In February 1944, the Allies amassed more than 2 million troops and landed in the Normandy region of France. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to ensure a smooth landing, the Allies not only gathered several times the enemy's forces, but also carefully arranged a military deception plan called "Operation Fortitude" before the landing, so that the Germans believed that the Allies were going to land outside Normandy such as the Calais coast in France, so as to prevent the German army from deploying a large number of troops in Normandy and remove the obstacles that prevented the Allies from advancing for a long time.

However, the Germans are not so easy to deceive (although they have been cheated by the Soviets many times), do you think that if you casually leak ** fake news in the past, people will believe it? Of course not! The Germans have always been rigorous, and after being cheated by the Soviets several times, they have become more and more involved in intelligence testing, and even plan to set up a department similar to the "Anti-Strategic Fooling Bureau".

Of course, the Allies also took this into account, so they either did not make a show, or if they wanted to do it, they did it all until they could fool all the Germans.

To this end, the Allies constructed a number of bogus units in the south-east of England that looked like real regular equipment when viewed by aerial reconnaissance, but in fact ...... You know.

For example, in the southeast of England there was a large army of dummy tanks, vehicles and artillery, and there was also a regular unit number, the 3rd Army.

In the port of Dover, there is a fleet of wood, rubber warships and freighters, which is quite large, and from the sky it really thinks it is a regular landing fleet.

However, as early as the end of 1943, Germany had already lost air supremacy in the southeastern part of England. Isn't it just for the Germans that the Allies are doing so many fake things? But now, the Germans can't get in and can't see it, so what are you doing with so many things?

Of course, the Allies took this into account, and ordered the British Royal Air Force to deliberately let German reconnaissance planes enter this area, so that Germany could not obtain aerial photographs of this area. Of course, for the sake of the safety of the British mainland, the British planes still had to intercept German fighters and bombers, otherwise what if the British mainland was bombed?

As a result, German reconnaissance planes really took a number of "precious" photographs from the skies over the south-east of England, in which a large number of tanks, artillery and battleships (all made of balloons) could be seen.

The German reconnaissance plane, which had taken the photographs, rushed back to the German mainland in high spirits and reported the findings to German intelligence. The serious Germans eventually believed the false report, and naturally took responsibility for the defeat.

In order to ensure the safety of the Normandy landings, the Allies also sent a large number of planes to drop bombs on the coast of Calais in northern France the night before the Normandy landings, making the Germans mistakenly believe that the Allied landings were Calais and not Normandy.

Similarly, the day before the Normandy landings, a small fleet left England for northern France, emitting misleading radio signals. This signal was detected by the Germans, who judged that a force would land in the Calais area. Eventually, believing that Normandy was a feint, Germany left 150,000 of its main troops in Calais.

The next day, the coast of Calais remained calm, and the German 15th Army was still waiting for the Allied attack.

At this moment, the Allied army of 2 million actually landed in Normandy, cleared the German army on the Normandy coast in just a few hours, and began to drive straight into the heart of France.

Hitler had already prepared for the Allied landing, and in order to preserve German territory, he ordered the German troops stationed in France to withdraw to the Netherlands, Belgium and eastern France, and organize a defensive line there to prevent the Allied forces from attacking Germany proper.

In order to prevent the Allies from receiving French resources and manpower, the ruthless Hitler also issued an order - when the German army retreated, it was required to destroy all the cities in the German occupation zone, including Paris, even the countryside.

Hitler also made a point of emphasizing: "[Paris] must be completely destroyed." At the time of the departure of the Wehrmacht, nothing can be left behind, neither churches nor art museums. ”

He added that even the water supply had to be cut off if necessary, allowing the city to become plagued after it was destroyed. Finally, he stressed that Berlin would send "all possible reinforcements" to France.

However, as in history, the Wehrmacht stationed in Paris did not actually carry out Hitler's orders. In order to perfunctory the superiors, they planted explosives in important buildings in Paris with extremely low efficiency, claiming that "preparations are already being made for the destruction of Paris." ”

Unlike history, the German troops stationed in Paris this time were not large, only less than a regiment of troops, and before they destroyed Paris, the French Communist Party had already launched an uprising in Paris, "driving" the German army out of Paris at the cost of thousands of casualties.

Subsequently, with the help of the French Communist Party and other French resistance organizations, the Allies successfully liberated the entire territory of France, but the damage caused to France by the German army when they retreated caused a large number of civilian casualties, and a large number of buildings and houses were destroyed, so that France needed to invest more money in construction after the war.

At the same time, the Soviet Red Army did not slow down the pace of its advance, and the Finnish Front of the Soviet Red Army launched an offensive against the German-occupied northern regions of Norway, capturing the ports of Arta, Tromsø, Narvik, and then continuing south, with the goal of liberating all of Norway.

The Soviet army in Italy was not far behind, and with the help of the Italian communist partisans, they had successfully liberated all the northern Italian cities, including Milan, Turin, and Florence, and eliminated the Italian Mussolini regime.

In addition, the Soviet Red Army's Third Baltic Front also attacked westward from the port of Danzig, with the goal of capturing Rostock, an important port in northern Germany, and then continuing to the northwest to Jutland in Denmark.

Although they met stubborn resistance from the Germans, they eventually broke through the German lines and seized the eastern part of Pomerania.

The Soviets in southern Germany did not progress so smoothly, and although they managed to capture many industrial towns such as Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, and Augsburg, they encountered stubborn German resistance at Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, and Würzburg.

In the end, the Soviets took these cities after paying heavy casualties, liberated the whole of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, and then advanced north along the Rhine in two routes, targeting the industrial areas of Frankfurt and the Ruhr; The other continued to advance westward, flanking the enemy deployed in the Alsace-Lorraine region with the French allies.