War must serve politics, this is eternal, then all Rommel strategies must be in line with the overall political interests of Germany, so Rommel had to launch the "Trojan Plan" in advance, which is also a very helpless thing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At five o'clock in the morning on September 28, 1941, the headquarters of the Western Front in the fortress of Liège was busy, with the sound of telegrams and calls, and the staff team of thousands of people was also working in an orderly manner.

At the same time, such a huge staff team will also provide logistics, troop deployment, and combat mission arrangements for the more than 3 million troops on the Western Front.

The importance of the staff team is obvious, and Rommel has always attached great importance to the cultivation of the staff team, and it is not an exaggeration to say that those staff teams have a direct bearing on the victory or defeat of the war.

Fortunately, Rommel brought a primitive computer, which made it relatively easy to arrange the logistics of the troops, the delivery of ammunition, and so on.

At this time, the total of the Western Front was about to begin, the time was half past six in the morning, and Moder was the commander-in-chief of the Maginot Line, and Moder's task was to hold the Maginot Line, because the one million German troops commanded by Moder were all reserves drawn from Germany itself, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

However, the will of these German troops to fight was still very good, and they still had no problem holding the Maginot Line, at least after the British and American forces were surrounded, the desire of the British and American forces to rush from the Maginot Line into the German mainland would not be realized.

The troops commanded by Moder were organized into Army Group B, which consisted of eight reserve armored divisions with more than 1,200 aircraft of an air corps to support its operations.

The German army in northern Italy has a total of 33 German divisions, with a total strength of about 550,000, these 33 German divisions have 23 German divisions that were originally stationed in Italy, and the other divisions are retreated from the Normandy area.

The thirty-three German divisions were organized into Army Group Left, which consisted of eight panzer divisions, and Rommel assigned them an air corps, which was mainly to cooperate with their blitzkrieg, and which consisted of about 1,200 aircraft.

Although the strength of Army Group Left was only 550,000, the ratio of armored divisions and air forces was the highest, and all their armored vehicles and trucks were the most numerous and occupied units, and those trucks were taken over from the Italians.

Because of the coup d'état in Italy, many Italian troops were disarmed, and Italian trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, and ammunition supplies were all used by Army Group Left, so Army Group Left was the most powerful force to be reckoned with in terms of mobility and attacking fortifications.

The commander of Army Group Left was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Front, Field Marshal Guderian, who was also a battle-hardened man, and his use of armored forces was unsurpassed.

The German army in the Ardennes Forest was 2.3 million men, with a total of 179 divisions, which was the largest army group ever formed in Germany for this purpose, and even the army group attacking the Soviet Union was not so large.

The 2.3 million German troops were organized into the Right Wing Army Group, which was commanded by Rommel and Manstein. The entire Right Sector Army Group consisted of twenty-four armored divisions with two aviation corps and a total of more than two thousand five hundred aircraft.

Rommel had amassed more than 6,000 planes on the Western Front at this time, and the three army groups used 5,000 planes, and the remaining 1,000 or so were reserves.

Rommel let his troops, ninjas, bomb the Anglo-American forces for a month, just to wait for the moment of encirclement, a war of attrition, Germany could not afford to play, and could only do it in one battle.

This is almost a collection of most of Germany's essence in one point, the Soviet battlefield in order to support the Western Front, can only temporarily consume each other, no one can destroy anyone, Germany's national strength determines that it is impossible to destroy two powerful opponents in two directions at the same time, that is an act of seeking death.

For the war on the Western Front, Rommel let more than one million Soviet troops in Stalingrad and Leningrad break through the encirclement, if Rommel did not send two million elite German troops from the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union would not have had a chance to break through, but this is also a helpless thing.

"Order Admiral Brask to immediately attack from the north of the Netherlands with 300,000 men of Army Group D."

"Order Marshal Gluck to immediately send 500,000 men from Army Group A to attack from the west of the Ardennes Forest, attack and advance to the border between Belgium and France, and be sure to surround the more than 500,000 British and American troops who have entered Belgium and the Netherlands. Tell Field Marshal Gluck that I want to see Patton in the prisoner of war camp. ”

"Field Marshal Maninstein was ordered to immediately dispatch 800,000 men from Army Group A to attack from the northern part of the Ardennes Forest, to direct the border area with the Netherlands, and to divide and encircle the Anglo-American forces entering Belgium and the Netherlands.

Once this is achieved, be sure to annihilate all the Anglo-American forces in Belgium, and then turn around and eat the Anglo-American forces in the Netherlands in one fell swoop. ”

At this time, more than 300,000 Anglo-American troops entered Belgium, and more than 200,000 Anglo-American troops in the Netherlands.

He believes that the German army no longer has any military strength to equip more than 500,000 well-equipped and high-morale Anglo-American troops, not to mention that Patton's flanks still have more than 2 million Anglo-American troops armed to the teeth.

Rommel's army for encircling and annihilating Patton reached 1.6 million, while the Anglo-American coalition army commanded by Patton numbered about 500,000 people, which were the US Third Army and some British and French allied forces.

No matter how you look at the comparison between Rommel and Patton, they have an absolute superiority in forces, not to mention that Rommel still has a tactical advantage by surprise, even if Patton has the ability to turn things around.

Rommel arranged it this way, there is also a reason, the morale of the Western Front at this time is not very high in general, the army needs to constantly feed the monsters with victory, and the continuous retreat in the early stage is the most demoralizing, Rommel in order to be safe, so he took the lead in cutting Patton deep into the Netherlands.

This is in line with the principle of first easy and then difficult in war, Rommel's tactic is almost to kill chickens with a knife, this knife will directly eat one-sixth of the strength of the Anglo-American coalition army, which is equivalent to directly cutting off Eisenhower's hand that stretched out to Rommel's back.

If Eisenhower had escaped when Rommel had annihilated Patton, Rommel would have been able to open his eyes and watch that Rommel would indeed not be able to keep the two million Anglo-American troops in France. (To be continued.) )