Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

If Patton hands Grant over and encounters similar incidents in the future, those who were originally inclined to the southern African position will have to think carefully about it.

Do you still remember the Rhodes Scholarship established by Stoudemire? It was through the Rhodes Scholarship that Grant was able to come to southern Africa to study, and it was also the first military medical university with extremely difficult admissions.

Without the help of the Rhodes Scholarship, Grant, who came from a civilian family, would not have been able to afford the high tuition fees at the First Military Medical University, no matter how good his grades were.

Every year, hundreds of foreign students come to Southern Africa to study through Rhodes Scholarships.

After graduation, most of these people become Southern African citizens and stay in Southern Africa to work.

There are also many people who choose to return to their motherland, but no matter what, they retain a sense of gratitude to their alma mater and the Rhodes Scholarship. As time goes by, this feeling will have an increasing impact.

For example, Grant often told his students that if they had the opportunity, they must go to southern Africa to work and study for a period of time, which would greatly improve their abilities.

His study experience at the First Military Medical University also became Grant's fondest memory. He dreamed of returning to his alma mater countless times, haunted by his dreams.

In the UK, there are hundreds of people like Grant who have studied in southern Africa.

They may have gone to southern Africa to study in different ways and with different majors, but they have deep feelings for southern Africa. Grant even established a club with some like-minded people who had shared experiences, although the club only had about 60 members.

But they are all elites from all walks of life.

There are many similar organizations like this in the UK.

This is why Patton insisted on protecting Grant.

If Patton handed Grant over to Alexander, it would chill many people in Britain.

Trust and goodwill take a long time to develop, but they can be destroyed in just a moment.

What Patton said is true. The 17th Armored Division has indeed begun to attack Tunisia. As time goes by, casualties will inevitably increase, and the 17th Armored Division also needs more medical forces.

Liang Hao had no time to deal with Anderson. Unlike other Italian generals, Messi had experienced the bloody test of the Russian battlefield. Messi had a firm attitude and a strong will, and would not give in easily.

The experience of the First Army also proved that Messi was not an easy person. His tactics were quite clever. After arriving in North Africa, he also had a good way of adjusting the Italian army. Under Messi's integration, part of the Italian army had regained its combat effectiveness and was no longer able to fight.

The half-dead look like before.

"Arnim and Mesai will definitely defend Tunisia. This is a tough battle. We must be fully prepared. We cannot underestimate the enemy and make the same mistakes as the British." Liang Hao pays attention to tactics and can leave his name in history.

, which one is not a momentary hero, and no one is easy to do.

Needless to say, the historical evaluation of the fat bald man is low enough. This guy is actually very good at seizing opportunities and is also good at internal fighting. Otherwise, he would not have become the Prime Minister of Italy.

"The Mediterranean Fleet and the Cyprus Squadron have blocked the sea near Tunisia. The Germans and Italians have become turtles in the urn. We only need to encircle Tunisia to eat the Germans and Italians alive." Patton Jr. attended the pre-war preparation meeting

He was in poor spirits. Ever since Rommel was transferred back to China to recuperate, little Patton had lost interest and his attitude was obviously not positive enough.

This can't be blamed on little Patton, he had no choice but to do so.

The U.S. Second Army and the British First Army were inseparable brothers, and both suffered heavy losses at the hands of the German-Italian Allied Forces.

Patton Jr. took over Freden Doyle's position and served as the commander of the Second Army. Only after taking office did Patton Jr. know how bad the situation of the Second Army was.

In the Battle of Esnam, the Second Army suffered heavy losses, losing 80% of its tanks and armored vehicles. The Sixth Division was completely crippled, and it would take at least three months to restore its strength.

Now that the Second Army has withdrawn to Algiers for rest, Patton Jr. was unwilling to miss the final battle in North Africa and cobbled together an armored brigade to take the initiative to fight. This armored brigade was quite powerful and was equipped with the foreign trade type provided to the Allies by Southern Africa.

Tanks, these tanks were obtained by Eisenhower through the British.

After Patton Jr.'s report on purchasing equipment from southern Africa was submitted to Washington, it was rejected.

The United States is not incapable of producing tanks. Even a "medium tank" with a total combat weight of more than 40 tons like the "Leopard" can be produced by the United States given some time.

