Of course, if the other thing that Cunningham also knows is that Chen Yanlong is now, his smartphone has been stopped and there is no way to exchange weapons and equipment, then he will also be in a much better mood, at least let him see the hope of defeating the other party.

But no matter that when Cunningham fought to the death with the German fleet in a desperate posture, before the battle started for 15 minutes, he was confused again, and the whole person had a feeling of messiness in the wind that could not be vented.

Because just as he was commanding a fleet more than three times the size of the German incoming aircraft carrier fleet with all his might, and was fighting desperately; Immediately after losing several battleships, the two German aircraft carriers quickly and decisively retreated.

"What the hell are these bastards trying to do? Just now, we were fighting desperately, and we had killed no less than 8 battleships, 50 carrier-based aircraft, and 10 ships of various kinds, and now we were suddenly retreating like a shrunken turtle? ”

"They beat us and wanted to run away after taking advantage of us? No way! Give me a chase right away! I definitely want these Germans to return to us with interest! ”

Seeing this, Cunningham, who was stunned for a moment, immediately became angry and scolded.

However, the Germans did not pay attention to the pursuit of the fleet under his command, but retreated even faster.

And when retreating, the I-400 series submarines were constantly used for sniping.

In the face of Germany, which was retreating while fighting, the British and American fleets, which were at the forefront of the pursuit for a while, were caught off guard and defeated, and suffered another number of pilots and ships.

However, in this large-scale and short battle, the German Navy also suffered some casualties of pilots and ships.

However, they were very successful in attracting Cunningham and all the Anglo-American fleets to the Mediterranean.

At this time, in the Atlantic Ocean, where the climate was complicated, Rommel's planes and transport planes were also refueled and rested on the other three German aircraft carrier fleets.

Because the night is less than seven hours away, it will fall on the earth in its entirety.

At that time, it will not be very advantageous for these aircraft to sail at night, so now they can also travel more, just hurry for a while, and then rest for the night on these aircraft carrier fleets.

North Africa includes Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, etc. Egypt, Libya and Sudan are also known as Northeast Africa; Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are called Northwest Africa.

The North African Campaign, which lasted from September 13, 1940 to May 13, 1943, was a military campaign for control of North Africa, the Near East, and the Mediterranean, as well as for the colonies.

From September 13 to December 8, 1940, two Italian field armies under the unified command of Marshal Balbo (Marshal Graziani from August) were deployed in Libya: the 10th Army (commanded by General Berti) on the border of Libya and Egypt, and the 5th Army (commanded by General Garibaldi) in front of Tunisia. On 13 September, the 10th Army, with 5 divisions, 1 regimental cluster, and 6 tank battalions (9 Italian divisions in eastern Libya), began attacking the British Army Group "Nile" (2 divisions and 2 separate brigades, with a total of 66,000 men and 168 aircraft in Egypt, including those stationed in Palestine) under the command of General Wavell. The British army group had only one deployed division on the borders of Egypt and Libya, and the war in North Africa began.

The final result was that the German and Italian forces were defeated by the British and American forces, and they suffered heavy casualties, and many officers and soldiers surrendered.

And now Rommel finally knows where the troops led by Chen Yanlong are in North Africa, that is, Morocco.

Instead of Algiers, heavily guarded by British and American troops, and Tunisia, or Libya, which he once thought.

Because Morocco's phosphate is the main resource, with reserves of 110 billion tons, accounting for 75% of the world's reserves, ranking first in the world. Other mineral resources include iron, lead, zinc, cobalt, manganese, barium, copper, salt, magnetite, anthracite, oil shale, etc. Among them, oil shale reserves are more than 100 billion tons, containing 6 billion tons of crude oil.

However, during this period, Morocco was divided into Spanish protectorates in the northern part of Morocco and Yvne in the south.

To put it simply, Morocco is still a colony of Spain and France.

"Could it be that the Yuan is going to war with neutral Spain?"

Therefore, when Rommel learned that the place where Chen Yanlong asked him to carry out an air raid and landing operation was Morocco, he was very shocked and worried and said to himself.

Because the current ruler in Spain is Franco, a person with very shrewd political means, and at the same time a dictator and careerist like Hitler and Stalin, but he also has one more talent than the above two people, that is, he is also a general.

So during World War II, after getting help from Germany and Italy to the throne, he insisted on becoming a neutral country, and planned to make a military windfall from it.

Because he saw that the strength of the German-Italian-Japanese Axis might not be able to confront the powerful countries such as Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Therefore, on the one hand, he had close contacts with the German-Italian Axis powers, and carried out a large number of strategic resource trading transactions, thus earning a lot of wealth. He even sent the 360 Infantry Division to the Soviet Union to fight (wearing a blue uniform, saying that it was a volunteer army, just like when Germany and Italy aided him).

However, secretly he was reluctant to send troops to Britain and the United States, and Hitler offered the temptation to help him recover Gibraltar and other places to join the German-Italian-Japanese Axis against the armies of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

Because during World War II, the countries that participated in the fascist front were: Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland, and the first three countries were the core of this front.

The countries participating in the anti-fascist front are: the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Norway, Panama, Poland, the Federation of South Africa, Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Philippines, Abyssinia, Iraq, Brazil, Bolivia, Iran, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Liberia, France, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon are almost 50 countries.

In the face of such unequal strength, Franco always felt that he did not feel safe at all to join Hitler's camp, and at that time, he also held back a lot of manpower, material resources, and scheming in the political struggle in Spain and the constant turmoil in overseas colonies.

Especially after the Spanish Civil War, Spain's national economy was on the verge of stagnation, with a serious shortage of food, frequent famines, and fluctuating people's morale. The supply of necessary imported industrial materials and equipment is insufficient, and gold and foreign exchange reserves are in short supply. At this time, the Spanish army also lacked training and modern equipment, which was simply not enough to fight a modern war. Therefore, he ignored Hitler's various temptations to participate in World War II, and remained a neutral country like Spain during World War I, and took advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of war money.

However, Chen Yanlong was caught off guard in order to kill the British and American forces, so he planned to use advanced aircraft and transport aircraft groups, as well as aircraft carrier fleets to raid the Spanish colony of Morocco.

Of course, if Brother Franco has any big opinions, then Chen Yanlong doesn't mind teaching him a lesson.

The reason is very simple, because after the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, Franco in order to show his support for Germany to win over Germany, so he immediately ordered the formation of a nearly 20,000-strong Falangist volunteer army, called the "Blue Division", to immediately participate in the war against the Soviet Union.

However, for the cunning Franco, he was clever to emphasize that the "Blue Division" he sent out was not equivalent to Spain's participation in the combat troops on the Axis side, but only the Volunteer Army, and Spain was still a neutral country, and then after the defeat of the German army at Stalingrad in 1943 and gradually lost the combat advantage against the Soviet Union, Franco withdrew the "Blue Division" like a stone.

But what he didn't expect was that at this time, Chen Yanlong, who came from the later generations, was reborn through time, and also achieved several victories that shocked the world.

What he didn't know was that in March 1940, Britain agreed to provide Spain with a loan of £2 million and allowed it to import certain embargoed industrial raw materials from the Allies, and that Britain had also fast-tracked a shipment of food from Argentina to Spain to solve its immediate needs. In early 1941, the United States, on behalf of the Red Cross, provided Spain with $1.5 million worth of food and medicine. Subsequently, Roosevelt managed to get Congress to agree to loosen the control of American businessmen exporting oil to Spain.

These online historical materials from later generations, as a traveler, are very clear to him.

So these things can also be Chen Yanlong's reason to refute the cunning Franco, and the reason to send troops.