypt to a colonial division that Berente had given him to command.

To be precise, the equipment that Rommel gave to this French colonial division was actually the equipment that was lost to the British after the Italians failed, and was used by Montgomery to equip the Egyptian troops.After Montgomery surrendered, the Italian equipment was transferred from the Egyptians to the French colonial troops.

As a result, the New African Army under Rommel had such a feature-German troops were equipped with German equipment, Italian troops were equipped with British equipment, and French colonial divisions were equipped with Italian equipment.

In this way, just because of the equipment factor, the combat effectiveness of the servants provided by Italy and France has been improved to a higher level!

But the embarrassing thing is that this increasingly powerful African group army has now lost its opponent!

After taking Egypt and taking the Suez Canal into his pocket, Rommel's options for attacking are already very limited.

On the other hand, Germany's military operations in the Soviet Union have also seriously affected the enthusiasm of the Supreme Command for the African Army.

From the perspective of the Supreme Command, since Britain has surrendered and the African British army has also disarmed and handed over the colonies to the Allies for management, then Africa has no interests that need to be fought for by the army.

It may be a good choice proposed by the Supreme Command to leave a armored division with the strongest mobility, transfer the outstanding 30th Mechanized Infantry Division back to China, fill in new recruits and expand into an army, and then enter the Soviet battlefield. .

However, Reinhardt ultimately rejected this option.

He emphasized again in the military conference room that the size of the German army in Africa is already very small.With just two divisions, it is necessary to affect the situation in Africa as a whole and ensure Germany's leading position in Africa. All these things do not allow the German army in Africa to be reduced in size.

Even if one division is transferred back, the German army can have three more divisions on the Eastern Front after expansion. Such a deal is still not worthwhile.

On the one hand, on the Eastern Front, Germany's allies have provided a total of nearly 200 million Allied troops. In contrast, the 5 more German troops on the Eastern Front are actually not that important.

On the other hand, if Rommel's direct line of the German army had only one armored division with more than 1 people, then the influence of the German army in his 20-strong Three-Nation Allied Forces would drop significantly.

As a German commander, Rommel naturally did not want his already scarce troops to be transferred again.

Besides, looking at the whole world, which group army commander has only 2 divisions of his own troops as his team?

"General Rommel, I want to congratulate you."

After completing the process of accepting Montgomery's surrender ceremony in Cairo, Hans, who returned to the new headquarters together with Rommel, came to congratulate him.

The new headquarters is a beautifully decorated two-story building with Egyptian architectural features.

This was the headquarters originally used by Montgomery, but now he was given over to Rommel by Montgomery.

After the grand surrender ceremony, Rommel returned here first.After Lieutenant General Hans went to receive a telegram, he also came here 10 minutes later.

Now, as soon as Hans pushed open the door of Rommel's office, Hans smiled with joy: "The Propaganda Department sent special personnel to fly to us to film and edit a movie "Africa" ​​for General Rommel who conquered North Africa. The Conqueror documentary.”

Becoming the conqueror of Egypt has been Rommel's dream since he came to Africa.However, when this dream came true today, he was not as excited as he had always imagined before.

There must be joy, but apart from that, Rommel obviously felt that something was missing.

"In addition, the number of the fifth field marshal of the army has come out. The fifth field marshal scepter belongs to you. Rommel is the only field marshal in Africa!" Hans laughed and clapped his hands.

"Field Marshal!" This made Rommel's heart beat faster.

For any German soldier, the significance of the field marshal's scepter is extraordinary.In this life, Reinhardt deliberately suppressed the number of German field marshals, which made this title even more valuable and precious!

Becoming a field marshal is also a fulfillment of one of his long-cherished wishes.Rommel thought with some satisfaction that even if he really didn't have many battles to fight in the short term, his heart would not be too painful.

"There's another piece of good news." At the end, Lieutenant General Hans smiled even more: "The head of state specially prepared a gift for you as a gift for the new marshal. I think you must like it!"

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Looking at the endless desert, the already famous Rommel suddenly found that he seemed to have some emptiness in his heart.

He entered Egypt, and together with the famous Italian general Garibaldi and the famous French general Berente, the three led their troops into Cairo peacefully.

However, the final battle, which was supposed to be the climax, did not make Rommel feel excited and fulfilled at all.

Previously, he led the African Army Staff to attack Alamein, blitz Cairo, and surprise troops stationed to control the Suez Canal. At that time, it seemed that at least more than one month, or even several months, would be in the future.

But now, as Montgomery led a group of British military officers to make an announcement in the government hall in Cairo, after the reporters finished taking photos and writing the manuscript, the war in Africa was over.

Before the Battle of Alamein, Rommel had more than 20 troops in his hands.Most of them are Italian servants sent by the Italian Prime Minister Rossi.

As the core German army, there is only one armored division and one infantry division.

In addition, Berente also followed Petain's instructions and symbolically handed over the command of a French colonial division to Rommel's African Army Command.

These soldiers are not weak at all.

First of all, the core infantry division of the German army is the famous meritorious division-the 30th Mechanized Infantry Division.This division is good at fighting, trained all the way in the European battlefield, and participated in the Battle of Poland, the Battle of Norway, and the Battle of France.In terms of combat experience, no other infantry division in the German army can surpass the 30th Division.

In addition, during these days of fighting in Africa, the German 15th Armored Division has also accumulated a lot of combat experience, and has completed the run-in with Rommel's command method, becoming a well-deserved elite.

As for the servants in Italy, Rommel generously distributed them a lot of equipment seized from the British army.The Italian and British artillery in the African theater were all unified and assigned to the artillery column of the African Army, under the centralized command of Rommel.

After Montgomery's surrender, Rommel also distributed Italian equipment seized from Egypt to a colonial division that Berente had given him to command.