The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Three o'clock in the morning, light rain.

This is unusual in Tripoli's dry season and is said to be the result of a cold current passing along the coast.

Although light rain will cause some trouble for the airborne landing, it will also act as a cover and make it more difficult for the French army to identify ourselves and the enemy, so it is unclear whether it is good or bad.

Following General Slain's order, the troops boarded the Caproni transport aircraft in roughly platoon units. After the transport aircraft taxied for a distance on the runway, it took off amid a noisy engine sound.

After the plane stabilized, Werner took off the saucer-shaped helmet on his head and said: "I remember the instructor told us that we cannot wear such a helmet when skydiving!"

"That's right!" Dominic replied: "This may kill us, and they seem to have overlooked one point. The British paratroopers' helmets also have no brim!"

"No!" Qin Chuan said: "It's not that they ignore this, but that they can't find so many British paratrooper helmets!"

"So we have to parachute with this thing on?" Werner raised his saucer-shaped helmet.

"Come on, sergeant!" said the baker, "we are pretending to be British, as long as the French don't recognize us!"

"We may choose to do this!" Dominic said: "Tie the helmet to the backpack before parachuting, and put the helmet on after landing."

The German soldiers couldn't help but nod. The backpack was hung on the umbrella and landed first, which would obviously improve the safety of the landing.

Two hours later, the transport plane flew over Algiers... As the capital of Algeria, its response was a bit too quiet.

After all, no matter what, a large number of transport planes and fighter planes penetrated more than 200 kilometers into Algeria. Even if the French colonial army did not have radar, they would be prepared due to warnings from the people or border troops.

In other words, the French army did not want to prepare at all.

The following facts proved that Qin Chuan's guess was right. The news spread by Germany in Algiers was so effective that the French officers and soldiers thought that these aircraft groups flying over Algeria were British aircraft groups... During this time, they He also shined a searchlight into the sky, and chose silence after seeing the British military icon on the plane.

Most of the junior officers of the French army still supported the Allies, even though they hated the British. This prevented Algiers from getting any news of the invasion of organic groups.

In fact, Algiers is not calm, because at this time General Cesar, who holds real power and hopes to join the Allies, is planning a mutiny... He hopes to detain Darlan and force him to order the French army to give up resistance and join the British. army, he even set a time with the British army.

Therefore, when he heard that the British plane had appeared over Algiers, he couldn't help but cursed: "These damn British, they always deceive their allies!"

"What's the benefit to them?" the staff officer asked.

"Ask those damn British!" General Cesar said.

Then he hurriedly ordered the subordinates under his control to stay put to avoid conflict with the British army. On the other side, he immediately contacted the American Ambassador Steve... It was through Steve that the United Kingdom and the United States persuaded General Cesar to surrender.

"What's going on?" General Cesar asked on the phone: "Didn't we decide to take action in two days?"

"What?" Steve, who had just crawled out of bed, was a little confused when asked.

"Open the window and look at the sky!" General Cesar said: "There are British planes everywhere. The British have deceived us again!"

Steve followed the instructions and walked to the window. When he saw the British icons in the sky under the searchlights, he couldn't help shouting: "God, what is going on?"

"You liars!" General Cesar roared over the phone: "I should have known not to trust you, just like you suddenly attacked our fleet, and now you are going to do it again? Let me cooperate in launching a mutiny. Is it just a way to stabilize me?"

"General Cesar!" Steve quickly replied: "Please believe me, I know nothing about these situations, and I can guarantee that the United States also knows nothing about them..."

"I know it's British!" said General Cesar. "It's always been British!"

General Cesar also had a grudge against the "Ballista Project" launched by the British army, so he chose to surrender to the United States instead of Britain.

"Now, I beg you, General!" Steve said: "Let your men not conflict with the British for the time being. I will understand the problem clearly and report to you!"

"You'd better hurry up!" After General Cesar said this, he hung up the phone angrily.

Steve hung up the phone and immediately sent a telegram to US military commander Eisenhower. Eisenhow angrily went to ask Montgomery. When he discovered that Britain and the United States had not sent out airborne troops at all, it was already twenty minutes later.

When Steve heard the news, he was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped. He quickly hung up the phone with General Cesar and said: "General, we were fooled. Those planes are not British, they may be Germans." !”

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, then replied: "I already know!"

Of course General Cesar knew, because there were already a dozen soldiers standing in front of him, although they were wearing British military uniforms but speaking German, and a dozen black guns were pointed at him.

Although it only lasted twenty minutes, he was prepared to fight, and there were many people leading the way... Of course, these leaders supported the British army. It just so happened that the German army could write them down one by one and use them after leading the way. They were arrested at gunpoint.

Then, General Darlan's residence was also captured.

There was a fierce gun battle here. The French army defended a villa surrounded by iron fences and fired swarms of bullets outside... Darlan was an anti-British faction, to be more precise. He hoped to achieve a balance between Germany, Britain, and the United States so that France could survive in this troubled world. He even succeeded in gaining the support of the United States.

This may sound strange: Germany is the enemy of Britain and the United States, but the United States supports the Vichy government under German control... This relationship is so complicated that people are confused.

But in fact, this is normal. The United Kingdom wanted to control France, so it supported the Charles de Gaulle government in exile in the United Kingdom as a puppet, and the United States did not want the United Kingdom to exclusively enjoy the fruits of victory in the future... At this time, the United States was secretly competing with the United Kingdom for the position of world leader, so Of course we must support the Vichy government.

This is politics. Politics only talks about interests. There is no so-called "justice" and certainly no "evil".