Chapter 142 lack of oil
On April 7, 1943, in the vast desert of North Africa, on the road leading to the important North African city of Badje, Leopard tanks were advancing with gusts of wind and sand raised by tracks, followed by military transport vehicles. A desert vulture discovered the advancing steel convoy in the air, and then descended and hovered in the air. The animals living on this cracked land were also frightened by the vibrations from the ground, and climbed out of the cave and watched the group of steel monsters advance.
Amid the roar of the tank engine, many German soldiers were shirtless, holding sun umbrellas, putting a straw mat on the tank, and sat on the tank. They shook their heads and moved forward in front of the hot sun. Some German soldiers sat on the truck, cursing the African weather while wiping the sweat on their bodies.
Jintian stretched his head out of the tank warehouse, took a sip of water, basking the scorching sun in the sky, looking at the vast desert in front of him that made people dizzy. He saw the dry and cracked land and sparse plants in front of him. Jintian cursed, "Damn! It's so unlucky. I'm actually going to fight in such a place. It's so cold at night and it's so hot during the day that it's dead. If this continues, it will turn into cold sour spirit toothpaste. In the future, you must install air conditioners in the tank when you return to Germany."
The whole tank was so stuffy, and the tankers were still sweating profusely when driving the tank with bare shirtless. Kinda had already thrown the general's uniform far away, and only Raser gritted his teeth to endure it, but the fragrant sweat from Raser's body had soaked the cypress, sank the entire exquisite part of Raser's body, making Kinda feast his eyes. Kinda felt very regretful at this time. He really should have brought the armored command car. At that time, he could stay in the armored command car with Raser, and then something good would happen. The lonely man and widow stayed in the armored command car, one was shirtless and the other was so hot that he wanted to take off his clothes. Oh my God! It would be great to think about it.
"Hey, hey," Kitan thought, and smiled lewdly.
"General Gesiyun, General Gesiyun" When Jinda was fantasizing about a beautiful thing, Taide commanded the tank to Jinda, "General Gesiyun, can you stop the convoy temporarily? I have an urgent matter to discuss with you. This matter is very important." Jinda nodded and ordered "The whole army stopped moving forward."
Immediately afterwards, the entire armored convoy heard a sound of metal sawings, echoing in the empty desert. After raising waves of dust and sand, the convoy stopped in the desert. Jintian jumped off the tank and asked, "What happened to Taide, it's so urgent." Taide also jumped off the tank and said, "General Ge Siyun, something big happened, I just discovered it."
"What's wrong?" Kaneda asked in confusion, "It's up to you, remember that we are the great German army, we are the great Germans, don't panic if anything happens."
"Yes! General Gesiyun" Taide replied with his expression and replied, "General Gesiyun, I just received the report that our tanks were almost out of gasoline. We did not bring the logistics support force this time, and I did not pay attention to logistics support. I didn't expect that we had no gasoline."
"What! You said there is almost no gasoline?" Jinda shouted with a shocked look, "You're so sensible, don't joke. If this tank has no gasoline, it's even better than a toy car. We are now in the enemy's rear, and we're going to be in trouble now." Jinda found that he was a little unhappy. Why didn't there be gasoline in this place where birds don't poop? Do you have to walk through the desert to Bajie? In this weather, you have to peel off even if you don't die. Even if you reach Bajie, you will only have half your breath.
Taide swallowed a few mouthfuls and said, "General Ge Siyun, our current gasoline is only enough to pull the tank to Bajie. I am afraid that if there is a fierce battle in Bajie, our remaining gasoline is definitely not enough, and our remaining gasoline cannot support a battle, so I will discuss it with you."
Jinda looked up at the sun that could grill people into lamb kebabs and replied, "What else can we do now? We can only rush forward and arrive at Bajie as soon as possible. Bajie is the logistics base of the US military. There should be gasoline there. Let's find a way to go there!" Jinda wiped the sweat on his face and ordered loudly, "I order everyone to move forward at full speed, and must attack Bajie and get gasoline."
After a brief pause, the entire army began to set off again. At noon, the temperature continued to rise, and the sun seemed to release all the energy on this barren land. Jintian beat an egg to the outer armor of the tank, and the whole egg made a "squeeze, squeeze," and a ripe poached egg appeared in front of Jintian. Jintian looked at the fragrant and seductive poached egg in front of him and complained, "Oh my god! I must be a madman. I actually came to such a place to fight. I must have a brain problem. I firmly demanded that the Dragon King of the East China Sea come to the desert to rain."
