Chapter five hundred and sixty-six Lord Gott's stupid way
The Anglo-German campaign showed its obviousness from the first stage after the war began.
On the one hand, the Allies' three-nation coalition forces in Dover successfully attacked and annihilated the main coastal defense force deployed by Churchill, wiping out about 2 infantry divisions, a British regular army of one and a half armored regiments, and about 120,000 British Home Guards.
Next, Wei Gang will command 3 French divisions, 1 Norwegian division, and 1 Norwegian reinforcement battalion, and continue to march northwest towards Rochester.
The three German paratrooper divisions will stay in the Dover area to garrison and expand the coastal landing sites, waiting for the arrival of the fourth batch of German troops, totaling 1 armored division and 4 infantry divisions. After that, the last batch of German landing troops will
, will quickly follow the marching route of the French and Norwegian troops and launch a lightning attack on London.
The main reason why Dover made this arrangement was that Reinhardt and Stuart did not want the precious paratrooper division to be consumed as a light infantry division in the subsequent advance operations.
And Rochester is almost the gateway town to London. The French and Norwegian troops pressed forward just to clear the road from Dover to Rochester. The real capture of this important town still had to be carried out by elite German troops.
On the other hand, the operations in the Portsmouth area were extremely smooth, and the third batch of four divisions belonging to Adolf Strauss's Ninth Army also competed with General Ernst Busch's 16th Army in Portsmouth and the
A special service division unit gathered.
While Dover was victorious, the German troops in Portsmouth would also attack Guildford in the northeast, threatening the British troops in Woking and causing unrest in the important gateway town southwest of London.
In both directions, the German army made breakthrough progress, and it was quite smooth.
Because they had gained control of the sea and air, this powerful landing force also had good logistical supplies.
The only thing worthy of attention is that the German army was responsible for launching decisive operations in both directions.
There were many people who saw this, and one of the more important people was Weigand, the commander of the French-Norwegian landing force of the Allied Powers. The other one, Gott, was the commander of the British home force of the Axis Powers.
"It is impossible for the Germans to hand over any key battles to French generals!" At the British Army Headquarters in London, Lord Gott shouted confidently: "No matter how hard the French and Norwegians in Dover fight,
, that is also an illusion in the statement. The Germans’ focus must be on the Portsmouth area, which is entirely under the responsibility of their own troops!”
Lord Gort can be regarded as a senior general with the most experience in fighting the German army in the British Empire. Especially since he escaped from Dunkirk in despair, Gort began to carefully study the German army day after day.
Combat style.
After comparing the past history of the German army and even tracing the battles between World War I, Gott discovered a characteristic.
Perhaps due to Germany's tragic geographical location, the German army has been fighting all kinds of enemies around it for nearly a hundred years. Surprisingly, they often relied on their own troops to defeat one enemy after another and made a lot of wealth.
The so-called glorious victory of the Prussian spirit.
However, this spirit seems to have undergone some subtle mutation after Reinhard came to power.
Gradually, the German army seems to have formed a strange thinking. It seems that if it is not a victory achieved by themselves, it is not a victory! Moreover, the German army has become more and more enthusiastic about using the manpower and material resources of other countries in the war to share the burden for itself.
military pressure.
In the Battle of Norway, the German army would rather give up the advantage of taking the lead and let the British take the lead, thereby taking advantage of Norway's military power.
In the African campaign, the German army was only willing to send a small number of troops, but it involved the main forces of the Italian and French troops in Africa to cooperate with the British troops in Africa.
In today's landing battle on the British mainland, the German army has roped in the Italian and French navies, and the French and Norwegian armies. It has to change the war from the single-player mode that the Germans always like to a group fight.
To put it bluntly, the German army seems to have changed from the model of the last world war in which the whole world was singled out and allies loved whom, to today's model of recruiting all the forces that can be roped in to deal with its enemies together.
However, this is not the point. The key point discovered by Lord Gott is a super key that can be used in reverse!
Although the German army pulls in a bunch of allies every time, they are accustomed to putting their allies in secondary directions to conduct feint attacks. The truly most harmonious combat tasks are all undertaken by the German army alone!
This means that Lord Gott can use this to reason backwards. Once there are German troops and German allied troops appearing in two different directions at the same time, then the direction in which the German army will undertake the combat mission must be the Allied Powers.
The most important core combat direction in the plan.
"We can no longer invest our last strength in Dover." Gott concluded to his army commanders: "The enemies in Dover are not the ones we need to be wary of most. The real fatal threat to London is
German troops around Portsmouth."
"But Commander..." an army lieutenant general reminded Gott angrily: "According to the Prime Minister's order, we have transferred the 51st Infantry Division of Scotland and the 3rd New Armored Regiment of the Capital to many
It's all gone. Without these two main forces, the reserve forces in our hands will not exceed the size of 5 regiments together."
"As for the National Guards, we have assembled a strength of 140,000 in the London area. However, their combat effectiveness is really limited. It would be better to stay outside London and help build a defense line to produce a greater effect." The lieutenant general swallowed his saliva and said
He ended helplessly.
The reason why such a problem occurs is indeed due to the scarcity of British Army troops. The two defeats at Dunkirk and Norway cost them nearly 300,000 British Army troops. And such losses have already caused the British Army to lose more than 300,000 troops.
The remaining troops are even less than half of what they were before the war!
Immediately after the lieutenant general's words, Lord Gott was able to save his life from Dunkirk. At this time, Montgomery, who had been promoted to lieutenant general, also interjected: "Commander, the battle report came back from Dover, a small amount of
The German paratroopers, using the small airport temporarily built by the Germans in Dover, began to carry out small-scale airborne operations and penetrated the rear of Dover. If we do not support Dover, perhaps, in the direction of Dover, we
Will lose faster than Portsmouth!"
"Isn't the situation at both ends not optimistic..." Lord Gott frowned and said in a low voice.
After a long time, he continued word by word: "In this case, we can only use the stupidest way to deal with it..."
