Although the technical equipment of the Allies was superior to that of the Germans, only a very small number of millions of landing troops had participated in battles, and the vast majority had no actual combat experience. @.@ Earlier, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul? Thompson set up a training base in northern Devon, England, selected a beach with similar topography to the beachhead where the US troops landed, set up minefields, anti-tank trenches, pillboxes, barbed wire, obstacles, and so on according to the German fortifications he had detected, and then imagined various possible situations in wartime, and organized repeated training of troops.

After the war, many U.S. soldiers spoke highly of Thompson's training, believing that it was the training he designed that enabled them to adapt to the complex battlefield. At the same time, the British army also trained the participating troops on remote beaches in the east of England. Such high-intensity actual combat training will certainly cause damage to the equipment, and the Allied logistics repair personnel rushed to repair it day and night, ensuring that on the eve of the landing, the intact rate of the landing craft of the US and British troops was as high as 97.6 percent and 99.3 percent respectively.

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The Allies were actively preparing, and Limer was also not idle, and the completion of the Normandy defense was in charge of Field Marshal Gluck, the commander of Army Group B, the reconstruction of the Maginot Line was Marshal Moder, and the assembly of the Ardennes Forest was in charge of Field Marshal Rundstedt, deputy commander of the Western Front.

At this time, Rundstedt did not have an unpleasant affair with his subordinate Rommel because of a feud as in history, and the plenipotentiary of the Western Front at this time was decided by Li Mo alone, and although Marshal Rundstedt's qualifications were old, he did not have the actual right to decide. This was the result of Hitler's fullest trust in Limer.

The worst thing Li Mo is concerned about is Germany's military production, attacking Li Mo's transformation in the early stage, Germany's production in concentrating on the main tactical weapons, has made great progress, and has reached the output that Germany can only achieve in 1944 three years ahead of schedule, such as aircraft, Germany's annual output has reached more than 23,000 units, tanks have reached more than 16,000, and there are countless other weapons. (These productions were not achieved until Germany in 1944, and were drastically reduced by British Allied bombing in 1945.) ）

this month. German arms producers. At the request of Li Mo, the three-shift production mode was implemented, and more than 2,800 aircraft of various types and more than 1,600 tanks of various types were produced for Li Mo. Among them, the leopard pose has reached the average.

German combat aircraft at this time because of attrition. It has been maintained at around 5,000-7,000 aircraft. There were more than 3,800 aircraft deployed on the Soviet front, and these aircraft are now unusable and can only be used when the situation is extremely urgent. If Li Mo used the planes of the Eastern Front, the Soviet front would completely lose air supremacy, and the German tanks would definitely suffer heavy losses under the bombing of the Soviet Union.

There were about 1,500 planes in Germany itself, 450 planes on the French front, and about 1,000 planes in the other occupation areas, and this was the full strength of the Luftwaffe. The more than 2,800 new planes added this month were all placed around the Maginot Line by Limer, under the unified command of Air Marshal Catherine.

Marshal Catherine was able to draw more than 4,500 air forces around the Maginot Line, with 2,800 new ones, 500 of which could be transferred from Germany itself, and all of the more than 1,000 planes in the occupied areas were withdrawn to the German mainland, and with the 450 planes withdrawn from France, it was just over 4,500 planes, but compared with the air force of the Allies, it was also 1 to 3, and Germany still did not have the qualifications to fight for consumption.

Li Mo deeply knew that the air power in his hands was still too weak, and the blitzkrieg would not have been successful without the cooperation of the air force, so Li Mo asked Hitler to give the Eastern Line a clueless order, all the troops on the Eastern Front should immediately dig up all kinds of solid air defense facilities, and at the same time build tank bunkers, others may not understand Li Mo's deep meaning, but Hitler understood that this Li Mo was planning to concentrate all the air forces of Germany and have an air force life and death duel with the Allies on the Maginot Line.

In fact, Hitler's guess was also wrong, Li Mo did not want to have an air duel with the Allies, but to use a sufficient number of aircraft to ensure the implementation of his super blitzkrieg.

The withdrawal of German troops from the rest of the occupied territories was also smooth, but the twenty-three elite German divisions deployed in northern Italy were not so easy, because Mussolini's stupid pig had been arrested and locked up in a hotel on a hilltop because of the coup d'état in Italy.

If Limer wants to make reasonable use of the 23 elite divisions of the German army, he must rescue Mussolini, and then establish a provisional regime in northern Italy, Mussolini still has many followers in Italy, this is not very difficult, not to mention that because of the outstanding achievements of Limer and Rommel's North Africa, the North African Army has already hit Iraq, and it is impossible for the Allies to land in Sicily, Italy, at this time, Italy is almost under the full encirclement of the German army, It's just that the German army didn't have time to take care of the coup d'état in Italy in order to deal with the large-scale landing of the Allied forces in France.

Limer ordered Otto to immediately carry out the plan to rescue Mussolini with the "Storm Commandos", and the Gestapo spies were responsible for intelligence support.

Otto? Otto received the assignment on May 20 and began preparations on the 21st, selecting 60 special operations personnel and 10 espionage experts to form a rescue commando team. The first difficulty encountered in drawing up the plan of action was the lack of knowledge of the exact location of Mussolini's captivity, and the only way to organize reconnaissance activities was to secretly organize reconnaissance activities, given the need to conceal operational attempts.

After searching for 2 days without any clues, Otto came up with a piece of information: a maid who lived in a house near Caserta Bay and had a female servant in the home of his patron, who was engaged to a policeman on a mission on the island of Pontcha, but they had not dated for 2 or 3 weeks recently. Otto deduced from this information that this policeman might have served as a guard for important political prisoners on the island of Poncha. A few days later, a young naval officer revealed to him that Mussolini had been sent away by the hunting submarine "Persephone", which further confirmed Otto's judgment.

The next day, however, it was learned that Mussolini had been transferred from Poncha Island to another place, and that his whereabouts were unknown. Later, the intelligence services found out that on May 21, the Italian government first transferred Mussolini to a small village on the lesser-known island of Sassi, and then took him to La Silva, 5 kilometers to the north, where the naval base was built. On the island of Madarena, imprisoned in a mansion called Karen Hill.

Otto was imprisoned in La in getting Mussolini? After receiving information on the island of Maddarena, he disguised himself as a crew member and accompanied Lieutenant Wargan, an Italian naval officer, to Sardinia to visit the German naval detachment stationed on the island. During his visit, Otto borrowed a motorboat to reconnoiter the coastal terrain and discovered that Mount Karen was heavily guarded by ground troops and heavy firearms. (To be continued.) )

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