Redemption of WWII

Chapter 140 Lost 3

Major General De Guingamp, Major General of the British Eighth Army, jumped off the roof of the command vehicle in a rather strange mood. 【】

Originally, Gan Gang thought that his subordinates were unwilling to attack Cairo, and deliberately delayed the time on the way.But it is not the case now.It turns out that Cairo has indeed disappeared from where it should have been.Guingamp could not believe this fact.This is simply even more absurd than when Copernicus proved the heliocentric theory.

Guingamp thought about the idea in his mind. Could it be that a large sandstorm suddenly broke out in the Cairo area, covering the entire Cairo.However, the moon and stars are sparse in the sky, and the appearance of the crows flying south does not seem to have traces of being poisoned by sandstorms.Could it be that the Egyptians moved the whole of Cairo to another place, but this is not the story of Aladdin's magic lamp, or there are monsters like magic lamps. It is estimated that such a large city will not leave no traces.

Thinking of this, Guingamp couldn't help but twitched himself, thinking nonsense, there are no gods or monsters in this world, they are all just legends.

At this time, Guingamp was completely subdued, and it has been very difficult since arriving in Egypt.First, his own Lehman headquarters was killed by the German squad, and then Cairo was also occupied by that squad.After finally escaping from Cairo, the car ran out of gasoline on the way, and I led someone to attack Cairo, but I ran for three days without even finding Cairo.It's really evil.

At this time, Commander Smith also came out of the car, and said to Guingamp who was in a daze, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, what should we do now. It has been nearly 60 hours. According to our current calculation, it is estimated that it will be early." Just crossed the Nile, but does the Nile look like there is a river around you?"

Guingamp was also very satisfied and said, "Maybe we really lost our way. It's really evil. Our team of 3 people will get lost. If it gets out, people will laugh their heads off."

It was General Smith who said soberly, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, we are not being laughed at by others now. We are already in trouble. You don't know, since yesterday morning, our long-wave radio station has lost signal. Now Our communication with the outside world has been cut off."

"What, the radio station lost contact again, how is this possible?" Major General Guingamp heard that the radio station was also down, and he broke into a cold sweat in shock.

"That's true, and our army lost three military vehicles last night. I guess the vehicles may have suffered a mechanical failure and were left behind by the team. I just sent a rescue team to find them." Smith said.

Guingamp thought that the 20 troops on the front line disappeared in the desert because they lost contact with the headquarters.Now that I have brought these tens of thousands of people, such a result has appeared again. Could it be that all this is God's arrangement.Did God spurn his people, the British team? Did the empire on which the sun never sets offend God?

General Smith continued to ask, "Then what should we do next?"

As for what to do next, Guingamp's mind almost ached.However, Guingamp is also a person who has experienced a lot of battles. He pretended to be very relaxed and said, "What should we do? Let's move on. I still don't believe that this road can lead us to other places. Let's go." , we move on."

At this time, no one had a good idea, so they had to continue marching forward.However, the speed of this action is not very fast, it is just moving forward.This time Guingamp and Smith lay down together in front of the map and carefully picked up the [-]-to-[-] military map, hoping to find out something from the map.However, the direction of the march is exactly the same as the direction indicated by the compass, and the road of the march is also a familiar road before, so there is no possibility of any mistakes.

This walk lasted a day and a night, and nearly 100 hours had passed since Major General Guingamp set off from Alexandria.All the officers and soldiers of the British army, up and down, already knew that they had lost their way in the desert.The entire army is in a very depressed state.No one knows where the way out is.No one knows whether he can finally walk out of this desert alive.

At this time, Guingamp was almost hysterical, and basically called the front vehicle to ask about the situation every 10 minutes.But every time they answered, there was no progress, and there was no sign of Cairo at all.Finally, Guingamp exhausted all his energy, and his disappointment gradually turned into despair. Guingamp sat down on the chair of the command car with all his might.

Fortunately, General Smith was still relatively tenacious, and quickly issued an order for the troops to stop advancing.Then he said to Guingamp, who had completely lost confidence, "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, according to our marching distance, we have already passed the Suez Canal, and we should be standing on the land of Asia now. But you are also here, we We haven’t even walked out of this desert yet. We should think of a solution as soon as possible.”

