The navy has 5 destroyers, 52 submarines, 16 ocean-going minesweepers, 116 patrol ships, 309 minesweepers, 34 torpedo boats, and 42 gunboats, making a total of only 561 small and medium-sized warships.

These warships are of little use in the English Channel, which is only 200 nautical miles at its widest point and 80 nautical miles at its narrowest point.

Since the start of the war, although the British Navy has been successfully attacked by Li Mo once, and most of the main battleships of its home fleet have been destroyed, but Britain has a strong shipbuilding capacity, and in the past year, Britain has built a total of seven aircraft carriers, and converted more than 20 aircraft carriers with large 10,000-ton merchant ships, and at the same time, Britain has also completed the remaining construction of five battleships, and there are countless destroyers.

It can be said that the British Navy after Li Mo's sneak attack was almost resurrected in full blood, and the German Navy attacked many times in order to attack Britain's sea transportation lines, and as a result, it became a war of attrition with Britain.

Almost all of Germany's battleships went to the bottom of the sea, some of these battleships were sunk by Britain, and some were sunk by Britain and the United States, and the German Navy could only be tofu scum in front of the combined British and American fleet.

Germany's air force deployed on the Western Front was the 3rd Air Force, which had about 450 combat aircraft, including 160 fighters. Compared to the number of Allied combat aircraft. It is at an absolute disadvantage of 1:30. The defenders in the Normandy area were 6 divisions and 3 regiments belonging to the 7th Army, including 3 coastal defense divisions, which were weak in combat effectiveness; 2 infantry divisions, 1 armored division, slightly stronger combat effectiveness; The three regiments are two separate infantry regiments and one paratrooper regiment, with a total strength of about 90,000 men.

The fortifications were also relatively weak, only a few independent support points of reinforced concrete were constructed, most of the fortifications were field fortifications, and only a small number of anti-aircraft landing obstacles were set up in depth. At this time, the German armored forces deployed in France had only one fully manned panzer division, the 21st Panzer Division.

Historically, Hitler judged in April 1944 that Normandy would be the landing site for the Allies. Additional troops were requested. In accordance with this instruction, Rommel transferred the 352nd Infantry Division, which was originally stationed in Saint-Lo, to Normandy, and it was this newly transferred elite division that brought disaster to the American troops at the "Omaha" beachhead.

(Hitler still had good judgment in some aspects, but Germany's comprehensive national strength was really unable to compete with Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.) And it is a situation of being attacked on all sides. How can you be undefeated. ）

The next day at noon. Several commanders of the army group and above rushed to the general headquarters of the Western Front, and after a short rest, everyone immediately convened a strategic meeting. According to Li Mo's requirements, all participants in the meeting are not allowed to carry watches, notebooks, and pens, and the content of the meeting is also forbidden for anyone to record and transmit it.

Even the codebook for Limer's contact with Hitler was based on the "original codebook" that Limer provided to Hitler. "This original code is indecipherable, and it changes every month, at least in the case of telecommunications, and Britain and the United States will not know as much about German military operations as they have historically.

The senior commanders in attendance were:

Field Marshal Gluck of Army Group B, commanded by the 15th Army, commanded by Colonel-General Sarmut, commanded by the 7th Army, commanded by General Dorman, Army Group G, commanded by Colonel-General Blaskovic, commanded by the 1st Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Chevalery, and commanded by the 19th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Sundstein,

There were only 7 people attending the meeting, and it was impossible to leak secrets in such a small area, and Li Mo planned not to hide anything, but to directly tell them where Britain and the United States would land.

The meeting officially opened at 2 p.m. on May 19, 1941, with Prime Minister Li Mo speaking:

"Generals, because the situation is urgent, the great Führer has judged that the Anglo-American coalition is about to land in France, so that they can attack us from both sides with the Soviet Union, so I have received the entrustment of the Führer to come and work with the generals, and cooperate happily."

"Bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

There was applause immediately, in front of these generals, how young Li Mo is, this is not the time to rank according to seniority, but the capable person stepped forward, Li Mo believed that he was fully qualified for the position of commander-in-chief of the West and East, and the sinister situation on the eastern front did not stump Li Mo, not to mention the relatively better situation on the western front.

"Warmly welcome Marshal Li Mo to our Western Front to command the battle."

"Yes! Marshal Li Mo's invincible record makes us look forward to it! ”

"Yes, yes, under the command of Marshal Li Mo, we will definitely beat the British and American coalition forces into a mess and flee."

Li Mo didn't come to accept worship and praise, so he hurriedly raised his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then Li Mo came to the huge map behind him and said:

"Generals, let's come to the map and discuss!"

These generals and marshals knew that Li Mo was not so easy to fool, so they hurriedly got up and came to the front of the map, and Li Mo began to talk eloquently:

"I think you all know our deployment on the Western Front, I won't repeat it, we only have 59 divisions, and we have to defend more than 1,000 kilometers of coastline, while our coastal defense division only has 33, and the average defense width of a division is at least 40 kilometers or more, and our anti-landing defense force is so weak.

With such defensive intensity, it is almost impossible to block the landing operation of the British and American coalition forces, because the British and Americans have gathered 2.88 million troops, and the army has a total of 36 divisions, including 23 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions, about 1.53 million people. The Navy has about 5,300 warships in operation, including 13 battleships, 47 cruisers, 134 destroyers, about 1,200 destroyers, 4,126 landing ships, and more than 5,000 transport ships. The Air Force has 13,700 combat aircraft, including 5,800 bombers, 4,900 fighters, and 3,000 transport aircraft gliders. ”

"Ahh …… This...... This ......"

Even if these generals and marshals have been on the battlefield for a long time, such a huge force still frightened them, which is almost dozens of times the gap compared with the German army on the Western Front! It is difficult to be sure of victory in such a battle.

Li Mo looked relaxed and continued:

"In response to this situation, the Führer has transferred to us the Western Front a million elite troops fighting in the Soviet Union, and at the same time authorized me to command any troops on the Western Front, including the German troops in Norway, Greece, Italy, etc., 13 divisions in Norway and Sweden in Northern Europe, 21 divisions in Italy, 25 divisions in Yugoslavia, 12 divisions in Greece, and 4 divisions in Hungary, with a total strength of 1.15 million troops, and they will soon be transferred to the Maginot Line in France.

…… (To be continued......)