The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Businessmen always focus on interests, just like Benoit and others. They were willing to temporarily succumb to the German army also because of interests.

If one day the Allies occupied Tunisia or even captured Algeria, Benoit and others would definitely side with the Allies without hesitation.

The soldiers in the French battalion were all the children of these merchants, so of course they inherited that.

This has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that they don't have much patriotic feelings... As mentioned before, they only have interests in their eyes, so as long as they see the interests or truly experience them, they may fight for the German army wholeheartedly.

The disadvantage is that their position is still wavering, and they may even be afraid of the Allies' strength and prefer the Allies.

Therefore, to solve this problem, we must start from two points:

One is to make them believe that the final winner of this war will be the Germans rather than the Allies...putting their interests first, of course they will stand with the winner.

The other is to make them realize that even if they surrender, they will not end well.

Moreover, Qin Chuan believes that these two points apply to most French people.

Regarding the former, Qinchuan believes that they will slowly realize this as the war situation develops, and this cannot be "persuaded". Whether the war situation is beneficial to the Germans or the Allies, this is the reality before them. Understand Everyone can see it.

In the latter case, the French soldiers themselves knew that they would be liquidated. It's just that they weren't sure if it didn't happen, so they still took a chance.

This is the fundamental reason why the French battalion's combat performance is so poor. If these problems are not solved, the training of the French battalion will be in vain.

But Qin Chuan didn't know how to solve it for the moment, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

Originally, Qinchuan thought that such a stalemate offensive would continue for a while. After all, the German army had been operating on the Gabes defense line for several months and occupied a favorable location. No matter how powerful the Allies were, it would be difficult to break through in a short time. However, Qinchuan Unexpectedly, Montgomery, who has always played steadily, adopted a relatively risky and radical style of play this time.

In fact, Montgomery also had his difficulties... After several rounds of bombings on the Gabes defense line, he found that the results were not satisfactory. The reason was that most of the German fortifications were built on mountain top positions or on reverse slopes, and the British artillery fire basically hit them. These fortifications were ineffective, and bombers could still play some role. However, the British army only had one bomber group, and it had to travel between the enemy and ourselves. It was impossible to bomb the dozens of kilometers of Gabes defense line.

To make matters worse, after trying several attacks on the Gabes defense line, Montgomery also discovered that the Eighth Army had been trained in desert warfare...but now it had to face the mountains of Tunisia.

This left the British army at a loss, and many troops did not know how to launch an attack.

"We can't wait any longer!" Montgomery said: "Our intelligence shows that the Germans and even the Algerians are building fortifications on every highland, including the highlands along the Gafsa Highway... If they are allowed to complete these fortifications , Even if we have powerful armored forces, we can't break through the enemy's defense line!"

Eisenhower nodded to express his understanding. It was common sense that mechanized troops were not suitable for mountain operations. However, the British Eighth Army formed a large-scale mechanized force and ran into the mountains.

"So, where do we attack from?" Eisenhower asked.

"Of course Gafsa!" Montgomery replied.

"But we have already tried it!" Eisenhower said: "Their defense there is very strong, and the German First Infantry Regiment, an elite force, is stationed in that area!"

"Have you forgotten the airborne troops we have been training?" Montgomery asked.

"You mean..." Eisenhower said, "an airborne attack on Gafsa?"

"Yes!"

"But they have two armored divisions on the front line!" Eisenhower expressed doubts.

As we all know, the natural enemies of the airborne troops are the enemy's mechanized troops and armored troops. The mechanized troops will rush to the airdrop point and launch an attack before the airborne troops can assemble, while the tanks of the armored troops will make the airborne troops with only light weapons helpless.

Montgomery pointed at the map and said: "The Germans' two armored divisions are on the east and west sides of Gafsa. If we launch a fierce attack on both sides of the defense line..."

Eisenhower couldn't help but suddenly realized: "That will delay these two armored divisions, and then we will seize Gafsa in the shortest possible time!"

"Yes!" Montgomery said: "The Germans can only choose between holding the defense line or holding Gafsa!"

Montgomery did what he said and immediately ordered the two armored divisions located on the front to launch a fierce attack on the German defense lines.

The attack points chosen by the British army were also very good. One was Gabes, which was the starting point of the entire defense line. It was close to the sea and the terrain was relatively flat. The other was Negrin, which was almost the end of the Gabes defense line.

These two places can be said to be the must-save points for the German armored divisions.

Because Gabes is right on the seaside, there is almost no threat from anti-aircraft guns, so British bombers can drop bombs here without any scruples, and then the tanks advance along the coastal road.

Because Negrin is the farthest end of the Gabes defense line, it is difficult to transport supplies, so the fortifications here are relatively simple.

The British army even did not hesitate to use "Sherman" tanks to penetrate the German defense lines along the roads between the highlands to carry out front and rear attacks on the German highlands... If the German armored divisions did not reinforce, the Gabes defense line would probably collapse.

As a result, the two armored divisions were transferred to both ends of the defense line, and Gafsa opened the door to the British airborne troops.

On this day, Yulia shouted to the Allies in her usual magnetic voice: "Aha, lovely Allied soldiers, you have tried to attack our defense line, how do you feel? At this moment, I believe there are already many There are screams of pain in the hospital, and some people even die. You may think that we are the same, no, we just consume some bullets! Give up, you will not succeed, if this continues, you will all die here..."

At this moment, the sound suddenly stopped, because fighter jets and transport planes were already flying in the sky. The "rumbling" engine sound was like rolling thunder from far to near, and the black fuselages were connected together like dark clouds and crossed the German defense line. .

Then, under the gaze of the German soldiers, white parachutes floated out from behind those planes, and soon the whole sky was filled with them.