The same North Africa, the General Headquarters of the Anglo-American North African Corps.

"Retreat?" George Patton slapped the table hard, "I'm about to cut off Lin Youde's front, and you actually let me retreat?" Not only did you let me retreat, but you also sent you over to supervise my retreat? Omar, you remember, the commander here is me. ”

Omar? Bradley's face did not change, and his calm aura was in stark contrast to Barton's rage-like bull. After Barton finally fell silent, Bradley spoke, "Joe, we don't know when Lin Youde will use his new woman. ”

"If that renegade angel can go to war, then she will suddenly appear on the battlefield and bring great damage to us who are caught off guard, which is the best thing to do." Barton poked his finger at the map on the table, "But Lin Youde didn't do that, he let this woman appear in a grand manner, which shows that this guy is not ready to go to war at all, she can only influence us in this way." Now all we need to do is to storm, storm, break through Lin Youde's defenses and split the Allied front in two. ”

As he spoke, Barton picked up his pencil and slashed several lines on the map, tearing it all out.

"The French defenses have been almost overwhelmed by me, and we are just short of the final blow! It was disrupted by Lin Youde's counterattack before, but this time the same thing won't happen again! I have prepared a more adequate countermeasure than the last time, we will only need twenty days, nay, ten days, to cut off the front of the Confederates, and then ......"

"Then Angelita went on a ground attack, and our troops suffered heavy losses."

"I don't remember that the U.S. military is such a timid and fearful army, didn't we originally plan to make up for the gap in the number of gods with technology and numbers? Isn't this the best time to formally implement what we have been thinking since the founding of the nation? How can you be timid just because the other party has an extra god? ”

Bradley was silent for a few seconds before sighing slightly.

"There are very complicated considerations in this, we can't afford to lose a lot of troops for no reason, and this will have a very negative impact on all aspects."

"Then send Shen Ji over again, to put it bluntly, isn't it the duty of those big ladies to ensure that the regular troops can carry out operations without interference?"

"We don't have a way to draw more gods, the enemy has a slight advantage in the magic armor, so we have to ensure that the number of gods on all fronts can make up for the advantage of the opponent's magic armor. So at this stage, if Miss Angelita goes to war, we may not be able to stop her from conducting a ground attack. Seeing that Barton was about to interject, Bradley immediately raised his voice and forcibly choked his words back into his stomach, "I want to remind you, Joe, it has been more than a month since that woman gave birth, and according to the general recovery rate, her combat strength has recovered quite a lot, and it is not surprising that she can go into battle at any time." Lin Youde didn't let her directly participate in the war, maybe she had other plans, and we must be careful. ”

"Are you thinking too much of that Lin Youde?" Patton looked indignant and said, "I guess he doesn't have any other plans at all, and the only reason why he doesn't go to war is that I just said that she can't go to war yet!" ”

"Joe," Bradley interrupted Patton, "this is the conclusion of the discussion between the two heads of state, that we have moved into a defensive posture in Contonis, and that the Coalition High Command will be acceptable to the Allied High Command as long as there is a bridgehead left in Contonis. ”

"I can't accept it!" Barton threw the pencil he had just held in his hand on the table and shouted, "Even if you arrange the troops now to avoid heavy casualties in the attack of the Divine Queen, will you have a way to balance the impact of that Miss Angelita's appearance in the future?" ”

"The two Latin American nations with the Divine Queen are sure to enter the war, so that we can have two more Divine Queens that can be deployed, and then the balance of power of the Divine Queens on the front line will change. In addition, in the current situation, the combat power of Lydia among the enemy gods is obviously inferior to our Miss Tachibana Qinli, but now Miss Tachibana's consumption is a little large, and after she recovers, even with the existing god Ji combat power, there should be no problem in containing Lin Youde's three gods. ”

Barton didn't yell immediately this time, he pursed his lips as if he was being forced to shit, and finally, he sat down in his chair and snorted, "Okay, whatever you say is what you say." But let me say first that if the situation deteriorates and we are driven out of Tunis, it is not my responsibility. I don't have absolute confidence that I can use the 'evacuated' troops to block Lin Youde's attack. To stop his attack, it was necessary to assemble reserves close enough to the front line that were close enough to his attacking forces, but to do so would be to violate the orders of the bigwigs above. I'm not going to fight this battle. ”

"Joe......"

