The first problem was Crete.

After the Germans withdrew from Crete, the British army immediately contacted Colonel Dennis and hoped to enter Crete... Originally, Montgomery didn't want to be so anxious, but Crete was too important to the British army. Only by using the airport on Crete could the British army transfer fighter jets to Malta Island instead of relying on aircraft carriers to transport them.

But Colonel Dennis refused without thinking.

The reason for rejection is very sufficient: "Greece needed British troops to enter before to stop Germany and Italian troops invasion. The British troops can be said to be reinforcements to Greece, but now Germany and Italian troops have voluntarily withdrawn from Crete, so why should the British troops enter Crete?"

In fact, Colonel Denis had another consideration. He was worried that this would anger the German army and then lose the support of the German army. At the same time, he was unwilling to become the battlefield for the German, Italian and Allied forces to fight... From the interests of Greece, Colonel Denis's approach was obviously correct.

But this was not in the interests of Britain, so Britain then played a set of tricks it used to... took the Greek king George II in exile to Egypt, and led the British army to land on Crete on the pretext of George II leading the Allies to liberate the entire Greek territory.

The British army encountered little resistance when they landed.

On the one hand, this is because the National Liberation Front has never fought an anti-landing war, and on the other hand, they do not want to rebel against the Greek kings and the army with the slogan of "liberation of all Greece"... In this regard, the National Liberation Front and the Allied forces have even the same goals.

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When the British army landed, the situation quickly became different.

The British army occupied three airports on Crete at the first time... For the islands, the airport is absolutely top priority.

Then, the British army seized several arsenals left by the German army on the island... This process almost started to conflict, because these armies can be said to be the supply bases of the National Liberation Front on Crete.

But after being surrounded by a large number of British troops, they eventually had to give up.

Then, the British released a large number of prisoners from the government forces in the prison and put their weapons in their hands to rebuild the government forces.

All these national liberating fronts were tolerated, and they were unwilling to break out of civil war at this time or could also be said to be against the Greek king and the powerful British troops behind them.

But the next order they received made them extremely angry.

King George II asked the National Liberation Front to lay down his weapons and disband the army... It is obvious that George II was worried that this armed force would threaten his dominance after it became stronger.

This caused strong dissatisfaction with the National Liberation Front and even the Greek people, and then a large-scale demonstration broke out in Crete.

However, as usual, police fired fire at the protesters.

With this as the fuse, the full-scale battle between the National Liberation Front and the Greek government forces and the British army officially started, and the British army put on cannons and fighter jets that day.

Of course, Colonel Dennis and others were able to fight against the British and government forces, so they could only avoid the mountains and switch to guerrilla warfare.

This sudden situation stunned everyone, especially the National Liberation Front in Greece, which made them clearly realize that... Even if they drove the Germans and Italians out of Greece, the fruits of victory would fall into the hands of the kings and the British, so they even tried to cooperate with the puppet regimes supported by the Germans and Italian troops in Athens.

When Rommel got this information, he was stunned. Although this was exactly what he hoped, he did not expect that all this would happen so soon.

"Interesting!" Rommel said to himself: "Everything develops as the lieutenant said!"

If Rommel was hesitating for retreat before this, Rommel had made up his mind after the Crete incident.

Because this can be said to be only good but not bad for Germany... If there is any disadvantage, it is to reduce the occupied land. But these lands are just superficial data, and they are barren and have nothing but sand (no oil fields have been discovered in North Africa at this time). So what is the point of occupying these lands?

Instead, retreating... Of course, retreating after declaring their independence can cause great trouble to the British and Americans.

The enemy's trouble is his own interests.

What's more, as the German army retreated, the Allies would face the same problems as the German army before... The supply line was too long, which was a serious problem in the desert.

So Rommel didn't think much about it, and a few days later, he took the initiative to retreat from Alexander's defense line to Matru's defense line.

The British army was advancing with cheers, but what was waiting for them was the vigorous war of independence launched by the Egyptians led by General Srief... If the British army did not take these guerrillas seriously in the past, then they should be careful now, because the Egyptian guerrillas had already grown in scale and had a large number of "iron fists" in their hands... The "bazooka" has not dared to give them to the guerrillas for the time being because they were worried that the performance of this new equipment would be mastered and copied by the British army.

The German army had problems when they retreated to the Libyan border:

Rommel needed to make Libya independent, but Italian commander Garipo and even Mussolini were not willing to do so.

"You are crazy!" Garipo said: "Let Libya be independent... We have won so many victories. Now we have not only not gained any benefits, but we have to lose our own colonies! I will never agree with this behavior of betraying Italian interests!"

Not only Garipo's, but other Italian officers also expressed their opposition.

Rommel didn't want to pay attention to this, because he knew that all these Italian officers were worried about were their villas and mansions in Tripoli.

"Then!" said Rommel: "You can defend Libya with your rifles!"

As he said that, Rommel led the German army to retreat.

The Italian army was in chaos... Just kidding, even the British army that drove the "Matilda" tank at the time could not deal with it, so how could it be able to stop the British army that drove the "Sheerman" tank now, let alone the US army besides the British army.

So Garipo hurriedly contacted Mussolini and hoped to make Rommel change his mind through Hitler.

At this time, Hitler saw what Rommel wanted to do... This is actually very obvious. After declaring these countries independence, these countries will stand opposite to the Allied forces with Germany. Crete and Egypt are a living example, which is obviously beneficial to Germany.
Chapter completed!