"It's not an adventure!"

Montgomery's words immediately aroused the disgust of the generals.

A general who was in a hurry immediately stood up and retorted: "It's not just the enemy who has received reinforcements. Not long ago, we also received a large number of weapons and ammunition reinforcements, and our military strength has at least doubled compared to before! ”

The large reinforcements in the general's mouth were the supplies and equipment that Churchill ordered to replenish the British army in North Africa before the German army launched a landing operation.

At that time, the German landing operation against the mainland had not yet officially begun. Churchill, who still had the strength to spare, relied on the English Channel as a barrier, regardless of the fact that the local equipment was scarce and insufficient, and resolutely decided to strengthen the British army in North Africa.

Unlike Reinhardt, who positioned the African theater as a secondary battlefield, Churchill regarded the "North African flank position" almost as important as the British Empire itself!

While Reinhardt was staring at Britain with a fierce eye, Churchill was still thinking about staying in a distant African colony.

Churchill mobilized a large amount of weapons and ammunition from his scarce stockpiles, including even Type IV Crusader patrol tanks that could equip an armored regiment.

In order to avoid the Italian navy, which was already in control of the Mediterranean, the British convoy had to make a detour to Egypt via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal via the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. That's why they were delivered to Wavell not long ago.

With this replenishment, Wavell, who had greatly increased his strength, had assembled the 7th Armored Division, the 7th Armored Brigade, the 4th Armored Brigade, the 4th Indian Division, and the 22nd Guards Brigade, three independent Australian infantry battalions, plus 50,000 defenders of Tobruk, to destroy one German armored division, one German infantry division, and three useless Italian divisions on the Egyptian border.

For Wavell, the 50,000 defenders of Plutok could not actually be mobilized.

On the one hand, Tobruk has become a clear target for Rommel to attack, and it is bound to need defense.

On the other hand, more than 20,000 of Tobruk's defenders were indigenous African troops recruited by the British.

Although Wavell re-equipped these indigenous troops with Italian weapons and equipment captured some time ago, he didn't actually expect the native troops with Italian weapons to perform very well.

In Wavell's plan, he only needed to make good use of the defenders of the fortress of Tobruk, and use the defensive offensive to hold back the large number of besieging troops of the Central Powers.

In that case, he would be able to mobilize the rest of the main forces of the Commonwealth and concentrate on Rommel's German-Italian African Army.

Having knocked out the African Army Group, the remaining French and Italian armies would not be enough to pose a threat to Wavell's army.

As a result, the situation in Africa will quickly tilt to the side of the Commonwealth army. The Allies could either massively increase their forces in Africa, or they could only watch Wavell become the "conqueror of Africa" and lose control of the whole of Africa.

And for the Allies, especially Germany, who were focusing their efforts on fighting on two fronts. It is clearly unlikely that much support will be provided to the African theater.

Wavell's ambitions are no small, and he also wants a massive victory in North Africa that "will determine the whole picture".

If Wavell hadn't thought the same thing, his generals would not have been so fanatical in clamor to crush the forces of the Triple Alliance of the African Allies with superior forces.

Although Montgomery was a new general who was transferred to Africa, he was also greatly appreciated and deeply impressed by Wavell.

Therefore, at this time, Wavell also came forward to speak to Montgomery, the new general who had a good impression: "We have the fortress of Tobruk as a support, which is enough to contain a large number of troops of the Allies. ”

"It's an advantage that we have as a counter-attacker." Wavell walked over with a smile and patted Montgomery on the shoulder: "If Rommel is behind the defensive line, it will not be as easy as it is now for us to defeat his army." ”

Seeing that Montgomery did not speak, Wavell continued: "The relationship between the armies of these Allied countries in Africa is actually not strong. The Italo-French troops attached to Rommel were either forced by the situation or had some kind of benefit distribution agreement with Germany. In fact, the Italian and French generals in Africa have a high degree of military autonomy. ”

"And this time Rommel ostensibly co-opted the Triple Alliance to launch an attack on our Tobruk fortress, but the main force he really used was the German-Italian African Army under his full control."

Wavell looked at the circumference and simply mobilized here before the war by the way: "This is also our best chance to annihilate the main force of its group!" As long as they can quickly annihilate the main forces of Rommel's front line, and then break through to the enemy forces encircling Tobruk, they will not only gain any benefits from this offensive, but will also lose a lot of strategic advantages they originally had! ”

The eyes of the generals under Wavell all lit up at this time.

Judging from the troop distribution map and the internal composition of the three African coalition forces of the Central Powers, this "beheading" plan undoubtedly has great control.

Compared to the elimination of Rommel, Garibaldi, and Belant, all the forces in the hands of the three commanders. It was obviously much easier to concentrate on annihilating the German-Italian army group in Rommel's hands.

"According to the latest intelligence, the troops sent by Rommel to besiege Blutok are basically French and Italian troops under the command of Bérante and Garibaldi."

Weber paused, looked at Montgomery conceitedly and smiled slightly, "It seems that he also wanted to go with us." With the main force in his hands in full control, he is about to fight a decisive battle with our forces that have rescued Tobruk. ”

This is the result pursued by both sides, and Wavell and Rommel, the two generals and commanders, both hope to completely defeat each other in this battle and get their own marshal titles and glory!

"But the problem is that we put all our strength into a showdown with Rommel. What should we do when Garibaldi and Belante pose a threat? ”

Just when Wavell and his old subordinates were in their prime, Montgomery was once again singing the opposite tune very unsocially.

"That's not a problem!"

Wavell didn't even have to open his mouth for his chief of staff to contradict Montgomery on his behalf.

"Garibaldi's Italian forces, after suffering a crushing defeat in Libya, were able to contribute only a small part of the forces of the Allied African Troika to the forces of the Allies, with the exception of the African Army Group"

Speaking of this, the chief of staff mocked the Italian army with a strong sense of superiority: "They highlight all the problems that can arise in a poor backward military state." ”

"The standard Italian tank, the M14, is a light tank with only a few guns and thin defensive armor."

"At the same time, although the artillery weapons of the Italian army are relatively sufficient, most of them are old and backward, such as the 47mm gun, the main gun of the anti-tank unit of the Italian army, which is already very outdated and has almost no effect in the battle against our tanks."

"And it seems to me that the Italian armored forces are even more suitable for show than for battle. In addition, the Italian infantry training model was pedantic and unrealistic, based on outdated tactical theories......"

Sure enough, the British like to look for superiority in Italians, and it's not just rumors.

It's a pity that Montgomery doesn't seem to eat this, and he doesn't even look at the atmosphere and says again: "What about the army of the famous French general Bérente?" ”