The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 355

It turned out that Bill and his party sneaked into the air-raid shelter and just saw John's family eating bread, so they felt jealous and dissatisfied.

John knew them. When John was working in the government, he was in charge of security in the area. He had seen Bill who was dressed in formal attire and greeted him politely every day.But he didn't expect that when the war came to the present, when he met Bill again, the temperament shown by the other party was completely different from before.

"Boy! This is our place." John's wife, Mrs. Mary, was obviously not someone to be trifled with. Since her husband was a government official, she had always been relatively strong.

After Madam Mary finished speaking, she turned her head to look at these unfriendly men, curled her lips and continued, "The bread we eat is our own, why should I give it to you?"

"It's all the family members of you officials who took the hard-earned food for yourself, but the food that should have been distributed to us was not distributed to us, making us hungry! And you also occupied the air-raid shelter that should belong to us , causing us to be bombed by German planes outside all day!" Bill and his party became angry and said forcefully: "It is you who made us suffer outside all day. Two days ago, one of my colleagues was bombed by German shells. It was you who killed it!"

"John's wife also quickly retorted: "You guys, instead of going to the battlefield to kill the Germans, you ran over to grab food from your fellow countrymen. Do you still have a little bit of gentleman spirit left? "

"What's wrong with me robbing you today? Hurry up and hand over all the food! Then move out of this place! This place belongs to us! I let you live for a few days before, now it's our turn to live!" Big Bill shouted angrily.

Finally he exposed his true nature, or his humanity.

"You officials, relying on your own little power, always bully us ordinary people. Today, we ordinary people who have no power will rise up and fight back to take back our power. They are all British citizens. Why can't we Into the dugout, no bread, and you have everything we don't!"

"We are the first batch of people assigned by the government to take refuge here, you can go back and wait for the next batch!" John stood up, stood in front of his family, and said sharply: "I am still a government official, and I know There are quite a few big names above. If you don’t want to make trouble, get out of here!”

Other than Bill, the others were obviously hesitant, but Bill was not afraid at all. People who really had a big relationship had already fled to the north for refuge, and only a small person like John with limited connections could not run away with his family. I had to stay and live in the air-raid shelter.

Therefore, Bill shouted forcefully: "I don't care what official you are, anyway, today I must get back my power!"

Although Bill has never hit anyone before, he has always been quiet.But this time, he led several colleagues to become thugs without a teacher: "Let's go together, grab food!"

And John works in the government and sits in the office all day long, and he has never fought, but this time, after all, there are many people on the opposite side. After a few rounds, he obviously couldn't stand it.

Finally, John was punched and knocked to the ground by Bill when he failed to dodge.

Looking at John who fell on the ground, Bill smiled and strode towards his family.

Bill led the people directly to the buckets and bread stacked in the corner, and after taking possession of them, he drove John's family out of the air-raid shelter and took the place where they lived for himself.

This is also war, the Englishman's civil war with himself.There is no gunpowder, but it is equally cruel.

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Returning to Africa, Rommel, who had just arrived at Garibaldi's headquarters, finally accepted the Italian's invitation and agreed to attend the welcome banquet.

Although it was a bit unpleasant before, Rommel did not delve into the poor record of the Italian army in the alliance now that he was infected by Garibaldi's cooperative attitude.

After all, even though Rommel was the commander of the German-Italian African Army, in Africa, after all, he was not the only one who had the final say.No matter how cowardly Garibaldi was, he was the candidate who entrusted the African Italian Army with carte blanche before Mussolini fell ill, and he was at the same level as Rommel.

In addition, even in Rommel's African Army, more than 60.00% of the troops are provided by the Italians, and the bases, ports, and logistical supplies that Rommel will use in the future will also rely on the Italians' supply .

In addition, the transportation of oil and other logistics materials from the European continent to Africa, fleet escort, and ammunition replenishment are all undertaken by the Italian Navy. The German Imperial Navy, which is preparing for the landing in the UK, has no time to look south.

Basically, Rommel's African Army, except for the two divisions whose troops originated from Germany, relied on Italy in all other aspects.Now, and even in the future, Rommel still needs to cooperate with the Italians in many places, and Garibaldi should not be too embarrassed at this time.

The reason why Rommel was a little unreasonable in the early stage was entirely because he was in a hurry, and he really didn't have time to spend it slowly.

He violated the order of the German High Command to wait for French reinforcements, and dispatched the army in advance, in order to seize the opportunity and achieve results.

