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Of course, Colonel Slein would not have a problem, he spread his hands and echoed Rommel: "Of course we have to deploy armored troops on the front line, those marshals and generals in Paris only know how to eat, drink, play, and have fun, and many of them have never even entered the tank compartment!" ”

Colonel Slain This is an allusion to Rundstedt...... Because Rundstedt lived in a luxurious villa in Paris, and dined at the French restaurant called "Bold Rooster" at regular times every day, he and his men seemed to have forgotten about the war that was in full swing.

Another strange thing is that Rundstedt, as an expert in armored forces, can even be said to be one of the founders of the "Blitzkrieg", but he has never been on a tank in his life, because as a nobleman, he can't stand the dirt, grease and noise.

So, in fact, this was not only a strategic difference between the two German field marshals, but also a difference between an aristocratic officer and an officer from the grassroots like Rommel.

Although Colonel Slein said this well, Rommel obviously didn't need such advice, so he turned his gaze to Qin Chuan, raised the coffee cup, and asked, "What do you think, Lieutenant Colonel?" ”

Qin Chuan was very familiar with Rommel, and at the same time respected Rommel, he felt that any roundabout or whitewashing was an insult to Rommel, so he said bluntly: "With all due respect, Your Excellency Marshal, these two defensive strategies ...... That is, your coastal defense and the defense in depth of Marshal Rundstedt, I do not approve of it! ”

"Oh?" Rommel raised an eyebrow in surprise, then laughed: "Much better than I thought, Lieutenant Colonel!" Seeing that you didn't say a word, I thought you were standing with that guy from Rundstedt! ”

"You know what?" Rommel then said: "If you do what he thinks, I will kill you!" ”

Qin Chuan and Colonel Slane couldn't help but laugh, and Rommel never lost his humor when discussing issues.

"Tell me what you think!" After laughing for a while, Rommel said with a straight face: "That's why you are not optimistic about these two defensive strategies!" ”

"Can I ask a question before that?" Qin Chuan said.

"Of course!"

"I want to know the comparison of the strength of the navy and the air force between us and the enemy!"

Rommel gave the staff officer a look, and the staff officer immediately went to the document on the desk not far away to rummage through it for a while, and then took out one of them and sent it to Qin Chuan.

When Qin Chuan looked through it, Rommel said: "I really can't tell you the answer, because the gap is so big that it doesn't make any sense for me to look at it...... Or rather, when I see it, I wonder if I can win the battle! ”

It was exactly as Rommel said.

In the air force, German intelligence indicated that the Allies might have 10,000 aircraft (13,000 in fact), while the Germans had only 400.

"How come we only have four hundred planes?" Qin Chuan almost exclaimed: "Even if we face the Soviets on the Eastern Front, we are not less than this!" ”

Although Qin Chuan was already mentally prepared, he still didn't expect such a big gap.

"This is still what we have done to mobilize from all over the place!" Rommel replied helplessly: "The Eastern Front needs planes, and Germany itself also needs planes, and the so-called Reich Marshal ...... At this time, the Air Force was still organizing the bombing of the British mainland! ”

"The bombing of the British mainland?" Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain looked at Rommel in unison.

"Yes!" Rommel replied: "We originally had a thousand bombers, but ...... Field Marshal Goering thought that we should resume bombing Britain in order to blow up Allied planes in airfields, or even push the battle line back to Britain or confine it to the sea. So he sent these bombers to Britain in several batches under the cover of fighter planes, and carried out a total of 29 air raids, including 14 air raids on London alone, with an average of 200 sorties each time. But you don't have to think about it to know the results...... Of these more than 1,000 bombers and fighters, only 181 remained, and only 107 of them survived! ”

Qin Chuan and Colonel Slein couldn't help but be dumbfounded when they heard this, they didn't expect Goering, the air marshal, to be so stupid, and they didn't expect Hitler to allow Goering to do this.

"They call it 'air blitzkrieg.'" Rommel said: "But we all call it the 'baby blitzkrieg'!" ”

Hearing the term "blitzkrieg", Qin Chuan somewhat understood, Hitler, like Goering, actually did not dare to face reality, or it can be said that they lived in the dream that the German army fought all over Europe with a "blitzkrieg" a few years ago and even caught the Soviet Union off guard and suffered repeated defeats, so they wishfully fantasized that as long as they were "surprised", they would definitely be able to "win".

"But it doesn't seem to make much difference!" Qin Chuan said: "Fifteen hundred or four hundred...... In fact, it's all one result, hand over air supremacy! ”

Rommel did not speak, and acquiesced to Qin Chuan's statement.

After all, the enemy has 10,000 aircraft, and it is all kinds of high-performance aircraft, and the German aircraft are even old fighters.

Then Qin Chuan turned his attention to the navy of the document.

In fact, the German Navy only focused on the development of submarines, ignoring large surface ships, and after several years of war attrition, at this time, except for the Toulon fleet located in the Mediterranean, there were few large surface ships left, and they could only resist the landing with submarines and small ships.

"We have prepared 41 submarines!" Rommel said: "There are another 50 torpedo boats of various types, and three pseudo-cruisers ready to cooperate with us in blocking the landing of the Allied forces!" ”

The so-called pseudo-cruiser is a warship converted from a merchant ship, which can be disguised as a merchant ship of a neutral country...... It looks like a merchant ship, but it is equipped with large-caliber naval guns, and when it gets close to the target, it suddenly attacks.

"But we obviously can't pin our hopes on them!" Rommel said: "Because the British organized powerful interception and anti-submarine fleets, they may well not even be able to enter the English Channel!" ”

"That is to say......" Qin Chuan closed the document: "In this battle, we have no doubt that we have lost air and sea supremacy from the very beginning!" ”

"Yes!" Rommel nodded: "There is no doubt about it! ”

"And the Allies also have a lot of ammunition in stock!" Qin Chuan said: "These ammunition include naval guns and aerial bombs!" ”

"Of course!" "The Americans have even moved factories to England, as can be seen from the bombing they are now carrying out on us," Rommel said...... They can't be short of ammunition! ”

"Then, Your Excellency, Marshal!" Qin Chuan asked rhetorically: "Why can't the Allies use ammunition to blow up a certain section of our coastal fortifications and obstacles?" ”