Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2348 The Contradictions Between De Gaulle and Giro

Casablanca is a beautiful city with a pleasant climate, evergreen trees, rich products, and a developed economy. It has a long-standing reputation in North Africa.

The current Casablanca has become a military camp, where the leaders of the three countries gathered, each with a large staff team and security personnel.

All staff officers were housed in a castle converted hotel on the outskirts of the city.

There are several villas around the hotel, these villas are prepared for Rock and Winston.

The security personnel lived scattered in the peripheral area around the villa. After Rock arrived, the entire area was blocked. Barbed wire fences were placed at the crossroads. Behind the barbed wire fences were parked armored vehicles and tanks, as well as machine gun positions made of sandbags, anti-aircraft machine guns Naturally, it is also necessary, although it is almost impossible for Axis bombers to appear over Casablanca.

The content of the second day of the meeting was to open up the second battlefield in Europe.

Winston's attitude remained firm, and he stubbornly believed that it was not yet time to open up a second front, which was strongly opposed by Molotov.

"When Rommel was entrenched in North Africa, the North African Allied Forces refused to open up a second battlefield—now that the North African Army has failed, what reason do you have?" Molotov was furious. He was fed up with Winston's delay. In yesterday's meeting, Britain also did not give Russia enough support.

Yesterday both Roque and Roosevelt promised more aid to Russia.

Even de Gaulle agreed to send the "Normandy" aviation brigade to Russia to directly participate in the war, but Winston said nothing.

When the Russian battlefield was the most critical, Britain once fully supported Russia, and sent various weapons, equipment and strategic materials to Russia without money.

It was true that Winston had no intention of asking for money.

After the end of the First World War, the nascent Russian government stated that it would not recognize the debt owed by the Russian Empire, and Britain suffered heavy losses as a result. Winston did not forget this hatred.

After the end of the Moscow Defense War, Britain quietly reduced its aid to Russia. At that time, Russia did not feel it. Because the Americans joined in, the aid Russia received did not decrease.

After the Battle of Volgograd, the situation on the Russian battlefield became clearer, and the victory was tilted towards Russia. Winston decided to further reduce the aid to Russia. On the one hand, it was to reduce losses, and on the other hand, he also hoped that Russia and Germany would continue to consume.

Best to die together.

"Do you think the North African Legion is easy to defeat? We did win the North African campaign, but we also suffered a lot. At least within this year, we will not be able to open up a second front in France." Winston was firm, and Roosevelt was Hoping to land in Sicily, the Russians wanted Allied forces to attack the coast of France.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the landing of the Allied forces in France poses a greater threat to Germany and is more conducive to reducing the pressure on Russia.

Molotov definitely chose the option that was most beneficial to Russia.

"Ha, you have trained millions of troops. There are 300 million troops in the UK who are doing nothing all day long. They should be ashamed—" Molotov's words were slightly more lethal, and southern Africa was also accidentally injured.

After Southern Africa declared war on Germany, it immediately dispatched the First Army to the British mainland to strengthen its defenses and helped Britain successfully win the Great Britain Air Battle.

The German army was unable to cross the English Channel, and Mustache was forced to shift the direction of attack to Russia, and the pressure on the British side was greatly reduced.

After the outbreak of the Russo-German War, the bearded man repeatedly asked the Allied forces to land on the coast of France, or directly on the German mainland, and attack from behind Germany.

Winston has always refused the bearded man's request on the grounds that the preparations have not been completed, and the Russians' endurance has reached its limit.

What Molotov said was true. The British mainland has accumulated more than 300 million troops, but it has been standing still for two years. This is indeed abnormal.

But Rock is not ashamed at all.

The Southern African Air Force, at least, has been carrying out bombing missions, and the Americans are really doing nothing.

There are also U.S. military forces in the United Kingdom, especially the U.S. Air Force, and their strength is still good.

The bombing intensity of the Allied forces on military targets in Germany was much smaller than that of Japan. After the Pearl Harbor incident, most of the strategic bombing forces in southern Africa were transferred from the British mainland to East Asia, and the bombing intensity of Germany was much reduced. It was bombed only once.