At this time, the roar of the engine suddenly sounded in the air, and a US reconnaissance plane flew over the air. The plane seemed to notice the figure of the tank unit. It lowered its altitude and began to hover in the air. Seeing this, Jinda loudly ordered, "Start fire quickly and shoot it down."
But as soon as the German air defense machine gun fired, the US reconnaissance plane pulled up and flew away from the German vision. Kimda looked at the flying US reconnaissance plane and suddenly found his left eye twitching. He immediately ordered loudly, "I order the whole army to move forward faster. We must arrive at Bajie as soon as possible. If it is late, it will be too late." Kimda found that the situation in front of him was not optimistic. Now that the American reconnaissance plane has been discovered, Bajie's US military will be prepared, and the prospects will be too bad.
Under the order of Jintian, the entire German armored troops accelerated their speed and ran in the desert again. All the soldiers seemed to feel the difficulties of General Ge Siyun, and they also discovered the difficulties they faced. Now everyone is accelerating, hoping to reach Bajie as soon as possible.
When the German armored troops rushed to Badger at full speed, Patton also led the main force of the US 2nd Army to withdraw from Masiko City and retreat to Badger. After being attacked by the unexpected counterattack of the German tank cluster outside the outskirts of Tunisia, Patton understood that Masiko City could not be defended and he had to retreat backwards. Patton did not want his troops to fight to the death with the Germans. His current wishful thinking was to wait for the British army to come up and then attack Tunisia City. Let Montgmarley consume the German armored troops first, and then he could come out and pick up a bargain.
Patton sat in the jeep moving forward, holding a cigar in a furious manner. Patton would never have dreamed that he would be defeated by starvation when he went to Tunisia. More than 200 tanks he brought out were killed by the Germans with one counterattack. If he hadn't run fast, he would have been finished.
Martin, the adjutant on the side, handed Coca-Cola, "General Patton, you don't have to be so angry. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs, and failure is the mother of success. Our failure is temporary, victory is inevitable, tomorrow is beautiful, and you don't have to be angry about the insignificant failure in front of you. After a while, our great American army will be able to beat the Germans under your leadership to call grandpa."
Patton took the Coca-Cola "Guru, Guru" and took a few sips. "You are right. Those Germans defeated us when we were careless. If I had known that the Germans were there, I would have beaten them to pieces. Let them call me grandpa."
At this time, one or two jeeps drove to Patton. The captain in the car saluted Patton and said hurriedly, "General Patton, we have just received a report from the reconnaissance plane. A large number of German armored troops were found in the desert. It seems that they were going to Patton, please give me instructions."
"Puff," Patton heard it and vomited all the Coca-Cola that had just been drunk in his mouth. "What are you saying, the Germans are attacking Badger. My God, then our retreat has been cut off?" Patton was extremely panicked at this time. So the Germans would appear there. It was not only his own logistics base, but also the only way for him to escape. If the Germans occupied it, although they would not have difficulty in logistics, their retreat would be cut off. If the Germans attacked from the other side, they would be wiped out. Thinking of this, Patton shouted and issued an order, "Give power to the Badger defenders immediately, so that they would be prepared to face the enemy. If necessary, they would never let the Germans get those supplies."
"Yes! General Patton."
At this time, Bajie City was already in chaos. After learning that the German armored troops were about to come, the US troops in the entire Bajie City fell into panic. This Bajie City was actually a desert town with no city walls, no fortifications, and no defensive positions. When Barton was rushing his division to attack Tunisia, he took away most of the elite troops. The US troops left behind Bajie were only more than 2,000 people, and most of them were logistics troops, and they had no combat effectiveness at all. The US soldiers in the entire Bajie City were now preparing to escape, and they didn't want to stay and seek death.
After learning that the German armored troops had come, Milao, the commander of Bajie City, was about to escape with his subordinates. Milao thought that he had to stay in the rear to get a good job, but he didn't expect that the man's plan was not as good as the heaven's plan, and he would be in danger in the rear. However, after receiving Patton's telegram, Milao had to temporarily give up the idea of running away immediately. He ran away now and would definitely be shot by Patton. Moreover, General Patton issued a death order to burn all military supplies before he could run away. Milao immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare to stand and destroy the military supplies in Bajie City at any time.
Chapter completed!