Miller relaxed, and he sat down on the ground as he watched as the French squad slaughtered the British soldiers who were still running around.

The French magic armor that appeared first stopped beside Miller and continued to say in broken German: "You are attacking this British army with only such a small number of people? ”

"Because the British army was in the chaos of being bombed at that time, it was a good opportunity to knock them on the bar, and if we let this opportunity go, it would be impossible for us to pose a threat to the British army."

"God, you know what, what you've just done has made you and your troops all goddamn heroes."

Miller looked up at the French army's magic armor, and said in his heart, shouldn't French girls be very elegant, why did they use "a lump" to describe the British army, and "God" and "damn it", it was completely the feeling of a rough factory uncle.

But after thinking about it, the war queen will not be adopted by the nobles or the rich as soon as she is born, so there are war queens who grew up in any environment, compared to the gods who are all pampered and pampered by the eldest lady, the "variety" of the war queen is indeed much richer, and there are all kinds of personalities, maybe the girl sitting in this armor is the girl who has been in contact with the worker uncle since she was a child in the tavern in the factory area.

So Miller decided to ignore the gruff language.

"How's it going on the beach?" He asked.

"It's terrible, there are corpses everywhere, and the sea was red when I landed."

"When you landed?"

"Yes, we originally strongly built the first wave to let us land with the infantry, but the generals thought that the ship transporting the magic guide armor was too big to directly assault the beachhead, and it might be sunk by the shore artillery. The magic armor used in land warfare is too heavy, and you will be exhausted after a few jumps. The generals' fears were not unreasonable, so although we still thought that we should accompany the infantry in the first wave of attacks, we did not try to convince the generals again, in fact, there was some lazy thinking in this. But when we landed, we all regretted it, and sure enough, we should have asked to go ashore with the first wave of infantry anyway. ”

The French girl croaked and talked, Miller just smoked and listened, and his soldiers, with his permission, began to collect the spoils from the hapless British officer.

"I heard you guys fought hard at the airport." The French threw the topic back to Miller.

"I lost about a quarter of my gliders when I landed by force, and I don't know exactly how many died, but I was ordered to leave near the end of the battle and go to the beachhead to 'see what can be done', and then according to the radio response, I think the British army used armored forces to raid the airfield, and the people above are probably shocked, because they think that the British armored troops will be attracted to you French."

"The beachhead was indeed attacked by British armored forces, but we went ashore at the last moment, and the officer guarding the beachhead said that they were about to collapse under heavy British artillery, but the shelling suddenly stopped, probably out of ammunition."

Miller raised an eyebrow and curled the corners of his mouth slightly. It seems that the attack on the artillery position saved the French beachhead, so the sacrifice there was worth it.

"How many brothers did you lose today?" The Frenchman continued to ask.

"Until we attacked this group of British troops, we had eighteen combat attritions, and five more were not reported. Now......"

Miller glanced at Felix, who immediately reported: "We have twenty-five men left, and Maximban has lost half of them, and it seems that not all the British troops are panicked and turn around and run." ”

Miller made a "you heard" gesture to the Frenchman, then pulled out his cigarette.

"Is there twenty-five people left in a platoon?"

"A platoon strengthens a squad, and there are twenty-five people left." Miller softly corrected the Frenchman's account, and silence fell between them.

Miller smoked all the time, and he tried to recall the faces of his fallen brothers, but found that he couldn't remember anything, and he could remember everyone's name and general character, but he couldn't recall their faces anyway. He knew what to do at such a time - that was to think about the things that had to do with the brothers, so that he could naturally remember their faces.

But Miller regretted to find that some of his departed comrades he was not familiar with at all, and now he could not even remember a few things related to them.

Miller's fingers felt a burning pain, and then he suddenly realized that there was only a small piece of cigarette left in his hand, and the spark had already burned his fingers - the cigarettes issued by the Germans did not have such a thing as cigarette butts and filters, they were all emergency products produced quickly, and only the quality of the tobacco was worth boasting about.

Miller threw away the cigarette butt and stomped it out with his leather boot, only to realize that the action was no longer necessary, there was fire everywhere on the ground, and a cigarette butt didn't matter.

Miller looked at his boots and saw that they were stained with red dirt, and his uniform was covered in dust and blood, as if he had just crawled out of the mire.

"It's been a long day." The Frenchman said suddenly.

