Sicily, 4 a.m.

"Commander! How long do we have to wait before we can strike back and intercept these British and American forces? ”

"We've been hiding in these bomb shelters for a long time, and the British and American artillery coverage and air strikes seem to be over!

The commander-in-chief of the 14th Panzer Corps and the 76th Panzer Corps of the German army, Egorhard Heinrich, asked irritably about Lieutenant General Heinrich Gottfried von Fittinghof Schell, who was beside him.

"Waiting for Marshal Kesselring's orders, the Führer is watching our battle!"

Lieutenant General Heinrich Gottfried von Fittinghof Schell said with a blank expression.

"Actually, I feel that we can kill those British and American troops directly in Sicily, or drive them out of the sea again, why does the Führer want us to put them in Italy, and then counterattack and encircle?"

"Could it be that the Führer is just to make these British and American troops happy before giving them a lethal kill?"

Erhard Laus, commander of the German 14th Panzer Corps, asked incomprehensibly.

Gotthard Heinrich was the cousin of Field Marshal Rundstedt, second only to Moder's expert in defensive warfare; Infantry commander in World War I and World War II, participated in the Maginot Line campaign, Operation Barbarossa, commanded the 4th Army, served under Field Marshal Gunter von Kruger, and then served as commander of the 1st Panzer Group and commander of the 1st Panzer Group in August 1944, and in March 1945, succeeded SS leader Himmler as commander of Army Group "Visa", successfully resisting the first wave of Zhukov's Soviet army attack on Berlin and receiving orders to hold Berlin......

At this moment, he was transferred by Chen Yanlong to the 14th Armored Army as the commander and the commander-in-chief of the 76th Armored Army; and assisted Lieutenant General Schell in the defense of Sicily.

"It's not that you don't know that our Führer's leapfrog thinking is not something that we ordinary people can understand, so we can only carry out this battle according to his ideas!"

"But I heard Marshal Kesselring say that the Führer has sent a large number of Scud missiles to Cassino and Italy for defensive operations, and that powerful bomber and fighter groups have been deployed there, and various fortifications, including the mountain troops of the Nordic commander Admiral Edward Dieter have also mobilized more than 100,000 to assist in the operation, and now even Marshal Rommel has been sent by the Führer to France to rest and replenish supplies and troops. So once the Anglo-American forces were to fight in Italy, then we had a great chance of inflicting unprecedented heavy losses on them! ”

"In particular, if we can also bring out the hundreds of thousands of reservists that the British and American troops are assembling and secretly training in Britain and put them into the battlefield, then we will be able to eradicate their troubles in one fell swoop!"

"That is to say, as long as we can encircle and annihilate more than half of all the British and American forces in Italy, or completely annihilate them, then the war on the Western Front will fall into a very favorable situation for us!"

"On the other hand, if we can't inflict heavy losses on the British and American armies in a short period of time, then the fighting on the Western Front still needs to continue!"

"And our troops will continue to be caught up in a two-front battle! And if we can't concentrate our forces, and if we disperse them too much, it will be very detrimental to our operations. ”

"We were defeated by Britain, the United States and France in the first war because we were caught in the war on the eastern and western fronts, and as for the consequences of defeat, I think you have already deeply experienced it!"

Lieutenant General Heinrich Gottfried von Fittinghof Schell only smiled slightly, and then continued to browse the information on the ground battle in his hand.

“......”

"Perhaps! It's just that why would the Führer be so sure that the Anglo-American forces would conduct the Battle of Cassino? ”

Gotthard Heinrich was puzzled.

"Maybe it's because of the intelligence gathered by the Führer's intelligence agencies! But no matter what, the battle of Cassino has already begun, and Kesselring is also personally commanding this battle! ”

"I heard that the battle there is also raging! Because this time, the British and American air forces dispatched a lot of airborne troops to carry out airborne operations! ”

Lieutenant General Schell replied.

"Alright! Then I will first take a look at the landing and advance of the British and American troops in the area I am responsible for! ”

Gotthard Heinrich was silent for a moment before replying.

"Hmmm! Notify me of something unusual so I can make a new deployment! ”

Lieutenant General Schell nodded in agreement.

"By the way, the Führer has just sent a telegram to promote you to general, congratulations!"

Gotthard Heinrich smiled suddenly, handed a telegram to Lieutenant General Schell and said with a smile on his face.

"Oh! This ......"

Hearing this, Lieutenant General Scheer's eyes widened in surprise, and he opened his mouth wide without coming back to his senses for a while.

Gotthard Heinrich, on the other hand, smiled and immediately turned away to go on his own military deployment.

As for the telegram of promotion, it was stuffed into the hands of Lieutenant General Scheer, who was still in a daze.