Chapter 521: North African Beacon Fire (I)

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The development of domestic industry, agriculture and science and technology made Hu Weidong more confident in the victory of the Southwest War, but in order to prepare sufficient supplies and wait for news from Morocco, Hu Weidong did not immediately turn defense into attack, and Krim, who finally returned to his hometown, did not disappoint him, no, it should be said that he was overjoyed

Kerim originally thought that after nearly 20 years of solitary confinement, the people of his hometown had forgotten him, but the heroic people of Reif would never forget their heroes and pride, when the news of Krim's return spread, the originally calm Reif Mountains suddenly boiled, countless mountain people came to defect with rudimentary weapons, only a month later, more than 3,000 people gathered under the command of Kerim, including even the pseudo-military police who had defected to the Spaniards in despair. Ironically, although it was the Spaniards who were led by Krim at first, the Moroccan people were even more resentful of the French and preferred to surrender to the Spaniards than serve the French

However, it was a good thing for Klim to raise the banner again, because of the "taming" of the Moroccans, and the fact that Franco had originally raised troops from Spanish Morocco to launch a rebellion, the military dictator had a lot of trust in the Moroccans, and in fact a considerable part of his national army was a brave and warlike Moroccan army. And in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, he made great achievements, but later because of the poor military discipline of these Moroccans (and they were not their own nationals), Franco did not want to see them destroy Spain, and the Republican Army was no longer in the climate, so Franco sent them all back to Morocco a year ago, and recalled most of the Spanish troops originally stationed in Morocco, this arrangement was no problem, but now that Kerim has returned, the situation is completely different

The Spaniards could not have imagined that their Moroccan servant army would defect during the battle. As a result, the conquest, which originally seemed to be a sure victory, was not only defeated but also lost. A large amount of weapons and ammunition were also sent to the rebels, and there were even a large number of well-trained troops

As a result, after the victory of the counter-encirclement, Kerim's rebel army had rapidly swelled to more than 18,000 men, less than a month after his return to Morocco. In order to seize the opportunity of the Spanish Civil War, which was not yet fully over, Franco was unlikely to send a heavy army from home before that. Immediately send troops to attack all parts of Spanish Morocco. As for the integration of the troops. Kerim showed a military genius that is rare in the world, and actually adopted the method of reorganizing while fighting, and solved it by the way in the battle

As the main force of the Spanish army stationed in Morocco had been annihilated in the failed advance. How will the remaining troops be able to withstand Krim's sharp front? However, in just half a month, Spanish Morocco was almost completely recovered, and only a few coastal ports were helpless because they were protected by Spanish warships.

Along with his military victories, Kerim began to prepare for the establishment of power, but having learned the lessons of the Chinese revolution, he decided to build a strong political party before that, so that in the event of his own absence, Moroccan resistance would not cease even in the event of his own absence, which would become the influential Berber Popular Front (later renamed the Pan-Arab Popular Front). With such a powerful organization, Klim will be able to concentrate his forces not only on a war of annihilation on movement as before, but also on a guerrilla attack and a war of disturbance, which is undoubtedly a qualitative leap

Shortly thereafter, the People's Republic of Western Morocco was officially proclaimed, and the government of the Spanish Republic, which was already in its infancy, was the first to recognize its legitimacy, and Franco was furious, but for a time he could not spare enough troops to deal with the Krim. Franco knew very well how powerful Krim was, with the Spanish army's mid-to-low combat effectiveness among the great powers, if the number of troops dispatched was less than 200,000, there was no possibility of victory, and if it was less than 100,000, it was purely to send equipment

The French government, knowing how dangerous Krim was, immediately agreed to send troops, but at this time, the French parliament, which was controlled by the left-wing Liliang, was generally anti-war, and the French Communist Party also widely encouraged workers and students to strike and strike classes, exposing and denouncing the criminal acts of the government and the dictator Franco.

At this time, the French government and the big capitalists behind it finally showed their true hypocrisy by amending the election law to remove the legal right of the French Communist Party members to enter the parliament and the government, and at the same time dissolved the parliament and re-elected it, and established a new parliament completely controlled by the right. At the same time, the French government also declared the French Communist Party an illegal organization and began to hunt down and kill French Communist Party members in the country.

The impact of this turmoil was not limited to France, not only at that time, but also after the German invasion of France, because the French Communist Party as the leader of Liliang was too weak at that time, the French civil resistance organization was not at all compared with history, which allowed the Germans to better integrate and use France's industrial and military strength, which had a great impact on the course of World War II

Contrary to Hu Weidong's expectations, Kerim never took the initiative to provoke the French after raising his troops, after all, he knew very well what a terrible behemoth France was compared to Morocco, and although he was grateful for the rescue of Chinese friends, it was not enough for him to sacrifice Moroccan interests and fight for distant China. However, Kerim did not want to provoke the French, but the French could not tolerate him, and after learning that 300,000 French troops had landed on the southern coast of Morocco under the escort of a naval fleet, Kerim had only one war left even if he did not want to be an enemy of France!

In the face of the full-scale invasion of France's superior forces, he did not take the form of resistance to meet the enemy head-on, but scattered more than half of the army to fight guerrillas, especially the destruction of modern communication lines such as railways and highways, which seriously affected the marching speed of the French. As for the more than 20,000 elite soldiers he personally led, he unexpectedly went east into Algeria, which was also a French colony (to be continued......