Chapter 510 Surrounding and destroying (1)
In the London Allied Command, Eisenhower received a telegram of the failure of the "Market Garden Operation", and his face suddenly became gloomy. Montgomery once again completely ruined the elite Allied paratroopers he had finally reorganized.
The last time the Allied paratroopers were almost wiped out in Normandy, Eisenhower used almost all the paratrooper reserves to rebuild the Allied paratroopers. So, these rebuilt paratroopers were ruined by Montgomery. It seems that paratroopers are not a fun group of troops. Without superb command art, they can't play at all.
In order to break the deadlock between the German defense line of Maginot and Ziegfee, Eisenhower immediately convened a meeting of senior commanders to prepare to study the next specific combat strategy.
Li Mo, the commander of the German Western Front, was also holding an emergency meeting. Because the pressure from Germany was getting stronger and stronger, countless German people were full of pessimism about the battle situation on the Western Front, and some anti-war people were also more active. This was something Hitler could not bear, so he gave Li Mo the most severe order to start the war several times in a row.
Originally, Li Mo planned to force Eisenhower to attack the Maginot defense line and the Ziegfe defense line, and then consume a large amount of Allied ammunition and living power on these two defense lines. However, because of the situation in Germany, it is impossible to use this tactic. In this way, Li Mo could only fight head-on with more than two million Allies landing in France.
This will undoubtedly bring more unknown factors to Li Mo's big siege strategy. Even if he can win this war, it will consume all the supplies saved by Germany in the near future, and at the same time it will seriously weaken Germany's future strategic offensive capabilities.
The "Troy" plan was implemented in advance, and Li Mo was extremely helpless. Germany was on the Eastern Front, the Soviet battlefield, and spent a huge amount of force to wipe out about half of the Soviet army in Kursk. The rest of the Soviet army broke through. Then the Eastern Front began a new round of strangulation with the Soviet Union. The Soviet human resources and natural resources. With the unlimited support from Britain and the United States, the Eastern Front had now become a protracted war and a war of attrition.
Could Hitler not be anxious? Of course he was anxious, and now even the Western Front is retreating step by step. The German army has retreated to the German-France border area. It would be strange if the situation in Germany is not turbulent. War must serve politics, which is eternal. Then all Li Mo's strategy must be in line with Hitler's political interests. If the "Troy Plan" is launched in advance, it will not be changed.
At five o'clock in the morning on September 28, 1941, the Western Front General Headquarters located in the Liege Fortress was busy, with telegrams and calls one after another. The staff teams of thousands of people also worked in an irregular manner. All kinds of information will be summarized here and then submitted to Li Mo. These information will provide the most direct judgment for Li Mo's decision-making. At the same time, these huge staff teams will also provide logistics, deployment of troops and combat tasks for the three million troops on the Western Front.
The importance of the staff team is obvious. Li Mo has always attached great importance to the training of the staff team. It is not an exaggeration to say that these staff teams are directly related to the outcome of the war. Fortunately, Li Mo has an original computer, and the logistics supply, ammunition delivery, and other tasks of the various units have become relatively easy to arrange.
At this time, the total of the Western Front was about to begin, at 6:30 in the morning. Model was the commander-in-chief of the Maginot Line. Model's mission was to defend the Maginot Line, because the million German troops commanded by Model were all reserves drawn by the German mainland, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. However, these German troops had a good fighting will, and they still had no problem in defending the Maginot Line. At least after being surrounded, the Allies' wish to rush into the German mainland from the Maginot Line in a hurry would not come true.
The troops under Model were organized into the Central Army Group. Among them, there were eight reserve armored divisions equipped with an aviation army of more than 1,200 aircraft to support its operations.
The German army located in northern Italy had a total of 33 German divisions, with a total strength of about 550,000. These 33 German divisions had twenty-three German divisions who were originally stationed in Italy. In addition, the divisions retreated from the Normandy area. After three months of rest and replenishment, these divisions were all full, and even the tanks were all in place. Most of them were tanks No. 4, and the Leopard type only accounted for one-third.
These thirty-three German divisions were organized into the left-wing army group, with a total of eight armored divisions. In addition, Li Mo also allocated an air force to them. This air force mainly cooperated with their blitzkrieg, with about 1,200 aircraft.
Although the left-wing army group had only 550,000 troops, the armored division and the air force had the highest equipment ratio. All their armored vehicles and trucks were the most numerous and occupied units, and those trucks were taken over from the Italians.
Because of the Italian coup, many Italian troops were disarmed, and Italian trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, and ammunition supplies were all used by the left-wing army group, so the most powerful force with the excitement and attack capabilities of the left-wing army group can not be ignored.
The commander of the left-wing army group is Marshal Longdestedt, deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Front. Marshal State is also a veteran who has been a long-standing battle. His characteristics of commanding battles are a bit conservative and he likes to fight steadily, but it does not affect State's outstanding military command ability.
The German army located in the Arden forest had 2.3 million people, a total of 179 divisions. This is the largest army group in Germany to date. Even the three army groups that attacked the Soviet Union were not so large.
The two million and three million German troops were organized into the right-wing army group, and Li Mo himself was commanding this unit. The entire right-wing army group had a total of twenty-four armored divisions, equipped with two aviation troops, and a total of more than 2,500 aircraft.
Li Mo gathered more than 6,000 aircraft on the Western Front at this time, and 5,000 were used by the three armies, and the remaining more than 1,000 were reserve forces.
Li Mo asked his troops, Ninja Allies, to bomb for three months. Germany produced more than 6,000 aircraft in the past three months. In addition to the eastern front, more than 1,000 aircraft were added, the remaining aircraft and tanks were all transported by Li Mo to the western front.
This is almost a collection of all the essence of Germany at one point. In order to support the Western Front, the Soviet battlefield could only temporarily consume each other, and no one could destroy each other. Germany's national strength determined that it was impossible to eliminate two powerful opponents in both directions at the same time. That was a behavior of seeking death.
For the sake of the war on the Western Front, more than one million Soviets surrounded in Kursk broke through more than half. If Li Mo did not draw one million elite German troops from the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union would not have had a chance to break through, and there was no way.
"Order General Blask to immediately lead the G Army 300,000 troops to launch an attack from northern Netherlands." (To be continued)
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