Guangan said forcefully, "What can you do, tell me."

General Smith said, "It is impossible for us to attack Cairo. We can reach Cairo now. Our soldiers are exhausted after marching for the past few days. Whether we can attack Cairo guarded by the Germans is a big problem. Why don't we retreat back to Alexandria first. We can attack Cairo after we figure out what's going on. As the saying goes, if you leave green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. How about you, my chief of staff."

Gan Gang originally wanted to say that there were only a few hundred German squads in Cairo, and we didn't need to fight at all, and we would probably scare them to death.But in the current situation, even Cairo doesn't know where it is.You can't scare people even if you want to.In desperation, Guingamp could only nod his head.Then Guingamp threw himself on General Smith's camp bed, closed his eyes, and never wanted to face this terrible reality again.

General Smith also shook his head when he saw Guingamp, and sighed softly.Then an order was issued for the entire army to change from the rear to the front and return to Alexandria immediately.

Smith's order was unanimously praised by all British officers and soldiers, and all the vehicles began to be busy and turned around.But many of the vehicles are heavy trucks towing heavy artillery, so it is not so easy to turn around.As a last resort, all the infantrymen had to get out of their vehicles and get the cannons out of the way, and let the trucks turn around first, and then hung up the cannons again.

Nearly half an hour passed after this toss, and when the trucks turned around and started on the road, there were a lot of equipment thrown away by the British army on both sides of the road.Most of them were heavy artillery that got stuck in the sand and couldn't get out in the desert on the side of the road.But at this time, escape is the most important thing, and no one cares about it.

Even General Smith could only turn a blind eye to those abandoned heavy artillery.Anyway, just go back to Alexandria, report to the Ministry of War, and let them replenish it.The immediate priority was to get back to Alexandria as soon as possible, because Smith knew his troops were running low on fuel.If there is really no fuel in this desert and these tens of thousands of people are trapped here, something might go wrong.

However, the matter was really informed by Smith. The fuel of the entire army had reached the bottom line in less than ten hours after the return.Now Smith was also in a hurry, and quickly ordered his truck to throw away everything that could be thrown away to reduce the weight.Now it's over, the cannon is still up, and the cannon is still down.Food and fresh water are also left, no, this is not good, I don’t know when I will be able to escape from this damn desert, if I keep food and fresh water, I will be trapped here.

In this way, the British team abandoned everything that could be discarded, only carrying light weapons and food and fresh water, and continued to move towards Alexandria.There is a stark contrast between the British troops and the German troops. The German Leopard tank unit still had a lot of things in order to attack Cairo in the absence of fuel, but they also brought a lot of weapons and medicines with them. .The first thing the British troops discarded was those weapons and medicines that were heavy and took up space.From here, it can be seen that the British army at this time could not beat the German army, which is still very reasonable.

Just like the German Panther tanks couldn't reach Cairo.The British army did not reach Alexandria when it burned the last drop of gasoline.Facing the road that seemed to never end, all the young British soldiers were about to cry.These British soldiers are not afraid of dying in battle, but if they die of thirst in this desert, it would be a horrible thing for everyone.

In desperation, General Smith had no choice but to issue an order to march on foot.This is also a very nasty thing, but if you stay in the car and wait for the rescue who doesn't know when it will arrive, it's better to keep going on your own two legs.Fortunately, General Smith usually has a great influence on the entire army, and no one expressed any objection.

Nearly [-] troops took all the water and food on board and began to march along the road.Fortunately, the weather is not very hot now, and marching on foot during the day is relatively easy.

In this way, everyone stayed overnight and walked for another two days. Suddenly, an exciting news came from the pioneers in front.A convoy was spotted not far away.It looked like a convoy of the British army, and those convoys were parked on the side of the road to rest.This news immediately won unanimous praise from all officers and soldiers, and everyone cheered and jumped up.

But when these excited British soldiers ran up to these vehicles, they couldn't help being dumbfounded again.Here and there are rescue vehicles. Are these obviously the cars without gas that the British army threw away the day before yesterday?

It turned out that the two days' journey was all in vain, and the British army went around a circle and returned to the original place.