"Why did you choose this place...... You see, our line of defense, in fact, is a diagonal line that runs from northwest to southeast, and the reason why we distinguish the lot by east and west is because it was a pure east-west line five months ago, when it was a pure east-west line. Lin Youde stopped and glanced at the salon.

Sharon immediately said: "You're right, that's what it is. ”

"But now, the defensive line has become such a state that the British army is controlling the E. From the seaside stronghold of Arish, we advanced all the way to the front of the stronghold, and from here our defensive line extended to the southeast, until the present battle was taking place in Avani Nanil, and to the south of Avani Nanil, our troops and the British troops were confronted across the Ruafa Dam. ”

"Yes sir, I know all of that......"

"I know, you know." Lin Youde interrupted Sharon, "I just want to tell you that this sloping military demarcation line means that we only need to advance a short distance to reach Bill Caveat. The advantage of the British, in addition to stockpiling a lot of supplies in the Canal Zone, is that they have better roads than we do.

"They have two roads, one is from Egypt? Alish set out along their first line all the way to Abu Ogra's road, which would have been built as far as Kusaima if the war broke out some time later. But now this length is enough for the British. The British army can move freely along the defensive line by relying on this road, but the role of this road in the transportation of supplies has been weakened by us, because now our heavy artillery groups on the outskirts of Arish can cover the port area, the British do not dare to use large cargo ships to transport goods to Arish, and the supplies hoarded in the stacks have been almost destroyed by us.

For the British troops deployed in the foothills of Mount Sinai in the interior, the vital road was the one from the Canal Zone to Abu Ogra via Bilkavert. So, if we attack from the middle of our line, we will first cut off the road from Arish to Abu Ogra, and then from the Canal Zone to Abu Ogra. In addition, Bill Caffert is a valley suitable for defense between the main mountain area of Mount Sinai and the small mountains outside the main body, and we can take advantage of the surprise to occupy this area, so that we can snipe the British troops trying to reopen the road. ”

Sharon looked at the map and nodded repeatedly, but after Lin Youde finished speaking, he pointed to Hasana and said: "The intelligence shows that the British have deployed a lot of troops in Hasana, and if we attack Bilcavert, the enemy forces in Hasana will not sit idly by." ”

"Hasana now has only one brigade of the New Zealanders, and the rest are engineering units that build fortifications, and the intention of the British is to determine that our army will attack from the foothills, and then move troops in this direction, relying on the fortifications to hold on. So it's very simple to deal with, just let the British keep using their troops elsewhere. ”

The current situation in Sinai was that the British did not have enough troops, so the Eighth Army was still only an army, and it was not upgraded to a group army, although it commanded far more troops than an army. Lin Youde also does not have enough troops in his hands, this is not to say that Potsdam can't squeeze out enough troops to give him, but the supplies here are really bad, whether it is the German High Command in Berlin, or the NERV Staff in Potsdam, or the staff of the Eastern Mediterranean Theater Command, they all think that it is impossible to maintain a large army in the Sinai Peninsula for a long time, and the current force size is the best choice.

When Lin Youde has stockpiled enough supplies in the Sinai Peninsula, the German army will arrive, and the offensive campaign to seize control of the Suez Canal will officially begin.

Now, with both sides understaffed, it means that there will definitely be a loophole to exploit.

The question is who finds the other party's hole first. And Lin Youde believes that the best way is not to find a loophole, but to create a loophole yourself, and pull the opponent's troops to create a gap that can win by surprise. In his "copied" military doctrine, he emphasized the use of elastic defense to create gaps, and then put troops into counterattacks to turn defeat into victory.

"Therefore, the objective of the first stage is to draw the British to our eastern flank, to let them 'break through' our line along Mount Sinai, so that they think that they have found an opportunity to crush us once and for all, to win a great victory, and we will induce them to retreat as far back as possible, so that the front will be lengthened. The British may launch a series of small offensives to cover their frontal movements, but that's okay, we'll give them some progress in the secondary directions as appropriate, and then block them and give them the idea that 'the discourse is only temporary'. ”

Lin Youde gestured on the map with a pencil.

