The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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Of course Colonel Slaine would have no problem. He spread his hands and echoed Rommel: "Of course we must deploy the armored troops on the front line. Those marshals and generals in Paris only know how to eat, drink, play and have fun. , many of them have never even entered the tank cabin!”

Colonel Slain is alluding to Rundstedt... because Rundstedt lives in a luxurious villa in Paris and goes to the French restaurant called "The Bold Rooster" at a fixed time every day to taste delicious food. Delicious food, he and his men seemed to have forgotten about the raging war.

Another strange thing is that as an armored expert, Rundstedt can even be said to be one of the founders of "Blitzkrieg", but he has never been on a tank in his life because, as a nobleman, he could not stand the dirty and greasy tanks. and noise.

Therefore, this is actually not only a strategic disagreement between the two German marshals, but also a disagreement between aristocratic officers and officers like Rommel who came from the grassroots class.

Although Colonel Slain's words were good, Rommel obviously did not need such advice, so he turned his attention to Qin Chuan, raised his coffee cup, and asked, "What do you think, Lieutenant Colonel?"

Qinchuan was very familiar with Rommel and respected Rommel very much. He felt that any mincing words or whitewashing was an insult to Rommel, so he said bluntly: "With all due respect, Marshal, these two This defense strategy...that is, your coastal defense and Marshal Rundstedt's defense in depth, I don't agree with either!"

"Oh?" Rommel raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then laughed: "It's much better than I thought, Lieutenant Colonel! I saw that you didn't say a word just now. I thought you were siding with that guy Rundstedt. Together!”

"You know what?" Rommel continued: "If you think the same as him, I will kill you!"

Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain couldn't help but laugh. Rommel never lost his sense of humor when discussing issues.

"Tell me what you think!" After laughing for a while, Rommel said seriously: "That's why you are not optimistic about these two defense strategies!"

"Before that, can I ask a question?" Qin Chuan said.

"certainly!"

"I want to know the comparison of naval and air force strength between the enemy and ourselves!"

Rommel glanced at the staff officer, who immediately went to the documents on the desk not far away and rummaged through them for a while, then took out one of them and gave it to Qin Chuan.

While Qin Chuan was flipping through the pages, Rommel said: "I really can't tell you the answer, because the gap between them is so big that it doesn't make any sense even if I look at it... In other words, when I look at it, I doubt whether I can win. This battle is over!"

It was exactly as Rommel said.

As for the air force, German intelligence showed that the Allies may have 10,000 aircraft (actually 13,000), while the Germans only had 400.

"Why do we only have 400 planes?" Qin Chuan almost exclaimed: "Even if we face the Soviets on the Eastern Front, we still don't have this few planes!"

Although Qin Chuan was mentally prepared, he still didn't expect such a big gap.

"We tried our best to mobilize this from all over the country!" Rommel replied helplessly: "The Eastern Front needs aircraft, and Germany also needs aircraft, and the so-called Reich Marshal... is actually organizing the air force to bomb the British mainland at this time! "

"Bombing the British mainland?" Qin Chuan and Colonel Slaine looked at Rommel at the same time.

"Yes!" Rommel replied: "We originally had a thousand bombers, but...Marshal Goering thought we should resume the bombing of Britain to blow up the Allied aircraft at the airport, or even turn the front back. Therefore, he sent these bombers to the UK in several batches under the cover of fighter jets. A total of 29 air raids were carried out, and 14 air raids were carried out on London alone. 200 aircraft were dispatched at one time, but it doesn’t take much to think about the result... Of these more than a thousand bombers and fighters, only 181 were left, of which only 107 were still able to participate in the war!"

Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain couldn't help but be stunned. They didn't expect that Air Marshal Göring would be so stupid, let alone that Hitler would allow Göring to do this.

"They call it an 'air blitz'," Rommel said, "but we all call it a 'baby blitz'!"

Qin Chuan understood a little when he heard the term "blitz war". Hitler, like Goering, actually did not dare to face the reality, or it could be said that they were living in the time when the German army used "blitz war" to attack all over Europe and even defeat the enemy. The Soviet Union was caught off guard in the dream of successive defeats, so it fantasized that it would be able to "win" as long as it "surprised".

"But it doesn't seem to make much difference!" Qin Chuan said: "Fifteen hundred or four hundred... In fact, it all has the same result, surrendering air supremacy!"

Rommel said nothing, acquiescing to Qin Chuan's statement.

After all, there are 10,000 enemies, and they are all kinds of high-performance aircraft, and these German aircraft have even mobilized old-fashioned fighters to make up the number.

Then Qin Chuan turned his attention to the navy of documents.

In fact, there is no need to compare the navy. The German navy only focuses on the development of submarines and ignores large surface ships. After several years of war, except for the Toulon fleet in the Mediterranean, there are very few large surface ships left, and it can only rely on submarines. and small ships for resisting landings.

"We have prepared 41 submarines!" Rommel said: "There are also 50 torpedo boats of various types and three pseudo-cruisers ready to cooperate with us to block the Allied landings!"

The so-called pseudo-cruiser is a warship converted from a merchant ship. It can be disguised as a neutral merchant ship... It looks like a merchant ship, but it is equipped with a large-caliber naval gun. It suddenly launches an attack after approaching the target.

"But we obviously cannot place our hopes on them!" Rommel said: "Because the British have organized a powerful interceptor fleet and anti-submarine fleet, they may not even be able to enter the English Channel!"

"That is to say..." Qin Chuan closed the document: "In this battle, we undoubtedly lost air and sea control from the beginning!"

"Yes!" Rommel nodded: "Without a doubt!"

"And the Allies have also stored a large amount of ammunition!" Qinchuan said: "These ammunition include naval guns and aerial bombs!"

"Of course!" Rommel said: "The Americans have even moved their factories to Britain. It can be seen from the bombing they are carrying out against us... They cannot be short of ammunition!"

"Then, Marshal!" Qin Chuan asked, "Why can't the Allies use ammunition to blow up a certain section of our coastal fortifications and obstacles?"