Darlan soon made contact with the Algerian independents. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was not difficult to do this, Darlan only had to get the French officers to spread Zhang Chi's words to the army: "As long as you help France defeat fascist Germany, then France promises to give you independence after the war!" ”

This made all the Algerian soldiers cheer.

If before they did not have the motivation to fight, now there is, and that is to fight for the independence of Algeria.

What's more, before that, they had been used as puppets by the Algerian people (the Zoaf Corps was actually somewhat similar to the puppet army), because they were often used by the French as a tool to suppress and exploit the people, which made them have no sense of military honor at all, but now, they have become the vanguard of the struggle for national independence.

The news was soon spread by the French army to the independents...... In fact, many of the Zoaf regiments were pro-independence spies or were themselves independents.

When the independents heard the news, they were initially skeptical, fearing that it would be a trap set by the French.

But after careful analysis, they felt that the declining France could only use this as a condition to win their cooperation, just like England.

So the independence faction took the initiative to find Darlan to negotiate with him.

The content of the negotiation is very simple, in fact, it is an exchange of interests to achieve a win-win situation.

As far as France is concerned, they can not only solve the problem of the lack of combat motivation and enthusiasm of the French colonial army, but also do not have to deal with the German and Italian armies on the one hand, and the independent forces on the other, and especially worry that the army in hand will lose control and even turn the gun on themselves.

As far as the independence forces are concerned, they no longer have to secretly preach independence, and they also see the dawn of independence, as long as they do one thing, that is, to assist the French army to defeat Germany...... The French will even provide weapons and even train troops for the independent powers, so why not?

As a result, the morale of the entire Zoaf Corps was almost completely renewed, especially under the propaganda and instigation of the independent forces, the enthusiasm of the Algerian people was also mobilized, and many people took the initiative to sign up for the army or assist the French army in logistics.

Even after that, the independent forces of Morocco and Tunisia took the initiative to find Darlan in the hope of cooperating with the French on equal terms.

This is especially the latter, which is Tunisia.

It is normal for the Tunisian independence forces to seek cooperation with the French army, because at this time, the German and Italian armies had to "collect grain" from the Tunisian people because the supply lines were cut off, so the German and Italian armies had to "collect grain" from the Tunisian people, which made the Tunisian people generally distrust the German and Italian armies, compared with the French army.

On the other hand, the Tunisian independence forces can also see that the current situation can almost be said to be one-sided in favor of the allies, and the fascist countries have reached the end of their strength, and do not take advantage of this time to cooperate with the French army to fight for independence...... I'm afraid that I won't have this opportunity in the future.

So he immediately made secret contact with the Darlang government.

You must know that the German and Italian troops were stationed in Tunisia at this time, and if the Tunisian independence forces and even the Tunisian people were mobilized to cooperate with the French army, it would undoubtedly be a time bomb that could explode at any time in the German and Italian armies.

So of course, Darlang would not object, and immediately agreed to it.

But Zhang Chi knew that these people thought of France too simply......

It is one thing for the French to agree, but it is another to be able to do it, and it is true that they were promised to be independent before the war, but after the war, France not only did not allow these countries to become independent, but instead turned into an exploitative colony of Bengali because the economy of France itself was in dire need of recovery.

So there was the eight-year war of independence that Algeria fought.

From this point of view, France is actually a stunned young man politically...... Apparently this provoked strong resistance from the colonial powers, and then they were bogged down in guerrilla warfare, and in the end, they had to make these countries independent without benefiting even France themselves.

In contrast, Britain is much smarter, after all, it is an old business empire, and they calculated: instead of this, it is better to fulfill their promise to make them independent, so that they can not only have a good reputation in the international community, but also continue to maintain friendly relations and close business relations with these once colonized countries, why not?!

Of course, that's all for later.

Although the French army suffered a crushing defeat at the Marais Line, it quickly recovered by allowing Algeriers and other countries to become independent, and to be exact, its overall strength should have surpassed that of the previous French army.

This swept away the gloom of the French generals in the conference room, and when they met again in the conference room, there was talk and laughter.

"So, gentlemen!" "As everyone knows, things have gotten better! Now we are not asking those Algerian soldiers to attack, but those Algerian soldiers are asking us to attack! ”

The generals in the conference room couldn't help but laugh.

It is true that although the battlefield was brutal, the Algerians demanded an attack as soon as possible in order to gain independence as soon as possible, as General Juan said: "They can't wait to fight Germany and make Hitler surrender." ”

"But we still have a problem!" Dar Lang said: "How are we going to attack and win, like last time? ”

No one answered, because if it was the same as the last time, it wouldn't do much except kill a few more people.

"In fact!" General Zhu An replied with some embarrassment: "We can't launch an attack like last time, because we only have more than 30 tanks left, and the rest were either destroyed in the last attack or because of a malfunction...... I suspect that some of these tank failures were deliberately caused by the tankmen, because they didn't want to drive these up to their lives anymore! ”

Of course, most of these small actions are made before negotiating with the independent powers, but it is difficult to repair the tank after it has been broken.

This frustrated the French generals for a while, more than thirty tanks, which was simply not enough for a round of counterattack by German and Italian anti-tank guns.

So what will the French army attack next?

Do you really have to face the Marais Line, which is made up of bunkers, artillery and tanks of the Germans with rifles and bayonets?!