Just as Akado's savage hands were wandering back and forth in Anna's full chest, the knock on the door accidentally rang out. The two of them quickly packed up their clothes and tidied up their slightly messy hair. Anna stood next to Akado's desk with a red face. Akado pretended to sit on the sofa a little farther away and picked up a document.

"Come in." After the two of them had their respective positions as if they were on the stage, Akado shouted this order that they should have called out long ago. For a moment, he even felt that he and Anna should act in a movie, and it would definitely be vivid.

At this time, except for Fanny and Cindera, two people who would knock on the door of Akado's office, no one would come. This is why Akado and Anna couldn't help themselves just now: basically no one came, it is actually harmless to indulge themselves in a small way, right?

"My Head!" Syndra walked to Akado with a pair of beautifully-looking myopic mirrors and stood attentively saluted: "The latest news sent back from the front line."

"Follow the front line? Is there any news about Smolensk?" The thing that Akado is most concerned about now is nothing more than the battle situation in the Smolensk region. As long as a beautiful annihilation battle is fought in Smolensk, the German supplies can go south smoothly, allowing the German army in the south to have a more flexible combat plan.

Syndra snatched a glance at Anna who was standing there for no idea what she was thinking, and then retracted her gaze: "Yes, the head of state. The combat report that Lundstedt had just been sent back. The troops of the Group A Army had entered Smolensk, and the last nail in the Soviet Union behind our defense line was also removed."

"Huh!" Akado breathed a sigh of relief, which was considered to have let go of one's worries. The Battle of Smolensk was an important part of the German foreign war. Now that it has successfully won this link, it depends on the final conclusion of the Caucasus Battle. After the German army occupied Smolensk, there was no obstacle to attacking Moscow. Whether it was Stalin or Zhukov, they had to carefully consider whether the planned attack direction in the German army's next combat plan was Moscow or Stalingrad.

"Is there any news about Rommel?" After getting Smolensk, Akado was in a very good mood. He picked up the cup of coffee left on the coffee table, took another sip before asking.

The news about the African Legion has been not the strategic focus of the National Defense Forces for a long time. Since taking Cairo, Mussolini has lacked interest in attacking the Middle East. He has recently been flirting with the secret representatives of the United States, hoping to obtain mutual understanding between the Axis powers and the United States and restore true peace in the world.

Because of his disappointment with the Italian army, he changed from a person who supported foreign expansion and launched a war of aggression to a person who hoped to gain greater benefits through diplomatic means. He preferred to find a suitable critical point to make peace with the United States and end the war by taking advantage of the situation that the German army was invincible. The secret envoy sent by the United States gave Mussolini a lot of hints, making him feel that the United States is weak and that Italy can obtain massive exploitation rights of Middle East oil through diplomatic blackmail.

The discovery of a large amount of oil in Libya also made Mussolini think of withdrawing from the war. After all, the resources he was short of were actually greatly satisfied. The war had lost most of its significance to Italy, so Mussolini's support for North Africa became slow and delayed.

Losing Italy's strong support, Rommel's supply became tight, and it became very difficult to cross the Suez Canal defense line built by the remnants of the United States and Britain. At least with the United States' full defense, it was a bit too radical to seize Suez and complete the plan to enter the Middle East.

Instead, it was a plan called "Turkish Express". This plan was transported by Turkey, Germany and Italian transport ships to Turkey, and led a 150,000 Turkish troops to attack Iraq and Syria southward.

This plan requires Germany to secretly transport the 12th Armored Army under Scherner to Turkey, cooperate with Turkey's 150,000 elite troops to go south to the Middle East, bypass the carefully arranged Suez Canal defense line set by the United States, and occupy important Middle East oil-producing areas in one fell swoop.

However, because this plan is very complicated to implement, even Rommel, who has been reopening the battlefield in North Africa, doesn't believe that this plan can be successfully implemented and transported tens of thousands of troops to Turkey, which is densely populated by British and American spies. This almost sentenced the plan to death.

Then Turkey's offer was too high, almost unbearable for the Germans. They actually used such a battle to exchange for one-tenth of Germany's oil share in the Middle East. If this price was used to bribe Italy, it seemed more cost-effective to Akado.

