Chapter 125: Refusal

"Forward this telegram to Jiaodong immediately, quickly." Rowling handed the telegram in her hand to her personal guard, got up and walked to the window to look out, the telegram just now came from the United States, it was a war report from old Rhodes about the war situation in Europe. Although the United States succeeded in assassinating Hitler with the help of Zhao Zhi, Goebbels, who succeeded Hitler in Germany, was not a good stubble, and he not only used the intrigue between the German top leaders to pull Goering down, but also imprisoned Hess, Hitler's designated party heir.

If Hitler was a military maniac, then Goebbels was a standard political maniac, and Goebbels, who graduated from the philosophy department of Heidelberg University, was a born politician. After taking over Hitler's command of Germany, Goebbels, who knew that his command ability was weak, simply handed over power completely, and all military command matters were left to the military generals to decide, and he only controlled the Gestapo and the secret police, and the SS, which was regarded by Hitler as a descendant of Hitler, now only existed in the German army as a military force to defend Germany.

Adopting Zhao Zhi's opinion, the United States decided to first launch a landing operation in France, and then use France as a bridgehead to attack the German mainland. However, the actual situation of the war is not optimistic. Despite the help and support of the French Resistance Group, the American troops that landed in France were still attacked fiercely by the Germans, and the American fleet that crossed the North Atlantic and entered the Bay of Biscay and was attacked from both sides by the German and Spanish navies, especially the German submarine forces, which caused the American fleet to suffer a great loss.

It was easy to land on the French coast, and the well-equipped German ground forces used strong firepower to slam the American troops, and if it were not for the American airborne troops to attack from behind, perhaps the first US troops who landed in France would have been driven into the sea to feed the fish. After sacrificing thousands of people, the Americans finally opened up their own landing ground, but the bad start made the politicians and heads of interest groups on the other side of the ocean restless, and they could not afford to suffer a large number of casualties.

It can only be said that the luck of the Americans was too bad, and the Soviets, who were glued to the German army, fell off the chain at a critical moment, and the original plan was that the Soviets should carry out a major counteroffensive to contain the elite troops of the German army after the American troops began to land in France, but in fact this was not the case. After the French troops and British troops successively rebelled on the front line, the German army that had contracted the defensive line began to fight steadily, and after successively carrying out powerful bombardment of the area controlled by the Soviets, the German army gathered thousands of heavy tanks to assault the Soviet positions, and the defensive line that Stalin had built with great difficulty immediately collapsed.

The protracted war that Stalin wanted was aborted, and the strong German army did not give him such a chance at all, and the Germans, who had already spent a winter in the Soviet Union, did not want to spend the winter in dilapidated houses with leaky winds, so they had to speed up and try to drive the Slavs into the mountains to graze before a winter came. Zhao Zhi's early combat tactics for the German army were re-discussed and used, first using elite troops to surprise and intercept the Soviet army's reinforcements, and then mobilizing heavy troops to besiege the combat area, and then encroaching on these places little by little, which could not only reduce the consumption of ammunition, but also effectively prevent the Soviets from continuously increasing troops to the combat area.

After the first half of the darkest month on the coastline, the German army urgently mobilized at least 15 divisions south to block the American army, and in the face of the cooperation of thousands of enemy fighters and thousands of heavy artillery bombardment, the American troops blocked by the line of Le Mans and Tours seemed to be unable to move an inch. The battle report sent by Old Rhodes was full of worry, and Rowling was also very anxious when she read it, but Zhao Zhi was still in Jiaodong, and they could only contact by telegram.

"Look, the Americans seem to be fighting hard." Zhao Zhi, who received the telegram, waved away the staff officers in the headquarters, leaving only Ye Kong and Yan Wudao who had returned to the team. Zhao Zhi deliberately revealed the intelligence of the imminent landing of the US army in France to the German army, and he did this just to disrupt the war situation.

"This American is too bad, isn't it? The main forces of the German army are in the north and are inseparable from the **, and they haven't even taken Paris yet, it's too slow. Regarding the battle report handed over by Zhao Zhi, Ye Kong, who had only glanced at it a few times, was very unimpressed. The people in the U.S. Army Coordination Group were bullish all day long, making it seem that only the U.S. military was the best in the world, but it had been so long since they landed in France, and they didn't hit Paris, look at Mary, what else do they have to say.

