A large number of medium bombers have appeared in the Mediterranean, and their main bombing area is Malta, which is an important base for British troops in the Mediterranean and a major base for Britain to threaten Italy-North Africa routes. German and Italian troops bombed here day and night to ensure that there will be no large-scale British middle forces here.

Although the bombing scale was not small, the British garrison expected the German landing but it did not arrive. Seeing that the battlefield situation in North Africa turned sharply, Malta’s strategic path became smaller and smaller.
The British government has not heard the news of the German troop reduction for a long time, and many departments have speculated that the German troop reduction has caused huge losses in the British soil drop operation, which has been personally cautious by the Fuehrer.
However, at this moment today, with the roar of the engine of the ju52 transport plane, Bourroul was familiar with pulling the door of the plane and staring at his hand, shouting "Jump!"
One paratrooper after another jumped into their parachutes, forming a straight line in the sky, while many straight lines scattered in the distance looked beautiful.
Accompanied by the roaring wind, Bourroul’s feet came to a huge impact. He was familiar with this state. He touched the ground alive again. He quickly unbuckled his parachute and climbed out of the parachute that covered his head like a tent.
With sparse guns around, Bourroul squatted by a bush with his assault rifle, waiting for his troops to gather. Soon, more than seven paratroopers gathered around him. This time, it was not as difficult as expected. The enemy’s counterattack was not strong, so they were able to gather their troops in the wild and then March towards the near target.
A glider landed on the ground not far away. At first glance, this glider is not an ordinary paratrooper glider, but a new type of aircraft that is bigger and heavier.
Bourroul saw that the glider was a little unstable when it landed, so he quickly took his hand to help them set up a temporary defensive position near them and set up cover fire before helping to unload the goods from the huge glider.
Glider pilots are helping the co-pilot, an army soldier, jump out of the tall cockpit. They saw it and came to help. Bourroul and others obviously breathed a sigh of relief and expressed their gratitude to Bourroul and others.
"Thank you for coming to help! To tell the truth, it takes a lot of effort to unload this huge guy if we rely on a few people. "The co-pilot soldier pointed to the glider warehouse and said to Bourroul.
Bourroul frowned and looked at the huge glider, which was a little shocked. From a distance, it seems that it is not so huge. Close observation reveals that this glider is bigger than the ju52 transport plane.
"What’s so big?" He pointed to the transport glider and asked the pilot behind him. The pilot patted the transport plane proudly and replied proudly, "There is a tank inside!" "
It’s a tank! Bourroul was surprised to see that the German soldiers beat the back door of the glider hard and saw an aircraft skeleton tank fixed by a steel wire rope-the new weapon of the German paratroopers "No.1 paratrooper chariot"
This chariot was designed after the chassis of No.1 tank was simplified and the turret was cancelled. Although the front armor of this tank can prevent the long-distance shooting of 792 mm caliber machine bullets, it does give German paratroopers a self-propelled weapon support system.
Although the 75 mm short-tube gun is a little difficult to deal with armored targets, it can complete fire support and cover infantry and other war crisis heads, and can also serve as anti-tank weapons-this multi-way chariot exercise has indeed proved its actual combat value.
The only drawback is that this kind of chariot has three soldiers to hand over the line operation to the loader, and the conductor also takes care of the artillery control-this defect has obviously been proved to be very fatal, which directly affects the fire speed and command and dispatch when the regular armored forces engage in battle.
But at least, whether this problem has been solved is a qualitative leap of the German paratroopers, and it also makes this German paratroopers more and more like a regular infantry team instead of the traditional light infantry.
In the soldier’s excited eyes, the tank got out of the cabin. There were two soldiers in the tank. The co-pilot soldier was obviously the captain of the tank. After nodding his thanks to Bourroul, he jumped out of his weapon and fought with the infantry in Bourroul.
Picking up the telescope, Bourroul carefully observed the surrounding situation. His attack target was a marked anti-aircraft gun position. Because the defensive firepower of the other side was very weak, the paratroopers company in Bourroul had never been so smooth. Twelve paratroopers actually found more than one person soon, which was a low-threat second-class target for this attack target.
Without the slightest hesitation, a paratrooper chariot covered Borrell Company and launched an attack on their target. There was a squad of guards near the opponent’s anti-aircraft gun position. As a result, their machine gun position was suppressed by the German g42 machine gun, and the other side immediately became angry.
