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This was not only because of the political needs of the Algiers government, nor only because of Darlan's need to control power, but even Britain and the United States supported the Algiers government to launch an immediate attack on the German army.

It goes without saying why Britain and the United States were in a hurry to let France attack...... Anyway, it's not their own people, and dying a little more or less has little to do with them.

And if France had attacked, it would not only reduce the pressure on them in the face of the Afrika Korps in the east, but also allow France to break with Germany once and for all and side with the Allies.

Even Britain and the United States made two promises to the Algiers government:

One: An air force will be stationed in Algiers to ensure the security of Algerian airspace and cooperate with the French offensive.

Two: Large-scale assistance will be given to the French army, including supplies, weapons and ammunition.

This made a group of French generals rejoice, with air and sea supremacy, their own troops are still twice that of the German army, so isn't this battle still easy to capture?

So the generals were eager to immediately send the Zoaf Corps to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions.

In this issue, only General Zhu An was calm, and he forced the troops to train and prepare for a week...... According to General Giraud, three days of preparation was sufficient, and he had good reason.

"You know, we are attacking along the coastline, and whatever transport ships we need can be quickly transported to the troops, so what are we waiting for?"

Then General Giraud said: "What's more, the longer we prepare, the more time the Germans will have to rebuild the Marais Line, and then we will miss the plane!" ”

In fact, if you have to fight, Zhang Chi also thinks that the faster the better.

The reason is not anything else, but that a few more days of preparation time will not change anything, and the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps do not even know what they have to prepare.

Zhang Chi was invited by General Juan to inspect the Zoaf Corps, and he was surprised to find that the French officers were directing the Algerians to practice digging fortifications.

"What are they doing?" Zhang Chi asked.

General Zhu An looked at the soldiers, and then replied suspiciously: "In training, is there any problem?" ”

"I thought you were going to attack!" Zhang Chi said.

"Of course we're going to attack!" General Juan replied.

"But...... If they were going to attack, why were they still training to dig fortifications? ”

General Zhu An spread his hands: "Then what are we going to train?" ”

"God!" Zhang Chi couldn't help but scream.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that this was the daily training of the French......

As mentioned before, due to the influence of the First World War, French tactical thinking has fallen into the theory of "complete defense", or it can be said that this is to the detriment of the "Maginot Line".

The French spent twelve years, almost every year, spending more than half of their defense expenses on building this line of defense, which was also considered impregnable by all French people, which gave the French an illusory sense of security...... Everyone thought that with this line of defense, the war would no longer be close to France, and even if there was a war, it would be the enemy hitting the stone with eggs.

Under this illusory "comfort," the French tactical thinking stagnated, because they felt that with the Maginot Line, those tactical ideas were meaningless.

The French army didn't know how to train, because when the war came, all they needed to do was to hide in the line of defense, shoot guns, open artillery, as a soldier, and perhaps the more important job was to repair the destroyed fortifications in the line as soon as possible.

As a result, the French army's operational thinking basically stayed in the trench warfare of World War I, and even if the "Maginot Line" did not play any role, it did not wake them up...... A considerable number of them believe that the reason why the Maginot Line did not work was not a mistake in tactical thinking, but that they had not built it better and tighter.

General Zhu An was no exception, in fact, General Zhu An was an officer who participated in World War I, and he was also a platoon commander to a division commander, so he thought he knew how to fight this offensive battle...... Build a line in front of the German and Italian Marais lines to confront them, and then use this line as a basis to attack the Marais line, as the nations did during World War I.

"So......" General Zhu An asked Zhang Chi, "according to what do you mean, what should we train?" ”

"Synergy!" Zhang Chi said: "Infantry tank coordination, infantry artillery coordination, air-ground coordination...... And, of course, the navy, how can these armies cooperate with each other to attack the enemy! ”

"Plus!" Zhang Chi continued: "You can't stretch a long line to confront the enemy like this, you are in a low place and the enemy is in a high place, and the fortifications are much stronger than what you have built temporarily. You should concentrate your superior forces and find a breakthrough in their defenses. Otherwise, this battle will be nothing more than ramming your soldiers into the enemy's guns! ”

"But ......," said General Juan, "we used to fight like this!" ”

"That was before!" Zhang Chi said: "And in the past, with this style of play, no one could help anyone, and the battle eventually turned into a protracted trench war, which is why you think that defense is greater than offense and build the 'Maginot Line', isn't it?" ”

General Zhu An's face was already a little pale at this time.

General Zhu An believed what Zhang Chi said, because the facts were in front of him, Zhang Chi had defeated Rommel many times, and the Chinese general was said to have made countless contributions to the battles against the Japanese in the Burma and Pacific theaters.

And he has not participated in any war since the end of World War I...... If anything, it was in Dunkirk that he was tasked with covering the retreat of the Allies.

So there is no doubt that the young man in front of him has more experience and more voice than himself.

Thinking of this, General Juan immediately approached Darrang and asked to postpone the attack plan for a month or more, because he needed time to retrain.

"A month?" Darlang said, "Are you crazy? We can't wait that long! ”

"But, General!" General Juan said: "I don't think we are ready! ”

"It's not as complicated as you think!" "The war is different now than it used to be, we have a strong navy and air force, don't we?" ”