Winston understands Rock's decision. After all, there are many Chinese in southern Africa, and Rock's hatred of the Japanese is much higher than that of Germany.

Although the strategic bombing force in southern Africa is decreasing, the strategic bombing force in the UK has not been weakened because of the supplement of the US Air Force.

Winston had great expectations for the U.S. Air Force.

But what Winston never expected was that since the U.S. Air Force arrived in the UK, it has not bombed Germany. Up to now, no U.S. bomber has participated in the mission, which made Winston very dissatisfied.

The reason for the Americans is also very strong. Their planes and pilots came to the UK across the Atlantic, and they need time to adjust, and they have to learn the advanced combat methods of southern Africa and the UK.

"Hey, I have reached an agreement with the Prime Minister. Two months later, the U.S. Air Force will bomb military targets in Germany during the daytime." Roosevelt looked resolute, and the U.S. military was about to show off its skills.

Not only is the U.S. Air Force starting to dispatch, but the U.S. Army will also land in Sicily, opening up Europe's second—no, third battlefield.

Although landing in Sicily, the threat to Germany is relatively small.

But it is stronger than a certain country's attack in the Balkans.

The recovery of Crete in southern Africa once made the Russians very happy.

The Russians were not happy for too long, and then the southern Africans began to build a large-scale construction project in Crete. After the airport was built, the wharf was built, the railway was built and the road was repaired, the entire cities of Pombia and Heraklion were demolished and rebuilt. Southern African Standard.

The standard cities in southern Africa have complete supporting facilities. Building a city cannot be completed in a day or two. It will take a long time and a huge amount of money. Naturally, it will not be able to continue to expand the results.

In the eyes of the Russians, this is also delaying time.

It's just because Russia still needs help from southern Africa, so Molotov dare not make irresponsible remarks in front of Rock.

It didn't matter to Winston.

Anyway, even if you please Winston again, the British government will not give Russia more assistance.

Then simply point out and directly express Russia's attitude.

"Strategic bombing alone cannot make the Germans surrender. Ground troops must be sent to kill all the Germans—" Molotov still had a very good attitude towards Roosevelt, who was the patron.

In this regard, de Gaulle will not get involved. He is in a bad mood today.

Rock also just learned that after Roosevelt arrived in Casablanca, he made two appointments with de Gaulle, but was rejected by de Gaulle.

De Gaulle really had a clear distinction between grievances and grievances. He knew that Roosevelt didn't like him, so he chose Giroux between him and Giroux, so he didn't want to see Roosevelt.

Roosevelt was not angry when his face was dumped. Americans are like this. It is already costly to bet on both sides.

Just before today's meeting, Roosevelt hoped that Roque could help ease the relationship between de Gaulle and Roosevelt.

Roque's answer was simple, as long as the US government supports de Gaulle with the same strength as Giro, then de Gaulle will immediately take the initiative to visit Roosevelt.

Rock doesn't ask for favoritism either, as long as a bowl of water is level.

At the same time, Rock also just found out that De Gaulle and Giraud have not communicated in private for more than two months, and they are almost strangers.

This is very bad. One of them is the President of Free France and the other is the Commander-in-Chief. If the relationship is not good, it will cause bad effects.

So after the meeting the next day, Rock took the initiative to invite De Gaulle to dinner.

De Gaulle readily attended the appointment.

"What's going on with you and General Giraud?" Rock didn't mention Roosevelt, and didn't give Roosevelt a chance to bribe De Gaulle. France is very important to southern Africa.

"We have different opinions on many issues, and the differences are serious, but this will not affect our cooperation. Now our most important task is to defeat the Axis powers and win the final victory." Bring it to work.

"For example?" Rock asked.

"Mainly in Vichy France—" De Gaulle hesitated before speaking, not wanting to talk to Roque about it.

The relationship between Vichy France and Free France is France's internal affairs. Any ambitious Frenchman is unwilling to be interfered in internal affairs by other countries, even in southern Africa.

"I heard that Marshal Petain revoked your death sentence." Rock and Petain used to have a good relationship, but unfortunately they are getting farther and farther away now.

In the last world war, Roque also fought side by side with Petain, and the two have been in contact since the war.

