The transport aircraft flew in the air for several hours. Although it was dark outside the window and nothing could be seen, Zhang Chi could still feel that there were transport aircraft everywhere around him.

At this time, Zhang Chi couldn't help but admire these pilots. You must know that this is flying in the dark, and in order to avoid being fired by German anti-aircraft guns, they must still maintain a high position, which means that there is no sign to identify, but they can still reach their destination accurately.

Later, Zhang Chi realized that this was actually not an easy task for the pilot, because more than 20 of these 200 transport aircraft were lost, and one even flew to the sea. Fortunately, the pilot was quick to react and immediately contacted the headquarters after finding that it deviated from the course and flew to Malta Island... The German army had the air supremacy of the Mediterranean, and perhaps only Malta Island could land in the entire Mediterranean, although it had been under German bombing.

During this period, Zhang Chi closed his eyes and recalled the airborne plan, and considered each possible accident as much as possible and thought about how to deal with these accidents.

Zhang Chi is different from Montgomery. After Montgomery made the plan, he thought that the situation of the war would develop as he planned, or it could be said that Montgomery believed that as long as each unit could achieve his respective goals as he planned, the situation of the war would inevitably develop in this way.

This kind of thinking is a bit wishful thinking. The variables on the battlefield cannot be calculated accurately by ordinary people, and even Zhang Chi from modern times cannot do it.

"General!" Staff General Liang handed Zhang Chi a box of canned beef and said, "Eat something!"

"Yeah!" Although Zhang Chi had no appetite, he still took the can.

This is part of the plan, because it is expected that there may be a long and fierce battle after reaching the ground. In order to maintain physical strength during the battle, you must eat once every two hours before the airborne... It is not appropriate to eat too late, and it is not suitable for strenuous exercise when you are full.

Canned beef is as unpalatable as ever. It should be said that it is not as delicious as it was when it first came into contact with it. Zhang Chi still remembers the excitement of the Expeditionary Army soldiers when they first got this thing in Myanmar. At that time, some soldiers sighed: "If you can eat canned beef every day, you will not be unfair in this life!"

But now...

Zhang Chi chewed the beef in his mouth hard, then swallowed the urge to spit it out, and sent it into his stomach like a bayonet into the enemy's chest.

Zhang Chi turned his eyes out the window again, although it was still dark outside the window.

But this is good news, because if the moonlight is bright enough, German fighter jets will likely take off to intercept. Although German pilots suffered a large loss in the Soviet-German battlefield and in the local battle against Britain, some of them can fly in the moonlight and attack targets.

At this time, General Liang sent a telegram to Zhang Chi and said, "General, things are not good. The plan in the direction of Algeria seems to be exposed. Darlang is organizing the purge and review of the Zoafu Corps!"

"Oh!" This surprised Zhang Chi a little. He didn't expect that things would be exposed so early.

In fact, the reason why the matter was exposed was related to the Expeditionary Force's transport fleet.

German radars captured the huge transport aircraft fleet in the air very early, but they were suffering from the darkness and the fighter jets fought with the British throughout the day, and it was not suitable for airplane interception, both in terms of fuel and pilot fatigue.

At first Rommel didn't take these transport planes to heart.

"This is probably the British plan to airborne the battle!" Rommel said: "It's stupid that they plan to airborne behind our defense line and then attack us with the inside and outside!"

Rommel would use the word "stupid" to describe it because he could easily use armored troops to annihilate these airborne troops. He had even sent out an armored regiment and prepared the Italian army in the rear to cooperate.

But as time passed by, the British army had never airborne and the transport plane was still flying in the air. Rommel felt something was wrong... Thinking again, it would be very dangerous if the airborne troops were airborne at night, which means that the transport plane might fly until dawn.

This idea surprised Rommel. He immediately walked to the map, and then rode it to dawn at the average speed of the enemy transport fleet. It was easy to get that the transport fleet would fly to Algeria, and even pointed directly at Algeria's capital from the direction of the route.

This surprised Rommel and realized the seriousness of the problem.

If Rommel contacted Algiers directly, then the problem would not be big, because General Juan was the commander-in-chief of the French Army in North Africa. Rommel's speculation would soon be fooled by General Juan or dragged until the expeditionary force landed.

But Rommel and Algiers had no channel for contact, so he had to generate electricity to Hitler, and Hitler directly contacted Marshal Betan of the Vichy government. Marshal Betan knew that Darlang was in Algiers, so the first person he contacted was Darlang.

As soon as Dallang received the telegram, the first thing he thought of was General Zhu An and Murphy.

The reason is that Darlang understands General Juan’s actions in North Africa, such as expanding the army, training and establishing supply bases... But Darlang believes that this is not a disadvantage. After all, "the mind is necessary to defend against others". Who knows whether the Germans will tear up the Armistice Treaty to attack the Vichy government? At this time, France can almost be said to be an unguarded city for Germany, so it is necessary to maintain a certain army in the French colonies.

So Darlang not only did not oppose General Juan's approach but secretly supported him.

But the problem is that during the time Dallang visited his son... General Zhuan and Murphy were looking for excuses to persuade themselves to go back!

If Dallang just felt a little strange at first, now in contact with this telegram, Dallang quickly understood that they were planning a coup, and even they had jointly formulated plans with the Allied forces, and at this time the Allied airborne troops were in the sky!

Dallang did not hesitate and immediately ordered: "Arest General Juan and Murphy immediately and bring them to see me!"

The assistant didn't know what happened, but when he heard that General Zhu An and Murphy were arrested, he knew that this was not a trivial matter, so he did not dare to neglect it and conveyed the order like a wind.

So soon after, Zhang Chi received another telegram: "The plan was cancelled, General Zhu An has been arrested!"
Chapter completed!