Chen Shichang only stayed in Cairo for one day and one night. Before leaving, he obtained the consent of the Supreme Command and left Navy Lieutenant Commander Qiu Guomin in Cairo as the China-Egypt liaison attaché. He also left a company of Marines as Qiu Guomin. 's guard.
After the British were driven to India from Great Britain by the Germans, due to military pressure, they withdrew most of the approximately one regiment of troops stationed in the Suez Canal area. Now, although the British still retain approximately one battalion of troops at the Suez Canal Management Station, Except for the officers of this battalion who are British, the soldiers are mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Chen Shichang and Qiu Guomin don't care at all about the follower army of this nature. The reason why Chen Shichang left a company of men for Qiu Guomin was mainly to ensure that Farooq's safety.
What was involved in the secret conversation between Farooq and Chen Shichang is still a mystery several years later, but what is certain is that it was at this secret meeting that Egypt formulated a basic pro-China national policy, and from then on It is not difficult to find from several documents and orders issued by the Chinese coalition government and the Supreme Command during the same period that it was only from this time that China regarded Egypt as a true ally and was committed to helping the Farouk dynasty stabilize its rule in Egypt.
It didn’t take long for the fact that China left troops in Cairo to reach Churchill’s ears. As more information about the close relationship between China and Egypt came, Churchill became strangely angry: “The Chinese are the shit stirrers in the world. A first-class shit stirrer."
The title of "shit stirrer" was used by the French Emperor Panama III to describe the British several years ago, specifically referring to the British who made trouble in European affairs in order to avoid chaos in the world. Now, Churchill has given this title to China. , Obviously, China's actions in Egypt have already touched the sensitive nerves of the British. However, unlike China, which has many soldiers and generals (especially the army), under the current situation, the British have no extra energy to run Egypt. The Chinese government suddenly intervened. The Egyptian affairs can be regarded as giving the British a "monkey stealing peach".
After successfully passing the Suez Canal, with Europe in sight, Falkenhausen's mood was finally cheerful again. However, the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia all reacted strongly to the sudden appearance of the Chinese fleet in the Mediterranean.
The situation in the Mediterranean at this time was not calm. When the Soviet Union launched the European War, it formed a small-scale Mediterranean fleet. After the Soviet Union formed the Mediterranean fleet, the British also strengthened their military presence in the Mediterranean. Similarly, A Mediterranean fleet with a similar size was formed. The two fleets originally had their own defense zones and their own interests and demands. However, with the arrival of the Chinese fleet, they all immediately retracted their traditional defense zones or friendly countries. The port looked like it was facing a powerful enemy.
According to the plan of the Supreme Command, after the aircraft carrier fleet enters the Mediterranean Sea, it will sail directly to Genoa, the largest port city in Italy, and deliver weapons and equipment to the French Zionist Army and Germany there.
Because of the butterfly effect, Italy's situation at this time was quite special. It turned out that in that time and space, due to the decline of the Axis Powers, Italy had been defeated and surrendered as early as 1943. However, in this time and space, although Italy was defeated because Germany expelled the British government from the island of Great Britain. Premature defeat was avoided, but after Hitler's death, due to the internal strife in Germany, Mussolini was assassinated, which put Italy on the path of a military government taking power and pro-German Wehrmacht military government.
It is definitely the tragedy of the Italians, that is, although Italy was once one of the three founding countries of the Axis Powers, due to the lack of matching military power or that the Italian soldiers were too unsatisfactory, although Italy once occupied Albania, Ethiopia and other vast areas, but failed to truly achieve colonial rule in these places. Even now, the Italian army can only shrink in the Apennine Peninsula and sit back and watch Britain, France and Germany carve up or seize control or influence in surrounding areas. .
As Marshal Giovanni Messe, who served as Prime Minister of the Giovanni military government in Italy, he was obviously not satisfied with the current situation of the country because he believed that the weakness of the Italian army was largely due to the backwardness of weapons and equipment. Therefore, after learning that the Chinese would After providing supplies to the French Restoration Army and learning from secret channels that the weapons and equipment purchased by Germany from China would also be shipped on the same ship, he was unwilling to be left alone and immediately had a strange thought.
The superiority and lag of the military regime are equally prominent, that is, in national affairs, the military regime has higher administrative efficiency because of its centralized nature; at the same time, because of its authoritarian nature, it is also prone to committing inhumanity and other crimes against humanity. crime.
In the current Italy, Giovanni certainly has the authority to speak out. Under his strict orders, the Italian Navy paid close attention to the time of the Chinese fleet's visit. Then, when the Italian patrol ship saw the Chinese fleet in the waters near Cagliari, figure, he immediately instructed the current commander of the Italian Navy, Vice Admiral Backnin, to visit Chen Shichang and invited Chen Shichang to pay a private visit to Italy.
The original plan of the Chinese Supreme Command was to have the aircraft carrier fleet Wu Daotian Wang deliver supplies and equipment to the French and Germans in Genoa, but under the strong request of the Germans, Ouyang Yun finally let Chen Shichang make his own decision.
Chen Shichang was originally inclined to deliver supplies and equipment directly to the French and Germans in Genoa. In his words, "The European war is a European matter after all, and we do not need to get involved too deeply." However, the Germans started to An alluring offer was made.
After all, China's heavy industry started too late, so although it was able to quickly master some core technologies due to the time traveler's golden finger, its development speed in some basic equipment lagged far behind that of European and American countries.
Obtaining some key infrastructure equipment from Germany is originally a basic policy of the Chinese coalition government at this stage. However, because Guderian, the target of support, has not been able to take office, and Germany has fallen into civil war, there is no government with credibility. , so the coalition government’s attempt can only be called an attempt.
The Germans suddenly enlightened and offered to the Chinese government to provide some basic industrial equipment. Speaking of which, they have to thank Ambos. Compared with Germany, Ambos's French Nationalist Army can now be described as poor. China and fighting France It is true that it is an ally, but it is impossible to provide weapons and equipment for free. Earlier, France paid for military purchases through agricultural products from farms in Indochina controlled by the French. However, with the establishment of the United Nations and the rise of anti-colonialism in the world, France After the people were forced to hand over some colonial lands in the countries of Indochina, they had lost this way. In response to this change, Ouyang Yun was quite considerate of his friends and designed three payment plans for the French. One was to let The fighting France issued war bonds to raise funds; another was to ask the French to help introduce skilled workers, and the Chinese government would give a certain commission for each successful introduction; the last was to ask the French to help acquire basic equipment.