Chapter 779 Negotiations
Darran soon reached out to the independence faction in Algeria.
It is not difficult to do this. Darlang just needs to let the French officers pass Zhang Chi's words to the army: "As long as you help France defeat fascist Germany, then France will promise to give you independence after the war!"
This made all the Algerian soldiers cheer.
If they had no motivation to fight before, then they had it now, and that was to strive for Algeria's independence.
More importantly, before that, they were always regarded as puppets by the Algerian people (the Zoafu Army was actually somewhat similar to the puppet army), because they were often used by the French as tools to suppress and exploit the people, which made them have no sense of military honor at all. But now, they have transformed themselves into the forefront of fighting for national independence.
This news was soon passed by the French army to the independent Zoafu army. In fact, many of the independent factions were spies who supported the independent factions or were themselves independent factions.
When the independents heard the news, they were still half-believing and half-doubted, worried that this would be a trap set by the French.
But after careful analysis, they felt that the decline of France could only use this as a condition to fight for their cooperation, just like the United Kingdom.
So the independence faction took the initiative to find Darlang to negotiate with him.
The content of the negotiation is very simple, but it is actually a win-win situation for exchange of interests.
For France, they can not only solve the problem that the French colonial army has no motivation and enthusiasm for combat, but also do not have to be both internal and externally hindered, but also deal with independent forces on the other hand, and they also have to worry that the army in their hands will lose control or even turn the guns at them.
For independent forces, they no longer have to secretly promote independence, and they have also seen the dawn of independence. As long as they do one thing, it is to assist the French army in defeating Germany. Among them, the French will even provide weapons and even train the independent forces. Why not do it?
As a result, the morale of the entire Zoafu Corps was almost renewed, especially under the propaganda and agitation of independent forces, the enthusiasm of the Algerian people was also mobilized. Many people took the initiative to sign up for the army or assist the French army's logistics. For a moment, the "military and civilian" situation appeared between the French army and the Algerian people.
Even after this, the independent forces in Morocco and Tunisia took the initiative to find Darran and hoped to cooperate with the French army under the same conditions.
Among them, the latter is Tunisia.
It is normal for Tunisian independent forces to seek cooperation with the French army, because at this time, the Italian army and the Italian army had a food shortage due to the cut-off of the supply line. Therefore, the Italian army had to "collect grain" from the Tunisian people, which made the Tunisian people generally distrust Germany and the Italian army, which was better than the French army.
On the other hand, the independent Tunisian forces can also understand that the current situation can almost be said to be one-sided and tend to be the Allied forces. Fascist countries have reached the end of their strength. If they do not take advantage of this time to cooperate with the French army to fight for independence, they will probably not have this opportunity in the future.
So he immediately contacted the Dallang government in secret.
You should know that at this time, the Italian army was stationed in Tunisia. If the independent Tunisian forces and even the Tunisian people were mobilized to cooperate with the French army, it would undoubtedly be a time bomb that could explode at any time in Germany.
So of course Darlang would not object, so he agreed immediately.
But Zhang Chi knew that these people thought France too simply
The French promised it was one thing, and whether it could be done was another. Before the war, they did make a promise to allow them to be independent. However, after the war, France did not make these countries independent, but instead became a colony of Bengali because of the urgent need for the recovery of the French economy.
So Algeria fought the eight-year war of independence.
From this point of view, France is actually a naughty politically and their actions will obviously arouse strong resistance from colonial countries, and then they will fall into the quagmire of guerrilla warfare and eventually France itself won't benefit, but they will have to let these countries be independent.
In contrast, Britain is much smarter. After all, it is an old business empire. When they calculate, they should fulfill their promises and make them independent. This will not only have a good reputation internationally but also continue to maintain friendly relations and close business exchanges with these once colonized countries. Why not do it?!
Of course, these are all later stories.
Although the French army suffered a crushing defeat on the Mares defense line at this time, they quickly recovered their vitality because they allowed Algeria and other countries to be independent. To be precise, their overall strength should be better than the French army before.
This swept away the sad faces of the French generals in the conference room. When they gathered in the conference room again, they were talking and laughing.
"So, gentlemen!" said Darlang: "As everyone knows, the situation has improved! It's not that we are asking the Algerian soldiers to attack, but that the Algerian soldiers are asking us to attack!"
The generals in the conference room couldn't help but laugh.
This is true. Although the battlefield is cruel, in order to fight for independence as soon as possible, the Algerians demanded an attack as soon as possible. As General Juan said: "They can't wait to fight to Germany and make Hitler surrender."
"But we still have a question now!" said Dallang. "How should we attack and win, and still be like the same?"
No one answered, because if it was still the same as above, it would not have any effect except for a few more people to die.
"In fact!" General Zhu An continued with some embarrassment and said: "We can no longer attack like the top, because there are only more than 30 tanks left. The others will either be destroyed during the top attack, or because of the failures, I suspect that some of the tanks were deliberately made by the tank soldiers, because they don't want to drive these rags up to kill their lives!"
Of course, most of these small moves are before negotiations with independent forces, but it is difficult to repair the tank after it is broken.
This made the French generals frustrated. More than 30 tanks were not enough for Germany and the Italian army's anti-tank gun counterattack.
Then what will the French army use to attack next?
Chapter completed!