"General! A large number of massed Norwegian troops were found to the north. A lieutenant colonel staff officer with monocles reported nervously.

"Got it," Lieutenant General Oliver, the highest-ranking British lieutenant general in the Anglo-French army, nodded, and said lightly: "The Norwegian army is just a bunch of waste under the combat power, and there is nothing to worry about." What really deserves our attention is the German division that had arrived in Norway a week earlier. ”

In Oliver's eyes, the Norwegian army was full of scabies, and in his eyes, the only ones who could really be called enemy troops were the German army!

In order to avoid the disturbance of the German navy, the British deliberately set the landing position from the outset in Narvik, which was further away from the German coastline, and northeast of Trondheim, rather than Bergen, which was much closer.

The British Admiralty wishfully believed that if they landed in Bergen, they might be bombed by the Luftwaffe, and the German Navy under the protection of the Air Force fought bravely, and the landing in northern Norway would not only reduce the threat of the Luftwaffe, but also make the German Navy afraid to avoid the battle because there was no fighter support, so as to ensure the smooth operation of the whole operation.

As for the more detours, it is much better than not being able to land at all. In addition, the British government did not think that it was necessary to worry too much about dealing with the old and poorly trained Norwegian troops, and it was enough to fight lightly.

At the beginning, they were all according to the vision of Lieutenant General Oliver of the Expeditionary Force. Without being threatened by the Luftwaffe, the Anglo-French forces soon landed successfully and occupied the important military port. Then, as they traveled lightly, they did make their way through the complex Norwegian terrain.

Everything was as they had planned, and the Norwegian army's poor firepower and poor fighting qualities made it impossible to defeat even the British and French forces, who also used light weapons. And along the way, the Norwegian troops did not take advantage of the numerous geographical advantages and successfully blocked the advance of the expeditionary force for even a short time.

What went well couldn't have been smoother, where is this war, this is simply a rush march. Oliver even had the illusion that he didn't need to be in command, and that he could end the campaign by rushing to Oslo with his troops.

In Oliver's eyes, this group of Norwegian soldiers is simply a group of rice buckets. Except for a little unyielding stupidity, there is no trace of the wisdom that a commander should have. The Anglo-French forces have always been mobilizing the transport fleet under their noses, but no one in the entire Norwegian military department has seen through the intentions of the British Admiralty.

When the convoy of convoys escorting the transport troops departed, the eyes of the Norwegians were still fixed on Bergen. They took it for granted that the British fleet would take the shortest route to attack here, the easiest to execute, and the fastest route to attack Oslo, so the British and French could only take this route.

Will the Coalition drop a landing force in the bombing circle of the Germans? It was also thanks to the fact that the Norwegian commanders were all convinced.

As a result, it was not until the two landing forces of the coalition army appeared in Narvik and Trondheim that the Norwegian generals learned the true intentions of the coalition forces. And the mines they had painstakingly placed in the waters along Bergen had also become a pile of ornaments, a bunch of useless ornaments that could have played an important role!

Oliver still thinks about how nice it would be if he had only been a Norwegian.......

Yes, the plans of the Anglo-French forces were concealed from Norway, but they were easily revealed by a German Führer named Reinhardt. Their carefully planned invasion at the expense of the near and far became a pocket set by the Germans.

Why did the fleet in the port of Narvik choose to stay in the harbor for repairs, and why did all the sailors, including the commander of the fleet, neglect the defense in the early hours of the next morning because of laxity?

Oliver was well aware that it wasn't because of their mental retardation because their brains were in water.

On the contrary, they were very smart, and because they were so smart, they were sure that judging from the location of Narvik Height, even if the German fleet wanted to surrender after getting the news, it would not be able to arrive in half a day. Moreover, they did not believe that the German High Seas Fleet, which was their defeated general, would have the courage to leave the Luftwaffe's combat radius and attack the fleet of the British Empire on its own.

Unfortunately, the German fleet was actually ready to sail for a long time, and quietly sailed out of the port as soon as it received information that Narvik was attacked. And the first detachment of Lütjens's high seas fleet did not depart from Wilhelmshaven in Germany, but used the Danish port to attack nearby.

As for the courage of the German soldiers, the British never really recognized it. Even after the battering of the Battle of Jutland and the teasing of Operation Rainbow, they still did not lose their unique sense of superiority and general contempt for the navies of other countries.

Despising the enemy is a taboo on the battlefield recognized in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. Because of the underestimation of the enemy, they made a mistake called laxity. And this dislocation delivered a miraculously brilliant victory for Germany and for the German Navy.

In Oliver's opinion, the idiots in the naval command not only lost 3 cruisers and 7 destroyers, but also lost the supplies, pioneers, and morale of their entire Northern Expeditionary Force.

This is intolerable!

"Our target is the German 30th Infantry Division, which is the only reinforcement the Norwegians have brought in, and our only enemy." Oliver said in a loud voice with a blank face: "You must remember that defeating the German 30th Infantry Division is equivalent to winning this war. Without encountering the German 30th Infantry Division, this war would not have really begun! ”

"The German 30th Infantry Division?" Colonel Bernard, the commander of the French Alpine Regiment who was traveling with him, suddenly remembered something, and then suddenly exclaimed in great surprise: "The German division you have been talking about before is the German 30th Infantry Division?" ”

"Why, it's an infantry division anyway, is their number important?" It is clear that Oliver, who came from England, did not know much about the achievements of the German 30th Division.

Seeing that his allies still did not know the enemy so well, Colonel Bernard of France, who had sent the officer corps to Poland to instruct the officer corps, could not hide his shock and popularized the legendary achievements of the German 30th Infantry Division to the British commanders present.

When it was heard that this German division, in the face of the siege of a Polish group, actually resisted alone for several days, and finally launched a counterattack under the casualty rate that should have collapsed a long time ago, capturing several times the enemy troops with its own....... Even Lieutenant General Oliver, who has always been arrogant, couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Can they really win against a terrifying enemy?

"Report! A large number of German troops were found in the south. The vanguard of one regiment of our army has now been repulsed! Another staff officer, stumbling to report.

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