"I think we can let go a little more!" After Eisenhower finished talking about the entire battle plan, Zhang Chi said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Let go of some? How? Eisenhower asked.

"It's no secret to the Germans that we're going to attack northern France, right!" Zhang Chi asked.

"Of course!" Eisenhower nodded.

That's for sure, because at this time the American GIs had gathered millions of men in Britain, and there were also a large number of material resources coming in a steady stream...... Even a fool knows that a big war is coming for the landing from the north of France.

"So, what are we waiting for?" Zhang Chi pointed to France on the map and said: "Look at these German troops, although they only have more than 40 divisions in northern France, there are more than a dozen divisions in Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, and there are 18 divisions stationed on the south bank of the Loire River, as long as the Germans want, these troops can be assembled in northern France at any time to become our trouble, in addition to the cement, steel bar, timber used by the Germans to build fortifications, ammunition and food for the anti-landing force, etc., All were transported to Rommel from all directions by railroads and roads in France, which were largely intact...... Don't you think we should do something about it? ”

Eisenhower couldn't help but nod when he heard this: "You mean to bomb France and paralyze the Germans' lines of communication?" ”

"Yes!"

Previously, the Allies had been afraid of revealing their strategic intentions too early, so they did not dare to do so. But now that the Germans knew the strategic intentions of the Allies and were actively preparing for them, why did they hide it? All the Allies needed to do was to keep the Germans from knowing where to attack.

After thinking about it, Eisenhower said, "Yes, why not?!" ”

So the Allied bombing of France soon began.

Its purpose was to paralyze the German army's transport system, so it was codenamed "transport".

It was not difficult to do this, since the target of the Allied bombing was France...... The French people could become spies for the Allies at any time, and they provided the Allies with very accurate information, even a small road bridge on the road.

On the other hand, the United States and Britain had assembled a large number of fighters and bombers in Britain in preparation for the Normandy landings, which was used for this plan at this time.

In particular, this mission was aimed at the paralysis of the German transport lines, and its target was the whole of France...... Therefore, not only fighters from Britain could participate in this operation, but also fighters from Algiers, Italy, and even Sicily joined in to bomb France indiscriminately, and in just a dozen days, they almost blew up France's lines of communication.

The results were quickly counted...... These results were also provided by the French people:

The bridges along the Seine north of Paris were destroyed, all rail transport was blocked, and 1,500 of the 2,000 locomotives that Germany had in France were blown up, and the other 500 were buried in the tunnels because the railways were damaged and the transport was too dangerous...... It was no longer safe to stay at the train station, because the Allies would soon be informed of whichever train station it stopped at any given time.

As a result, the Germans' rail transport plummeted, and the Germans tried to concentrate cars to replace the bombed-out railroads to transport critical military necessities, but the problem was that there was a serious shortage of automobiles and there was a danger that roads and cars would be bombed.

This not only prevented the Germans from obtaining sufficient steel and cement to build fortifications along the coastline, but also forced Rommel to divide half of the labor involved in the construction of the fortifications to rush to repair the railways and roads...... There is no doubt that the progress of the German engineering project was largely delayed.

This made Rommel jump to his feet in anger, but there was nothing he could do about the situation.

When the Germans were exhausted by the bombing of Allied fighters, Zhang Chi was leisurely watching TV in the headquarters of the Zoaf Corps...... This is one of the benefits of coming to the UK, where you can watch TV.

In places like Africa, where it's not difficult to get a TV with a lot of power, the problem is that there's no signal at all.

Of course, this is a time of war, so the vast majority of what is broadcast on television is news and war-related programs, such as some veterans telling their combat experiences, and some experts predicting the direction of war.

Zhang Chi boredly rotated the FM button to change the channel...... At this time, the TV still did not have a remote control.

Then de Gaulle suddenly appeared on the television screen.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, then stepped back and sat back in his chair to listen to the following.

"British allies!" On TV, Charles de Gaulle raised his fist and shouted with emotion: "Please believe that 'Fighting France' will continue to stand in the anti-fascist camp against the enemy to the end, and the French army has also achieved remarkable victories, we fought valiantly in Algeria and fought hard in Sicily......"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be so surprised that my jaw almost dropped.

De Gaulle was playing a play on words, first saying "fight France" and then "French army".

That's right, what he said was telling the truth.

It was indeed the French army that won the battles in Algeria and Sicily, but it was the French army of the Algiers government...... When De Gaulle said this, everyone would take it for granted that this was the merit of "fighting France"!

"Jingle bell ......" at this moment the phone on the desk rang.

It was General Giraud who called, and he obviously also saw de Gaulle's speech, so General Giraud on the other end of the phone said angrily: "These shameless people, how can they include our achievements in their names like this!" It's stealing, it's robbery! We can't allow them to do that, and ...... I'm sure people won't be that gullible either, don't you say? They all know that we fought those battles, and it was the Algiers government that fought them! ”

"No, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "I believe that not many people will be able to distinguish between 'the government of Algiers' and 'fighting France', in fact...... They didn't care about this, they only cared about whether the war against the Germans was won or lost, and all the more so, here is England, and the British clearly supported the 'fight for France'! ”

As General Giraud himself said before, he didn't often watch TV or newspapers, so he didn't know the importance of the media.

In fact, many truths are buried because of biased media coverage, the same thing, expressed in different words...... Listening to the audience's ears will lead to two diametrically opposed conclusions, and media people are very good at playing this set.

Distressingly, the "Algiers government" has no voice at all.