Just as Japanese soldiers were at a loss when they looked at the desert, thousands of people were already accustomed to life in the desert on the other side of the world.

Three German soldiers jumped off their armored vehicles. They wore shorts, exposed their sun-tanned knees, and stood in front of a boundary marker carved from a huge stone with rifles on them. "Egypt" was written in Egyptian words and English.

"Send a signal to the troops behind that we have entered Egypt and no British reconnaissance troops have been found." An officer stood on the roof of an armored vehicle, held a telescope and observed the scene around him for a long time, and found that there was indeed nothing to report.

Recently, the British army has adopted austerity defense in Egypt. Many defense lines originally deployed on the periphery of Egypt have been abandoned. Montgomery has concentrated the troops in key areas, hoping to rely on complete fortifications to stop Rommel's attack.

But Rommel did not rush into Egypt this time, but humbly accepted the advice of his deputy General Friedric and began to play a steady and steady routine. He built a complete water station supply line in the rear, sent special forces and elite armored troops to chase the British sabotage team. Although it seemed that he had not achieved any large-scale victory, he did not miss his supply line along the way.

"General, the vanguard troops have entered Egypt, and our main force is gathering and camping on the Egyptian border." The staff officer put down the phone, raised his head and shouted loudly to Rommel, who was studying the map: "The armored troops are still moving slowly. According to the plan, they will arrive at the designated position in 2 hours."

"Order all troops to slow down their pace and expand their search range." Rommel moved his sight from the map and then issued an order: "Let the air force be dispatched to reconnaise all suspicious areas and ensure that the two wings of the troops are not threatened by the enemy, and then arrange defense lines to wait for the arrival of subsequent troops."

"General, we really have to wait for Scherner's K Army to arrive in North Africa before starting the Egyptian battle?" The staff officer was a little puzzled. It is not difficult for Rommel to win the battle in North Africa now. As long as Rommel shows the momentum of his crazy offensive in France, Cairo can even be won within 10 days.

"Don't worry, Chief of Staff. When I need it, I can order the troops to advance 200 kilometers a day, but it's meaningless now. The enemy is waiting for me to make mistakes. This is their only chance to turn defeat into victory." Rommel said with a smile: "But as long as I don't make mistakes, the North African battle will definitely be my final victory. What I have to do now is not to take risks to win, but to calmly wait for the moment of victory."

It’s not that Rommel didn’t want to attack, but Acardo ordered him to slow the attack time. Scherner, who was responsible for supporting Rommel to expand the North African battlefield, is on the way now. If the two armies join together, it will be the critical moment for Acardo to kill in North Africa. Acardo hopes to fight a time difference so that the United States has no time to increase troops to the Middle East, and Germany can drive straight in and occupy the world’s largest oil-producing base.

However, even Akado himself felt that the mobilization of such a large army could not be hidden from everyone's eyes, so he opened the prelude to the Balkans at the same time, so he wanted to interfere with the sight of local spies in chaos and achieve the purpose of chaotic audio-visual. As for the effect, only God himself knew.

"The oil transport unit just heard news that a 30-man British attack unit appeared near Benghazi, but they were discovered by our helicopter sweeping troops. After fierce fighting, the other side lost 17 people and 13 others were captured." An officer walked in from outside the tent and handed a document to Rommel: "They have also sent the prisoner's interrogation records, and there is some intelligence that needs to be seen by the general yourself."

"What information?" Rommel was stunned, and then took the report and found that the problem above was indeed serious - Britain was mobilizing some immature special forces to try to build some attack strongholds on Rommel's long supply line, and then these troops would destroy and attack Rommel's supply line, paralyzing Rommel's logistics transportation.

"What do you say about this matter, the commander of the Italian army responsible for road safety behind?" Rommel frowned and asked: "Send a telegram to General Garibaldi, asking him to urge the Italian army in the rear to try to eliminate these enemy attack strongholds."

