Imperial Overlord

"The landing is on!" An American officer hurriedly ran into Marshall's office and reported to Roosevelt's think tank.

Marshall was stunned for a moment, then stood up and asked with a frown, "Have the Germans landed in England?"

"No! No! The Germans landed in Jersey and occupied it in just one day." The officer who came to report the letter quickly explained, which made Marshall feel at ease.

Fortunately, the Germans did not land in the UK immediately, so there is still a way to rescue them. Marshall was a little relieved, looked at the map of the European situation hanging on the wall, and did not speak.

The officer hurriedly exited the room with interest. At this time, Marshall was thinking about the last shortcoming of the inexperience of the German landing, which seemed to have been filled.

This is definitely not good news, neither the UK nor the US are ready for a meal war if Germany ventures into the UK in the winter.

Although Germany is not ready, it seems that the Germans have a better chance of winning when neither is ready for each other.

Taking into account the Navy and other factors, Marshall shook his head again, and he felt that the German army could not land in the winter, which was almost a fact.

If the enemy takes risks, as long as the British navy kills the German landing craft troops regardless of losses, it will completely eliminate the landing German troops.

As long as there are no later transport ships, only relying on air force transportation cannot meet the needs of the German army in the British mainland. Losing the transport ship also meant that the German landing failed.

After a simple conversion, Britain could use two or three battleships, plus some cruisers and destroyers, to wipe out the German landing force at sea on the first day.

But looking at the map, Marshall was a little unsure... If the Germans were really determined to land, a day might be enough to hit some important positions.

"If I were a German commander, such risks could be reduced by various methods." Marshall kept calculating the gains and losses in his mind, and brought himself into the perspective of the German high-level to analyze the problem.

"In some places, the paratroopers are air-dropped, and the combat effectiveness of the German paratroopers is trustworthy." He said something in his mouth, fully affirming the courage and skill of the German paratroopers.

After all, this unit has achieved amazing results in Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta and Crete. Under such circumstances, it is obviously an unwise choice to despise this power.

Marshall is known as an American think tank, and he is also the only genius commander who has never commanded a unit but was promoted to a five-star general. Knowing how to operate is his most powerful characteristic.

Therefore, when a war has not yet begun, he can rely on his own planning and analysis to almost calculate the outcome of the war and the general process.

It is precisely because of his ability that after he brought himself to the top of Germany, he found that the Germans actually had more cards than they seemed.

"Using paratroopers to occupy some traffic nodes is basically impossible to defend." Marshall thought about the countermeasures and found that this tactic seemed to be unsolvable.

Because the troops garrisoning the British coastline could neither deploy enough troops at all points, nor could they guarantee that the troops deployed would actually be able to withstand the German paratroopers.

You know, the real battle example is clearly in front of you. The Belgian fortresses were unexpectedly smashed open by German paratroopers, not to mention that the British hinterland did not have that level of fortifications.

In addition, in fact, even Marshall could not speculate that the Germans would attack in which direction, and there was no way to deploy defensive forces in a targeted manner.

If it was placed half a year ago, when the British navy still had an absolute advantage, the landing site was relatively easy to speculate. But now the landing areas that the Germans can choose from have expanded a lot, which has led to a further increase in the British defense area and a further dispersion of troops.

Since it is impossible to strengthen the defense against the German paratroopers, the enemy may take the lead by surprise. This is something Marshall does not want to see, and it is also something he has to face.

With two random gestures on the map, Marshall passed the paratroopers. During his simple game, the German paratroopers had actually gained the upper hand.

Under the blessing of this advantage, when the German landing troops appeared on a certain landing site, the British defenders were actually quite passive.

"It's not easy to fight... There are enemy paratroopers behind him, and reinforcements are not flowing... The coastal defense forces can only rely on themselves. This is not a good start, no, absolutely not..." Putting his hand on the map, Marshall found that it seemed that the United Kingdom It is almost certain that human coastal defenses have been breached.

If the coast defense is broken by the Germans, and it is broken through relatively quickly, then it is not easy to analyze how far the German troops can advance in a daytime.

