Judging from the information obtained by Zhang Jun, the German copycat Tiger alone has reached 1,000 vehicles, and the annual output of the cottage 99 type has reached 2,000 vehicles, and the annual output of various aircraft is not as crazy as that of later generations, only more than 10,000 aircraft, of which the annual output of the "Sixth Master" is more than 1,500 aircraft, perhaps the production of B-29 parts, which has delayed the production of aircraft, but it is worth it for Zhang Jun to do this, more than 10,000 aircraft are enough to use, and there are still god-level "Six Masters", Britain, France and the United States do not have three years not to think about making and "Six Masters" A jet with the same performance.

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Germany has formulated a "Balkan Campaign Plan" and is actively making various preparations, the "Wiesel Exercise" is November 9, and the Wehrmacht has also chosen a day with 9, and the time for Germany to launch an attack is December 9, it seems that the Wehrmacht's grandson is really on the shoulders with the SS's turtle grandson.

Germany is deploying nervously, is it possible that Churchill in Britain is sleeping? Of course not, how could Churchill not give Hitler bad medicine, a godsend!! Originally, the Yugoslav coup d'état was carried out by Britain, and it was impossible to let such an opportunity slip by, in Norway Britain had already suffered a big loss at the hands of the SS, and Churchill planned to get it back from the Wehrmacht.

Churchill mobilized 150,000 men from the 1st Australian Army, the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force (W Corps) and the 2nd New Zealand Army to Greece to support Greece against Germany, but the British had only a few aircraft to fight, the British army was close to fully motorized, but its equipment was better suited to fighting in the desert than on the roads in the Greek mountains, they lacked tanks and anti-aircraft guns, and the communication routes across the Mediterranean were very unstable, because the frigates had to approach the enemy-controlled islands in the Aegean Sea, Problems in this area limit the shipping capacity of Greek ports. By 9 December, half of the British troops had landed in Greece.

And Germany's 300,000 people, a total of nine Wehrmacht and one armored division, seven of these nine armies are armored armies, and there is a mountain infantry corps and a mechanized infantry corps, Keitlin's group of grandsons are too dark-hearted, since the Führer limited the number to 300,000, well, these grandsons really made up such an army, basically a tank army, those two infantry armies are playing soy sauce to attract the enemy's attention, and the Wehrmacht also intends to use "blitzkrieg" to directly crush Yugoslavia and Greece.

The German attack on December 9, 1939, when the German 2nd Panzer Division captured Thessaloniki was on the morning of December 6, when the Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade, the German Army invaded Greece, the 12th Panzer Army originally attacked southern Yugoslavia, launched an offensive at 5:30 a.m., crossed the Bulgarian border at 2 different points, and on the night of December 8, the 1st Panzer Division of the German Wehrmacht captured Pabida, thus cutting off the railway line between Belgrade and Thessaloniki, Isolated from the Allies, the Germans thus occupied favorable terrain, and on the night of 9 December, General Stum deployed his forces north of Bitola to prepare for a major assault on Florina across the Greek border, from which it would be possible to encircle the Greek army in Albania and the W Corps at Florina, Edessa and Katerini, and when a sudden attack was launched from central Yugoslavia, the German 9th Panzer Division attacked west to join up with the Italians on the Albanian border.

On the morning of December 6, 1939, the German 2nd Panzer Division (18th Mountain Army) entered Yugoslavia from the east and attacked west through the Strymont Valley. On the second day the division crossed the mountains and attacked the Greek 19th Motorized Infantry Division south of Lake Doylen, although it was blocked by narrow mountain roads, and on the morning of 9 December, the Germans attacking Thessaloniki entered the city without resistance, and the Greek 2nd Army surrendered.

The Greek soldiers left their posts after the surrender of the Greek army in Macedonia and began an organized retreat, with the Metaxas line defended by the East Macedonian Army under the command of the 7th, 112th and 17th Infantry Divisions, led by Constantine? Under the command of Lieutenant General Bakopoulos, the defensive line stretched eastward from 170 kilometers from the Nestvez River, along the Bulgarian border to Bilassa near the Yugoslav border, and in peacetime there were more than 200,000 defenders on the defensive line, but due to lack of manpower, the defenders were actually only 70,000 men, and the defense line was relatively weak due to insufficient troops.

The German offensive on the line was carried out by the 18th Mountain Army, consisting of two mountain divisions, which made little progress due to stubborn resistance, and on the first day the German report showed that the German 5th Mountain Division was unable to break through the fortress of Rupel despite heavy casualties with strong air support, and only two of the 212 fortresses on the Metaxas line were captured, and they fell because they were destroyed by the defenders.

