"The Allied forces gathered in Tunisia exceeded 500,000, while our troops west of Egypt were just over 300,000. While we are waiting for the rear army to catch up, the Americans are also waiting for their arrival with more new equipment. When the war will begin, we need to find a balance between gathering enough forces to break through the heavily defended lines of the Allied forces, and not allowing the US military to increase too much to pose a sufficient threat to us. Zhao Yi kept circling on the huge map of North Africa.

Meng Xiang and Fan Chong and others sat quietly and listened below.

With the systematic training of China's major military academies and the tempering of China's wars, more and more young generals have emerged. With the advent of various advanced weapons and various tactics, Fan Chong also felt a little difficult, and began to consciously create opportunities for young people to show themselves.

"When do you think it's good to start?" Meng Xiang asked with a smile.

Many of these young generals were his students.

Although he can only be regarded as a pseudo-military fan, his advanced consciousness allows him to apply some new weapons and new tactics, which is enough to guide those blind military explorers who touch the elephant. Even the helicopter combat arranged by Zhao Yi also has the credit of Meng Xiang's inspiration. It is not wrong to say that the teachers of those young generals are not wrong.

After that, these newly rising young generals will also be another major lineage system in addition to the clones, just like the Whampoa system back then, gradually replacing the old various factions, and together with those students in the Political Cadre Training Academy, they will become the two major branches of the ordinary people in Meng Xiang's future power structure.

"Although the US military is much stronger than in our last battle with Turkey. But with our current military strength, it is still enough to break through the Allied defenses. Zhao Yi said with confidence.

The real first large-scale contest between the Chinese and American forces should be regarded as in Turkey. It's just that the U.S. military at that time was still counting on the British army and Turkey to take the lead, but they didn't expect that the British army and the Turks would be defeated too quickly, and more than 200,000 U.S. troops were also hastily arranged, and many aspects were not in place, at most more than the soy sauce army in Japan.

This time, the U.S. military treated China as an enemy even more dangerous than the Germans. Even the proportion of the army, which had gathered 340,000 American troops at this time, was definitely the main force of the Allied forces in this attack. It can be said that it is a direct dialogue between the United States and China. It is also the first time that the US military has surpassed China in terms of the number of troops since it faced China.

Even so. The Americans also did not strike blindly, as before. Instead, they replaced the offense with defense, waiting for the equipment to be upgraded and changed.

Although the new equipment has just been put into service, it is being produced at full capacity in the rear. While the Americans were familiar with it, they sent the North African front line to deal with the air crisis and tank crisis created by the Chinese.

In order to gain more time to run in and become proficient in new equipment, the Americans also specially arranged the Tunisian position as solid as gold. Even if Zhao Yi is full of confidence, in his calculations, Huaxia also needs to pay relatively large casualties.

Meng Xiang and Fan Chong smiled at each other.

Zhao Yi's statement is correct, the full force of the current Chinese army is enough to break through the defense line of the Americans, and even a little more effort can create a miracle to drive the Allies out of Tunisia.

But the military always has to serve politics.

Rommel came. Brought the Germans for help.

Even though China participated in the war, the British and American-dominated allies were still vigorously holding the Germans and wanted to defeat the Germans first, and the Soviet Russians who had all the essence in Europe also had the same idea. Even in order to return to the head as soon as possible and concentrate on dealing with China, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up their attacks on the Germans.

Especially as China was advancing towards Europe, the Allies were even more anxious to catch the Germans and beat them.

In the face of an even more violent attack, the Germans finally realized that they were a little overwhelmed.

Even if the German tanks were still moving, the country's poor economy was in danger of collapsing at any moment.

It's been 6 years of fighting. The fronts everywhere were constantly devouring the Germans' most scarce human resources. There are fewer and fewer people who can start machines, even when women are in battle. However, even the looted raw materials were running out, and the German economy was declining day by day.

The method adopted by the Germans was to gather the materials of the occupied territories in Europe and supply them to the country first, so that the materials that were already in short supply in the occupied territories were once again in short supply, and the resistance became more and more, so that a vicious circle was formed, which led to the continuous accidents and difficulties in the production of the Germans in various places.

It wasn't until there was a problem with Germany's domestic materials that the dissatisfaction of the domestic people increased, and various contradictions began to intensify, and Lao Xi also realized that Germany needed to break free from this predicament.

Otherwise, even if they can unite with Huaxia to win in the end, they may fall in the moment before victory.

In the end, the Germans made a decisive choice.

