Rommel was not as simple as Montgomery and Abner thought, contrary to Montgomery's conservative and cautious character...... Rommel has always emphasized attacking, attacking and attacking. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This has been proven time and time again in his previous battles: in World War I, he once led 20 German soldiers to capture more than 400 Romanian soldiers in one fell swoop, and once captured the strategic high ground heavily defended by the Italians with 100 troops, forcing 1,200 Italian soldiers to raise their hands. What is even more amazing is that he once led a lone army deep behind enemy lines, forced a continuous march for more than 50 hours, and captured 150 Italian officers and about 9,000 Italian soldiers with a mere 100 troops......

At this time, Rommel on the battlefield in North Africa certainly did not change his fighting style, in fact, Rommel knew very well that the current good situation was completely due to his own offensive...... If it is defended, how can the more than 80,000 people in his hands and the equipment that is completely inferior to the British army be able to hold the defensive line that is not dangerous to defend and is nearly 100 kilometers long? This leaves your defenses full of holes and gaps.

On the contrary, if the offensive is adopted, it is the British army that has to worry about these problems...... As Rommel had predicted, the British army, with 220,000 men, nearly three times its strength, was insufficient to defend the entire front, and the British could only wait for their superior forces to concentrate their superior forces to find holes in their defensive lines.

"General!" Major General of the General of the Staff, Thomas, reported to Rommel with some frustration: "Our attack on Alexandria has failed...... Those hateful Italians, I don't think it's realistic to pin the hope of victory on them! ”

Several British planes flew over Rommel's head and dropped several bombs, and Rommel leaned down slightly, and when the explosion had passed, he stood up and held his binoculars to look at Alexandria, which was firing "rumbling" cannons.

This is also the difference between Rommel and Montgomery, Montgomery in the army is a strict implementation of the hierarchy, the officers should do what the soldiers should do, and in the words of the British army to Montgomery, everything is arranged in an orderly manner.

It should be said that this is also an advantage, because it allows officers and soldiers to know their position and responsibilities, and the disadvantage is that everything is too dogmatic and rigid...... This is probably the character of most Britons, who don't like change and like everything to go according to order (adventurous Britons have gone to the American continent to venture out and become Americans).

It was also because of this that when Churchill praised Rommel at the meeting: "The officers and men of the Eighth Army have indeed encountered the most formidable opponent in the world." The catastrophe of war aside, Rommel was indeed an outstanding military genius! ”

A member of the council immediately took over: "If Rommel had served in the British army, he would have been a sergeant!" ”

This caused a burst of laughter.

But what the MP said was true, because the orderly British army was not suitable for a man like Rommel to survive or be promoted.

Rommel had complete contempt for all laws, and even his staff often did not know what to do next, and many decisions were, in a phrase, "decisions made with a pat on the head". At the same time, Rommel also attached great importance to being on the battlefield, and he believed that if officers could chat with the soldiers on the front line and motivate them from time to time, the troops would often be able to exert unimaginable combat effectiveness.

And this was true, at least for the German soldiers, and for the Italian army...... Rommel was powerless.

"Major General!" Rommel replied coldly, "What do you think...... Will I pin my hopes on the Italians? ”

"Then the general......" Thomas realized that he might have guessed Rommel's intentions again wrong.

"Alexandria, although it is a strategic location, it will not do us much good to defeat it!" Rommel said, "I don't know if you noticed...... Alexandria is located in a salient surrounded by the ocean? ”

"Yes!" Thomas replied, habitually pulling out a map and spreading it on the ground.

Rommel, on the other hand, continued without looking back, as if he could memorize the map: "If we take Alexandria...... Then we are likely to be flanked or even surrounded by British troops from Cairo, Port Said, or worse...... The British warships and warplanes will ruthlessly destroy our tanks and cut off our supply lines! ”

"So general......" Thomas looked at Rommel in disbelief, "why are we wasting time and supplies in Alexandria?" ”

Time and supplies are the two things that the German army needs most, the former is what the German army is fighting for at any time, this may be influenced by Rommel, the German army every time they fight, try their best to race against time, otherwise they will throw a bottle with a message on their heads: "If you don't move forward, I will get off the plane!" ”

There were even German soldiers who exclaimed: "God, General Rommel is almost everywhere, we can feel him staring at us all the time!" ”

Not to mention the supplies, the Afrika Korps survived almost exclusively on supplies stolen from the British, but although there were still many of them, they were in a situation of being left empty.

Rommel, however, would spend a great deal of time and supplies on attacking Alexandria, which he saw as useless.

"Major General!" Rommel put down his binoculars and turned his head at this time, and there was a hint of cunning and sharpness in his blue eyes: "The problem is that my goal is not to capture Alexandria, but to make the British mistakenly think that the focus of our attack is Alexandria, understand?" ”

Thomas nodded, looking at Rommel with a little more admiration.

Rommel crouched down next to Thomas, handed him a cigarette, and then pointed to the map and said, "In this way, the British will concentrate their tanks and troops in the area around Alexandria, even warships." Then ......"

With that, Rommel drew a route on the map to Maherama, then raised his head and asked Thomas, "Understood!" ”

Thomas, with his mouth half-open, replied, "Understood! They would never have imagined, General! ”

"Of course!" Rommel replied: "But be careful, you can't tell the Italians about it!" Exactly, you can't tell anyone! ”

"Yes!" Thomas straightened up.