The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 318

It turned out that as early as a few days ago, the British intelligence agency without Turing finally deciphered the news that the German army was about to bomb Coventry and other cities.

Therefore, Churchill immediately decided to withdraw most of Coventry's air defense force, but secretly let government officials and garrison officers enter the air-raid shelter in advance to stand by, leaving civilians to be killed by the German army.

However, the German army did not mention bombing London in the telegram, and the radar station in south London had long been marked by Reinhardt to the Luftwaffe, allowing the German army to destroy it on a fixed-point basis.

The Luftwaffe used a classic sniper attack to catch Churchill off guard. It not only bombed Coventry, which Churchill left for Reinhardt, but also struck London, which Churchill had not expected.

As a result of this time, Churchill naturally had to lose his temper in the office afterwards.

"Tell me what your intelligence department is doing? Didn't you say that you deciphered the German code? You said that the German army was going to attack Coventry, and the result? Their plane flew to London! Where is London? It is the capital of our country, It's the place where the Empress is! As for us, we let the Germans bomb for ten hours, and we didn't even have any precautions before. Instead, we transferred our original air defense forces away. Tell me, you idiots did this Intelligence work!"

After Churchill was bombed in London, he called the head of the intelligence service to his office and cursed.

"Prime Minister, listen to my explanation."

As soon as the person in charge wanted to explain, Churchill immediately interrupted: "Explain? Explain what? Can your explanation be able to make up for the loss of London being bombed!"

The fact that London was bombed by the German army this time really affected Churchill so much that he couldn't control his emotions at all, and he also vented all his temper in one breath.

"Tell me what's going on with you recently? Wavell in Africa just suffered a few defeats a while ago, and now your ass is still hot, and your intelligence department is looking for me in the mainland. Tell me How do you want me to be the Prime Minister? Can I continue to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? From my point of view, I should take the blame and resign immediately. I really have no choice but to lead you stupid pigs. Let whoever wants to do it!"

Churchill was pulled from the intelligence department to General Wavell in Africa. He told all the recent series of British defeats in one breath, at least in this way his heart was vented.

The ridiculous thing is that more than 30 years after the end of the war, a conspiracy theory emerged from Sir John Colwell: In fact, Churchill knew that Coventry was going to be bombed not for Coventry but for London, but in order to Guaranteed not to disclose the secret that the British side has deciphered the "Super Code", so they dropped their pawns and gave up London: without informing the residents, without taking any defensive measures!And he gave Reinhardt a very realistic play.

No one knew that Reinhardt had the ability to predict the future. Everyone can only guess that Churchill was acting, and Reinhardt was acting within a play.

Back then, after the bombing was over, Reinhardt was sitting in his office and said to his assistant: "Do you believe that Churchill is now furious with his subordinates? I believe this news will soon be exposed by the media and spread to our in the ear."

Churchill's original intention was nothing more than wanting to lose his pawn and save the car.

And if such a tactic is successful: Although Coventry has suffered losses, Ying has kept the secret that has deciphered the code, so that he can intercept important information many times in future wars, and it will also make an extremely huge contribution to the victory of the war. .

It's a pity that this time he gave up both Coventry and London, and he still hasn't been able to keep his little secret.

In the face of Churchill's poor acting performance, Reinhardt was ready to accompany him to the end from the beginning.

As for who is the better actor, we will see the outcome soon.

Sure enough, the next day, the London Daily reported that Churchill was dissatisfied with the bombing of London and Coventry, and this report was even accurate to every word Churchill said.

I have to say that the editor of the London newspaper really thought Reinhardt and the German were three-year-olds.

What would a report that could be accurate to one sentence be like if Churchill didn't intentionally do it? Could it be that the British government personnel leaked the secret?

Such a confidential conversation between the leader and his subordinates was released so easily that no one would know the whole story.

Obviously, Churchill made mistakes and tried to cover them up.

Presumably, he also wanted Reinhardt to think that the bombing of Coventry was enough to prove that the British had not deciphered the German code.