"Because the forces of both the enemy and us are not particularly sufficient, and the attrition of the front-line battles, there will definitely be weak defenses in the British front, and then our large forces will break through from here. The biggest difficulty of this concept is to hide our intentions, the Sinai Peninsula is too little vegetation, and there is no way to hide a large number of armored troops gathered in the face of aerial reconnaissance, especially now, neither the enemy nor the enemy can control 100% of the air supremacy on the battlefield, and we cannot use the air force to block the air reconnaissance of the British. ”

Lin Youde paused, and looked up at the salon again. In another plane, Sharon used the facilities built by the Israelis in advance before the Yom Kippur counterattack, allowing the troops before the attack to evade the Egyptian army.

It was now impossible to build such a semi-permanent facility in advance, but it was fine to have the sappers set up a series of improvised camouflage tents, and the best camouflage was to make the British think that the main German forces were in other directions.

"We need a deception." Lin drew with a pencil along the map of the road that borders the eastern mountains of the Sinai Peninsula, which connects Mount Sinai with the mountains near Jerusalem, like a wall across the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea – not very high, of course.

"We need to convince the British that there are a lot of cars moving on this road, so that they will misjudge the supplies we are transporting to the front line via the Guò road."

The Allies had only two routes to transport supplies, and the British were well aware of this, and conversely, if Lin Youde's transportation was concentrated on the road near the mountains, then Lin Youde's main force should be there—the British would probably have thought so.

Lin Youde believes that not many British generals know the allusion to the increase in troops and the reduction of the stove.

The pencil in Lin Youde's hand continued to move on the map, he felt that his combat concept had become more and more complete, and correspondingly, the feeling of eagerness in his heart had also become stronger, and he couldn't wait to try the plan that had been formed in his mind.

"Sir?" Sharon looked at Lin Youde's expression suspiciously.

"Nothing, I think I have a good plan."

"I can see it."

Lin Youde looked up at the salon, and couldn't help but want to pretend to be forced, so he raised his index finger and said with a bad style: "Do you know, Ali (Sharon's nickname), an excellent commander will understand the enemy's intentions, and then use them, and if you can do this, you can already be called a military strategist." And the great commander, who will lure the enemy into acting according to his own intentions. You see, young man, it's not what the enemy wants to do, it's how you guide them to act in line with your needs, depending on their purpose. ”

Sharon looked down at the map, thought for a moment, and said, "The British now want to outflank us, and then crush us, and win a morale-boosting victory." They've lost too many times and need a big win with enough weight, and there's nothing more weighty than winning one from you. ”

"That's right," in fact, Lin Youde didn't think about this aspect at all before, but now as soon as Sharon said it, he also felt that it made sense, and then immediately took the credit for Sharon for himself, "so when we expose our weaknesses, the British are more likely to be deceived." Everyone in this world is greedy, the difference is only in the ability to resist temptation, as long as we give a bait that is tempting enough, even the most cautious commander will take the bait. ”

"Understood." Sharon looked at it clearly, "What about the specific plan?" ”

"I'm still figuring out the details, and I can't mobilize so many troops by myself to complete a battle plan, and I need the help of staff officers to complete a battle plan." Saying that, Lin Youde turned his head and said to the staff officers who were still in the headquarters, "You all come here, I need you to help me make a detailed transfer plan." ”

After Lin Youde finished speaking, the staff officers looked at each other, and then a young staff officer asked, "Are we?" ”

"yes, you guys."

The old staff officers with high military rank have been rotating since dawn today, so Lin Youde ordered them all to rest an hour ago, and now except for the staff officers on duty, the others here are all energetic young people, and the highest rank is only a major, so no wonder they ask like this.

Lin Youde saw that the staff officers were still suspicious, so he asked:

"You're all military school graduates, aren't you?"

"Yes sir."

"That's okay, you have learned enough knowledge in the military academy to deal with the current situation, as for experience, not everyone is experienced as soon as you come up, think about the time when the staff system was first established, no one had the experience of mobilizing a large-scale modern army, but the war machine is still running as usual, isn't it? Well, don't hesitate, be confident, and come and help. ”

The staff officers looked at each other again, and many of them looked very encouraged, and they all gathered around the table near Lin Youde, looking at Lin Youde with eager eyes, waiting for him to assign tasks.

Lin Youde didn't know how to assign tasks for a while, after all, this was the first time he had directly commanded the staff officers, and he had always issued an order to the chief of staff before, and then the chief of staff would divide these instructions into the specific content of the city and hand it over to the staff officers one by one to arrange.

After thinking for a while, Lin Youde said: "In short, let's summarize the list of troops that we have not assigned to specific defense tasks now. ”