"Report!" Li Le, the head of state guarding the army headquarters, heard an officer shouting a flattering command: "Victory!" Monarch! ”

Lowering his arm, the officer spread out the folder tucked under his armpit and began to read the message inside: "At 10 o'clock in the morning, our troops broke through the beach defense line and continued the offensive towards St. Helier......"

After reading it, he closed the message, handed the folder to the colonel next to him, stood up with his chin held high, and turned to leave the combat headquarters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Brauchitsch could not believe his ears that for the first time, his troops had relied entirely on a large-scale landing to seize the island, and the battle had unexpectedly gone so well.

He looked at Li Le, who was full of bamboo, and said, "My Führer, it seems that the battle to land in Jersey is going unusually well. ”

Li Le nodded, and then pressed his finger on the air map of Jersey: "Where are our troops advancing now?" ”

"The detailed report from the front line has not yet arrived, but judging by the progress made an hour ago, our attacking force should have reached the perimeter of St. Helier."

"The defenders will not exceed 3,000 men, in this case, we have gone deep inland, and the battle is decided." Compared with landing operations, the army top brass is still very confident in attacking the enemy's hinterland.

Once they had captured the beach and had most of their men ashore, the landing had turned into an ordinary offensive – an attack on land, and the Germans in 1940 were truly fearless and invincible.

"If nothing else, I believe our troops can have lunch at St. Helier." With full confidence, Keitel gave her judgment with her chin held high.

It's like a declaration of victory, and he says it so naturally. And beside him, Brauchitsch and several other generals who listened to this passage did not speak out to refute it.

If this was a landing battle, these people would immediately refute it when the next victory was judged in advance, but when the battle turned into an inland attack, they were silent and natural.

"It seems that if we can, we should talk about the implementation of the Sea Lion plan ahead of schedule." Hearing that everyone present acquiesced to Keitel's judgment, Li Le, the fake Führer, spoke.

It was not only the British top brass who saw the Battle of Jersey as a rehearsal for a British landing operation, but the German top brass was also using the landing battle to test their own forces and gauge the likelihood of a successful landing operation.

After reaching a positive conclusion, Li Le began to be impatient, he knew that there was a time limit for the success of breaking the war against Britain, and he also knew that once it was delayed until 1941, the two behemoths of the Soviet Union and the United States would definitely make a difference.

The script is now completely out of line with the history that Li Le is familiar with, and no one knows when the United States, which entered the war in 1942, will be involved in the war.

And the Soviet Union, which was caught off guard by Germany in 1941, has now become vigilant -- Germany's crossing of the Suez Canal has been protested by the Soviet Union countless times.

Li Le didn't know what would happen in the future, and he could be regarded as having lost an important golden finger given to him by the crossing. The remaining gold fingers are all failing over time.

Before all the golden fingers fail, trying to lay a more favorable victory for Germany as much as possible is something that Li Le must worry about now.

And defeating Britain and occupying LinkedIn to complete the Atlantic barrier is the best situation to completely end the war on the Western Front.

For the sake of this situation, Li Le decided to try the Sea Lion Project, and strive to completely knock out the British dogskin plaster in the first half of 1941, so that the United States must face a complete Atlantic barrier!

If, after defeating Britain, the British colonies were induced to waver or adopt an instinctive neutral attitude, as France did, then Germany would have made a real profit.

Of course, there is no landing in Britain yet, and there is no certainty that the landing campaign can be won, so it is completely pointless to envision such a bright future.

What can be done now is to improve the "Sea Lion Project" as much as possible, make the German landing foolproof, and spend a day deciding who will be the master of Europe in the future!

"My Führer, this is only for a small island with less than 3,000 men stationed. Judging by this to land in the UK is still a bit arbitrary. ”

Arbitrariness or not, no one knows, the Army is still worried that its troops will not be able to land on the British, and this is the point of Brauchitsch's words.

Hearing that the army was retreating again, Li Le opened his mouth a little impatiently and scolded: "It's right to be cautious, but to be too cautious is to be timid!" Remember the Rhineland? Remember France? The army is always shaking its head and saying that it is impossible, and it turns out that everything is possible. ”

In the face of Brauchitsch, the Führer had a natural psychological advantage in many things. The Führer played politics and cut through the cracks of several countries to bring about a revival for Germany.

