Germany prepared for the landing plan for more than a month, revised the plan dozens of times, mobilized hundreds of thousands of laborers, spent tens of millions of marks, assembled more than 200,000 officers and men of the navy, army, and air force, mobilized more than 300 ships, more than 2,000 aircraft, and countless vehicles and small ships of all kinds. As a result, a fist hit the cotton ...... Ah, even worse, a fist hit the air, and the German landing command was out of breath on the spot.

When Xu Jun got the report, a cold sweat immediately fell, and his first thought was that this was a trap, the British were luring the enemy deep, maybe they had already arranged a pocket array, waiting for the German soldiers to drill into it.

Xu Jun hurriedly ordered the follow-up troops to follow closely, and the fleet and air force immediately launched a search on both sides. But then reports from the navy, army, air force, and paratroopers followed, all swearing that they weren't joking. There were no British troops to be found, no militia resistance, no ambush points, no outpost bunkers, no mine barricades, only two companies of British guards around the perimeter of the landing site, neither machine guns nor artillery, and the British soldiers were still asleep when the German infantry stormed their positions.

The villages and towns near the landing zone were all empty, the streets were littered with debris and garbage, many houses had not even had time to lock their doors, there were no people for dozens of miles, and not even a dog could be found.

Xu Jun was completely confused, what about landing in hell, what about the beach butcher, what about the rain of bullets, gunsmoke, and cannon flames. What about the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, how did he get to him and the style of painting changed, hula into the water, hula ashore, hula march. It's the same as a triathlon, which is outrageous.

There must be a secret hidden in it, it must be the conspiracy of the fat man.

Clausewitz once said that the victory or defeat of a war is not about who does better, but who makes fewer mistakes. The success or failure of many great battles in history is often caused by a series of mistakes. A ditch that is not on the map. A cavalry commander with a missing brain, a misclassified telegram, a malfunctioning reconnaissance plane. Any small mistake can lead to a chain reaction that will eventually lead to a laughable result.

And this landing battle will develop like this, everything will start with a series of miscalculations by the Germans and the British, respectively.

Xu's initial plan was actually the same as Churchill had predicted. Choose to land on the Dover to Folkestone line. One is because of the proximity, and the other is because the High Command has studied it, and he believes that the opinions of experts should be followed.

But then he changed his mind, as he found a place that seemed more suitable for landing. It is now the landing site chosen by the German Army, Diel Beach.

The town of Deere is an old seaside town where its inhabitants make a living from fishing and farming. This place has a long history, and it has long been a battleground for soldiers, when the famous ruthless Henry VIII repeatedly challenged the French. After taking advantage of the French a little, he began to fear that the French would fight across the strait to retaliate. Dill was an excellent landing site, and Henry VIII eventually built two large castles on the shore, which were two short kilometers of coast. One of them is the three-tiered birthday cake seen by naval combat engineers, Fort Deere, and the other, just across the beach, is a beautiful medieval square fort, Fort Wollman. The two castles face the sea in the south and the north, controlling the entire beachhead and defending against attacks from enemies from the sea.

The beach is wide and gently sloping, separated from the land by a small sand-proof embankment, which is a standard two-lane road that leads to Dover and Manston. Across the road, there are endless flat fields, no hills or hills, and along the plains to the west, twenty kilometres from the coastline is the famous city of Canterbury, which is only an hour's drive from London.

In Xu Jun's eyes, this wide, flat beach was obviously more suitable for landing than the cannon-ridden cliffs of Dover and the densely populated Folkestone.

However, Xu Jun also took into account that since he could think of it, it was certainly impossible for the British not to be prepared. The conditions were so good that it was originally a coastal resort, with bars and rowing clubs on the beach, gentle waves, no steep cliffs and reefs, and if there was no one on the shore, the Germans could swim ashore. The British would definitely build a strong defensive position there, and Xu Jun was fully mentally prepared for this.

However, because the terrain was very flat, it was very conducive to naval fire and aerial strikes, and the conditions were much more favorable than the area of Dover, which was densely wooded, covered with highlands and hills, and full of dark fort barricades. In the end, Xu Jun finalized the landing zone, and then all the plans were prepared around this location.

