"It's not that that matters, General!" Halke replied: "I will be responsible for our mistakes in intelligence. But what we should be thinking about now is how to solve the problems in front of us! ”

"Oh, really?" Eisenhower said, "Solve the problem? Can you? ”

"I probably can't!" "But someone might be able to!" said Harque. ”

"So, tell me who you mean by 'someone'?" Eisenhower said, "I hope this man you tell me is not a 'legendary sergeant'!" ”

"General Patton!" "General Patton carried out a deception plan in Dover," Halker said. Now, now that the Germans have seen through our plan, General Patton can also return to command the troops! ”

Eisenhower was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

So General Patton was transferred back to the command that night to participate in the command.

"No, no, we can't fight like this anymore!" As soon as Patton arrived at command and saw Eisenhower, he rejected Montgomery's plan.

Eisenhower knew that Patton was at odds with Montgomery, so the meeting was a private meeting of several American generals...... Eisenhower actually preferred to talk to Barton privately, but the problem was that he didn't know much about military affairs, so he invited Bradley to join him.

"Is there anything wrong with going on like this?" Bradley asked.

"Of course!" "We poured a lot of shells and bombs on the enemy lines, and while one day we can blow it up, the question is when?" Patton said. How do we know how much damage has been inflicted on enemy fortifications and armored forces...... We don't know anything, we can only bomb day after day, guessing that the enemy may have collapsed, but maybe the enemy is hiding on the second line or even beyond, just waiting for us to launch a counteroffensive when we land! ”

Hearing this, Eisenhower and Bradley were silent.

"This is Montgomery's plan, isn't it?" Patton laughed: "Commanding a campaign shouldn't be 'even', nor should you launch an offensive according to a clearly demarcated front, only eccentric, rigid guys would make such a shit plan!" ”

Eisenhower rolled his eyes, and was even more convinced that Montgomery was right not to attend the meeting.

"So what should we do?" General Bradley asked.

"Landing in Brittany!" Patton pointed to the map and said, "This rhinoceros horn will be something outside the German defensive circle, and we will take it as a landing port, accumulate the strength of two armored divisions, and carry out a breakthrough against the enemy's defense line under the cover of bombers and combat power!" ”

"You're crazy!" Bradley cried out: "Our tanks are no match for them!" ”

Eisenhower also objected: "Joe, maybe you don't know, the Germans are armed with new tanks, and our 'Sherman' is simply a toy in front of them!" ”

"Of course I know this!" Patton replied, "But we have air supremacy, and their new tanks will be scrap metal under the attack of our fighters, and then the 'Sherman' will crush their defenses!" ”

Objectively speaking, Patton's battle plan was correct...... This is what it should look like when you have air supremacy.

But the relatively conservative Eisenhower and Bradley still rejected this "risky" plan.

But this denial is not really a denial.

Bradley revised Patton's plan, then gave it another name, Project Cobra, and went into action......

(Note: This was once considered plagiarism, but it happened with Eisenhower's knowledge, most likely as a means used to keep the plan from being vetoed by Montgomery.)

The focus of the plan was to dig a foothold on the French coast on the Brittany Peninsula, and then concentrate two armored divisions on this foothold to carry out a breakthrough.

This is very similar to the "blitzkrieg" of the German army...... However, there is nothing wrong with this, there is no copyright problem with tactics on the battlefield, and the "blitzkrieg" has very high requirements for air supremacy, and whoever has air supremacy can play it.

At this time, air supremacy is in the hands of the Allies, and there is no need to use it in vain.

The impact of this plan is ...... The Allies needed to keep traffic flowing so that their tanks could pass through.

Suddenly, the Allied bombardment took a 180-degree turn: the destruction of French roads, railways, and bridges with all their might was suddenly no longer aimed at them.

To be precise, Allied bombing shifted to bombing road targets with incendiary bombs, while heavy aerial bombs only bombed places other than roads and bridges.

"Marshal, I think it's time to retreat!" Qin Chuan, who was in the fortifications in the bunker, reported to Rommel.

"What?" Rommel was somewhat puzzled.

"The enemy bombardment is different from what it used to be!" Qin Chuan said: "They no longer aim to blow up bridges and highways!" ”

"You mean...... Did they do it on purpose? Rommel asked.

The bombs were falling from the sky, and the Allies were using incendiary bombs to blow up roads, so Rommel thought that the Allies were just dropping bombs with reduced accuracy.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "I think they did it on purpose, with the aim of launching a counteroffensive with armored forces!" We should have planned our retreat in advance, as we could not retreat during the day! ”

This is where the Germans are embarrassed...... This is determined by the fact that there is no air supremacy, and if you fight the US military during the day, then you can only carry it hard, and there is no room for choice.

After thinking about it, Rommel said: "That's right, we'll go into the retreat procedure tonight!" ”

As a result, the main force of the 21st Panzer Division withdrew to the line at Klecy that night, leaving only a few infantry and engineer companies in the pillbox fortifications around the "Utah Beach".

The infantry company was a symbolic defense in the fortifications to make the Allies mistakenly believe that there were still people in the defensive line, while the engineer company was left to prepare for blowing up bridges and breaking roads or laying mines...... The roles of both the enemy and the enemy changed dramatically, and the German army, which had been building the road before, became a road breaker.

However, it is not very meaningful to break roads in these places in the northern plains of France, and with the American "Sherman" tank being converted into a bulldozer at any time, it is easy to build a new road to bypass it.

But this is not the point of the problem, the point is that the advance of the American armored division will be slower.

As a result, whenever the American armored units rushed to the German line to attack, they found that it was already dark...... As soon as it was dark, the US armored divisions did not dare to attack.

Because, at night, the fighters could not coordinate with the US armored division, so the "Sherman" tank would become the target of the "Tiger" and "Leopard".