"yes," Miller nodded, "it's been a long day. I bet it must have been the longest day of my life. ”

**

By the third day after D-Day, the Germans and French had taken control of most of the island, but a significant number of British troops were still holding on to Valletta, the largest city on the island of Malta.

Miller and his team, after replenishing the contained skirmishers, also joined the siege of Valletta.

At this time, Lin Youde of Potsdam was planning his next move with his staff and generals.

"With Malta in control, we will be able to secure the transport routes between us and North Africa, and the British will once again be cut off from Asia, and then the supplies from Australia, India, etc., to Britain will have to go through the Panama Canal or bypass the Cape of Good Hope, which is undoubtedly good news at a time when it is becoming more and more difficult for our army to mine operations against the British." General Halder, the chief of staff of the German army, tapped the world map on the large map table with a long commentary stick, "Then if we can capture Egypt, then our sea access to the Persian Gulf will be opened, and I don't think the British can stop the Ming fleet in the Persian Gulf with Fleet A in the Indian Ocean alone." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to take Egypt." Lin Youde shook his head slightly, "Our battle line is long enough, and we don't have more troops to send to the North African desert, so let the French fight it over there, and it's time for them to show their means as the second-in-command of the Human Innovation Alliance." ”

The generals looked at each other, although everyone knew that the German army was indeed too scattered at this time, and the strength was once again in a tight state, but how to look at Lin Youde, the factors that determined the political situation were far more than the military factors.

Lin Youde took the stick from Halder's hand, knocked on the map and said: "Our next focus is here, although the Russian army is now adopting a passive attitude of avoiding the battle in the clear field, they will definitely attack again next year after accumulating enough strength, and we must be ready to fight an armored battle with them on the plain." And on the Western Front, our most important goal is to prepare for the American and British attacks, and our mine blockade is not expected to last long, and when Britain begins to fully obtain supplies from the United States, fierce battles will occur again, and I think they will use high-flying heavy bombers to bomb us strategically and weaken our industrial production capacity. ”

Now the Americans are carrying out a kind of brutal and barbaric combat operation on the British coast -- they have built a kind of cargo ships with specially added mine-protected compartments, the tonnage of these ships is just enough to detonate Lin Youde's sunken mines, and then the specially added compartments enable them to withstand the explosion of multiple mines in a row, and when they are no longer usable, they use small tugboats to push these ships to the shallows on both sides of the channel to sit on the bottom, and then disassemble them into steel and send them to the British steel mills for reheating.

In a few months, the Americans made a total of 400 such ships by reffitting and specially manufacturing, and forcibly "tripped" the waterway, and by the way, they also delivered a bunch of steel-making materials to the British.

For this simple and terrifying way, Lin Youde can only sigh: The industrial capacity of the United States is like a cow, and it can still play like this.

With the opening of the shipping lanes, the resistance of the British Air Force also became noticeably stronger, and although the Luftwaffe took the island of Meenland through a series of combat operations, and built an airfield on it to send aerial reconnaissance and guide submarines to attack the Atlantic transport line between the United States and Britain, intelligence from all sides showed that the British situation was improving.

Although the UK is still facing a severe shortage of supplies, they are at least relieved and can consider other things besides saving their lives.

There are all kinds of signs that Churchill is plotting something.

"I think Winston Churchill will propose to amend the British constitution in the near future, and then make another queen." Lin Youde glanced at the generals, "This can be taken as a signal that the British want to make a comeback." And the Americans are currently planning to bring their newest B17 bomber to Britain. ”

Originally, the Americans' strategic air force was just an idea, hoping to use high-flying bombers to destroy the maintenance centers that maintained the magic armor for the gods and warriors, as well as the magic workshops that provided raw materials and parts for these centers, but because the military still disagreed on whether this method could be effective, this idea was in a state of repeated arguments -- in fact, they were fighting each other, and no one could convince anyone.

But the excellence of the Luftwaffe led a growing number of people in the American top to believe that strategic bombing was a good idea.

B17 of this plane was born for this idea.

"The battlefield on the Western Front will be dominated by the air force and navy," Lin Youde continued, "as long as the Russian army on the Eastern Front cannot achieve a decisive victory, we do not need to consider the land war on the Western Front, I personally estimate that the war on the Western Front will start to heat up in the second half of '42, and we need to be prepared before that." ”