Chapter 752 General Giro
But in the end, Montgomery lowered his "noble" head and agreed to the plan. After all, the result depicted by this plan is so tempting. It can not only solve the current difficulties of the Eighth Army, but also free the Eighth Army from this painful desert war. .
Then Montgomery immediately sent the plan to Churchill with secret electricity.
Churchill couldn't help but slammed his thigh when he saw this plan and shouted excitedly: "Great, perfect plan! Nimitz is right. This Chinese general is simply another Rommel. It freed me completely from depression and disappointment!"
Then Churchill said to himself: "If I can win the North African battlefield in a short time, then no matter whether this war relies on Chinese troops or not, I think those members of the parliament should shut up!"
So Churchill immediately called back to agree and fully support the plan. At the same time, Churchill also made a constructive suggestion: "The French Charles de Gaulle government is being formed in London with the help of the United Kingdom. Why not use their reputation to call on the French officials in Algeria?"
Montgomery and Ramsden couldn't help but scream in excitement when they saw this suggestion: "God, how did we forget Charles de Gaulle?!"
But in the end, the Eighth Army still failed to use the Charles de Gaulle administration because of the interests of the United States...
In fact, Britain and the United States were already competing in secret at this time. Britain hoped to maintain its huge overseas colony after the war. However, the United States, a new major country, had great ambitions and wanted to replace Britain as the world's leader, so of course he did not want to see Britain still maintain its global colony.
Because even fools know that if Britain still had as many colonies as before the war, even if it suffered heavy losses in World War II, it would soon rise again... Just kidding, the resources and manpower of the colonies were all possessed by Britain in disguise, so Britain could easily return to its position as the world hegemon.
Therefore, the United States was actually happy to see this situation in Britain at this time. World War II made Commonwealth countries independent... It would be impossible not to let them be independent, otherwise why would they help Britain fight? Only by making promises to these countries is based on independence.
As for France, Britain supported the Charles de Gaulle's government in exile, so the United States should do the opposite in this regard, supporting the Vichy government that surrendered to Germany.
This may sound incredible.
The United States stood on the side of the Allied forces to fight Germany, but supported the surrender of Germany as a puppet Vichy government.
But as the saying goes, "There are only interests between countries", if you analyze it from the perspective of interests, this matter is actually easy to understand.
Originally, Churchill didn't want to tell the United States about this plan, because he knew very well that Britain and the United States had differences in the issue of France, so there would be an additional variable to tell the United States.
But in the end Churchill had to send a telegram to Roosevelt explain the situation.
The reason is that Britain does not have enough transport planes to airdrop the New Division to Algeria, and he must rely on the power of the United States.
As a result, there was a lot of trouble.
Roosevelt also liked this plan because it was generally in the interests of the United States, but it was not in the interests of the United States in leveraging De Gaulle's prestige, because it would likely lead to the British-supported Charles de Gaulle regime, so that after the war, Britain could get more benefits from France.
So Roosevelt came up with a solution.
He told Churchill: "The only shortcoming of this plan is to take advantage of General De Gaulle's prestige. As far as I know, General De Gaulle did not serve in Algeria. So, I doubt that he had enough prestige in Algeria to surrender and revolt!"
Then Roosevelt proposed another candidate, General Giro.
In Algeria, General Giro is really more suitable than De Gaulle, because he served in North Africa for a long time and was extremely opposed to Germany. He was even more captured by the German army because of his resistance to the German army and finally escaped from prison.
Churchill didn't expect Roosevelt to have this move. He wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, the British Eighth Army in North Africa was already in a state of crisis, and the British army could only cooperate with the US military, so he agreed helplessly.
Due to the urgent military situation, General Giro took a plane to Port Said that night to discuss plans to rebel against Algeria with Montgomery and others.
But the matter is not over yet...
At this time, General Giro was 63 years old and had two white beards, but he was still in good spirits.
When Zhang Chi first saw him, he felt very bad, because General Giro was also a gentleman in his behavior...
During this period, Zhang Chi had a lot of contact with British and Americans, so he hated contact with those gentlemen, because they were often people with one mind on the surface, and they were usually very good at face but did not have much real skills. Americans with rude and swear words were much better.
Sure enough, things soon became a crisis.
Montgomery first introduced the situation to General Giro before the map, and then said to General Giro: "General, we hope you can contact your old subordinates in Algeria or any acquaintance you can imagine, preferably those who hold important positions in Algeria..."
"Wait!" General Giro interrupted Montgomery and said, "General Montgomery, as a soldier, I am used to determining command before making plans, so that things can be made simple!"
Montgomery couldn't help but be confused: "Command? I don't think there is any doubt about this!"
"Is that true?" General Giro asked.
Montgomery heard General Giro's meaning, so he asked incredible ways: "General Giro's meaning...is he hoped that you would command this battle?"
"Of course!" General Giro replied.
Zhang Chi couldn't help but laugh. General Jiro was really shameless. He was just a puppet. He had no soldiers or soldiers under his command, and he actually wanted to command a battle.
"What's the reason?" asked Montgomery.
"Because the officers in Algeria are my old subordinates!" General Giro replied: "I think they are more willing to obey my orders and commands!"
"General!" Zhang Chi interrupted, "Don't forget that even if they are your old subordinates, they are still standing in the Nazi camp at this time. From a certain perspective, they are still our enemies at this time. Do you want to use our enemies to threaten us or show off to us?"
Chapter completed!