The Allies landed in Normandy as they did in history. For Li Guang, this news cannot simply be boiled down to good news or bad news.

Different countries have different mentalities about the Normandy landings.

The British Empire was not as active as it seemed. Churchill was always hostile to the Red-Soviet Union, and his inner expectation was to wait for the Soviets and Germans to be exhausted on the Eastern Front. Ideological differences made Churchill even wish Germany had destroyed the Soviet Union. Therefore, militarily, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill advocated an "attack from the soft belly" of Europe, that is, in the Mediterranean direction. This direction is far from the center of Germany, the difficulty of the operation is low, and to put it bluntly, it is to slowly weaken Germany by hitting the periphery. The most important thing is to exhaust the last bit of Soviet strength, and the British have fewer dead people.

At the beginning of the First World War, Britain adopted a strategy of weakening the periphery first, and Britain repeated the old plan for reluctance in reason. From the British point of view, Li Guang was actually in favor of Churchill. He even admired Churchill a little, the British Empire has been in charge of the world for hundreds of years, and it is definitely a blessing for the British to cultivate such a long-term prime minister. As for whether it is fair to other countries, Churchill is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, not the prime minister of the world, and it is natural to think about his own people.

The attitude of the United States towards the Normandy landings was positive. For the United States, as early as after World War I, the economy was already the number one in the world, but the number one economy was not the boss of international politics.

This is the case, for a vibrant United States. is unacceptable. Therefore, World War II was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the United States to be the world's leader, both politically and economically.

Therefore. Under this mentality of striving to be the boss, the United States is quite active in fighting in Europe, and American politicians can see very clearly that if a country wants to be the boss, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the economy alone, and war is the most important way to establish the majesty of a great power.

Due to the different positions of Asia and Europe in the world pattern, backward Asia is obviously not as important as Europe. As a result, seventy percent of the resources of the United States have been invested in the Atlantic theater.

It is only because of the existence of Li Guang's butterfly that the US war resources are slightly tilted towards the Pacific theater, so that the US war resources are equally divided between the Pacific theater and the Atlantic theater. In fact, this was also the material basis for MacArthur to start the Philippine campaign in March of '44. Moreover, before the Philippine campaign ended, Nimitz was able to launch the Iwo Jima campaign again.

In fact, there is another reason why the United States is in a hurry to land in Europe, and it can be regarded as a reason for foresight -- the American elites led by Roosevelt are very worried. The time dragged on too long. After Germany consolidated the resources of the occupied territories, the war potential increased to such an extent that the United States would have to pay an even greater price in the future to win. Therefore, the United States chose the tactic of hitting the nail on the head, landing directly in Normandy, France, and confronting the German army to the death.

From Roosevelt's point of view, Li Guang's strategy was probably no more than that, and he even admired Roosevelt's foresight.

Stalin heard the news of the Allied landing in Normandy. Take a long breath. The landing of the Allies in Europe simply loosened the noose around Stalin's neck. The Soviet-German battlefield at this time. It's different from history. Historically, since the middle of the fourth or third year, the Soviet army has begun a strategic counterattack, but in this time and space, the Soviet army can be regarded as holding on to the German army at most, purely struggling to support.

Just look at the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield to see how dangerous the situation in the Soviet Union was.

In the southern battlefield, the Soviet and German armies in the Ukrainian direction are now in a strange state of guerrilla warfare. In this direction, neither country was able to send large armies. At the end of the 43th year, the world-wide arson campaign greatly damaged agricultural production, and Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, suffered even more. In this region, where food is not enough to supply the army, the starvation of the Ukrainian population is almost universal. Fighting for survival, there is no country without ideology, just fighting for survival, the Ukrainian people are already crazy, Germany gives food, and it works for Germany. When the Soviet Union gave food, it fought for the Soviet Union. Germany's grain and ammunition will be looted, the Soviet arms will be attacked, and countless Ukrainians will fight on this land, killing aliens and killing their own people. To Stalin's shock, one of the most famous generals of the Soviet army was, as in history, killed at the hands of Ukrainian partisans.

The Eastern Theater, with Kursk as the center, was heavily assembled by the German army. Due to the shift in strategic focus, the Germans adopted a strategy of building fortifications here.

During this period, the Soviet army became more and more proficient in large-depth tactics. But in Germany Field Marshal von . After Quchreel pioneered the use of the tactic of great depth in the northern theater, the results were remarkable, and the German generals quickly mastered the key to this tactic. As a result, the Germans were no longer as lacking in depth in their defensive line as they were historically. On a front of several hundred kilometers, the Germans used the famous tactics of elastic defense, and the Soviets broke through several times, but failed to achieve their strategic objectives. In short, in this direction, although the Soviet army was fighting offensively, it was also exhausted.

Northern Theater. Originally, it was a secondary battlefield in history when the two armies fought, but in this time and space, it became the main battlefield of the Soviet and German armies.

Since the German army occupied Leningrad, the entire Baltic Sea has become a zone of German control. The Baltic Sea has also become a swimming pool in Germany's backyard, and German ships are constantly transporting all kinds of supplies from the north of the Soviet Union to the country day and night, and at the same time sending all kinds of supplies, ammunition and soldiers.

On the surface, the Germans were fighting by water, but when there was no enemy force in the Baltic Sea, the sea became the most reliable logistics supply channel.

