The loss of Port Said disappointed Churchill so much that he even complained in the Prime Minister's Office: "Can't we find a general who can win the battle?" ”

At this time, he seemed to have forgotten the ecstasy after Montgomery's defeat of the "Desert Fox" in Benghazi, and also forgot that Montgomery's Eighth Army still had tens of thousands of unstable Indian soldiers.

Eisenhower was also under great pressure! The Suez Canal was lost, Cairo was brutally bombed, and the Entente powers seemed to be crumbling in Egypt and in the Mediterranean. And he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and he was still fighting Tai Chi in the Sahara Desert with the Grand Alliance army, which was far inferior to him.

Yes, in Kufra, in southern Libya, the fighting of the multinational forces with the Allies is like a tai chi, or a pusher! Today you attack a few kilometers, and tomorrow the opponent will concentrate their firepower to fight back! In the few kilometers of desert where the two sides clashed, even the sand was filled with the smell of gunpowder!

But Eisenhower had a hard time, and he served as commander-in-chief of the multinational forces with the rank of interim lieutenant general, relying on Marshall's discerning heroes and the support of President Roosevelt! But in the multinational force, many people believe that he is not enough to be commander-in-chief, and Montgomery, who has just defeated Rommel, is the best candidate for commander-in-chief. Even within the U.S. military, Patton and his ilk considered themselves more suitable than "that kid."

And after the Allies launched Operation Thunder, the attention of the Commonwealth army shifted to Egypt, and the British army almost completely broke away from the command of the multinational force command and became commanded by Montgomery, fighting independently in the Egyptian canals!

Under these circumstances, it was not easy for Eisenhower to maintain the balance of the Kufra front!

But with the German-Italian forces led by Rommel recuperating and returning in disguise, the Kufra front has become more and more dangerous. Eisenhower had urgently called Marshall to ask for reinforcements, otherwise the situation on the African battlefield would not be good.

The old and spicy Marshall saw at a glance that the problem of the multinational force was not that Eisenhower was incompetent, but that the command responsibilities and powers were not clear, and the countries still had ghosts in their hearts, playing their own little ninety-nine!

After the U.S. Army's Third Army came aboard from Miami to reinforce the African theater, Marshall approached Roosevelt and confessed to the serious problems in the Entente multinational forces.

Roosevelt also realized the seriousness of the problem, and immediately decided to transfer George Patton to be the governor of Morocco and leave the front-line troops temporarily! Call Churchill to change the commander of the British army!

It just so happened that Qiu Fatzi was also deeply dissatisfied with Montgomery's operation in the Egyptian Canal Zone, and pointed out that Churchill, who relied on various American aids, had no intention of maintaining the so-called dignity of the British Emperor in this matter - his hometown was about to be beaten in, so what face problem was there to talk about?

Field Marshal Viscount Alan Francis Brooke, commander of the British Home Army, who had commanded the Dunkirk retreat and had maintained good relations with the American army, was ordered to Africa to succeed Montgomery as commander of the Eighth Army.

In Zhong Yi's view, this is the second of the few mistakes Churchill made in World War II, the first of which is, of course, to declare that he would never destroy the Suez Canal!

Whether the first mistake is a mistake or not is debatable. In later generations, many people praised Churchill's qualities and wisdom! It was his statement not to destroy the common property of mankind that made the Han Emperor make many concessions to Britain in the post-war negotiations and retained the status of the British king!

But the second mistake is unforgivable! Marshal Brooke was educated in France from an early age, and also studied artillery at the Royal Military Academy in Woolich. While serving as an instructor at the Staff College and the Royal Defence College, I got to know many military leaders. But that doesn't mean Brooke is a good commander, "Sir Brooke is a good chief of the General Staff!" Montgomery is a good army commander! ”

Three months later, when Rommel accepted the surrender of the British army, he was still haunted by the shame of not having a single blood on Montgomery!

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But at that time, Brooke's arrival was warmly welcomed by Eisenhower and a large number of other national commanders! Even the generals of the Free French Army, who could not speak a few words in the multinational forces, expressed their special joy!

With Patton's departure to the Viceroyalty in Morocco, Eisenhower's prestige in the multinational forces was confirmed, and Roosevelt promoted him to four-star general in time to avoid criticism for his rank.

The Third Army, numbering 320,000 troops, landed in Casablanca under the escort of six Jeep aircraft carriers, alleviating the disadvantage of the multinational force in terms of strength!

It can be said that the top leaders of the Entente countries did their best to support Eisenhower!

"Now, it's time to watch Ike perform!" Old Jianghu Marshall is not a little apprehensive enough, reputation or anything else, but this battle, whether it is for the Entente or the Central Powers, is too important!

If Ike can command the multinational forces to defeat the Iron Alliance and drive them out of Africa again, it will not only make a series of actions of the Han army in the Middle East in vain, but also regain the initiative of the Allied side in the war! Whether the multinational force chooses to land in the south of France or attack the Apennines next, it will sound the death knell of the fascists in Europe!

What Marshall can see, of course Zhong Yi also sees! Even the mustache in Berlin and the beard in Moscow have seen it!

The Sahara Desert in Africa, the largest barren land on the earth, synonymous with poverty, backwardness and barrenness, has become the focus of the world's attention at this moment, from Europe and the United States to the Asia-Pacific region, more than a billion people are currently concentrated in Africa and Libya! Even the battlefleet of the Royal Northern Fleet secretly sailed through the Suez Canal overnight and entered Port Said, without stirring up too many waves!

