"Ahh What a warm sunshine! Eisenhower lowered his head slightly and swept the glow that shone at the junction of the yellow desert and the blue sky in the distance, and raised the Ray-Ban sunglasses on the bridge of his nose in praise.

It is still a cold winter in Soviet Russia, and even in April in Europe, the cold winds of the remnants of winter are still wafting under the Nazi flag. And in North Africa, the sun seems to set every grain of sand on fire.

Looking at the British soldiers in tropical combat uniforms, Eisenhower, who had just arrived from Birmingham was full of cold steel, even felt like summer had suddenly entered the summer.

"War can make people fall into hell like a cold winter!" Montgomery, who had come to greet him, was pointed.

North Africa has always been dominated by the British. Although Montgomery has been losing and even losing Cairo, he is a famous general after all, and in the face of the continuous influx of American support, he still blocked Rommel's continuous attacks, gained a firm foothold on the west bank of the Suez Canal, and protected the Suez Canal, the main artery of life.

Although Spain and Turkey both declared their turn to the Axis powers, neither of them was a staunch little brother of the Germans.

After the United States entered the war, they were a little hesitant in their hearts, and in the confusion of British and American bills, under the promise of many interests, they still left one or two channels for the Allies to exploit loopholes from time to time. Turkey, in particular, after the British and American tackled the country, after getting a compromise and concession from the Russians, and in the face of the threat of the Germans gradually encroaching on their peripheral interests after the conquest of Greece, its position began to be neutral again.

They are not willing to be just someone else's little brother, and they only want to reap the benefits and become one of the world's great powers.

But to become a strong country, it must have enough control over the neighboring regions.

The expansion of German power in the Mediterranean, their ambitions in the Middle East, and even the rapid offensive that had already entered the Caucasus already made them a little worried, not only about their future path to great power, but also about the danger of being manipulated by the Germans and even annexed. Therefore, the introduction of allied forces to strike a balance is something that every politician does.

Unlike Spain, they have already turned against the British. At least they were only targeting Soviet Russia, and with enough benefits, they were waterproof enough to give the Allies an extra respite in the Mediterranean.

The Germans know this, too, but Turkey is not their hardcore little brother after all. At this time, turning the other cheek will only push Turkey directly to the side of the Allies, and they can only try their best to win over Turkey, at least so that it will continue to maintain the neutrality of the Germans.

With this respite, the Allies naturally stabilized the surrounding situation in the Mediterranean, and at least the resistance groups they supported, and the insistence of the British here, made it impossible for the Germans to completely control the Mediterranean.

But if the Germans sealed Suez. I am afraid that a large number of strategic materials from Africa and Asia will not be able to enter the Mediterranean region on a large scale with the help of the cheapest sea transportation, and even allow the Germans to directly enter the Red Sea, and the Middle East will inevitably fall into a crisis.

"There is no room for loss in the Middle East!" Roosevelt's attitude was resolute.

The Middle East has been explored for oil since the last century, and in '08, Iran was already supplying the British Empire with industrial crude oil. In 38 years, the oil production of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other four Middle Eastern countries reached 16 million tons, accounting for 4% of the world.

This amount is enough to make the eyes of the Germans hot.

Britain and the United States have been exploring the Middle East for so many years, although Meng Xiang sent Aladdin to secretly sabotage these exploration operations. And within the scope of the Shenyue Country, it squeezes out the exploration of foreign countries, but Britain and the United States still predict the huge oil production contained in the Middle East.

The UK's energy base is coal. Even if they see the enormous potential of oil, the cost of transforming the entire industrial energy system is simply too high.

The emerging Americans realized the power of oil through the expansion of the wheels of the car, but the huge oil production in the United States made it difficult for many capital predators to seek other high-cost oils.

Although the vast majority of the Middle East are self-blowout wells with excellent oil quality and low extraction costs, that is for a later generation.

In the inhospitable desert areas, the cost of transportation and logistics is enough to retreat some of them, and more importantly, the cost of transporting oil by sea has wiped out the cheap advantage of the Middle East's oil extraction costs in an era when there are no large and giant oil tankers. It was only after World War II that the demand for oil increased in the industrial systems of various countries built on the ruins. The emergence of one super ship after another has made the Middle East hot in people's field of vision.

And now only the British and Americans, who play the monopoly oligarchy game, understand the importance of Middle Eastern oil better.

