Imperial Overlord

: Four hundred and thirty-one noon artillery battle

Although German high-level officials never believed that the United States would stay out of the war in Europe. But before Crete, everyone was discussing this matter with a more relaxed attitude.

Everyone is optimistic that the United States will join the war, but will eventually join the victor's side. As long as Germany beats Britain, then there is no reason for America to support Britain.

It is not without people of insight, but they also all believe that the United States supports the United Kingdom is relatively limited, and they also need to take into account the isolationism of their own countries.

But the Führer and Goebbels had already controlled public opinion within Germany through the seizure of new American bombers on Crete.

At least the upper echelons are no longer under any illusions, they are now convinced that the United States is indeed on the side of the United Kingdom, and may join the war at any time.

In fact, the United States has already participated in this war. They sold arms to the United Kingdom, imposed an economic blockade on Germany, and even directly dispatched pilots to appear in the British Air War in the form of a volunteer army.

Without the generosity of the United States, Britain would have almost surrendered at this moment. And because of the support of the United States, the United Kingdom was able to maintain a stalemate with Germany on several fronts.

For example, in the current British air combat, the main force is already American pilots. Because a large number of British pilots have been lost in the Battle of Brest.

For another example, the British army, tanks and even some tents, bedding and other military supplies that Rommel is facing now are all made in the United States.

"Everyone now knows that the United States is already on the British side. Whenever they are involved in the war, Germany will have another enemy." Lieutenant General Alfred said depressedly.

For the Afrikaans, this is not good news, at least not encouraging news - the United States is far behind the United Kingdom, across the Atlantic Ocean, and the Germans are simply powerless.

In the face of such an opponent who cannot directly attack within a year or even three years, the German army lacks effective means of checks and balances.

The newly emerging Third Reich does not have colonies all over the world like the United Kingdom, nor can it face the three oceans and control the world economy like the United States.

Sanctions, embargoes and other means are inherently powerful countries around the world, such as the United Kingdom and the United States.

And Germany, which is in a corner, can only be an object of sanctions and embargoes now. Everything can only be obtained by war, and everything can only be solved by war.

Germany may now be the most war-fighting country in the world. It is a pity that this powerful country can only solve all problems by fighting wars.

Many people once yearned for China in the 1950s. They felt that China at that time dared to challenge the world powers and let go of any opponents to fight back. It was really hard and convincing.

But the fact is that choosing war is often an intuitive reflection of the lack of other ways to solve the problem - not that this kind of reflection is bad, but at the national level, what kind of solution is the most effective.

Economic sanctions, equipment and weapons embargoes, financial intrusions, cyber attacks... When a country becomes strong, there are countless means to solve the problems it faces, and war is often the most expensive and risky one.

Therefore, it is not that you are incompetent or cowardly by protesting against others at home. It is possible that on the unseen battlefield, a trade war has quietly begun.

And before everyone knows it, tens of billions of national reserves may have evaporated because of the defeat - or on the contrary, the enemy has lost tens of billions at this time.

Sometimes, it seems that a certain country has lost trillions of funds and suffered heavy losses, but the country's strategic goal of preventing the other party's economic rise has been achieved, and the other party's loss may be a more valuable development opportunity.

Poor Germany, at this time has been forced into a corner by the United States and the United Kingdom, and can only pin all its hopes on the war, which itself has already lost half of the national strategy.

However, fortunately, Li Le has passed through, and he has become a character who can control the direction of history, and can make history take a completely different path.

At least, at this moment, the Libyan oilfields that Li Le found for the Axis powers Germany and Italy weakened the results of the United States and Britain's blockade of Germany.

Soon after the powerful economic war began, the other side found another economic growth point, which was the key to changing the economic victory.

Li Le found the key and solved the most serious problem facing Germany at once: energy shortage.

"Let the artillery fight back, there are still too few ships, and attacking at this time... After all, it is still a bit too risky." Rommel seemed a little helpless. The main reason that restricted him from attacking was on the ships in the Suez Canal.

When the British retreated, they took almost all the transport ships in the Suez Canal with them. Only Germany was left with a blown up Port Said.

Without ferries and tools such as assault boats, it was very difficult for Rommel's Afrika Corps to cross the river to attack the British troops.

The number of ships waiting in hand was actually the main reason why Rommel was delayed in crossing the Suez Canal.

Of course, there is one more thing to add now, that is, the worry about the sudden attack of the United States behind him. Although it did not bring actual losses to Germany, the psychological pressure brought by the 50 American B-17 bombers to the German executives was still very great.

"Let the Italians find a way to mobilize the trucks and keep the transportation as smooth as possible." Rommel added after giving the attack order.

Lieutenant General Alfred nodded and promised: "Okay! I will communicate with the Italian side about this matter... We are not feeling well right now, and the enemy doesn't seem to be feeling well."

He was referring to the logistical problems of the United Kingdom - the German army's problem was the lack of supplies, but the United Kingdom was running and transporting against the entire desert.

In order to get supplies, the British side has to start from the vicinity of oil fields in Iran and Iraq, across the entire Middle East desert, into Saudi Arabia, and deliver supplies to the troops on the front line.

There is actually no road line on this line, and all supplies basically rely on camels and cars to be transported to the front line.

Just like when the Germans attacked Egypt, the cost of transporting supplies over such a long distance was staggeringly high.

If it were not backed by the large resource area of the Middle East oil fields, even the United Kingdom would have retreated on its own initiative and gave way to the east bank of the Suez Canal.

The hot sun was shining on the earth, and a German non-commissioned officer was not far away and spread the egg directly on the engine cover of the truck, and heard the sound of sizzling.

Although it is late November, the temperature in Egypt is still very hot. At least when the sun is full, the surface temperature is enough to bake eggs.

Spreading eggs on the fenders or bonnet of the car is an important way for the soldiers of the Afrika Corps to solve their own meals.

In this way, there is no need to start a fire, and you can get good quality eight-ripe egg food. Not to mention convenient and quick, it is also very easy to operate.

Of course, no matter what you eat here, there will be some sand in your mouth with the wind, so everything here is naturally seasoned...

The condiment is the sand in the air, along with petrol-smelling fresh water, and moldy bread and hard, dry vegetables—sounds delicious, doesn't it?

Completely different from the photos, the German soldiers wearing all kinds of exotic tropical uniforms are countless times more sloppy than people imagined.

"It's noon?" Seeing the soldiers behind the hillside in the distance making their own food, Rommel turned his face to look at Lieutenant General Alfred beside him.

Lieutenant General Alfred looked at his watch, nodded and replied, "Yes, General, it's already noon."

"Then let the artillery fire at noon! Add food to the enemy's **** for lunch!" Lieutenant General Alfred admired Rommel's bad taste, so he quickly issued this order.

Of course, Lieutenant General Alfred also fed the British defenders on the opposite side - he ordered all the infantry's artillery fire, including mortars and other weapons.

So, at noon that day, a grand shelling kicked off. Feeling good British artillery also began to fight back violently.

When the hour-long artillery battle finally came to a screeching halt, the German Afrika Korps found themselves appearing to have fired more shells than expected.

The British side was even more depressed~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They had accumulated a long period of artillery shells inventory, and even more than half of them were fired-this made Montgomery quite distressed, and he did not speak for a long time.