As the harassment of Alexandria was in full swing, Captain Karn was keenly aware of the presence of a few more people around him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking behind him, Captain Kahn saw that Colonel Beckenbauer had personally led people to the front.

The two retreated behind a dirt slope.

"Captain Karn, you've worked hard. We'll take care of it, and you can go back and rest. ”

"Colonel, what are you going to do? Just rush straight in? Captain Karn asked.

"Of course not, you always have to go through some artillery preparations."

"How many reinforcements are coming?" Captain Karn asked.

"Five companies, and counting, but we must attack before dawn, and your men will act as reserves when they return, waiting for my orders." Colonel Beckenbauer said.

With the evacuation of Captain Kahn's headquarters, the Soviet troops in the town of Alexandria finally got rid of the invisible killers in the night and fell asleep one after another, only the guards on the periphery were still tense and looked at the unfathomable night in horror.

After more than twenty minutes of calm, when Colonel Beckenbauer's watch pointed to 3:25, Beckenbauer heard a faint roar in the air behind him.

With a wave of his hand, Colonel Beckenbauer fired a red flare from the herald next to him, and then followed Colonel Beckenbauer out of place.

With the flare lifted into the air, the battle began again.

In a barrage of mortar fire, incendiary bombs fell one after another on the edge of the town of Alexandria.

Soon, the town of Alexandria was surrounded by flames, and the Soviet troops in the town were still firing flares into the sky in a dull manner.

Looking down at the pitch-black earth from the sky, the town of Alexandria was so dazzling and striking against the backdrop of flares and incendiary bombs that the German aircraft group responsible for the night attack on Alexandria easily found their target.

Colonel Beckenbauer was very experienced in moving to a rural dirt road a kilometer away from the town, and watched the Air Force bombers perform with binoculars.

Soon, Colonel Beckenbauer heard Stuka's characteristic screech.

In the night, seagull-shaped figures can be seen rushing to the ground, dropping bombs of various sizes.

Against the backdrop of the skyrocketing fire, Colonel Beckenbauer clearly saw the frantically fleeing Soviet infantry in the town.

500 kilograms of bombs, 50 kilograms of bombs・・・・・ Colonel Beckenbauer guessed the weight of the aerial bomb based on the light of the fire that burst out when the bomb exploded.

Soon, Colonel Beckenbauer saw even greater black shadows flash in the sky, and each dive of these shadows caused an unprecedented shock in the town of Alexandria.

Every explosion was almost earth-shattering, and countless pieces of masonry were thrown into the sky.

From a distance of a kilometer, Beckenbauer seemed to feel the blazing explosion heat rushing in and slapping on his face.

It was a Ju-88 medium dive bomber, which even used 1,000 kg of aerial bombs, and Colonel Beckenbauer silently mourned for the Soviet infantry in the town.

The power of a 1,000-kilogram aerial bomb can no longer be countered by lying down or burrowing into a foxhole, and the shock wave emitted by the bomb alone is enough to cause fatal damage to the internal organs of the human body.

If you are unfortunate enough to get too close to the drop point of the bomb, not to mention people, even KV-1, KV-2 will also be restored to the state of parts.

Strings of anti-aircraft shells flew into the sky, but they could not stop the dive of the German fighters, and Colonel Beckenbauer did not think that these Soviet gunners who only had anti-aircraft guns but no anti-aircraft searchlights could hit anything, perhaps the Soviet army was too eager to bring searchlights, and did not expect the Luftwaffe to attack at night.

The frenzied bombardment lasted nearly half an hour until the time advanced to 3:50.

Colonel Beckenbauer, when he saw that the terrifying black shadows in the sky had stopped diving, turned to the herald behind him and said:

"Let's get started."

Two red flares swayed into the sky, and hundreds of figures jumped up from the ground in the north, east and west directions of Alexandria's town and charged Alexandria Town, which was obscured by fire and smoke.

In less than thirty seconds, the figure at the front reached the edge of the town, and a dense burst of gunfire rang out.

Seeing his men storm Alexandria with a hitch, Colonel Beckenbauer turned and returned to the woods.