When the German paratroopers were close to the range of grenades, they quickly captured the machine gun position of the British guard class-first two grenades, and then several soldiers rushed to fire at the wounded soldiers in the trench.
Then Borrell took his soldiers into the British anti-aircraft gun position and found that there were actually four pitiful Bofors 4 anti-aircraft guns in it. He curled his lips and waved and called the line operator.
Grabbed the messenger with his walkie-talkie on his back, and Bourroul called the battalion headquarters not far away. "Battalion commander, I’m 1 company Boror. I have captured the planned target, killed 12 British soldiers and captured about 5 people … For those who are not reconnaissance troops, it is speculated that the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are Bofors 4 pairs, which are indeed Bofors 4 anti-aircraft guns."
The British defense can be said to be very weak. There is a pitiful British foreign division stationed in malta island. They have a small number of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns. The whole island has four tanks to use-compared with 13 thousand German paratroopers and five No.1 paratroopers, these defense forces are negligible
However, the British garrison still has no intention of surrendering. These British soldiers hid in the town and resisted stubbornly, but they were annihilated by the Germans one by one because of the disparity in strength. It is even more distressing that the Maltese airport has just been repaired and has not been destroyed by the garrison, and it is almost handed over to the German army.
The fighting lasted from early to noon. Although the British defenders in some areas caused a lot of trouble to the German paratroopers, the overall German malta island operation was relatively smooth. They quickly controlled most of the areas and compressed the British into a relatively narrow marginal area.
At noon, the Germans captured a port here. An hour later, the Italian transport ship arrived to unload the car, and there was a large amount of ammunition. The attack seemed to be smoother than the whole operation. There was no fierce resistance from the guards. With the arrival of this cargo ship, there was General Studente, the general commander of the German paratroopers.
When he learned that most of the area had been controlled by German paratroopers, he put his heart in suspense and came here to defend the army. The obvious reason was that it was not strengthened. The Fuehrer was worried that the paratroopers’ large-scale losses did not appear. Obviously, the Germans rushed to finish this important landing operation.
Landing in Malta is the most important action plan for the German army to support Rommel in North Africa. With this successful raid, the transportation routes between Germany and Italy and North Africa will be safer. Ships can reach Tumnus from many ports without detouring.
A few hours later, the defenders accepted the northern British government’s order to lay down their arms and surrender to the Germans. This was also a microcosm of the fighting of the British troops at that time. At that time, they often ordered the benchmark from the British government in Iceland. If they were lucky enough to win, they would become British people’s heroes. After losing, they would take orders from the northern British government to lay down their arms and accept the German surrender.
Studente is still very satisfied with the performance of his troops. These paratroopers have once again become the German attack force Depth Charge. They landed in malta island alone and occupied this important island at less cost.
Moreover, their efforts were not in vain. On the contrary, it was immediate-Rommel received the amount of materials that could not be transported in 15 days of the previous month, which was equivalent to saying that Rommel’s supply speed was one-third higher. Rommel personally wrote to the commander of the surrender, Studente, praising his hand as the most heroic soldier, which was also the highest praise from an armored commander to paratroopers.
Chapter 524 524 Turkish ear
On the first day of May, a group of special guests were welcomed in arcado’s office. These guests were another new member of the Axis countries who would announce their participation in the Iron and Steel Agreement after the Turkish special envoy finalized the interests of Turkey.
What Turkey has been waiting for now is to wait for Germany and Britain to tell a winner, and on the other hand, to wait for the price to be sold, and to seek a maximum benefit in the future by comparing the various benefits given by Britain and Germany.
Because of its geographical superiority and strategic strategy, Turkey has been playing delaying tactics. They are salivating over the Balkans and hostile to the Soviet Union. Of course, they also covet the land in the Middle East. For a country with ambition and expansion strength, there is a reason why Turkey is interested in Germany. Both countries were post-rising countries before World War I, and both countries have their own territorial requirements and are suppressed by Britain. Is it natural that they will not be United?
However, because Turkey didn’t seem to get any benefits in World War I, the national team was very cautious. They didn’t want to get involved in the world war easily, but they thought about getting their own benefits in the world war. This is the current situation of Turkey, which is greedy and unwilling to contribute.
Unfortunately, the recent German Lien Chan winning streak has stimulated the radical nerves of Turkey, who are sensitive to realize that if Turkey doesn’t make a quick move, then Turkey advocates that the benefits will be distributed to other axis countries such as Italy, and they have always had their own views on the Balkans.
