Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2365 Unbreakable
France was also once the king of Europe, the world's number one army, if it weren't for Napoleon's insistence on attacking Russia, there would be no such thing as Germany and Italy, and Britain could only settle in a corner, and had no right to intervene in European affairs.

Now France has completely flattened, and its position among the Allied forces is not as good as that of India, and it is also stronger than Greece.

The Free French Army must be in an auxiliary position in cooperation with the Southern African Army. De Gaulle knew this well, and he had no idea of ​​​​competing with the Southern African Army.

But for the Italian Navy, de Gaulle still has ideas.

Southern Africa is rich and powerful, and only wants the three "Venetos" of the Italian Navy, and looks down on other naval ships.

De Gaulle has no right to dislike it. The French navy is now relying on two "Richelieus" to support the field. When it goes to sea to fight, it can't even make up a complete battleship formation. The Italian Navy's cruisers, destroyers, and even submarines, for de Gaulle It's all very attractive.

The reason why de Gaulle actively called for the war was also to get more post-war dividends. For this reason, de Gaulle did not hesitate to tie Free France to southern Africa.

Hold on to the thighs of southern Africa. When southern Africa eats meat, Free France at least has bones.

If you follow the United States, you can't even mix your bones.

The bones left over by the Americans are British.

Although there are many existing warships in the Italian Navy, not many are capable of following the fleet to North Africa.

Admiral Bogamini was also a ruthless man. He ordered that all warships that could not follow the fleet to North Africa be scuttled, including the battleship "Cavour" that was still being repaired on the berth, and the "Cavor" that was under construction and had not yet been launched. Empire" battleship.

"Cavour" was built in 1915, so it doesn't hurt to scuttle it.

The "Empire" is the fourth ship of the "Veneto" class, the newest class, and the Italians are willing to scuttle it. The Italians are still courageous.

According to the agreement between Admiral Bogamini and Patton, the remaining warships of the Italian Navy will leave La Spezia on August 8, bypassing Corsica and Sardinia, passing through Palma in the Balearic Islands, and heading directly to the Algiers.

The Balearic is a Spanish territory currently under the control of Southern Africa, about 750 kilometers from La Spezia.

In order to prevent German warplanes from taking off from Corsica and threatening the Italian fleet, Patton decided to launch the Corsica landing operation at the end of July.

The experience of launching a landing war in southern Africa is very rich, and the two second-hand goods who were just embarrassing not long ago were a few streets away.

In order to ensure the successful completion of the landing operation, Patton organized a campaign command, with Mike Tolan, commander of the Cyprus Squadron, as the commander-in-chief. A total of 13 people were sent to participate in the operations in southern Africa, and the Free French Army sent 6 people to assist the operations of the southern African troops. .

This is of great significance to the Free French Army. Corsica is a French territory. After France stopped resisting, it accepted the leadership of Vichy France. After the French Navy Toulon sank, Germany sent troops to occupy Corsica, and the defenders on the island were about 7. people, [-] of whom were French troops led by Vichy France.

These 4 people are now under German command.

"Corsica is French territory. This is the first time that the Free French Army has fought on French territory. If possible, I hope that the first wave of landing troops will be composed of the Free French Army. This is the glory of the Free French Army. France The territory must be recovered by the French." De Gaulle had a positive attitude. In order to fight for the right to land on Corsica first, de Gaulle voluntarily joined the joint command and accepted the command of Mike Tolland.

"The battle in the first phase of the landing operation is usually the most intense. The Free French army has not received training in this area and may encounter stubborn resistance from the enemy." Mike Tolan reminded de Gaulle that it is not easy to be a pioneer.

"It doesn't matter, all of us are ready to sacrifice." De Gaulle was aware that no one would survive a war.

As long as you don't die so aggrieved like the British and American paratroopers.

Despite de Gaulle's guarantee, Mike Tolan agreed to De Gaulle's request after consulting Patton.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. If the first wave of landing troops wants to establish a beachhead, they will definitely face a crazy counterattack from the defenders.

