"We have air superiority!" General Juan said: "Although the Germans have fighters stationed in Tunisia, there are not many of them, only a squadron or so, and American fighters taking off from Malta can easily suppress them!" ”

After a pause, General Zhu An continued: "On this basis, we have sea superiority and supply superiority!" ”

As he spoke, General Juan glanced at General Drabard and said, "We have a Toulon fleet, don't we?" It can provide us with artillery support and supplies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSo, I suggest that the troops attack along the coastline, so that they can get supplies and fire support from naval guns anytime and anywhere! ”

General Juan's words were quickly echoed by the majority.

Zhang Chi also thinks that this suggestion is relatively reliable, after all, many battles, especially those in Britain and the United States, are mostly piled up with equipment and supplies.

Seeing that Zhang Chi didn't speak, Dar Lang asked: "Major General, you seem to have a different opinion!" ”

In fact, what Dar Lang wanted most here was Zhang Chi's opinion, or it could be said to support the French attack, because Dar Lang knew that only Zhang Chi had fought with the Germans and defeated the Germans...... Oh no, thinking of this, Dar Lang glanced at Giraud.

General Giraud also fought with the Germans, not to be exact, but to raise hands.

However, Darlan did not seem to be in a position to make fun of General Giraud, as the Vichy government, to which Darlan had been loyal, was the result of his surrender to the Germans.

Glancing at the French generals who were looking at him, Zhang Chi said: "Generals, first of all, I want to know the meaning of fighting this battle!" Having mastered air and sea supremacy, we have actually besieged the Germans in Libya, where there is oil and gas, but is there food? Or is there enough food in Libya to feed the Libyan people and hundreds of thousands of German and Italian troops? ”

Seeing that no one answered, Zhang Chi continued: "We Chinese have a saying called siege without attack, which means that the enemy is surrounded without attacking, and soon they themselves will begin to expose various problems due to lack of resources, and even have to attack us, so why should we rush to attack?" We just have to defend, don't we? ”

Zhang Chi said that any war must have its strategic purpose, that is, what kind of military purpose should be achieved in this battle, but now the French have no military purpose, they just want to defeat the enemy. If anything, it is to strengthen France's position and influence internationally.

Of course, Darlang knows that what Zhang Chi said makes sense, he understands Libya, this place is just like Zhang Chi said, there is oil, natural gas and iron ore, but the grain is ...... More than 95 percent of Libya is desert or semi-desert, and the vast majority of food needs to be exchanged for oil.

So now, it seems that all the French army has to do is to cooperate with the Allies to implement a blockade of Libya, and it will not be long before Libya will have problems because of the food problem, not to mention the rest, the Italians will definitely be the first to surrender.

But......

"Major General!" Dar Lang said: "This is beyond the scope of our discussion, I just want to know if the plan that General Juan said is not feasible!" Or what do you think we still have problems in fighting this war? ”

Suddenly, Zhang Chi understood a little that Darlan's desire to fight this battle was not just a matter of winning face for France, but also a matter of consolidating his position and holding military power in his hands...... Although Darlan had the command of the Ezoaf Corps, there were too many forces here, and there were still a considerable number of French young men and officers who did not support the commander-in-chief, who had "switched" from the Vichy government.

Therefore, Darlang hopes to fight a battle and take the opportunity to remove some officials who are unwilling to obey his orders.

It's a clever tactic, but I don't know how many people have to die for it.

However, Zhang Chi didn't care much, it can be said that it was too common for a few people to die during the war years, and Zhang Chi only cared about his own troops.

Thinking about it, Zhang Chi nodded and replied, "So, I don't know how much you know about your opponent?" ”

Darlang couldn't help but turn his gaze to General Juan, and he left these things to General Juan to do.

"Where?" General Juan asked.

"The proportions of the German army!" Zhang Chi said: "And the fortifications they built!" ”

"There are 74,000 Germans!" General Juan replied: "They are stationed on the Marais Line!" ”

"74,000 out of 100,000 people are German troops!" Zhang Chi said: "You must know that Rommel's Afrika Korps also has only 100,000 people, and only more than 20,000 of them are Germans. But it was able to defeat 200,000 British Commonwealth troops to retreat to Egypt, and even several times they were driven east of the Suez Canal...... Gentlemen, you now have 200,000 troops, how do you think you compare to the Commonwealth army? ”

There was a lot of discussion in the conference room, if such a comparison, the French attack was really not optimistic.

"Is this Maraise line strong?" General Drabed asked.

"Yes!" General Juan replied: "In fact, it was built by us, with a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications, located in the Maite Matai Mountains, with a total length of 32 kilometers, condescending to our coastal plain!" ”

"God!" De La Bird couldn't help but exclaim, "How can we build a line of defense against ourselves?" ”

"General!" General Juan explained: "It was originally in the direction of Tunisia, and we originally wanted to use it to block a possible German attack on us, you know, the Germans are in Libya...... But now it's in the hands of the Germans, and the Germans only need to rebuild them a little and then they can point their guns at us! ”

"Why can't our army be stronger than the Commonwealth Army?" "As far as I know," said General Giraud, "the Commonwealth Army was made up of many colonial armies who did not even speak each other's language. Although we are also a colonial army, the vast majority of them are Algerians, so we will be much more united than the Commonwealth army, won't we? ”

"And!" General Juan said: "As I said before, we have sea and air superiority, although it is true that the Germans have a much larger proportion than the Afrika Korps, but they do not have Rommel!" ”

Saying that, General Zhu An glanced at Zhang Chi and said, "And we have Rommel, don't we?" ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, they all knew that Zhang Chi was compared to the Rommel of the Allies.

But Zhang Chi was not as optimistic as them, because he had fought with the Zoaf Corps when he was airborne, and knew that this army that had not fought was not as strong as these French generals imagined.