Suddenly, I heard that Germany dropped its troops and raided malta island, reaching out to the Mediterranean island. The big Turkish people couldn’t sit still. They were afraid that the Balkan region of Germany would win as quickly as possible, so Germany’s promise to give Turkey benefits became a thing of the past.
"My head of state, we have come all the way to make a final confirmation of the Balkan issue. Can Germany and Turkey, including Italy, really realize the division of reciprocal interests?" As soon as he sat down, the Turkish diplomat asked arcado
Aka glanced at Merkel and nodded slightly and said, "Of course, Germany has always regarded Turkey as a friendly country and the Iron and Steel Agreement has always been looking forward to Turkey’s accession-the history of the Balkan Greek region is the sphere of influence of the Turkish empire, and Mussolini leaders have reached a consensus with me that Germany is also a country that respects history."
After he said this, the conversation turned to the Turkish diplomats and continued, "But please understand a truth in your country, that is, Germany is not stupid and will not give its own interests to others in vain. We mean very simply that it is no problem to want benefits, but we must do our duty as an ally."
The Turkish delegates were silent, and they naturally knew the meaning. In the past six months, they have studied these treaties every day and carefully weighed whether these can bring benefits to Turkey. Recently, they have come to the conclusion that they would not have rushed here otherwise, but diplomacy is diplomacy, and they must bargain on every condition.
"Since my head of state submitted the Covenant in person, Turkey will naturally fulfill the meaning stipulated in the Covenant." The Turkish diplomat carefully bargained with his own words. "We will send troops to the Middle East to disrupt Britain’s strategic deployment in the Middle East if conditions permit, and we will also show military deterrence on the Soviet border to attract some attention of the Soviet Union."
"Conditions permit?" Arcado raised his eyebrows and looked at the Turkish diplomat in front of him and sneered, "Is Germany trying to wipe out Poland if conditions permit? Did the conditions permit the annihilation of the British and French allied forces? Every battle we fight is a victory for soldiers’ lives and blood! Waiting for the benefits and then picking up the cheap ones? How can Germany not catch up with such a good thing? "
Watching the Italian diplomats blush and almost bury their heads in their crotch, the performance of the Italian army in France is simply shameful to the extreme, and now North Africa is still letting the Germans pay the bill. The phrase "wait for the benefits and then pick up the cheap after" in the mouth of the German head of state is almost Italy.
But at least one thing Italy has done is better, that is, although the battlefield performance is very general, it has indeed contributed. Italy is Germany’s earliest ally and has always supported Germany’s major countries in the world. Even Rommel has to admit that in some areas, Italians have indeed done everything that allies should do.
Even Italians who are thicker than the city wall feel a little shameless for such a thing as Turkey, who is swaying from side to side to watch the limelight, still haggle at the end of the day. If it weren’t for the meeting room of the Fuehrer, they would like to ask the Turks why they dare to compete with Italy for the Balkans.
The Italian diplomat asked himself that he really didn’t have the guts to clap his eyes in front of arcado and dare not speak less at this time. It is definitely an unwise choice for the German head of state not to pull the issue to Italy yet.
The Italian diplomat hypnotized himself at the thought of his own country, and he sat comfortably without looking aside. Merkel and the Turks had some pondering eyes
"my head of state, Turkey, has never been used to getting something for nothing!" After listening to arcado’s words, the Turkish diplomat frowned and replied, "In two months at most, we will be ready for the Middle East war, and the Turkish troops will look for opportunities to attack the local British garrison in the south."
He paused and then said, "It proves that we really have the sincerity to declare war on the British government in Iceland in two days!"
So Turkey is completely ready to board the German chariot. It is so righteous to say that after declaring war on Iceland and Britain, it will rob people in trouble. arcado thinks that these diplomats should all say that their mouths are few and their mouths are definitely one person’s advantage.
German soldiers have courage and blood, and they can get it if they spray their mouths. Is this the so-called three-inch tongue? Arcado nai glanced at Merkel and suddenly felt that it was good to have such a talent.
Merkel saw arcado’s eyes and knew it was time for him to go out, so he stepped forward decisively and became the protagonist of today’s alliance meeting between the two countries. It turns out that although the level of diplomats is important, the level of national strength is even more important. Merkel did not move in the face of various demands from Turkish envoys, and there was a fierce competition between the two sides.
