In fact, Wavell was really wronged by Churchill, and he fought really well in Africa.
And after receiving Commonwealth troops transferred from India and Australia, Wavell has already begun a new round of offensive.
With a new defeat in East Africa and a stalemate in North Africa, Britain indeed urgently needed a victory to stabilize military morale.
Coupled with Churchill's "complaints" against him in London, General Wavell felt the importance of victory even more urgently.
Although Churchill notified him in advance, he was acting to show Reinhardt, telling him not to pay attention and concentrate on preparing for the war in North Africa.
But the curse words Wavell read about Churchill in the newspapers looked like they were improvised, and they were all spoken from his heart.
However, the Prime Minister comforted himself after all, and he believed that he trusted himself. Wavell believed that he could not live up to the trust of the Prime Minister and the country.
Therefore, he put all his efforts into planning a new round of attack on Benghazi, Libya.
The Italian Governor of Libya, General Garibaldi, remained as stubborn as before, huddled within the fortifications of Benghazi.
Wavell knew that if he wanted to rely on his small number of troops to defeat the Italian army, which was several times his own, he must lure the Italian army out of the fortifications, encircle and annihilate them, and cannot rely on storming its defensive positions.
He thought over and over again and discussed with the combat staff their combat plan for Benghazi.
"Our top priority now is to lure the Benghazi defenders out. If they keep huddled in the position and drag us down, we will be destroyed if the East African side cannot hold on."
A combat staff officer said that he was not optimistic about the current situation on the North African battlefield.
"The difficult thing is that the Italian General Garibaldi on the other side has a stubborn temper. We scolded him and hit him, but he refused to come out to fight."
The staff officer continued, and it was obvious that he had lost confidence in Wavell coming out to challenge.
"They didn't come out because they felt they didn't have the confidence to defeat us. We might as well think about it from another angle. If they thought they could defeat our British army, would they come out to challenge us?"
Wavell reminded everyone that he was still full of confidence in the war, and in his opinion victory was just a matter of time.
"It's easy to say, but these Italians have been frightened by us, and they won't come out easily." Another staff officer shook his head.
Indeed, it would be no less difficult for the Italians in front of them to challenge them than to win World War II.
"So, today we are here to let everyone express their opinions to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy. Feel free to speak freely and don't hold anything back." General Wavell said to everyone, with a faint smile on his face.
An observant general caught General Wavell's smile, and he said with a smile: "I'm afraid General Wavell already has a plan in mind. In this case, it's better to share it with everyone, so that we can have a basis and don't have to worry.
Already."
General Wavell still smiled and said nothing, waiting for everyone's answers.
After a while, when everyone was silent, General Wavell said slowly: "The Italians are afraid of our armored forces. If we ask that all the tanks be transferred, will they dare to fight?"
"What? Transfer them away? Then what can we use to fight the Italian army?" After hearing this seemingly crazy decision, everyone was very surprised and talked about it one after another.
"Of course it's not really that we were transferred. We just made the Germans think that we were transferred." General Wavell added.
However, everyone became even more confused when they heard this. For a while, they stared at each other speechless, waiting for Wavell's further explanation.
"We use magician-like methods to make our tanks move," General Wavell said.
What General Wavell was thinking of was actually a magician's performance. The so-called magician's performance was actually using small means to deceive the Italian army, directing the enemy's attention elsewhere, thereby consuming the enemy's energy.
General Wavell divided his army into several small squads dedicated to defrauding the Italian army.
General Wavell ordered them to artificially create a large-scale army, hundreds of inflatable rubber tanks, biscuit box field guns and "two-ton" load trucks.
In order to further deceive the Italian army, the British army pretended to build a road and "printed" tank track marks on the road. Moreover, they learned Zhang Fei's plan and used camels to drag rakes through the desert, creating a large number of
of smoke.
Moreover, they kept this unit moving back and forth southward, often turning back and continuing to advance southward from the base camp after traveling a few hundred kilometers, and the flow continued uninterrupted.
This move will inevitably make the Italian army think that the number of tank troops far exceeds theirs and that the British army has begun to support the East African battlefield.
Therefore, General Garibaldi, the Italian army coach, must have thought that the time had come and began to plan a counterattack against the British army.
Unless he dares to wait for the British army to defeat the Italian army in East Africa and transfer the tanks back to the Italian army in North Africa. Otherwise, Garibaldi will never sit idly by.
It was precisely because of General Wavell's sophisticated plan to conceal Chencang that the always cautious General Garibaldi was fooled.
In fact, the current Italian army has already missed the best time to attack, and the current British army has become stronger after receiving more support from the British Commonwealth armies.
Two days later, General Garibaldi finally couldn't sit still. He ordered the Italian troops in the position to be divided into three groups: left, center and right, and launched a sudden counterattack against the British troops in the early morning.
It was thought that the British army would be caught off guard, but in fact the British army had already expected that the Italian army would counterattack.
The British tank troops lying in wait suddenly rushed out. Wavell ordered them to cooperate with the light army to attack the Italian army. For a time, the Italian army was frightened and fled.
In the following period, the British army captured 130,000 Italian troops, 400 tanks and 1,290 artillery pieces.
Garibaldi himself also fled to western Libya by car in despair, arriving at the Algeria-Libya border area managed by Berante's French army.
Since then, the Italian army in North Africa has no longer been able to compete with the British army.
The covert strategy used by General Wavell looked like the hide-and-seek game he played as a child, but it was hidden from the eyes of the enemy, luring the Italian army to attack him, and at the same time winning a valuable opportunity for his own troops to attack.
But what General Wavell used was not a child's play, but a strategy. It was this strategy that enabled the British Army to achieve a staged victory, allowing them to turn around and deal with the Italian Army in East Africa.
