"Chinese troops?" Montgomery replied with a look of disappointment on his face, "God, what can they do?" They are even in training, and they don't even have a single anti-tank gun in their hands! ”

"General!" Ramsden reminded: "But we don't have any other choice, do we? ”

"Okay!" Montgomery replied helplessly: "Determine their specific location first!" ”

Ramsden immediately rushed to the radio station to try to contact Abner, but unfortunately Abner was clearly on the march and the radio was not turned on. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ramsden immediately ordered a reconnaissance plane to take off in search of the Chinese troops.

But they were contacted soon after, and the reason why they were contacted was not because the reconnaissance plane had found the Chinese army, but because Abner had actually spotted a German reconnaissance plane while on the march, which made Abner, who was in a sensitive state, feel that something was wrong.

"General!" Abner said to Zhang Chi: "What you guessed has probably become a reality, and it is faster than we imagined!" ”

Abner immediately turned on the plane, got in touch with the command and reported his location.

Ramsden on the other side was overjoyed when he received the telegram, and he ran to Montgomery with the telegram and shouted: "General, they are in Boutia, only twenty miles from Mahairama!" ”

Montgomery didn't react when he heard the news, and he replied coldly, "Twenty miles? Major General, we can't hope too much for them! ”

"I understand!" Ramsden nodded.

Twenty miles is thirty-two kilometers, which if the British troops need to walk for nearly two days (here more than a dozen kilometers refers to a straight line distance, the desert has many sand dunes, and the actual distance is several times the distance in a straight line), even if the Chinese army can walk in a day, but whether it can reach before the German tanks is one thing, and even if it does, there is almost no time to prepare.

But at this time, Montgomery could only hold the mentality of "treating dead horses as live horse doctors", and he hesitated and ordered: "Order the Chinese army to rush to Mahairama at full speed to garrison!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Zhang Chi looked at the telegram handed over by Abner, and felt a little fooled.

"Let me think!" Zhang Chi said to Abner: "Colonel, your so-called intensification of training intensity is to hope that we are as close as possible to the possible breakthrough of the German army, did you guess the breakthrough of the German army from the defense area of the 10th Panzer Division?" ”

"I'm sorry, General!" Abner replied, "That's all I can do!" ”

"But be clear!" Zhang Chi tore the telegram to shreds, then threw it into the wind, letting the debris fly around in the desert.

Then Zhang Chi said what Abner was most worried about: "I refuse to carry out this mission!" ”

"No, General!" Abner said, "You can't do that! ”

"Of course I can!" Zhang Chi replied: "Don't scare me with any allies, you have to understand one thing, Colonel, I am the commander of this army, we only have rifles and machine guns in our hands, and even grenades and explosives are seriously insufficient, do you think we have the ability to stop an armored division?" I'm not going to risk the lives of my men! ”

In fact, Zhang Chi was fed up with the British attitude of not taking the lives of the allies seriously, and what the British army did in Burma was like a brand deeply engraved in Zhang Chi's mind, and even in the hearts of every soldier of the expeditionary force.

"But the general......" said Abner, "Maherama has a lot of equipment, even tanks!" ”

"That doesn't mean we're going to get this equipment!" Zhang Chi replied: "The Germans probably occupied Maherama before us, didn't they?" If the Germans had arrived first, then we would have fallen into the trap, wouldn't we? ”

"General......" Abner wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhang Chi.

"Colonel!" Zhang Chi glared at Abner and asked, "I only want to ask you one thing, if we were British, would you still give the same order?" ”

Hearing this, Abner couldn't help but stop talking.

Zhang Chi was right, if the British army was also in this situation, Montgomery would consider that the success of this rescue of Maherama was very small and dangerous, and then maybe he would not order reinforcements, after all, it was more than 10,000 people.

"But what about the equipment and supplies?" Abner asked, "General, have you ever thought about what would have happened if the Germans had received that batch of equipment and supplies?" Their strength will increase dramatically, and we will most likely lose all of Africa, and then the Chinese army will not be able to avoid it! ”

Abner is right, the Germans are experts in tank group warfare, and they can still defeat the British army with backward performance and insufficient gasoline, so if a batch of advanced American tanks is obtained in Mahairama, there will still be a large amount of gasoline...... It is likely that the British will no longer be able to fight against it.

But Zhang Chi was still unmoved.

"You can choose to blow up that batch of supplies and equipment!" Zhang Chi replied as he turned and walked away.

It's not a pity for Zhang Chi at all, American equipment...... The Yankees only need to turn on the machine and there will be it.

"The problem is that we can't blow them up!" Abner said.

"What?" Zhang Chi didn't understand Abner's words a little, didn't blowing up equipment and fuel just need to light a match? How could it be "impossible to blow up"?!

"Tobruk Fortress!" Abner replied: "There was enough supply for the Germans for 30,000 men and 10,000 tons of fuel for a quarter, and the defenders could easily have ignited and blown up the equipment, but they didn't...... Fourteen hours after the German attack, they all fell into the hands of the Germans. And the Malik box, the Barim box, and so on, all in the same situation! ”

(Note: The British refer to the supply point as a "box", which means a box containing a "gift.") ）

"Why is this happening?" Zhang Chi asked.

"Weird, isn't it?" Abner trotted a few steps and followed: "But we are used to it, the reason is that the Germans are smart, if anyone dares to blow up supplies...... You know, they don't take prisoners, they kill all the soldiers there. But...... If they hadn't done this and had given their supplies to the Germans, they would have been given preferential treatment by the Germans or even let go! ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but suddenly realize.

Something similar happened in Myanmar, but after a long time, Zhang Chi forgot about it.

"So!" Abner said, "General...... Do you still think you can stay out of it? You know, this batch of supplies is very likely to affect the fate of everyone in the North African battlefield, including the Chinese army! ”