At this time, the combat units of the French Expeditionary Force led by Juan himself were the 1st Progressive Division commanded by Blouse, the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division commanded by Dodi, the Algerian Infantry Division commanded by Monsabel, the 4th Moroccan Mountain Division commanded by Sevez, and the Moroccan Combat Group commanded by Gixiaom.

These units were engaged in airborne operations with the Polish 2nd Army, the British 13th Army, and the U.S. 2nd Army, which were also airlifted to the area around Cassino.

The weather was relatively sunny on this day, there was no rain or snowstorm, and the roads were relatively dry, not muddy, or covered with thick snow.

It's just that because winter has fallen on the earth, the air around is still unusually cold, so that many British, American, French and allied troops are wearing thick winter uniforms.

Ridgway took command of the 5th Army in place of the often defeated general Mark Wayne Clark, while Lieutenant General Oliver Lees took command of the British 8th Army in place of Montgomery.

Because Montgomery was transferred to serve as commander-in-chief of the 21st Army Group, and Mark Wayne Clark was temporarily transferred to the rear as the US High Commissioner in Europe and to conduct foreign affairs for the alliance of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France.

Alexander, on the other hand, served as commander of the 15th Army Group and was promoted to general.

The commander of the 15th Army Group, formed by the British 8th Army and the American 5th Army, was to continue to fight under the orders of Harold Alexander.

Montgomery's 21st Army Group, in addition to some of the elite forces of the British Eighth Army, was subordinate to the American Simpsons' Ninth Army, the American Seventh Army of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, and the French First Army.

Therefore, the troops formed by the 21st Army Group at this moment are different from the original history.

Moreover, in the original history, the British and American forces relied on the superiority of troops, ferocious firepower, overwhelming logistics, and strong equipment, and they captured Sicily, swept through Italy, and blockaded the Italian fleet in Malta, and occupied one-third of the Italian mainland, including Naples and Foggia airports, in less than six months.

However, after Chen Yanlong appeared, the British and American troops in 1943 were all defeated and fled in embarrassment except for the brilliant victories in the North African campaign and the Tunisian campaign.

Even the general uprising organized and launched by the National Liberation Committee of Northern Italy and the Italian Communist Party did not liberate northern Italy and the cities of Milan, Turin, and Genoa in accordance with the original historical trend, and defeated and disarmed the German garrisons there.

In addition, all the important members of the Bardoglio government and the king of Italy also fled Italy in a hurry by submarine and reached Algiers, where Eisenhower was located, to ask for asylum.

When the French Expeditionary Force and the British Army and other units are preparing to complete the first round of airborne landing in the British and American Airborne Forces and the 1st Joint US-Canada Special Service Team, the second round of airborne operations will be carried out.

At this time, Montgomery had already met with Eisenhower in Algiers, and Eisenhower's chief of staff Biddle Smith, as well as the King of Italy and other people, returned to his 21st Army Group, preparing to carry out amphibious landing operations and attack Sicily again.

And the whereabouts of the last general, Patton, although he still served as the commander of the U.S. 7th Army, did not cooperate with General Montgomery's 8th Army to land in Sicily, Italy, as in the original history, under the command of General Alexander of England, to carry out the combat mission of capturing Palermo.

Because this time he was assisting Montgomery's 21st Army Group in the second amphibious landing operation in Sicily, as well as airborne operations.

However, while Patton continued to serve as the 7th Army, Eisenhower was rebuilding the U.S. Third Army and preparing to build this Army Group that had participated in World War I into one of the largest U.S. forces in history with more than 400,000 troops under more than 7 armies and 52 divisions (32 infantry divisions, 18 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions).

Of course, Eisenhower's envisaged operation did not go very smoothly, because because the Battle of Cassino and the second amphibious landing in Sicily were currently underway, so he was very short of officers and men to organize it.

But even so, he was still building on a small scale, as quickly as he could.

Because behind him are President Roosevelt, Admiral Marshall, Prime Minister Churchill and other senior British and American leaders are strongly supporting.

Because their goal was still to follow the lines of the North African landings, the Battle of Casablanco, the Sicilian landings, the Italian landings, the French Normandy landings, the occupation and liberation of France, and the offensive to the Berlin occupation of the German mainland.

It's just that such a line of operations does not seem to be as easy to achieve as they imagined.

And with the opening of the Battle of Cassino and the outbreak of the second amphibious landing operation in Sicily, the direction of the war was completely beyond the imagination of all high-level British and American figures, including Chen Yanlong.