"Captain!" Hitler set his eyes on Qin Chuan: "I want to hear your opinion!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Qin Chuan glanced at Rommel as he answered, and Rommel nodded slightly.

"Your Excellency!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said, "I think we should reinforce Greece!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, Rommel couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan in surprise, he knew that Qin Chuan might have a different opinion, but he didn't expect to say something amazing.

"Reinforcements to Greece?" A smile spread across Hitler's face: "Interesting! ”

"Yes, reinforcements to Greece!" Qin Chuan said: "Since we have seen through the trap of the British, and the British do not know that we have seen through theirs, then why can't we just calculate the ......?"

Hearing this, Rommel couldn't help but suddenly realize: "You mean to make the British mistakenly think that we have been fooled and put the main force in Greece?" ”

"Yes!"

"But...... What's the point? Rommel asked, "I mean...... If we were left with a lack of troops in Sicily because of the reinforcement of Greece, and in the end we might not be able to stop the British attack because of this, then we would not get anything! ”

Rommel had a point, first of all, that the massive reinforcement of armored forces could not be concealed from the British, especially the British intelligence units...... For example, according to Rommel's battle plan, three armored divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions reinforced Sicily, so many tanks, cars, and artillery were loaded and unloaded in the port, and only a few spies needed to find out.

So, if you want to deceive the British, unless there are no reinforcements or few reinforcements. And such a result would have caused the Germans to lose Sicily.

"So we're going to change our defensive tactics!" Qin Chuan said to Rommel: "I'm sorry, General! I don't think your defensive tactics will be able to hold back the British attack in Sicily! ”

"Uh-huh, tell me why!" Rommel nodded with interest, and then said to Hitler: "Your Excellency, I am used to being embarrassed by the captain!" ”

"That's good!" Hitler laughed knowingly: "I hope someone can embarrass me, too!" For the sake of victory, for the sake of Germany, for the sake of our common ideals, we should speak our minds! ”

"Of course!" Rommel motioned for Qin Chuan to continue.

"Our mobile defensive tactics may work in the desert!" Qin Chuan continued: "On the one hand, the reason is the terrain, the desert is more suitable for mobile combat of armored troops, but most of Sicily is mountainous, once any high ground is occupied by the enemy or the road is blocked by enemy artillery, the armored division will not be able to move. ”

Rommel retorted: "Captain, but near the coastline it is open and flat, suitable for an armored division charge!" ”

"That's the second point I'm going to make!" Qin Chuan replied: "The enemy has a large number of warships and fighters, and it is conceivable that they can completely control sea and air supremacy on the battlefield!" ”

There is no doubt about that.

With the strong reinforcement of the United States, the number of Allied fighters has increased to more than 1,000, and this is still a preliminary estimate, while the German army has less than 300 fighters...... This numerical disadvantage is no longer compensated for by the quality of the pilots.

As for the navy, the Germans, although they had a fleet, and even an Italian one, could not go into battle through the mine-ridden Tunis Strait...... It was not that it could not, but that it was too risky, and the German navy was used to blockade the Tunisian Strait, and if it went into battle through its own minefields without air supremacy, it would probably be completely annihilated, and the defense of Sicily would be meaningless.

"In this case!" Qin Chuan said: "Any fortifications and armored units close to the sea will be reduced to nothing under the bombardment of enemy aircraft and naval artillery!" ”

There was a hint of horror in Rommel's eyes, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, a big mistake.

This is not surprising, though.

Amphibious landing operations are still a novelty in this era...... Just as Britain, the United States, and other countries have no experience in landing operations, Germany also has no experience in defending against amphibious landing operations.

Therefore, Rommel did not think about it, and felt that the most difficult thing for the enemy was the moment of landing, so he should place heavy troops along the coast, and the enemy would destroy a group when he came up. And once the enemy is successfully landed, it will actually be a land battle between the enemy and us.

The Germans did make this mistake in the historic Battle of Sicily, when two elite panzer divisions launched a fierce attack on the beachhead where the enemy had landed...... The result is conceivable, no matter how thickly armored the tanks are, they are also scum in front of large-caliber naval guns, and they are quickly bombarded to the point that there is not even a wreckage left.

On the other hand, the Japanese troops in the Pacific theater have also been making this mistake, and the US forces have always used aircraft and naval guns to blow up the heavy troops deployed by the Japanese troops on the coastline to pieces, and then carry out landing.

It was not until the end of the war that the Japanese realized that it was nothing more than the consumption of the enemy's ammunition with the lives of soldiers, while the ammunition of the Americans was almost endless.

Hence the casualties of the American troops in the Battle of Iwo Jima...... It was also the first battle in which U.S. casualties exceeded Japanese casualties.

"Captain!" Rommel said: "You mean, we defend mainly with infantry!" ”

"So to speak!" Qin Chuan replied: "My plan requires an armored division, three infantry divisions, two mechanized infantry divisions, and a paratrooper division. ”

Qin Chuan's request was two less armored divisions than Rommel's.

"These two armored divisions are missing!" Qin Chuan explained: "It's the reinforcement of Greece with great fanfare, and the reinforcement of Sicily by another armored division!" ”

Hitler nodded: "If Sicily is not reinforced at all, it will arouse the suspicion of the British!" ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "But the reinforced infantry can be made more hidden, such as in the dark at night, without making too much noise!" ”

Rommel added: "We can mislead them for reinforcements from North Africa, but disembark at the port of Palermo!" ”

Rommel was right that the Afrika Korps had always been short of troops, and it was not at all surprising to see reinforcements of infantry on transport ships from the French port of Toulon to Algiers, and it was difficult for spies to detect that the soldiers were disembarking halfway through the port of Palermo.

"That's what I thought, too!" Qin Chuan replied: "But I hope to change these troops to another batch!" ”

"Another batch?" Then Rommel realized what Qin Chuan wanted to do: "What do you mean...... Is it the 200th Infantry Division? ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "We need troops with experience in building tunnel fortifications and tunnel operations!" ”