At this time, heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles have not yet been sent ashore, and the landing troops have to fight against the armored forces of the defenders with flesh and blood. Not to mention heavy losses, it may affect the next battle.

In Mike Tolan's plan, the Marine Corps is responsible for the first wave of landing troops. After all, the Marine Corps has amphibious tanks, which is an advantage that the Free French Army does not have.

In order to improve the combat capability of the Free French Army, Mike Tolan gave some of the amphibious tanks of the Marine Corps to the Free French Army. Don’t worry about the tankers. Many tankers in the Marine Corps are mercenaries of the Umbrella Company, French That's a lot.

Coincidentally, the Free French Army was also based on the French Foreign Legion.

The two well-known groups of mercenaries have completely different situations. The Free French Army is far behind the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company in terms of treatment and combat capabilities.

Sharif, whose ancestral home is Guraya, a small town in French North Africa, had worked for the Umbrella Company for seven years before the outbreak of the World War.

After the outbreak of World War II, Sharif took the initiative to join the Marine Corps and obtained Southern African citizenship last year. His family lives in the New Cape of Good Hope. Sharif has a son and three lovely daughters.

There is a group photo of the family in Sharif’s wallet. In the background, Sharif bought a new house with a loan from the Rand Bank. The new house has 12 rooms. Sharif also owns a heavy-duty pickup truck produced by Rhodesia, which is also a loan purchased.

"Oil—have you forgotten where I come from? There is oil everywhere around the Persian Gulf, but only southern African companies can exploit it. Umbrella has a cooperation with Adan Company. As long as my fuel tank is empty, I can find a gas station at random. It only costs one rand to fill up a tank of gas.” Sharif is now an instructor of the Free French Army, responsible for training Free French soldiers to use amphibious tanks.

At this time, it was less than half a month before the landing operation on Corsica. It was not easy for the soldiers of the Free French Army who had no cultural foundation to learn to drive amphibious tanks in such a short period of time.

France invaded North Africa in 1830 and completed its occupation of French North Africa in 1905. Before the outbreak of World War II, France had not had time to implement universal compulsory education in French North Africa.

Of course, it is more likely that the French didn't want to do that at all, otherwise there are many ways.

"You are so lucky, the gas price here is very expensive, even if you can afford a car, you can't afford to fill it up—" Louis, who is also from Gulaya, is very envious of Sharif's life. He is a childhood playmate and lives now. But worlds apart.

Sharif joined the Umbrella ten years ago, and Louis has been living in Guraya. Louis joined the army after the outbreak of the war and served in the 2nd Division of the Free French Army.

"I wrote to you before, asking you to join the umbrella, why didn't you come?" Sharif didn't mean to look down on Louis, he chose the road himself, and no one could blame him.

"I want to go too, but I'm married. I have six children, but only two survived—" Louis looked sad. The level of medical care in French North Africa is very low, and the infant mortality rate is very high. Look at Louis's economy The situation, it is estimated that the child will look down on him when he is sick.

"Do you have any photos?" Sharif asked enthusiastically.

"No—" Louis was sad. Things like photos were also a luxury for the poor in French North Africa.

Sharif was silent, feeling that it was difficult to find a suitable topic, and he couldn't always recall playing mud games when he was a child.

Fortunately, the rest time ended soon. After the teaching work began, Sharif became meticulous and severely criticized Louis for his mistakes without showing any mercy.

"I've said it many times, don't stay in one place for a long time, don't give the enemy a chance to target you, the amphibious tank is not a 'tiger' type, the German anti-tank guns can pose a deadly threat to the amphibious tank, Especially the German bazooka, you must never let the German soldiers holding the bazooka get close to your tank—” Sharif repeatedly emphasized, but Louis always couldn’t do it.

"If we pass through the yard next to it, will we lose money?" Louis never dared to take shortcuts when driving a tank, and obeyed traffic rules better than Sharif drove.