"There are too many variables. In this case, I can't see the outcome of this war." Closing his eyes and rubbing his temples, Marshall gave up his plan to continue thinking about it.

The latter thing involves specific technological progress, innovative processes, and even some genius methods.

For example, the intelligence shows that the Germans can strengthen the port of Sirte within a month, turning it into a large port comparable to Tripoli.

If the Germans really have such an anti-sky technology, it is not impossible to quickly build a port at the landing point.

Assuming that the conjecture holds true, then the German landing points will be more random and the supply of landing troops will be more abundant.

There is also a fatal problem, that is, how many tanks will the German troops transport ashore on the first day. This was a specific technical issue that Marshall could not speculate on.

In the past, everyone used to think that Germany had no landing experience and lacked landing equipment. Under such circumstances, the number of tanks transported ashore on the first day was not too much.

Therefore, during the deduction, the Germans often only have 20 to 30 tanks in their hands, which is less than the number of British tanks on the second line waiting to counterattack. Therefore, in most cases, the British garrison will win in the deduction.

But if the German army can send 50 or even 60 tanks ashore, from the perspective of the quality of tanks in North Africa, the British armored forces are not enough.

As long as the German army has the advantage of armor in part, and then breaks through the British line of defense and rushes forward frantically, the tragedy of the French campaign will be repeated, and everything seems to be too late at that time.

"How much landing technology do the Germans have? How many **** landing ships are they building?" After asking himself with a headache, Marshall shook his head, picked up his file bag, and prepared to meet President Roosevelt .

...

"The design of this kind of tank transport ship is really clever..." In the civilian dock in Kiel Naval Port, a boatman looked at his masterpiece and sighed.

The displacement of the ship in front of him is not large, and its size is not exaggerated. This type of vessel is tailor-made for the English Channel and can transport 3 tanks in one go to places offshore.

The draught of these ships is so shallow that the tanks can be transported very close to the shore. And the way these tanks are loaded and unloaded is also very interesting, interesting and unexpected.

The three tanks were hoisted on simple cranes like flagpoles. As long as the ship is docked to the dock and the boom of the simple crane is lowered, the tank will slowly drop to the dock from the side of the hull.

While transporting tanks, the ship can also transport more than 200 heavily armed soldiers! While the tanks are being placed, soldiers can unload from the bow rope ladder to the dock.

In other words, this "semi-finished tank landing ship" can quickly unload a large number of troops as long as a simple dock that can carry warships is erected.

Such ships are very easy to build. Because of their small size and low equipment requirements, Germany can build dozens of these ships in a short period of time.

Therefore, as long as the German landing force builds the floating dock, these dozens of castrated tank landing ships can send hundreds of tanks to the shore within two hours.

Even if it is impossible to know the future direction of different wars, Li Le, as a traveler from the 21st century, still has to go beyond this era.

For example, he drew on the principle of loading and unloading of container ships and came up with a simplified version of the tank landing ship. This method of quickly unloading tanks is exactly the same as unloading containers in later generations.

In addition ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ a simple small floating dock, just like a pontoon, with a buoyancy box, it is very easy to drag and install.

As long as the first batch of landing troops succeeded in controlling the beach, the sappers could then set up small floating docks within a few hours.

According to the landing plan, at noon on the same day, the German tank force could go ashore and a hundred or ten tanks would sweep the nearby British troops and push the front line away from the coastline.

Souls from the 21st century, even if they do not understand the landing operation, are not as unfamiliar as the generals during World War II.

Li Le, who has seen the American landing craft, can easily describe the landing craft dedicated to the infantry. After the efforts of German engineers, it is not difficult to realize.

The emergence of this small landing craft has doubled the efficiency of the German landing force, and it has also given soldiers the possibility of directly hitting the beachhead.

The only constraint is that these new equipment cannot be mass-produced because Germany's large port facilities are now desperately building submarines, as well as several large combat ships. The limitation of the number of equipment is still the number one problem that plagues Germany.