Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 437 North African Campaign (5)

Rommel took the battle map and plotted the distance to Cairo.

Along the way, they killed and captured about 10,000 British soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Egyptian soldiers. This means that there are still about 40,000 British soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Egyptian soldiers, and about 50,000 to 60,000 Indian soldiers in Cairo. There may also be reinforcements from colonies such as Australia and Canada.

The total strength should be around 300,000.

It seems that General Wavell wants to defend Cairo?

"What a good idea, don't run away." The adjutant next to him said as Rommel put away the map and muttered to himself. "General, they are coming."

Looking in the direction of the adjutant's finger, more than a dozen Stukas flew from the distant sky.

"I came just in time, the weather is really hot." Listening to the cheers of the soldiers around him, Rommel had a smile on his face.

The adjutant took out a smoke bomb from the car, pulled out the safety and threw it into the open space in the distance. Someone in the distance also threw smoke bombs one after another.

As smoke billowed from the smoke bombs, the Stukas spread out and began to swoop down. Although the buzzer was removed, the high-speed diving bomber still made a buzzing sound of friction with the air.

When it was more than 600 meters above the ground, Stuka dropped the "bomb" mounted on its abdomen and began to climb slowly.

The rapidly falling "bomb" ejected a parachute when it was more than 100 meters above the ground. It suddenly stopped in the air, but still hit heavily near the smoke bomb.

"Ice cream, ice cream!" the adjutant hummed, running over, prying open the shell of the "bomb" and taking out a container the size of a lunch box. There was more than one such container in a "bomb", and the surrounding soldiers swarmed in and divided the containers inside.

During World War II, American soldiers not only had meat for every meal, but also snacks such as cookies and chocolate were freely provided. In their spare time, they also invented a method for fighter planes to make ice cream at high altitudes.

The person who invented this "feat" was Major Rheinburg of the 122nd Squadron of the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific War. When the war with the Japanese was in full swing, Rheinburg decided to do something in order to ease the repressed war atmosphere in the army. After studying the F4U fighter jet, he found that after the fighter's auxiliary fuel tank was modified, some ice cream ingredients such as milk and cocoa powder were loaded. After flying to a high altitude, it could make ice cream by relying on the low temperature of dozens of degrees below zero at high altitude.

This discovery made him and the soldiers of the 122nd Squadron extremely happy. It allowed them to eat some delicious ice cream every day during the brutal war, which greatly relieved their physical and mental health. In order to keep it secret, Major Rheinburg named the ice cream-making activity a rather mysterious plan name: "Operation Freeze", with one pilot completing the mission every day.

Of course, Major Rheinburg could not let the fighter planes fly for no reason. The reason why he dispatched F4U fighter jets every day was to conduct reconnaissance on some islands where the Japanese army was stationed, and to lure the Japanese army to attack the F4U fighter jets. Of course, for the F4U fighter jets that can fly at an altitude of 12,000 meters, the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower poses no threat to them at all, so the F4U fighter jets can safely make ice cream every day.

However, Major Rheinburg's "Operation Freeze" was eventually discovered. After an F4U fighter jet completed making ice cream at high altitude, because the pilot landed too fast, the auxiliary fuel tank containing ice cream fell directly into a nearby U.S. Army camp. The U.S. Army soldiers in the camp discovered that the 122nd Squadron was actually doing such a "good thing" and strongly demanded to participate. Then, all nearby U.S. Air Force squadrons learned Rheinburg's method of modifying auxiliary fuel tanks and began to make ice cream. As a result, "Operation Freeze" became popular among the U.S. military, and Major Rheinburg was praised by U.S. soldiers from all walks of life.

This kind of enjoyment was an unattainable luxury for the German army, which was originally lacking in time and space resources. However, now the oil in P City in Libya is continuously mined and processed into aviation fuel. For the Afrika Korps, petroleum and gasoline are cheaper than fresh water, so they can be used freely.

Yannick ordered a Stuka formation to be allocated specifically to manufacture and transport ice cream to ensure the morale of the frontline troops. By the way, he could also train these pilots in bomb-dropping skills, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The adjutant returned to the command car, opened the container, divided the ice cream inside into four portions, distributed them to Rommel, the Italian officers and the Vichy French officers, and took a portion for himself.

"It's so delicious." The Italian officer couldn't help but sigh as he eagerly picked up the spoon and took a bite of the ice cream. "Your army really knows how to enjoy it."

Rommel rolled his eyes in his heart, who can enjoy the battlefield more than you? Take the precious fresh water to cook the macaroni. If it weren't for the guarantee of fresh water, you would have to bury all your macaroni in the sand.

The Italian Army in World War II was famous for being foodies.

Is there any way to eat delicious food on the battlefield? Under this belief, when other countries were busy developing new weapons, Italy invented the freeze-drying method of preserving food because it wanted to eat delicious military food...

On the battlefield 10 kilometers away from the supply depot, the entire army cooked pasta and ate it because they were hungry, and then the entire army was easily captured by the enemy...

The fighting would stop at lunchtime, and when the pasta was finished, they would hide behind the lines in despair...

The packaging of a famous Italian red wine has the slogan "When you are drunk, you will not be afraid of fighting." Among the supplies captured by the enemy, there was more red wine than ammunition...

Prisoners captured by Italy can eat luxury meals every day... A British pilot was captured by Italy and put into a prisoner concentration camp. That night he was given his own supper in prison. It was an unnaturally luxurious meal with everything from the appetizers to the macaroni and meat, and even the fruit and red wine at the end. "Is this the so-called Last Supper..."

The next morning, a seemingly high-ranking general appeared in front of him: "Yesterday we made a small mistake. We provided dinner to your Excellency, a general, as an ordinary soldier. This was definitely not intentional abuse of prisoners. For my sake, can you forgive the guard who made the mistake?"...

The Italians in a prison camp escaped. Because there was no pasta to eat, they ran to another prison camp that had pasta. Later, the previous prison camp promised them that they would provide pasta, so they went back... …

Although the combat effectiveness of the Italian army at this time has been greatly improved compared to the original time and space, it still has not lost its foodie attributes.

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