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El Alamin, North Africa.
“withdrawal?”
Rommel’s face contorted.
“Are you going to withdraw?”
“Yes, it is my country’s order. The same goes for the British.”
Cairo has been captured, and fierce street fighting is taking place in Alexandria. Royal Navy battleships approached to provide artillery support, but then retreated as torpedo bombers flew like bees.
The German and British forces were pushed in every way on this front, where even air support was not adequately received. Only Rommel’s own tactical ability was preventing a complete rout, but retreat? now?
“The Russian army is constantly on the offensive. Another offensive is predicted from the south, and Munich is in danger. It is the Prime Minister’s order that the general should immediately join Army Group South with the entire African corps and take command of General Manstein.”
“The Prime Minister’s order?”
Rommel asked with a grin.
“Is that the Prime Minister’s order or the Deputy Prime Minister’s order?”
“……”
“The British Army?”
“They are going to board the Red Sea and go to Persia. Persia is threatened and there are armed uprisings in India.”
If Persia collapses, there will be no oil available except for the synthetic oil produced by coal liquefaction technology and the oil shipped from South America literally.
If it had not been for Venezuela and other South American oil-producing countries to receive British weapons and supply large amounts of crude oil, half of the Royal Navy would have been paralyzed by now. Of course, just importing from South America and synthesizing petroleum was never enough.
Even after losing Suez, if the Persian oil carried around the Cape of Good Hope was cut off, either the navy or the army might have to suspend operations at that time.
In addition, the Russian military, as well as aware of the fuel shortage, intensively attacked coal liquefaction facilities in Germany, released submarines, and sunk oil tankers passing through Persia, so the fuel shortage was inevitable.
“I see. Still, I wish I could fight with him.”
Rommel valued Montgomery quite highly. In fact, they didn’t know, but if Rommel, who was quite influential in Germany, had not consistently highly regarded Montgomery, Montgomery would have been cut off sooner.
But Suez is no longer important. I don’t know if there is any certainty that I can crush the enemies.
‘Did you say George Patton?’
In his troop management, Rommel came up with one word.
rabies.
Ungern was also quite crazy, but according to Rommel’s review, Patton was also a different kind of madman.
The two crazy dogs dragged the tanks at their own pace, smashed every defensive line called the defense line, and dismantled the unit.
And as Rommel, it was quite difficult to find a way to stop them. The requested heavy tank battalion did not come because it was too short to be deployed on the European front, and the same was true of the new medium tank.
If only their weapons had been able to subdue their enemies, they would not have collapsed in vain. Even with that thought, reality has not changed.
He did as much as he could, but he was clearly a trooper.
“I look forward to the day we meet again.”
If he had a battalion of heavy tanks and new tanks in his hands, then it wouldn’t be like this time. never.
***
How much does it cost to sit at the same table with your family?
I feel like it’s been a few years, but I think it’s been a little over a month in reality.
Of course not power. Lev and Nikita are in Kyiv and Germany respectively. For this offensive, the Northern Front and Central Front supported units in the South, and he is also on the Southern Front.
In any case, it is a large family that will make you cough just by sitting around the table. After a long time there, Alexei was also seated with his full-term wife.
“Nikolai.”
“Yes, Father.”
“I heard a story. He said he was fidgeting all day because he wanted to get on a plane.”
“Damn!”
“If my heart is the same, I want to rip off my nails so that I can’t even hold the joystick…”
I stared.
“Anyway, air strikes on the British mainland will only be carried out after retaking France, and the strategic bombing target is industrial zones. Above all, I won’t send you on a strategic bombing mission.”
“yes.”
“The Air Defense Force, that’s the best I can give you.”
“……!”
“Don’t even dream of taking on a mission other than air defense. In the first place, the Do335 will also delete the bombing function from the B type and put a fuel tank in its place.”
“Thank you, Father!”
“I’m not some kind of bossy young man, I want to get married as soon as possible.”
I muttered and opened my mouth.
“Father, by the way, the last time I… I said…”
“Is there any reason to tell you? You are a messenger, not an ambassador. Get your subject matter.”
I thought it was a bit harsh, but I can’t help it.
He’s still the eldest son, but he’s not my heir. can’t be So, don’t act like you’re something.
“I never gave Nikita or Lev any special benefits. So are you. The majors they set up are only their own, and it is right to do so. So are the other guys.”
“It looks like the war will end soon. Don’t be too disciplined, at least next year…”
“Anastasia.”
