0p0 Third Reich Episode 370
Third Reich Episode 370
But the British missed a good time to attack the vacuum, and if the Germans could be shot while they were still in the air, the losses of the German paratroopers would be huge.
Now, they had to confront the Germans face to face.
This will be good, in terms of weapons and equipment, although the British Army has followed Churchill's large-scale expansion order, there has been a shortage of equipment and ammunition.But this time, the Germans who came down by air will not be much better equipped than them.
Moreover, both sides are professional soldiers and have received military training.
Therefore, this battle turned out to be one of the rare fair duels since the beginning of the entire British campaign.
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The Anglo-German campaign showed its obviousness from the first stage after the war began.
On the one hand, the three-nation coalition forces of the Allies in Dover successfully pinched and annihilated the main force of the coastal defense deployed by Churchill, and wiped out about 2 infantry divisions, a regular British army with the size of a half-armored regiment, and about 12 British National Self-Defense Forces.
Next, Weygand will command 3 French divisions, 1 Norwegian division, and 1 Norwegian reinforced battalion, and continue to march northwest to Rochester.
The three German paratrooper divisions will stay in the Dover area to garrison and expand the coastal landing site, waiting for the arrival of the fourth batch of German troops, a total of 4 armored division and 1 infantry divisions.After that, the last batch of German landing troops 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 such an arrangement was that Reinhardt and Student did not want the precious paratrooper division to be consumed as a light infantry division in the subsequent advancing operations.
And Rochester is almost the gateway to London, and the French and Norwegian troops pressed it up just to clear the road from Dover to Rochester. The real capture of this important town had to be carried out by the elite German army.
On the other hand, the operations around Portsmouth were extremely smooth, and the 3rd batch of 4 divisions belonging to the Ninth Army of Adolf Strauss also cooperated with the 16th Army of General Ernst Busch of Portsmouth, the [-]st A secret service team gathered.
While Dover was victorious, the German army in Portsmouth would also attack Guildford in the northeast, threatening the British army in Woking and making the gateway city southwest of London restless.
In both directions, the German army has made a breakthrough, and it has been quite smooth.
Because of the control of the sea and the air, this capable landing army also has good logistical supplies.
The only thing worthy of attention is that the German army is responsible for the decisive battles launched in both directions.
There are many people who have seen this, and one of the more important people is Wei Gang, who is the commander of the French and Norwegian landing forces of the Allies.The other, Gott, was the commander of the Axis British Home Forces.
"It is impossible for the Germans to hand over any key battles to the French generals!" In the British Army Headquarters in London, Lord Gort swore loudly: "No matter how hard the French and Norwegians in Dover fought , that is also an illusion on the surface. The center of gravity of the Germans must be on the Portsmouth area where their own army is in charge!"
Lord Gort can also 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, Gott began to study the German combat style day after day.
After comparing the past history of the German army and even tracing the battles between the First World War, Gott discovered a characteristic.
Perhaps due to Germany's tragic geographical location, the German army has been fighting various enemies around it for nearly a hundred years.Surprisingly, they often relied on their own army to defeat one enemy after another, and achieved a large number of brilliant victories rich in the so-called Prussian spirit.
However, after Reinhardt came to power, this spirit seemed to have undergone a subtle mutation.
Gradually, the German army seems to have formed a weird way of thinking, as if the victory was not achieved by themselves, it is not called victory!Moreover, the German army became more and more keen to use the manpower and material resources of other countries in the war to share military pressure for itself.
In the Battle of Norway, the German army would rather give up the first-hand advantage, and let the British take the lead, so as to use Norway's military power.
In the African campaign, the German army was only willing to send a small number of troops, but it affected the main forces of the African Italian and French troops to cooperate with the opposing African British army.
In today's British land battle, the German army has drawn in the navies of Italy and France, and the armies of France and Norway. It is necessary to change the war from the single-handed mode that the Germans have always liked to a group fight.
To put it bluntly, the German army seems to have changed from the model of single-handedly fighting the world in the last world war, and allies love whoever it is, to today, drawing in all the strengths that can be drawn together to deal with its own enemies.
However, this is not the point. The point that Lord Gott discovered is a super key that can be used in reverse!
Although the German army always pulls in a bunch of allies, they are used to putting their allies in a secondary direction for a feint attack.And the most harmonious combat tasks are all undertaken by the German army alone!
