"We might be able to take advantage of the Tunisians!" General Giraud proposed: "They're already our allies, aren't they?" We can let them attack the German line with us! ”

Darlan couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this: "The Tunisians are nothing more than guerrillas, poorly equipped and few in number, but you hope that they can flank the German line with us?" The Tunisians will definitely think that we got rid of them by the hands of the Germans! ”

"Maybe our second attack will be different!" "After all, we had the experience of the first failure, and we have now improved the connection and coordination between the rifle and the open space, and at the same time...... The morale of the Algerian soldiers is not the same anymore, isn't it? ”

"Indeed!" General Juan objected: "But we don't have many tanks, and it is difficult to destroy the Marais Line with artillery and planes alone!" Plus the morale of the Algerian soldiers is not good, if we attack rashly, it is likely to suffer another heavy loss, and then the morale will be hit again, and then it will be difficult to recover! ”

"Generals!" Zhang Chi couldn't help but say: "Do you remember how the Germans captured the 'Maginot Line'?" ”

As soon as Zhang Chi said this, there was silence in the conference room. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a pain in the hearts of all French generals, if not every Frenchman, so in general they do not say it.

After a long time, General Juan replied: "Major General, you mean bypassing the Marais Line?" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied.

"But......" General Juan shook his head and said, "I have also considered bypassing it, but the only way to bypass the Marais Line is to pass through Maite Matai Mountain, which is not an easy task, because we can't transport supplies to it at all, and it will be difficult to survive if the enemy finds out!" ”

The Zoaf Corps did have such a problem, they were completely incomparable with the German army in terms of combat experience and training, and even inferior to the Italian army...... The Italian army has also followed the German army on the battlefield in North Africa for several years, and has never eaten pork or seen pigs walking, plus if the Zoaf Corps sends troops to intersperse, the force is not superior, so it is easy to be discovered and annihilated by the German and Italian armies.

"No, I'm not talking about Maite Tarzan!" Zhang Chi said.

"I don't have anywhere else I can bypass but it!" General Juan replied: "We built the Marais Line, I know it......"

"You must not have built a line of defense at sea!" Zhang Chi interrupted General Zhu An's words.

General Zhu An couldn't help but be stunned with his mouth half-open, and only nodded and replied after a while: "Yes, of course, not at sea!" ”

"Why don't we attack from the sea?" Zhang Chi said: "Generals, we have air supremacy, and we also have the Toulon fleet, in addition to a large number of transport ships...... If you attack from the sea, you don't have to worry about the Marais Line, all you have to do is capture a port......"

As he spoke, Zhang Chi pointed to a location on the map and said: "Match the big port, occupy this port, on the one hand, you can completely cut off the communication line from Italy to North Africa, and on the other hand, you can also counterattack and defend, I think this kind of battle is exactly what you are good at, isn't it?" ”

The generals in the conference room nodded their heads.

Zhang Chi is right, although the Allies have almost mastered the air supremacy in the Mediterranean, but if it is said that the supply line from Italy to Tunisia or Libya has been completely cut off, it may not be, the German and Italian armies are still secretly transporting supplies in the dark, and there are also airdrops from German and Italian transport planes.

However, if the most important port in Tunisia can be captured, then even the German and Italian transports will face the situation of having no port to dock and unload their cargo at night.

As for the "counteroffensive for defense"...... The French army has always been not good at attacking, to be precise, since the First World War, the tactical thinking of the French army has always been defensive, defensive and defensive, which led to the construction of fortifications and other things in the soldiers' usual training, just like they built the "Maginot Line".

Therefore, after winning the game, although it is predictable that it will definitely be counterattacked by the German and Italian armies, it is definitely much better to fight a defensive battle than to attack the Marais line.

"That's right!" Darlan immediately nodded and said, "That's a good idea, our air force has been bombing the big port of the game. I mean, if we had intensified our bombardment of the big ports of the game, the Germans would probably have thought that it would be just a further blockade of their supply lines, and not that we were attacking the ports! ”

"As for the defensive side...... General Zhu An added, "we can use naval guns, and when we take the big port of the game, the warships can always be parked offshore, and they will bombard all the enemies who dare to come up, as well as the fighters...... Bombers and fighters from Malta can carry out powerful fire reinforcements against us! ”

"That's right!" "The most important thing is that this is the retreat of the Germans and Italians, we occupy it, they don't even have a port to flee back to Italy!" ”

"Perfect plan!" General Giraud said, "Then they will have to swim and return home!" ”

There was a burst of laughter in the conference room.

"General!" At this time, a staff officer pushed open the door of the conference room, held a telegram in his hand, and said: "We have just received news that Rommel's Afrika Korps has retreated to Tunisia!" ”

"What?" The news almost gave everyone in the room a slap in the face.

Prior to this, the plan of attacking the Grand Port from the sea was completely feasible, because the ratio of French forces to German and Italian troops was 200,000 to 100,000, and most of these 100,000 German and Italian troops were deployed on the Marais Line, and the interior was very empty.

The French army could easily use 100,000 troops to contain the German and Italian troops in front of Mares, and then use another 100,000 men to launch a surprise attack on the port.

Needless to say, there was a great hope of success in such a fight, after all, the French had the Toulon fleet and the air support of the Allies.

But if Rommel's Afrika Korps had been withdrawn all the way to Tunisia, the situation would have been completely different...... There are more than 70,000 people in the Afrika Korps, and most of them are elite soldiers who have been on the battlefield for many years, especially the German army.

As soon as they withdrew to Tunisia, the interior of Tunisia was no longer empty, and it could even be said that there were German troops everywhere, so could the French army still successfully raid the big port of the game?

Darlan couldn't help but scold fiercely: "These stupid Britons actually let the Afrika Korps escape to Tunisia so quickly and completely!" ”