But this did not prevent Akado from doing more at a cheap price. In the end, the Supreme Command formulated a more feasible plan, code-named "BBQ". This plan was the first time that the strategic master Manstein did not remind Akado and he planned a genius action plan.

With his precise and unique strategic vision, Manstein changed the original Turkish express delivery plan a little, which turned an absurd plan into a genius strategic deception method.

In fact, the entire plan did not change, but the implemented troops were changed a little. The French Navy and the Italian Navy were allowed to work to transport three infantry divisions of the J Army under Hawke, who was idle in the Balkans, to Turkey to carry out the plan of a southward attack.

Compared with the 12th Armored Army, the three infantry divisions had to transport too fewer materials, and the main body of the transportation changed from Turkey to the defeated Vichy France, so Turkey could not ask for a huge price. Although the ability to attack south was greatly reduced, it is really a problem whether the US military that had lost the canal defense line could stop the three divisions of German infantry.

This has created an inadequate problem for the United States' troops in the Middle East: in the end, the division of troops will not be divided to prevent the German army from moving south from Turkey. Once the troops are divided, can Rommel and Scherner's army, which are eyeing the Suez Canal, still be blocked?

The barbecue plan started secretly one month ago, mainly due to the delays being that the North African Legion barely collected the oil and ammunition supplies needed for the operation until a month ago. Acardo supported Rommel to launch the North African battle again, one of the reasons was to prevent Mussonilli from continuing to continue with a brilliant victory.

Knowing another time and space, Acardo, who knew the history of the War of Liberation, certainly understood the United States' tricks, using negotiation promises as a means to delay time, and then immediately overturned the negotiation table and started the war after being prepared. This is the United States' consistent style of foreign affairs. If anyone really believes that the United States is willing to share the world with it, then it is really a brain.

Fortunately, the oil found in Libya somewhat alleviated the African Legion's dependence on oil, at least allowing Rommel's troops to produce the oil they need locally. In addition, the initial results of transformation of arsenals in Cairo and other places have reduced the African Legion a lot of logistical pressure. If this was put a few months ago, Rommel could not even imagine that he could get the opportunity to attack the Middle East before the Battle of the Caucasus began.

It has to be admitted that with the exploitation of Libyan oil fields and the gradual development of African logs and other resources, the strategic resource reserves of the Axis powers have gradually improved. Except for rubber products that are still stretched due to geographical restrictions, most of the other important resources have been supplemented and developed by expansion and war. Judging from the situation of Germany in 1937, it is obviously an unrealistic fantasy to launch the Battle of North Africa and the Battle of the Caucasus at the same time. But now all this can be realized and is in progress.

"The barbecue plan is being implemented slowly. Due to the constraints of Turkey and Italy, the second infantry division has just been settling. It will take at least a month before the battle in North Africa can be successfully launched." Xindrahui reported: "Our intelligence personnel confirmed that the US intelligence organization in the Middle East has learned of our army's action plan. The United States is urgently transporting the two divisions to the Middle East, but the time should be faster than us."

What's the point where the barbecue plan is ultimately easier to implement than the Turkish express delivery plan is that the German army directly changed the attack in the direction of Turkey to a feint, and also told the Americans that the feint was kept confidential, and the feasibility of this plan was much greater.

"I understand. Then I will send a telegram to Marshal Rommel personally to confirm the progress of the action plan." Akado thought for a while, then waved his hand and signaled that Syndra could go out.

But before Cindera could leave, an officer in a naval uniform stood at the door of Akado's office. He knocked on the open door, then stood attentively and raised his hand and gave a German hand salute: "Report! Long live Akado Rudolph, the head of state!"

"What's the matter?" Akado looked at the officer and asked directly. All the Navy's offensive plans to go to sea recently have been cancelled, and I don't think there will be any important things that must be reported in person.

"My head of state, because of the use of wartime emergency production regulations and new shipbuilding technology, the latest naval aircraft carriers No. 7 and No. 8 have already started trial voyages an hour ago." The naval officer replied: "This time the Navy used a large number of escort ships to ensure that there will be no accidents of No. 6. The Navy already has 7 aircraft carriers!"—
Chapter completed!