Berante, with his distinguished status as a general and the governor of Algeria, actually hit him on all sides without any scruples. This may mean that the other party was not prepared to put on airs and reason with him from the beginning, and all he wanted was to relieve his anger.
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Covering his bloody teeth, Charles felt like he was trying to defend himself to Berante: "Governor, it was just an accident. My subordinates definitely did not intentionally withhold supplies and delay the escort process."
"Besides..." Charles raised his head, looked at Berlante sideways and said quietly: "Even if I have done something wrong, it should be dealt with at home. It is a bit inappropriate for the Governor to beat me at will here."
Rules, right?"
What Charles wants now is to find every means to delay. When the French army in Africa is defeated and the British take over, Charles's hard life will be over. When he enters the prisoner of war camp, what will Berante think?
He was just a high-level prisoner of war, how could he be compared with Charles who had defected to the British army early on.
"Accident...is this also called a reason?" Berlant was not going to let this matter go unnoticed. He always kept his word, and today he was determined to solve the cancer at the rear.
Berante looked at Charles coldly, frowned and said to him: "Then if I shoot you here today, I will also submit a report to Marshal Pétain later and tell him that it was an accident!"
"This..." Charles was speechless for a moment, unable to find anything to say. He knew that with the old superior-subordinate relationship between Pétain and Berante, even if the accident that Berante shot him was not so real,
, and will not be suspected in the end.
On the contrary, based on what he did, if Berante really wanted to shoot him, no one in Vichy France would raise any objection.
There was an extremely silent moment in the office.
However, there was no silence for long, and Charles continued to speak with his bloody mouth: "Berante, I call you Governor to give you face. Don't think that you can do whatever you want. If you don't do it today
Give me an explanation for your violence and I will make you regret it!"
Charles may have jumped over the wall in a hurry. He took what had not happened yet as an established fact. He now felt that the British army must win, so that he could take revenge on Berlant for beating him today in the prisoner of war camp, instead of just living through it.
Just for fun.
The lieutenant colonel on the side looked at Charles blankly. And Berante frowned again.
Charles, who was covering his mouth, was obviously at risk of being knocked unconscious by Berante's punch. As the governor of Algeria, didn't Berante have the power to do whatever he wanted in Algeria? Charles was also addicted to showing off his strength in front of Berante.
Quite dizzy.
"Are you finished?" Berlant said.
However, before Charles could reply, Berlant immediately raised his foot at lightning speed and kicked Charles in the lower abdomen, knocking him to the ground.
A man wearing the uniform of a general and serving as governor-general attacked a school officer twice without any scruples. During the whole process, Berante did not explain his so-called reason to Charles at all, but no one thought that Berlant
Very arrogant.
Just as Berante planned from the beginning, he is not here today to reason.
He is here to relieve his anger!
Seeing that Berante was still unfinished, he stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Charles who was lying on the ground, lifted him up from the ground, and punched him in the face again.
With a pop, Charles turned over suddenly, and the other remaining front tooth flew out mixed with blood.
"The entire first-line bunker area of the southern end of the defense line fell. 17 officers and soldiers who were out of ammunition and food detonated explosives in the bunker and died together. More than 2,000 officers and soldiers who were short of ammunition and artillery died in the defense line! Their deaths are all your work.
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Berante continued to kick Charles who was lying on the ground viciously, and he spoke with a ferocious expression and trembling lips.
Berante felt almost deep down angry at what people like Charles were doing. The frontline officers and soldiers were fighting bloody battles but could not receive supplies. Many soldiers who lacked ammunition might not have died.
Because of the delay in receiving the supplies that should have been sent from the rear, many officers and soldiers had to wait for the enemy to approach before firing in order to save ammunition. And the 17 French soldiers who died in the bunker were filled with despair and helplessness.
Reluctantly, he detonated the explosives and died together with the enemy.
If Charles, this bastard who stabbed his own people in the back, had a good death, Berlant would never forgive himself for the rest of his life!
Berante was not a good gentleman to begin with. When he was working under Gamelin, Gamelin, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, could not blackmail him, let alone twist Berante's will. Now, Charles is a little
Colonel, it is even less possible for him to stop Berlant with one or two sophistry.
It wasn't until Charles was on the ground that he had kicked him until he was as motionless as a dead man. Only then did Berante clapped his hands coldly and stopped beating him.
"Come here, drag this bastard out for me, I will publicly shoot him tomorrow!" Berante squinted at Charles coldly and said forcefully: "Based on the things he has done, he is almost the same as a traitor!
His subordinates tried to dissuade him many times, but he never listened. Instead, he made slanderous remarks. Today I got the news that I came back specially to deal with this kind of scum, and I happened to be able to catch him in his act. It can be seen from this that this guy is behind the scenes.
Carrying out such shady activities is not an accident, I'm afraid it has been going on for some time."
The reason why Berante had time to appear here was entirely because he stabilized the front in the north, completely withstood the crazy attack of the British General Wavell, and consolidated the defense line into an impregnable one.
However, the corrupt war situation in the south and the relevant intelligence information Berante received made him extremely angry.
Because the northern and middle fronts were led respectively by the two governors, Berante and Alphonse, no one dared to make any small moves.
However, at the southern end of the defense line, Charles used his party members to deprive the southern front of supplies, and took advantage of the opportunity when Berlant and other generals were engaged in the war and had no time to care about the rear. Charles and his party members were so bold that they had no care.
Since the beginning of the war, the southern front has not received a grain of food or a bullet of supplies.
The ammunition was exhausted but could not be replenished. The troops that Berante had left there sacrificed in vain, and the defense line was crumbling.
Now, of the three defensive lines on the southern front, the first two have been lost.
If Berante had not promptly transferred the French division that was placed in the center as a reserve to the south, it is estimated that the last line of defense on the southern front would not have been able to hold it until now.