"Why haven't Calais' troops arrived yet?" Lao Xi asked for the third time.

The Germans also placed their hopes on the heavy troops stationed near Calais.

Because when the French surrendered, they announced that Paris was not on defense, even if the Germans entered Paris, they had never arranged a large army near Paris in order to take into account the face of the French. Therefore, it was very slim to expect the large army to be dispatched from close range Paris.

Worried that the Allied forces would directly pose a threat to Paris, the troops stationed in Paris would not dare to dispatch easily.

The German headquarters did not expect these Paris troops. The 32nd Armored Division, which patrolled the Paris-to-waterfront area, was already the main force nearby, but it was not very useful in the face of the powerful offensive of the Allied forces.

As the war began, the Germans also gained some information about Allied operations.

Although the specific force is unknown, the surrounding garrison troops are useless in judgment and deduction.

Most of the troops suppressed in other parts of France were second-rate troops. It was okay to suppress French resistance organizations, but they could only delay the attack on the Allies.

The garrisons in the nearby Cherbourg area are somewhat powerful, but they are also limited. Faced with such a large-scale offensive, they may not be able to assist Normandy much, and it is easy to lose Cherbourg.

This is true. With the beginning of the landing, the Cherbourg area has also become the right-wing offensive target for this landing operation.

In the end, the Germans had to count on the closest Calais army to Normandy.

It is said that it is the closest, mainly the closest reliable reinforcements. In fact, the distance from Calais to Normandy is more than 300 kilometers.

Although the highway and railway network in France is already sound, these more than 300 kilometers are not too far. But the German army in Calais had to cross not only more than 300 kilometers of roads, but more than 300 kilometers of death lines.

From the very beginning, Allied bombers first knocked Calais overturned.

Calais has been strengthening air defense, but this time the Allied forces dispatched too many bombers. Although it would not cause too much loss, it was difficult to gather the support troops in a complete manner. When the troops were mobilized to support, the Allied forces used bombers to block all the roads from Calais to Normandy with bombs.

Every step of progress requires a corpse to lay the groundwork.

The nearby Luftwaffe has been entangled by Allied fighter jets. Even though the German self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery followed the queue, it still cannot stop the Allied continuous bombing.

This time, the Allied bombing formation lost more than a hundred aircraft, but the interception strategy of German reinforcements in Calais was successful.

When the German vanguard troops of Calais finally moved to the Normandy area step by step in the early morning of the fourth day after the D. The Allied forces had already landed in Normandy for more than 100,000 troops and quickly built a defensive position to block the Calais reinforcements.

The Germans always underestimated the Allied landing capabilities.

Transport ships from the other end of the Atlantic Ocean sailed directly into the English Channel without even stopping in the UK. A large number of Allied transport planes set off directly from Scotland and Ireland and flew towards the Normandy region.

While the smoke of Northern Ireland was still spreading, the British had reached an agreement with the Irish people to return Northern Ireland to Ireland, and exchange for the Irish government's resignation towards the Allies.

The Germans once again fell behind in the call for a report. At the beginning of the Normandy Landing War, they were still sending weapons to Northern Ireland, trying to make the Irish hold back behind the English. Even many members of the Northern Ireland fell at the guns of the British in those days, and in a blink of an eye, the entire Ireland stood on the side of the Commonwealth.

The southwest corner of Britain is so cramped that it cannot accommodate a large army at all, and some areas are in the hands of the Germans. This is far from the convenience of the conditions supported by the entire British mainland in history.

In order to organize this huge landing war, even the Scotland region in the north was used. Needless to say, Ireland is closer to it.

The Americans came forward to help Ireland. With the powerful strength of the Allies around, Ireland was not as good as a choice. Although the British were reluctant to abandon Northern Ireland, they finally made a choice and maintained their nominal rule under the guise of the Commonwealth.

This has given the million Allied troops that landed have more airports and hidden places.

And now together, the Allied forces far exceeded the Germans' estimates.