"If necessary, we can go directly through the house. If the landlord wants to lose money, let him go to General de Gaulle." Sharif was very angry and helpless.

Sharif, like Louis, is a native of French North Africa, not pure French.

In French North Africa, people are different from people. Even among the common people, the highest status must be the French from mainland France, then the whites from other European countries, and finally the natives of French North Africa.

In Algiers, people of different classes cannot live in the same district. The natives like Sharif and Louis cannot even go to the wealthy district where the French live. In lawsuits, judges will be more inclined to those French.

The reason why Sharif fled French North Africa was to escape the stifling and harsh social hierarchy.

Louis had never left French North Africa and had no idea how big the outside world was.

"Sir, we won't allow us to do this—" Louis was very afraid of the officers. In the former Foreign Legion, like the current Free French Army, most of the officers were French whites.

"Go to the f*cking officer, if the officer asks you to die, will you go too?" Sharif yelled, soldiers are not afraid of death, but they also count on the situation.

In the southern African army, if the troops need someone to perform cover tasks when they retreat, then even if they know that they will die if they stay, most of the southern African soldiers will not refuse to carry out the order.

There are not no stupid officers. There are very few front-line troops. If an officer cannot get the support of the soldiers, he cannot survive in the front-line army.

"A soldier's duty is to obey orders—" Louis widened his eyes, which was what Sharif emphasized to the soldiers on his first day as an instructor.

"Your memory is good, but it's a pity that you used the wrong place!" Sharif was even more angry. Some people deserved it for their misery.

After a day of training, Sharif took Luis to dinner.

Lewis' rank was corporal, and he was not eligible to eat in the officers' mess.

Sharif did not go to the officers' mess, but took Luis to a restaurant next to the camp to open a small restaurant.

"Immigrate to Southern Africa after the war is over. You can work in an umbrella company first, and you can apply for Southern African citizenship in a few years." Sharif helped Louis find a way. Southern Africa is very friendly to ordinary people, so there is no need to work hard. , you can live a good life.

At least better than living in French North Africa.

"Okay, I'll join you when the time comes." Louis made up his mind to emigrate to southern Africa even for the sake of his children.

Staying in French North Africa, Louis' children will most likely be the same as Louis in the future and achieve nothing.

If you go to southern Africa, there is a complete compulsory education system. Under this system, not to mention that you will definitely change your destiny, at least the chances will be higher.

Louis also wanted to live in a big house like Sharif's, and he also wanted his children to be like Sharif's children, with well-dressed clothes and sitting in spacious and well-ordered classrooms to study.

"No, I may stay in France in the future, and I will not return to the New Cape of Good Hope." Sharif said frankly.

"Why?" Louis asked in surprise.

France is a fire pit compared to southern Africa.

In any case, Louis could not figure out why Sharif had returned to France since he had become a southern African citizen.

"Stay to build a new France, someone has to stay—" Sharif said in half.

Construction is only one aspect, and on the other hand, it cannot be said publicly. Southern Africa will increase its influence on France next.

This work has been going on for a long time. It was first done by the Rhodes Foundation under the name of Stoudemire. Now it has expanded to involve more organizations, more funds, greater efforts, and more covert methods.

As mentioned earlier, every year hundreds of outstanding students go to Southern Africa to study through the Rhodes Foundation. Some of them leave Southern Africa after graduation and return to their hometowns to work. Will be grateful for Southern Africa.

Now in European countries, there are many spiritual southern Africans, especially in France. Even in Vichy France, there are many people who oppose declaring war on southern Africa. Madagascar’s accession to southern Africa did not lead to a break in the relationship between France and southern Africa, and public opinion in France Voice has a lot to do with it.

The Free French Army was originally trained by southern African instructors, and many officers were of French descent in southern Africa.

Sharif and his group of officers have directly joined the Free French Army and will become the backbone of the French Army in the future.

In this way, in a few years, the Free French Army will completely become part of the Southern African military force. Even if Free France does not join the Southern African Union, the relationship between the two parties will be unbreakable.

(End of this chapter)