Chapter 76 Suspected Soldier's Plan (2)
Time is tight, and the officers do whatever they say, and Colonel Slein immediately assigned the task.
The first thing is to transfer the troops back from the defense line, of course, this mobilization was carried out secretly... Otherwise, if the British army finds that there are people who are constantly transferring back on the front line, it will not only expose the German plan, but also put the defense line in danger, because the British are likely to take advantage of this time to attack.
It is not difficult to transfer the troops back secretly... In order to ensure the ammunition supply on the defense line, the German army had to drive a car to transport a large amount of ammunition from the warehouse, wait for food to the defense line and then return empty.
Of course, there will not be empty cars back at this time. There are rows of German soldiers sitting inside. One car can carry thirty, and more than a dozen cars can load 500 soldiers back in one go.
This also depends on the closed space of the British "Mattfighter" cars. German soldiers hid in the canvas and pulled them. They could say that there were no one who knew that there were so many people inside.
After the soldiers returned to Tobrook Port, they would receive some simple training, such as learning some Italian passwords and some habits of the Italian army... At this time, Alphredo's role was reflected, and the entire army's outfit had to be tested by him. Qin Chuan believed that if he could pass Alphredo's level, he could deceive the British intelligence personnel.
Werner said mockingly: "God, now we want that Italian to teach us how to become a qualified soldier!"
The nearby German soldiers couldn't help but laugh as they heard this.
"Shut your mouth, soldier!" Kuhn lowered his voice and ordered Werner: "If this Italian is not happy, or intends to reveal some flaws, do you know what that means?"
"Yes, Lieutenant!" Werner never dared to say anything again when he heard this.
Of course Werner knew what this meant. Even if he didn't care about the army and his life, he should temporarily let go of his prejudice against Alphredo.
Then the fully Italian-armed troops set off, and they walked in a neat formation and walked straight through Tobrook... This made Qin Chuan feel a little incredible.
"I don't know if this is appropriate!" Qin Chuan said to Alphredo: "This is a battlefield. Although Tobrook can be regarded as a second line, the shells will occasionally hit the city, allowing the team to line up..."
"If it were Italian troops, they would do this, Sgt.!" Alphredo replied.
Qin Chuan said "Oh" and stopped talking. After all, Alphredo is an expert in this regard.
Later, Qin Chuan learned that the Italian army might not be able to do other aspects, such as military quality, combat will, etc. To be precise, it is not bad, but it is outrageously bad... Not long ago, Italy attacked Greece with several times its strength, but it was repelled in just three weeks. Not only did it repel it, but it also allowed Greece to counterattack and entered the Albanian region.
This result was unexpected by everyone, because Greece did not have its own military industry, and their rifles and bullets were even reliant on the British army to seize Italian troops from North Africa and transported them to the British army... After the British army carved in Dunker, their weapons needed US assistance, and the British army's equipment was not in a systematic manner with the Greek army's equipment, so they had to use the equipment seized from the Italian army on the African battlefield to support Greece.
But such a unit with a totally disproportionate force and equipment level can defeat the Italian army.
But this seems to be no surprise, because Italy always does something similar:
After France surrendered, Italy thought that France wanted the government to be bullied, so it crossed the French border to take advantage of the situation. Unexpectedly, "a lean camel is bigger than a horse" and was driven out of the border by France in a few seconds.
Italy thought that Britain was besieged by Germany and had no time to take care of the North African colonies, so it launched a war against Egypt. Unexpectedly, Britain just assembled a few troops and almost drove the 230,000 Italian troops into the Mediterranean...
However, it was such a unit that had a good queue... Some people even said that the Italian army ranked first in the world because Mussolini was too concerned about form, or it could be said that the Italians value face, so they required that the queue was absolutely neat and mighty.
This has enabled Italian military officers at all levels to focus their main energy on the form of exercises rather than on military strategy and tactics, whether from the perspective of conscientiousness or from the perspective of maintaining their official positions.
Then Tobrook's good show started.
First, there was a cheer, and several German soldiers waved their hats excitedly and shouted: "Reinforcements, thank God, our reinforcements are here!"
Then a group of "Italian soldiers" appeared on the dock in an orderly formation, marching in a stern manner, and then walked out of the dock with cheers and walked into the city. Occasionally, several "Italian soldiers" waved to the people around with the smiles of the winners. The officer shouted the command in skillful Italian. Occasionally, several Italian officers were smoking cigarettes on the side of the road and complaining: "Fuck the submarine, I'm almost suffocating to death!"
"But we arrived safely, aren't we?" another officer replied: "We are lucky compared to those guys on the warship!"
"I don't think this is lucky!" The two officers laughed.
Of course this is not the end. More than half an hour later, another batch came, followed by another batch...
This information soon reached Major General Evans.
Major General Evans couldn't help but look pale: "What? Submarine?!"
"Yes, Major General!" The staff officer replied: "At present, at least two thousand reinforcements have been transported, and it is still increasing..."
"But how could they mobilize so many submarines in such a short time?" asked Major General Evans.
"They don't need to mobilize too many submarines!" The consultant replied: "It's the same batch of submarines. They transport a batch into Tobrook Harbor and then return to the sea to join the fleet... so that they can continuously transport reinforcements from the fleet to Tobrook without being intercepted by our air force!"
Major General Evans opened his mouth halfway and sighed for a long time, thinking that it was no wonder that the Italian army would retreat so easily, and it turned out that they had a safer way to transport it.
"No!" After thinking about it, Major General Evans stood up and said, "We can't watch them replenish their troops and improve their defenses. At that time, we may not be able to capture Tobrook at a few hours!"
"But... General!" the staff member asked, "What can we do?"
Major General Evans sighed. He knew that the staff was right. The British army had no choice but to do anything, because after the battle last night, there were only 37 tanks left of the 15th Armored Division that could be used normally, and these 37 were all "Matilda" tanks with high failure rates... If you want to rely on them to attack the enemy, you already have a certain supplementary defense line, which is almost like seeking death.
Chapter completed!