"The landing has begun!" An American officer hurried into Marshall's office and spoke to Roosevelt's brainchild. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Marshall was stunned for a moment, then stood up and asked with a frown: "Did the Germans land in England?" ”

"Nope! No! The Germans landed on Jersey and occupied it in just one day. The officer who came to report quickly explained, which reassured Marshall.

Fortunately, the Germans did not immediately land in Britain, so there was still a way to rescue. Marshall relaxed a little, looked at the map of the situation in Europe hanging on the wall, and did not speak.

The officer hurriedly exited the room, and Marshall was thinking about the not-so-good news - the last shortcoming of the German landing experience seemed to have been filled.

This was definitely not good news, and neither Britain nor the United States were prepared for the meal of war if Germany had ventured to land in Britain in the winter.

Although Germany was not ready, it seemed that the Germans had a better chance of winning when neither side was ready.

Considering that there were other aspects of the navy, Marshall shook his head again, he felt that the German army would not be able to land in the winter, and this was almost a fact.

If the enemy took risks, then the British Navy would have completely eliminated the landing craft forces of the Germans as long as they fought for the German landing craft forces regardless of losses.

As long as there were no later transport ships, relying only on air force transportation could not meet the operational needs of the German army in the British mainland. The loss of the transport ship meant the failure of the German landing.

After a simple calculation, Britain could have annihilated the German landing force at sea on the first day with two or three battleships, plus a few cruisers and destroyers.

But looking at the map, Marshall was a little unsure...... If the Germans were really determined to land, one day might be enough to hit some important positions.

"If I were a German commander, such a risk could be mitigated in a variety of ways." Marshall kept calculating the gains and losses in his mind, and brought himself into the perspective of the German top management to analyze the problem.

"Airdropped paratroopers in some places, and the combat effectiveness of German paratroopers was trustworthy." He fully affirmed the courage and skill of the German paratroopers.

After all, this unit has achieved amazing results in Belgium and the Netherlands, and in Malta and Crete. It is obviously an unwise choice to still underestimate this force in this situation.

Marshall is known as an American think tank, and the only genius commander who has not commanded troops but has been promoted to a five-star general, and understands that operation is his strongest characteristic.

Therefore, when a war has not begun, he can rely on his own planning and analysis to roughly calculate the victory or defeat of the war and the approximate process.

It is precisely because of this ability that after bringing himself into the German hierarchy, he found that the Germans actually had more cards in their hands than they seemed.

"Using paratroopers and capturing some traffic nodes, there is basically no way to defend it." Marshall thought about the countermeasures for a moment and found that this tactic seemed to be incomprehensible.

Because the troops guarding the British coastline could neither place enough troops at all points, nor could they guarantee that the troops deployed would actually withstand the German paratroopers.

You must know that the real examples of war are clearly laid out in front of you. The Belgian fortresses were unexpectedly smashed open by German paratroopers, not to mention the fact that there were no fortifications of that level in the British hinterland.

In addition, even Marshall could not have predicted that the Germans would attack in that direction - let alone the defensive forces.

If it had been placed half a year ago, when the British Navy still had absolute superiority, it would have been relatively easy to speculate on the landing site. But now the landing area that the Germans could choose to choose from was much larger, which led to a further increase in the area of British defenses and a further dispersion of forces.

Since it was impossible to strengthen the defenses against the German paratroopers, the enemy could take the lead by surprise - something Marshall did not want to see, and it was something he had to face.

After a casual two strokes on the map, Marshall crossed the paratrooper section. In the course of his simple deduction, the German paratroopers had actually achieved superiority.

And with the blessing of this advantage, when the German landing force appeared on a certain section of the landing site, in fact, the British defenders had fallen into a rather passive situation.

"It's not easy to fight...... There were enemy paratroopers behind him, and reinforcements were not smooth...... The shore defense forces are on their own, this is not a good start, no, definitely not ......" Pressing his hand on the map, Marshall found that it seemed that the British coastal defense had been breached, almost a certain thing.