Therefore, purchasing tanks from southern Africa is absolutely unacceptable to relevant arms dealers in the United States. The Southern African capital in the United States has not expressed much opinion on this matter.

When a company is large enough, conflicts of interest will inevitably occur.

Southern African capital in the United States must also be responsible for its own interests. No matter how high the profits of Nyasaland Bank are, they will not give even a single cent to Goldman Sachs. They will not even give a banner of thanks for their cooperation. This reflects the negative impact of Nyasaland.

In the internal financial annual report of Goldman Sachs, if the profit gap is too large, then it means that Goldman Sachs’ management is not qualified enough.

How will the management of Goldman Sachs explain that we voluntarily gave up orders from the U.S. Department of War in order to leave more profits to southern African companies?

You can't be so obvious about being a beautiful woman.

Washington still attaches great importance to the war in North Africa. The tanks supplemented by the Second Army are all "Sherman", but it will take some time to arrive in North Africa, at least a month later.

Little Button couldn't wait so long.

Just as a batch of tanks purchased by the British army arrived in Algiers, Patton Jr. and Eisenhower robbed the tanks halfway and equipped them to the Second Army.

The performance of Southern African tanks is indeed good, but the tank crews of the Second Army always need some time to adapt, so Patton Jr. did not agree to launch an attack on Tunisia immediately.

"The British Eighth Army is advancing towards Tunisia." Lieutenant General Rudy Fournier, commander of the French Second Army, did not want to delay the war. The British were robbed of the merits of the delay.

Rudy Fournier was born in Algiers, participated in World War I, and served in French North Africa after the war. During the French Campaign, Rudy Fournier led the 4th North African Division back to France to fight as a major general.

Before the troops reached mainland France, France stopped resisting.

This is not Rudy's fault, or even the slow mobilization of the French army.

It can only be said that the German advance is fast enough.

It was so fast that the French had no time to surrender.

"What are we waiting for? With our strength, we can easily defeat the Germans and Italians, occupy Tunisia, and end the fighting in North Africa." General Jose Gomez from Spain spoke actively, but unfortunately no one paid attention to his opinions.

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No one wants to miss the final battle in North Africa.

After the fall of Franco, the new Spanish government joined the Allied forces and also sent troops to cooperate with the Allied forces.

However, the Spanish army is not large. There is only one light infantry division in North Africa, and it is not full.

This is not bad. The Allied forces in North Africa also include Poles and Greeks, who are even weaker.

The Poles had only one brigade in North Africa.

Greece's total military strength is large, but most of it is in Egypt. Although French North Africa is called a division, it actually only has one battalion.

Therefore, he is not strong enough and the commander is not even qualified to speak at the pre-war preparation meeting.

Although his presence is not high, Major General Diaman Karasis from Greece is not angry at all.

It doesn't matter how many troops there are, as long as they participate, they are eligible to share the fruits of victory after the war.

The advantage of having less is that it can take advantage of the distribution of supplies. Greece only has one battalion in North Africa, but when applying for supplies, it is based on one division. After all, there are many establishments.

Material distribution for the Allied forces in North Africa is uniformly supplied by the Allied Forces Command, and the smallest unit is the regiment.

With the backing of southern Africa and the United States, the Allied forces in North Africa will definitely not be short of supplies. The coalition command knows that the Greek troops are not satisfied with the establishment, so they will definitely not allocate supplies according to the establishment of a division. However, even if supplies are provided at the regiment level, the Greeks still take advantage.

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Therefore, among all the Allied armies in North Africa, the Greek army is the most generous. A force of less than a thousand people is actually equipped with 15 tanks and 40 armored vehicles. No Southern African Expeditionary Force has ever been so arrogant. It is unheard of.

Throughout the pre-war preparation meeting, Diaman Calathes said nothing, even quieter than Xu Shu who entered Cao's camp.

After the meeting, Diaman Karasis returned to the camp in an armored command vehicle produced in Southern Africa. As soon as he got on the vehicle, he started to complain.

"The Americans are crazy. No matter what happens in the Mediterranean, it is not the Americans' turn to make the decision. The British are really in trouble. Without our restraint, Montgomery cannot defeat Rommel. The French have made the right choice. Hold on tight."