"If Garibaldi's Blackshirts were asked to go back to deal with these strongholds, they might win. Letting those second-rate Italian troops who are not even fully supplied to do such things is no different from sending weapons and ammunition to the other side." The staff officer was obviously worried about the combat effectiveness of the garrison troops in the rear of Italy and said, "Try it with the 'Desert Scorpion' special forces."

Desert Poison Scorpion is an elite special force characterized by desert special operations, with only 120 members. However, this "company" is definitely not an ordinary company, but a "East Aviation Special Forces" that uses helicopters as their means of transportation. They are specifically responsible for dealing with enemy scattered behind their defense lines and protecting the safety of their main forces' supply lines.

This unit relies on helicopters to maneuver in the desert, so it comes and goes like the wind. It relies on rockets on the helicopter and 13mm heavy machine guns to provide fire suppression, and is more than enough to deal with British surprise attacks with only light weapons and armored vehicles. This unit was formed at the instruction of Acardo, because in another space-time, the British surprise attacks caused incalculable losses to Italy's logistics supplies.

However, the situation has changed now. The maturity of the combat theory of the German special forces and the development and development of special combat weapons are more than a little advanced than the British team. Although these German special forces cannot be one to ten on the front battlefield, they are like fish in water in such small-scale conflicts.

Unfortunately, although this unit has been divided into four groups to perform tasks in different areas, it still cannot protect the safety of the entire supply line. It still has a large number of defensive vacuum areas and also areas under the responsibility of the Italian army. The combat effectiveness of the Italian troops on these areas is uneven, and some can repel invading British squads, while others will collapse at once.

Although the German army had moved the transportation supply location from the distant city of Tripoli to the Port of Brega, which had just been restored and put into use, the German army's long supply line still had to pass through the entire Benghazi and Tobrook areas, so the German army's logistics supply was once again short of money. This time, what the African Legion urgently needed to replenish was not weapons, equipment and personnel, but ammunition, precious fresh water and oil.

Montgomery, who was as careful as he was, naturally discovered the weakness of the German army. In order to delay the German attack, he sent a small number of troops to strengthen the survival of the desert, and then secretly crossed the German defense line from the depths of the desert in an armored vehicle and attacked the fragile German supply line.

"Okay! Let the desert scorpions run more. After all, their combat methods are more resource-saving, and their combat losses are relatively small, which makes me very satisfied." Rommel nodded and added: "Apply to the Supreme Command and ask for more special forces."

"Yes!" The staff officer stood at attention and turned around and went to the telegraph room.

In northern Africa, where the long yellow sand is the main theme, the army of both sides competes not courage or perseverance, but every ton of oil and shell transported from thousands of miles away. If we explain it more deeply, the two sides competes with the country's comprehensive national strength, integrating the ultimate power of a series of links such as production, transportation and distribution.

For the first time, the war clearly puts the advantages of every link so clearly, making every commander unable to avoid it, and making every commander shook his head and sigh. In the end, smart command and whimsical strategies cannot avoid the logistics supply of goods, and all the boring statistics cannot be separated from the boring statistics.

The work of deceiving opponents has become extremely complicated. There are countless materials and a wide variety of equipment that require a huge rear to support it. How many 7.92mm caliber bullets need to be added to a force, 13mm caliber machine gun ammunition, 20mm caliber machine cannon shells, how many 40mm caliber anti-aircraft shells need to be transported, 75mm war anti-aircraft shells, 88mm caliber shells, 105mm, 150mm, etc.

There are many kinds of ammunition. These ammunitions must be manufactured and distributed by the arms department in the rear, and there are not 10 or 7. If you include the quilts, tents, daily necessities, food, oil, equipment spare parts, and the salary of the troops, the vacationers will brag everywhere - as long as there is a data found by the enemy in hundreds of links, then there is basically no secret.

Of course, the German K Army was moving towards North Africa bit by bit, and the American spy had already known it. A British spy in the Military Control Office received an important piece of information, which showed that the German army urgently customized a batch of North African summer uniforms. The spy knew that the summer uniforms of Rommel's L Army were sent to North Africa a month ago.
Chapter completed!