Appointed commander-in-chief of the African Army was Italian Field Marshal Giovanni. Messer. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Marshal Messer can be said to be one of the few talented generals in Italy, he once led 60,000 Italian troops to participate in the German attack on the Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa and performed well, so he was awarded the German Knight Iron Cross.

It is precisely because of this that Hitler agreed to let Messer take charge of the overall situation in Africa at this time...... Field Marshal Messer had fought with the Germans, and had considerable prestige in both the Italian and German armies, and Hitler felt that there was no one other than him who could stabilize the hearts and minds of the Afrika Army.

But Hitler's ideas were clearly wishful thinking.

Because at this time, anyone can see that the Afrika Korps has no way to live, not to mention that Rommel knows very well the heart of capturing his subordinates...... This is also the reason why the German army in the Afrika Korps has always been extraordinary, Rommel always has been around ordinary soldiers to encourage them to fight bravely, and he will stand with the soldiers in times of crisis.

But there are always two sides to the story, and Rommel did make the soldiers loyal to him, but this "loyalty" was only to him, and once a general was replaced, the morale of the troops would be like a deflated ball.

It was this problem that Messer faced that he couldn't help frowning when he inspected the German army...... He could not believe that the unit he inspected was the one that had repeatedly defeated the Commonwealth Army not long ago.

In the words of Messer: "Rommel is gone, and with him is the morale of the Afrika Korps." God, how can we resist the enemy's attack? ”

Messer, of course, was powerless, and a few days later the Allies launched a fierce attack on the German and Italian lines.

At this time, the German army can be said to be in a state of disarray...... As soon as the port of Bizerte was lost, it lost its supply base, and it was necessary to draw more troops from the defense line to attack the port of Bizerta, and the front of the defense line was several times more important than the attack of the enemy, who was still not short of supplies.

So all the Germans and Italians could do was to run out of shells and surrender.

The surrender began as usual with the Italian troops, who met the Allied soldiers as if they had met friends after a long absence, and asked affectionately: "Hey, man, do you have anything to eat?" ”

At this time, the ratio of the Italian army to the German army of the Afrika Korps was three to one, that is, the Italian army had more than 100,000 people.

With the collapse of the Italian army and the mass surrender, the defensive line was soon blocked like a leaky cloth bag, and it lasted another day, and finally the whole line collapsed, and Marshal Messer decided to surrender to the Allies.

At this point, the African wars were all over.

When Zhang Chi and the French generals set foot on Tunisian soil, they saw German and Italian prisoners with their hands raised everywhere, and they were actually very easy to distinguish, not only because of their different uniforms, but also because of the difference in the expressions on their faces: the Germans often had shame on their faces, while the Italians were more relaxed, as if to tell everyone: fuck Lao Tzu has finally gotten out of this war and survived.

Later, it was estimated that the number of surrenderers reached 248,000, which was arguably the largest victory of the Allies.

Churchill excitedly sent a congratulatory message: "The total annihilation of the enemy army in Africa marks the end of our great achievement of advancing into Northwest Africa. I wish you more brilliant victories on the basis of your past achievements and new efforts! ”

Then the French officers met in Tunis.

Since Tunisia was a former colony of the French army, General Juan was very familiar with it.

General Juan had wanted to retrieve his headquarters in Tunis, but an embarrassing incident occurred...... The British first captured the city of Tunis, including the headquarters of General Juan.

"I'm sorry, General!" When General Juan asked the British troops guarding there to give up the place, the British major in charge of the defense of the place replied: "We are just doing our duty, our task is to guard this place, we cannot give it up without orders from our superiors!" ”

Darrang and General Juan couldn't help but look at each other, they originally wanted to celebrate here, but now they were poured cold water.

"Maybe we should get in touch with the British!" General Giraud said: "Then let them return the command to us!" ”

"Ridiculous!" Darlan said: "You must know that this is French land, and we have to agree to what belongs to us in our own land!" ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

First of all, this is not French land.

Secondly, the French had lost these lands, and it was clear that the main force to take them back was the British army, so if the principle of forcible occupation was followed, the lands should now also change hands and no longer belong to France.

But the French don't think about these logics, they only think that these places were once French colonies, so they should belong to France.

It is precisely because of this that after World War II, France fell into one quagmire after another.

For example, the Franco-Vietnamese War: Vietnam was also a French colony, and France handed it over to Japan without firing a shot, and after the war, it took it for granted that Vietnam be "returned" to France, and this demand was actually supported by Britain and the United States and even sent warships to transport French troops to Vietnam.

Of course, Zhang Chi didn't want to pay more attention to these things, so he didn't say much.

In the end, the celebration of the French generals was held as scheduled...... After all, this is the Algiers government, a French army with more than 200,000 troops and a certain influence in West Africa, Montgomery will still sell this face, so he quickly ordered to give up the command headquarters and "return" it to the French army.

The French generals quickly forgot about the unhappiness and had champagne brought in and prepared a large amount of food for a grand dinner.

Zhang Chi was not interested in this dinner party, because he thought it was just some boring things done by boring people.

On the other hand, only the romantic French would have devoted so much time and energy to celebrating in times of war, and even more so when France itself was still under German rule.

Zhang Chi chose to return to his apartment alone, holding a familiar cup of "Bloody Mary" while drinking and taking a bath...... Being able to soak in the bathtub had always been his wish when he fought in the desert.

At this time, Zhang Chi thought that he should think about a question: what should I do next? Or what should the Chinese army do? Or rather, what can be done to be more in your own interest!