Imperial Overlord

"Which idiot did this kind of wading landing exercise in the weather at the end of November?" A soldier scolded while sitting on the beach while taking off his boots and socks in the cold wind.

He had just jumped off the boat, and his entire shoes were soaked through, including half of his trousers. As soon as he was blown by the cold wind, it was immediately freezing to his bones.

Fortunately, this is not a real combat operation, but a practical exercise for landing operations. He could sit on the beach and take off his shoes to soothe his numb feet.

"Put your shoes on! You idiot! Go to the designated spot and take off your shoes!" An officer came over, cursing as he continued on.

It can be seen that his feet are also soaked and wading in such cold weather conditions is a kind of torturous and boring thing in itself.

There are dry trousers and boots for them to change at the designated location, and there is a temporary fenced off area for wind protection. It's a pity that many people can't stand there, and many people prefer to walk over there with bare feet to change clothes.

"This is not training! It's making trouble for us! If they want, come and see for yourself how absurd what's going on here." A major standing on the beach, pressing his armed belt, complained to his companions .

"The soldiers have a lot of resentment, but I heard that in the afternoon, some training allowances will be given." Although another officer was not used to this form of training, he was still very interested in the allowances.

At least, in the infantry, which has no good treatment, it is not easy to get such a high-level thing as a subsidy.

"Really?" The major obviously didn't believe this gossip, and turned his head to ask his colleague.

The well-informed major nodded: "I heard that the train has arrived, and the troops can take turns to take a few days off. The money, food, beer and cigarettes have also been delivered."

Clearly, this is far more inspiring than having soldiers put their feet in the icy waters of the North Atlantic in freezing November.

"I heard that in the Netherlands, there is another infantry division training hard to land?" The major in a good mood began to gossip, knowing that in order to land in the United Kingdom, Germany scattered the training troops.

On the one hand, the German navy has insufficient combat power and dare not concentrate its existing landing ships on a large scale.

If the British navy can't think of it, and really kills it and conducts a raid, it is estimated that it can sink half of the German ships in one go.

That's quite a few battleships! Not kidding. Even if it is not the core combat power, there are countless cruisers and destroyers, and even torpedo boats that can join the battle.

Once the British Navy found an opportunity, it was only a matter of one night, enough to cause the loss of most of the thousands of ships that Germany had accumulated to date.

In addition, the concentration of ships often means that the British can roughly determine the location of the German army landing by the location of the ships.

Therefore, it is a very unwise thing to focus on landing ships on a large scale. Because of this, the German side still did not concentrate the ships in its hands for training.

This also caused an interesting phenomenon. There was an infantry division in the Netherlands training and landing, General Dietrich's Adolf Hitler Guard Panzer Division was training in the French area, and Hermann's 112th Division was in Bresse. South of the port, training in the Brittany region.

The scattered troops seriously interfered with the judgment of the British side. Churchill always believed that the landing target of the German army was Portsmouth, an important southern port.

However, some British generals did not think so. They believed that the area where Germany landed should be in areas such as Brighton.

In fact, their extrapolation is closest to the truth. These areas are the closest to France, so landing is easier.

When the Germans made their battle plans, they tried to simplify the parts they didn't understand. For example, for things like crossing the sea, the German army was inexperienced.

This directly led to the idea of ​​​​the German high-level conversion concept: they planned to make this landing operation as far as possible in the direction of the river crossing operation that they were familiar with.

Of course, under the dominance of this kind of thinking, the closer the distance between the straits, the more like a river crossing battle.

Sea water, sand, running, soaking in water, carrying heavy rifles, distributing all kinds of messes, and then boarding the ship non-stop, then sailing out to sea, vomiting on the shaking water.

After all this was used to, the soldiers had to climb repeatedly on the rope net, unloaded from the big boat to the small boat, and then returned to the shore to launch and toss with all their might.

Not long ago, a few days ago, tanks were added to this increasingly proficient program. One after another, the No. 3 tank was simply converted into a model that could float.

