"Your Majesty, I don't understand why you ordered an active attack." An officer wearing an Egyptian military uniform with the rank of colonel on his shoulder was standing next to Chen Mo and asked Chen Mo in confusion.
He is a colonel officer in the tank force of the Egyptian army, commanding an armored division of the Egyptian army.
This armored division is not an elite one in the military, it is just a second-line armored division responsible for guarding the border.
As the elite front-line main force, they all participated in the Italian war before and are now stationed in Italy. They also have small frictions with the attacking German troops from time to time to hone the soldiers' combat capabilities.
Originally, according to Chen Mo's plan, second-line troops like this would also have the opportunity to be transferred to Italy to participate in the battle against the German army to accumulate combat experience.
But just before they could rotate, the German army had already arrived. Rommel attacked along the coastline of North Africa and reached the border of Egypt.
Of course, it was impossible to remove the garrison at this time, so this armored force stayed and defended the German attack together with other border garrison troops.
However, although they were facing the fierce Germans, there was no fear of the enemy within the Egyptian army.
On the one hand, of course, it was the pride brought by the victory over Italy. They did not think that the armies of these once arrogant European countries were anything special.
On the other hand, they know that Egypt has magic, and the military has popularized the benefits of resurrection after death. Even if you die in battle, as long as your body can be recovered, you can live again.
Even if the corpse is blown up and no bones remain, if the soul can survive, there may be no chance of resurrection, but there is no problem in continuing to exist in the form of a ghost.
Therefore, for the Egyptian army, sacrifice is not unacceptable, and many people are even willing to sacrifice.
After all, after you die, you can still enjoy the resurrection benefits that come with joining the army, and your family can also enjoy death benefits in battle. For many people with poor family conditions, this can be said to be a good opportunity to greatly improve their living conditions.
But even so, as a military commander, the colonel's professionalism told him that now was not the right time to attack.
In his opinion, although the German troops in front of the border were not as well-equipped and adaptable to the climate as our own, they were still a powerful army with considerable combat capabilities. Otherwise, they would not have been able to fight along the North African coastline to the Egyptian border.
An active attack may be able to repel them, but the Egyptian army itself will still suffer certain losses.
In this case, we should continue to defend, kill the morale and state of the German army in front of us, and then wait for the Italian side to solve the local problems, deploy the fleet to cooperate, and attack from both sea and land to defeat this German army.
Of course, if His Majesty the King plans to use his powerful mage group and the undead army that can stop children from crying at night even in Egypt, then he can do whatever he wants. Anyway, the opponent is dead, and there is no chance of winning.
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However, His Majesty the King has no intention of using military forces other than the border troops, let alone his powerful mage group.
It seems that His Majesty the King intends to have a fair contest full of chivalry with this German army, rather than completely crushing this German army by relying on equipment or other advantages.
In fact, the colonel's guess was not wrong, but Chen Mo did not intend to defeat him with off-the-beaten-path moves or with a force that Rommel could not handle at all.
Just like what he said to Chen Yu, this is a fully simulated game of Iron Ambition. It would be meaningless to win by cheating.
In particular, he has already played a lot of tricks on Egypt, so that the Egyptian army is now far superior to the German army in terms of morale, equipment and logistics. If he still wants to cheat under such circumstances, then there is no need for him to continue playing World War II games. , jump directly to the world engine to the earth's orbit, and then destroy the moon with one shot and let all mankind surrender.
So this time he mobilized only the garrison troops on the Egyptian border, including three infantry divisions, one armored division, and an army aviation group.
These troops are of course severely insufficient in strength compared to Rommel's Afrika Korps that he faces, so five infantry divisions, three mechanical divisions and an armored division will come to support him later.
In addition, Chen Mo can also mobilize all the air forces in Egypt to conduct air strikes.
However, he set a limit for himself. Unless he encountered a situation that he could not handle, he would not call in an air strike to solve the problem.
He planned to use the eight infantry divisions, three mechanical divisions and two armored divisions that he could mobilize in a short period of time to challenge Rommel's North African Army.
At this time, Rommel had four German divisions and eight Italian divisions in his hands. These Italians were originally Italian colonial garrisons, but after Italy was occupied by Egypt, they could only fall under the command of the German army.
So at this moment, Rommel held the strength of twelve divisions. Generally speaking, there was no obvious strength gap between the two sides.
But in terms of equipment, Rommel's troops were obviously inferior in equipment. After all, there were no mechanics or armored divisions among Rommel's twelve divisions.
Although they still have enough tanks, aircraft and artillery, the Egyptian army has much more equipment than they do.
This can be regarded as a little trick used by Chen Mo to win and eliminate his own disadvantage in command.
Looking at the assembled troops, Chen Mo was still in a good mood at this time, so after the colonel beside him asked why he wanted to take the initiative to attack, Chen Mo replied with a smile: "Because I want to try only through war. To defeat the future field marshal of the German army."
Hearing what Chen Mo said, the colonel felt a little speechless, but he quickly put this emotion behind him, because whether it was his loyalty to the country or his duty as a soldier, he chose to obey Chen Mo absolutely. Follow his orders and carry out his will, rather than considering whether it is appropriate for him to do so.
You must know that in Egypt at this time, Chen Mo's reputation has reached an unparalleled level. The people at the bottom of Egypt fanatically love His Majesty the King and are even willing to die for him.
Even the people are like this, so naturally the military understands this.
So after Chen Mo's order, the Egyptian army was well prepared and launched a fierce attack on the German army in front of them.
It was the armored division led by this colonel that was the first to launch the attack.
They were like sharp knives, stabbing at the German army in front of them, trying to pierce the heart of the German army.