In the dark, the Soviet tanks in the town were nothing less than blind men, and they could not exert any combat effectiveness at all.

The infantry of both sides was in a mess in the town, and the Soviet artillery outside the town did not dare to open fire, and they also lost their combat effectiveness, and the following was a contest between pure infantry.

After a day of fierce fighting, being tossed for most of the night without a good night's sleep, and suffering a baptism of bombs falling from the sky, Colonel Beckenbauer did not think that the Soviet troops in the town had much combat strength left.

In Alexandria's town, in the midst of bullet craters and broken houses, the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions swept through the town, and the sound of killing was also mixed in.

I don't know when it began, a figure of Soviet infantry jumped into the Goren River and fled through waist-deep water to the south bank.

There was a first, a second, a third・・・・・・ more and more figures jumped into the river and fled to the south bank.

Finally, two paratroopers in one-piece camouflage overalls rushed to the river, set up machine guns on a waist-high broken wall, and swept them into the backs of the Soviet infantry in the river.

Or waist-high, or from ****, I don't know how many Soviet infantry were cut into two pieces by MG42, known as "Hitler's chainsaw", the corpse rose and fell in the river, blood stained the river red, and rushed down with the river.

Near five o'clock, Beckenbauer received a report that the town had been cleared of all Soviet troops, except for the wounded and prisoners.

"This is not the end of the battle, this is only the beginning of the battle." Colonel Beckenbauer said meaningfully.

While the German paratroopers in the town were busy building fortifications, a group of ragged and unkempt Soviet soldiers were taken to a threshing floor on the south bank of the Goren River.

A Soviet colonel shouted to these soldiers: "By order of Comrade Stalin, as cowards fleeing from the battlefield, you will be incorporated into the Disciplinary Company." In the Punishment Company, you don't have a second chance to be cowards. Either you will be cleared of your sins with victory, or you will die a glorious death, and there is no third way for you to go. ”

On the threshing floor, this Soviet-German battlefield was an inconspicuous detail, but it represented the beginning of a certain change, and Colonel Beckenbauer, who was only across the river, knew nothing, and Chen Dao, who was far away in Wilhelmshaven, knew nothing.

Goering took a cigar in his mouth, exhaled a smoke ring, stared at the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen parked on the shore, and said: "I am a German heavyweight, and I should have taken Bismarck or Tirpitz to visit England." Only they can reveal who I am. ”

"You don't understand, the Prince Eugen is an auspicious ship blessed by a force, all the naval ships in the world combined, there are no more than five warships with this mysterious power, the German Navy is fortunate to have one, it is our luck, you can take this ship to tour the United Kingdom, you should feel honored."

"Really?" Goering asked as he stared at Chen Dao with slanted eyes.

"The facts will tell. However, the presence of the Bismarck and Tirpitz in Britain would make the Royal Navy look disgraced, and we must always take care of the sensitive self-esteem of the British. ”

"Well, for your sake, I'll reluctantly take a boat for it." Goering said as he stroked his fat belly.

Half an hour later, the Prinz Eugen sailed out of Wilhelmshaven with a direct aim for London.

In the evening of the same day, when Chen Dao and Goering arrived at the Langham Hotel in London with their lieutenants, they were surprised to find that Marshal Badogglio of Italy was waiting for them at the door of the hotel.

After some greetings, Chen Dao and Goering sent their lieutenants to place a salute and followed Marshal Badoglio to the hotel's restaurant.

"You're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Marshal Badoglio said eagerly.

"Is there anything we need us to do with you, Mr. Marshal?" Goering asked, confused.

"This time I was negotiating with the British and the Americans on the issue of war against Japan, and Mussolini's leader specifically instructed me to meet with the two of you after I arrived in London to discuss some details of the negotiations, and it was this question that I wanted to ask." Marshal Badoglio said.

Goering drank coffee silently, and Chen Dao took over the topic very tacitly.

