Imperial Overlord

In the face of the German Middle East Legion that is about to move, the British can really mobilize not many troops now - they only have the desert as their support, but the troops are pitiful.

Most of the troops in Montgomery's hands were transferred to the Burmese battlefield, which was fighting against Japan. Because of this, Mountbatten and Auchinleck were able to defend their lines of defense under the Japanese onslaught.

It is a pity that now Mountbatten's backyard is on fire, and the German army, which had been stagnant, has also begun to attack.

Relying on U.S. support was not a safe bet, as the route was occasionally cut off by Japanese warships.

The various tanks and heavy weapons and equipment that were finally transported were not able to form a real combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

After all, in India, the supplementary soldiers of the United Kingdom can only be local Indians and Australians. The real British on the British Isles is one less dead.

Under such circumstances, the various problems that the British army was barely maintaining the line of defense came to the fore.

If Iraq and Iran are abandoned, then the British oil supply in India is completely lost. By the time the Germans get new oil fields, they might even be stronger.

Even if the oil fields in Iran and Iraq were bombed, the government in exile would not be able to get more oil supplies, and the war would not go on.

It is already very difficult for the United States to replenish equipment such as tanks and trucks for India, because American arms have to be exported from the mainland, first transferred to Australia, and then circled from southern Australia to the Indian Ocean.

This transportation line is quite long, so it also consumes a lot of ship transportation capacity. At the same time, the United States has to bear the assistance of the Soviet Union, which is also a great pressure for the United States, the world's largest industrial power.

Therefore, Britain does not dare to give up oil from Iraq and Iran, and does not dare to transfer this part of the pressure to American shipping.

"The news of Montgomery's return from the front, the Rommel Legion may be about to start an attack." Mountbatten handed the telegram to Elizabeth and said.

Elizabeth took the telegram expressionlessly, looked at it, and then asked, "How many enemies are expected? Where are the tanks?"

Mountbatten smiled wryly, thought for a moment and replied: "Her Royal Highness, Rommel's armored division may have more than 900 tanks, and the Italians also have roughly the same number."

If you insist, this number is actually not much. In fact, after the African Corps was transformed into the Middle East Corps, the number of armored divisions did not increase, and the number of tanks did not substantially increase.

In fact, the total number of tanks in Rommel's hands has not changed much, which is also directly related to the supply capacity in the Middle East.

To put it bluntly, the logistics supply can only support so many tanks, and no matter how many tanks, it can't be opened, and it can't form combat effectiveness.

However, as the war progressed, the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks of the armored units under Rommel's Middle East Corps have been replaced by more powerful models such as Panther tanks.

And the German tank force led by the Panther tank is no longer a steel torrent that can be stopped by the m3 and m31ee tanks aided by the United States.

"The performance of the Italian tanks is not very good. I don't really care about it, but we are really powerless to resist the German attack." Seeing that Elizabeth did not speak, Mountbatten had to continue to explain.

No wonder he thought so, in fact, Montgomery on the front thought so too: they all ignored the Italians and focused on the Germans.

The lethality of the hundreds of thousands of German Middle East Corps is far more terrifying than that of 200,000 or even 300,000 Italian troops.

"Montgomery has less than 100 aircraft, and the 7th Armored Division with limited combat capability and some infantry... Should we give up Iraq in this case?" Elizabeth looked at her most trusted subordinate Mountbatten and continued to ask .

"Abandoning Iraq and Iran means giving up our only source of oil..." Mountbatten replied: "Even if it is destroyed by blasting, the oil facilities there will be left to the Germans, but we can't take anything with us."

Elizabeth nodded, realizing that without oil, India would have nothing to hold on to.

"Then there is only one way, let Auchinleck transfer two divisions, plus the two Indian divisions we just formed, to reinforce Montgomery!" Elizabeth looked at Mountbatten and put forward her own idea.

As the spiritual leader of the British government-in-exile in India, Elizabeth has grown a lot in the past six months.

At this time, she had already shown the demeanor of a future queen, which made Mountbatten convince her as a decision maker who could do something.

She often puts forward some of her own opinions subjectively, which makes people ignore the fact that she is only less than 16 years old now.

Auchinleck's troops fought against the Japanese in the east and saw blood~www.readwn.com~ With actual combat experience, they were transferred to the western front together with two newly formed Indian divisions who had no actual combat experience. It was quite safe.

Mountbatten immediately agreed, and added: "I'm worried that Montgomery won't be able to hold on. It's better to send the 11th Armored Division there too."

In the past six months, with official assistance from the United States, Montgomery reorganized the 7th Armored Division, and Mountbatten also formed a not-so-elite 11th Armored Division in India.

The equipment of the 11th Armored Division is very poor, mainly adapted from an Australian unit. They are equipped with about 15o m31ee tanks, which are not full.

But now Mountbatten was desperately ill and went to the doctor, so he had to bite the bullet and take out all his family assets, trying to rely on the desert as a support to block Rommel's progress.

"Yes! Send the 11th Armored Division there too! If Montgomery is defeated, then we have no good choice." Elizabeth nodded in agreement.

If it weren't for the fear of drawing too much, Auchinleck's defense line would collapse, Elizabeth even wanted to transfer the ace of the 10th Armored Division back to the Western Front.

After all, Rommel, the commander of the Middle East Corps, made the British side more fearful than the Japanese commander Mutianguchi Rianye in Southeast Asia.

This really does not blame the British, because whether it is Montgomery or Auchinleck, Rommel's troops have been "taught to be human".

On October 25, after receiving Yuan's order, Rommel, who had just arrived in the Middle East for 14 days, led a total of 410,000 German troops in the Middle East to execute the offensive order, and the battle between Iran and Iraq officially kicked off.

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