The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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Hearing this, Rommel couldn't help but be stunned. After a while, Rommel said: "You mean..."

"Yes, Your Majesty Marshal!" Qin Chuan replied: "If we use naval guns to bomb continuously and aircraft to drop bombs continuously, it will only be a matter of time before the coastal defenses and obstacles are razed to the ground, right?"

After a pause, Qin Chuan added: "Including armored troops!"

There is actually evidence for this. There was such a situation in the Battle of Sicily... The armored forces launched a counterattack against the landing US troops, but those tanks were quickly bombarded into parts by US naval guns.

If this is not impressive enough for the German army, then there are examples from the Pacific battlefield... The Japanese army also tried to wipe out the US military on the beach time and time again, but most of these Japanese soldiers did not even survive at all in the end. The U.S. military was wiped out without even seeing it, because as soon as the U.S. military came up, it used naval guns and bombers to bomb the small island where the Japanese troops were stationed for several days and nights.

Of course, Rommel may not have paid attention to these battles, but Qin Chuan knew them all.

Qinchuan even knew that the U.S. military had gained experience in fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. They even made precise calculations about what angle and distance the naval gun should use to achieve the best damage and destruction.

What's more serious is...

"The Allies may know everything about our Atlantic Wall defenses!" Qin Chuan said.

Rommel nodded in agreement.

Rommel still knew the capabilities of British MI5. After all, Britain was an old espionage country and had considerable intimidation power around the world at this time.

But in fact, this is a clue left by Rundstedt... A French painter named Rene Douchet accidentally stole the entire German Atlantic Barrier design and handed it to the Allies.

Of course Rundstedt knew about this. After all, there was a missing design drawing and a worker was missing. Anyone with any brain would know what happened.

But Rundstedt did not dare to make this public.

This approach is very smart. If Rundstedt reports it to the superiors, he will definitely be punished for this. This is a 2,700-kilometer defense line that took several years to invest countless resources and actually lost the complete design drawing. Already? !

If Hitler knew this, he would definitely not be kind.

But if you don't say...then you can make an excuse and say that the British MI5 has great powers and obtained this information through its own strength.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Rommel said: "But we have no choice!"

"I know!" Qinchuan replied: "If we use a defense-in-depth strategy like Marshal Lundstedt said... of course it will not work either, because without air superiority, these armored units deployed in the rear and The infantry simply cannot reach the coastal front line, or if they do, they will be blown away by the Allied air power and lose their combat effectiveness!"

"Yes, that's what I want to say!" Rommel replied: "Shouldn't we choose the lesser of two evils? Rather than having tanks blown up on the road before they even see the enemy, why not deploy them on the road? Coastal Front!”

"So..." Qin Chuan spread his hands: "I don't agree with these two defense strategies!"

"Do you have a better way?" Rommel asked.

"Marshal Your Excellency!" Qin Chuan replied: "The final analysis of this problem is that our army has lost air supremacy. Without air supremacy, any strategy and tactics are meaningless unless..."

"What?"

"Like the Gabes Defense Line!" Qinchuan replied: "Only mountainous and complex mountainous areas can eliminate the enemy's advantage in air supremacy as much as possible. In plain areas... the outcome has actually been decided from the beginning!"

In fact, another meaning of Qin Chuan's words is that the German army will not fight a war without air supremacy, which is why there was a tragic defeat in Normandy.

Rommel couldn't help but said "Oh" and then turned his attention to the map.

Then he raised his head and looked at Qin Chuan in shock: "This means we have to abandon the entire northern France?!"

Qin Chuan said nothing.

Colonel Slaine understood something when he heard this. He looked at Qin Chuan blankly and asked: "Lieutenant Colonel, I want to know...have you been prepared for this?"

Qinchuan knew what Colonel Slaine was talking about. Colonel Slaine also participated in a series of arrangements for the Maginot Line of Defense. However, he did not know Qinchuan's true intention of running this line of defense before, thinking that it was really like what the order said. As...as the second line of defense against the Allied attack.

"What are you ready for?" Rommel looked confused. He obviously didn't know the deployment of the Maginot Line.

This is normal. This is actually the result of Hitler's order... There is no need for officers to know too much information that is not relevant to the mission.

Colonel Slain glanced at Qinchuan, and then replied: "Your Excellency, Marshal, we received an order to serve as advisors to the Maginot Line for a period of time. The lieutenant colonel made a series of deployments in and around the Maginot Line !”

"Oh? What kind of deployment?" Rommel couldn't help being surprised and happy when he heard this. He was still worried whether it would be too late to start thinking about Maginot now.

Colonel Slain turned his attention to Qin Chuan, meaning that Qin Chuan was more appropriate.

"Your Excellency, Marshal!" Qin Chuan continued: "To be precise, the deployment was made with the help of Lieutenant General Lu Manlin!"

"Rumanning?" Rommel said: "Seifert von Rumanning?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan thought for a while before answering in the affirmative, because he did not remember Lieutenant General Lu Manlin's full name very clearly.

"He will actually help you?" Rommel looked surprised.

"The lieutenant colonel saved his life!" said Colonel Slain.

"Even so, he won't help anyone!" Rommel said: "He is a bastard who only thinks about himself!"

It sounds like Rommel still had some issues with Rumainlin.

After a pause, Rommel said: "Forget it, tell me what you did on the Maginot Line!"

"Actually, we didn't do anything!" Qin Chuan replied: "We just... reactivated the Maginot Line!"

"What, you mean...the Maginot Line can be used normally now?" Rommel's eyes widened. Of course he knew that this was not easy to do.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan said: "We made some changes to it, just to make it face France instead of Germany like before."

Rommel looked at Qin Chuan in disbelief, and then at Colonel Slain.

Colonel Slain nodded in the affirmative.

"Then..." Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said: "We also made some preparations in the Alpine and Ardennes areas to connect them with the Maginot Line. Then we added some air defense systems... "

When Qin Chuan said this, he didn't notice that Rommel was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped.