The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"But, Your Excellency the Führer!" Rommel said: "What the captain said is reasonable. He even guessed this without knowing anything about the situation!"

"It could just be a coincidence, my general!" Hitler replied.

"If the British successfully land in Sicily, everything will be over!" Rommel said: "North Africa will be completely cut off from Europe. The British will use the airport in Sicily to first defeat our fleet, and then use the long and flat Algerian coastline to defeat our fleet. Landing instead of the Gabes defense line in the mountains of Tunisia!”

"The same goes for Greece, General!" Hitler said. "You know what it would mean if the Allies occupied Greece!"

Rommel found that he had nothing to say. It was like asking a multiple-choice question with only two options, Greece and Sicily.

This question doesn't seem difficult to solve, just choose one of the two.

But the problem is that both options are important, and both options are possible... Which one to choose seems to be just a British thought, but it is very difficult to guess what the British think. This is the point.

After being quiet for a while, Qin Chuan interrupted: "Your Excellency, General Rommel just said... what I said is happening, I don't understand! Can I know... what happened?"

Of course, Qin Chuan was pretending to be confused. In fact, he didn't really want to know the answer, but directed the breakthrough in this direction.

Rommel was also a smart man. He thought of this immediately, and then looked at Hitler with a curious look.

Hitler looked at Qin Chuan, then at Rommel, then nodded and said, "Yes, something did happen!"

Hitler paused. He was obviously considering whether to tell the truth... This was a high-level secret. There was no problem in telling Rommel, but Qin Chuan was just a captain, and a captain did not have the authority to know this secret.

But after thinking about it for a while, Hitler thought he could tell the truth.

This is based on two points:

First of all, Qin Chuan had estimated this before, and then in the previous conversation between Rommel and Hitler... any fool could analyze what must have happened, so the secret was no longer a secret.

Secondly, Qin Chuan was brought by Rommel, and Hitler could see from Rommel's expression that this captain was someone Rommel absolutely trusted.

This was immediately verified, because the next second Rommel understood what Hitler meant, and he nodded slightly towards Hitler.

"The situation is like this!" Hitler put his hands behind his back and paced in front of the window: "They found the body of a British major. There was a briefcase on the body. The contents of the briefcase tell us...The British target is Greece instead of Sicily!”

"Your Majesty the Head of State!" Rommel said: "Then the body and the briefcase must have been returned to the British intact!"

"Yes!" Hitler replied: "This happened in Spain. In fact, they should have been returned to the British, but the Spanish secretly gave us information!"

Rommel couldn't help but glance at Qin Chuan, and his appreciation for Qin Chuan rose to another level, because everything was as he expected, and the British simply did what Qin Chuan said.

"The point is this information, Your Excellency the Head of State!" Qin Chuan said: "If we are correct, then this information must be forged!"

"You are going to be disappointed, Captain!" Hitler replied with a smile: "I admire your courage and this attitude of persistence and skepticism, but... our intelligence personnel carefully investigated every detail, there is no problem, there is no Question! It's real, not a guess!"

This is an irony of Qinchuan and Rommel, and it is also exactly what Hitler said to Mussolini.

Mussolini was also suspicious of the British goals.

Hitler revealed the contents of Martin's secret message to Mussolini and said proudly: "I think this is indeed true! This information is too important when we are indecisive."

Mussolini said: "I always have a hunch that the Allies will still attack Sicily."

Hitler emphasized: "Intuition is not as important as intelligence. We have received reliable intelligence! Intelligence!"

However, Hitler was justified in refusing to believe that Mussolini was concerned. What Mussolini was most worried about was that the Italian territory would be attacked by the Allies, so he would naturally prefer Sicily instead of Greece.

Rommel said something shocking: "Then let me and the captain take a look at the evidence, Your Excellency the Führer!"

Hitler was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled: "My general, I never knew that in addition to commanding troops in combat, you also know how to analyze intelligence!"

"No, Your Excellency the Führer!" Rommel replied: "It's not me, it's the captain!"

Having said that, Rommel turned his attention to Qin Chuan: "I believe in my subordinates!"

Although Qin Chuan was already confident, he still had to pretend to be surprised and embarrassed.

"But General, I..."

"There is no butt!" Rommel said: "As long as they are pretending, there must be a flaw. Prove yourself, Captain!"

"Yes, general!" Qin Chuan stood up.

Hitler glanced at Rommel and Qinchuan impatiently and said: "My general, I don't think you should waste time here. You should devote more time and energy to attacking the enemy." Getting ready!”

"I insist, Mr. Fuhrer!" Rommel said, "Because if we don't know the enemy's goal, or even mislead by the enemy, then all my preparations will go in the wrong direction, and we will suffer a fatal blow!" After thinking for a while, Hitler nodded and said, "Very good, this is my general, the winner will always have his own insistence!" Hitler picked up the phone on the table and said, "Notify Canaris to come to the office!" After hanging up the phone, Hitler said to Rommel, "My general, you know, we will not easily believe a piece of intelligence, especially such an important piece of intelligence. So, before this, I specifically instructed Colonel Ronner to be responsible for the identification work. Do you know what his final conclusion is?" Hitler spread his hands and said, "Colonel Ronner's final conclusion is: the intelligence is completely true, the main attack direction of the Allied forces is in the Peloponnese (southern Greece), and at the same time, a feint attack is taken on Sicily!" "Von. Ronner?" Rommel frowned, because he knew that Colonel Ronner was famous for his excellent analytical ability in the German Military Intelligence Agency. If Colonel Ronna couldn't see the flaw, then...

Thinking of this, Rommel looked at Qin Chuan worriedly.