"Major General!" General Giro glanced at Zhang Chi's military rank and said with a little disdain: "But the problem is ...... In your plan, you need to command more than 100,000 Zoaf Corps to attack Libya, right? I don't think the Zoaf Corps will obey the command of any of you! ”

(Note: The Zoaf Corps is the French Algerian Army)

"Please be clear, General!" Montgomery was also enraged, and he said angrily: "The Zoaf Corps is an uprising, or it can be said to surrender, they can only obey our command!" ”

"General Montgomery!" General Giraud replied: "Once again, I state that I cannot accept the position of deputy in the Allied Command, and that I will be tasked with commanding the entire Allied Expeditionary Force. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOtherwise, I will not be able to gain the understanding of the French, but will tarnish my military honor! ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help laughing: "Could it be that the French army surrendered to Germany and became a puppet of the Germans...... Can we gain the understanding of the French? ”

General Giraud threw an angry look at Zhang Chi, and was about to say something when Montgomery interrupted him.

"General Giraud!" Montgomery said, "You don't have room for bargaining, you know? I can't put the command in your hands, you think about your face, and I think about the lives of the Allied soldiers! ”

Montgomery had seen a general who was more face-saving than him.

"No, I have room for bargaining!" General Giraud spread his hands and replied, "I will stand by and watch!" ”

Montgomery and Ramsden couldn't help but be dumbfounded, they didn't expect that after tossing and wasting so much time for so long, it would be such a situation.

Zhang Chi looked at the two people who were at a loss, and then stepped forward and said to General Giro:

"Alright! General Giraud, in that case...... I'm sorry to let you run for nothing, we'll arrange a plane for you to get back! ”

This surprised General Giraud a little, he looked at Montgomery, and then asked, "Can this Major General's words represent the meaning of the Allies?" ”

"Of course you can!" Montgomery chose to stand by Zhang Chi without hesitation at this time: "General Giraud, we all know that prestige on the battlefield does not come from military rank, but from military merit. It is clear that you are the former, and this Chinese major general is the latter, who has repeatedly defeated the enemy's armored forces...... The armored forces of the Germans, moreover, were also the proposers of this plan and at the same time the main commander of the direct implementation of this plan! ”

"Okay then!" General Giraud replied: "I'm sorry! ”

As he spoke, he turned around and was about to leave.

Zhang Chi whispered to Montgomery: "It seems that we are going to consider contacting General de Gaulle!" ”

Zhang Chi deliberately made the phrase "General Degaard" a little heavier, so that General Giraud could hear it.

Sure enough, Zhang Chi noticed that General Giro's footsteps slowed slightly, and then his walking posture became unnatural.

After General Giraud left, Montgomery shook his head in distress: "As the telegram said, General de Gaulle mainly served in mainland France, and did not have much appeal in Algeria!" ”

Ramsden asked: "So, do we have any other candidates?" ”

"There must be candidates!" Montgomery replied, "It's just that we don't have that much time ......"

At this point, Montgomery said no more, because it was his mistake, and he should not have put the Commonwealth troops in a dilemma by driving them into the Germans' minefield.

Just imagine, if this offensive had taken place after the airborne landing in Algeria, the Commonwealth Army would obviously have been much easier.

"Don't worry!" Zhang Chi said: "General Ji Luo will come back soon to cooperate with us!" ”

"What?" Montgomery's face was full of confusion: "Why do you say that?" ”

Zhang Chi just smiled and didn't explain.

Montgomery and Ramsden did not understand that General Giraud was not in fact for the so-called "dignity of the French people" at all, and certainly not for the sake of any "military honor".

In doing so, General Giraud is a blatant blackmail, and he hopes to use it to gain more political capital for himself, hoping to become a leading figure in France in the future, or at least a place in French history.

To put it simply, if he had been the commander of the Allied expedition to Algeria, French history would have written: "The heroic General Giraud led the Allied forces to liberate Algeria and took the first step in liberating France......"

But the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny, and General Giraud does not have enough chips in his hands...... Even if Montgomery had agreed to let General Giraud take command, it would have been impossible for Zhang Chi to put the command of the Chinese army in his hands.

Or it can also be said that General Giraud actually has a certain amount of leverage, but he himself does not know.

The reason is the sentence "General de Gaulle" that Zhang Chi said.

Sure enough, things were as Zhang Chi guessed, General Giro was restless as soon as he returned to his residence, he originally wanted to take advantage of this incident to maximize his own interests, but ...... If the Allies had any other option, such as "General de Gaulle", it was likely that they would have been completely abandoned by this plan and would have gained nothing.

After thinking about it, General Giraud felt that it was not possible to go on like this, so he immediately got up and rushed to the headquarters with his assistants.

"General Montgomery!" When General Giraud reappeared at the headquarters, his tone made him almost a different person: "For the benefit of the anti-Fass camp, I am willing to accept your leadership and command!" ”

Montgomery and Ramsden couldn't help but glance at Zhang Chi, their eyes full of consternation.

Montgomery later discovered that they were wasting their time at all, as General Giraud had little appeal in Algeria...... This was due to the fact that General Giraud had little to offer any commendable exploits, and all he could boast of was escaping from a German prisoner of war camp.

There is such a story: General Giraud talked about the thrilling process of his escape from prison at the banquet, from before the meal to the end of the banquet, everyone listened with relish, and De Gaulle next to him asked lightly: "General, now please tell us, how you were captured?" When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

As the saying goes, "what kind of general there is, what kind of soldier there is", so few of General Giraud's old subordinates in Algeria are in high positions or have military power.

Montgomery and Ramsden were dumbfounded by this result, and they couldn't imagine how General Giraud could still have the confidence to negotiate terms with them under such circumstances!

From this point of view, General Giraud still won, because he successfully became the deputy commander of the Eighth Army, although it was only a false position.