stonecrandall Chapter 1057
Chapter 1057
A butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon forest may cause a tornado thousands of miles away.
In this world, the butterfly effect is real!
The actions of the Maple Leaf Country have produced a series of effects, such as Nanfei suddenly disobeying the orders of the British Empire and intending to be independent.
For example, in order to stop Nanfei’s actions, the British Empire sent troops south to suppress them urgently!
After the British Empire took action, their actions alarmed Rommel, who had been paying close attention to them!
As the commander of the Imperial African Corps, Rommel was particularly concerned about African affairs!
The German army did not have many enemies in Africa. There were mainly three, one was Gaul in the west, one was the British Empire in the east, and the other was the poor local climate conditions!
The location of Gaul in West Africa was a bit too far for the German army, because across the Sahara Desert, the German army was unlikely to cross the desert to attack them directly, unless the navy escorted a group of troops from the mainland to land directly on the coast of West Africa after completing the North American mission, in which case they would have the possibility of dealing a fatal blow to the Gauls.
However, without the help of the navy, Rommel had no such plan for the time being. He focused his main attention on the people in the south!
Compared with the Gauls, the areas controlled by the people in the south are obviously richer. It’s not that these places are so rich, but these places have very rich mineral resources. If they can control them, it will be a huge fortune for the Third Reich!
Africa is just south of Europe. As a neighbor of Europe, it is the most suitable source of cheap materials for the empire to develop industry!
If East Africa is controlled, it is equivalent to completely cutting off the connection between Gaul in the west and the people in the east, so that the Gauls are completely isolated!
Once the war in North America is over, the German army can concentrate its forces to eliminate the Gauls entrenched in western Africa first!
Most of the Gauls’ colonies are concentrated in Africa. Although there are also a small number of colonies in South America, the value of those colonies is too low and the population is too small, so there is no possibility of development and growth!
Therefore, West Africa is the real core of Gaul. After losing control of the homeland, the only place that Gaul can choose is West Africa!
However, Rommel is not paying much attention to the situation in West Africa at present. Unless all the Gauls have fled Africa by plane and ship, otherwise, before they are ready, he doesn’t care much about the Gauls’ every move. After all, there have been fierce battles between the two sides, and they know each other well! At present, the British army in East Africa has begun to move, which gives Rommel an opportunity!
After finding out that the British army has set off in the front and headed to the south to suppress the rebellion in South Africa, Rommel did not delay and immediately sent a short telegram to Bolin, roughly introducing some of the things that have just happened in Africa, and then applied, hoping that he could lead troops to attack the British army and completely solve the problem in East Africa!
The British army has few troops, and now they are fully concentrated. In this way, as long as they can kill this enemy in one go, then there will be no more soldiers in the entire East Africa!
In this way, the situation in East Africa can be stabilized!
Moreover, as the world’s largest gold mining country, South Africa is not only known to the British, but the whole world may have known it! The
British have helped the British to survive for decades by controlling this place. If the German army can control this place, wouldn’t it be even more powerful and make the Third Reich stronger?
No one has ever disliked too much gold!
So after receiving Rommel’s telegram, Mainz immediately issued an order, allowing him to lead his troops south and follow the British army to catch the cicada while the oriole is behind!
From Aiji in North Africa to South Africa in the south, the journey along the way is very long, and too long a distance will greatly increase the strong pressure on the logistics supply system.
Therefore, the scale of the army that the German army can dispatch will not be too large. If there are enough troops, it will be easy to fight, but if there are too many people, the logistics system will not be able to hold up. At that time, the supplies needed by the front-line soldiers will not be supplied, and the large number of people will not be able to play a role.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Rommel finally decided to take only two divisions of troops southward, and then let his own logistics supply ships sail along the coastline of East Africa, so that the German army could obtain material support more conveniently!
After Rommel formulated the action plan, he quickly withdrew two light divisions from the North African Corps to form a light army, and then personally led this army to quickly go south to fill the power vacuum brought about by the departure of the British army!
Because they had to quell the rebellion in the south, the British army took almost all of their troops this time, and no soldiers were left in East Africa.
Probably in their hearts, they also thought that they might come back here again!
After the British army withdrew, the German army basically encountered no obstacles along the way. They didn’t have to fight, they just needed to speed up and catch up with the British army that had already gone south!
Rommel’s plan was to catch up with the British army going south, wait for them to attack Southern Philippines, and start fighting with the Southern Philippines’ army, and then take action and defeat the British army!
In that case, because the British army’s attention is focused on the enemy in front, they will definitely not be prepared for the surprise attack from behind. In this case, the German army will suffer much less casualties!
Like the British army in Africa, Rommel actually does not have many troops. It is very difficult for one of his army groups to sweep across Africa because the area of Africa is too large!
It is precisely because the army is small that Rommel cares about the loss of the army.
He does not want to see a large number of combat casualties. Africa is not the homeland of the Third Reich. Soldiers can be recruited on the spot to replenish the lost troops. It is very difficult to replenish the troops here. They need a long time. When the reserve troops are not sufficient, the best way is to reap the benefits! However