Cassino's first battle sequence did not include the 20th Mountain Army under the command of Admiral Edward Dieter, so the troops that Kesselring could command were Army Group C, which had been fully expanded in strength and resources, that is, the troops formed by the 10th Army of General von Tinhoff Schell and the 14th Army of Mackensen.

Von Wittinghof, also translated as Fittinghof, commanded the 10th Army Group under the command of Lieutenant General Zangger's 14th Panzer Corps, which consisted of the 5th Mountain Division, the 15th Panzergrenadier Division, the 44th Grenadier Division, the 71st Infantry Division, the 94th Infantry Division, and the Hermann Goering Panzer Division.

The 14th Army, commanded by General Eberhardt von Mackensen, had Army Group reserves and the 76th Panzer Corps.

The reserve of the army group also had the 29th Panzergrenadier Division and the 90th Panzergrenadier Division under its jurisdiction.

Kesselring's opponent was the 15th Army Group under the command of General Alexander, under the command of the British 8th Army and the American 5th Army, (under Lucas's US 6th Army and McCreery's British 10th Army); There are also 101 Airborne Divisions, the French Expeditionary Force, Canadian troops, etc., with a total strength of more than 500,000.

As for the 7th Army of the United States, which was formally formed on the basis of the 1st Panzer Army under the command of Patton and Omar Bradley, including the 13th and 30th Armies under Montgomery, as well as the troops of the British 1st Airborne Brigade, and the reorganized Third Army.

Of course, at this moment, Buffettre has not yet become the commander of the 12th Army Group of the US Army, that is, the largest Army Group in the history of the US Army, because it is the formation of the L, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 15th Army of the United States, so its total strength is more than 1.2 million people.

As for the First Army under the command of General Hodges and the Ninth Army under the command of General Patch, which were being reorganized, they were also assembled in Eisenhower's reserve to replenish and expand the source of troops, to replace them with new weapons and equipment, and to conduct hellish training.

In other words, in the Sicilian and Cassino campaigns, the First Army and the Ninth Army, which were being reorganized, were not put into the battlefield to fight against Germany.

The last remaining 4th and 10th armies were also in the process of being formed and replenished, and were deployed in the Pacific to fight fiercely with the Japanese army.

The 11th Army, on the other hand, was still in the process of being prepared, and was still in accelerated training and standby on the mainland, and did not go to any battlefield to fight.

At this moment, President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Army unanimously approved the formation of 220 infantry divisions in the early part of World War II; That is, more than 25 armies should be formed and fully engaged in the Western Front and the Pacific Theater.

It's a pity that the current US army doesn't say that there are 100 divisions, and now even 70 divisions have not been formed.

At present, the maximum number of divisions that the US military can mobilize is only more than 60.

These divisions are the 1st-9th Infantry Division, the 10th Mountain Division, the 24th --- 92nd Infantry Division, the 93rd Infantry Division to the 106th Infantry Division, the American Infantry Division, and more than 60 divisions including the 11th, 82nd, 101st, 13th, and 17th Airborne Divisions.

More than 40 of these infantry divisions were deployed on the Western Front, while the remaining 10 divisions remained on the Pacific Front to fight.

But as the battle became more and more unpredictable, the American army suddenly found that the more than 40 divisions they were now using did not have a suppressive advantage to win the war on the Western Front, and even found that their strength did not seem to be as large as the combined number of German troops and the armies of the client states.

In this regard, Eisenhower, as the commander-in-chief of the European counteroffensive, was completely dumbfounded.

Even Marshall, the top American officer of the largest U.S. Army who was sent by Belosevelt to personally command the Italian mainland campaign and the Sicily campaign, frowned deeply for a while, looking at the intelligence information that their intelligence agencies had obtained that the German army had more troops than the troops they were fighting now, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

"There are 60 German divisions deployed in Italy itself? Why is such a big piece of information only being given to me now? ”

"What are the high-ranking officers of our intelligence agencies and the 5th and 6th intelligence services of the British army eating!"

"Now that the battle has begun, can I still evacuate the army?"

When Marshall read all the military information that had been passed to him, he scolded loudly with anger and worry.

It's just that there aren't many officers around him in the command where he is.

As for those operational staff officers, he was also dispatched by him to assist in gathering intelligence and fully understanding the latest battle situation on the front line; As well as reports of German battle damage.

Of course, the current Eisenhower also negotiated with Marshall, and they carried out a division of labor, with Eisenhower in charge of commanding the amphibious landing in Sicily, and the commander-in-chief of the Italian mainland operation was handed over to Marshall himself to command the operation.