Except for China!

The Chinese don't care about the war in Africa, and the two sides of the Yangtze River are already fighting enough! Not to mention the anti-sinology/tide in major cities, which has recently become more and more intense, and many workers and citizens have also joined the march. In Beiping, the procession seemed to be no longer satisfied with shouting slogans in the streets, and in Dongjiao Alley, many students threw stones and wine bottles into the walls of the Han Embassy, and even a homemade Molotov-style Molotov cocktail cocktail was thrown into it, setting fire to a wooden utility room in the embassy, but fortunately there were no casualties.

When Foreign Secretary Wilson came to report, His Majesty was nervously following the war in the Mediterranean Canal Zone, and after reading the report of the attack on the embassy, His Majesty only said seven words, "If you don't do it, you won't die!" Endure! ”

His Excellency Wilson didn't understand it, but the last word couldn't be clearer. The Foreign Minister shook his head, "This is China!" Change countries...... Hmph, it's really the first time I've heard His Majesty say the word 'forbearance' in foreign affairs. ”

Forbearance is a knife on the word heart, and it turns out that this revered word in Buddhism is not suitable for the Han Emperor!

Some people say that forbearance is a kind of vision, forbearance is a kind of mind, forbearance is a kind of understanding, forbearance is a kind of life skills, and forbearance is a kind of wisdom of rules.

His Majesty said: These beautiful words don't seem to have anything to do with me, my forbearance, just because I am Han Chinese, I am from China!

The embassy in Beiping was attacked, and the Han Empire did not show absolute strength like other diplomatic disputes in the past, such as "a strong protest is a declaration of war" and so on! This does not seem surprising to other countries!

When the strong Han army faces China, it will always strive to "seek perfection", and would rather sacrifice some interests than "seek perfection"! For many diplomats, this is the quintessential manifestation of a dictatorship – one that dictates the ruler's personal will rather than the national interest first.

But things in the world are always not as people wish, and the old Han saying is incomplete!

Just when the April Fool's Day operation of the "Thunder" plan was a complete victory, the Northern Fleet advanced into the Mediterranean Sea with its head held high, and His Majesty was happy, another news came like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shocked Zhong Yi and almost threw the Tianlin in his hand to the ground.

Qin Yingxue on the side hurriedly took over His Royal Highness, who was so frightened that she was about to cry, and didn't care about her son's arch and rubbing on her chest, "Your Majesty, be calm!" ”

"Calm down...... Hum! Glancing at his lovely son, Zhong Yi secretly took a breath and braked the foul mouth in time!

The Golden Dream DH-747 passenger plane that had just been launched on Royal Dahan Airlines' DH25 flight between Chang'an and Shanghai was hijacked by six members of a Chinese militant group and forced to land at Naha Airport in the Kingdom of the Ryukyus.

With 212 passengers and 11 crew members on board the Golden Dream airliner, members of a militant group known as the China Iron and Blood Regiment declared that the Han Empire's troops must all withdraw from Taiwan and the three eastern provinces within a week, or they would kill all 213 hostages.

In the Weiqing Pavilion, almost all of the bigwigs commanded the troops on the front lines. The only members of the wartime military commission who stayed in Chang'an were Zhang Zheng and Mu Yu, and on the other side of the conference table, sitting were Zhang Jiaxuan, the prime minister of the imperial cabinet, and Wilson, the foreign minister.

When Hebar came to the outside of the Weiqing Pavilion to ask for a meeting, His Majesty glanced at the native girl, but he didn't say anything!

The governor of Toei, Kunkun Hayashi, has flown to Okinawa to negotiate with the commander of the Ryukyu Kingdom's guards, Lieutenant General Sho Tingki, with the hijacking organization! The latest news is that among the 212 passengers on the passenger plane, 163 are Han Chinese, 6 are Ryukyuan, 12 are from the Kingdom of Judah, and the remaining 31 are all Chinese! Of the 163 Han passengers plus 11 crew members, 32 were white and one was indigenous.

"Bullshit!" His Majesty snapped the telegram in his hand, "What is the whole country Lin thinking?" What is the use of studying how many white natives there are? Sacrifice in war is not terrible, but this is a civil airliner, a civilian! How many enemies are killed in the war, it depends on each person's ability! Hijacking? What is this? They have the ability to beat us out of Taiwan and from the Northeast! ”

"Your Majesty......"

"Don't say it yet!" As soon as Mu Yu opened his mouth and said two words, he was interrupted by His Majesty! "The Military Intelligence Bureau continues to investigate, and we must find out what kind of bullshit and iron-blooded background this is! That Wilson ......"

His Majesty was extremely angry, and he didn't care about any politeness, and the cabinet ministers were called around by him and directly issued an order, "Immediately note to China...... Whether it's Peking or Nanjing, tell them to solve the case within one month! After a month, we couldn't see a satisfactory result, so I sent the Guards to China to investigate the case! ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister, Hbar, the Cabinet of Ministers must take care of the resettlement of the families of the hijacked passengers. Zhang Zheng, order the Navy SEALs to dispatch! Go straight to Okinawa and get ready for a strong attack! You also go, and command the operation with Guolin! ”

Everyone said yes, but His Majesty had already stood up and left the conference room!