Five hundred and sixty-eight. Allies...
The end of the Battle of Kalman brought the Commonwealth army to the heaviest blow.
The 1st Armored Division, the 2nd Royal Artillery Regiment, the 111th Field Artillery Regiment, the 133rd Infantry Brigade, the 1st Infantry Brigade of Greece, and the 2nd Free French Brigade were all destroyed by the Germans.
Even Lieutenant General Woodrow, who commanded these troops, ended this unfamous war with the reputation of suicide.
This is not only true in Kalman, but also in various battlefields
For example, in Limsey.
The 51st Infantry Division of the British Army was attacked by the craziest attack by the German team. Under the attack of the 15th German Armored Division and the Italian Terrio Armored Division, something shocking toward Italy happened:
Only 1,500 people survived the entire 51st Infantry Division!
And there was only one commander at all levels left!
In the history of war, there are too few wars with such high death rates as officers.
For the British, the "Second Battle of Alahman" is over.
It's completely over, there's no possibility of turning the tables.
On the night of October 25, the British Supreme Command issued an order to retreat across the board.
A retreat and hunting battle has begun
The Allied forces in a hurry were attacked by the German army from the sky and the ground, and a large number of Allied soldiers were killed, captured and disappeared.
But failure, shameful failure!
Unacceptable failure
Before the war broke out, the British never thought that they would suffer such a terrible failure. But such a thing happened the most realistically.
When Alexander and Montgomery finally issued a retreat order, they knew that the situation in North Africa had been reversed for a while.
Now, the great situation they created through great hardships was lost in a war. All this comes from one person:
Skeleton Baron!
On the night of the 25th, the British Supreme Command received a telegram from the "Fighters" organization, which read:
"General Montgomery, General Alexander, I personally thank your 'Fighters' organization. Without this organization, we might not have been able to win so quickly. Of course, we know that after this war, the 'Fighters' will no longer be activated by you, so now I send you a telegram with them to thank you for the victory you have brought to us, my British friend."
And the last signature of the telegram is:
Ernst Alexand von Breme.
Alexander and Montgomery held the telegram in their hands and looked at each other.
Can you imagine? The Skeleton Baron actually used the Allied Ace spy to send such a telegram to the Allied Supreme Commander in North Africa
"I said that none of us are opponents of the Skeleton Baron." When the failure was a foregone conclusion, Montgomery seemed very calm: "I had a fantasy that when the Skeleton Baron was cut off, we could defeat him on the battlefield for the first time, but in fact, everything was already in his hands from the beginning of the war."
General Alexander nodded silently, although it was very difficult to admit it.
On October 26, the "Second Battle of Alahman" ended.
This war, which was enough to reverse the entire North Africa war, ended with the German victory.
The Allied forces were killed by an astonishing 35,000, 60,000 were captured and 5,000 were missing.
The loss of one hundred thousand people, that is, the Allies lost half of their strength in North Africa.
More importantly, their supply base was ruthlessly attacked by the Luftwaffe, and the Allied supply has begun to have major problems.
And on the day the "Second Battle of Alama" ended, exciting news came in Iran:
The Axis Team has achieved a key victory in the "Zahed Barima Battle", and Tehran is already in sight!
In this battle, the Soviet Union and British teams, which originally controlled the north and south parts of Iran, joined forces again to deal with the attack from the Axis powers.
But the German generals did not disappoint Baron Alexander's expectations, and they successfully defeated the Soviet-English Allied Forces in Zahed Barrima.
There are many pro-German forces in Iran. After the Battle of Zahd Barima, those pro-German factions began to become active again after a long period of silence, ready to welcome the Germans and the return of the old king Reza Khan.
The Soviet and British forces are far less popular than Germans here. Most Iranians would rather see Germans appear on Iranian land.
Subsequently, the German government began to announce the list of war criminals.
After the British and Soviet forces entered Tehran on September 17, 1941, they arrested all Germans there, including diplomats, half of whom were caught in Siberia by Russia, and most of them died tragically; the other half was exiled to Australia by Britain.
