The fourth escort group, I intend to send an aviation regiment with a total of 164 BF110 fighters, after arriving on the island of Malta, can continue to fight for forty minutes, if it can occupy the enemy's airfield in forty minutes, it is best to take it, and if it cannot be occupied, it will be forced to land at our parachute landing point, so that the losses may be very large. In addition, we have dozens of bombers that can be fully loaded with bombs to open the way for the paratrooper armor, as long as they dare to get in the way and destroy them all.

My teacher, my plan is like this, you think about it and see if it works. ”

"Hmmm......"

Rommel didn't speak after humming, but stared at the huge sand table and thought, of course Li Mo didn't bother Rommel, he personally brewed two cups of strong tea, and then brought Rommel a cup, and went to find a place to sit down and drink tea.

After a long time, Rommel finally spoke:

"Li Mo, your plan is feasible, this paratrooper armored division will be used for the first time in actual combat, I think we still need a few days to train those armored soldiers to carry out basic airborne landing, in addition, we can contact General Modell, ask them to immediately find out the defense map of Malta Island, if they can't get the defense map, at least we must know whether there is an ambush in these large flatlands on Malta Island, the paratroopers of the Wehrmacht suffered a big loss last time."

"Okay, my teacher, your suggestion is really good, I'll go and contact General Moder and ask him for help, as for the basic parachute training of the No. 3 tank and armored corps, I think it will take about five days, and these five hours are enough for us to do all the other work."

Limer's plan to parachute to the island of Malta is largely finalized, and all that remains is to actively make various preparations. The special password of the 15th Armored Army is the original book code, if you want to decipher Li Mo's code, you must get Li Mo's codebook, this code Li Mo also changes once a month, and there is absolutely no possibility of being deciphered.

Li Mo specially ordered a new type of parachute for his parachute division, this kind of parachute is much better than the old-fashioned parachute, and the soldiers can parachute with their personal weapons, without parachuting apart from the people. Also to look for weapons airborne capsules. If something unexpected happens, most likely the paratroopers don't even have weapons, isn't this the biggest tragedy?

The special parachute for this tank No. 3 also needs to be specially produced, and this must be large enough. Sturdy enough. This is a 10-ton tank. But these are not the German parachute manufacturers, all parachutes, all the parachute manufacturers in Germany. It's only a few days away.

On the fourth day, Moder delivered information about the island of Malta, the only airport in Malta, Lucca, 8 kilometres from Valletta.

The airfield and the port of Valletta were the enemy's key defensive areas, and a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower and troops were deployed in these two places, and in addition, the enemy guarding the island set up a large number of traps within 20 kilometers of the airport and Valletta, and they hid a large number of weapons and troops.

Li Mo received such crucial information, and quickly determined the airborne landing site, and Li Mo chose to land on a flat land 36 kilometers away from the airport on the island of Malta, on the east side of the island of Malta, which was not a distance at all for the armored paratrooper division. Li Mo's No. 3 tank is equipped with a long 50-gun gun, although the recoil is larger, but the No. 3 tank's self-weight of ten tons is completely coping. Now of all the British tanks, there is not a single model that can withstand the German Long 50 tank guns.

In addition, according to the statistics of the results of the German Wehrmacht, in the last battle of Sicily, the British Navy 4 cruisers, 6 destroyers, 3 frigates, 7 minesweepers, 2 torpedo boats, 19 landing craft and 2 motorboats were sunk, and 7 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 6 cruisers and 8 destroyers were damaged. The Greek Navy sank 7 armored ships, 12 destroyers and 10 speedboats, and also lost 75% of its merchant ships.

Although the German Wehrmacht paratroopers suffered large losses in the last Sicily campaign, the British Navy also paid a lot of losses in order to rescue and retreat the troops on the island, it can be said that the British Mediterranean Fleet lost one-third of its strength, and another one-third of the force needed to be repaired to restore combat strength, and the British naval force that could be used on Malta Island at this time was only one-third of the strength of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and this Limer only needed to occupy the airfield on Malta Island, ju87 dive bombers, Enough for the British fleet, which did not have aircraft carriers, to suffer big losses. As for the British Gibraltar fleet, it was too far from the island of Malta to help at all.

Li Mo still sent a telegram to Mussolini, Mussolini gritted his teeth and sent two cruisers and four destroyers, which was enough to harass the British fleet that came to reinforce it.

On July 26, 1940, according to the analysis of the German weather forecast, the weather will be sunny in the coming week, so this day is the day when the German 15th Panzer Army parachutes to the island of Malta.

In addition, Li Mo also took advantage of the time when the German Wehrmacht did not pay attention to paratroopers, and sent some excellent commanders who participated in the airborne landing in Sicily to the paratrooper division of the 15th Panzer Army, anyway, the Wehrmacht's grandson did not plan to reorganize the paratrooper division, but only wanted to use them as elite infantry, this is not a waste in vain, how could Li Mo let this kind of thing happen.

5 a.m. on the 26th; At 30 minutes, the sky was only a little bright, and the sun was still below the horizon, Li Mo used all the airports in Sicily to start Germany's third large-scale parachute landing, this time Li Mo used a total of one armored paratrooper division and two paratrooper divisions, the first wave was the first armored paratrooper division, the second and third parachute divisions of the 15th armored group army were the second wave of airborne, they set off half an hour later than the first wave, and after the first armored paratrooper division occupied a safe parachute landing point, they were airborne, half an hour was enough for them to take the parachute landing site.

The commander of the paratrooper regiment, Milou, is now the commander of the armored regiment of the 1st Armored Parachute Division of the 15th Panzer Army, and he really has little experience in how to command the tank Milu, but don't worry, the invincible Deputy Commander Limer has sent him a good deputy commander, Porter Randolph, who is the fifth famous German tanker in history, destroying more than 100 enemy tanks.

Last night, Milou asked all the tankers to drive the No. 3 tank into the cabin of the JU89, all the parachutes and other things were ready, all the fuel in these airborne tanks had to be discharged, and the ammunition had to be cleared.

…… (To be continued.) )

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