Americans have never been short of oil, even if later generations have pushed up the price of oil to an era when it was unattainable. The Americans have a lot of oil on their home soil, enough to deal with energy crises after energy crises, and they have always controlled the oil in Latin America. Don't look at the fact that sometimes a few dictators pop up and shout at the Americans. This is nothing more than a trick played by the Americans.

With hundreds of years of control over their own backyard, how could they allow a real threat to exist?

They are just playing a game of capital with the help of a monopoly on the lifeblood of oil.

Whether it's the oil crisis in Latin America or the oil crisis in the Middle East, it's just a controller button that causes the gold coin to beat.

Perhaps at this time, the Americans have not yet thought of linking the dollar to oil, but they will definitely think of linking gold coins to monopolies.

The more resources you control, the more windfall profits you can make.

The British, one of the birthplaces of European capital oligarchs, also understand the importance of the oil monopoly, and certainly will not easily abandon the Middle East.

In the Middle East, long after World War II, the British were still the main foreign power. Before the war, the Americans had already infiltrated Iran, and after the decline of Britain in World War II, they could not squeeze into it for a long time.

However, in this time and space, they are in decline, and they are unable to talk about controlling the world at all. In order to keep the nest, we can only compromise with the Americans and cede the interests of some regions, and the Middle East, which has been being watched by the Americans, is no exception.

At this time, the Americans gained more control of the Middle East from the British.

This has further aroused the ambitions of the oil tycoons in the United States, pushing the US government to take over some of the power there early.

And this must not allow the Germans to disturb their sweet dreams.

Even though the Germans are now struggling to fight on two fronts, they still haven't shattered the dream of conquering the whole world that Lao Xi outlined.

After the Japanese conquered half of India, the old Greeks' ambitions to conquer the Middle East continued to swell as Soviet Russia's Caucasus and Baku oil got closer and closer to the German tank refueling pipes.

In addition to oil, the glory of the annals of history drove Lao Xi to follow in the footsteps of Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon and many other kings, until he surpassed the past.

Those historical conquerors spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, at least Lao Xi thought that he did not conquer the holy city of Jerusalem, or even conquered the entire Middle East, and did not come into contact with China and India, the two ancient civilizations of the East, it would not be regarded as casting a new peak of glory.

Moreover, seeing the tremendous gains made by the Japanese in India, the ancient golden country, the entire German top brass began to yearn for opening up the road to the East.

Therefore, the troops around Rommel no longer paid as little attention as in his previous life, but always maintained the scale of about 100,000 German troops, which gave him the capital to sweep across the entire North Africa.

Of course, there is also the credit of the continuous funding of copycat companies.

The environment in North Africa is harsh, and logistical supply has always been the biggest problem to support the army.

But as long as the Egyptians and Arabs had gold and antiques, Rommel's army no longer had to worry too much about supplies, and it was only then that the Desert Fox became famous all the way to the Suez Canal.

Lao Xi also saw more hope, and even though the two fronts were tense, more troops were still drawn to give Rommel's chariot enough motivation to continue to move forward, so as to open up a bigger situation.

With the support of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, the number of German North African Corps is climbing and has now exceeded 130,000.

The British were busy with local rescue, and the remaining British army, even with the addition of India, New Zealand, Canada and other vassal countries, and even the indigenous armies of Egypt and West Asia, all the troops were only 300,000 men.

But don't forget that the Germans still had 80,000 Italian troops on their side.

Although the Italian army was not good against the British troops, it still had a certain psychological advantage against those Egyptians and Arabs, and even the Indian army. Of course, this is only a psychological advantage, and the Italians are still somewhat defeated against the Indian army, which is equipped with American aid and fights bravely.

The Asan's hometown was suffering from the ravages of the Japanese and the armed rebellion against the British colonialism, but these Asan's troops did not return to defend their hometown like the Australian army, but stayed.

The treatment they received here was already heaven for them.

The Americans came not only with weapons, but also with all kinds of daily necessities, and the British, who controlled many colonies around the world, also had no shortage of supplies. It may not be possible to send it to the mainland, but a large number of stranded supplies are sufficient for North Africa.

Coupled with the loyalty to the suzerainty and a little honor that has been engraved in the bones of the Asan for so long, the Asan is like a god possessed, fighting and being brave.

This is also one of the reasons why the British have held on to this point. But with the Germans increasing their troops, the British could no longer hold on.

So, the British welcomed the Americans with ambivalent feelings. For the sake of the Middle East, for the sake of Africa, it is necessary to open a second battlefield in North Africa.