"We have air superiority!" General Juan said: "Although the Germans had fighter jets entering Tunisia, they were not large in number, with only about one squadron. The American fighter jets taking off from Malta Island can easily suppress them!"

After pausing, General Zhu An continued: "On this basis, we have sea advantages and supply advantages!"

As he said that, General Juan glanced at General Drabbard and said, "We have the Toulon fleet, don't we? It can provide us with artillery fire support and transportation of supplies. Therefore, I suggest that the troops attack along the coastline so that they can get supplies and fire support from naval guns anytime and anywhere!"

General Zhu An's words quickly gained the approval of most people.

Zhang Chi also believes that this suggestion is relatively reliable. After all, many battles, especially those in Britain, the United States, etc., are mostly made of equipment and supplies.

Seeing that Zhang Chi didn't say anything, Darlang asked: "Major General, you seem to have different opinions!"

In fact, what Dallang wants most here is Zhang Chi's opinion or it can be said to support the French attack, because Dallang knew that only Zhang Chi had fought with the Germans and defeated the Germans... Oh, no, thinking of this, Dallang looked at Giro.

General Giro also fought with the Germans, to be precise, not fight but raised his hand.

However, Darlang does not seem to be qualified to make fun of General Giro, because the Vichy government, which Darlang once loyal to, was the result of surrendering to the Germans.

After glanced at the French generals present, Zhang Chi said, "Generals, first of all, I want to know the significance of this war! After mastering air and sea control, we have actually trapped the Germans in Libya. Libya has oil and natural gas, but does it have food? Or is Libya's food enough to feed the Libyan people and hundreds of thousands of German and Italian troops?"

Seeing that no one answered, Zhang Chi continued: "We Chinese have a saying that surrounds but does not attack, which means that they surround the enemy without attacking. Soon, they will begin to expose various problems within themselves due to lack of resources, and even have to attack us. So why do we still have to rush to attack? We just need to defend, right?"

Zhang Chi hit the nail on the head. Any war must have its strategic purpose, that is, what kind of military purpose should be achieved when fighting this war. But now the French have no military purpose. They just want to defeat the enemy. If they want to say that they have any purpose, it is to enhance France's international status and influence.

Of course, Darlang knew that what Zhang Chi said made sense. He knew Libya. As Zhang Chi said, there was oil, natural gas and iron ore, but food... More than 95% of the entire Libya area were deserts or semi-deserts, and most of the food needed to be exchanged with oil.

So now, all the French army needs to do seems to be cooperating with the Allies to impose a blockade on Libya. It won’t take long to have problems in Libya due to food issues. Not to mention anything else, the Italians will definitely surrender first.

but……

"Major General!" said Darlang: "This is not within the scope of our discussion. I just want to know whether the plan mentioned by General Juan is feasible! Or what problems do you think we have in this battle."

Suddenly, Zhang Chi understood a little. Dallang wanted to fight this battle not only to win face for France, but also to consolidate his position and seize military power in his hands... Although Dallang has the command of the Ezow Af Corps, there are too many forces here, and a considerable number of French passionate young people and officers did not support the commander-in-chief who "transferred" from the Vichy government.

Therefore, Darlang hopes to take the opportunity to replace some officials who are unwilling to obey his orders through a battle.

This is indeed a very clever method, but I don’t know how many people will die for it.

However, Zhang Chi didn't care much. It was too common to fight and kill a few people in the war years, and Zhang Chi only cared about his own troops.

Thinking of Zhang Chi, he nodded and replied: "So, I wonder how much do you know about your opponent?"

Darlang couldn't help but turn his eyes to General Zhu An, who gave all these things to General Zhu An.

"What aspects?" General Zhu An asked.

"The proportion of the German army!" Zhang Chi said: "And the fortifications they built!"

"There are 74,000 Germans!" General Juan replied: "They are stationed in the Mares line!"

"There are 74,000 out of 100,000 people in the German army!" Zhang Chi said: "You must know that Rommel's African army has only 100,000 people, and only more than 20,000 of them are Germans. But he can fight 200,000 Commonwealth Army retreated to Egypt, and even was driven east of the Suez Canal several times... Gentlemen, you also have 200,000 troops now. How do you think you are compared to the Commonwealth Army?"

There was a lot of discussion in the conference room. If this were compared, the French army's attack would be really not optimistic.

"Is this Mares' defense strong?" General Delabird asked.

"Yes!" General Zhu An replied: "In fact, it was built by us, with a large number of steel and cement fortifications, located on Mount Maitma, with a total length of 32 kilometers, facing our coastal plain from a high place!"

"God!" Drabad couldn't help but exclaim: "How could we build a line of defense against ourselves?"

"General!" General Juan explained: "It was originally heading towards Tunisia, we originally wanted to use it to stop the Germans from attacking us. You know, the Germans are in Libya... but now it is in the hands of the Germans, and the Germans only need to rebuild them a little to turn the muzzle at us!"

"Why can't our army be stronger than the Commonwealth Army?" General Giro said: "As far as I know, the Commonwealth Army is composed of many colonial armies, and they don't even understand each other's language. Although we are also colonial armies, most of them are Algerians, so we will be much more united than the Commonwealth Army, aren't we?"

"And!" said General Juan: "As I said before, we have a sea and air superiority. Although the proportion of Germans is indeed much larger than that of the African Legion, they are not Rommel!"

As he said that, General Zhu An looked at Zhang Chi and said, "But we have Rommel, don't we?"

Everyone couldn't help but laughed knowingly. They all knew that Zhang Chi was compared to Rommel, the Allied Army.
Chapter completed!