“yes?”
“Wrong. This winter…. Ending this year, this one-sided war situation will end for the time being.”
The offensive on the southern front was probably the last offensive we could put our minds to.
“We are targeting direct pressure on Frankfurt and Mannheim, and furthermore on Germany’s major industrial zones.”
It is unreasonable in many ways to advance to the Rhine right now. The Chief of Staff had to give up the Ruhr vacuum because of the fact that the chief of staff had to give up the Ruhr vacuum because of how long it had been since the offensive was over, and he was lying on his back saying that he could never supply them.
And from my point of view, it was a very unreasonable plan to invade the Rhine right away, and it is true that we advanced deep enough to divide East and West Germany right away.
All circumstances are consistent. Currently, the German army is being pushed back poorly for a number of reasons, such as inferiority in quality and the fact that we have come up with tactics that are as good as counters to them.
The problem of changing the vehicle type due to the outdated equipment of the No. 4 or lower class equipment and the development of new vehicles, the decrease in productivity due to the replacement of lines, backlogging, etc.
It was a problem that the Soviet Union in its original history also faced, and the Soviet Union solved a crisis that could really run out of available tanks by pushing the Shermans who came to Landless. Germany was afraid that it would suffer such a problem, so it made a double investment in printing a Panzer 4 that even Sherman could not beat until the end of the war.
But the current head of Germany is Stalin. If that is the case, he blocks the front line with it whether the existing stock tanks melt or not, and what is still not enough is to bring British and Italian troops to block the front line, then replace all equipment with Panthers and Tigers and then try to face it. nothing to do
And so was the order to attack Nuremberg not long after the last offensive had ended. We must not only make the most of our profits, but also conquer Germany’s major industrial zones.
The proficiency of the troops has risen quite a bit in the meantime, and equal fighting is now possible in the air supremacy.
That is, before they force us to shed more blood, we must stick a dagger between their ribs.
“You don’t think the war is going to end easily, do you?”
“Germans are the ones who will fight back even if they run over the Maginot Line, and there is also Italy. Crucially, the British mainland cannot reach out a hand or a foot unless the United States enters the war. Already, French guys crawl into Asia on their own terms, and their power plummets.”
Of course, on the contrary, he is planning to blow a spicy slap on France.
Schlotz-Ether Castle in Austria, where the Germans had imprisoned key French figures, there was a high probability that they would be transferred or executed.
De Gaulle’s side talked about joining forces with the troops they had gathered from Vietnam soon, but they didn’t believe it either, although it’s not that I don’t understand the human thought at all.
Even if we do everything for guns, training, and supplies, at least the members must be French in order to get the Free French Army ticket. If we give them people, they are Russian soldiers who only change the signboard, and of course there is no way to control the military.
At the very least, the German puppet government I created also recruits troops from the POW camps and trains them themselves. It is not put into the front line, but is used only for rear policing.
So, they could not go to major colonies such as the mainland or Algeria and use them, and the army troops could not escape and were annihilated, and de Gaulle himself barely took out his body.
Even if you think about turning the sailors of the fleet into a land squadron, the number of heads is not enough, and there is no way our side will take good care of them. What are you doing right now when you feel sorry for a warship?
Then, as we intended, it would be better if we just support the Yugoslav Navy and cut off their supply lines in the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans. We are not Russian dogs!’ He said he went to Indochina to gather his army and fight while talking like this.
They said that they would conscript 1 million troops from Vietnam to help fight the war against Germany… Do you train them and send them away? And if we have to do all the equipment and training, we’ll just conscript 1 million idiots who have a clear sense of purpose as to why they have to fight. What is rotting in Russia is the population.
Of course, these brain structures are fully understood. I think the war is going to be won, but if I leave it alone, France won’t recognize my stake, and I think I’m going to put all Europe, including France, on the table and enjoy the buffet.
I don’t know if we’re going to push De Gaulle, but he’s not the kind of guy we’re going to deal with. In addition, several prominent politicians, including Patin, do not work here in Germany and are imprisoned in the Castle of Eater.
Rescue of key French figures from Castle Etter expands the Russian Empire’s options. We need to get them out before they can be transferred or executed. If the regular army gets close to Eater Castle, they will do whatever they want, so the regular army can’t do it, so the only option is Spetsnaz.
“About a year and a half, the war started. But until the war is over, the time so far, maybe even longer, could be consumed.”