"Good, it's working."

After waiting for the battle report that the gap had been narrowed slightly, Lord Gort clenched his fists very excitedly and shouted.

After all, Greenwich's reserves are all regular troops of the British Army, and their combat effectiveness is a lot higher than that of the improvised National Guard. Moreover, the total strength of the French army was only three divisions, and there were many losses along the way. It was not easy to deal with the British counterattack force of nearly two divisions, including armored units.

"The gap has narrowed to about a kilometer, and the French army is trying to maintain the gap and increase resistance." An operations staff officer handed Lord Goth a document and reported.

After taking the battle report and quickly scanning it a few times, Goth probably had a number in his heart.

The gap has been closed by half, and the next half is the most important and final step.

As long as the last bit of distance is locked, it should be no problem to hold on to today with the defensive line.

"Then put the remaining regiment of the 4th Division into it. Step up the counterattack and close the gap as soon as possible! "Lord Goth simply threw in even the last bit of maneuver.

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"The British are trying to close the gap, and they should have thrown all the reserves over." In the German-French-Norwegian joint headquarters, Weygand was preaching to Alfred and Bootdent.

"The British didn't have much regular army to use, and this time the posture should have basically taken out the reserves." Spudent concluded based on his own understanding.

"They chose the stupidest path." Wei Gang said silently.

"That's right, this Lord Goth is not very capable, and he will be such a stupid method." Student smiled happily.

The Triple Alliance was already much stronger than the British army in Greenwich in terms of combat effectiveness, and what they wanted was a decisive battle with the main force of the British army, and then consume the British regular army that could fight.

Without the regular army as the backbone, the remaining National Guard forces could not pose a threat at all.

Even the French general Wei Gang, who has always loved defensive warfare, was extremely keen on attacking this time. The reason for this is to get the opportunity to fight with the main force of the British army.

Now, in order to close the gap, Goth has used valuable reserves. But in fact, this reserve is the real target of the Triple Alliance.

To fight Greenwich, the Triple Alliance has 10,000 ways to take it down. But what the Triple Alliance command wanted was to destroy the main British forces here at the same time as taking Greenwich.

If Greenwich is taken alone, the infantry and armored units of the British regular army here are omitted, and these troops are withdrawn to London, it will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of the subsequent occupation of London.

Every additional division of Gott's troops in London could inflict greater damage and casualties on the Triple Alliance. With London's complex urban topography, once it develops into street fighting, it will become a huge meat grinder battlefield.

This is a situation that Germany, France, and Norway do not want to see.

On the German side, it was initially expected that a maximum of 22 divisions would be committed to the British campaign.

However, with the French army taking out an extra division, Norway having an extra reinforced battalion, and the war situation was too smooth all the way, the British army's combat effectiveness was extremely low due to the crazy expansion of the army, and for various reasons, Germany did not seem to be completely sufficient until the second stage invested a total of 14 divisions.

The three paratrooper divisions of Spudent alone, after a market garden operation, actually marched all the way with the Franco-Norwegian coalition army, and had a great tendency to take London.

The six infantry divisions and one submersible tank task force of General Ernst Busch's 16th Army, since the landing at Portsmouth, have also had a smooth journey, and they also have the strength to conquer London alone.

As for the 4 infantry divisions of Adolf Strauss's 9th Army, it was intended to cope with the situation. However, it was found that there was no direction for them to deal with, and there was no pressure on both fronts. As a result, this response force also formed its own way, and in the middle of the two offensives, it steadily maintained a advance rate of 20 to 30 kilometers per day.

"It seems that our attacking arrows are the first to hit London." As the commander of the Norwegian troops, Alfred was not as good as Weygand and Spudent in terms of strategy and tactics.

So, he also talked about such things that had nothing to do with tactics.

"It looks like this." Student smiled and nodded in response: "The British army has transferred all the reserves to plug the gap, and it just so happens that I will parachute behind the line with my paratroopers and attack Greenwich's line from behind." Without reserves, the life of this line of defense will come to an end. ”

Student's tactics can basically be said to be the most labor-saving style of play now.

Bypass the fortifications and preset positions and attack from the rear of those National Guards. Since the British used their reserves in the position of the gap, they could not return to the rear of the defensive line, and the opposing German paratroopers were unable to return at this time.

As a result, the National Guard alone would never be able to resist the sudden appearance of German troops behind the defensive line.

"Then I will have our Norwegian troops at the same time put into the open gap, where they will join the French army and fight together with the main force of the British army."

Although his military literacy is poor, with a lot of combat experience, Alfred also puts the crux of the matter to the point.

The Germans were like stealing a home by holding the defensive line, while the French were like attracting the enemy's attention head-on.

The success rate of the German army in stealing home has exceeded 90%, so the most important thing for the Norwegian army to do now is to join the front and consume the main force of the British army with the French army. Of course, without airborne training and airborne equipment, they could not join the German army's stealing operations, and could only fight head-on with the French army.

"I'd better go to the front line to command." After Alfred finished speaking, he took the initiative to ask: "It is enough to have two generals in the command, my forcible command is to command the operation in the front line, and the command in the rear is not what I am good at." ”

"Then please, whether or not we can consume Greenwich's British army depends on the armies of our two countries." Wei Gang did not stop it, but supported it.

Bootdent nodded in support as well.

So Alfred gave a military salute and prepared to go straight to his command and immediately go into battle.

Because the troops sent by Norway were generally armed and equipped, except for the German armament reinforced battalion, they were left in the rear unused to avoid losses.

And when it comes to this, it's the best time for them to strike.

"Good luck." Bootdent finally said in German.

"We're going to win." Although the translator had not yet had time to explain, Alfred had already guessed what the other party meant, and responded.