Imperial Overlord

In order to give himself the best hope of winning, Li Le decided to change some of the so-called programs that were causing trouble for him.

He has been reserving his own strength. Recently, he has frequently met with high-ranking officials in the SS, in order to have more confidence in the showdown with Himmler today.

In fact, the destructive waste of Jewish human resources in Germany has also made many capitalist chaebols criticized.

Although Germany has been in the process of nationalization in recent years, only God knows how many cores have been moved.

Even big companies such as Porsche Farben and Krupp do not need to, and many companies operate in the name of nationalization.

Many business owners, or behind-the-scenes bosses, hope to get more cheap workers, and they won't mind whether they are given Jews or Germans.

In the past few days, Germany has opened a full 30 factories for these companies, mainly Jewish workers.

Some of these factories are producing quilts, some are producing leather products, some are producing weapons and ammunition, and there is even a civilian car manufacturing factory in preparation.

For these factories, Li Le can be regarded as selling out the face of his head of state. While persuading the invested company to open a branch to the Polish occupation zone, he persuaded the SS to improve their labor camps.

Under the circumstance of both hard and soft, Li Lecai built the current framework. This may be the biggest thing he has done in the two and a half months he has traveled.

"..." Taking a look at Himmler, Li Le could only do this temporarily, even if he knew that he would continue to persecute the Jews.

He had already arranged for Eva to supervise, and promoted several subordinates who were nominally loyal to him. He tried his best to watch Himmler and his people and let them do things according to their own wishes.

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North Africa, West Dubai, Nila, Rommel was on the only street in the city, watching the armored troops rumbled past, and the cars interspersed.

In order to carry a large amount of supplies, Rommel's army may have the highest degree of mechanization in the entire German army.

This is not an environment that can be made at will. In this barren desert, every drop of water and every drop of oil comes from a distant supply station.

Due to the limitations of conditions, war horses and other livestock cannot be used here as a substitute for transportation, so the consumption is even greater than in places like the Eastern Front.

"Sir! The materials consumed are too large! Attacking Matroux will consume more resources than we calculated." A logistics officer complained to Rommel.

Just now, Rommel's army of 30,000 occupied West Dubai Nila almost without blood, but due to the consumption along the way, the daily supplies he brought also consumed a lot.

In fact, although it seems that Germany occupies Malta, and there are many ports in North Africa from Libya to Egypt, the actual situation is not as optimistic as imagined.

First of all, the largest port of the Axis countries in North Africa is Tripoli, the capital of Libya. This port with a throughput of about 50,000 tons is far from Rommel.

Then, the important port of Sirte, which Germany has been building frantically, as a future oil transportation port, the current throughput is despairingly small.

After the design of German engineers and the use of many floating port technologies that have just been developed - the throughput here is only less than 10,000 tons.

Don't underestimate the total amount of 10,000 tons, which is already twenty times the throughput of the small port of Sirte.

Because of the need to attack Egypt, Italy's key ports are Benghazi and Tobruk.

These two ports are now unable to meet the daily needs of the German and Italian coalition forces. After strengthening, Benghazi has a throughput of about 5,000 tons, and Tobruk is even less, only about 2,000 tons.

Baierdi will not talk about it. After the destruction of the war and long-term neglect, the throughput here is almost only double digits.

In such a large environment, the logistical supply of Rommel's armored forces is actually very staggering.

There are almost 300 various tank vehicles and Rommel with thousands of armored vehicles. The total consumption now is about 50,000 tons.

Therefore, this is almost the limit of the capacity of the North African Axis. Thousands of materials are consumed on the road every day. Anyone who has read the consumption report will feel a pain in the flesh.

If one-third of the supplies transported by the fleet are supplied with fuel every day, then only half of the supply fuel that Rommel can get when they reach the frontline of West Dubai Nila.

Including food and drink, this consumption loss is even greater. Originally in North Africa, whoever attacked was unlucky, and this was all determined by the port's supply capacity.

Although the discovery of oil fields in Libya has made the situation of ports in Libya better than in history, there has been no fundamental change.