This means that Lord Gott can use this reverse reasoning, once there are German troops and German allied troops, they will appear in two different directions at the same time.Then, the direction in which the German army undertakes combat tasks must be the most important core combat direction in the Allied countries' operational plan.
"We can no longer invest our last strength in Dover." Gort's army commanders concluded: "The enemy in Dover is not what we need to guard against the most. What really poses a fatal threat to London is the German troops around Portsmouth."
"But the commander..." A lieutenant general reminded Gott resentfully: "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 places." Foll is gone. Without these two main forces, the reserve team in our hands would not exceed the size of five regiments."
"As for the National Self-Defense Forces, we have assembled 14 people around London. But their combat effectiveness is really limited. It would be better to keep London's outskirts to help build the defense line." The lieutenant general swallowed his saliva. Ended helplessly.
The reason for such a problem is indeed due to the scarcity of troops in the British mainland army.The two defeats at Dunkirk and Norway cost them nearly 30 British troops.And such a loss has made the remaining troops in the UK less than half of what it was before the war!
Immediately following the words of the lieutenant general, it was only by Lord Gott that his life was recovered from Dunkirk. At this time, Montgomery, who had been promoted to lieutenant general, also interjected: "Commander, there is a battle report from Dover, a small amount The German paratroopers, using the small airfield temporarily built by the Germans in Dover, began to carry out small-scale airborne operations and infiltrated the rear of Dover. If we do not go to support Dover, perhaps, in the direction of Dover, we will Will lose faster than Portsmouth!"
"Is the situation on both sides not optimistic..." Lord Gott frowned and said in a low voice.
After a long time, he continued word by word: "Since this is the case, we can only deal with it in the most stupid way..."
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stupid way? !
After everyone heard Lord Gott's words, they couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
In this situation, is there any other way to play a good role?
Lord Gort didn't give a shit, and immediately expressed his idea: "If we follow the usual way of fighting, even if we gather all the land forces in one place, we may not be able to repel the German attack. In this case, we might as well Spread out the troops..."
Spread out the deployment!Doesn't this make it more difficult to form combat effectiveness?
When many generals heard this, they couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing.
Although Lord Gort is the general with the most experience in fighting the German army among all of you present.But the solution he proposed is not at all as convincing as his lofty title.
"Commander Gott, our regular army is already small in number. If we separate them, it will be even more difficult to form combat effectiveness." An impatient major general couldn't help but refute his superior immediately.
The generals present here are basically high-achieving students who graduated from regular military academies.Regardless of the country's military academies, they will teach their students the same basic principle: In a war, once the weak side divides its troops, it will have huge negative effects.No matter what kind of arms, they can only exert their due combat effectiveness when they are used intensively.Unless there are sufficient troops, any qualified general will not disperse his own troops in front of a strong enemy.
However, Gott did not immediately refute the impatient major general, he just waved his hand lightly to signal the major general to stop talking.
"It's not that I haven't noticed the question you raised. Listen to me first..." Lord Gott paused, and then revealed the answer: "The scattered deployment of troops I mentioned is not just us against the entire force of the army, and only against the insufficient number of regular troops."
Only split the regular army?
Hearing this, many generals who reacted quickly realized something.
After all, where there is formality, there is irregularity.Since Commander Gott said that it is only aimed at the regular army, then, among the Home Defense Forces, those that do not apply to this article naturally belong to the irregular National Self-Defense Forces.
Sure enough, Gott continued to explain: "Due to insufficient training time, lack of weapons and equipment, and no competent officers to command the National Self-Defense Forces, the combat effectiveness has always been very limited. In a battle, we even have fortifications. The National Guard of 1 troops cannot be expected to stop the attack of 1 enemy troops."
"The reason for this is the three points I mentioned above!" Gott knocked on the table and said seriously.
Indeed, the three reasons he just mentioned are basically recognized common problems of the National Self-Defense Forces, a group of temporarily recruited militias.
After all, people with a bit of military literacy, including those retired veterans who were called back to the army, and reserve soldiers with a certain foundation, were ordered by Churchill to be transferred to form a new government army.
The source of soldiers left for the National Self-Defense Forces, from the very beginning, was only those "white melons" who had no foundation.
Sure enough, when Gott said this, almost all the generals couldn't help but secretly nodded.
This can be said to speak to their hearts!