"What happened?"

The man in the wheelchair looked at the staff officer who entered the door.

At this time, the president's tone was calm and his expression was indifferent, as if there was nothing in the world that could surprise him, and his eyes were full of confidence, as if he could easily deal with anything that happened.

As the president of the most powerful country in the world, he has this confidence.

No country in the world can launch two battles at the same time and conduct two-front operations, but the United States can, at the same time, launch operations against Germany and Japan, and even be somewhat at ease.

"The Germans in northern France attacked."

The staff officer paused before continuing:

"A total of eight armored divisions, twenty infantry divisions launched an offensive under the cover of bad weather."

"Oh?"

The generals raised their eyebrows, and Qi Qi was a little surprised.

But it's just a little surprising.

The situation with the Germans, they know very well.

The domestic production capacity is seriously insufficient, and it is simply unable to meet the needs of the two-front operation, and it itself cannot meet the needs of the whole army, and the eastern front has contained the vast majority of the forces and suffered huge losses, so the equipment on the western front is seriously insufficient, especially tanks and other heavy equipment.

On the surface, there are eight armored divisions, but in fact, the number of tanks is probably the size of three armored divisions.

The most serious thing is that the Germans are seriously short of fuel, without which tanks and planes will not be able to move at all, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly affected.

Don't be afraid.

However, everyone was a little curious, according to intelligence, the Germans only had five armored divisions in northern France, how did they suddenly come out of eight? And the number of infantry divisions is also beyond expectations.

"How's it going?"

Without waiting for the staff officer to continue, one of the generals asked.

Being able to speak at will at this meeting shows that this general's status is very high and he has a lot of right to speak.

"It's a terrible situation."

The staff officer's words made the faces of the generals' staff change in unison:

"The Germans moved three panzer divisions and three infantry divisions to the vicinity of Cherbourg, routed the troops preparing to attack Cherbourg, and continued to advance along the coast, now approaching the landing ground."

"On the other side, two German panzer divisions and five infantry divisions also broke through the defensive line deployed by the three British divisions, and after defeating the five divisions that followed up, they have now reached Monteburg and advanced."

"What's going on?"

The president's face remained the same, but his tone took on a hint of solemnity.

The occupation of Montfort, the node of the Cotentin Peninsula in France, means that the Cotentin Peninsula is cut off, and the strategic location is very important, and the peninsula also has the largest port in the north of France, Cherbourg.

According to the Overlord Plan, the capture of the Cotentan Peninsula was an important step in the plan, which was carried out by the U.S. Eighth Army, part of the British army, with a total of hundreds of thousands of troops responsible for the capture of the Cotentan Peninsula.

But why?

Why were the Germans able to mobilize their forces so quickly, and still be able to defeat a dozen divisions on both sides?

"What about Lu Airlines?"

The previous general also asked.

The armored division was indeed strong, but it was simply not able to organize effectively in the face of aircraft.

"The enemy armored division is very strong."

Staff Introduction:

"According to the front line report."

"The three German Panzer Divisions that defeated the Eighth Army responsible for attacking Cherbourg had nearly nine hundred tanks, but all of them were No. 4 tanks, followed by a large number of infantry carried by half-track armored vehicles, and even quite a few 105 self-propelled guns."

"The two armored divisions attacking near Fort Monte also had more than six hundred No. 4 tanks, as well as a large number of half-track armored vehicles and self-propelled guns."

"Two armored divisions in other areas, each with more than three hundred tanks."

Before the staff officer finished speaking, suddenly, the conference room exploded.

"Nearly nine hundred No. 4 tanks in the Cherbourg area?"

"Monteburg also has more than six hundred tanks?"

“····”

"It can't be."

In the end, it was impossible to silence the audience, and it was a major general who spoke, the head of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau in charge of intelligence, Major General Donovan:

"Eight panzer divisions, that is, the Germans had two thousand five hundred tanks in northern France alone, which is absolutely impossible."

