But in the end, Montgomery bowed his "noble" head and agreed to this plan, after all, the result depicted by this plan was so tempting that it would not only solve the immediate difficulties of the Eighth Army, but even free the Eighth Army from this painful desert battle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Montgomery then immediately sent the plan to Churchill by secret telegram.

Churchill couldn't help but pat his thigh when he saw this plan, and exclaimed excitedly: "Great, perfect plan!" Nimitz was right, this Chinese general was simply another Rommel, and it completely freed me from frustration and disappointment! ”

Then Churchill said to himself: "If I can win the North African battlefield in a short time, then whether this war depends on Chinese troops or not, I think those parliamentarians should shut up!" ”

Churchill immediately telegraphed back to agree and fully support the plan, and at the same time, Churchill made a constructive suggestion: "The French government of Charles de Gaulle, which is being formed in London with the help of the British, why not use their prestige to call on the French officers in Algeria?" ”

Montgomery and Ramsden exclaimed excitedly when they saw this suggestion: "God, how did we forget about De Gaulle?!" ”

But in the end, the Eighth Army was not able to use the de Gaulle government because of American interests......

In fact, Britain and the United States were already secretly competing at this time, Britain hoped to maintain its huge overseas colonies after the war, but the United States, an emerging power, had great ambitions, and he wanted to replace Britain as the global boss, so of course he did not want to see Britain still maintain its colonies all over the world.

Because even a fool knows that if Britain had as many colonies as it had before the war, it would soon rise again even if it suffered heavy losses in World War II...... Jokes aside, the resources and manpower of the colonies are owned by Britain in disguise, and Britain can of course easily return to the status of world hegemon.

Therefore, the United States was actually happy to see this situation in Britain at this time, and the Second World War brought the Commonwealth countries to independence one after another...... It's not okay not to let them be independent, otherwise why let them help Britain fight? Only a promise is given to these countries, that is, on the condition of independence.

As for France, Britain installed the government of Charles de Gaulle in exile, so the United States had to do the opposite, supporting the Vichy government that had surrendered to Germany.

It's a bit of a mystery to say.

The United States fought against Germany on the side of the Allies, but supported the surrender of Germany as a puppet Vichy government.

However, as the saying goes, "there are only interests between countries", and if you analyze it from the perspective of interests, this matter is actually easy to understand.

Originally, Churchill did not want to tell the United States about this plan, because he knew very well that Britain and the United States had differences on the issue of France, and telling the United States would have one more variable.

But in the end, Churchill had to send a telegram to Roosevelt explaining the situation.

The reason was that Britain did not have enough transport planes to drop the new 1st Division to Algeria, and he had to rely on the power of the United States.

As a result, it turned out to be a bug.

Roosevelt also liked this plan, because it was generally in the interests of the United States, but it was not in the interests of the United States in exploiting de Gaulle's prestige, because it would probably make the British-backed de Gaulle regime bigger, and Britain would be able to get more benefits from France after the war.

So Roosevelt came up with a solution.

He told Churchill: "The only inadequacy of this plan is the use of the prestige of General de Gaulle, who, as far as I know, has no experience of serving in Algeria." So, I doubt that he had enough prestige in Algeria to make the French officers surrender to the uprising! ”

Roosevelt then proposed another candidate, and that person was General Giraud.

In Algeria, General Giraud was a better fit than de Gaulle, because he had served in North Africa for a long time, and he was extremely opposed to Germany, and even escaped from prison after being captured by the Germans for resisting the Germans.

Churchill didn't expect Roosevelt to have this, he wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, the British Eighth Army in North Africa was already burning eyebrows, and the British army could only cooperate with the American army, so he reluctantly agreed.

Because of the urgency of the military situation, General Giraud took a plane to Port Said that night to discuss with Montgomery and others the plan to plot against Algeria.

But that's not the end of the story......

At this time, General Giraud was 63 years old, with two white mustaches, but he was still in good spirits.

Zhang Chi had a very bad feeling when he saw him for the first time, because General Giraud was also a courteous gentleman in his behavior......

During this time, Zhang Chi had a lot of contact with the British and Americans, so he hated to contact with the kind of people with gentlemanly demeanor, because they are often people who have a set of things on the surface and a set in their hearts, and they usually have a good face but have little real skills. Americans with a rude and sweary personality are much better.

Sure enough, things soon took a turn for the worse.

Montgomery first introduced the situation to General Giraud in front of the map, and then said to General Giraud: "General, we hope that you can contact your old subordinates in Algeria or any acquaintance you can imagine, preferably in Algeria who holds important positions......"

"Wait!" General Giraud interrupted Montgomery and said, "General Montgomery, as a soldier, I am used to determining command before making a plan, so that things will be simple!" ”

Montgomery couldn't help but be a little confused: "Command? I don't think there's a doubt about that! ”

"Really?" General Giraud asked rhetorically.

Montgomery heard what General Giraud meant, so he asked incredulously, "What does General Giraud mean...... Do you want you to command the battle? ”

"Of course!" General Giraud replied.

Zhang Chi couldn't help laughing, this General Ji Luo is really shameless, he is just a puppet, he doesn't have a single soldier under him, and he actually wants to command a battle.

"Why?" Montgomery asked.

"Because those Algerian officers are my old subordinates!" General Giraud replied: "I think they prefer to obey my orders and commands!" ”

"General!" Zhang Chi interjected: "Don't forget, even if they are your old subordinates, they are still on the Nazi side at this time, from a certain point of view, they are still our enemies at this time, do you want to use our enemies to threaten us or show off to us?" ”