And in the process of revival, it was the Führer's insistence that allowed the army to win a series of battles from Poland to France.

"When we landed in Jersey, we didn't use all our strength...... Right? Looking at Brauchitsch, who was a little embarrassed, the Führer, who suddenly became stronger, asked.

Sometimes this is the case, earlier when Hitler was still alive, he had accumulated authority over the top of the army for a long time, and now he suddenly exerted his strength, and Brauchitsch of course had no choice but to obey.

Over the past few months, the Führer has given the impression that he has been much kinder, and that he is no longer in a-for-tat confrontation with the top brass of the army, but is more willing to be persuaded by reason and facts.

This left a lot of dignity for the Army and eased the contradictions between the two branches of the Supreme High Command and the Army General Command.

Therefore, the Führer lowered his stature for a few months, so that this insistence on accumulating too much prestige in advance.

Brauchitsch gave in, nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, my Führer...... We used only two regiments of the 112th Division, and we didn't have heavy artillery units, only about 4,000 people. ”

Because the landing was going to be in the UK, so the 112th Division, and Adolf? The Panzer Divisions of Hitler's Guard Banner were all strengthened - both divisions were almost 20,000 men, much larger than ordinary divisions.

"Plus! We only dispatched a limited number of air forces, and this was all according to the reduction of the forces that could be used to land in the UK! Li Le pointed to some of the things marked on the map and added.

Brauchitsch knew that the Führer was right - this time the Germans did not send armored troops to participate in the landing, nor did they let the air force that was dispatched to suppress the numbers, and the size of the landing force was much smaller.

The most important point is that the Germans did not use paratroopers this time, which made it impossible to carry out operations such as early attacks and destruction of enemy facilities.

In other words, this landing operation is completely a self-emasculating version of the combat operation, and the real scale of the operation is more than ten times larger, and more troops will participate in the battle.

At least, the German paratroopers were such a trump card, but they were really in the hands of the Supreme Command. With the surprise attack of the German paratroopers, the attack on the coastal defense will be at least one level smoother.

"If we send all our paratroopers and airborne troops to the British mainland next month, then the advantage will be ours in a short time." Goering, as the supreme commander of the paratroopers, flaunted his subordinates at this moment.

"And I can also draw 200 planes from the Eastern Front to further suppress British beaches...... We can even hit Ashford in a day's time, as long as the conditions allow. He even felt that it was not much of a problem to let the paratroopers capture a city on their own.

Obviously, this estimate is too optimistic, and Ashford is further from the coastline than Caen. Historically, the Allies had taken down Caen, which Germany had held on, only a month after the Normandy landings.

However, compared with the Army's overly conservative and arrogant judgment, Goering's audacity and arrogance at this time happened to be a strong support for the Führer.

At least on the issue of landings, today's talk led to a positive conclusion: it was necessary and feasible for the Germans to carry out Operation Sea Lion in advance.

"If the weather conditions allow in January, we start laying the groundwork after Christmas, and a sudden attack in early January should be a good start." Although Li Le was still worried about the weather and the water temperature at that time, the battle in Jersey gave him too much courage.

Soon, the report from Jersey came again, and it was the same officer just now, still with a proud look on his face: "Führer! Banzai! The news has just come that the Jersey defenders have surrendered to our army! ”

"The Battle of Jersey is over." Looking at the report sent back by Hermann in his hand, Brauchitsch sighed with relief.

Just now he was still worried, feeling that the Führer was a little carried away by the victory, but now, it seems, everything shows that the Führer's decision is rational and has a good chance of success.

"Is the loss big?" has already got the result he wanted, but Li Le relaxed. He asked about the losses and no longer put unnecessary pressure on the Army.

One piece and one relaxation is the way of the emperor, Li Le doesn't know if it's because of the welfare of the crossing, or if he was born with such a talent, he understands very quickly when he learns and sells.

"About 400 soldiers were killed and about 100 wounded." Keitel, who was looking at the report in his hand, replied with some distress.

A small island of Jersey killed 500 German soldiers - if it landed on British soil, would it have lost ten times as much that day? Pressing this question in his heart, Keitel did not speak, but comforted the Führer: "Such a loss is already expected by us!" ”