What Xu Jun didn't expect was that he made an empirical mistake, and it was 1940, not 1944. What he considered to be the landing site was not suitable for landing in the eyes of the British at the time. The reason for this, as stupid as it sounds, is that the British think the water is too shallow.

The British Royal Navy has been studying landing tactics since it suffered a heavy loss in the Battle of Gallipoli, and after more than ten years, it can be regarded as having some experience. In their opinion, Dill may be suitable for medieval army landings across the sea, but it is definitely not suitable for modern army landings.

In the Middle Ages, armies landed on rowboats and sampans, with shallow drafts and small tonnage, and dozens of big men could row boats directly onto the beachhead. The water near Dill is shallow and the waves are gentle, there are no reefs near the coast, only some submarine sandbars with a depth of less than one meter, which are ideal for small boat landings. But in modern warfare, this kind of shallow beach has become an obstacle, and modern ships generally have a relatively deep draft, even inland river barges have a draft of about one to one meter and two meters, not to mention sea vessels.

To land here, transport ships can only dock in deep water a kilometer away from the coast. The Germans had to rely on small boats to carry their soldiers and supplies across the one-kilometre-long shoal. After that, you can get to the beach, and then you have to go through a stretch of 80 meters wide of soft sand to step on solid land. The infantry can still make do with this. However, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, trucks, and all kinds of fuel and ammunition supplies rely on this way of transferring back and forth to land on ferries, and even if they take half a day, they may not be able to get on a battalion.

If the Germans chose to land here, they only needed a phone call from the coast observation post. British bombers from a nearby airbase arrived in a few minutes and taught the Germans how to drink seawater. And the landing of the German Army, without vehicles, without heavy artillery, without supplies. Relying on the National Guard was enough to hold off their attack, and the battle was easily settled by the British Army, which arrived.

The British Navy believed that as long as the Germans still retained a shred of military knowledge and sanity, they would never choose such a dead-end landing.

However, the British Coastal Defense Command is still more responsible, and it may also be to show the cabinet that it is not a dry meal. They still designed a textbook system of coastal defenses for the beach. And the chart was prepared and submitted to the prime minister for approval.

Churchill was thinking about how to deal with the problem of German air raids at this time, and he had always stubbornly believed that the Germans would land on the front line of Dover on the shore defense, and he directly planned the infamous Gallipoli landing battle, and the bloody massacre that ousted him was still fresh in his memory, so he believed that the Germans would never choose to land on the beach without port facilities, and the British had already suffered enough. The Germans will not fail to learn this. So when he saw the document, he didn't approve it at all and just asked the secretary to file it. In his opinion, the people below were a little nervous, and they were completely wasting his energy and time.

What Churchill never expected was that the chart would be delivered to Xu Jun's desk in less than three days.

Xu Jun was overjoyed after obtaining the drawings, and immediately ordered the operations department to start the operational deduction according to the defensive position map, and a bunch of generals and marshals got together to repeatedly deliberate, and then mobilized infantry exercises and conducted experimental training, and finally gave birth to the current landing plan.

In order to prevent the British from discovering their intentions, the Luftwaffe did not dare to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance, so they could only pretend to pass by occasionally and take a large number of reconnaissance photos from high altitudes. Xu Jun and the generals found trenches and anti-aircraft bunkers in the photographs, as well as traces of bunkers under construction, and they found two buildings that looked like heavy fortresses that looked very much like large shore artillery bunkers, as well as patrol boats on the beach and anti-aircraft turret trestles that stretched out to the sea.

Most of the things fit into the drawings, much to the satisfaction of the German generals, who were clearly aware of the authenticity of the information they had obtained. As everyone knows, when they see the coastal defense position, there is actually only the trench and a few anti-aircraft bunkers.

The National Guard in Deere Town felt that the scenery on their side was beautiful, the sky was blue, the clouds were white, the sea was clear, and the Germans would definitely attack Deere. So he asked the Coastal Defense Command to strengthen the defense, but only a drawing paper was thrown on it. The Self-Defense Forces had no choice but to raise their own funds and materials, mobilize all their personnel, and build trenches and positions, but they never received the weapons to be placed on these positions.

