Reinhardt leaned back in the leather chair behind his desk, flipping through the report in his hand over and over again.

"As expected, Mussolini finally lost the Italian colonies in Africa." Reinhardt muttered to himself with some schadenfreude.

Reinhardt was not surprised by the defeat of the Italian army in the African theater, but it would have been unbelievable if he had received news that the Italians had unified the British African colonies.

Casually threw the expected Italian defeat report on the table, Reinhardt also got up and stretched, and walked to the conference room.

Italy's resounding defeat in Africa also meant that the Germans were about to make a big difference in Africa.

With Reinhardt's understanding of Mussolini, when he lost and even lost his capital, it was time for him to move reinforcements around.

Although the last time Reinhardt fainted Mussolini's direct anger and went to the hospital, for this, Reinhardt still repented for 3 seconds.

But this time, he was really prepared to give Mussolini a real German army as an aid to help him win back the dominance of Africa.

It was not because Reinhardt found out in his conscience and was determined to compensate Mussolini for once, but because he was ready to let Rommel take people to Africa to help Mussolini clean up the mess, a large part of the reason was also for the smooth progress of Germany's war against Britain.

Maybe others don't know it well, but in Reinhardt's view, although the Kingdom of Italy is a traditional military power in southern Europe, this kind of strength is just a tiger in the mountains, and a monkey is the overlord. In terms of combat effectiveness, Italy not only cannot be compared with the superpowers of Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union, but also ranks after Vichy France and the Kingdom of Spain in the Allied Powers formed by Reinhardt, and is only higher than Romania and Norway, which are third-rate countries with military power.

If we really allow the last major force of Italy's rout in Africa to be eaten by Wavell, then it is tantamount to a fantasy to expect Italy, a "great power", to help Germany drag down the large number of British troops in Africa in the future and prevent them from returning to fight on their own soil!

The best way to prevent the growing British Afrika Korps from being transferred back to the mainland was not to expect the Italians to turn a comeback, but to have the German Afrika Korps go to Africa and bring the Italians against the British Afrika Army.

However, when Reinhardt walked into the conference room, he realized that he had missed a bit.

Mussolini, probably because he was angry and sad last time, so this time he went directly to Berlin and went to Vichy to find Petain directly.

What Reinhardt didn't expect was that, according to Ribbentrop's report in the conference room, he heard that Mussolini had arrogantly gone to France to order Petain to send Berente's French Algerian regiment to counterattack Libya nearby, regain lost territory for Italy, and take Garibaldi's defeated Italian army.

"Therefore, Mussolini was slapped in the face at Petain, so he had to relent, and changed his mind as long as the French received the Italian rout and saved the blood and bones of the Italian army." Reinhardt smiled bitterly after understanding the matter.

"That's right." Ribbentrop nodded, took out a diplomatic document from Vichy France, and read: "President Petain has informed us that, at the request of the Italian Prime Minister, France has decided to help take in Italian troops in Africa and provide military protection. However, France would not intervene in the war between Italy and England. ”

This is a classic example of the reluctance of both ends to offend.

Obviously, after the last defeat, Petain was now unwilling to bet too early and completely devote himself to the Iron Alliance advocated by Germany and Italy, but he wanted to show a little favor to Reinhardt's forces, so he chose the path of taking in the Italian rout.

Petain was reluctant to join the war between Italy and the British, fearing that if the English won later, France would be defeated again and suffered a second defeat.

"If you don't fight, you can't help them!" Reinhardt was unimpressed by Petain's speculation and said: "I have excavated the largest oil field in Africa for the French, and let them use this oil to mortgage war reparations, not for good deeds." ”

Under the surprised eyes of a group of officials, Reinhardt slowly revealed the secret for everyone: "The British will not sit idly by and watch the Third Reich continue to obtain oil from France, and Churchill will not allow the tanks, planes and warships of the Third Reich to have an inexhaustible supply of oil. ”

"Think about it, everyone, what did the British do to prevent us from getting the French fleet?" Reinhardt reminded his men with a sneer.

"They will ruin the oil fields of the French! Just like they destroyed the French fleet in the first place. Although he did not understand military affairs, Ribbentrop quickly guessed the next move of the British from the point of view of interest politics.

"Yes, even if the French are not willing to fight, Churchill will let his troops come to his door." Reinhardt smiled at Ribbentrop with satisfaction and nodded in approval.

With the Führer's approval, Ribbentrop continued to speculate with more confidence: "The matter of the oil fields has not yet been settled, and now that the French have helped Italy to gather the defeated army, it will create a kind of influence on Churchill that France has surrendered to our allies." For a country that has turned to the hostile camp, Britain is even less likely to let it go. ”

Perhaps Petain wanted to be a wall-to-wall for a while, but Churchill had always been a vigorous and impatient.

With Qiu Fatzi's character, from the moment Petain decided to let Berente take in the Italian rout, a war between Britain and France was inevitable.

What's more, in order to understand the siege of Africa, Churchill has recently mobilized almost all the troops collected from the countries of the British Commonwealth to go to Africa. He even split all of his current tank production from the already stretched tank production in the country and sent it to Wavell for use.

These troops and tanks were the key to Wavell's defeat of Garibaldi, and they were also the fundamental reason why the British army won more with less.

Now, the defeat of the Italian army is assured, but the British Afrika Korps, which has become more and more large, is still alive. Just dropping this army back to China would not be cost-effective compared to Churchill.

With Churchill's urine, he would have looked for traitors, incited the indigenous rebellion of Algeria, and then launched an aggressive offensive with the British army in Africa.

The British did not even need to occupy the French colony of Algeria, but only needed to destroy the oil fields that Vichy France saw as hope for revival, and to destroy the source of Germany's massive oil imports.

As for the relationship between Britain and France, it is not the first time that the French have been offended anyway, it is better to simply offend them to the end, and it will be a hundred!

If the British Empire can win this battle in the end, then when writing history, the history pen is in its own hands, and it can be beautified as much as it wants. If you lose, then there is no need to beautify history, the winner will naturally splash all kinds of dirty water, and it is not bad for these two disgusting things!

In the final analysis, history is a little girl who can be dressed up. One kind of history is written in books, and the other kind of history is passed down by people's mouths, and neither of the above two kinds of history can be separated from the influence of the victors.

As for true history, only God knows.