For more than a year, the Soviet army has not hit the seashore, but every time it hits the sea, it has just cut off the contact with the German army, but it has been crippled by the German naval guns. If only naval artillery is used, the Soviet army is not so helpless, and if aircraft carriers are added, the Soviet army will be completely in a situation of being passively beaten on the northern battlefield.

It's impossible to predict how much the butterfly's wings will cause changes. At the beginning, Germany had an aircraft carrier, but due to the arrogance of Air Force Commander Goering. Carrier-based aircraft were not provided at all, so much so that Germany sent a good aircraft carrier to Japan, but it was not delivered. Sunk in the Arctic Ocean. Of course, in the North Atlantic, the Germans just had aircraft carriers, and to go to sea was to die, and they were no match for the British Royal Navy at all. The level of the German Navy, except for submarines, is worth mentioning, and the others are really rubbish. From the battle of the estuary of La Plata a few years ago. You can see what kind of goods the German Navy is.

But when the Germans occupied Leningrad, the Baltic Sea became a swimming pool for Germany. In this extremely safe sea, aircraft carriers have become the safest combat platform for fighters. The Germans, though, lack a romantic imagination. But those with a high IQ do not reject new things. Therefore, at the suggestion of Li Guang's old friend, Major General Claude, Germany converted a fast cruise ship and built an aircraft carrier. Claude turned out to be the commander of the German aircraft carrier fleet. In history, this guy who is simply not famous at all, and it is really unimaginable for Li Guang, a butterfly, to be promoted to major general.

But. Germany had no experience in the use of aircraft carriers. There is also no experience in the manufacture of carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, Germany had to poach some officers and technicians from Japan.

Japan and Germany have cooperated, but they are by no means selfless. In fact, just like the cooperation between Haitang and the United Kingdom, there is a price to be paid for each other. In fact, the same is true of cooperation with the United States, and let's not forget that the United States provides aid loans to its allies, and since it is a loan, it means that it has to be repaid. Of course, Li Guang knew that the United States had historically forgiven loans during wars. But it makes people not know, this year. Even the Americans themselves don't know.

Is Germany a fool? Sent so many good things to Japan with submarines? Missiles, uranium oxide, jets.

In fact, the materials and technology carried by the two submarines that the Haitang Army had just captured were the remuneration paid by Germany to Japan. It's just that the benefits fall into the hands of Haitang.

In the middle of the fourth or third year, the German aircraft carrier was put into real combat. The Germans immediately recognized the advantages of an aircraft carrier - the loss of pilots was significantly reduced, and the losses of aircraft were even lower.

You know, in the brutal war of attrition between the Soviet Union and Germany, the German pilots were quickly consumed. As a last resort, Germany reduced the training time for pilots from more than 100 hours to 23 hours. The decline in the quality of pilots made the average number of battlefield sorties of German pilots only two.

Carrier-based pilots, on the other hand, are not able to take off and land on aircraft carriers without 200 hours of flight time, and their technology is relatively superb, so battlefield losses are naturally much less. The fewer the losses, the higher the level of pilots, and after half a year of fighting, a group of elite pilots was put together.

As for the low number of aircraft losses, the reasons are much easier to analyze. Soviet pilots were actually poorly trained than the Germans, and most of them were sent to the battlefield with only a few hours of flying experience. It is impossible for such a quick pilot to master the technique of flying on the surface of the sea, and once he flies to the sea, without the German pilots attacking, he will get lost and see that M Ke is dead. Therefore, even the German aircraft carrier, which was only less than a hundred kilometers from the coast, was unharmed and did not receive a single blow.

In World War II, half, if not more of the battlefield losses of aircraft were destroyed on the ground. As a result, the losses of aircraft carriers decreased, and this superficial superiority began to flourish as soon as it was discovered by the German army.

Anyway, Germany's cruise (passenger) ships can't go out of the Atlantic, and they are idle, so Germany has modified more than a dozen aircraft carriers in one go. These ships vary in size, some can carry more than 50 aircraft, while others can only carry more than 10 fighters. The speed of the aircraft carriers also varies, the air defense configuration is extremely weak, and the level of the crew is uneven, but in any case, the power of the total number of nearly 400 fighters should not be underestimated.

On the Soviet-German northern front, these 400 fighters played a great role, and the German army became more and more brave and technologically advanced; because the aircraft carrier could move, like a free man on the field, it could actually support the entire northern battlefield, and its combat effectiveness even exceeded that of 2,000 land-based fighters.

Under the influence of various factors, in fact, in the Soviet-German northern battlefield, Stalin said that it was a state of stalemate, which is not accurate, in fact, the German army was on the offensive.

At the time of the Allied landings in Normandy, the Germans were stockpiling supplies and mobilizing forces in the northern theater in preparation for the summer offensive against the Soviet Union in '44, and Hitler was even delusional about taking Moscow in one fell swoop.

The Allied landings on June 6 immediately shattered Hitler's dreams and loosened the noose around Stalin's neck.

As for Li Guang's mood, the complex contradictions cannot be expressed in one or two sentences. Whether it was Stalin, Churchill or Roosevelt, the mood should be said to be relatively happy. Successful landing, no matter how many losses, the Allies already have a great advantage.

However, the landing of Allied troops in Normandy was really not a good thing for Haitang. Especially for Li Guang, a person who clearly knew that the Allies would win, it was really not a good thing. Li Guang is very "shady": it takes a few more years to fight on the European battlefield to best serve the interests of Haitang. (To be continued......)