Now the soldiers not only have to train the landing in the cold sea water again and again, the soldiers trained in the Brittany region of France, but also how to hang the steel plate on the tank and strengthen these parts.

On the opposite British coastline, in a similar sandy environment, British soldiers were strengthening their own defenses and trying to make their trenches more terrifying.

They were dazed by the training of the German army, and they entered a state of intense advanced preparation time and time again, but time and time again they found that it was just a false alarm.

On the beaches of France, German soldiers practiced their skills, tried to break down those traps and barriers, and then marched into London to end the war once and for all.

Yes, end the war! This is the motivation for the German soldiers to train hard! Now the United States and the Soviet Union are not involved in the war, as long as the United Kingdom is defeated, for Germany, the war is completely over!

With this attractive result in sight, the German soldiers, especially the German soldiers on the Western Front, have this great sense of responsibility and mission. They want to win the victory for the motherland, end the war and completely break the oppression of the German people by the Treaty of Versailles.

In fact, Goebbels also propagated it this way. He tried hard to instill such an idea in the soldiers, making them believe that the evils of all wars were imposed on the German people by the enemy.

As for whether such propaganda is a lie, it is not always necessary. If the war is won, then all these are good words to boost morale; if the war is lost, then all this is the bewitchment of the devil.

"The Germans can build a port in Sirte in a short period of time, which shows that they have the ability to avoid landing at the port." Sitting on the sofa in his room, facing the officers sent by the army to ask him , Cunningham replied calmly.

He has been under house arrest here for a long time. Although guests are allowed to visit him during this period, he has to undergo strict inspections, and there are people from the intelligence agency taking notes.

The former admiral, and once a Mediterranean hero in Churchill's eyes, can only sit quietly in his room reading a newspaper.

"You mean that in Sirte, North Africa, the German port construction speed can be replicated?" The army general looked at Cunningham in confusion and asked questions of his own interest.

He was ordered here to ask Cunningham questions about the port. The report on Sirte is very vague on the British side, and no one has even seen the so-called port with their own eyes.

It's not that Somerville didn't find a way to figure out the port that appeared out of thin air. The submarine he sent strayed into the minefield near Sirte, and then lost contact...

In this case, if you want to understand the revolutionary improvement of the Germans in port construction, you can only find a breakthrough from Cunningham.

However, even Cunningham only heard the description of the port from the naval aviation when he was in command of the operation.

"Yes, I think technically if it can be done the first time, it is possible to do it the second time." Cunningham nodded and admitted his thoughts.

After briefly recording two words, the army officer confirmed: "Then, General, do you think it is possible that the pilot was too nervous and misinformation occurred."

"At that time, they said they saw the port and accurately stated the number of docks. At that time, they were not attacked by German aircraft, so the situation was not critical." Cunningham looked at the other party, thought for a while and explained: "In this case, I don't think they are so nervous that the language is confusing."

"However, General... So far, we have not verified how the Germans were able to triple the size of the Sirte port within a few months," said the army officer.

Even today, the relevant parties in the UK have not dared to imagine that Germany can complete the installation of the floating dock in a few days.

If it wasn't for the British warships rushing into the strait at any time to interfere with the day of the landing~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the German Army might have established two or even three small floating docks on the seashore.

On these docks, German soldiers could unload calmly and go ashore with higher efficiency. But that night, 80% of these piers will be killed by the British army...

It is a pity that after killing these docks, the British side may penetrate the secrets of these docks, making it easier to attack these docks.

"Okay, it's back to the original problem..." Cunningham looked at the other party with a calm expression on his face: "The Prime Minister doesn't trust me, and you try to argue from me with suspicion. ."

When he said this, he smiled bitterly: "In this case, since you don't trust it, naturally there is no need to continue the discussion."

It sounds like what he said is endless, but in fact, the number of people who came to see him has increased significantly these days. Some did come on official business, while others came to interrogate him in disguise.

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