Director Donovan's tone was hurried:

"According to various intelligence, the Germans produced more than 300 tanks per month at most, how could it be possible to deploy so many tanks to the Western Front? It's absolutely impossible. ”

"Two and a half thousand, which is already more than a third of the production of the German No. 4 tank."

A series of categorical denials of Donovan's claims.

"General."

The staff officer had to stop:

"The intelligence is from the front line preliminary statistics, and the specific situation needs to be further verified, but the front line has sent planes to forcibly reconnoitre, and aerial photographs have been taken, which proves that a large number of German tanks have indeed appeared in northern France."

"It's, how is it possible, two thousand five hundred tanks, it's absolutely impossible."

“·····”

Donovan's words immediately aroused a kind of disbelief among the generals, who could not believe that there could be such a large tank group in northern France. And all of them are tank fours.

"You go on."

The president in a wheelchair chooses to take control.

The staff officer continued, his tone becoming more solemn:

"Today, there was a storm in the English Channel, with a wind force of eight and a wave height of 1.8 meters, and the storm caused the Mulberry A artificial port, the floating dock to disintegrate, the caisson to break, and the Mulberry B artificial port suffered less damage, but four caissons were also destroyed."

However, the storm also caused massive losses on the landing beachhead, with 118 large and small ships, including seven tanks on board, one large personnel landing ship, one large oil tanker, three barges, and 67 landing craft. Fifteen ships were damaged, and 800 ships, large and small, were blown aground by the storm. ”

"It is expected that we will not be able to continue unloading the cargo for five days."

"It was also because of the storm that the aircraft could not take off to support the army, and the German armored forces were generally equipped with self-propelled multi-barreled anti-aircraft guns, and the anti-aircraft fire was very strong, and it was difficult for small-scale attack aircraft to affect them."

The staff officer's voice fell, and Qi Qi's face in the conference room changed greatly, including the president, who had always been calm and confident.

Landing on the coast for five days can not be unloaded!

The excellent port of Cherbourg appeared with enemy armored divisions, and the occupation was far away.

Moreover, the enemy also appeared with a massive armored cluster, a massive armored cluster of more than two and a half thousand tanks.

The landed troops were in danger.

"If this information is true, and the enemy really has a large number of tank troops near Normandy, then..."

Donovan narrowed his eyes:

"It means that our intelligence is wrong, and the Germans probably knew about our landing a long time ago."

"It doesn't make sense logically. ”

As soon as the words fell, someone retorted:

"If the Germans knew that we were going to land in Normandy, they only needed to strengthen the defenses in the landing areas, build permanent concrete fortifications, and then strengthen their forces, and they could easily drive us into the sea, and there was no need to suddenly come up with such a strong armored force more than ten days after our landing."

But immediately someone contradicted his words:

"No matter how strong the Germans' anti-landing strength is, it is impossible to stop it in the face of hundreds of warships, nearly 10,000 aircraft, and more than 2 million landing troops, and the Germans know this very well."

"Only after we have landed, the supply line has been lengthened due to our unstable foothold, our rush to advance, and the opportunity of bad weather to suddenly show our armored strength, can we completely annihilate the living forces and organize further military operations."

“·····”

Suddenly, in the conference room, the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and the quarrel was incessant.

"Quiet."

The president took a deep breath and, after taking control of the situation, asked:

"We don't need to talk about that now, what we need to talk about now is, how do we deal with this situation?"

There was a long silence in the meeting room.

The current situation in the north of France is unclear to everyone about how to solve it.

"Let the landing force establish a defensive line, and then do everything in its power to repair the port, during which the aviation will be fully supported, bomb the German armored forces, and wait for the port to be unloaded before continuing the attack."

"Also."

The general who spoke at the beginning said:

"Intelligence is fully committed to investigating the sudden appearance of German armored forces in the area of the Western Front."

