"Seize air supremacy around Gustav, and annihilate the Anglo-American Allied forces with rocket and missile groups and sustained felt bombardment by the Air Force!"

"At the same time, use part of the forces to distract and contain the attention of the British and American allies, so that their forces cannot be gathered in the area of Cassino and Gustav to carry out superior force operations!"

"Put the troops in a state of elastic defense in an all-round way, and try to consume as much as possible the living forces of the attacking British and American forces, especially the British 10th Army, the main target of Kesselring!"

About an hour later, Kesselring's latest order reached the front-line troops on Gustav's front line and the generals around Cassino for notification and implementation.

As for Kesselring's new order, the Nordic commander, General Edward Dieter, who was in charge of the defense of the Gustav area, also quickly received and immediately gave this order to the commander of the 18th Mountain Infantry Corps, General Egger, and the commander of the 10th Infantry Corps, General Victor, as well as the rest of the generals, and immediately carried out the implementation and supervision of the operation.

As for the air force that communicated with them in air support operations, it was the old air force commanded by Kesselring, the German Second Air Army, and the commander of this air force was still under the command of Kesselring himself.

In other words, if the Nordic commander, Admiral Edward Dieter, needed to bombard British and American troops from the air, then he would need to communicate directly with Kesselring himself.

The Gustav Line was a preset line of defense established by the Germans that ran through central Italy, stretching for more than 100 kilometers, and was held by Army Group C under the command of Field Marshal Kesselring. The center and commanding heights of the Gustav Line were Mount Cassino, and at the foot of the mountain there was a small town - the town of Cassino.

However, Army Group C at this moment was not a force consisting of 17 divisions of the First Army under the command of Erwin von Witzleben and the Seventh Army under the command of Friedrich Dormann in May 1940, nor was it the remnants of Army Group South and Army Group B in November 1943, or the Italian Army Group Liguria under the command of Field Marshal Rudolfo Graziani in August 1944. Moreover, the new army group now commanded by Kesselring is formed by Chen Yanlong drawing more than half of the troops from Army Group B, more than 25 divisions of reserve recruits, and the 200,000 troops commanded by the Nordic commander, General Edward Dieter.

Edward Dieter, the famous German mountain infantry general, was later commented on as the general of the Northern Kingdom who could be called the Northern Snow General along with Rommel, one of the three famous generals of the German army in World War II.

In his original history, he was transferred by Hitler to Norway and Finland in 1944 as a general in the German 20th Army, where he was in charge of military affairs.

For the 20th Mountain Army, guarding Pesamo had no battle to fight at all, and it was very leisurely.

Therefore, when this unit, which had been renamed the 20th Mountain Army from the Lapland Army, suddenly arrived at the increasingly fierce battle of Gustav from a comfortable and comfortable environment, their casualties and combat effectiveness were not very good.

If it weren't for the fact that the commander of the Nordic Army, Admiral Edward Dieter, had never relaxed his strict military training for them, and that Chen Yanlong had always insisted that Admiral Edward Dieter redress all the officers and men of the 20th Mountain Army with new weapons and equipment, as well as conduct a two-and-a-half-month hellish training for all the officers and men of the 20th Mountain Army, I am afraid that the 20th Mountain Army, which was accustomed to fighting without a battle, would definitely suffer even more casualties this time.

But for Admiral Edward Dieter, who has relatively rich combat experience, such a bad thing did not happen.

"Send me the casualties of our troops immediately, I want to know our current battle damage, as well as the enemy's battle damage!"

"Of course, it also includes the deployment of their troops, as well as their backup!"

"In short, I want to know myself and my opponent immediately, so as to deal with the next new combat situation!"

As soon as Admiral Edward Dieter had delivered Kesselring's order and reached the officers of his unit, he spoke aloud to his adjutant Wiesel, the commander of the 18th Mountain Infantry Corps, General Egger, and the commander of the 10th Infantry Corps, General Victor.

"Yes! Commander! ”

In this regard, the three of them immediately nodded in unison.

Because for them, the current battle situation is gradually entering an unexpectedly fierce situation, and the Gustav Line, which they are now in charge of, is also one of the most important defensive fronts of the winter defense line.

The winter defensive line was lined with bunkers, artillery cellars, concrete underground pillboxes, rotating machine-gun mounts, barbed wire positions, and mine positions.

For this reason, in the eyes of many German officers and soldiers, the Gustav Line, which was guarded by General Edward Dieter, and the Bernhard Line, which was in front of the Gustav Line, and the Hitler Line, which was 5 miles behind, were the most powerful lines of defense south of Rome, because more than 60 German divisions were deployed on the entire winter defense line at this moment, more than 50 divisions more than the original 15 German divisions in history.

The total strength of the Gustav Line, which General Edward Dieter was responsible for, exceeded more than 20 divisions, and it was a fully equipped division with many new weapons and equipment.

So before the battle began, Admiral Edward Dieter and his generals were very confident.

It wasn't long after the battle began, however, that Admiral Edward Dieter and his generals noticed that something was wrong, as the casualties of their troops were increasing beyond their imagination.

That's why Admiral Edward Dieter is so anxious and serious at this moment, and he wants to know at once what the real battle situation is.

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