According to the original history, the British and American allies should have completed their torch landing operation plan at the end of 1942, and then occupied Morocco and Algiers in 1943.

This was followed by the Sicilian Campaign in July 1943, with the goal of capturing the Italian mainland.

Of course, all these battle plans were for the U.S. military to be led by Churchill's nose and let them fall into Churchill's Mediterranean strategic operations, so that the U.S. military followed the British army to occupy North Africa first, then Sicily and Italy......

And this result is contrary to the original plan of the US military to attack Sardinia and Corsica, and land in France to open up a second battlefield in Europe.

But as a result, the U.S. army was skillfully bullied by Churchill, and as the operational commander of the Sicily campaign, it was the British general Harold Alexander, who commanded the Great Exit of Gokirk.

However, no matter what Churchill's wishful thinking was at the time, when the British and American armies commanded by Alexander and Eisenhower were repelled by Chen Yanlong in the Battle of Sicily, all Churchill's follow-up plans were also in vain.

So this time Eisenhower planned to take a risk and launch another surprise attack on the German defenses in Italy in order to achieve a surprise effect.

As for Chen Yanlong's idea of a surprise attack by the British and American troops, he knew nothing about it.

But his intuition now told him that when Rommel was sent to Morocco and Guderian to the Middle East, he must redeploy Italy's defenses, and he must not lose Italy and endanger Germany's homeland.

So when he had finished consulting with Kesselring and Churchill, he hurried to the Gustav Line, the Bernhard Line, and the Hitler Line to observe the defensive deployment of the front line.

Although he could have sent Rommel and Guderian back to Italy at any time, he did not need to personally command the battle.

But for Chen, he needs oil from Libya, North Africa and the Middle East.

With a large amount of oil, he can do a lot of things, and he can also get a lot of money to invest in Germany's national defense construction, as well as economic and people's livelihood development.

In later generations, the huge revenues from natural gas and oil in Russia were able to give huge support to the national treasury, and it can be seen that if you can get a lot of oil, you can get a lot of money, and many mechanized troops can be used for mass production.

Half a day later, Chen Yanlong, accompanied by Kesselring, came to the town of Cassino on the Gustav Line for inspection.

In the original historical time and space, it took tens of thousands of British and American troops to suffer casualties, and it took four months to occupy it.

The Anglo-American Allies paid the price for such a long time and huge casualties were the German troops under Kesselring's command, and of course, the natural defensive terrain around the town of Cassino was also indispensable.

The town of Cassino and Mount Cassino are very suitable for mountain warfare, and the Germans only need to set up hidden artillery observation posts on each hill to be able to fully grasp every move of the British and American combat troops, so as to use artillery fire to suppress and annihilate the British and American troops.

At the same time, the Germans set up dams and diversion channels at the source of the Lapido River north of the town of Cassino; When Italy's ferocious storm season arrives, the entire plain around the town of Cassino becomes a vast expanse of water.

As a result, all those who intended to rely on mechanized troops and tank groups to attack the town of Cassino were forced to cross the few mountain roads, and these tanks and mechanized units became the prey of German anti-tank guns.

As soon as Chen Yanlong arrived in Cassino Town, he did not go to the famous Cassino Monastery first, but went directly to the front line to inspect the underground passages, concrete underground pillboxes, and rotatable machine gun mounts and other defensive structures that soldiers and workers were building, as well as what the fighting consciousness of the officers and soldiers there was.

Of course, after inspecting these, Chen Yanlong will still go to the Cassino Monastery, because there are a lot of valuable oil paintings, cultural relics and other valuable things.

And the original history, Hermann Wilhelm Göring also had his Hermann Göring Panzer Division secretly steal more than 20 boxes of valuable paintings and artifacts from there, from where Ali celebrated his birthday.

For Hermann Wilhelm Goering's money-collecting methods, Chen Yanlong felt that he needed to learn and carry them forward; Because he needs money now, a lot of money to build up more troops, and more advanced weaponry.......

"The town of Cassino and the mountain of Cassino, how sure are you that you will be able to defend me? Or how many days can I hold on? ”

When Chen Yanlong inspected the construction of the fortifications of Cassino Town and Cassino Mountain, he gazed at Kessellin beside him with satisfaction and asked.

"With the current situation of troops and weapons and equipment, I can hold out for half a year; Of course, it is also necessary to know the combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment of the British and American troops, as well as the comprehensive situation of our air supremacy and other factors to make a judgment! ”

Kesselring was not satisfied with the complete rhetoric, but said what he really thought.

"Hmmm! We must obtain air supremacy, so in the air force, you still need to do everything possible with Garand to let us gain air supremacy on the European battlefield, especially the air supremacy of the Italian mainland that the British and American forces may attack, we must obtain it even more! ”

"Without air supremacy, we have no victory!"

Chen Yanlong nodded in agreement.

"Yes! Monarch! ”

Kesselring agreed.

"In addition, I will draw more mountain infantry divisions from Edward's mountain troops to defend the town of Cassino and Mount Cassino; Because this is the most critical and important part of the entire Gustav Line, if it is lost, then the entire Gustav Line is almost useless. ”

"So no matter what the cost, we must hold the Gustav Line, and we must also make the British and American troops pay a heavy blow, so that they know what will happen to the sneak attack on us!"

"Of course, before the war, I will give your troops enough weapons and ammunition, as well as logistical supplies!"

"So you can definitely command the troops with confidence and go to battle with the British and American forces!"

Chen Yanlong continued.

"Thank you! Monarch! I'm going to win! ”

Kesselring happily agreed.

After a few conversations, the two of them went to the Monastery of Cassino.