The scene in Port Algiers was once again staged in Port Toulon.

But the scene in Port Toulon is much bigger than Port Algiers...

On the sea, dozens of warships and submarines broke out fiercely at almost the same time. This battle was not surprisingly the German army had the upper hand.

This does not mean that the German army has the advantage in terms of military strength. In fact, the German army is still at a disadvantage in terms of military strength... The French army will leave dozens of people on the warships, and the German army has only about ten people, including crew members (the number of people varies, and some larger warships are allocated more).

But on the one hand, the German army was assisted by Algerian soldiers, and on the other hand, the French army was scattered on warships. In addition, they were prepared to fight, so the German army occupied warships without any preparation, and even solved many problems of insufficient crew... The German soldiers captured many French crew members, so they drove the warships with guns.

The war on the shore was like what happened in the port of Algiers. Algerian soldiers set up a line of defense on the periphery with the cover of buildings to resist the reinforcements of French troops... The French reinforcements were much slower than expected, which surprised Zemamuche. Even half an hour later, the French army was unable to organize a decent attack.

But this is actually normal.

First of all, because most of the French officers were in the party, they were beaten to death and wounded in the first place, and even the deputy commander General Claude was captured, so the French army was unable to coordinate effectively.

Secondly, the French Army was actually abolished at this time.

After World War I, French military strategists generally believed that in the future, the two sides would dig a trench and fight around like World War I. So the whole of France was filled with a tactical idea of ​​"absolute defense", so they built a Maginot line of defense, and they also believed that defense would have more advantages than attack. Therefore, most of the training of the French army was to build trenches and shoot cannons in the trenches. As for attack... Sorry, they believed that in the era of machine guns and cannons, another meaning of attack was to die, so they didn't know how to attack.

Another reason is that the French Army was under the rule of the Vichy government at this time. Many of them believed that France had actually surrendered and was already a puppet of Germany... This is indeed the case.

So honor, morale, confidence, etc., they didn't have any army, and they had basically no combat experience... The entire French battle lasted for more than a month and ended before warming up, so the combat effectiveness of the French Army was far from the "desperate" of the Zoaf Corps.

This made the battle on the shore very smoothly, so that Algerian soldiers could retreat to the warship in an orderly manner and help the Germans control and operate the warships together...

Of course, due to the quality of the Zoafu Corps, they can only do two things: one is to do things with a gun against French prisoners, and the other is to set up rifles on the warship to provide cover for their comrades on the shore.

Soon, the warships left the port under the control of German and French prisoners, and the last group of Algiers retreated onto the ship under the cover of firepower of the warship and then left the port.

This time it was the French officer's turn to watch the warship disappear into the darkness on the shore. Ironically, some of the French officers who survived had also been escaping from Algiers and mocking the Germans.

Colonel Deny, who was chasing the port with his troops to Toulon, was not even sure what had happened. He looked at the chaos in the port, the bodies, and the empty sea, and asked the survivors: "God, what happened here? Where did our warships go?"

"Algiers, colonel!" replied a French major with blood.

"They are going to attack Algiers?" asked the colonel.

"No!" replied the Major: "The Germans stole them, just like we did in Algiers, but..."

As he said that, the major glanced at several fishing boats and transport boats parked at the port that no one wanted, and then said, "They used these broken boats to exchange our warships, all!"

After receiving the news, the Algiers Command immediately cheered.

"Beautiful job, Lieutenant!" Colonel Slain said to Qin Chuan: "You have refreshed your legend again!"

The staff around also congratulated Qin Chuan:

"Congratulations, Lieutenant!"

"Great strategy, lieutenant, it's really admirable!"

...

Then Colonel Slain reported the situation to Rommel.

"We succeeded, General!" said Colonel Slain.

"What? Success?" Rommel couldn't believe it: "How many ships were grabbed?"

"All!" Colonel Slain's voice was trembling with excitement: "Except for two submarines who dived into the sea in time, everything else... was grabbed!"

"Very good, Colonel!" Rommel replied: "You guys did a great job, very well, especially the lieutenant!"

Rommel never praised a person or a force like now, even if he had won Alexandria before.

When Rommel hung up the phone, he said to the staff members who were watching him, "Gentlemen, we have a fleet!"

Cheers immediately rang out in the command center, and then the news quickly spread outside the command center, and then spread like a plague, and even reached the British army.

After hearing the news, Montgomery didn't believe it. He said to Eisenhower with confidence: "This is not true, eighty warships, and Toulon and a large number of French troops, how could the Germans snatch them all away?!"

"But Monty!" Eisenhower said: "There have been so many incredible things here, right?"

"But we can't confirm it!" Montgomery said: "You know this. Britain and France are enemies, and we have no channels of communication!"

"I can!" Eisenhower contacted the Embassy in France as soon as possible and asked the US ambassador to inquire.

As mentioned before, the United States supports the Vichy government, so it maintains diplomatic relations with the Vichy government.

After a while, the US ambassador sent a telegram to Eisenhower.

Eisenhower was stunned with the telegram.

"What's wrong?" asked Montgomery.

"You're wrong, Monty!" Eisenhower said: "They did it!"

"But..." Montgomery looked incredible: "How did they do it?"
Chapter completed!