Chapter 250: Chapter 153: [The Tunisian Campaign] Rommel’s Final Hours (5.2k Double Chapter)
Duan Yu has entered the game.
After not playing for more than half a month, returning to the game now, he surprisingly found no discomfort.
It might also be because Huaxia and "World War II: Empire’s Rise" are from the same company, making the transition very smooth.
’Earth’ is still that ’Earth,’ just at a different time point.
But there’s also something a bit different.
Because....
As soon as Duan Yu entered Leningrad, he looked at the trees in the city.
In an instant.
He felt as if he wasn’t hungry anymore.
Wherever he looked, there were towering trees and complete bark.
This could all be food!
How come he never realized Leningrad had so much food before?!
Duan Yu had a smile on his face.
Scanning around to see which tree would be good to eat today.
Meanwhile.
Celestial Shark Live, in Yu Feng’s streaming room.
Teaming up with Fang Ming to play the Huaxia beta, Yu Feng had long returned to streaming "World War II: Empire’s Rise."
Fang Ming, on the other hand, went to stream the game Huaxia, and now he does nothing else, mostly selecting identities in immersive mode.
Sometimes, one identity has dozens of classifications below it, taking three days to play through them all.
And such identities number in the thousands.
Players, though unable to play them all, love watching, and through different identities, players are continuously improving the identity database.
But even so.
There’s still much unexplored out there, so the fresh hype around Huaxia is considerable, and to break out of the circle, you must stream the game Huaxia.
Yu Feng, however, isn’t interested in such identity experiences and continues streaming "World War II: Empire’s Rise."
He’s currently on the North African Battlefield.
At this moment, Yu Feng is in a moving truck, sitting in the passenger seat, holding a map of North Africa.
On the North African Battlefield here, since last year’s ’Battle of El Alamein,’ the Imperial defeat has gradually tilted the scales of victory towards the Allies.
It also exposed the Empire’s most severe problem.
Insufficient resources and supplies.
Since the start of the first ’Battle of El Alamein’ in July, both sides have been stuck in a war of attrition, forcing Imperial star Rommel into a defensive stance.
And in October 1942, during the second ’Battle of El Alamein’.
Even with the European Battlefield blazing hot, and the Supreme Leader ordering a flight unit to support the supply transport in North Africa.
But in such circumstances, the Empire still lost due to fuel exhaustion.
Rommel’s armored units lacked fuel for a counterattack and had to retreat to defensive positions.
However, with February’s victory in the European Battle of Kharkiv.
Rommel stirred up quite a commotion on the Northern Battlefield, recently leading the 10th and 21st Imperial Panzer Divisions in an assault on Sidi Bou Zid.
The US Army, fresh from victory in the Pacific Theater, hadn’t even stretched their legs in the North African Battlefield.
Only to be harshly slapped by Rommel.
The US Army’s 1st Armored Division’s battle group was nearly entirely wiped out.
While Rommel continued his lightning advance with the 10th Panzer Division, seeing the US Army retreat over 50 kilometers in just a few days.
The defensive line nearly collapsed.
At this point, the US Army finally realized, naval warfare and land warfare are not the same thing.
Even if they’re crushing Japan in the Pacific.
Rommel’s steel flood is simply beyond the navy-entrenched US Army’s ability to withstand.
Though there’s good news.
Despite Rommel’s reversal of the situation, the old problem.... insufficient supplies.
He dared not advance further to expand the gains.
This has given the Allies the opportunity to reorganize their defenses, and Yu Feng’s current unit is on its way to provide assistance.
The support vehicle sped through the desert.
Yu Feng matched the ’real-time map’ on the Polestar Official Website with his own map, chatting idly with his chatroom:
"As the war progresses, it feels like the protagonists have changed."
"Originally it was Italy invading North Africa, now it’s the Empire at the forefront."
"Originally it was the British Commonwealth resisting Italy, but now the United States of America is taking the lead."
"At this point, it’s hard to determine who’s the protagonist here."
Not only can’t you tell who the protagonist is, but now, no one can retreat either.
After suffering so many losses, there’s no way the Empire would easily retreat, and if not for insufficient supplies, the situation in North Africa might be different.
Meanwhile, the United States of America, having successively won in the Pacific, arrived in North Africa only to suffer such a huge setback, clearly they can’t retreat either.
But no one knows what the future holds.
After all, Rommel’s command skills are truly unmatched.
Blue Star players, although they’ve never faced him directly.
The North African Battlefield’s Axis disadvantage has repeatedly been rectified by Rommel’s maneuvers.
He’s officially recognized within the Hall of Fame as one of the Empire’s three great generals.
Guderian, of course, needs no introduction, and Manstein’s command in the Battle of Kharkiv was also a turning point, coupled with Rommel’s numerous moves in North Africa.
Imperial three great generals are well deserved.
Yu Feng looked at the situation on the North African Battlefield, then moved his gaze to the ’real-time map,’ before shifting to the European Battlefield, enlarging it and said:
"The situation in Europe is similar to North Africa."
"The Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of El Alamein were just victorious, yet reversed by the extreme maneuvers of Imperial generals."