The decisive battle against the Third Reich

PS: Looking at the comments, some said that people can be seen as small black spots at 600 meters, and some said that people can't be seen... The soldiers were a little speechless. On the battlefield of Zhang Taofang's War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the furthest sniper kill record was 800 meters, and he used no sniper. Mosin-Nagant rifle.

"Northern France!" Rommel said the answer.

In fact, the answer is not difficult to guess. Not to mention that Britain had tried to land in northern France before, and the Soviet Union had been asking Britain to return to Europe. More importantly, you only need to open the map to know that if the Allies want to shift their focus, they will Only moved to northern France.

(Note: Historically, the Allies had other options after winning the North African Campaign, such as southern France, Italy, and Greece. However, since the protagonist defended Sicily and the Gabes Line, the Allies only had two choices: Greece and northern France)

The German army had even known for a long time that Britain would one day land on the north coast of France, so it had been building fortifications on the north coast of France since 1940. This fortification was also called the Atlantic Fortress.

After being silent for a while, Rommel said worriedly: "If the Allies land from northern France... we will be in trouble!"

Qinchuan knew what Rommel was worried about. Germany was fighting fiercely with the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. At this time, millions of troops were attacking Moscow with all their strength. If the Allies used Britain as a base to land on the north coast of France, and there were powerful Allied forces The navy and air force, especially at this time, only a small part of the "Atlantic Barrier" was completed (in history, until the Allied forces landed in Normandy in 1944, the most complete part of the "Atlantic Barrier" project only reached 68%).

Therefore, if the Allied forces choose to land from northern France at this time, they will indeed be like Rommel said... "there will be trouble"!

Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

You must know that the reason why the Allies did not land in Normandy in northern France until 1944 was not because the Allies were unqualified, but because both the United Kingdom and the United States had a mentality of sitting back and watching the tigers fight... The United States was actually hesitating in the middle. He was swinging. He had interests on both sides. Landing could improve his international status and push Britain down. If he didn't land, he could sit back and watch both the Soviet Union and Germany suffer.

The reason why Britain and the United States were able to sit back and watch the fight between tigers and tigers was because they had a good excuse, which was the campaign against Italy in the Mediterranean.

This allowed Britain and the United States to tell the whole world, especially the Soviet Union... It was not that Britain and the United States were not fighting. They were just fighting the Germans in the direction of Sicily and Italy and falling into a semi-stalemate.

There was nothing the Soviet Union could do against Britain and the United States.

But now, Qinchuan has defended the Gabes defense line and also defended Sicily. The Greek defense will even include tunnel fortifications.

As a result, almost all the channels for the Allied offensive from the Mediterranean were blocked, so Britain, the United States, especially the British, no longer had any excuse not to open a second battlefield.

Sometimes, Qin Chuan didn't know whether what he did helped or harmed Germany.

Let's say I helped Germany. I have indeed been making suggestions for Germany.

Let's just say it harmed Germany. What he did was likely to accelerate Germany's demise.

Qin Chuan's guess was correct. The failure of the Battle of Sicily greatly shocked the Allies and also affected their next strategy.

The post-war meeting of the Allies was chaotic, and even the British and American officers almost started fighting in the conference room.

"The United States should bear the main responsibility for this failure!" Degan Gangyi slammed his fist on the desk: "Because it is obvious that the Germans broke through the defense line of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division and completely defeated the division. It is precisely because of this that the British army's weak flanks are exposed to the enemy's armored forces and mechanized forces! "

"Oh, really?" Patton replied angrily with red eyes: "What about the fact that the main force of the Germans is in Enna? Why don't you look through the battle records? I have been telling you that the main force of the Germans is in Enna. , in Enna, but no one listened to me! The 1st Infantry Division faced four German divisions with one division, including one armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions, and what about you four main forces? division against an infantry division, and now they are laughing at the defeat of the 1st Infantry Division by the enemy?"

"But we are about to hit Messina! We are advancing towards the enemy..."

"Sorry, you are advancing toward the enemy's trap. The reason why you are advancing is because the Germans want you to advance!"

"The fact is that your defeat led to the defeat of the entire army!"

"Then who denied my plan and formulated this extremely stupid plan?" General Patton angrily slapped the meeting minutes on the table: "Open it and see what is written in the meeting minutes. Look at our How did the commander assess the battlefield situation? Facts have proved that everything he said was wrong. The fact is that our commander was severely fooled by the Germans..."

"Joe!" Eisenhower interrupted Patton with an ugly expression.

Compared to Montgomery, Patton was indeed undignified. Patton had a straightforward personality and could not suppress his inner dissatisfaction, especially when it was clearly the British who made the mistake, but they tried to shift the responsibility to the American army... Patton couldn't swallow this tone.

Montgomery, on the other hand, knew that he should remain silent at this time and show a courageous attitude. As for arguing and shirking responsibility, naturally his subordinates would do it.

But to be honest, the United States also made mistakes in this battle: At the last critical moment, both Patton and Eisenhower were deceived by Qin Chuan, thinking that the German army would attack the beachhead stationed by the United States with all its strength... As the saying goes, care leads to chaos. , because they were too worried about this and couldn't afford the losses if this happened, so they could only break away from the British army and only care about themselves.

The result of this was that the British army suffered a heavy blow from the German army and suffered heavy losses.

"We should clearly realize one thing!" Alexander spoke: "Both the British and the United States made mistakes in this battle. There were serious command and coordination problems between us, which ultimately led to the failure of this battle... …”

Although this is correct, it tastes different when it comes from a British commander... Idiots all know that most of the responsibility lies with the United Kingdom. Alexander's words are obviously making the United Kingdom and the United States share the blame. .

All the American officers in the conference room were filled with indignation, but there was nothing they could do.

"And I know!" Alexander continued: "We can't continue like this. Now is not the time to quarrel, understand? If we continue like this, we will have another failure similar to Sicily, and then there will be another one! "

However, Alexander's prestige and such biased behavior certainly could not stop this farce. The Allied officers were still arguing endlessly in the conference room.