"I, Patton, will never let my soldiers burrow like marmots and shrink up! My principle is that we don't hold our ground, we let the enemy hold it. We will attack, then win the war, and make the enemy die for the country. ”

"I know," Bradley replied, "I'll report your appeal to the Coalition High Command." ”

**

"This Barton," Charlotte put down the telegram and turned to look at Eisenhower, "Ike, what do you say?" ”

"In view of the fact that there is a real possibility of defeat in the future, I think ......," Eisenhower paused and hesitated a little before continuing, "I think Patton should be temporarily removed as deputy commander to assist a newly appointed Afrika Korps commander." Your Excellency, in this period, having a capable general has a very great effect on morale. We cannot afford to let the front-line officers with the best record in our hands suffer a defeat. ”

"You seem to have accepted that we are about to suffer a defeat in Lunnis." Charlotte pointed pointedly, "As the commander-in-chief, this idea seems inappropriate, right? ”

"As Barton said, it is very difficult to deal with Lin Youde's regular army attack while guarding against the attack of Shenji and avoiding huge losses, this is not a situation where we can win if we want to win, we can either make up our minds and bet on the possibility that Lin Youde will not invest in Angelita, or we will honestly prepare to lose the battle. In my opinion, losing one or two battles doesn't matter what, as long as you adjust and win back all the points you lost in one go.

"It's like a baseball game, it doesn't matter if you lose points in all the previous rounds, as long as you hit consecutive home runs in the last round to earn the points back, so Miss President, don't worry too much about this defeat, what we should do now is to minimize the impact of defeat as much as possible, and regroup and prepare for another fight."

As soon as Eisenhower's words ended, Churchill, who had been silent by his side, joined the conversation: "This is not a positive and useful idea. Let's move on to the next question. Recently, there have been more and more reports that the Germans have begun to install torpedoes on a large scale with the kind of torpedoes that can bend, and the effectiveness of our escort operations has been greatly reduced, and the German submarines can fire torpedoes far from conventional attack positions and then ensure a good hit rate. ”

"Aren't we equipped with an improved underwater acoustic jammer?"

"The device didn't work," Churchill shook his head, "and that's the strangest thing, it was supposed to be some kind of guided weapon, but how it was directed, our scientists had no idea at all." ”

After that, Churchill stared at Charlotte with a meaningful gaze: "I wonder what the United States has to say about this?" ”

Charlotte shook her head and replied in a sincere tone: "We don't have a clue about it, but our escort destroyers report that the hit rate of these torpedoes is not particularly high, and it often happens that the number of torpedo tracks found is far greater than the actual number of hits, so our intelligence department speculates whether it is not a hydroacoustic self-guided weapon at all." ”

"If it's not a hydroacoustic self-guided weapon, then what is it?" Churchill asked, "After all, those torpedoes do turn, and the turns are clearly controlled." ”

"Didn't I say it, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, I don't know. My scientific advisors also don't know that the Germans must have played some tricks, but we can't debunk them just yet. ”

"It's a shame."

"Speaking of escort operations in the Atlantic, there are two more places for German submarines that I think are worth noting." Charlotte pulled out a report that was not too thick from the folder spread out in front of her, and after opening the report, she said, "One is that the German submarines have increased their diving time, and the speed of their diving has also increased significantly, and no one knows how they did it." Second, our destroyers discovered that some of the German submarines were equipped with some kind of new device, and before they could detect the location of the German submarines and prepare for a deep-fire attack, the sea was often filled with a great deal of noise, and by the time the noise in the sea had subsided, the German submarines had long since disappeared. The above two are much more troublesome for escort combat than torpedoes that can turn. ”

Churchill groaned, and then he suddenly noticed a crucial part.

"For the second case you just mentioned, you didn't specifically emphasize that the principle is unknown, that is, the scientists of the United States already have an eye on the second device?"

"Yes," Charlotte nodded dryly, "our scientists and engineers, having studied the sudden noise heard by the destroyer, unanimously concluded that it was a murmur of large amounts of bubbles being released in the sea, and that the Germans were probably equipping their submarines with bubble generators, or decoy bombs capable of generating large amounts of bubbles. ”