The decisive battle against the Third Reich

These words made Qin Chuan confused for a while, and he couldn't help but turned over and hugged Annette.

Annette seemed to be prepared. She matched Qin Chuan's movements and put her hand around the back of Qin Chuan's neck and responded enthusiastically.

At that moment, Qin Chuan felt that his breath was taken away by Annette, and the two of them rolled into the jungle next to them in disguise.

The rifle was thrown aside, the binoculars were also dropped in the bushes, and the rain hit the leaves with a "pop" sound, but the two of them were unaware that time seemed to have stopped, arousing Qin Chuan's inexplicable uneasiness and restlessness... …

At this moment, a voice came from the rain curtain on the opposite side: "Lieutenant, someone wants to see you!"

Qin Chuan stopped, and then cursed in annoyance: "Oh, go to hell!"

Annette couldn't help laughing, then she held Qin Chuan's face and "bited" him hard, then turned over, picked up the rifle and ran away.

Alfredo came to look for Qin Chuan. He looked at Qin Chuan's angry expression and didn't know what was going on. He quickly explained: "Lieutenant, he is from the Navy, Colonel Ellen!"

"Navy? Why did they come to me?" Qin Chuan responded angrily.

"I don't know, Lieutenant!" Alfredo replied innocently. He didn't know what he had done wrong.

Qin Chuan was a little lucky that it was Alfredo who came to him and not Werner, otherwise, Werner would have guessed the reason.

Needless to say, why the Navy came to Qin Chuan, Redel asked a colonel to invite Qin Chuan, which was a good deal for Qin Chuan. In addition, Qin Chuan was invited together with Colonel Slaine, so of course he couldn't refuse. .

Several people took several jeeps, followed by a car full of guards, and drove all the way to the port of Algiers, where they boarded the "Dunkirk" of the Algiers fleet.

What surprised Qin Chuan was that Darlan, who had been captured before, was also among them.

This is very ironic. The entire French navy was almost built by Darlan... After the First World War, France had few warships left to use, and even dismantled the Normandy-class battleships due to post-war financial and resource reasons. .

On the other hand, France had almost no need for a navy after World War I: France was in an alliance with Britain, the naval power. Its ideological enemy, the Soviet Union, had only a few broken ships that could barely leave the port. Germany had the Treaty of Versailles. "Restrictions... So looking at the world, France does not have to worry about threats from the sea.

Until Darlan took office as the commander of the French Navy, he spent ten years building the new battlecruiser "Dunkirk" and the world's most powerful dreadnought "Richelieu" class battleship (Note: "Richelieu" "Only one class was built).

At this time, Darlan stood on the battleship he had built with his own hands, but the warship belonged to the Germans.

Darlan showed extraordinary calmness, and even took the initiative to shake hands with Colonel Slain and Qin Chuan.

When shaking hands with Qin Chuan, Darlan whispered: "Lieutenant, my more than ten years of hard work seems to be just for you!"

"I'm honored, General!" Qin Chuan replied: "I think you should be grateful for this, otherwise they might be bombed in Toulon Port!"

"Really?" Darlan smiled bitterly and gritted his teeth: "You mean... I want to be grateful for my current situation?"

At this time, Marshal Redel came out. He shook hands with Slaine and Qin Chuan enthusiastically and said, "Colonel, Lieutenant, welcome. I think you have already met General Darlan!"

"Yes, Your Majesty Marshal!" Colonel Slaine put on an expression of surprise. He obviously did not understand Redel's intention of inviting Darlan here.

"This is one of our exercises!" Redl explained with a smile: "I want General Darlan to give us a suggestion!"

But this is obviously not true. Both Slain and Qin Chuan saw that Redel was showing off to Darlan... During this period, Redel had obtained enough information about warships from the captured French navy. information, and the German navy itself is a veteran, so they are already proficient in operating these warships.

With a long whistle, the "Dunkirk" left the port in the hazy rain curtain and headed towards the Tunisian Strait.

In the command room, the officers, including Darlan, listened to Redl introduce the exercise plan in front of the map (Dallan at this time had been under house arrest and completely lost contact with the outside world, so the Germans were not worried that he would leak secrets).

"As you can see!" Redl said: "The sea area along the Tunisia Strait is very special. Sicily, Sardinia and the coast of Tunisia form a sea area like a three-bladed propeller, with the midpoint at The area around the Port of Bizerte in Tunisia, that is to say... as long as we hold the Port of Bizerte, we will block the Tunisian Strait! "

The officers couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Redl continued: "The most likely attack by the British is to use the island of Malta as a base to raid the Port of Bizerte from the air and the sea. As long as they capture the Port of Bizerte, they can attack Algiers to the west. Going north, we can enter the Tyrrhenian Sea and rely on Sardinia and Corsica to circle us...then it will be difficult for us to block them!"

Qin Chuan nodded in agreement. The sea area in the western Mediterranean is very complicated. Several large and small islands divide the sea area into pieces, and the scope is very wide... If the British fleet is allowed to enter this sea area, they will follow The German fleet plays a hide-and-seek game, and the German fleet will be very passive at that time, because on the one hand it has to search for British warships, and on the other hand it has to worry about its own ports being attacked.

"So!" Raeder said: "I divided the fleet into two parts...one part is stationed in the Port of Bizerte, and the other part cruises in the Tyrrhenian Sea based on the Port of Cagliari. In this way, Once the British fleet attempts to break through the Tunisian Strait, they will face attacks from two directions! "

The officers couldn't help but nodded, and the naval officers even clapped.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but frowned and asked Redel: "Marshal, you mean... you have divided the fleet into two parts?"

"Is there any problem?" Reidel asked.

"Have you ever considered..." Qin Chuan said: "The enemy's attacks mainly come from the air rather than the sea?"

"Of course!" Reidel replied: "You are saying that the fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea is easily vulnerable to enemy air strikes!"

Redl pointed to Sicily on the map and said: "But... the British air force has to pass through Sicily first, doesn't it?"

Obviously, Redl overestimated the capabilities of the Italian army.