"Japan is an island country, and the key to fighting against Japan lies in the navy, so in this negotiation, the focus is on the date of the navy's dispatch of troops and the way of fighting with Japan, and the most important of these is the issue of the date of dispatch."

Marshal Badogglio nodded, and then asked, "What details do I need to pay attention to in terms of the date of the expedition?" ”

Goering put down his coffee cup and put on a look of course.

"First of all, there is the issue of military spending. The main German forces are now fighting the Russians, and the daily consumption of supplies and military expenses is astronomical, where is there any surplus resources to go to the expedition to Japan. It's just that the Führer was outraged by the despicable actions of the Japanese and made the decision to send troops on the spur of the moment. The will of the Führer cannot be violated, we must send troops, but where will the military money come from? If you look at the distance from Germany to India, or from Germany to the United States, to Australia, not to mention the future to the Japanese mainland, you look at the map, and look at the distance, which is farther than the distance from heaven to hell. It's a heavy burden for us. ”

"Mr. Marshal, presumably Italy has continued to expand its military in recent years, and it has been fighting for war year after year, and the pressure on military spending is also very great, right?"

Marshal Badoglio nodded in agreement.

"So, the purpose of this negotiation is that we need the British and the Americans to help us bear some of the military expenses and reduce the pressure on us." Chen Dao continued.

"I understand what you mean, and so does Mussolini. But what if the Americans don't agree? Marshal Badoglio asked.

"It's all up to the Americans, and if they don't agree, we'll have to wait until after the Eastern Front campaign to decide when to send troops to Asia. Speaking of which, the Japanese may continue to seize India from the British, Hawaii from the Americans, and even threaten the American mainland, but can they threaten us? The Japanese navy could not even cross the Suez Canal. ”

"What do you mean? If the Americans don't agree, we won't send troops? Badoglio said.

"It's a little later to send troops, and the Americans and the British must come and beg us to send troops." Chen Dao said.

"Very good, very good, I kind of understand what you mean." Marshal Badoglio said.

"Are those Americans behind you?" Chen Dao suddenly raised his chin at Marshal Badoglio.

Marshal Badoglio looked towards the main entrance of the dining room behind him, and saw six soldiers walking into the dining room.

The style of the uniforms of these servicemen differed from what Marshal Badoglio knew, all of Europe, especially the arrangement of the generals' stars on the epaulettes.

"Two five-star admirals, bigwigs from the U.S. Navy and Army are here. Let me guess, will they come over? Goering said.

When the three Goering looked at the American officers opposite, the two five-star generals led by them were also observing the Goering three.

"That fat man, could it be the Imperial Marshal of Germany?"

"It should be him, apart from him, which marshal of a country would have this size, let's go and say hello to them."

Seeing the two five-star generals walking towards him, the three Goering were very reserved and did not move.

It wasn't until the other party walked to the table and announced his name that the three Goering got up one after another and politely greeted: "Welcome to Europe, General King, General Marshall." ”

After a few warm and kind words, Goering warmly invited the two five-star generals to sit at the same table.

Chen spoke native American English, while Goering and Marshal Badoglio spoke London, and there was no obstacle to the communication of the five of them.

After Goering introduced the identities of Marshal Badoglio and Chen Dao, Admiral Marshall said in surprise: "You are the general Rosen who predicted the destruction of France in eight weeks. ”

"Mr. Admiral, I am honored to meet you. I've always had a question for you. How did the generals of your army, including you, react when they first heard my prophecy that France would be killed in eight weeks? ”

Seeing that Chen Dao and the three of them looked at him with a playful expression, Admiral Marshall did not hesitate or hesitate at all, but said with a smile: "Our reaction is similar to that of the generals of your country, oh, and the Italian Army. ”

Admiral Jin had no expression on his face, but a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes.

The expressions on the faces of Goering and Marshal Badogglio were a little embarrassed.

Chen Dao smiled and raised his wine glass and gestured to Admiral Marshall.

"For the sake of Mr. Admiral's answer, I think we should have a toast."

Admiral Marshall raised his wine glass and touched Chen Dao, and the two wine glasses made a clinking sound・・・・・・ (To be continued.) )