The Middle East war is naturally not a Turkish invasion, even if it’s over. If it’s a simple invasion to occupy an area and it’s so far away, why don’t you sit down and discuss what yuanyuup is over? This kind of invasion is naturally accompanied by the distribution of oil interests in the Middle East along the steel axis in the future.
That is to say, when you send troops from Turkey to the Middle East, you have to hand over some benefits to Germany and Italy, so that Germany and Italy will recognize Turkey’s Greek power-it is actually a process of buying insurance from each other, which has caused you to have me and you to have a community of interests to strengthen the power of the steel axis Covenant.
Three countries, including Franco, Spain, Betancourt, France, northern Chamberlain, Britain and the new country Ireland, have all extended their knives and forks to carve up the interests of Britain and the United States. At present, several countries in the Middle East oil fields represent each barrel of oil quotas, and everyone has their own reasons. Their greedy appearance reminds arcado of the Paris Peace Conference and China. When diplomats watch a group of countries discuss the interests they deserve to carve up their motherland, they feel overwhelmed.
After the final distribution of benefits, the latest distribution plan is that the United States still accounts for 20% of the entire Middle East oil field output, Germany accounts for 30%, and Turkey can send troops to account for 20%. Italy, Spain and France each account for 20%, and other countries share the remaining 10%. Everyone says that this distribution is fair and it is a happy result.
So later that day, Turkish diplomats rushed to Germany with these secrets and attended a high-profile reception hosted by Krupp, which showed good intentions.
The next afternoon, the press conference of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin officially confirmed that Turkey joined the steel axis to form a new member of this group.
The blow was huge for Britain, and the situation in the Mediterranean war immediately became worse. Rommel Barton and Montgomery originally planned to counterattack, and immediately gave up the counterattack and tried their best to strengthen Tobruk fortress.
On the same afternoon, Turkey officially declared war on the British government in exile in Iceland. This news shocked the United States, the ruling and opposition parties, and the interests of the United States in the Middle East were threatened as never before. US President Roosevelt immediately summoned the German ambassador to the United States to ask whether the Axis Group’s future military action plan in the Middle East was aimed at the United States.
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"Mr. Ambassador, when the head of state, Akkadot, left the United States less than a month ago, I should not have come to you in such a hurry to talk about these issues at this moment, but Germany and Turkey in the Middle East have made us deeply uneasy." As soon as we met, President Roosevelt of the United States came straight to the point and expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in the Middle East
Of course, the German ambassador came prepared, and the country had already informed this important diplomatic official of his position. The German ambassador immediately replied to Roosevelt, "Mr. President, the United States is not interested in the interests of the Middle East, and Germany is only a world peace effort."
Roosevelt wanted to clap his desk and tell the German ambassador, "You are waging war!" But he finally gave up the hysterical roar "I saw a new war and didn’t see that Germany had the idea of ending it"
"Mr. President, Germany had hoped to achieve peace with the western Soviet Union and eastern Britain. You also saw that Vichy, France and northern Britain had already signed a peace treaty with Germany." The German ambassador replied, "But the Stalin government of the Soviet Union and the former royal family of Iceland and Britain refused to hold peace talks with Germany, which made the Fuehrer deeply worried about the war situation facing Germany."
"You know that we are a peace-loving nation. To achieve peace, we have to step up our attack on the British colonies in the Middle East who support Iceland’s British royal family, so that the war will end more quickly." Finally, the German ambassador made a long speech for more than half an hour and summed up the difficulties of the German people in expanding the war
You invaded Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, France, and Britain … You got all the benefits and almost all the threats. Now you want peace? When did you Germans become so ashamed? Huh?
American President Roosevelt finally got a chance after a bitter scolding in his heart. "But the war you started in the Middle East will affect American oil exploitation, which may affect the friendship between Germany and the United States! Germany has made enemies on all sides. I believe that the Fuehrer does not want to see the United States become an enemy of Germany. "
"Of course! Mr. President! " The German ambassador nodded and agreed with Roosevelt’s view that "the German government never thought that the United States was an enemy. Both of us are rich and powerful countries, and our war is enough to collapse the world system. This is obviously a very unwise decision."
"So, Mr. Ambassador, we in the United States attach great importance to the stability in the Middle East, which is also the common interest of Germany and the United States." Roosevelt thought for a moment and then said, "If I can say that some local Arabs sell some oil to Germany and ensure that the oil can be transported to Germany, can the situation in the Middle East maintain the status quo?"