In this battle, almost half of the US 1st Infantry Division was lost, and the other half was able to withdraw from "Omaha" Beach because US Navy warships arrived to provide fire support for the 1st Infantry Division...... Warships in wind and waves cannot provide fire cover at a distance, but at close range, machine guns and artillery for air defense on them can be used. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But even so, the casualties of the US 1st Infantry Division made it difficult for Eisenhower to face.

"God, our losses in this battle are even greater than the entire landing operation!" Eisenhower said: "What's more important is that it has a whole line of defense that can shake us!" ”

"You should be glad, General!" Zhang Chi said: "The ammunition of the 1st Infantry Division did not fall into the hands of the Germans!" ”

"But they didn't have time to burn the supplies!" Eisenhower replied: "That's nearly a hundred tons of supplies, and the Germans can count on them to have a ball on the beach of 'Omaha'!" ”

Burning supplies is not the same as detonating explosives, even if you pour gasoline on it and ignite it, it is often still good to catch fire everywhere...... So the Germans were able to save most of their supplies.

"Now, their problem is undoubtedly ammunition!" "So we have to make sure that we don't have enough ammunition to get to them, otherwise we will probably lose all our efforts!" ”

"Yes, that's what I thought too!"

Eisenhower immediately ordered the artillery on the beaches to blockade the "Omaha" beach...... The American GIs are actually this routine, except for the fire blockade or the fire blockade.

The artillery of the American army was sufficient, and there was a divisional artillery regiment on each beachhead, but the problem of fire blockade faced a big drawback, that is, whether the enemy was transporting supplies or not, it had to pile up shells.

If it had been before, artillery shells would not have been a problem for the US military at all.

But now is the time when the storm has blocked the communication and supply lines in the English Channel, and the American and British artillery shells are all missing one shot.

To make matters worse, the Americans soon discovered that such a fire blockade was simply useless for the Germans.

Rommel seems to have anticipated this situation for a long time...... In fact, he didn't have much hope of how much ammunition and supplies he could capture from the beginning, after all, it only takes a snap of a finger to blow up ammunition, and it is only a small incident that can be captured.

So Rommel had a plan in mind from the very beginning.

He even guessed that the American army would definitely blockade it with artillery fire...... He had dealt too much with the British and American forces in Africa, and he knew what their next move would be.

So he immediately dispatched a logistics force that had been organized long ago to transport supplies to the "Omaha" beach in the depression area...... Since the Germans captured a lot of food and other supplies from the American army, the transportation was mainly focused on ammunition.

The method of transportation is simple: erect steel cables over the depression and then condescendingly slide boxes of ammunition on pulleys onto the opposite "Omaha" beach.

The U.S. artillery shells could not even stop their deliveries, because the ammunition was transported in the air, and the shells exploded in the sea or on the ground in the depression below, and if anything, the shrenchnel from the shells sometimes shot through the ammunition boxes and lost some of the ammunition to the Germans.

Then the Allies were in danger.

"Major General!" Eisenhower asked Zhang Chi in a heavy tone: "Is there anything else that can stop these Germans?" If we continue like this, I'm afraid we will have to withdraw from Normandy! ”

"How many days are left in the storm?" Zhang Chi asked.

"There are still three days left!" Eisenhower replied: "In fact, we are in danger right now, we have lost nearly a quarter of our ammunition on the beach of 'Omaha,' and now we have to block it with a large number of shells, and we will not even survive a day!" ”

Zhang Chi thought about it for a while, and then said: "I think, now we can only use another war to solve this problem!" ”

"What do you mean......" Eisenhower's tone couldn't help but be angry: "Are you going to send the Zoaf Corps or the Chinese army to stop the German transport?" ”

This was actually what Eisenhower had wanted to say a long time ago, and the Zoaf Corps and the Chinese army were stationed just outside Normandy, so they could also attack the German army's logistical supply lines from the flank.

But Zhang Chi, who was looking at the map, shook his head and replied, "No, Rommel must have thought of this a long time ago." They will lay heavy troops on the flanks, and there are even many tanks, and we lack anti-tank weapons! ”

"Then what do you mean......" Eisenhower couldn't help but wonder when he heard this.

"Caen!" Zhang Chi replied.

"Caen?" Eisenhower couldn't help but exclaim: "You mean to launch an attack on the Germans at this time?" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi nodded.

"No, no......," Eisenhower said, "you know, you don't have enough supplies...... We can't airdrop ...... for you in this weather."

"The Germans have it in their warehouse!" Zhang Chi replied: "General, Rommel's operational thinking is the same as 'attack, attack and attack', I don't think he would have imagined that when they attack us, we will attack them at the same time." ”

"But...... Does this solve the problem? Eisenhower asked.

"General!" Zhang Chi replied: "Caen is just in front of 'Omaha', it has become a logistics supply base for the Germans, and their supplies to reinforce the beach of 'Omaha' are brought from there, if we capture Caen...... Even if we don't get our supplies, blow them up or force them to blow them up, even if they do what they did to us on the beach of Omaha, we can cut off the logistics of the German army in 'Omaha' and thus solve the immediate crisis, right? ”

Eisenhower nodded and said, "And if you can hold Caen, you can also form an encirclement of the German army!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied: "Time is on our side, isn't it?" Three days, as soon as three days have passed, after the storm has stopped, we can use the air force and navy, and then the German army will be completely routed by us! ”

"Major General!" Eisenhower said, "Do you understand the dangers? You're alone with no supplies and no reinforcements! ”

"I understand!" Zhang Chi replied: "But we don't have any other choice, do we?" ”

"Yes, there is no other choice!" Eisenhower said, "So, let it go!" Give those Germans a little color and let them know we're not to be messed with! ”

"Yes, General!" Zhang Chi replied.