Chapter 511: Encirclement and Annihilation (Medium)
"Order Field Marshal Gluck to immediately take Army Group A 500,000 men to attack from the west of the Ardennes Forest, attack and advance to the border between Belgium and France, and be sure to surround the more than 500,000 Allied troops who have entered Belgium and the Netherlands. Tell Field Marshal Gluck that I want to talk about Patton in the prisoner of war camp. ”
"Field Marshal Maninstein was ordered to lead Army Group B with 800,000 men to attack from the northern Ardennes Forest, penetrate directly into the border area between Belgium and the Netherlands, and divide and encircle the Allied forces entering Belgium and the Netherlands. Then turn around and eat the Allied forces in the Netherlands in one fell swoop. ”
At this time, there were more than 300,000 Allied troops entering Belgium, and more than 200,000 in the Netherlands, which was almost a long snake formation, such a troop deployment, it was really Patton who was too arrogant, he believed that the German army no longer had any military strength to equip its more than 500,000 well-equipped, and how about the Allied forces with high morale, not to mention that behind Patton there were more than 2 million Allied troops armed to the teeth.
Army Groups A, B, and G totaled more than 1.6 million German troops, while the Allied forces commanded by Patton numbered about 500,000 troops, including the U.S. Army Group 3 and some British and French allied forces.
No matter how you look at the comparison between Li Mo and Patton, they have an absolute superiority in strength, not to mention that Li Mo still has a surprise tactical opportunity, even if Patton has the ability to turn things around.
There is also a reason why Li Mo arranged it like this, the morale of the Western Front at this time was not very high in general, and the army needed to constantly feed the monsters with victory. The continuous retreat in the early stage was the most demoralizing, and in order to be safe, Li Mo took the lead in opening Barton, who went deep into the Netherlands.
This is in line with the principle of easy before difficult in war, Li Mo's tactic is almost to kill chickens with a knife, this knife will directly eat one-sixth of the Allied troops, which is equivalent to directly cutting off Eisenhower's hand that stretched out to Li Mo's back.
If Eisenhower escaped when Limer annihilated Patton, Limer could indeed only open his eyes and watch, Limer really could not leave the two million Allied troops in France behind, if Eisenhower did not choose to leave Patton and escape. It's the right to rescue. even used the trick of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and attacked the Maginot Line with all his might.
All right! Congratulations to Eisenhower, you finally jumped into the trap that Li Mo had dug by yourself, and what Li Mo wanted was for Eisenhower to escape shamelessly. Rather, bravely fight to the last soldier.
The first half of the "Troy Plan". The initiative to encircle and annihilate Patton was in the hands of Li Mo. However, the initiative in the second half of the strategic decisive battle was in the hands of Eisenhower, as long as Eisenhower said that he would not play with you, he would directly leave the besieged Patton Allied forces and flee to the major ports of France. Then calmly boarded the ship to go to England, Li Mo was powerless.
The life and death of all the Allied troops landing are all in Eisenhower's hands, and now no one knows how Eisenhower will choose, but Limer judged that Eisenhower's who inspired the rescue of the Allied troops commanded by Patton would even attack the Maginot Line with all his might, which was determined by Eisenhower's character, Eisenhower was a very tenacious and tenacious person, and he would never give up until the last moment, and this character can have two sides.
At this time, there were still more than 600,000 remaining troops in the Ardennes Forest, and Li Mo had to reserve 300,000 reserve troops for himself, so there were only more than 300,000 people who went to block the Allied army's rescue, which just happened to create the illusion that some German troops had no troops to send. The more than 600,000 German troops were divided into two army groups, namely Army Groups C and D. Army Group C was tasked with blocking the Allied forces, and Army Group D was tasked with strategic preparation.
Army Group C must not only hold back the Allies, but also launch some counterattacks appropriately, and cross the Maas River, where to establish a bridgehead and occupy the most advantageous strategic position for the next strategic decisive battle, so that some of these German casualties must be very heavy,
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At six o'clock in the morning of September 28, 1941, more than 6,000 German planes of all types flew straight to more than 100 airfields in France, which had been bombed by the Allies and took the Allies two or three months to repair them, and now these airports were about to be tested by blood and fire.
It is impossible to keep such a large-scale air attack secret, not to mention that the radar of the Allies is also advanced, and it is very easy to discover such a huge group of aircraft.
After taking off from more than 100 airfields and airfields in the border area, German planes flew over the Maginot Line in more than 10 minutes, and each group had several hundred large planes and dozens of small ones, and each group had its own target, and among these planes, there were more or less bombers.
The main objective of the first wave of air raids was to bomb the Allied airfields, and no matter how many Allied planes there were, as long as there were more airfields that were blown up, then the strategic strength of his air force would not be brought into play.
Schmidt, who participated in the defense of Nanjing with Li Mo, is now the commander of the aviation division, but at this time he also personally piloted the plane into the air to fight, and this time Schmidt's task was to raid the large military airport in the southern suburbs of Paris, and the assault distance was relatively long, and there were many blocks and attacks from the allies.
Therefore, there are more than 130 aircraft in the group led by the stone man, of which 70% are fighters, only 30% are bombers, BF109 and BF110 are the main fighters, DO21 is the main bomber, and there are two JU89 strategic bombers in the sky above this formation.
This JU89 has a bomb load of ten tons, a range of more than 6,000 kilometers, and a flight altitude of 10,000 meters, which is almost the same level as the B29 strategic bomber, they are the trump card in Schmidt's hands, and other German bombers are just targets to attract firepower, which is no way to do it, and it is difficult for Schmidt to complete the bombing mission without doing so.
Ten minutes after Schmidt led the group of planes to fly over the Maginot Line, suddenly there were countless flashes of fire on the ground, and Sterman was fine, this was the Allied anti-aircraft artillery position.
You must know that the bombers given are all fully loaded with bombs and can only fly at an altitude of about 6,000 meters, and the escort fighters must also accompany the bomber group.
In an instant, countless explosions exploded around Schmidt's fleet, and the air waves generated by the explosions shook Schmidt's plane up and down.
The explosions of "boom ......" came and went, and the anti-aircraft guns laid out by these Allied forces below were at least hundreds, and it seemed that Schmidt and they had encountered a large Allied anti-aircraft position.
"Quick, pull up, accelerate through the enemy's anti-aircraft fire circle...... Soon......" (To be continued......)