Based on the situation on the Cornwall Peninsula, the Germans initially estimated that the total strength of the Allied troops landed this time was about 300,000 to 600,000, but they did not expect that the Allied troops invested here exceeded 1.3 million, and the army alone had more than 700,000.

After receiving the news of the Allied Normandy landing, Lao Xi even ordered 80,000 German troops in the southwest to launch an attack on the Allied forces gathered on the Cornwall Peninsula, attempting to restrain them from behind. However, 150,000 Allied troops were already blocking them behind the defense line.

Although half of the Isle of Wight, which was closest to the landing fleet, was still controlled by the German army due to the Allied counterattack and recovery a while ago, even though these forces caused considerable casualties to the Allied forces, they were not enough to block the landing ships set off in surrounding areas such as Southampton.

German reinforcements from all over France continued to gather, but as the Allies were gradually built in Normandy's prefabricated artificial ports, more Allied troops landed.

By the end of May, 600,000 Allied troops had been sent across the English Channel, and there were 120,000 vehicles of various types and 400,000 tons of various types of supplies.

By early June, the Allies had repelled three large-scale counterattacks from the German army. They had completely gained a foothold on French land and began to expand outward.

On the 1st, the 1st US Army, which had been attacking Cherbourg for more than half a month, finally completely recovered the place.

On the 3rd, after repeated battles with the Germans, the Allies finally broke through the Oden River.

On the 8th, the Allied forces conquered San Lo, an important transportation hub in Normandy.

On the 11th, the Allies recovered Caen.

By mid-June, the first half of the Normandy Landing Campaign had come to an end.

Although the forces of both sides were not as strong as those of the original history, the battle was extremely fierce.

The Allied forces suffered 150,000 casualties, and lost more than 3,500 aircraft of various types and more than 1,200 ships of all sizes, including 1 battleship, 2 aircraft carriers and 5 cruisers.

The casualties of the Germans also exceeded 120,000, many of them were losses on the way to the arrival.

Fighters from all over the country, even Germany, suffered heavy losses, with more than 3,000. 135 warships sank during interception. These included two battleships and three cruisers who came to support from the Bay of Biscay and Calais.

Overall, the Germans suffered less losses than the Allies, but strategically, the Germans had already lost one move.

The Allies, which opened up the second battlefield, gained a foothold in the Normandy region and gradually advanced, even directly threatening Paris.

If Paris is recovered and more French people are encouraged to join the Allied forces, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for Germany.

The Germans have been constantly dispatching troops these days to intercept the Allied forces' advance, but they have always achieved little success.

Somewhat similar to the Japanese, the Germans who swallowed a large area of ​​occupied land were also indigested. Most of their main forces had spread out, and the Eastern Front occupied most of their troops.

The repressive troops left in Europe have always been relatively small in elite troops, which has led to the relatively empty strength of these places.

Far water cannot quench near thirst. Even if the Germans have the most powerful army in the world, they do not have enough time to prevent the Allies from entering into a fatal advance.

The oil-adding tactics of German reinforcements from all over the country were quickly submerged in more and more Allied troops.

The gap in Normandy was opened and the Allies saw hope. More troops were dispatched in the United States one after another.

Although the Normandy landing came to an end, the landings in other places continued. The United States alone dispatched another 300,000 troops before August. In addition to the troops of other countries, the number of Allied troops exceeded one million in early August.

In early August, 700,000 Allied troops forced to near Paris.

There, the 400,000 German troops gathered, led by Marshal Longdstedt, will usher in a decisive battle.

Meng Xiang is still not optimistic about this decisive battle.

In the air, the Allies had the upper hand.

The main force of the German armored forces was not here. Relying on the reserves and the newly built armored divisions, the less than 3,000 tanks of various types, were to fight against the Allied forces with more than 11,000 tanks. Moreover, the German army, which was pieced together for 400,000, obviously could not reflect the sharpness of German tanks.

More importantly, the home court belongs to the French, not to the Germans themselves.

If there were no accidents, the German army, which was at a disadvantage in all aspects, would likely give up Paris like in the original history, and then lose strategic initiative in more areas.

But the world is always full of surprises. A small thing can change the trend of history and directly affect China...

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