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Reinhardt now confirmed one thing, Mussolini did not hear his tone at all!

What he just said was "I promise everything?" ", using a rhetorical tone.

But Mussolini seemed to understand that "I will say yes!" When the tone of affirmation was made.

In fact, just from the spirit of Mussolini, which I think I want, he is already a good politician.

It can be said that Mussolini, as a politician, is still qualified for his ambitions and his means.

It's just that after he began to meddle in the military, Italy's already weak military foundation made Mussolini's military incompetence even more prominent.

Speaking of which, Mussolini was able to make the Black Shirts, which is already very good.

The Black Shirts, which were Mussolini's descendants, were formed even earlier than Reinhardt's SS!

It is a pity that the combat power of contemporary Italians, even the real resurrection of Caesar, cannot be revitalized.

Counting the most powerful military strategists in the history of the Italian army from 1914 to 1940, they could not save the combat effectiveness of the current Italian army.

But Mussolini, the standard military layman, now collapsed in front of Reinhardt, and vowed to exterminate the British army in Africa.

Reinhardt suddenly became a little entangled, whether he promised Mussolini or not?

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Standing on the deck of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, Sir Forbes' expression was extremely complicated.

He stared at the four Hurricane fighters that had been newly added to this aircraft carrier, and he felt very uncomfortable.

He watched the Prince of Wales sink with his own eyes, watched the Hood sink, and watched one capital battleship after another turn into a brilliant firework on the sea.

Faced with the Royal Navy defeated again and again, Sir Forbes has almost lost the confidence to fight any further, and he has become numb to the fact that the Royal Navy is being teased by his opponents like a lost dog.

Even the aircraft carrier Ark Royal under his feet lost almost all of the Swordfish attack aircraft and most of the Dapeng fighters in the First Battle of the North Sea, so he reluctantly ran back to the British mainland with the remnants of the defeated army.

They came back in disgrace, disappointing too many people.

The loss of the battleship is already impossible to make up for in recent years. However, the loss of hundreds of naval fighter pilots in the aircraft carrier could not be replenished in time.

On the one hand, the production of new fighters is completely unable to keep up with the pace of consumption.

On the other hand, the pressure on the Air Force has been getting heavier and heavier recently, and it is anxious to replenish its fighters, not to mention that it is unable to send valuable pilots to the Navy.

You know, the Germans are now bombing the British coast. Although the scale is small, it has repeatedly succeeded and blew up many bases where secret equipment is being installed.

In this way, the navy also had to face the next round of German attacks, and the current German high seas fleet, which already had morale and strength.

Sir Forbes can only pray to God for now, hoping that they will have good luck in the next war, and that the weather in the English Navy will not be suitable for German aircraft carriers.

The British Royal Navy has replenished four aircraft more than nothing, but at the same time only barely replenished three pilots from the Air Force.

Even if all the remaining fighters on the other three surviving aircraft carriers are gathered, the combat capability of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal can only be regarded as about half of its heyday at most.

The destruction of large capital warships, the heavy losses of destroyers and cruisers, coupled with the fact that aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft could not be replenished in time......

Sir Forbes really wanted to cry, what should he do in the face of the next attack of the German Navy?

Not only Sir Forbes was disheartened, but even his naval officers and sailors gradually became timid subtly.

In the past, the officers and men of the British Royal Navy would go out of their way to apply for transfer to a large warship, because this was the best way to promote or save their lives, compared to destroyers and cruisers, battleships at that time were stronger and less sinkable.

But now it's different, and now the officers and men under Forbes are trying their best to transfer destroyers or cruisers...... Because in naval battles, the Germans often concentrated all their forces to bomb the British battleships and aircraft carriers first.

Before the defeat of aircraft carriers and battleships, German carrier-based aircraft rarely attacked destroyers or even cruisers. After each major battle, a fleet often had only destroyers and a small number of cruisers to return.

As a result, many officers and men who reacted quickly began to rely on the relationship and ran to serve on the destroyer.

And those poor creatures who had not been transferred away stayed on the battleship and aircraft carrier with trepidation, bought a good quality life jacket for themselves, and went to check the maintenance of the lifeboat when there was nothing to do on weekdays.

However, it will not be long before these soldiers, who have broken their courage, will have to go to the battlefield again to carry out their duties and responsibilities.

Fortunately, this time, their opponent was not the terrifying German High Seas Fleet, but the former Republic Fleet of France.

Two days later, Sir Forbes will lead his fleet, under the cover of night, quietly sail out of the harbor and head for Port Oran at the western end of the Mediterranean.

There, the most powerful French main fleet was moored.

And Sir Forbes was given the task: to seize the French fleet at all costs, disarm them, and take them for his own use. If the French navy refused to obey the order, it would resort to force and destroy it completely.

Yes, the only person who could make this decision was the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Mr. Churchill.

It has to be said that Churchill's decision was cruel, after all, it was a attack on the fleet, which was an ally a month ago, and it was more or less inevitable that the shadow of falling into the well would be a stone.

What's more, when Churchill deliberately sent a telegram stating his understanding of the French Navy and promising not to be behind enemy lines, such a decision was too much to make.

Calling himself a brother and a brother, but secretly he has prepared a knife, hypocritical, and shameful!

But what is this in the UK's national interests?

War is like this, yesterday it was a friend and family, today it will be an enemy, or even annihilated. In the face of national interests, righteousness is worthless.

Churchill had no confidence in Reinhardt's promise that he would not use French warships, and he would not believe Reinhardt's promise to Pétain.

In his eyes, this was just another deception, just as his deception of Darlan could not be sincere.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests! Churchill always thought so.