If the coastal defense is broken through by the Germans, and it is relatively fast, then it is difficult to analyze how far the German troops can advance in a day's time.

"There are too many variables, and in this case, I can't see through the outcome of this war." Closing his eyes and rubbing his temples, Marshall gave up on thinking about it.

The rest of the story involves specific technological advances, innovative processes, and even some genius methods.

For example, the reality in intelligence is that the Germans could strengthen the port of Sirte in a month, turning it into a large port comparable to Tripoli.

If the Germans really had such anti-heaven technology, then it was not impossible to quickly build a port at the landing site.

Assuming that the speculation is true, the German landing sites will be more haphazard, and the landing force will be more abundantly supplied.

There was also the fatal question of how many tanks the German troops would transport ashore on the first day. This is a specific technical question, and Marshall cannot speculate.

In the past, it was customary to think that the Germans had no landing experience and lacked landing equipment, and in such a situation, the number of tanks transported ashore on the first day would not be too large.

Therefore, when the deduction was made, the Germans often only had 20 to 30 tanks in their hands, which was less than the number of British tanks waiting for a counterattack on the second line, so the deduction would be a victory for the British garrison in most cases.

But if the Germans could send 50 or even 60 tanks ashore, the British armored forces would not be enough in terms of the quality of tanks in North Africa.

As long as the Germans had only to gain local superiority in armor and then break through the British defenses and advance frantically, the tragedy of the French campaign would be repeated, and it would seem to be too late.

"How many landing technologies did the Germans have? And how many damn landing ships are being built? After asking himself a question, Marshall shook his head, picked up his bag, and prepared to meet President Roosevelt.

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"The design of this tank carrier is really ingenious...... "A shipwright in the civilian dockyard in the Kiel military harbor sighed as he looked at his masterpiece.

The displacement of the ship in front of him is not large, and the volume in fact is not exaggerated. This type of ship is tailor-made for the English Channel and is capable of transporting 3 tanks in one go to the near sea.

The draft of such a vessel is very shallow, and it is possible to transport it in tanks very close to the shore. And the way these tanks are loaded and unloaded is also interesting, so interesting that it is unexpected.

Three tanks were hoisted like flagpoles on improvised cranes. As soon as the ship docks at the dock and lowers the boom of the improvised crane, the tank will slowly descend from the side of the hull onto the pier.

And while transporting tanks, the ship can also transport more than 200 heavily armed soldiers! While placing the tanks, the soldiers could unload from the bow rope ladder to the dock.

In other words, as long as an improvised dock capable of carrying warships is erected, such a "half-finished tank landing ship" can quickly unload a large number of troops.

Such ships were very easy to build - because of their small size and low equipment requirements, Germany could build dozens of them in a short time.

Therefore, as long as the German landing force has set up a floating dock, these dozens of castrated tank landing ships can send hundreds of tanks to the shore within two hours.

Even if it is no longer possible to know the future direction of a different war, Li Le, as a time-traveler from the 21st century, still has a vision beyond this era.

For example, he borrowed the principle of loading and unloading of container ships to create a simplified version of the tank landing ship. This method of quickly unloading tanks is exactly the same as unloading containers in later generations.

In addition, the simple small floating dock, like the pontoon, with the buoyancy box, is very easy to tow and install.

As long as the first landing force succeeded in taking control of the beach, then the subsequent sappers could set up a small floating dock in a matter of hours.

According to the landing plan, the German tank units would be able to come ashore at noon that day - one hundred and ten tanks would sweep through the nearby British forces and push the battle line away from the coastline.

The soul of the 21st century, if not familiar with landing operations, is not as strange as the generals of World War II.

After seeing the American landing craft, Li Le could easily describe a landing craft for infantry -- through the efforts of German engineers, it was not difficult to realize.

The appearance of such small landing craft multiplied the efficiency of the German landing force and also gave the soldiers the possibility of directly hitting the beachhead.

The only constraint is that these new devices cannot be produced on a large scale - because of the large number of port facilities in Germany, which is now desperately building submarines and several large combat ships. The limitation of the number of equipment is still the number one problem plaguing Germany.