Chapter 760: Headquarters
In addition to protecting his son's safety, Dar Lang also believed that the command did not need so many troops to defend it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because he found that these Chinese troops did not seem to be able to fight, they chose to attack many different locations at the same time.
This made Darlan a little puzzled, because it was well known that dispersing forces was not good for the side that did not have the advantage of forces, and he had not long heard that the Chinese army had beaten Rommel's Afrika Korps in Egypt.
Just when Dar Lang was feeling strange, he heard reports from the front that the Chinese army was very strong in combat and that several units of the Zoaf regiment had been routed as soon as they were sent.
This is very normal, the Zoaf Corps is also equipped with a large number of pull-bolt Lebel rifles, while the Chinese army has been equipped with M1 semi-automatic rifles, in addition to a large number of Bazooka rocket launchers, which are street combat artifacts, plus the Chinese army has rich combat experience, so it can always block ten with one on the battlefield.
That's when Darlang understood.
"It seems that these Chinese troops are too conceited!" "They thought they could control all of Algiers with one division," Darlan said! β
Knowing this, Darlan was a little relieved.
He had also feared that the Chinese army would concentrate its forces on the command headquarters, which would prevent him from concentrating his forces to capture the DalΓ airfield, while the British troops would continue to be airlifted.
Now, it seems, these fears are unfounded.
The Chinese army fought like this, which meant that the headquarters was safe, because the Chinese no longer had many troops to attack and command the troops. Moreover, even if the Chinese troops attack the command...... Dali Airport is also more than ten kilometers away from the headquarters, Darlang can be fortified all the way, and when the Chinese army hits the headquarters, Darlang has already organized new troops, and the Chinese army is afraid that it is already the end of the crossbow.
So Dar Lang was relieved to send the two battalions of troops to the hospital, and then he turned around and was busy organizing and integrating the troops with his assistants.
Darlan knew very well that this was the most important thing, because no matter how strong the Chinese army was, even if the port was blocked and reinforcements could not come in for a while, as long as he could organize all seven divisions in Algiers, it would be enough to destroy the Chinese army.
But Dar Lang was wrong at this point, if he had dealt with Zhang Chi before, he should know that Zhang Chi would never be as simple as he thought.
At this time, Zhang Chi's convoy was already brazenly driving on the street.
The convoy consisted of thirty-five cars, thirty manned, the driver and co-pilot were French or Algerian, the carriages were covered with army-green canvas, and Chinese soldiers sat in them, and then a few more Zoaf soldiers were hung in the back of the cars, which was well camouflaged...... It is not difficult to do this, and Dinbeck and his men are good candidates.
They had been hiding in warehouses near the airport until noon, when the fighting was raging outside, and the convoy sneaked into the streets of Algiers...... Of course, Zhang Chi asked Dinbeck to let his henchmen go to the streets to reconnoiter in advance, and then formulated a route according to the reconnaissance situation.
It's a complicated route.
This was mainly due to the fact that the two armies were fighting at this time, so many sections of the road were cordoned off by Zoaf soldiers, but most of these were concentrated in the section from the airport to the Algiers commander.
So Zhang Chi chose to make a big bend in the city, and after driving more than ten miles to the flank, he went straight to the direction of Zoaf's headquarters, and let Dinbeck in front, as long as he saw a soldier checking it, he shouted violently: "Get out, we are the troops reinforcing the airport!" β
The military airfield attacked by the Chinese army was also in that direction, and there were gunshots and explosions from time to time, and seeing that the cars were full of French officers and Algerian soldiers, the guards were convinced, and gave the green light all the way, and even many guards cleared the traffic for the convoy.
As a result, the convoy drove all the way to the entrance of the headquarters before being stopped.
The guard was about to say something but was hit in the head and disarmed by several guns, and then he watched in amazement as groups of Chinese soldiers jumped out of the carriage and rushed into the headquarters.
The battle soon began, and Dar Lang was resting on his bed...... At the age of sixty, he was overwhelmed by the chaos in Algiers, so he stole an empty room to lie down in a small room next to the headquarters to relax.
But it wasn't long before the gunfire startled Dar Lang out of bed.
"What happened?" Darlang rushed to the headquarters at the first time, and at this time he found that all the staff officers in the headquarters also knew nothing like him.
"General!" The guard battalion commander took out his pistol as he walked to the door and said, "I'll go and see, you all stay in the house!" β
At this moment, an officer broke into the door, and he reported in a panic: "General, we are surrounded!" β
"Besieged? Who? Darlan asked.
Originally, he thought it was a rebel, after all, General Juan had been operating in Algeria for many years, and there were troops loyal to him everywhere.
But soon Darlan found out he was wrong.
"It's Chinese!" The officer replied: "They are everywhere!" β
The Chinese army is not actually everywhere, in fact the strength of the Chinese army is similar to the strength of the Zoaf Guards in the protection headquarters, they are all a battalion, and even the Zoaf Guards have an advantage, because there are many officers and guards in the headquarters.
It's just that the Chinese army occupied the commanding heights around the headquarters and arranged snipers at the first time, so the Zoaf guards felt that there were Chinese everywhere.
Darlang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and at this moment he realized that he had fallen for the Chinese, and the focus of the Chinese was here from the beginning.
After a moment of silence, Darlan ordered: "Lay down your arms!" β
"General......
The commander of the guard battalion wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Darlang: "I said, lay down your arms!" Let them in! β
"Yes!" The commander of the guard battalion replied helplessly, and then walked out of the door to convey the order.
Darlang had no other choice, most of the troops he could trust had been sent out by himself, and there were indeed some troops nearby, but they had just been relieved of command and had not had time to send a commander.
So, now there is only surrender.
Darlan was a very realistic man, just as he would have chosen to surrender to the Germans by side with Petain in the first place, because they felt that all resistance was useless at that time.
The same is true now.
Darlan couldn't help but let out a long sigh, he didn't expect to have so many surrenders in his military career.