"Major General!" Montgomery replied: "You know, Germany has only six divisions in Italy, and it is very weak!" ”

Montgomery's words were true, most of the main German forces were concentrated on the Eastern Front and northern France, and there were only six divisions in Italy, four of which also fought in Sicily, and withdrew to Italy after paying a certain number of casualties. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"That's right!" Alexander chimed in: "You must know that the Italian regime is now crumbling, and these German troops in Italy have to perform two tasks at the same time, on the one hand, they must control the Italian army to prevent them from mutiny, and on the other hand, they must guard against our attack, and it is inevitable that they will lose the other......"

"I have no problem with that!" Zhang Chi replied: "But have you ever thought that it is precisely these German troops that you are talking about with few troops and very weak that fought a beautiful interspersed encirclement and defensive battle in Sicily not long ago!" ”

Hearing this, Alexander and Montgomery's faces turned unnatural.

Zhang Chi learned this from Eisenhower, and although he praised the German army, he actually alluded to the number of British troops. 200,000 British troops are not enough to let the 40,000 German troops fall to the ground, and there is even a danger of annihilation?!

"Gentlemen!" Zhang Chi continued: "And I have to remind you that the climate and terrain in southern Italy are very similar to Sicily, I am not talking about a landing battle, in fact, I believe that we can win in a landing battle, after all, we have Sicily as a support, artillery can hit Italy from Sicily, our side has a comprehensive advantage in aircraft and warships, etc., and the Germans will not be stupid enough to put the main force on the beach and let us bomb indiscriminately." So, gentlemen, stop talking about the advantages of Sicily, that will not solve anything! ”

"Major General, what do you mean?"

"I'm referring to this ......," said Zhang Chi, pointing to the map: "Alps, the Germans will use this mountain range to build a defensive line, and then, as you know, the scene of the German army using the terrain of Mount Etna to defend in Sicily will be repeated again." Tell me, do you have a solution? ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be stunned, everyone was thinking about how to land in Italy, but they didn't expect what to do if they encountered obstacles after landing in Italy.

And this is indeed very difficult to solve, because it is well known that modern equipment and mechanized troops are suitable for fighting in flat areas, in mountainous areas with complex terrain...... It's like attacking the Catania Line, planes, warships, and artillery can't do anything about it, because the enemy can always easily find a place to hide.

For this kind of defense, the Allies can only send ground troops to push forward little by little, and the price of the advance is time and life.

"Now......" Zhang Chi continued, "Let's recall the idea of attacking from Italy, that is, landing in Italy, and then advancing north across the whole of Italy to Germany. But I'm sorry...... In doing so, we are likely to be held back in front of the Alps, and it is predictable that the Germans will send reinforcements, and there is a good chance that we will be able to fight trench warfare like the First World War. I think all of you here are familiar with trench warfare! ”

The British officers couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, while the American officers were happy, especially Eisenhower, who cast an approving look at Zhang Chi, and then Zhang Chi said: "The major general is right, so it is not practical to land from Italy and attack Germany, which is too far away from Germany, especially Berlin, which is in the north of Germany...... God, if we fight like this, we will almost have to cover the whole of Europe from the south to the north! In particular, you have always used the small number of German troops in Italy as an excuse, but you do not think that after Italy is threatened, the Germans will sit idly by and not send a single reinforcement! I bet that in the end we will not run into fewer German troops in Italy than in the north of France! So, I would like to ask you, why should we waste our time holding such unrealistic fantasies? ”

"General!" Montgomery retorted, "These are just your imaginations! ”

"It's really an imagination!" Eisenhower replied, "But that's a reasonable imagination, isn't it?" Are you talking about reality? No, what you are talking about is also imagination, and it is still unrealistic imagination! ”

"I don't think we have any unrealistic imaginations!" Alexander replied.

"Didn't you?" Eisenhower asked rhetorically, "Do you think the Italians will surrender?" ”

"Isn't that realistic?" Alexander said unconvinced: "In fact, Italy already has the will to surrender, and this is precisely the reality!" ”

"This is indeed the reality!" Eisenhower said: "But you take it for granted that after the surrender of Italy you will be able to defeat the Germans in concert with us...... It's a dream, everyone knows the performance of the Italian army, and you believe that they can fight the Germans bravely! ”

Montgomery and Alexander were speechless, and the British officers were speechless, for the Italians on the battlefield were too flattering to perform.

"General!" Montgomery continued: "I don't know if you ever think about what will happen if we don't land in Italy? The information we got was...... The Germans are trying to rescue Mussolini and try to put him back in the position of Prime Minister of Italy, do you know what the outcome will be if this is allowed to happen? Yes, Italy will return to its original position, we have added hundreds of thousands of enemies! ”

Montgomery: That's an exaggeration.

Hitler did have an operation and plan to rescue Mussolini, but because Italy and Germany had not openly torn their faces at this time, Hitler did not dare to move, so he could only plan in secret...... But it is much more difficult to rescue a person than to kill a person, because the trigger is in the hands of the Italians, and even Mussolini has no value or even a threat to the Italians, and even to the fascists.

The reason is simple, once Mussolini is indeed successfully rescued by Germany and returns to power with the support of Germany, it will inevitably liquidate the fascist party and the army, which of course the fascist party, the army and even all Italians will not allow.

Therefore, as long as there is the slightest movement, the guards who "protect" Mussolini will not hesitate to pull the trigger, which Hitler has never dared to act rashly.

Otherwise, a bad problem is the result of "stealing chickens does not make rice".