However, the backbone of the "Prosperity" resistance group and the agents who later airdropped them carried non-toxic pills, and after they were arrested, they were tortured and tortured, with no way to survive and no hope of death, and finally confessed their mission: to attack the German headquarters in Calais, the communication center, the shore artillery, and the power supply system, and cooperate with the Allied landing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Gestapo was convinced of the veracity of these confessions, since most of them were obtained after repeated tortures, and the analysis of the intelligence provided by the spies indicated that the Allied landing sites invariably pointed to Calais.

The strategic deception of Britain and the United States is indeed in place, and it is also very perfect, it can be said to be seamless, but it is this seamless that makes Führer Rommel more sure that the landing place of Britain and the United States is Normandy.

The whistleblower Derigu used the top secret instructions of the London Oversight Service to gain the trust of the Gestapo and break into German intelligence.

And the Gestapo could not have imagined that the British intelligence services would be so shameless as to provide a single piece of false information at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of weapons and equipment and the lives of dozens of loyal subordinates.

It is fair to say that the vast majority of these men were executed or sent to death camps by the Gestapo, and that Derigou was executed by the French resistance on charges of internal traitors.

In addition, the French Resistance also played an important role. At the time of the landing on 25 August, the BBC radio station broadcast a large number of coded instructions to the resistance groups in the Normandy area, asking them to destroy railways, roads, bridges, and communication lines to assist in the Allied landing.

The BBC also broadcast a large number of coded instructions to the resistance groups in Calais in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, asking them to attack the lines of communication and the German command and communication center as planned, and to cooperate with the imminent landing in Calais.

Since German intelligence had already uncovered 15 underground resistance groups, and according to the special instructions of the London Overseer, despite knowing that they had been dismantled by Germany, six agents, 28 million francs of funds and enough weapons and equipment to be equipped with two regiments were airdropped at their request from January 1941, leading Germany to believe that Britain did not know the true situation of these resistance groups.

Therefore, the German intelligence services fully understood the meaning of the code instructions, and Rommel decided to follow the British and American wishes, and accordingly he alerted the troops stationed in Calais of the imminent landing, and the strategic deception of both sides was going on at the same time, and who was more clever could only speak with the facts.

Time flew quickly, and it was five o'clock in the morning on August 25, and Rommel gave a very strange order to the staff of the General Headquarters of the Western Front, all of them would not go to work today, and they would be free in the morning, and they would start sleeping in the afternoon and work overtime in the evening...... What kind of inexplicable order is this?

This order puzzled everyone, but the rigor and discipline of the Germans did not make these commanders at all levels working in the Western Front Command object, and everyone still strictly carried out the orders of their commander-in-chief.

At 6:40 p.m. that day, all the personnel working on the Western Front were in place, and everyone began to get busy, and during this time the Allied bombing made the Western Front Command have a lot of things to deal with, and Rommel has tripled the staff of the Western Front for this purpose, and the number of staff officers has reached more than 800 people, and there is also a primitive computer to help.

In addition, the commanders of several armies and above, who had been urgently summoned by Rommel to the Western Front Command, also arrived as scheduled, and Marshal Manstein, deputy commander of the Western Front and concurrently of Army Group A, was lurking in the Ardennes Forest at this time, with a total strength of more than 1.5 million.

Field Marshal Gluck, commander-in-chief of Army Group B, where he was stationed in Normandy; The commander-in-chief of Army Group C, Modell, was stationed on the Maginot Line, with a total of 1.8 million troops on the second line; Guderian, commander-in-chief of Army Group D, lurked in the southernmost section of the Maginot Line, with a total strength of about one million.

This meeting is very urgent, very confidential, outside the conference room is five steps and one post, three steps and one sentry, even flies do not want to fly in, and the entire conference room has also been scanned by bugs.

The meeting soon began, and Rommel looked at several senior commanders who were sitting in their seats and began to speak:

"Colleagues, I have a few orders to issue, don't be surprised, don't hesitate, just follow them immediately, this is a matter of life and death for Germany, if anyone dares to disobey military orders, no matter how high his position, he will be shot on the spot immediately."

This is the heaviest sentence Rommel has said since he arrived on the Western Front, and you must know that the senior commander with the smallest rank of general sitting below, Rommel's words are not insignificant.

The generals below immediately looked at each other, not knowing what important things were going to happen next, and Rommel continued:

"Tomorrow, the Allies are going to launch a landing in Normandy, their bombing and tactical deception, and all the intelligence that the Allies are going to land in Calais, according to my judgment, these are all smoke bombs released by the Allies, the purpose of which is to interfere with our decision-making and make us make wrong judgments.

According to my experience and analysis, Calais has a large number of our elite troops to defend, and at the same time, there are a large number of forts that have been built, and the roads in Calais are bad, and the Calais area is mountainous, even if the allies land, it will be very unfavorable for their subsequent development.

Therefore, the Allies must not land in Calais, even if all the intelligence and the situation seem to indicate that the Allies are going to land in Calais, but my judgment is still - the Allies will land in Normandy. ”

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Gluck, the veteran marshal, who stood up and spoke, saw Gluck blushing and pointing at Rommel and saying:

"My Führer, I have to remind you that, according to all our intelligence analysis, it is indicated that the Allies will land in Calais, and if the Führer is misjudged, you are sending Germany to hell."

Rommel did not intend to quarrel with Gluck either, and he said calmly:

"Field Marshal Gluck, I know that you are for the good of Germany, and I can understand that the landing of the Anglo-American forces is imminent, and we have no time to argue endlessly,...... I, Rommel, am responsible for the history and future of Germany, and I will never pass the buck. ”

Marshal Gluck had no choice but to sit down decadently and remain silent. It was a tactical disagreement, not a personal vendetta, and Rommel didn't care about Gluck's confrontation, but continued:

"As you know, in the past month or so, I have deployed 1.5 million elite German troops from the Eastern Front to the Ardennes Forest, 1.15 million German garrisons from other EU countries have also been concentrated in the southern section of the Maginot Line, 1.8 million reserves from Germany have been transferred to the Maginot Line, and 23 elite German divisions in the mountains of northern Italy have also been deployed to the Maginot Line.

…… (To be continued.) )