After three days of fierce fighting, the Germans finally captured all the fortresses with the support of artillery and dive bombers, and the success of the operation was mainly due to the German 6th Mountain Division, which climbed the snow-filled ridge at an altitude of 7,000 feet and broke through the weakly defended positions of the Greek army, and on the night of December 7, 1939 they reached the railway line to Sessoloniki, where another division of the 18th Mountain Army advanced in the face of stubborn resistance, the 5th Mountain Division and the reinforced 125th Infantry Regiment, On December 7, 1939, after breaking up the defenses of Stremon and attacking across the river, they captured the pillboxes one by one as they passed, but due to heavy casualties, they withdrew from the battle after reaching the predetermined area, and the German 72nd Infantry Division attacked from Blagoevgrad and crossed the mountains, although they lacked pack animals, medium artillery and mountaineering equipment, they still reached Seres and broke through the Metaxas line on the night of December 9, and after Lieutenant General Bakopolos decided to retreat from the line, the isolated fortress held out for 12 days, It was not until the arrival of German heavy artillery that it fell, and some isolated defenders continued to fight, allowing the retreating Greek army to retreat from the sea.

On the night of December 8, 1939, the 30th Infantry Corps on the left flank reached its intended target, the German 16th and 12th Panzer Divisions captured Sardinia, the German 50th Infantry Division crossed the Nestvez River after crossing Komotini, they met on the 2nd day, and on December 9, with the collapse of the defenses on the east bank of the Vardar River, the Greek 2nd Army decided to surrender unconditionally, according to the estimates of the battle situation on December 9, Marshal Liszt believed that due to the rapid advance of motorized units, Based on this estimation, his 12th Army Corps had taken a good position to advance towards central Greece after breaking through the enemy's defenses on the Vardar River, and based on this estimate, he ordered the 5th Panzer Division to move from the 1st Panzer Group to the 12th Panzer Corps, on the grounds that he had a new mission to pass through the Monastil Pass, and that he had reorganized two offensive units, the 18th Mountain Army to the east and the 12th Panzer Corps to the west.

On December 10, 1939, the military deployment was made in the Florina Narrow Valley, with the Wevy and Credi Pass in the upper middle half, the Australian 19th Brigade Headquarters in the middle and the Aiyun? g？ On the morning of 10 December, the 12th Panzer Corps had completed preparations to continue the offensive and was moving in the direction of Kozani, exceeding all expectations, and the Monastil Pass was completely undefended, so the Germans seized the opportunity to make their first contact with the Allies north of Wevi at 11 a.m., and the Wehrmacht 1st Panzer Division occupied Wevi on 11 December, but was stopped at the Credi Pass south of the town, where the Commonwealth and Greek forces were stationed. g？ On the second day, a regiment of the Wehrmacht 1st Panzer Division reconnoitred the enemy's position and attacked the enemy, and after fierce fighting, the Germans eliminated these resistances and broke through the defenses, and on the morning of December 112, the German 9th Panzer Division reached Kozani.

On December 15, 1939, when the German 12th Panzer Army flanked through the Monasdir Pass, Wilson faced the German attack from Thessaloniki, on December 13, he decided to withdraw all Commonwealth troops to the narrow mountain pass of the Haryakmon River and Thermopylae Pass, and on December 112, the 9th Panzer Division built a pontoon bridge to cross the Haryakmon River, but their attempt to attack again was blocked by the enemy's dense artillery fire, These defensive artillery fire came from three directions: in the Platamon Tunnel area between Mount Olympus and the seashore, on the Olympus Pass, and on the Sevia Pass to the southeast, all of which faced strong counterattacks and only a small number of troops could pass through, and the defense at Olympus and Sevia Pass included the New Zealand 12th Battalion, the 5th New Zealand Battalion, and the Australian 16th Battalion, and for the next three days, the 9th Panzer Division could not move forward.

On the night of December 15, 1939, a German motorized battalion attacked this pack with the support of a tank battalion, but was repelled by the soldiers of the New Zealand 21st Battalion commanded by Colonel McGee, the New Zealand soldiers suffered heavy casualties, on the second day, a German armored regiment arrived and attacked the flanks of the New Zealand 21st Battalion, but the New Zealand 21st Battalion still held the fort, after 15 and 16 days of fierce fighting, the Germans transferred a tank battalion, Reinforced by an infantry battalion and a motorized battalion, the German infantry attacked the left flank of the New Zealand Army as the tanks attacked the coast for several hours.

After a few hours of retreat from the town of Wevi, the Australian anti-tank artillery was resting The 21st New Zealand Battalion was forced to retreat, crossing the Pinios River and reaching the western exit of the Pinios Gorge, where they suffered only minor casualties, and Colonel McGee was ordered to hold the gorge until 19 December 1939, when he ordered all the defenders to sink all the ships at the western exit of the gorge and begin to construct fortifications, after all the defenders had entered the gorge. The 21st Battalion was reinforced by the 2nd Company of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Battalion and the 3rd Company of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Battalion that arrived later. Summi? Under the command of Brigadier General Aaron, the 5th Company of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Battalion and the 11th Company of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Battalion were moved to Larissa, southwest of the gorge, and ordered to hold on for 3 to 12 days.

On December 16, 1939, General Wilson met with General Papagos at Lamia and informed him that he had decided to withdraw his troops to Thermopylae. Freiberg's powers and responsibilities were separated...... (To be continued.) )