Germans are stereotypical, but not stupid. They know what the Chinese need, and they also know that the Chinese have ambitions for Europe. But at least compared to the ambitions of the Americans and the British, the Germans were still acceptable.

In the process of aiding China, they have a deeper understanding of all aspects of China than Britain and the United States. Although Huaxia's industry started, it still needs a long process to catch up with Germany, and if it were not for the support of Shanzhai companies, I am afraid that it would be difficult for Huaxia to get out of Asia. This also made the Germans relax their vigilance against China.

So even if they compromised, they still chose Huaxia.

They know that the Chinese people are in urgent need of all kinds of industrial machinery and technology, as well as talents, even all kinds of talents, not only limited to industry.

Faced with a critical situation, the Germans decisively broke their arms. This time, sending Rommel was only one aspect of the cooperation, and another gift package was sent to Huaxia Mengxiang.

There were not enough raw materials, not enough labor, not enough inspectors, so the Germans might as well send the machinery and equipment that might have been abandoned and the talents of other countries to China.

Meng Xiang was overwhelmed by the gift list of such a huge amount of data.

Previously, Huaxia had laid the primary foundation of industry, and was filling the intermediate part, and under the will of Meng Xiang Jinzhi and the Germans, it would develop the advanced aspects in advance.

But obviously, when implementing high-end technologies such as nuclear bombs and lasers, the weakness of the intermediate foundation is reflected.

The well-known German package is clearly aimed at this.

What did Meng Xiang decide to attack Europe for, the main reason was not for these industrial forces to improve the industrial strength of China. As for the accumulation of wealth by Europeans for hundreds of years, as long as China is given a certain amount of time, China can create more with its own hands, and later generations of China have proved this with the title of the world's factory.

Sometimes, only consumption, no production, is also a disaster. The Spaniards, who enjoyed themselves by plundering, fell on gold coins.

Two birds in the forest are better than one bird in hand. Although Meng Xiang's ambitions are more than these, since the Germans took the initiative to send gifts, it is more real than going to plunder them directly.

Even in order to disguise its ambitions, Huaxia needed to accept this gift, so as not to let the Germans fall early, or hopelessly compromise with Britain and the United States.

As a result, Meng Xiang accepted the Germans' call for help, and quickly cleared the Eurasian land bridge connecting Turkey, and sought the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal into the Indian Ocean.

It's not just about shipping the Germans' gift packages, it's about creating a safe passage for another gift from the Germans.

The Germans, who have looted almost the whole of Europe, now have no shortage of gold jobs in their hands, and the wealth deposited in Europe can make every German hold a lot of gold coins in his hands, but there is a lack of materials.

In the face of war and other disasters, a steamed bun or a piece of clothing is more lovely than a gold coin.

Meng Xiang deliberately left some passages that have not been opened for a long time, which itself has the meaning of calculating the Germans, and the Germans also consciously have a buffer zone with Huaxia.

It's just that by now, the Germans have also been boiled up to the bother. Moreover, many of the materials occupied by China were not something that could be digested by China at this time. In the past, most of the largest consumer groups in Europe and the United States were on the side of the Allies, and there was also a market for surplus materials.

At this time, the Germans came with orders for a large amount of gold coins.

As soon as the time came, Huaxia immediately launched a series of actions.

The premise of that package was that Huaxia would relieve the pressure from the Allies in Germany.

One end is definitely the eastern front of Soviet Russia, from the Urals to the Caucasus Mountains, again disrupting the rear of Soviet Russia.

On the one hand, on the Western Front, before the Germans loosened the taboo on China's entry into Europe, all China could do was to attract the forces of the Allies in North Africa.

This was the decisive battle in Tunisia.

In order to aid the more than 300,000 Allied forces in Italy and Sicily, which used Tunisia as a springboard, and to take into account the 60,000 American troops pinned down in the European part of Turkey, and to consider counterattacks against the southeastern part of France and the Balkans from the Mediterranean, the Americans would never give up on Tunisia.

And Huaxia can also use Tunisia to continuously involve more American troops in it, which can not only successfully win the gift package that has not been fully cashed by the Germans, but also make dumplings in one fell swoop to solve a lot of troubles in the future.

"The Americans have new weapons, and we are just as prepared. Even if we put all the final 800,000 troops of the Allies in place, we will just kill the chickens at the gates of Europe one more time. Meng Xiang smiled confidently. (To be continued.) )

PS: Adjust your thinking.