Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

With the arrival of domestic envoys, the command of the African Corps completely fell into Fang Hongye's hands.

Before this, with Pagernler putting pressure on him, Fang Hong couldn't move freely when commanding the army.

His style of fighting was bold and open, with both conspiracy and overt intrigue going hand in hand. But after he said many things, Pegnil's ideas were completely different from his.

Pegnile, who believes that being undefeated is victory, would never be willing to let Fang Hong take risks.

Fortunately, the order from home has come down, and now Fang Hong can finally have a formal competition with Long Meir.

"General, there is movement from Hans's army."

Another month passed in the blink of an eye. Ever since becoming the commander of the African Corps of the South China Expeditionary Force, Fang Hong has been thinking about how to deal with his opponent, Long Meir.

First of all, the original harassment tactics must not be stopped, although because of the delay for too long, Fang Hong also lost the opportunity to defeat the enemy when the enemy was most confused.

But now the number of troops under his command is several times that of his opponents. He must seize this advantage and gradually reduce the enemy's living space in North Africa.

In fact, since the 300,000 African Corps arrived in North Africa, Fang Hong also commanded the African Corps to push the front line westward from the Kailuo area to the plain area in the empty part of the Medel Mountains.

Now all the troops of the Franco-Fascist Alliance in Africa have been blocked by the Allied Forces in the eastern peninsula of Tunisia. As the base camp of the Franco-Fascist Alliance in North Africa, it is unlikely for the Allied Forces to take over there in a short time. Therefore, Fang Hong can only carry out a harassment war in this area for now.

At this moment Fang Hong was also troubled by the enemy's defensive tactics, and as a result, his staff officer came to him.

"what's the situation?"

"Just half an hour ago, the enemy suddenly launched an attack on the Ying Army and Gao Army stationed in Zaihela. According to the news sent back by the Ying Army stationed there, the enemy has sent at least 200,000 troops to their side this time. Now the enemy has broken through two lines of defense of the coalition forces stationed there. Because our casualties are too heavy, the defenders there are asking us for help."

"Two hundred thousand people? Nonsense. Even if Long Mei'er is very capable, he can't mobilize so many people under our noses. Besides, he sent all his troops to the western front. Isn't he afraid that we will send troops to occupy his base?"

"Has our scout team sent back any news?"

"not yet!"

"Damn, what is Long Meir doing?" Fang Hong frowned and thought carefully for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Long Meir was going to do. After turning around and looking at the huge map behind him and thinking carefully for a while, Fang Hong decided not to think about it anymore. Now that he couldn't figure out the enemy's intentions, it would be better for you to fight yours and I to fight mine. He wanted to see what Long Meir would use to defend against the massive attack of the African army.

“传我命令，派第8师、第9师、第13师向西进军，去援救我们的盟友，命令第3师、第5师、第7师、第10师、第11师即刻向北进军，进攻法西联盟占领区！”

(The division-level number here is used exclusively by the African Corps, not the division-level army number of South China.)

"By the way, Xiao Huang, please help me get a call from the Navy Headquarters (Expeditionary Force)."

"Yes!"

Long Meir suddenly did this, and Fang Hong couldn't come up with a good counter-plan for the time being, but this didn't stop him from causing trouble for the other party.

Fang Hong could only believe half of what the Ying people said. He had already seen how unreliable his two allies were. This time, in order to get Fang Hong to send people to rescue them as soon as possible, they could lie about the number of enemies.

But no matter how much he didn't believe it, as their ally, Fang Hongye certainly couldn't just watch them get into trouble without saving them. Sending three divisions over now was considered quite generous. You have to know that each division of the African Corps has a strength of 20,000 people, which means that Fang Hongye directly sent 60,000 people for support this time.

As for why he contacted the navy, it was because he thought of a possibility that Long Meir chose to launch an attack at this time, that is, this guy might be playing a feint to the east and attack in the west.

Now he has already started to make a feint to the east, as for where he will attack, it is hard to say. After all, there are too many places suitable for him to attack.

However, Kailuo was eliminated by Fang Hong at the first opportunity. On the surface, it seemed that Fang Hong did not leave many garrisons in Kailuo, but with the strength of the African Corps Army, the strength of three divisions was enough to fight against more than 100,000 enemies, not to mention that there was an aviation division and an air defense division stationed in the Kailuo area.

There are nearly 100,000 defenders. Unless Long Meir sends all the troops in her hands over there, Fang Hong has no idea how the defenders in Kailuo will lose.

But apart from Kailuo, there are many places suitable for landing along the line from Kailuo to Tunisia. There are only five troops stationed along such a long coastline. Even if there are fortifications available, Fang Hong still feels that this is not safe. Therefore, the navy will definitely assist the army in defense next.

In addition, the navy also needs to send naval forces to keep an eye on Italy in the north. Compared with Italy's unreliable passers-by, their navy has been performing well since the war began, so Fang Hong should be more cautious here.