Chapter 1441 Desperate Desert Fox
On the morning of May 7, the Axis Alliance Command.
"What? All the oil tankers and supply ships were sunk? And they were bombers dispatched from other islands of Ma?"
When he received the telegram, Rommel actually sent the telegram for half an hour and his face became unprecedentedly ugly.
In the end, Rommel's adjutant even worried that their commander would not be able to withstand the pressure to take out his pistol and commit suicide.
Sure enough, it is in line with the old saying, "Blessings are neither good, and misfortune never comes alone." Since Yang Fan led the Chinese Expeditionary Force to the North African battlefield, the Axis Army has not had any good days.
From the beginning of the overall advantage, it was just a short time to capture the entire Egypt with just one kick. Later, it gradually lost its control of sea and air supremacy. The Axis powers can be said to be bad news one after another, and the situation is getting worse day by day.
Faced with Yang Fan's extreme despicable defense and the strategy and tactics of using hard power to fight for consumption, even Rommel is resourceful and can be called a master of tactics. In the past few months, he has been tortured to have no temper.
Now something even more heartbreaking has happened. Other islands of Ma have quietly built airports, and the Malta air force has begun to become active again.
As the heart of the Mediterranean, the sea supply line of the Axis African Legion will probably be completely cut off.
Standing beside Menegi frowned and said, "It's a big trouble now. We don't have much oil and food anymore, especially the oil is only enough for four days.
If we cannot get fuel supplies as soon as possible and do not need the Allies to attack, we will have to collapse first. All aircraft, tanks and armored vehicles will be turned into toys."
Currently, the North African Axis military still has millions of troops and extremely large armored clusters. The daily consumption of food and drink is astronomical.
The food is better, after all, Libya is in Italy's hands and can solve some problems.
But oil shortage is a fatal problem.
In fact, Libya has extremely rich oil and gas resources reserves, with oil reserves of about 43 billion barrels, the highest in Africa; the proven natural gas reserves reached 1.54 trillion cubic meters, ranking fourth in Africa.
Moreover, Libya has shallow oil storage and particularly good quality.
If Libya's oil field resources could have been discovered earlier, it might be another version of World War II.
"Ahem!!"
At this moment, Rommel couldn't help coughing violently, and his face turned pale.
"Your Excellency General, are you okay?"
Seeing that Rommel was coughing so badly, Menegy quickly picked up a glass of water and handed it to Rommel.
"I'm fine! Ahem,..."
Rommel wanted to be stronger, but his throat was so itchy that he couldn't control his cough at all. Even after drinking several large sips of water in a row, it still couldn't do it.
Long-term desert military life has left Rommel in a state of physical and mental exhaustion for a long time. Now he has suffered from various diseases such as hypotension, dysentery and gastrointestinal diseases, and has even been bedridden most of the time.
Regarding this situation, German military doctors have repeatedly strongly recommended Rommel to return to China for treatment.
In fact, it is not only Rommel who is suffering from illness, but many German and Italian officers and soldiers in the Axis Army are like this. Many senior German generals have also died of illness and have to return to their country for recuperation.
On the other hand, the situation on the Allied forces has improved a lot, not only because the medicines and supplies are very powerful, but more importantly, there is also a "secret magic weapon".
This "secret magic weapon" is that the Allies have a very strict sanitation system, which strictly stipulates that the pit must be dug deep when entering the toilet, and even specially made "toilets" with cloth covers.
In this way, flies will not be attracted by the exposure of feces to the air, and thus more flies will be reproduced in large quantities, which will turn the entire military camp into a paradise for flies.
In addition, the German and Italian troops' food is very single, and they basically eat canned food. There is no lack of nutritious meat, but it is basically difficult to eat vegetables.
People on earth know that if you don’t eat vegetables for a long time, you will be deficient in certain nutrients, such as vitamin C, carotene, cellulose, and iron, which is not conducive to the normal development of the human body and can also lead to various diseases such as anemia or peripheral neuropathy, such as bleeding gums, decreased resistance, etc.
In addition, the blood transfusion conditions of the German and Italian army were very primitive and simple, and only people were drawing blood while others were receiving blood transfusions. Unlike the Allies, there were special blood transfusion packs, which could quickly and promptly rescue the wounded.
Injury and bleeding on the battlefield are the most common. The simple and inefficient blood transfusion conditions of the Axis military will not only cause many injured soldiers to die due to excessive blood loss, but the physical condition of those soldiers who donated blood will become worse.
Therefore, after combining various factors, the Axis military's health status and morale have been greatly affected, and it has long been much worse than before.
But in this extremely difficult situation, Malta Island showed its hideous fangs and began to cause trouble.
The supply line, which was already very difficult, suffered the final fatal blow and was very likely to be completely cut off. This is undoubtedly a piece of news that made Rommel feel deeply desperate!
"You guys go out first, let me be quiet!"
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't figure it out, but instead became more and more upset. Rommel had to hold back everyone to calm himself down.
After everyone left the tent, Rommel immediately took out his pen and paper and started writing letters to his wife:
"Dearest Lucy, I gradually felt desperate. During the day I was very tired, and at night I lay with my eyes open, and the burden on my shoulders made me unable to sleep.
What if something goes wrong here? Such thoughts torture me day and night, and if things come true, I can't think of any solution.
The only solution in front of us is to greatly enhance the air force of the African Legion and regain air supremacy. However, it is obvious that the head of state's target at the moment is Volgograd of the Soviet Union, and he will not agree to this request!..."
Rommel loves his wife deeply. Whether it is the joy of success or the pain of failure, he likes to write letters to his wife to share.
Unlike a few months ago, the recent letters of home don’t have joy to share, all there is only endless troubles and anxiety, or even despair!
"Beautiful job! I'm going to see how Rommel makes a comeback now!"
After receiving the relevant information, Yang Fan laughed and worked hard for several months. He finally could do a two-pronged approach to completely strangle the supply line of the African Legion.
"However, this is far from enough. We still need to burn the fire more!"
After pondering for a moment, Yang Fan pointed to the southern offensive troops on the sand table and said, "Send a telegram to General Patton to continue to strengthen the offensive against the Tria Ridge and make a situation where he wants to encircle and break through in depth.
I want to mobilize the Axial Armored Forces to the south as much as possible and consume their fuel as much as possible!"
Chapter completed!