Afterwards, Carter walked out of the hut and squatted down to observe the surrounding situation. By chance, he discovered several Italian soldiers near the hut, moving in his direction, and Carter wanted to call them to the hut.
Fight with them.
After all, having a few more soldiers joining them would be better and safer than just three people now, although these soldiers probably don't have much combat effectiveness.
However, although the Italian soldiers in the reconnaissance company are also afraid of death, at least in terms of training level, they are still superior to their counterparts in the entire Italian army. Otherwise, these soldiers would not have been selected into the reconnaissance company.
The distance of thirty meters was very short, and it took less than a few seconds to run over. When these Italian soldiers just ran to the backyard of this small house, they bumped into someone who quietly leaned out from the house to greet them.
Their Captain Carter.
The leader of these people was a sergeant. When he found someone a few meters in front of him, the sergeant subconsciously raised his Carcano M1891 rifle and prepared to shoot.
Fortunately, Carter spoke in Italian in time: "One of our own!"
Therefore, the sergeant's finger had already touched the trigger and then stopped, without causing any accidental injury.
When he saw the captain's epaulets on the visitor's shoulders, he couldn't help suppressing his voice and said: "Company commander, why are you here? Come with me quickly and get out of here."
Obviously, there can only be one Italian captain officer who can appear in this area, and that is Carter, the commander of the reconnaissance company. Although the sergeant did not see Captain Carter's appearance carefully, he could still determine the identity of the other party.
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Captain Carter and the two officers were confused about the battle situation outside, so they chose to follow the sergeant's suggestion and followed him to another two-story house in zigzags. The sergeant took a total of four people with him.
soldiers, two of whom were part of a machine gunnery group, and the other two soldiers were armed with Carcano M1891 rifles identical to his.
Even though they are carrying a machine gun, it is a Beretta M1930 light machine gun!
A single-shot "machine gun" with a magazine capacity of only 20 rounds and very low firepower sustainability.
Therefore, this kind of machine gun is actually unreliable. Even the entire reconnaissance company is not very reliable...
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"What?!" In the headquarters, Garibaldo looked at the staff officer reporting the battle situation in disbelief: "You told me that the reconnaissance company was ambushed and completely wiped out?!"
"Yes, General." The combat staff swallowed, lowered his head and said, "The British should have discovered our whereabouts long ago, otherwise they would not have laid a continuous ambush for our reconnaissance."
Has his whereabouts been discovered? Garibaldi suddenly felt an ominous premonition: "What's going on? Tell me clearly!"
After receiving the order, the staff officer quickly explained: "According to the last telegram sent back by Captain Carter, they were ambushed by the British army and fell into a trap."
A trap set in advance, doesn't that mean...
"Oops! Pass my order, all the troops..." Garibaldi was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted by the explosion of a shell that suddenly fell outside the headquarters.
That's right, since the British army had insight into the movements of the Italian army and had carried out an ambush against their reconnaissance company, there was no reason for the British army to let Garibaldi take command of this deep-rooted main force of the Italian army!
The overwhelming artillery shells fell on Garibaldi's troop formation. In the distance, a large number of Matilda tanks first emerged in the dust...
The British 7th Armored Division, known as the Desert Rats!
It was this division that defeated the Italian army under Garibaldi and lost the border stronghold of Bardir, the famous fortress of Tobruk, the important town of Benghazi, and the entire Libya.
Now, the British 7th Armored Division, which is like a nightmare for the British army, is back!
"I just sent a telegram to the leader, saying that we are going deep into Libya and will soon regain all of Libya..." Garibaldi covered his face and said in pain: "As a result, we encountered a situation that we had prepared for.
Here comes the main British armored division."
It must be said that Garibaldi was a bit unlucky. From his initial strategy of attacking on two fronts in the east and north, to his ability to preserve his strength and join forces with the French army in Algeria after the defeat, all this shows that he is not an incompetent loser.
However, as God would have it, his soldiers were indeed no match for Wavell's soldiers.
In addition, he left an armored division (which was seriously short of tanks) and two infantry divisions needed by the German-Italian Africa Army in Algeria, waiting for Rommel to reorganize, and also transferred a division of a disobedient major general.
Support the German-French allied forces. At this moment, the troops in Garibaldi's hands not only lost their advantage in combat effectiveness, but also lost their advantage in terms of number of troops.
Definitely losing! This is the outcome Garibaldi is 100% sure of.
"Let the leading regiment deploy defenses on the spot, and order the 37th Division to deploy another regiment to deploy a second blocking position behind the leading regiment..."
Having said this, Garibaldi finally gritted his teeth after a moment and ordered: "The remaining divisions and regiments, together with our general headquarters, quickly retreat to the direction of 45 degrees west-north, to consider the German and French forces there."
"Yes." The staff officer's voice was trembling as he took the order.
Not only this staff officer, but every officer present here knew very well that when the British army had the upper hand, they withdrew the large troops, leaving behind the vanguard regiment lacking anti-tank weapons and a regiment of the 37th Infantry Division. With these two
The regiment built two blocking positions to block the advance of the British Matilda tanks, which was tantamount to ordering the officers and soldiers of the two regiments to commit suicide!
Obviously, Garibaldi, this is to sacrifice the tail of a lizard in exchange for time for the large army to escape.
A strong man cuts off his wrist, this is Garibaldi's tactic!
Although they were horrified, none of the officers in the headquarters raised any objections to Garibaldi's deployment. Everyone understood that this was the best response at present. Although Garibaldi was defeated, he was still retained by Mussolini.
His position as the commander of the Afrika Korps was not due to coincidence or luck.
But he is better at fighting than most Italian generals!
With their heads covered in dust, the main force of the Italian army quickly left the battlefield under Garibaldi's command.
It's a pity...they didn't escape their cruel fate.
In the crisis, Garibaldi fully demonstrated his abilities.
Surviving with a broken arm, he was very decisive when issuing orders.
However, the commanders of the two Italian infantry regiments in the rear were more decisive than Garibaldi... They decisively surrendered to the British army!
It only delayed the British tanks for ten minutes, or even less. The Italian leading group chose to surrender before their formation was completely broken up.
With the precedent set, the regiment deployed at the rear surrendered altogether.
However, they did hold off the British army for a while.
Because after the surrender, as prisoners... they blocked the pursuit path of the British 7th Armored Division.
By the time the British had cleared the road and arranged for the prisoners, Garibaldi's main force had already slipped out for a long distance.