"It can't be said that they are too bad, Germany plans to start fighting in Europe, but it has been planned for a long time, and the American army is full of recruits who have never been on the battlefield, and it is already very good to be able to fight like this, and our requirements cannot be too high." Zhao Zhi was magnanimous, but he forgot that if he hadn't revealed the information to the Germans, maybe the Americans would have been sitting outside Notre Dame Cathedral drinking beer to celebrate the victory.

However, Zhao Zhisuo is very right in one point, the proportion of veterans in the US troops that landed in France is very low, and most of the landing troops are new recruits. They were fine when they were training with weights in the training camp, but when they were to fight against the overwhelming firepower of the German army, it was good that these rookies could guarantee that they would survive. "I think the Americans are good at weapons, and if they were given Japanese-style weapons, they might have been driven back to their hometown by the Germans long ago." Yan Wu smashed his teeth with a knife, and he was not very interested in the guys in the US military coordination group, so he naturally lost his temper between his words.

"Sir, what do you mean when Madame sends a telegram to us? Do you want us to send troops to help the Americans fight the Germans in Europe? Ye Kong was really a little puzzled by the intention of Rowling's telegram. Although Joey has begun to gradually close the net in Vietnam, in the final analysis, the Thunder is now a two-front battle between the north and the south, and if the troops from the Thunder are transferred to the European battlefield at this time, the Thunder does not seem to have such strength.

"That's not it" Zhao Zhi's answer made Ye Kong's heart drop, "Rowling just sent us the war report from Europe to let us know about it, and once the United States reacts, we can deal with it." The plate of the European war is too big, we Thunder still don't rush to participate in the cooperation, the Germans are not so easy to deal with the Japanese army, a large-caliber howitzer smashed over, can immediately reimburse you for a company, fight such a battle, or the Americans themselves toss. ”

Zhao Zhi never advocated the supremacy of firepower, but the actual firepower on the battlefield can affect the success of the war, what heavy equipment the German army has, Zhao Zhi is clear, in the face of the German army's strong firepower cluster coverage strike, Zhao Zhi can not find an effective means of defense with his own thunder. Zhao Zhi just wants to muddy the water so that he can get the benefits that should belong to Thunder, he will not be stupid enough to let his troops go all the way to Europe to die, and then say that the war in Europe does not matter to him.

The war report sent by old Rhode to Europe was nothing more than Zhao Zhi's heart, and Zhao Zhi, who understood it, completely forgot about it after reading the telegram, and it was not mentioned again until Mary, who landed in Jiaodong with the second batch of troops of the 74th Army, arrived. "Zhao, our troops landing in France are in trouble now, do you have any good ways to help us?" Mary was as straight to the point as ever, and took the initiative to mention the war in Europe as soon as they met.

"Mary, look at me here, it's already a mess, there's still time to get involved in European affairs." Zhao Zhi seemed helpless to spread his hands to Mary, and it is true that Jiaodong now has troops of the 74th Army, Thunder's Jewish troops, Burmese mercenary troops, and mercenary troops, so many troops are naturally mixed together There are naturally a lot more things, Mary has not been in Zhao Zhi's command for a long time, and the flow of people in and out has changed several times, and even more than a dozen combat staff officers under Zhao Zhi have been busy.

"Actually, your industrial base in the United States is not weak, and the Germans rely on their heavy weapons to intercept your landing force with strong firepower, can you fight back as usual?" Although the Rockman family is not as good as an arms giant like DuPont, a large part of the infantry weapons equipped by the US military has been taken over by the old Rhodes, as long as the European war continues, the weapons business of the Rockman family will continue to create profits, as for who will win the European war, it is not very important to Zhao Zhi and the old Rode.

"But the French did not agree with our use of weapons of mass destruction, saying that they were afraid of destroying the buildings in their country, and now even the naval guns covering the landing force were fired carefully." Mary's answer made Zhao Zhi laugh. The British and French governments in exile begged the Americans to send troops for help, and the American troops here had just begun the landing operation, and the French actually prevented the American troops from using strong firepower to fight back in order to protect their buildings.

"Didn't Britain and France have colonies overseas? Then tell them to gather their own troops and go back to fight the Germans to see if their troops can also defeat the Germans with only rifles. Zhao Zhi, who had nothing to do with himself, laughed very happily, he didn't believe that the US government would make such a stupid move, compared to which so-called "elites" in Congress made such a bullshit thing, as long as the number of casualties of the US military reached a certain proportion, I believe that this rotten order would be changed.

"Don't look at me, you also know that we are about to fight to the death with the Japanese army in Shandong, and now I can't spare time to deal with other things with the troops, sorry, I really can't help you." Ignoring Mary's pleading, Zhao Zhi politely refused Mary's request.