Churchill has been busy lately.

A few days ago, Lord Gott, the commander of his home army, told him that the enemy of Dover was very good at defensive warfare, and that with the limited number of British troops on the home land, even if a large number of National Guard troops were used as cannon fodder, they would not be able to drive the enemy troops that landed in Dover back into the sea.

It can be said that on the side of the Allies, the French general Wei Gang, who was in charge of commanding the Franco-Norwegian coalition army, finally had a chance to prove his level of famous generals.

In this battle, Wei Gang made full use of the naval artillery suppression firepower provided by the German Navy to establish a relatively complete beachhead. Then, he seized the opportunity of the German paratroopers to parachute behind Dover on a large scale and contain the British army, dispersed the troops, and merged with the German army to consolidate the landing ground, so that the follow-up troops could be assembled smoothly.

When 3 French divisions, 1 Norwegian division, plus an elite Norwegian reinforced battalion, completely landed on the British mainland, Wei Gang did not hesitate to leave the Norwegian troops behind, and led the main force of the French army to the north to join the 3 divisions of German paratroopers in the north.

In fact, as the commander of the German 1st Parachute Army, it was the first time that Admiral Student had such a good opportunity to demonstrate the strength of his paratrooper theory.

Prior to this, Student and his legendary paratroopers had hardly been given the opportunity to make such a large-scale sortie to show their skills.

The initial occupation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia was thought to be a paratrooper division commander at the time, and was thought to be a test for battle, but the non-resistance of the Czechoslovak government made the preparation of Studenter's troops to complete this plan redundant.

In the next battle in Poland, because the German mechanized troops marched all the way and quickly ended all the battles, the paratroopers did not need to participate in the battle.

During the French campaign, the paratroopers showed a small hand in the attack on Belgium.

However, in this Western campaign, in which Reinhardt eliminated the imaginary enemy of the Netherlands, the German paratroopers who could have historically shown their skills in the Netherlands could only be exposed in Belgium, and then quickly left behind by the mechanized troops who had caught up.

Therefore, in the process of formulating the Sea Lion Plan, Admiral Stepnt, who had always been cautious and meticulous, suddenly vigorously carried forward the bold and adventurous spirit of the German army, and proposed the "Market Garden Operation", which existed as a sub-operation of the first stage of "Operation Overlord".

It can be said that the "Operation Market Garden" proposed by Spudent is unique in military history so far.

This is the largest airborne operation in the world since the beginning of the war. Prior to this, most of the exploration and application of paratroopers in various countries stayed at the use of small units. The concentrated use of a division-sized paratrooper was only the first bold attempt by the Germans to pass through Belgium when they blitzked France.

And now, this record has been broken again by the Germans!

Throw in 3 paratrooper divisions at once! A first-of-its-kind tactical feat in history!

In order to facilitate the sub-action of this feint plan, Student spent all his efforts. Not only did the Luftwaffe use all its belongings for this, but even the French Air Force in Petain's hands was also involved in it.

Although the French Air Force suffered heavy losses in previous air battles with the Germans, it was mostly the loss of fighters and bombers. As for the transport planes in the French Air Force sequence, they basically did not hurt their muscles and bones.

And even if it was forcibly withdrawn in this way, the more than 5,500 transport planes that Germany and France took out, plus all the 1,984 gliders of the German army themselves, barely sent three paratrooper divisions to the north, northeast, and northwest of the north of Dover, achieving the tactical goal of isolating the defenders of Dover.

After all, Lord Gott of the British army also saw the importance of Dover, so he also deployed the few available divisions here. If it were not for the paratroopers to destroy the bridges, kilometers in the rear of the British army in Dover, disrupting their communication with the rear, then this battle would have been much more difficult to fight.

However, in a purely military sense, Operation Market Garden was imperfect and even flawed.

If it weren't for the lack of heavy equipment, the German Airborne Forces would have faced the British National Guard, which was also under-equipped and poorly trained.

If it weren't for the fact that this group of British militia lacked anti-aircraft artillery and the level of combat was not at all one percent of that of a professional army.

If it weren't for the famous French general Wei Gang, with his sophisticated military qualities, he instantly judged the key to the battle situation, abandoned the use of a single beachhead defense, and moved north in time to contain Dover's British regular army, and there were still a small number, but the British armored forces that were deadly to the paratroopers and their British armored forces.

Then, this group of elite paratroopers parachuted behind enemy lines, even if they still achieved enough results, they had to bear a high casualty ratio.

Fortunately, the Vichy government sent this Minister of Defense, General Wei Gang, which is quite real. This time it makes up for the risks and deficiencies in the market garden action.

The success of Operation Market Garden further contributed to the intensification of the offensive and defensive battles of Dover.

On the one hand, having failed to drive the Allied landing force back into the sea, the British had lost 80 percent of the effectiveness of the English Channel in providing them with a role.

On the other hand, Dover, as the direction of the feint, not only gave full play to the role of attracting the attention of the British army, but also further achieved a breakthrough, isolating the large British army that was flanking Dover, and there was a decisive trend.

This is not the end, just when Churchill was anxious about where to squeeze out troops and send them to rescue Dover, a middle-aged general who was Churchill's confidant hurriedly broke into his office.

"Prime Minister! Big things are not good, the enemy's landing force, has penetrated deep into our territory! This general, who relied on the identity of Churchill's confidant and sat in the position of lieutenant general, did not have the calmness of a general at this time: "Our troops are completely unable to stop ......"

"Got it, I'm trying to figure it out!" Churchill waved his hand impatiently, and shut up his henchman, who was useless except for obedience, and said: "Dover's side, I have already sent the 51st Scottish Division rebuilt in the north. The sky can't fall, and these Scots can still resist for a while. ”

However, Churchill, a confidant, did not keep his mouth shut as Churchill hoped: "Prime Minister, the direction I can't stop is not Dover's ......"

Then, under Churchill's incredulous gaze, the lieutenant general swallowed his saliva and said in a panic: "Germans...... A large number of Germans...... Landed in Portsmouth! According to the reports of the troops who had been defeated at the front, it was all the Germans' own troops who landed there. Moreover, they even used a powerful tank that could dive! ”