This tactic has many names, such as the "roller tactic" used by the Chinese Expeditionary Force led by Liao Yaoxiang in Burma, and the "magnetic tactic" used by Li Qiwei in North Korea against the Chinese volunteers, which are actually the evolution of this defensive method.

The battle situation was indeed as Qin Chuan had speculated, and the U.S. troops landed on the Brittany Peninsula in the early morning of the third day...... There was nothing left on the Brittany Peninsula to stop the landing of the American troops, and whatever was there was originally there, it was bombed back and forth several times by the US naval guns and bombs, and then burned with incendiary bombs, and the whole peninsula looked like a flaming mountain from a distance.

After the U.S. infantry landed and built a defensive line, they dragged the artificial harbor of "Mulberry A" to the Brittany Peninsula...... This "Mulberry A" is made of thousands of containers, which are then covered with reinforced concrete several meters thick, and there are also warehouses, lifting facilities, docks, etc., like a small island.

It is said that in order to build two artificial harbors, "Mulberry A" and "Mulberry B", more than 20 ships sank due to accidents alone.

The role of the artificial port is indeed very amazing, after it is towed to the Brittany Peninsula, large ships do not have to worry about the depth of the water, they directly dock at the wharf of the artificial port, and use the facilities on the artificial port to lift materials and equipment to the artificial port in batches and then sail to the Brittany Peninsula.

In just one day, the equipment, personnel, and supplies of the 4th Armored Division of the US 3rd Army successfully landed and occupied the Brittany Peninsula with the help of "Mulberry A".

The next day, when the US 6th Panzer Division landed on the Brittany Peninsula in the same way, the 4th Panzer Division crossed its own line and made a detour in the direction of the German "Atlantic Barrier", that is, the "Utah Beach".

Montgomery also had a heated argument with Barton about this...... Montgomery believed that the defenses of Brittany must be further consolidated before launching an offensive against the Germans. Otherwise, the German armored forces would suddenly attack the Brittany Peninsula when the 4th Panzer Division was attacking and the 6th Panzer Division had no time to deploy, and the two American Panzer Divisions would probably be annihilated.

This was also what Eisenhower and General Bradley feared, because they knew about the damage of German tanks.

"If the German Panzer Division were to attack the Brittany Peninsula, nothing would be able to stop them!" Montgomery said: "We should learn the lessons of the previous defeats, the two infantry divisions collapsed under their counterattacks, our air power was ineffective because of the mixing of enemy and enemy tanks, and the Germans would fight all the way to 'Mulberry A' and take all the supplies!" ”

"That's what happened under your command!" General Patton replied without showing any weakness: "I will order the bombers and fighters to draw a demarcation line between us and the enemy, and destroy all tanks south of the demarcation line!" ”

Barton's response was simple, brutal, but effective.

But this is one of the reasons why he has been questioned in the domestic media.

In the end, Eisenhower decided to let Patton do it, so the tanks of the 4th Panzer Division drove with infantry "rumbling" to "Utah Beach".

Eisenhower and others were overjoyed by the ensuing results, and the 4th Panzer Division easily occupied "Utah Beach" with little resistance.

While Montgomery and others demanded to consolidate their positions and fight steadily, Patton was out of the ordinary.

"No, we're going to attack!" "Because it is clear that the Germans have retreated, and this is the time for us to pursue!" said Patton! ”

Patton said to his men, "I ask you to remember, don't worry about any damn flanks. We do need to be vigilant on the flanks, but we must not let that hold us back. Our 3rd Army does not do such things. Let the Germans worry about their flanks and go, we are not worried. And I don't want anyone to report to me: 'We are holding our ground. 'We don't have to hold on to anything, let the Germans guard it!' We have to keep moving forward, forward, and forward! ”

But the reality is not as simple as Barton thinks.

As mentioned before, when the American troops rushed to the German defense line after all the hardships of minesweeping, paving, and building bridges, they found that it was already dark and could not launch an attack.

Not only could they not attack, but they also had to start guarding against a counteroffensive from the Germans...... Because at night the US military loses the cover of air power, the German "Tiger" and "Leopard" are invincible.

The U.S. forces even launched several attacks without knowing the height of the sky, but the results were predictable, they were not good at night fighting, and they fled back in disgrace after leaving a piece of tank wreckage.

To Patton's surprise, the Germans did not seem interested in exchanging fire with the Americans, as the Germans did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and launch a counteroffensive against the Americans.

On the other side, the situation of the British army was different.

The German SS 10th Panzer Division launched several counterattacks against the British troops who had launched an attack on the news, killing the British soldiers on their backs and suffering heavy losses.

This annoyed Montgomery, who angrily said to Barton, "I said we should hold our ground before we attack!" ”

And Patton, of course, would not give in, and he sneered: "Look at the record of the 3rd Army, great General Montgomery, we are advancing at a speed of 30 kilometers a day, and we are invincible. If you think this is wrong...... Well, either the Germans are afraid of us, or the British are not going to fight! ”

Montgomery was speechless because the facts were in front of him: the American offensive was going well.

What Patton and Montgomery didn't know, of course, was that the Germans had done this on purpose, in order to prop up Giraud in order to defeat de Gaulle.

If the battle continues like this, the next battle will develop as Qin Chuan planned.

But something went wrong.

It was a village called Moltre, where the German 275th Infantry Division, on the right flank of the 21st Panzer Division, was attacked by the US 34th Infantry Division...... This may be because the U.S. military saw that the Germans on the opposite side did not have many tanks, and they were unwilling to follow the Germans day by day, so they couldn't wait to launch a large-scale attack at night.

The U.S. military soon found out that they were wrong.

Because the Germans were armed with a large number of bazookas, and the American tanks could not play much role at night.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the US 34th Infantry Division dropped a pile of corpses and retreated.

There was nothing wrong with this, the problem was that the German 275th Infantry Division surrounded a battalion of American troops.

There is nothing wrong with this, it is normal to surround the enemy during a campaign.

The problem is that the U.S. military sends a very strong and special force...... The 442nd Regiment, composed of Japanese Americans, rushed to the rescue of the besieged American troops.