Chapter 886 Guerrilla

Facts also prove that Rommel was right to give Rundstedt a way out... In the subsequent operations, Rundstedt cooperated very well and even had a sense of leadership.

However, Rundstedt was the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, and the leadership should have been in his hands. It was just because of a series of misjudgments before, and the whole thing was turned around by Rommel and Qin Chuan, whom he despised, and they took the upper hand, so that Rundstedt was embarrassed to call himself the supreme commander.

In general, the action plan is to "treat others in their own way."

First, it is to carry out "pre-war emergency control" like the United Kingdom, that is, all civilian vehicles except military vehicles are prohibited from taking to the road.

This is mainly to increase the difficulty of British spies to collect intelligence.

Of course, the effect of implementing this set in France will be much worse, mainly because many French people volunteered to act as British spies to provide intelligence to the Allies. All they need is a radio, which can be said to be hard to defend.

The disadvantage is... Rommel can no longer take a French civilian car to inspect everywhere as before.

"You confiscated my 'super car'!" Rommel said jokingly.

Because it was a civilian car that the Allies would not attack, Rommel called it a "super car".

"Your Excellency Marshal!" Qin Chuan replied: "You should be thankful for this. If this 'super car' attracts the attention of spies one day, or they recognize it as your 'car', then the Allied pilots will send it to the sky!"

"That's right!" Rommel nodded and cursed: "These damn British people, they make us a little nervous!"

"If it weren't for the lieutenant colonel..." Colonel Shuster looked at Qin Chuan with admiration: "We might never find out about these conspiracies they set up. God, they forged two armies and played us around!"

"So!" Colonel Slaine said: "It's not the British Intelligence Agency that's more terrifying, but our 'legendary sergeant', isn't it?"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

The second is the mobilization of troops.

Two armored divisions were transferred to the Brittany Peninsula and camouflaged... They marched at night and hid during the day. The method of lurking was the same as that in the desert. They dug a pit on the ground and drove the tanks in. They covered it with canvas or even covered it with soil or vegetation. It was difficult to find it even if you walked in front of it, let alone the pilots flying fighters in the sky.

Of course, the armored division's base in the direction of Calais was still in normal use. From time to time, the noise of tank engines and the sound of soldiers training came out from it, and radio communication was also carried out as usual... This set was learned from the British, but the British disguised an army group, while the German army only disguised two armored divisions.

The difficulty of the German army was that they not only needed to deceive the British Intelligence Agency, but also the Führer and other neighboring German troops.

However, Hitler's order helped a lot at this time... Regarding the attention of neighboring troops, Rundstedt's answer was: "You don't need to know intelligence that is not related to your own mission!"

As for Hitler, it was easier to solve. All communications were completed, received and sent by fake bases.

But in fact, the headquarters that received and sent messages was just an empty command center, and they were all composed of intelligence personnel sent by Rundstedt... They deceived the Führer and the British Intelligence Agency at the same time.

"Of course I will not send these armored units to attack the enemy casually!" Rommel said: "That will only expose the armored units to the firepower of enemy naval guns and fighter planes."

This is also what Qin Chuan is worried about. Rundstedt and even Guderian are firmly opposed to this.

But now Rundstedt is of course not willing to express any objections.

"I will try my best to use armored units at night!" Rommel explained: "If there is a chance to attack, try to get close to the enemy so that their naval guns will be cautious!"

The tactics are correct, just like the "close tactics" used by the Volunteer Army against the US Army, the difference is that Rommel is close to tanks.

But these are far from enough.

"In this way, we have three armored divisions and seven infantry divisions in the Brittany Peninsula!" Rommel pointed to the map and said, "There are also eight coastal defense divisions, a total of 18 divisions. The enemy's landing force on this line is estimated to be around 100,000. In this way, the enemy and our forces are equal. Although the Allies have air and sea supremacy, we have solid fortifications and occupy the terrain. It can be said that each has its own advantages."

"But..." Then Rommel changed the subject and said, "They also have an unknown number of airborne troops. As we said before, these airborne troops will land behind our defense line and cooperate with the French guerrillas to attack everywhere. They will even guide fighters to carry out precision bombing... In this way, our coastal troops are almost surrounded by the enemy!"

Rommel's worries are justified. The focus is often not on the airborne troops themselves, but on the Allied airborne troops and the French guerrillas forming a force, and then setting off a vigorous anti-German wave across the country... It won't be long before the whole of France will become Germany's enemy, and the German army will be unable to move forward and be restricted everywhere.

"The most effective way to deal with airborne troops is with mechanized troops!" Colonel Slain answered without thinking: "We can deploy several mechanized infantry divisions in the rear!"

Colonel Slaine's idea is not wrong, and this has been proved at the Baku oil field... Soviet airborne troops were annihilated in batches before the German mechanized troops.

"But that was when we had air superiority!" Rommel objected: "The Allies are different from the Soviets. The Allies will obviously use their air superiority. I think they will choose to airdrop before dawn in the early morning, so that they will be covered by air force soon after the airdrop. And our mechanized troops will suffer heavy casualties or even collapse under the attack of their air force, not to mention killing their airborne troops!"

After a pause, Rommel continued: "On the other hand, in order to prevent the Allied airdrop, I also set up many artificial lakes, and then I will release water to cause trouble for them. But these will also cause trouble for our own mechanized troops!"

This is obvious. Mechanized troops are extremely dependent on roads. If any section of the road is flooded or bombed, the mechanized troops will become infantry.

"Why don't we clear out the guerrillas?" Qin Chuan asked.

"We tried, many times!" Rundstedt replied, "but you can't tell which ones are guerrillas and which ones are not, or which Frenchmen will become guerrillas!"

"Commander-in-Chief!" Qin Chuan said, "You didn't try to lure them out at all!"

"Luring out?"