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After occupying the Azov Islands and Madeira, the Allies not only obtained new strategic bombing bases, but also the submarines of the United States and Britain could also set off from these two places and sail into the Mediterranean Sea to destroy the communication lines between the Arab Federation and Europe. However, because both ends of the Strait of Gibraltar are currently controlled by the Axis powers, and the strait is already quite narrow, not to mention that the Allied submarines are still old-fashioned boat-shaped submarines with very poor concealment, and the probability of being discovered when passing through is too high, and the United States has sent several ships that have been discovered and intercepted by the enemy, and more than 300 crew members have been killed in vain.

So, while continuing the strategic bombing of Morocco, Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Allied Atlantic theater, resolutely decided to land in North Africa again. Although Krem had left painful memories for the U.S. military, and even made Patton, who was very optimistic about Eisenhower, a madman, the Americans always believed that personal genius was pale in the face of the disparity in national strength and military strength, not to mention that no matter how strong the Arab army's army was, it could never be compared with the German army, which had captured more than 10 million Soviet troops and destroyed countless countries, and the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar did not have a strong fortress like Gibraltar on the northern shore. It is therefore not difficult to understand why the Allies chose to seize the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar in North Africa rather than directly attack Spain to seize Gibraltar.

And in the opinion of the Allied Atlantic Theater Command, after several months of strategic bombing. Morocco and western Algeria have suffered huge losses, and these two provinces are one of the core areas of the industrialization of the Arab Federation, the national strength of the Arab Federation cannot be unaffected, and Kerim's previous counterinsurgency in the Middle East, although it was ultimately successful, has lost millions of people estimated by the intelligence services, which will seriously damage the national strength of the Arab Federation, so in the eyes of the US military, this time should be much smoother than the last attack on North Africa.

However, the American army, which had suffered heavy losses, was much more cautious than it had been at the beginning, since Eisenhower had set the goal of the campaign to capture and hold the cities of Tangier and Sabtai on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, and not to allow troops to attack the rest of the Arab Commonwealth without orders. You can see it.

But even so. Kerim's and Rommel's Afrika Korps still caused the American army to suffer heavy losses of more than 100,000 killed and missing in the early days of the landing, and even the eight battleships that came to help in the battle were injured to varying degrees under the attack of a large number of land-based fighters from the north and south. Montgomery's Commonwealth forces took advantage of the fact that both the Argentine army and the Afrika Korps had been drawn to the northern front and successfully landed near Safi in central Morocco. A direct threat to Casablanca, the capital of Morocco. Forcing Krim to retreat from the northern front, Eisenhower's more than 300,000 vanguard troops who were the first to land on North African soil were most likely driven into the sea to feed the fish

Montgomery was well aware of Krim's strength, and immediately turned to attack after stealing chickens and forcing him south to rescue. Overhaul of the fortifications began. Although this turtle tactic is obscene and shameless, it is really impossible to crack it when the strength of the Allied side is already superior, even Krim is helpless against it, and Eisenhower sees that this trick is effective, and he does not care about his face, so angry that Krim and Rommel can't help but use foul language.

Although it is worth mentioning that the Allied landing force can only rely on fortifications to advance the camp step by step when the total strength of the Allied landing force has increased to 800,000, this is already worth mentioning, but if the Allied forces are allowed to continue to increase their troops, sooner or later it will swell to the extent that the UAE and the Afrika Korps cannot resist, after all, the total strength of the United States army alone has reached 12 million, not counting the National Guard and Coast Guard, which have a total of more than 2 million. In this case, Kerim also had to fly to Berlin to ask for help from the mustache, hoping to get enough air force and cloudburst bombs to break through the damned turtle formation of the North African Allies

After entering 1945, the production of the small and medium-sized oil fields discovered in Germany and Austria began to decline, and the two major oil fields occupied by the Soviet Union were also lost. But even if the mustache has the heart to help Afghanistan, how many air forces can he spare to support the North African battlefield when Germany itself is threatened by the Allied air? And although cloudburst shells can now be mass-produced like conventional ammunition, how can Kerim use them without air superiority?

Fortunately, Dönitz and Wegener were well aware of the necessity of oil for the revival of the German Navy, and took the initiative to ask the mustache to send the main force of the German Navy, which now only had land-based aircraft, to the south to support, which to a certain extent solved Krim's urgent need. Although the number of aircraft of Hainan Airlines is small, the performance is better than that of the Luftwaffe, and the quality of the pilots is nothing to say, so it is still a great help.

In fact, now those super aces of the German HNA have been fully switched to more powerful jet fighters, although the handling and tactics of the Me262 are very different from the piston aircraft, but for the aces of these aces, it is not too difficult, with these new aircraft, they can abuse their allies to find their teeth all over the place

Relying on the absolute superiority of the aircraft's performance and the unprecedentedly high frequency of encountering the enemy, these German pilots quickly brushed up their achievements at an unprecedented speed after being transferred to the south, and Hartmann gradually surpassed the untimely death of the "Star of HNA" Marseilleu and many super aces of the Air Force, constantly refreshing the new record of the number of German pilots falling down, and the world record left by the monster in China is getting closer and closer

Although the pilots of the German Navy were unable to fully restore the Axis air supremacy in Morocco due to insufficient numbers, the Allied advantage was greatly weakened. And it only takes this level to make it enough for Klim to be confident and bold in launching a counteroffensive.

Although with the widespread use of cloudburst shells on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Allied fortification design has been optimized to a large extent, which has greatly weakened the super lethal effect of cloudburst bombs on personnel stationed in fortifications, but cloudburst shells are still much more effective against fortifications than ordinary high-explosive shells, as evidenced by the performance on the North African battlefield (to be continued......