The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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Not long after, Colonel Schuster returned.

He excitedly said to Rommel: "Your Excellency, Marshal, not Dover!"

"Are you sure?" Although this was completely expected by Rommel, Rommel still asked.

"Sure!" said Colonel Schuster, "because one of them recognized it was in Shanklin!"

"Shanklin?"

"Yes!" Colonel Schuster replied: "I am very sure that this builder named Francois happened to have contracted a construction project nearby. The directions of roads and railways, the locations of rivers and bridges, etc. It’s definitely Shanklin!”

Rommel and Qin Chuan stood up and walked towards the map.

Colonel Schuster said to Rundstedt with a slight embarrassment: "Sorry, Marshal..."

"No, you don't need to apologize!" Rondstedt replied: "You did the right thing, and it was my order to you!"

With that said, Rundstedt stood up slowly, and Colonel Schuster hurriedly went up to help him, and then brought him to the map.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief!" Rommel pointed to a point on the map and said, "Shanklin, diagonally opposite the Brittany Peninsula... As I estimated, their target is the Brittany Peninsula area!"

Rommel's estimate made sense.

The most taboo thing about landing operations is the lack of strategic depth... Without strategic depth, there will often be a situation where everything is lost if one loses.

To put it simply, the landing force has its back to the sea and can only build one or two lines of defense on the beach.

At this time, if the enemy launches a counterattack, even if one of dozens of counterattacks can break through the defense line and force the defenders to retreat, the defenders will collapse... Behind them is the sea, and there is no way out.

The best way to solve this situation is to capture a peninsula.

For example, the Brittany Peninsula is like a rhinoceros horn protruding from the coastline, surrounded by sea on three sides and connected to northern France on one side.

If this peninsula can be captured, it means that the landing troops can instantly gain strategic depth that they did not have before. Moreover, this strategic depth is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can become a bridgehead for the landing troops.

After a moment of silence, Rundstedt said: "You win, Marshal Rommel. I will report this situation to the Führer!"

Rommel raised his head and said: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, this is exactly another thing I want to say to you!"

"What?"

"In fact, this is the lieutenant colonel's idea..." Rommel raised his head towards Qin Chuan and said: "If we want to completely win this intelligence war, that means we have to deceive the British Intelligence Agency. , then we have to pretend we don’t know anything and everything will develop as it was before!”

"You mean...this includes the Führer?"

Rommel hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to see Rundstedt's reaction to this proposal before deciding how to answer, but in the end Rommel replied: "Yes, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief. Because it is of great concern, I think. This secret cannot be spread out of this headquarters, which is why I sealed the headquarters! "What do you think?"

"Marshal Rommel!" Rundstedt asked with a straight face: "Why do you think reporting to the head of state will leak intelligence?"

Rundstedt was not loyal to Hitler at all. In fact, as a nobleman, he despised Hitler from the bottom of his heart and often spoke ill of Hitler in private.

However, this can be regarded as catching Rommel's sore foot... If this was reported to Hitler, Rommel would definitely not be exempted from some kind of punishment.

"Because of spies!" Rommel replied without thinking: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, we have proven that both the 4th Army and the 1st Army do not exist or are false, but the funny thing is... our Intelligence Bureau Each of the spies sent out continues to report relevant intelligence to us, which leads us to misjudgment, so I have reason to believe that these spies have all been instigated. In this case, do you think we can still trust the Military Intelligence Agency? "

After a pause, Rommel said decisively: "No, this lets me know one thing. I can't trust anyone unless they are under my control and surveillance."

Qin Chuan secretly thought to himself, "That's it. No wonder Rommel agreed without much thought when he just said he wanted to hide the information from Hitler."

It's just that Qinchuan and Rommel have different thoughts: Qinchuan is worried about "super secrets," while Rommel is worried about the unreliability of the Military Intelligence Agency headed by Canaris.

But no matter what, Rommel's reasons are very good... You must know that the Military Intelligence Agency is Hitler's eyes and ears to the outside world. If it is not reliable, then the news will not be transmitted to the head of state.

The fact is that this military intelligence agency is indeed unreliable, because Canaris, the director of military intelligence, is a member of the rebel organization.

Rundstedt thought about it and found that Rommel's reason was too good... Even if he exposed the whole thing to Hitler, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to correct Rommel, but he would be reprimanded by Hitler.

Because in the extraordinary period when it was proved that all three spies were incited to rebel, Rommel's approach of taking the overall situation into consideration was of course correct. It was natural that the Western Front Command should keep this important information from the Führer until the end of the battle or the military All the insider information of the Intelligence Bureau was dug out.

After thinking about this, Rundstedt nodded and said: "I agree, Marshal Rommel, I think this is the right approach!"

"So..." Rommel said, "Maybe we will continue to quarrel!"

"What?" Rundstedt didn't understand what Rommel meant.

"Just like before!" Rommel said: "You insist that the Allies will land in Calais, but I continue to doubt or think that the Allied attack target is the Brittany Peninsula. Let's put on a show for them! "

Rundstedt seemed reluctant to do so at first, as he considered it a humiliation.

But suddenly, Rundstedt understood something... If he did this, it would mean that he had never made a mistake, not before or since.

Because all this was done to deceive the British.

So Rundstedt suddenly became happy: "Of course, Marshal Rommel, I am very willing to do this!"

Qin Chuan knew that this was Rommel showing mercy.

Because the battle between Rommel and Rundstedt actually ended the moment Rommel walked out of the "Bold Cock" restaurant, or it ended for the British Intelligence Agency.

But Rommel now gave Rundstedt a step down.

The purpose is very simple, hoping to better cooperate with Rundstedt in the future deployment of the Allied forces... The battlefield is realistic, and it makes decisions more from the perspective of interests rather than personal preferences.