"Rommel occupied Gaza, although it was stopped because of lack of supplies, but now the Soviets are very dissatisfied. In the conference room of the Supreme Command, Brauchitsch persuaded Li Le to stop the offensive in the Middle East.www.biquge.info

Any act that angered the Soviet Union before attacking Britain was very irrational. This is a matter that has long been tacitly understood among the German top brass, and everyone is also careful when dealing with this matter.

"He's stopped, hasn't he?" Li Le did not care about Rommel's attack in North Africa, he knew that if the Soviet Union was ready, then Stalin would have fought long ago, no matter where Rommel was.

Now the Soviet Union has not made the best preparations, and this is something that Li Le firmly believes. It is not certain whether the Soviet Union will take the initiative to attack Germany, but there is no doubt that the Soviet Union wants to attack Germany.

"It's already extended to Gaza, and he has no possibility of getting more supplies...... "Brauchitsch said to Lele, "if he continues to attack, what awaits the Afrika Korps is doomed." ”

"I know! So he naturally knows! Crossing the desert is not an easy task, but now we should think of some way to teach the British a lesson. Li Le said to Brauchitsch.

Although there are countless oil-rich areas in Saudi Arabia, they were unexplored before World War II.

Unlike Libya, these regions are rich in oil, but they are too far from Germany and Italy. The development here is not worth the cost, and it really cannot be done in war.

The best way is to control part of the area in the form of treaties, etc., and then wait until the conditions allow for development, so as to recover the cost in a longer period of time and inject impetus into the subsequent economic development.

After considering this, Li Le believes that it is still a matter of not worth the loss to let Rommel spend time and effort attacking Saudi Arabia.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Le thought that controlling the Suez Canal and obtaining a stable outlet to the Red Sea would be a good situation.

Another benefit that Li Le could not have imagined was that the German Afrika Korps broke through into the Middle East, which suddenly shattered the confidence of some of the Free French colonies to resist. Many former French colonies, including French Somalia, openly declared their support for Vichy France and sided with Vichy France.

Even this support is very worthless and very unreliable. However, this support did create a "general trend" for the Axis powers in international public opinion.

Two or three colonies reverted to Vichy France, and the British-backed regime of Charles de Gaulle de Gaulle in exile in Free France lost considerable prestige at once.

And it was not just a matter of prestige, but also a number of naval warships in the French colonies, which also nominally became a terrible presence that threatened the British transport lines at any time.

Even if there were not many large warships, even some destroyers and cruisers turned from friends to enemies - nominal neutrality could not appease the fragile minds of Britain, and Churchill had already targeted these ships.

"Vichy France has been really busy lately...... Somalia, as well as Jordan and other regions, have declared their recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Li Le mentioned this incident with a smile on his face.

"Yes! Perhaps we should have made Vichy France pay part of the fee, they were not doing anything at all. Brauchitsch saw that the Führer was in a good mood and started joking.

However, when this joke was heard in Li Le's ears, the taste became different. Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly opened his mouth to affirm: "You're right, send a telegram to Petain and Darlan, telling them that I want 10 destroyers, or 1000, cannons of 100 mm caliber or more!" With so many colonies, can't you choose them for nothing? ”

Li Le is a lion's mouth, although France will definitely make a compromise in this regard in the end and take out some benefits to share the profits, but there will definitely not be so many.

In the end, it may be a few old warships, or a hundred and ten cannons that can fall into the hands of the Germans - but mosquito legs are also meat, and the more benefits of nothing, the better, right?

Leaving aside the blackmail of France on this side, let's talk about Rommel's Afrika Korps, which stopped the offensive on the other side.

In fact, Rommel could not continue the offensive to the north, and the main reason for rushing to Turkey was supplies, and the other secondary reason was that further north were the French colonies.

These colonies were unknown forces in a wait-and-see state before, but now they have taken the initiative to join them and become "allies" because they are afraid of his military might.

Because of this, Rommel had no room to continue the offensive and no reason to continue the offensive. He could only stop in Gaza and wait for supplies from the sea, and then look at the vast Mediterranean Sea in a daze.

The defeated British forces in the Middle East were now separated from the Axis Afrika Korps by a vast desert. So now neither side can attack, because it is a complete waste of resources to do so.

As a result, the North African battlefield was temporarily restored to calm, and Rommel could only live a leisure life in Gaza, this cunning desert fox, which seemed to have been forgotten by the whole war.

Of course, some seem to have been forgotten by the war, which itself does not stop. After the occupation of Jersey, the Channel Islands became a German occupation zone, and technically a territory of the Third Reich.

In order to prevent the Germans from completely occupying the Channel Islands, the British had to send 2,000 soldiers overnight to Guernsey, the second largest island in the Channel Islands.

This increased the number of defenders on the island to 4,000, supported by 10 tanks and various artillery pieces.

The reason why it was possible to transport a large amount of supplies to this island was because there was a small port on this island, which was quite named St. Peter's Port.

On the one hand, the British army feared that after taking Guernsey, the Germans would land on the south side of the Wall Peninsula in the southwestern part of the British mainland, where the British defense line was lax, and on the other hand, because of the pressure of public opinion at home, they had to make such a decision.

The loss of an island on the mainland, although not hugely important to the war itself, was seen by the population as symbolic more than the actual meaning of the battle.

In the eyes of the civilians, the British mainland has been attacked, and now the enemy has occupied part of the mainland islands, and the defenders are powerless!

This in itself sounded demoralizing, so the British hierarchy decided that they could no longer afford to lose any territory at will. Also out of concern for the security of the Wall Peninsula, they strengthened Guernsey's defenses.

The territory of the island is not very large, and the inhabitants of the island may not be as large as the garrison. Under these circumstances, Germany would have to pay a great price if it wanted to land in Guernsey.

The Channel Islands are the natural barrier of the slender Wall Peninsula in the southwest corner of the United Kingdom, and as long as the Channel Islands exist, then landing on the Wall Peninsula can only go around a large circle, so the British defense system near the Wall Peninsula is very weak.

The German attack on the Channel Islands gave the British a very serious signal of confusion: the Germans, already aware of the weakness of the British defense, were ready to land on the Wall Peninsula!

"There are definitely traitors among us! There is definitely a mole! The shadow has not been eradicated, and it has begun to send intelligence to the Germans again! In the prime minister's office, Churchill looked at the map and gritted his teeth to his subordinates.

The orientation of the German offensive was very obvious, and everyone suspected that the Wall, which was almost undefended, had become the preferred area for German landings.

And there is no fortified information here, and the degree of secrecy is quite high - if it were not for the shadow, it is estimated that such deadly information would not be found, and this information can be calmly sent to Germany.

Sir Deere, the Chief of Staff of the Army, who was sitting on the sidelines, rubbed the bridge of his nose, after the Navy and Air Force had been leaked, was it finally his Army's turn?

If, before the Germans landed, the middle and high-level command system of the army was cleaned up, wouldn't that be a great gift to the Germans?

But if he is allowed to go to war with the Germans with a spy, no decision can escape the eyes of the Germans, and it is also an unacceptable situation.

After thinking about it, Dill now finds himself facing an almost unsolvable problem. He looked at Churchill, who was standing next to the map and stressed secrecy, and didn't know what to say.

While he was still in a trance, he heard the army general next to him lower his voice and remind him: "Sir? Sir! Mr. Prime Minister is calling you! ”

He barely pulled himself together and asked embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, sir!" I just remembered one thing, I didn't hear your question clearly. ”

"Don't slip through in a meeting!" Churchill tapped on the map, but did not dwell on the question of the fugue, and said, "Can you tell me?" What does the Army intend to do about the fortification of the defenses on the Wall Peninsula? ”

"Sir! On the one hand, we're going to bring in a new armored division, and two infantry divisions to strengthen the coastal defenses there......" Got up and walked to the edge of the map, having been discussing it all night, and Dill answered the question with ease.

"We're going to start building fortifications around Stalter Point, and we've already pulled some cement from areas like Dover and Folkestone to strengthen the permanent fortifications on the Wall Peninsula." As he introduced, he pointed with his hand on the map.

Originally, the heavily fortified area of Britain stretched from Cape Portland to Cape North Forland, but now it had to be extended to Plymouth and other areas.

This extension further dispersed the already small main force of the British, and further weakened the heavy equipment such as artillery allocated to the fortifications.

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