Eisenhower did not speak because it was not appropriate for him to express his opposition directly, otherwise he would again be regarded as a "traitor," and he hoped that someone would speak for him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Eisenhower was fortunate that an American officer said, "But...... Will this have an impact on the whole strategy, I mean, we don't know the plans of the British, and we have the potential to lead to a strategic catastrophe......"

"Colonel!" Patton interrupted the officer, saying, "That's exactly what we want to say to the British, the British didn't tell us their plans, so we don't know, because we don't know...... So that's what we did! Isn't it? ”

What Patton said was that the British even negotiated with the Italians in secret, and they didn't tell the United States about such a big thing, so why did the United States tell Britain just for a press conference?!

"Is there really nothing wrong with this?"

"What could be the problem?" "We're just saying a few words, and even if the Germans don't fool Italy and don't revolt, we don't have anything to lose, do we?" ”

As he spoke, Barton looked at Eisenhower, and this matter was ultimately subject to Eisenhower's consent.

Eisenhower weighed the pros and cons in his heart, and then said: "Major General, I have a question!" ”

"Please, General!"

"In our bet with the British, we are betting that the Allies will get bogged down!" Eisenhower said: "But now, if you force the Italians to revolt by your methods, it will eventually lead to the great collapse of the German army...... Doesn't that mean we've lost the bet? ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help laughing: "General, you look up to the Italian army too much!" Even if we do this, the benefits we can get are limited, and we will eventually be stopped by the Germans...... No matter how bad it is, the Germans will control the Alps, won't they? ”

Eisenhower was once again lost in thought...... Judging from his mission, he probably shouldn't have agreed, but the temptation of the plan at hand was too great for him, as Patton said, the U.S. military could get a lot of benefits at almost no cost, and it was not just a matter of winning the battle, but it was also a matter of once again comparing the British army.

More importantly, if even such a plan that is clearly beneficial to the US military is opposed...... Eisenhower didn't know what the U.S. officers and soldiers would put on him.

Thinking of this, Eisenhower no longer hesitated: "Very good, just do it!" Moreover, leave this task to me, and I will tell you this 'good news' when the time is right! ”

There was immediately a cheer in the conference room, and then many US military officers came forward to hug and shake hands with Zhang Chi:

"What an impressive thought, Major General!"

"I think this project will definitely be successful!"

"It will change the stalemate on the battlefield and save the lives of many soldiers, I thank you for my soldiers!"

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Then the plan was carried out step by step, in fact, the plan was so simple that there was no need to prepare at all, just let the American army strengthen the defense on the front line and continue to confront the German army for a few days...... The reason why there is a confrontation for a few days is to give the soldiers a better time to adapt to the war.

On the evening of the third day, Eisenhower held a press conference as scheduled.

The reason why it was chosen in the evening is because Zhang Chi believes that the night is more likely to produce chaos...... The first is that there is a long period of time at night to spread the news, and the Italian army has time to prepare and make decisions. The second is that the two airborne divisions used by the Germans to control Italy will be greatly limited in their operations at night.

Eisenhower did not say much, and he stood on the stage and said word by word: "Gentlemen, the reason why you are summoned at this time is because we have important news to announce...... We have made a breakthrough in our negotiations with the Italian side, and in fact the Italian government has agreed to surrender to the Allies on only one condition, and that is to join us as part of the Allies. Therefore, we have one more powerful ally in our camp, which also indicates that the defeat of the fascist Axis will come! ”

As soon as Eisenhower's words fell, the meeting room was in a commotion, and then reporters asked Eisenhower questions one after another.

Eisenhower pretended to mysteriously dismiss the reporter with the universal phrase "no comment for the time being."

Before Eisenhower could step down from the podium, a staff officer walked up to him and whispered to Eisenhower: "General Alexander is on the line!" ”

As Eisenhower had anticipated, he nodded, left the reporter and walked to the lounge in the rear, where the communications corps immediately handed him the phone.

"I'm Dwight D. Eisenhower!"

"General!" Alexander's roar came over the phone: "How can you do this? ”

"What did I do?" Eisenhower pretended to be confused.

"You just told reporters about the surrender of Italy!" Alexander shouted: "Don't you know that this is a military secret? ”

"God!" Eisenhower said, "You mean...... Is it true that Italy is going to surrender? But why don't I know? ”

"What?" Alexander was confused by Eisenhower: "If you don't know, how can you say that to a journalist?!" ”

"General!" Eisenhower explained: "This is a ploy of ours, a ploy to divide the German and Italian armies...... The purpose was to force Italy to revolt, and we did not know that Italy was really going to surrender...... Unless, the British side is hiding that the United States is in contact with Italy! ”

Alexander was immediately speechless...... The words of questioning that were originally high-sounding were all stuffed back into the stomach.

"General!" Eisenhower then began to teach Alexander a lesson: "I have to stress again the importance of information sharing, because if we as allies fail to do this, we will only be in the same situation again and again...... So, is the problem serious now? I mean, did you tell the Italians when the uprising would happen? I'm sure they're going to be caught off guard by doing that! ”

"No, no......" Alexander could only reply: "I didn't agree on a certain time, not what you thought." In fact, we're only in initial contact, you know, Italy has always had a desire to surrender, and I'm going to tell you that sometime when we negotiate a step. As for whether the Italians were caught off guard...... I don't know, but it shouldn't be a problem, but that's probably a good thing! ”