Europe, on both sides of the English Channel.

The Luftwaffe, with 3 large air forces in this lifetime, was able to achieve this grand strategic goal in British air combat.

Herman. Morgan Taylor's Second Air Force flew from the Low Countries and northern France. Marshal Huguel Sperler's Third Air Force sorts from northern France. General Hans Stumpf's Fifth Air Force sorts out from Denmark.

In addition, a small Norwegian air force will also be involved in the air defense of northern Germany.

The German Second and Third Air Forces had a total of 1,029 fighters, 975 bombers, and 516 dive bombers, making them the main force in the air force.

The Fifth Air Force, based at Danish airfields, was much smaller, with a total of only 123 bombers and 34 twin-engine Messerschmitt-110 fighters.

And in this life, Catherine correctly understood the role of radar and, on the basis of the intelligence provided by Reinhardt, destroyed 6 large radar stations in the south of England, so that the Luftwaffe was no longer as lagging behind its opponents in battlefield reconnaissance and early warning as it was historically.

On the other hand, the already exhausted and exhausted Royal Air Force has further lost a large number of living forces after the failed attack on the German military port, so that they are now powerless to defend their homeland.

The British army has lost a large number of warplanes and pilots on the European continent, and they have not been able to regain their original size.

Churchill's classified archives already show that the British Air Force suffered a devastating loss of vitality after the blows of late summer and autumn, especially the casualties of a large number of elite pilots, almost irreparable.

Already at the end of 1940, the sun had already set for the British Empire.

At the same time, according to estimates by the German Naval Operations Staff, the German Navy has actually managed to recruit 1,722 barges, 1,161 motorboats, 47 tugboats, and 155 military transport ships to meet the Army's requirement to land 100,000 men on a 200-mile front during the first wave of the invasion.

It can be said that the Sea Lion plan has reached the last step when everything is ready and only owes the east wind!

Finally, on March 12, 1941, Reinhardt gave the order for Operation Overlord to begin. In order to completely relieve the worries of the Third Reich in this war of national fortunes, Reinhardt did not even have time to accompany his already pregnant wife Bonna.

Bonna was found to be pregnant in May last year, and now it is indeed March of the following year. In other words, it will not be long before Reinhardt's first flesh and blood in this world will come. But it was at this critical moment when he was about to become a father that Reinhardt had to leave his family in Berlin and go to Paris to participate in the decision-making "turning battle" there!

In later generations, many people believed that the turning point of World War II was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, or the defeat of the German army at Stalingrad, or the occupation of Pyongan Grad by Li Yunlong's troops......

But in Reinhardt's eyes, what really determined the direction of World War II and the final fate of the Third Reich was the Anglo-German war that was not fought to the end.

If it can occupy LinkedIn, then the Third Reich will have no worries on the Western Front at all, and will be able to devote more troops to a showdown with the Soviet Union.

Moreover, with the loss of the British Isles, it will be extremely difficult for the US military to open a second battlefield on the Western Front in the future, because there will no longer be suitable islands in the Atlantic Ocean that can be used as a staging place for large-scale troops and a starting point for landing fleets.

If Roosevelt had had had had a cerebral convulsion to let the landing force depart from the continental United States, the safety of the US transport fleet would never have been guaranteed on this long route under the care of the German U-boat wolves.

Therefore, Germany did not need to form a coalition to land in order to defend against the United States, Canada and other countries, and build an "Atlantic barrier" on the Western Front, which cost huge manpower and material resources, and left millions of troops to be pinned down here.

As a result of Norway's entry into the alliance, the Germans had freed up nearly 300,000 Wehrmacht troops originally stationed in Norway. The successful merger of Hungary and Germany led to an additional 250,000 SS troops. Once the British Isles fell, Reinhardt could draw at least another 450,000 troops from the original Western Front.

In this way, Germany will have an early advantage of a million more than in history in the showdown with the Soviet Union. Of course, this is on the basis of the fact that the size of the Wehrmacht is comparable to that of history. Today, the Wehrmacht and SS of the Third Reich were 900,000 more than they were at the same time in history.

The return on the strength of the army is on the one hand, and more importantly, there is also the return on the navy. Compared to Italy's acquisition of an aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, Reinhardt's upcoming loot is likely to be the entire Royal Navy's home fleet.

Moreover, the battleships of the British Home Fleet are not rare for Reinhardt. What he really valued was the British Empire's military ports, shipbuilding technology, and the British "Eagle"-class aircraft carriers that were already halfway up construction. These are all things that can't be taken away.

With all this, even if the British home fleet was only a pile of scum, Reinhardt could use the above spoils obtained by the British after the defeat to build a fleet at full power.

When the time comes, it will be unknown who will threaten whose coastal areas will be threatened by the US Navy and the German Navy, which will fight on two fronts.

In order to succeed in this landing battle, Reinhardt approved the addition of 3 Italian battleships through Rossi, a super spy buried in Italy by the Gestapo, on the one hand, and borrowed 3 French naval battleships that had been waiting to seek revenge from the British on the other hand by agreeing to Vichy France's expansion of 100,000 troops.

The Franco-Italian navy, with the acquiescence of Spain, had converged on the military port of Brest in a detour. As for the British Mediterranean Fleet, because of the heavy losses in the previous battles with the Italian, French and German navies, this time it was not able to obstruct it.

Together with the German army's own 3 battleships, a total of 9 battleships, as well as 16 new cruisers of the German army, 6 large aircraft carriers of the Zeppelin class, a large number of destroyers, and small aircraft carriers of the Exocet-class, it is enough to ensure the suppression of fire on the landing coast.

Thanks to the "blessing" of Operation Rainbow, the German Navy, which eliminated the old warships, is now almost all the latest large warships!

Of course, for the sake of secrecy, the battleships sent by France and Italy were equipped with German liaison officers. These liaison officers will not announce the mission objectives to the naval commanders of their allies until they are about to sail.

After all, Churchill, with the help of the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army, Lord Gott, who had withdrawn from Dunkirk, had always determined that the main attack point of the German army would be Whiteway, Dover, Brighton and other directions in southern Britain.

After all, an offensive in these directions, it was possible to shorten the transport distance of the German landing force, or to quickly blitz London after the landing.

However, Reinhardt, who had learned about the British army's thinking from his World War II memoirs, with the help of Paulus's high command staff, formulated the exact opposite, with the first goal of seizing the high ground in the arc from the Thames estuary to Portsmouth, and then advancing to the front line of Rochester and Southampton.

Once this plan is implemented, the German landing force will avoid the last bit of the main force of the British mainland and unexpectedly appear in the other direction of the British divisional garrison!

Everything seems to be more and more similar to the Normandy landings in history.

There are not enough troops to defend the side, and they can only hold on to important strategic points that they estimate. The landing party, on the other hand, can appear in any direction that wants to land. In order to solve the problem of replenishing supplies in areas where there were no ports, Reinhardt also copied the design of the pontoon pier invented by the Allies during the Normandy landings.

With this design, the Germans did not have to occupy the docks to ensure the smooth supply of follow-up supplies. And at any place where you want to land, you can use pontoon docks and airdrops to ensure sufficient supplies for the first wave of troops.

Later, when the situation opens up, those ports on the south coast of Britain will naturally become the pockets of the German army sooner or later.