When Montgomery arrived in the defense hall with his adjutant and two other staff officers, they were waiting for Wavell and his party, who had already arrived.

"Why is it only here now?"

Before Montgomery could speak, Weber struck first.

"There was a delay on the way, so I was a little late." Although Montgomery and his entourage did not delay on the road, and he also rushed over as soon as he received the news of Wavell's summons. However, since the other party has already blamed himself for being late, there is no need to dwell too much on this issue.

Montgomery had always been a pragmatic man, and he didn't have time for Wavell to argue about whether he was too late. It's a big deal, even if he Montgomery delays, it's not a big deal.

"Delay? Do you know how bad your behavior is! When the Tomahawk was in operation, it was because of your delay that the front-line troops could not receive timely support, and in the end, the whole front was unable to attack and had to withdraw its troops. ”

Who knows that Wavell is not simply trying to vent at all, he seems to have made up his mind from the beginning to make a fuss about Montgomery in the rear.

Sure enough, Wavell immediately blamed: "The failure of Operation Tomahawk is due to your delay in sending troops to the front line. I didn't expect that now you still don't know your mistakes, continue your delays, and continue your bad behavior! ”

"Wait!" Montgomery, who found that the situation was wrong, hurriedly interrupted Wavell's planting and threw the blame, and made a statement in time: "Before Operation Tomahawk began, I reminded the African High Command many times to let you pay attention to preventing German sneak attacks from the flanks. As a result, instead of listening to my advice, the African High Command sent me to stay in the rear and deploy a defense in order to deal with the stray forces I had thrown in. ”

Even so, I didn't complain. Since the African High Command ordered me to deploy my defenses well and not interfere in the front-line fighting, then I will do as ordered. As a result, up to now, you have instead blamed me for not sending troops to support! “

Montgomery, who had swallowed his anger and pretended to be his grandson in order to get to the army, now suddenly lost his temper, pointed at Wavell's nose and scolded: "Reversing black and white, confusing right and wrong, are you really a fool who I Montgomery has no brains and is at your mercy?!" “

The current Montgomery, who has the power of soldiers and is responsible for the defense of Egypt, can be said to be the most powerful general in the British army in Africa. In other words, thirty years east of the river, thirty years of west of the river, now it is Montgomery's turn to make a move!

A week ago, this scene would have been unimaginable.

At that time, Wavell had the main force of the British Commonwealth with about 50,000 men and more than 300 tanks. And all the troops held by Montgomery at that time were all Australian troops and Egyptian troops that Wavell did not want, with a total of less than 40,000 people, and the level of weapons and equipment was completely incomparable with the troops in Wavell's hands, and there was not a single tank.

In the blink of an eye, the main army in Wavell's hands became a remnant of less than 10,000 soldiers with a total of less than 10,000 soldiers.

The eliminated troops in Montgomery's hands have become a cutting-edge force equipped with captured Italian weapons, expanding one-third of the army source on the original basis, with a total of about 50,000 men.

Today's Montgomery has the capital to scold Wavell's mother.

He was already disgusted with Wavell's conceited battle plan, and he was disgusted with Wavell's inexplicable self-confidence from the Italian copy.

If he could, Montgomery would have dragged this self-proclaimed clever idiot out of the position of supreme commander of the Commonwealth of Nations in Africa at first, and replaced himself with this heavy responsibility early.

It's a pity that at that time, when Montgomery first arrived in Africa, he had no soldiers and no power, so he could only endure and watch Wavell's idiot pretend to be smart.

Most people thought that Montgomery would be proud to have been admired by Wavell. As everyone knows, he simply doesn't look down on Wavell, who praised him because of a military exercise.

Just because of a successful exercise, how can such a general be surprised after seeing his actual combat results?

Wavell was nothing more than a stupid attack by Africa that defeated the Italians. Facing the arrogant and incompetent Italians. Winning a few games is nothing to be proud of. If this is calculated, wouldn't it be worth mentioning that he fought the formidable German army in Belgium for a day and night?

Montgomery's fierce reaction made Wavell not reflect for a while.

Wavell's last image of Montgomery was a week ago. At that time, Montgomery was still a dull veneer and unsociable.

Unexpectedly, when they met again, the other party's face changed faster than the weather in Africa!

The speed of this face change is probably a little more exaggerated than the transformation of the temperature difference between day and night in Africa.

Wavell had indeed intended to put the blame for the failure of Operation Tomahawk onto Montgomery.

It's not that Wavell is insidious and vicious, pushing others forward when something bad happens.

It's really because the responsibility brought by his failure this time is too heavy, so heavy that he Wavell can't afford this guilt at all!

The waste of the last mobile counterattack force of the British Empire in Africa made Britain no longer able to have any initiative in Africa from now on, and could only be passively beaten.

In any colonial empire, the generals who make such mistakes are the sinners of the country. What's more, this is also happening in the dignified "empire on which the sun never sets"!

Putting the blame on Montgomery was also Wavell's helpless move.

What's more, Montgomery has Goth as the backstage, and the London side may not do anything to him.

After all, Wavell had heard that in Britain itself, Gott's power was infinitely close to that of the German Führer.

The war gave Gott a lot of power and status. None of this can happen in peacetime. But under the shadow of war, everything is not so absolutely impossible.

Anyway, in Wavell's opinion, you Montgomery will be guilty of the crime, for the sake of your Duke of Gott's backstage, and the end will definitely be a hundred times better than your own guilt. This is theoretically the best arrangement.

"Lieutenant General Montgomery! Please recognize your position at the beginning! Wavell, who was at a loss, had to take out his rank of general to suppress Montgomery as a lieutenant general.

"Talk to the sir, you'd better not be so flamboyant and rebellious. It's one crime for you to disobey orders, and now you're going to defy your superiors, it's another crime! ”