The thighs of southern Africans, waving the flag for southern Africa, the French are worth learning from, at least when southern Africans eat meat, we can drink soup along with them." Diaman complained one by one, Greece's identity in North Africa is also a chess piece, from this perspective

It says that Greece's status is the same as France's.

Although France performed poorly in this war, Diaman still felt very satisfied to be compared with France.

Everyone is a dog, let alone pet dogs and guard dogs. Should the dog world be like this?

"What is our mission?" Diaman is still qualified to attend the meeting, but Chief of Staff Costa is not even qualified to attend.

"Of course it's to protect the transportation line. Should we be sent as the main attacker? We don't have the strength, you know." Diaman is self-aware and will attack whoever he likes. The Greeks are only responsible for shouting "Come on."

Costa sighed deeply, he wanted to kill the thief, but he didn't have enough strength.

The job of protecting transportation lines is actually not easy.

When Rommel was in North Africa, the North African Army was best at mobile warfare. The Allied transportation lines were raided by the North African Army many times. The repeated failures of the British Eighth Army were largely related to the interruption of the transportation lines.

Each Allied force actually had its own transport force, and the Greek army's task was very easy.

If the transport unit is attacked by the enemy, then the Greek army only needs to send out a distress signal to complete the mission, and the coalition command does not expect the Greek army to play a big role.

The failure of the British First Army caused the battle to lose its suddenness and could only be carried out step by step.

By January 19, the Allied forces' indiscriminate bombing of Tunisia had continued for half a month. Bombers, army heavy artillery, and naval naval guns took turns attacking. The German-Italian coalition's defensive positions around Tunisia were severely damaged. The scales of victory were

, is constantly tilting towards the Allies.

The main attacker was the 17th Armored Division.

The American and British troops were defeated successively, and the French army was positioned as a soy sauce. Finally, no one could compete with the southern African army for the main offensive.

Liang Hao was finally able to let go and fully demonstrate the combat effectiveness of the armored forces.

At 9 a.m. on January 19, the tank troops of the 17th Armored Division began to attack Tunisia.

The German-Italian forces guarding Tunisia had a difficult time during this period. The Allied forces bombed indiscriminately during the day, and the German-Italian forces repaired their positions overnight.

The positions can be repaired, but the lost weapons and equipment cannot be replaced. After the Allied forces blocked the coast, all military supplies began to be in short supply. It can be said that they persisted purely by willpower.

Messe finally realized that the biggest difference between the North African Allied forces and the Russian army was.

The greatest advantage of the North African Allied Forces is its firepower, and the greatest advantage of the Russian army is its endless human resources.

When fighting the Russian army, as long as the logistics are sufficient, it can last for a long time and the disadvantage in military strength will be offset to the greatest extent.

and allied forces in north africa

Strictly speaking, we are fighting the southern African army. There is no opportunity to take advantage of it. There is no chance of opportunism and we can only fight head-on.

An army lacking tanks and anti-tank guns fights an armored force equipped with heavy tanks, with extremely tragic consequences.

The 17th Armored Division easily broke through the first defensive position of the German-Italian coalition. Except for a few tanks due to their own malfunctions, almost no tanks or armored vehicles were lost in the battle. After Messi took office, although the Italian army's fighting will was still there

There will definitely be improvement, but the absolute strength gap is there and cannot be made up by willpower.

The Italians don't have the courage like the Japanese to strap explosives on their bodies and die with tanks.

When you find that your own side has no ability to counterattack the tanks, surrender becomes the only option.

The tank crews of the 17th Armored Division did not even take prisoners, leaving this task to the cooperating French troops, and they rushed all the way towards the center of Tunisia.

This is when the battle really begins.

The Italian army was responsible for Tunisia's peripheral defense. The Germans were huddled in Tunisia, preparing for street fighting with the Allies.

The Russian battlefield has fully proved the cruelty of street fighting. The Germans can fight with their lives. I wonder if the pampered southern Africans can show the same bloodiness and courage as the Germans.

"The Germans' attempt will surely fail. Southern Africans never lack courage. What the Russians can do, Southern Africans can also do." Liang Hao is already prepared. If he wants to wear the crown, he must bear its weight.

It is time for Southern Africa to deliver on its promise.

(End of chapter)