Now, it's time to settle the accounts.
And even at this time, the Soviet Union and Britain were still full of irreconcilable contradictions.
In early 1942, Iran accepted the "Triple Alliance Treaty", but in fact this new "ally" was divided up by Britain and the Soviet Union. The British supported tribal forces in the south it occupied and fought against the central government; the Soviet Union supported the "British Party" in the north it occupied.
Now that the Germans have arrived, it is time to end all this. The blood of those diplomats will not flow in vain, and the blood of those Germans will not flow in vain either.
In the "Second Battle of Alahman", about 15,200 German soldiers were killed, disappeared and captured. In order to win, the price was completely worth it.
The German army has always been a tradition of winning with less. Compared with the Italians, the German army is the real army.
As for the Italians? Except for one of the Terrio armored divisions who barely passed the exam, the other Italians
Colonel Tavaschi is one of them.
This Italian colonel, who commanded 1,500 soldiers, surrendered to less than one hundred British people, which was enough to become an eternal laughing stock on the battlefield.
There are many more ridiculous things.
While cleaning the battlefield, Major Klingenberg discovered a temporary prisoner of war camp of the British.
To be precise, this is not a case of any kind of war camp without wire, guards without machine guns, and not even a bamboo fence.
The British just drew some white lines here, which means that this is where the prisoners were imprisoned.
What stunned Klingenberg and his team members was that in such an open space, more than a thousand Italian prisoners were sitting there in unmoving motion.
Klingenberg and the commandos thought there was hallucination in front of them, but when they rubbed their eyes, they confirmed that they were not wrong.
Yes, more than 1,500 Italian prisoners stayed honestly in this place without any protective measures.
"Hey, you're free!" a commando tried to shout at them.
An Italian soldier who speaks German quickly replied, "Hey, don't come to lie to us. We are prisoners and will never run away. Do you think this will trick us out and then shoot at our backs?"
The commando swallowed: "We are German!"
"That's also a hypocrite. Look at what you said in German is not good at all!"
Major Klingenberg, who was never afraid of any danger on the battlefield, was almost collapsed this time
Allies, this is the ally of Germany!
He walked among the prisoners: "I am Major Fritz Klingenberg of the Klingenberg Commando, who is the highest officer here?"
"It's me, Colonel Tavaschi." An Italian colonel walked out with great "majesty".
Look at his straight military uniform and his shiny leather boots compared to him, the German commandos have some inferiority complex.
These German commandos who fought hard and hard, all of their combat uniforms were covered with dust and blood, and they were dirty and broken.
Let’s look at the Italians. A large-scale battle ended and there was no dirt on their bodies.
"Colin, you"
Before Klingenberg could finish his words, he was interrupted by Colonel Tavaschi: "Are you sure you are German?"
"I'm pretty sure, Colonel." Klingenberg smiled bitterly: "I'll tell you again that I'm Major Fritz Klingenberg, who is directly under the command of Marshal Ernst Breme."
"Aha, that skeleton baron!" Colonel Tavaschi became excited when he heard that he was really a German, and said that he was free: "Who won the war?"
"We." Klingenberg replied.
"Aha, we won, then we are all heroes." Tavaschi seemed to see his heroic treatment, as if he saw countless Italians cheering him.
It seems that he won this war
Klingenberg could only smile bitterly. Choosing Italians as his ally was perhaps the most wrong choice for Germany.
"Major, do you have anything to eat? The British eat not at all." Colonel Tavaschi suddenly asked.
"I could probably find some cookies," Klingenberg said, holding back his anger.
If possible, he really wanted to throw these Italians into real prisoners of war camps.
However, Colonel Tavaschi's last words completely broke Major Klingenberg:
"You have to find some wine for me, otherwise those cookies will be very difficult to swallow."
Major Klingenberg, who has never failed like Baron Alexson, now feels that he has been defeated by this Italian. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
Chapter completed!