Rommel had just been in the car and glanced at the consumption records of supplies. He also felt that his attack on Egypt, before the capture of Alexander, was a loss-making business.

At least at the material level, the resources he is currently consuming are almost on par with the group army.

However, you must know that the group army is larger than the African Army Corps - at least about 100,000 people, right?

In fact, Rommel pinned his hopes on improving his logistical supplies on the capture of the port of Matroux.

After the capture of Matru, although it was still unable to meet the daily material consumption of the African Army, it was able to make the materials reach the front line faster.

No matter how to calculate that Matrouh was destroyed by the British army, it can leave dozens or even hundreds of tons of throughput for the African Army.

With these throughputs, it is possible to transport small ships at sea, which can save some fuel consumption.

The strategy of protecting the Libyan oilfields must be decided without considering the benefits of defeating the British in Egypt to gain control of the Mediterranean and open up the situation for the navy.

Then, attacking Matrouh, or attacking Egypt, was a bad decision anyway.

An Sdkfz222 armored vehicle with yellow smoke rushed to the location where the Rommel convertible was parked. Then an officer jumped out of the car and walked to the place where Rommel was.

He gave a military salute casually, and then opened his mouth to report: "Sir... It is expected that tomorrow we will be able to advance to the periphery of Matrou, and the news from the reconnaissance team is still that the fox has run away!"

"Very good! Since the British haven't done anything yet, let's go to Matroux tomorrow!" Rommel squinted and looked at the Italian army truck, dragging cannons past his eyes.

To say that the current German-Italian coalition has quite sophisticated weapons and equipment. With the addition of Italian artillery, the last shortcoming of Rommel's army's tough battle has also been filled.

Now his army is very effective, at least much higher than the inferior Australian 6th Infantry Division.

This is an asymmetrical battle, Rommel's troops are much more than the opposite British team - historically, this data is often reversed.

"This is a quick and quick battle. The British team did not block the outer layers of Matrouh. Although it avoided the rout, it also saved our time." Rommel analyzed.

Resupplying supplies is not something that can be played for children. A little late for a day will cause the combat effectiveness of the troops to decline.

In order to allow his troops to ensure their combat effectiveness when attacking Malta, Rommel reduced some of the carrying capacity and increased fresh water and food supplies.

As a result, a lot of ammunition was consumed on the road, and it was forced to stop. But the British were too cautious, allowing Germany to avoid consumption on the road.

Because of this, Rommel took Sallum almost without a single shot, and captured Sidi Nila... Once again, the front line was pushed to the periphery of Matrouh~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Saved time, and also There was no large-scale battle, and everything was guessed by Rommel before he set off, which also turned his troops from underprepared to fully prepared.

Although they reduced the amount of ammunition they could carry, they could hit it here under the resistance of the British army, and the amount of ammunition after consumption was not much worse.

For the attackers, this time was at least better prepared than the last time they attacked Matrouh, and it brought more pressure to the enemy.

In the face of Rommel's troops coming and going like the wind, General Cunningham, the British general who was in charge of taking over the command of the Nile Army, adopted a strategy of passive resistance.

He abandoned the perimeter of Matrouh and planted bombs on Matrouh's port, intending to destroy the place that could be used for supplies.

"General!" An English officer walked into General Cunningham's office and handed him a letter that made him laugh and cry.

Cunningham was ready to give up Materou and retreat to Alamein, but this telegram from Churchill ordered him to stick to Materou and not allow a step back.

"Damn it! In this case, let me use less than 20,000 troops to face twice as many enemies?" Cunningham threw the message on the table and complained.

He had already placed explosives on the pier and was ready to run away, but now someone told him not to let him run away.

"Has Prime Minister Churchill ever thought that if we are surrounded and annihilated in Matrouh, what will Alamein be used to defend?" Cunningham glanced at the officer who sent the telegram, of course he knew that the other party could not have this answer.

Obviously, he did not intend to let the officer answer his question, and immediately continued: "Send a telegram to Churchill and tell him that we cannot carry out the order and have retreated to El Alamein."