This suggestion was unanimously agreed by everyone in the conference room, and a detailed supplement was made, during which everyone's expressions became more and more relaxed, although the Germans suddenly appeared out of the ordinary armored forces, but the overall strength, that is, their own side had an absolute advantage.

Now it's just a temporary minor nuisance.

"Just follow this plan."

In the end, the president made the decision.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and at this moment, another staff officer rushed in:

"President, news from the allies, the appearance of a large number of new No. 4 tanks on the Eastern Front in Europe, numbering more than five thousand No. 4s, as well as a large number of armored vehicles and trucks, has caused the offensive to be blocked, and they have asked us to launch an offensive in northern France to contain the forces of the Germans."

In an instant, the faces of everyone in the conference room changed again.

Then, a group of people looked at Major General Donovan in unison.

The presence of 2,500 No. 4 tanks in northern France, that is, on the Western Front, and more than 5,000 No. 4 tanks on the Eastern Front, totaling more than 7,000, was a major intelligence error.

"More than 7,000?!"

At this time, Donovan's face also changed greatly.

With a tank of this size, and a tank number four, he thought of one thing.

Alone!

······

"God help me."

In northern France, in a headquarters, Rommel almost jumped for joy:

"The landing ports of the Anglo-American forces were hit by a storm and could not be unloaded for a minimum of three days and a maximum of five days, and a large number of ships were damaged and could not provide logistical supplies to the front-line troops."

"Good news indeed."

Kesselring was also happy and wanted to clap and dance.

This is really God Helping Germany too!

"It's a pity."

Then, Rommel sighed:

"We don't have enough troops, and we can't deal with the British and American ships, otherwise..."

In order to make up eight armored divisions, in order to mobilize the 2,500 tanks and more than 3,000 armored vehicles, Rommel mobilized all the armored personnel of the Western Front, as well as reserve personnel, and even many maintenance personnel were pulled to the front line to make up the numbers.

Thanks to the good quality of the guys produced by the system, otherwise he would really not be able to drive so many people.

This also led to his inability to further expand the results of the war, and in the end he only annihilated more than a dozen British and American divisions, capturing a total of more than 100,000 people.

"And their superiority in the Air Force is also a problem."

Rommel continued to sigh.

"It is very difficult to defeat the British and American air forces, and we are seriously underfrequented in the number of pilots."

Kesselring says:

"But providing air defense for the army and suppressing its air force units can still be done after a while."

"Working with them, not only the fuel problem has been solved, but also some other resource problems have been solved, and now the production of new aircraft is on the right track, and they have also provided us with several new interceptors."

"With a solid concrete concealed hangar, there are no problems with air defense."

"However, at present, we can only equip ground air defense forces to ensure effective air defense in some areas."

"That's enough."

Rommel nodded.

"What are you going to do next?"

Kesselring asked.

"Take advantage of this time to build anti-aircraft towers and heavy shore defense artillery forts in Cherbourg and other places."

Rommel says:

"They have a quick-drying cement that only takes three days to reach the strength of our military cement. We can use this to build, as long as we build a few large forts before the Anglo-American forces attack again. ”

"With the help of their 'warehouse' to provide supplies nearby, steel, cement, cables, generators, anti-aircraft guns, radars, they will provide them, and the construction speed will be very fast."

"Okay."

Kesselring nodded in agreement.

At this time, Rommel was being ordered by the Führer to be commander-in-chief, responsible for the overall command of the operation in northern France, and suddenly, he changed his words:

"Is there really such a technology in the world?"

"I didn't believe it at first, but seeing is believing."

"Space teleportation technology is real."

Rommel was very interested in this, and if Germany could master such technology, then the combat capability of the troops would be increased by more than ten times, or even dozens of times:

"The head of state has mobilized technical personnel from various industries in the country to study this technology, and has allocated a large amount of money, and even personally supervised it."

"Still."

Speaking of this, Rommel frowned:

"It is said that the project seems to have been infiltrated by an Allied spy, and some of the information has been leaked."