As the Allies' supplies and equipment were concentrated on Banterelli Island, the Allies also built three airports and two ports on the island... The pre-war preparations were almost done. .

Then the Allies spent four days gathering their troops. After all, these were multiple countries and hundreds of thousands of troops, so gathering was a very complicated matter.

The British Eighth Army set out from Tripoli, Alexander, Port Said, Haifa and Beirut.

The Seventh Army of the United States started from Oran, Algiers, and Bissel.

The French Third Army set out from Tunisia... The French army had only the Third Army, which was the decision made by Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi believes that so far, other troops of the Zoafu Corps have no ability to participate in the war, and General Zhu An also agrees with this, especially after inspecting the Third Army.

Of course Eisenhower would not object to this. In his opinion, the more French troops participate in the war, the more burden the US military will have... In his opinion, the French troops are undoubtedly the burden of the US military.

All the fleets carrying landing troops were disguised as escort transport fleets, first heading to Malta and then turning to Banterelli Island.

In order to cover the landing formation to reach its destination successfully at sea, the Allies deployed a total of eight battleships, six cruisers and twenty-five destroyers to escort it.

In fact, the Allies were not worried about the harassment of other German and Italian troops... The air and sea control power in the Mediterranean are already in the hands of the Allies. If the German and Italian troops dispatch warships or fighter planes, it would be in line with the Allies' wishes and could damage them before the war.

The only thing the Allied forces were worried about was the German submarines.

Submarines are not air supremacy, and the sea supremacy can be blocked. But later I found out that this worry is actually completely redundant, because the main force of the German submarine force has been operating in the Algerian waters before, with the purpose of protecting the German army to transport supplies to Africa.

During this process, nine of the German submarines with a total of fifteen in the Mediterranean were sunk, and the remaining six could no longer pose too much threat to the Allies.

Surprisingly, the biggest threat to navigation is not the enemy, but the sudden storm at sea...

The weather was originally very good at that time. The sunset was setting and the red clouds were full. Warships and transport ships spread out the entire sea, heading towards Banterelli Island like a torrent of steel.

But the weather on the sea changed as soon as possible. Before the sun set completely, a dark cloud surged from the other side. Then the strong wind roared, and the waves caused by the level 7 strong wind lifted the warship high and then threw it away heavily.

Zhang Chi, General Zhu An and others in the Dunkirk command post must hold on to the grip to avoid being thrown out... It felt like riding a roller coaster, to be precise, more thrilling than riding a roller coaster, because bitter sea water kept pouring in from the window, making people feel like a warship was about to sink to the bottom of the sea.

This made Zhang Chi's stomach churn continuously, and he vomited out with a "wow" half an hour later.

Zhang Chi can be said to have been on many warships back and encountered great storms. He was like this, not to mention the soldiers of the Zoafu Corps... Many of them were landslides living in desert areas, except for the soldiers recruited by coastal urban areas. At this time, after such trouble, they almost vomited all their intestines.

At this time, Zhang Chi began to worry. If the storm continued like this, the Allies would probably not be able to land on Sicily at all. In fact, let alone landing, it would be difficult to put the landing craft off the ship... Those landing craft would be overturned by huge waves as soon as they arrived at the sea, especially at this time, and it would be difficult for soldiers to rescue once they fell into the water.

"Do they know there will be this storm tonight?" Zhang Chi asked General Zhu An loudly: "How did their weather work be done?!"

General Juan replied with difficulty: "The weather officers did not predict the storm, but they said that it was a temporary north wind from the southern coast of France. The wind was strong, but it came and went quickly and might calm down in a few hours!"

"I hope so!" Zhang Chi replied.

Otherwise, this login operation would probably be burned.

Fortunately, the weather officer guessed correctly. At 10 o'clock in the evening, the sea surface returned to calm. A full moon hung high in the sky and shone like a mirror, as if the storm had never existed before.

All departments hurriedly took advantage of this time to take a short rest.

At this time, Zhang Chi received a report that five soldiers were missing... Needless to think, they must have been thrown into the sea in the wind and waves.

General Zhu An was disdainful of this at all.

The five soldiers looked down upon in his eyes, not to mention that they were Algerians rather than legal officials.

But Zhang Chi's reaction was completely opposite to General Zhu An. He immediately scolded the Chinese consultant where the five soldiers were located and punished them, and ordered them to search and rescue immediately.

General Zhu An was puzzled by Zhang Chi's actions.

"Major General!" General Zhu An said: "Don't you think it's futile to do this? They were washed into the sea. At this time, we are afraid that it has been dozens of nautical miles away!"

Zhang Chi replied: "But it is possible to be on the boat, right?"

In fact, Zhang Chi didn't understand this truth, nor did he really want to retrieve these five missing soldiers. Of course, it would be best if he could recover them.

More importantly, Zhang Chi's actions will make Algerian soldiers feel the importance their superiors attach to their lives...

The general counsel actually punished Chinese instructors for five soldiers who disappeared in the storm, and spared no effort to search and rescue, which gave Algerian soldiers and the French official Mo alike another feeling of seeing their lives.

Therefore, while searching and rescuing, Algerian soldiers were also silently chanting or whispering to their comrades in their hearts:

"The Chinese are indeed our friends!"

"We can listen to their command with confidence. They will not let us go to the battlefield to die!"

...

This is the effect Zhang Chi wants to achieve.

As a result, one person was rescued.

The soldier was very smart. He tied himself to a cable and tied the other end to the boat, so although he was washed away by the waves, he hung on the side of the boat and fell into a coma. No one noticed him for a while.

After the soldier was awakened, the officers and soldiers of the Third Army were cheering, as if they had won a victory.
Chapter completed!