The so-called bunkers that the Germans saw were just toilets and kitchens at several construction sites, two huge fortresses built in the 16th century, pure brick and wood structures, could not carry modern artillery at all, and could only be used as coastal air defense observation posts, sea observation platforms and infantry barracks, each fortress was stationed a company of army recruits, not only lacked heavy weapons, but even rifles could not be made for each person, some people were only issued with two grenades and a bayonet, and they could only participate in training with wooden sticks.

The patrol boat that the Germans saw was actually an abandoned fishing boat towed ashore, and the anti-aircraft turret trestle was real, but only the trestle was built, and the anti-aircraft guns still did not have a shadow.

The Germans trembled and reconnoitred several times, and after comparing the front and back lines, they found that there was not much change, but some of the facilities on the drawings had not been found, and the Germans' minds did not turn around at once, and they were still secretly admiring the British for their high vigilance, their camouflage ability was really good, and the concealment was seamless, and they couldn't see the flaws at all.

A staff officer who had traveled to Deere pointed out that the forts had been standing there for hundreds of years, but the generals of the High Command still believed that the British must have completely remodeled them, and that they were now two coastal heavy artillery bunkers, because the Germans would have done so.

Both Britain and Germany are immersed in their own self-righteousness, so another game of wits is staged. Following Xu Jun's advice, the German High Command used all means to mislead the British, whether it was a deliberate leak of intelligence or a grandiose landing exercise, it was showing the British everywhere that it was ready to land in Dover.

Xu Jun even ordered the air force to bomb all the coastal cities on the line from Dover to Portsmouth in cold blood, in addition to destroying those dangerous chemical weapons, the main purpose was to make Churchill misjudge the direction of his attack, and transfer the last British armored force and the last infantry mobile force to those two seaports, so as to ensure that the German troops would not be counterattacked by the British army in the first 12 hours of landing in Deere, so that more troops could land smoothly.

If the German landing force could hold the first 24 hours, as long as the first landing group was fully landed, it would no longer be possible to drive the Germans into the sea with the existing mobile forces of the British Army. Xu Jun and the command spent countless manpower and material resources, used all kinds of tricks, racked their brains, and attracted Churchill's attention to the front line of Dover.

When the latest intelligence showed that the British troops were marching to the cities of Dover and Folkestone, the entire conference room of the headquarters was thunderous, everyone patted each other on the shoulders to express joy and congratulations, and everyone stood up and applauded Xu Jun, congratulating the Führer's plan on the success. But what the Germans absolutely did not expect was that Churchill had never thought about going anywhere else from the beginning, he had long been sure that the Germans were going to land in Dover, and whether you deceived him or not, he would transfer troops there, and there was no need to mislead him at all.

By mistake, both sides thought they had a plan, and the British and German sides seemed to have a perfect combination on the surface, but they didn't know that they were actually in the opposite direction, talking to themselves, and they didn't pee in a pot at all.

And Xu Jun's bombing deception plan caused a chain reaction that he did not even expect, and the British coastal residents were frightened by the indiscriminate terrorist bombardment, and fell into a kind of mass panic, and a mass exodus broke out without warning.

In the villages and towns along the southern coast, as long as they are close to the coastline, the local residents have all resolutely abandoned their homes and began to flee frantically inland, including Dier, which is close to the sea. The National Guard members of Dill Town dragged their families on the fleeing, and the whole town was clean before dark, leaving only empty trenches and bunkers along the coast.

The army infantry in the two castles did not understand what was happening, and watched as the townspeople rushed away with their children and daughters like migrating beasts, leaving only an empty town to be left there, and it was dark and ghostly.

In the evening, the command of the Dover garrison sent an order, and the commanders of both companies were summoned to the fortress for a meeting, leaving only the pile of recruits to stand on guard. As a result, a few of the more fortunate recruits snuck into the town, smashed open the cellars of the town's taverns, and then, of course, called friends and friends to have fun together, and soon became a party for all the infantry in the two fortresses, and the recruits, who had long been plagued by the army's food, ran to the most luxuriously decorated Wollmannburg with the salted meat and salted fish they had found in the town's warehouse, and had a cold dinner, and after a bitter drinking party, the snoring infantry lay all over the fortress.

Just when everyone was in a drunken dream, the German naval combat sappers sneaked ashore. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)