Pétain is also a person with ideals. The reasons for his cooperation with Germany are complicated, and it is not entirely a matter of helping evildoers.

"After the war is over, I will revoke Marshal Pétain's death sentence." De Gaulle reciprocated, and the French still had a tacit understanding.

During the last world war, de Gaulle served under Pétain, and the two were also alumni, both graduated from the military academy of Saint-Cyr.

"Winston decided to postpone the landing in France, what do you think?" Rock didn't want de Gaulle to get too close to Winston, and of course he couldn't turn his face, the Allies still needed to be united.

"I understand, but my lord, I hope you can understand that when the Allied forces land on the mainland of France, I hope that the Free French army can set foot on French territory first." De Gaulle could understand Winston, France recovered one day sooner, or later It doesn't make much difference to recover in one day, and it can't change the fact that France has become a second-rate country.

France's cessation of resistance caused too bad an impact. It is a shame that an old imperialist country with huge overseas colonies and the winner of the last world war gave up resistance and lay down early.

If the French government did not surrender, but withdrew to North Africa and continued to fight against Germany, then the situation would not be so bad.

After all, in many people's minds, de Gaulle's status is too low, not as good as Giraud, and he cannot represent France.

"Of course, the Free French Army has this strength, and it should do the same—" Rock supported De Gaulle's request, but it still had to win the consent of Roosevelt and Winston.

After all, American soldiers joined the war under the banner of saving Europe.

Britain will not let go of the opportunity to "save France".

The meal was quite relaxed and pleasant. The relationship between Free France and southern Africa was at stake here. De Gaulle and Roque were flattering and wooing, and the atmosphere was absolutely harmonious.

In another villa, Winston was also having dinner with Roosevelt, and Giroux was also present.

"The performance of the Italians in the Russian battlefield is only accidental. The Italian army in the North African battlefield is the Italian army under normal circumstances." Giro dismissed the Italian army, although in the process of defeating the North African army, Giro hardly showed any performance Chance.

In the last battle against the North African Army, Giraud was the commander-in-chief of the Free French Army, but the command of the campaign was in the hands of Patton, and Giraud also joined the personal field.

However, this does not prevent Giro from looking down on the Italians. If the Allied Forces are given to Giro's command, Giro is also confident of defeating the North African Army.

Of course it must be the current Allies.

If it was replaced by the North African Allied Forces during the Werwell period, Jiro probably would not even be able to keep Egypt.

During the French campaign, Girod participated in the battle against Germany, and also had no chance to show up, so that his name did not appear.

"If the Allied forces decide to land in Sicily, the Free French Army can participate in the attack. We have been looking forward to crossing the Mediterranean Sea one day earlier to deal a greater blow to the Germans and Italians." not bad.

After handing over two "Richelieu"-class battleships to the Free French Navy in Southern Africa, Free France has also established a complete army, land, sea and air, and is quite powerful. The Allied forces are second only to South Africa, Britain, and the United States.

Pay attention to this ranking.

Needless to say, the strength of the southern African army, although the formation of the group army is not as large as that of the United Kingdom, there is no dispute about its combat effectiveness, and it is a proper allied force—even the number one in the world.

After the United States entered the war, it started the explosive force mode, and the navy, land, and air forces expanded rapidly, but lacked record support, and Roosevelt himself did not have much confidence.

Not to mention, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Philippines completely exposed the combat effectiveness of the US troops, and the Bataan Death March slapped the Americans hard in the face.

Can't even beat Japan, what else can I say——

Although in the Malay campaign, the British army suffered a crushing defeat in the face of the crazy Japanese attack, after all, southern Africa joined the battle in time, and the British army did not surrender.

"Have you communicated with President de Gaulle?" Roosevelt was also worried about the relationship between Giro and de Gaulle.

It's normal to have disagreements, but it's really rare for a relationship to be so bad as de Gaulle and Giraud.

"I am the commander-in-chief of the Free French Army. How the Free French Army fights does not need to communicate with General de Gaulle." Giraud's face was expressionless, and it would be hell if the relationship with this attitude was good.

(End of this chapter)