But now, the failure of the Italian army undoubtedly made Rommel's tactical thinking face new difficulties and risks.If he can't make good use of all the remaining power as soon as possible, Rommel himself doesn't know how far he can go.

Fortunately, Garibaldi's attitude fully met Rommel's needs, and it can be regarded as exempting many difficulties in the future.

So, surrounded by Garibaldi and other Italian officers, Rommel and his party strode into the reception banquet prepared for him by the high-level Italian army in North Africa.

In the banquet hall, there were the French generals, Berente and others who had arrived here earlier.

In order to express his gratitude to Rommel for his assistance in the battle of the southern tip, the French general Berente, who had successfully repelled the British troops in the middle and northern tip, decided to personally participate in the reception banquet for Rommel hosted by Garibaldi. It can be regarded as an expression of the friendly attitude of the African French army.

Along with Berente, the commanders of the three main local divisions under his command, and Stephen, the commander of the French colonial division who fought alongside Rommel not long ago.

Garibaldi had heard about Berente, a famous French player, as early as after World War I in the Alps.

But this time, Berente obviously made Garibaldi remember his name more deeply.With only 3 local French infantry divisions living here, and the other troops were all low-end colonial divisions, he was able to lead the French army, which was at a disadvantage in numbers and equipment, to win the battle abruptly, allowing the British army to win the battle. The Algerian defense line was hit badly, and launched a counterattack.This feat is enough to make him famous all over the world!

What surprised Garibaldi even more was that the surviving French officers of the [-]th Colonial Division of the French Army headed by Stephen followed Garibaldi and formed a small square to salute Rommel who had just arrived. !

Garibaldi's eyes widened.He never dreamed that these French generals would pay tribute to the German generals who defeated their country!

What did he do?Deserving of the generals of the African French army, so respectful!

Garibaldi is not a fool. Although he had heard before that Rommel sent two battalions to help the French army, he didn't pay much attention to it at the time.But now, he has vaguely felt that perhaps the French's victory over the strong with the weak has some inseparable key connection with Rommel's mere two battalions.

What role did the German army play in that war?

Curiosity is curiosity, Garibaldi has not forgotten to let his own people follow Rommel.This show of favor is not the exclusive skill of Berente's subordinates.

So at the dinner, an Italian major general under Garibaldi who could speak German began to flatter Rommel with some kindness.

I saw the major general of the Italian army asking Rommel with a smile on his face: "General, the meritorious medal you wear with you looks really good. May I ask where it was awarded?"

Hearing this, Rommel replied almost without thinking: "This is the blue Marx Medal, because Longonuen got it!"

However, as soon as Rommel said this, many people felt uncomfortable.

Garibaldi and other Italian generals who understood the words from the translator first, the smiles on their faces froze immediately.

The Battle of Longenoen may be an honor to Rommel, but to the Italians, it is a [-]% shame!

In that battle, one of their divisions was surprised by a small group of Rommel's troops. Because they couldn't figure out the opponent's strength, they were flanked back and forth, but the Italian division commander chose to surrender.Afterwards, there was a legend that 600 people from Rommel captured 9000 people from the Italian army.

However, for this kind of thing, you just want to be happy in Germany secretly.Now everyone cooperates sincerely, and Italy and Germany are already allies.It would be inappropriate to wear this medal at any time in such a ostentatious way.

Of course, the Italian major general, who was so dumb, also found that his horse was in the wrong position, and he kept complaining secretly.

On the other side, Berente, who learned about the matter from the French translator, also had some twitches on his face.

Berente has studied the Battle of Longenoun.It was a classic battle of using less to win more, using the opponent's thinking puzzle to force the enemy to surrender.

However, saying this in front of a group of Italian generals seems a bit disrespectful to the other party.

Although the Italian army has already turned into that garbage, and it is indeed not worthy of respect, but does Garibaldi not want to lose face?

Because Rommel was in favor of the Algerian French army, it was inconvenient for Berente to say anything at this time.However, from Berante's point of view, he still felt that Rommel's "outspokenness" was somewhat inappropriate.

And what happened next made Berente even more worried about the future.

Because it was a welcome dinner prepared for Rommel, the Italians showed the promotional film Reinhard gave to the Italian allies, "Victory on the Western Front".

And after watching this film that promotes the German army's powerful combat effectiveness, strict military discipline, and the strength of the Third Reich, Rommel, who has repeatedly made up his mind to govern Africa, proudly stated in public: "One day, we will also Let audiences from all over the world see the film "Victory of Africa"!"

"General, this..." beside Berente, a commander of the French native division whispered.

After waving his hand, Berente stopped the teacher in time to continue speaking.