At this time, Chen Yanlong was thinking about where he could withdraw the army to form his new army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And the first thing he thought of was the German anti-aircraft artillery unit, and in his later historical materials, he knew very well that at least 1.2 million soldiers of the German army in the later stage of the war were transferred to the ground air defense front.

The reason why this is so is because of the outbreak of World War II, until 1944, more than 6,000 British and American planes were shot down by German anti-aircraft guns, and almost 30,000 planes were damaged.

Because the German army's 88 mm anti-aircraft guns can fire howitzers weighing up to 17 pounds, and these howitzers can also be fired into thousands of feet in a matter of seconds, exploding into a large number of fragments, bombarding aircraft within 200 meters.

Although the Germans needed at least 10,000 rounds of 88-mm artillery shells to shoot down a heavy bomber of the British and American forces, the anti-aircraft gun became one of the main means of air defense of the German army, as well as a weapon to effectively shoot down enemy aircraft.

However, when Chen Yanlong crossed over, he used the new jets and piston fighters exchanged for the mobile phone mall system to be able to more effectively seize air supremacy in the airspace of the mainland and Europe.

For this reason, Chen Yanlong decided to draw 600,000 soldiers from these air defense units to form his new Army Group B, and another reserve Army Group F to be stationed in Berlin to carry out the task of guarding.

Because the German army is generally between 14,000 and 18,000 men at its fullest, and a group of troops is at least 100,000 or more, or even more than 300,000 people.

And now Chen Yanlong already has almost 1 million surplus troops on hand, so he can directly form several group army groups and put them into different combat areas.

Of course, even so, he is not satisfied now, and he will continue to scavenge more sources of troops for reserve, just in case.

So he decided to take the German troops overseas, including Norway, Sweden; Yugoslavia, Romania and France, the Baltics, etc., withdrew some German troops.

Moreover, the troops fighting on the front line should also find a way to draw more troops from the client state to assist in the war.

Of course, if we want those client states to have more troops, we must think of ways to use new weapons and equipment and sub-occupation areas to carry out cooperation and exchange, so as to make these client states more obedient and cooperative.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, so Chen Yanlong must find a way to maintain the cooperative relationship between countries, just like Eisenhower, he is also trying to maintain the cooperative and operational relations of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, Canada and other allies.

While Chen Yanlong was trying his best to loot the troops, Rommel had already led his 7 armored divisions, 13 infantry regiments, 3,000 artillery pieces, 1,200 tanks and assault guns, and was stationed in all the mountain passes in the Alps on the German-Italian border and the Franco-Italian border.

As for the operational order to lead his troops across the border into northern Italy to support the eight German divisions of Field Marshal Kesselring stationed in southern Italy, they had to wait for Chen Yanlong's order.

Because Chen Yanlong knew the original history, the British and American forces in the southern Italian campaign intended to force the British Eighth Army to force the Strait of Messina, seize the landing ground in the area of Calabria Reggio at the southern tip of the Apennine Peninsula, and then use the US 5th Army to board the ship and occupy the landing field near Salerno, and then carry out a counter-assault from the two landing fields to capture the entire southern Italy, including Naples.

The attempt of the Anglo-American forces in the Northern Italian campaign provided for a surprise attack by the British 8th Army and the US 5th Army to the east and southwest of the city of Bologna, to break through the German defenses, to crush the basic strength of the 10th and 14th armies, and to capture Bologna.

After that, the British and American forces will continue to attack in the direction of Bondino, until they reach the area of the Po River, and force the crossing of the river, and then advance along the Gulf of Venice with the forces of the British 8th Army until the captured city of Trieste and the Yugoslav border, and finally occupy northwest Italy with the main force of the US 5th Army, as well as Milan and Turin, the large industrial centers, and then send troops to continue to advance north, occupying the Brenner Pass and other places.

And now Chen Yanlong sent Rommel's troops to the Italian border area in advance to station, not only to prevent the Italian royal family from uniting with other forces to oust Mussolini and imprison him; In addition, it was necessary to completely annihilate the British and American troops that were carrying out the landing operations in the north and south of Italy.

However, Chen Yanlong's trouble now is that the British and American troops have not launched the landing operation of the Sicily Campaign according to the original historical time, so he does not know how to mobilize Rommel's troops for a while, so he can only let them stand still and wait and see what happens.

When Rommel saw that his troops had settled down in their respective areas, he took his intelligence officer, Stauboise, and his personal adviser, Alberthard? Major Wolflaym, and Alfred? General Gauss and Chief of Staff of Operations.

Alfred at this moment? General Gauss and his wife have not yet fallen out with Rommel's wife, Lucy, so they have not yet been removed from their posts.

Of course, the new chief of staff, Hans, who came to convince Rommel of the mutiny? Specdar had not yet been transferred from the German Army's General Headquarters.

This man was a famous figure who assassinated Hitler, betrayed Rommel to save his life, and later became the commander-in-chief of NATO.

Therefore, when Chen Yanlong heard about the Great Purge, he had already focused on dealing with this person.

Even if it is the strength of Marshal Rundstedt, and the head of the German High Command, Keitel, and others; Chen Yanlong was also helpless, and personally ordered Himmler to dispose of it.

"What about the recent movements of the British and American forces? Did the Führer unleash the Battle of Sicily, as the Führer said? ”

Looking at the surrounding green mountains, Rommel asked the intelligence officer Stauboisse eagerly.

"I haven't received much movement yet! On the contrary, on the Eastern Front, the Soviet Army is gathering large-scale forces, preparing to counterattack Kharkiv and other occupied areas on the Eastern Front! And I also received Marshal Moder from my officer friends over there, and Marshal Manstein and they are already on retreat! ”

Intelligence Officer Stauboisse replied honestly.

"They're on a retreat? What's the matter, didn't they win a couple of big battles on the Eastern Front? Isn't it a good fight? Why did you suddenly retreat? ”

Hearing this, Rommel asked rhetorically with a puzzled face.

"This is the Führer's order!"

Intelligence Officer Staubloisse replied.

"The Führer's order? How could he have issued such an order? ”

After hearing this, Rommel was even more puzzled and shocked.

At the same time, his mind was beautiful, and he suddenly remembered some of the things that Chen Yanlong said to him when he was separated from Chen Yanlong.

"War is undoubtedly a test of the endurance of both sides of the war, and when the will and patience of those involved in the war are exhausted, success or failure will be decided, and our most important task now is not only to destroy the living forces of the enemy army on a large scale, but also to completely destroy the enemy's will to fight."

"Let them be defeated, so no matter what method is used, we must continue to fight, for the production of our empire, and the happy life of the people, we must fight to the death, never stop, until the enemy army is completely defeated......"

After thinking of what Chen Yanlong said to him, Rommel really had no way to believe that he would let the troops on the Eastern Front evacuate for no reason, could it be that there was any bad battle situation on the Eastern Front, he didn't know?

"And how is the battle on the Eastern Front?"

Thinking of this, Rommel asked with concern.

"Except for the large-scale build-up of Soviet troops, there is no major war for the time being!"

Intelligence Officer Staubloisse replied.

"That's good! And what about Guderian and what happened to him and the troops in Sicily recently? ”

Rommel put down his mind and changed the subject.

"He's still training the troops as usual! Nothing special has ever happened! ”

Intelligence Officer Staubuiser continued to reply.

"Then it's depressing, when will we be able to fight the British and American forces? I haven't taken revenge on Montgomery yet! ”

After speaking, Rommel looked up to the sky in a depressed mood and sighed.

In this regard, the officers around him could only glance at each other, and no one knew how to answer his words.