Merchants always have profit in their eyes, just like Benois and others, and they are willing to temporarily submit to the German army because of profit.

If one day, the Allies occupied Tunisia and even captured Algeria, Benois and others would definitely stand by the Allies without hesitation.

The soldiers of the French battalion were the children of these merchants, so they, of course, also inherited this.

There are pros and cons to this.

The good thing is that they don't have much patriotism...... As I said before, they only see profits, so as long as they see the stakes or actually understand them, then they may fight for the Germans with all their hearts.

The disadvantage is that now their position is still wavering, and it is even likely that they are afraid of the strength of the Allies and favor the Allies.

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

One is to convince them that the final winner of this war will be the Germans and not the Allies...... Profit-oriented, they will certainly stand with the winners.

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

Moreover, Qin Chuan believes that both points are applicable to most French people.

For the former, Qin Chuan believes that with the development of the war situation, they will slowly realize this, and this is still impossible to "convince", whether the war situation is beneficial to the German army or to the Allied forces, this is the reality in front of them, and everyone who understands it will be able to see it.

The latter, in fact, the French soldiers themselves knew that they would be liquidated. It's just that they are not sure that it did not happen, so they still have the mentality of luck.

This is the fundamental reason why the French battalion has performed so poorly in combat, and 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 a while, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

Originally, Qin Chuan thought that such a stalemate offensive would continue for a while, after all, the German army had been operating on the Gabes Line for several months, and it occupied a favorable position, even if the Allies were strong, it would be difficult to break through in a short time, but Qin Chuan did not expect that Montgomery, who had always been steady and steady, would adopt a relatively risky and aggressive style of play this time.

In fact, Montgomery also had his own troubles...... After several rounds of bombing of the Gabès Line, he found that the results were not ideal, because most of the German fortifications were built on the top of the hill or on the anti-slope, and the British artillery fire was basically ineffective against these fortifications, and the bombers could still play some role, but the British Army only had one bomber group, and it had to go back and forth between the enemy and us, so it was impossible to bomb the Gabès Line dozens of kilometers long.

To make matters worse, after several attempts to attack the Gabbès Line, Montgomery discovered that the Eighth Army was trained to fight in the desert...... But now it's the mountains of Tunisia.

This left the British army somewhat confused, and many troops did not know how to attack.

"We can't wait any longer!" Montgomery said: "Our intelligence shows that the Germans, even the Algerians, built fortifications on every high ground, including the one along the Gafsa road...... If we let them complete these fortifications, we will not be able to break through the enemy's defenses, even with strong armored forces! ”

Eisenhower nodded his understanding and understood that it was common sense that mechanized troops were not suitable for mountain warfare, and the British Eighth Army had formed a large-scale mechanized force and crashed headlong into the mountains.

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

"Gafsa, of course!" Montgomery replied.

"But we've tried!" Eisenhower said: "They were very well defended there, and the German First Advance Corps, an elite army, was stationed there!" ”

"Have you forgotten the Airborne Forces that we have been training?" Montgomery asked rhetorically.

"You mean......" said Eisenhower, "to parachute Gafsa?" ”

"Yes!"

"But they have two armored divisions on the front line!" Eisenhower was skeptical.

It is well known that the natural enemies of the Airborne Forces are the enemy's mechanized and armored units, which will rush to the airborne point and launch an attack before the airborne troops are assembled, while the tanks of the armored forces will make the airborne forces, which have only light weapons, useless.

Montgomery pointed to the map and said, "The two Panzer Divisions of the Germans are on the east and west sides of Gafsa, and if we launch a fierce assault on both sides of the line......"

Eisenhower couldn't help but suddenly realize: "Then these two armored divisions will be delayed, and then we will take Gafsa in the shortest possible time!" ”

"Yes!" Montgomery said: "The Germans have to choose between holding the line and holding Gafsa!" ”

Montgomery said he would do it, and immediately ordered the two Panzer Divisions in the front to launch a fierce attack on the German lines.

The British army also chose a very good level of attack, one was Gabez, which was the starting point of the entire defensive line, close to the sea and relatively flat, and the other was Naeglin, which was almost the end of the Gabez line.

These two places can be said to be the salvation of the German Panzer Division.

Gabes was on the seashore and almost no threat from anti-aircraft guns, so British bombers could drop bombs here without hesitation, and then the tanks moved along the esplanade.

Negrin, because it is the farthest point of the Gabez defense line, it is more difficult to transport supplies, so the fortifications here are relatively simple.

The British even did not hesitate to use "Sherman" tanks to penetrate the German defense line along the road between the heights and carry out a flank attack on the German heights...... If the German Panzer Division did not reinforce it, the Gabès Line would most likely collapse.

As a result, the two panzer divisions were transferred to each end of the defensive 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 soldier, you have tried to attack our defenses, how do you feel?" At this moment, I believe that many people have been wailing in pain in the hospital, and some have even died. You may think we're too, no, we're just consuming some bullets! Give up, you won't succeed, and if you continue like this, you'll all die here......"

At this time, the sound stopped abruptly, because fighter jets and transport planes were already flying in the sky, and the sound of "rumbling" engines was like rolling thunder from far and near, and the black fuselage was connected like dark clouds over the German defense line.

Then, under the watchful eye of the German soldiers, white parachutes floated out from behind the planes, and in a few moments the entire sky was filled.