Although the Allied forces had better technical equipment than the Germans, only a very small number of people participated in the battles among millions of landing troops. Most of them had no practical experience. Before fighting with the long-standing German troops, pre-war training was particularly important. Earlier, US Lieutenant Colonel Paul Thompson established a training base in the north of Devon, England, and chose a beach with a terrain similar to the landing beachhead of the US military. They set up minefields, anti-tank trenches, bunkers, barbed wire, obstacles, etc. according to the reconnaissance of German defenses, and then imagined various possible situations during wartime and organized repeated training fortifications.

After the war, many American soldiers highly praised Thompson's training, believing that it was the training he designed that allowed them to respond freely on a complex battlefield. At the same time, the British army also conducted similar practical training for participating troops on remote beaches in eastern England. Such high-intensity practical training will definitely damage the equipment, and Allied logistics repairers will repair it day and night.

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The Allies were actively preparing, and Li Mo was not idle either. Marshal Gluke, the commander of the B-group Army Group, was responsible for the reconstruction of the Maginot defense line. Marshal Model was responsible for the assembly of the Arden Forest. Marshal Longdestedt, deputy commander of the Western Front.

At this time, Longdestedt did not have an unpleasant thing with his subordinate Rommel because of a discord. At this time, Li Mo was the only one who decided on the Western Front. Although Marshal Longdestedt was old, he did not have the actual decision-making power. This was the result of the fullest trust given to Li Mo by Hitler.

The worst Li Mo is concerned about Germany's military production. The early transformation of Li Mo, Germany's production of major tactical weapons has made great progress, reaching the output that Germany could only reach in 1944 three years ahead of schedule. For example, the annual output of aircraft reached more than 23,000, tanks reached more than 16,000, and countless other weapons. (These outputs were only reached in 1944, and the bombing of the British Allied forces sharply decreased.)

In this month, German weapons manufacturers implemented a three-shift production model in accordance with Li Mo's request, and produced more than 2,800 aircraft of various types and more than 1,600 tanks of various types for Li Mo. Among them, the Leopard type reached the general level.

Germany's combat aircraft at this time have been consumed at around 5,000-7,000. More than 3,800 aircraft were arranged on the Soviet front, and these aircraft cannot be used now and can only be used when the situation is extremely urgent. If Li Mo uses the plane on the Eastern Front, the Soviet front will completely lose air supremacy, and German tanks will definitely suffer heavy losses under the bombing of the Soviet Union.

Germany has arranged about 1,500 aircraft, France has arranged 450 aircraft, and other occupied areas, about 1,000 aircraft. This is the entire strength of the Luftwaffe. More than 2,800 aircraft added this month were all arranged around the Maginot Line by Li Mo and were unified in command by Air Marshal Catherine.

Marshal Catherine can draw about 4,500 air force around the Maginot Line, with 2,800 new ones. German locals can draw 500, and more than 1,000 aircraft in the occupied area will be withdrawn from Germany. In addition, there are 450 aircraft withdrawn from France, which happens to be more than 4,500 aircraft, but compared with the Allied air force, it is also 1 to 3, and Germany still does not have the qualification to fight for consumption.

Li Mo knew deeply that the air force in his hands was still too weak. It would be impossible to succeed without the cooperation of the air force. For this reason, Li Mo asked Hitler to give the Eastern Front a brainless order. All the troops on the Eastern Front must immediately dig up various strong air defense facilities and build tank bunkers. Others may not understand Li Mo's profound meaning, but Hitler understood that Li Mo planned to concentrate all German air force forces and have a life-and-death air battle with the Allies on the Maginot Line.

In fact, Hitler's guess was also wrong. Li Mo did not want to have an air duel with the Allies, but wanted to use a sufficient number of aircraft to ensure the implementation of his super blitz.

Li Mo retreated German troops from other occupied areas and arrived smoothly, but it was not easy to deal with the twenty-three German elite divisions deployed in northern Italy. Because of the Italian coup, Mussolini's stupid pig had been arrested and locked up in a hotel on the top of a mountain.

If Li Mo wants to make reasonable use of these twenty-three German elite divisions, he must rescue Mussolini and then establish a temporary regime in northern Italy. Mussolini still has many followers in Italy, which is not difficult. Moreover, because of Li Mo and Rommel's outstanding performance in North Africa, the North African army has already reached Iraq, and it is impossible for the Allied forces to land on Sicily, Italy. At this time, Italy was almost surrounded by the German army. It was just that in order to deal with the Allied forces' large-scale landing in France, the German army had no time to take care of the Italian coup. When Li Mo cleaned up the landing Allied forces, when he turned around, the coupers would not have a good end.

Li Mo ordered Otto to immediately take the "Storm Commando" to fully implement the plan to rescue Mussolini, and the Gestapo's spies were responsible for intelligence support.

Otto Otto received the mission on May 20 and began preparations on the 21st. He selected 60 special operations team members and 10 intelligence experts to form a rescue commando. When formulating the action plan, the first problem he encountered was not knowing the specific location of Mussolini's imprisonment. Given the necessity of covert operation attempts, he could only organize reconnaissance activities secretly.

After searching with a slim cable for two days, Otto got a piece of intelligence: According to a fruit dealer living in a town near Caserta Bay, there was a maid in her large patron's house. She was engaged to a policeman on the island of Ponca, but they had not dated for 2 or 3 weeks recently. Otto inferred from this intelligence that the police might serve as a guard for important political prisoners on Ponca. A few days later, a young naval officer revealed to him that Mussolini was sent away by the submarine "Berceforna", which further confirmed Otto's judgment.

But the next day, he learned that Mussolini had been transferred from Ponca Island to another place, and his whereabouts were unknown. After intelligence investigation, the Italian government first transferred Mussolini to a small village on the less famous Sarcia Island on May 21, and then took him to the island of La Madaréna, which had a naval base 5 kilometers north of the north, and was imprisoned in a mansion called Karen Villa.

After obtaining information about Mussolini being imprisoned on La Madarena, Otto dressed up as a crew member and accompanied Italian naval officer Lieutenant Valgan to Sardinia to visit the German naval detachment stationed on the island. During the visit, Otto borrowed a motorboat to reconnaise the coastal terrain and found that Karen Villa was closely guarded by ground forces and heavy firearms. In response to this situation, Otto planned to avoid frontal attacks and use the "Storm Commando" to conduct a sneak attack. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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