Body 4 Ninety Chapters of Magic

In fact, Wavell was really wronged by Churchill. He played really well in Africa.

And after getting the Commonwealth troops transferred from India and Australia, Wavell has already started a new round of offensive.

With the new defeat in East Africa and the stalemate in North Africa, Britain really urgently needs a victory to stabilize the morale of the army.

Coupled with Churchill's "complaint" to him in London, General Wavell felt the importance of victory even more urgently.

Although Churchill notified him in advance, he was acting to show Reinhardt, telling him not to care, and wholeheartedly preparing for the war in North Africa.

However, Churchill's cursing words that Wavell saw in the newspaper seemed to be improvised, and they were all from the heart.

However, after all, the prime minister comforted himself, which was regarded as trust in himself, and Wavell believed that he could not disappoint the trust of the prime minister and the country.

So, he tried his best to start planning a new round of attack on Benghazi, Libya.

The Italian governor of Libya, General Garibaldi, remained as dead as before, huddled within the fortifications of Benghazi.

Wavell knew that if he wanted to rely on his small number of troops to defeat the Italian army, which was several times his size, he had to lure the Italian army out of the fortifications, encircle and wipe them out, instead of relying on storming their defensive positions.

He thought over and over again, discussing with the combat staff officers their combat plan for Benghazi.

"Our top priority now is to lure the Benghazi defenders out. If they keep huddling in the position and drag us down, East Africa can't support us and we have to die."

A combat staff officer said that he is not optimistic about the current situation in the North African battlefield.

"What's more difficult is that General Garibaldi of the opposite Italian army has a stubborn temper. We scolded and beat him, but he just refused to come out to fight."

The staff officer continued, it could be seen that he had lost confidence in Wavell coming out to fight.

"They didn't come out because they felt that they didn't have the confidence to win us. We might as well think about it from another angle. If they think they can defeat our British army, will they come out to fight?"

Wavell reminded everyone that he was still full of confidence in the war, and in his opinion victory was only a matter of time.

"It's easy to say, but this group of Italians has been scared by us, and they won't come out easily." Another staff officer shook his head and said.

Indeed, the difficulty of wanting the group of Italians in front of them to come out to fight is no less difficult than winning World War II.

"So, today I'm here to let everyone express their opinions to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy. Just speak freely and don't take it into consideration." General Wavell said to everyone, with a faint smile on his face.

A general with keen observation captured General Wavell's smile, and he said with a smile: "General Wavell must have already made up his mind, since this is the case, why not share it with everyone, and let us have a bottom line without worrying about it." gone."

General Wavell still smiled and did not speak, waiting for everyone's answer.

After a while, seeing that everyone was silent, General Wavell said slowly: "The Italians are afraid of our armored forces. If we say that all the tanks are transferred away, will they dare to fight?"

"What? Transfer? Then what will we use to fight the Italian army?" After hearing this seemingly crazy decision, everyone was very surprised and discussed.

"Of course it wasn't really transferred, we just made the Germans think we were transferred." General Wavell added.

But everyone was even more confused when they heard this, staring at each other speechlessly for a while, waiting for Wavell's further explanation.

"We use the magician's method to make our tanks go away," General Wavell said.

What General Wavell thought of was actually a magician's performance. The so-called magician's performance was actually using small tricks to deceive the Italian army and draw the enemy's attention to other places, so as to consume the enemy's energy.

Wavell divided the army into several detachments dedicated to defrauding the Italian army.

General Wavell ordered them to artificially create a huge army, hundreds of inflatable tanks made of rubber, field guns in biscuit boxes, and "two-ton" trucks.

In order to further deceive the Italian army, the British army pretended to build roads and "printed" tank track marks on the roads. Moreover, they won Zhang Fei's trick and used camels to drag rakes to gallop across the desert, creating a large number of of soot.

And they let the troops move back and forth to the south without stopping, turning around every few hundred kilometers and continuing to move southward from the base camp, the continuous flow has never been cut off.

And this move will inevitably make the Italian army think that the number of tank troops far exceeds their British army and begin to support the East African battlefield.