"Marson!" Qin Chuan said: "The Italians have transferred all the elite troops to North Africa!"

"Yeah!" Redel responded, and after a while he realized, he looked up at Qin Chuan in surprise: "You mean... the Italian army in North Africa is an elite force?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

"The Italian army in Sicily..."

"Hmm!" Qin Chuan nodded.

To a certain extent, Raidel's strategic deployment is correct. The Luftwaffe is located in Tunisia to cover the navy of Bisseda from the west, the Italian Air Force in Sicily covers the navy on the Tyrrhenian Sea from the east, and the Italian army in Sicily also has a large number of anti-aircraft guns in hand. In addition, the Italians also have a fleet, which can make Sicily a barrier between the island of Malta and the Tyrrhenian Sea, so the German Navy is very safe.

but……

The Italian army had a disarray and his morale was low. At the same time, they did not think that the British army currently had the conditions to land in Sicily, so they were not worried about their airspace at all... You know, in the battle against Egypt, the Italian army had a way to make their defense line a gap dozens of kilometers wide without discovering it, so it goes without saying what would happen in Sicily.

In history, the Italian defenders in Sicily even had a ridiculous incident: a wounded Allied fighter plane was forced to land on a small island, and the pilot was preparing to surrender to the Italian army on the island. Unexpectedly... the Italian army came to surrender to him in groups, so the pilot set a record of the largest number of prisoners, and it was also a record of pilot capturing the enemy army.

Colonel Slein interrupted: "His Marshal, with our experience in cooperation with the Italian army, I don't think we can trust the Italians, especially the Italian army in Sicily is not yet ready for combat, and we have not established a channel of communication with Sicily!"

"But Garipo's Admiral told me... the British air force could not pass through the air defense of Sicily!"

Colonel Slain shook his head and said, "Marson, you should ask us more than the Italians!"

"Marson!" At this time someone reported: "General Adrien reported that British submarines were discovered!"

This news made the commander nervous, especially at this time.

"What do the British want to do?" Redel said unconsciously.

Qin Chuan understood what Raider said. Anti-submarine methods in this era were very primitive, which was one of the reasons why German submarines could block the UK.

Therefore, most British submarines can be discovered, which are actively floating up and observing or tracking the German fleet.

When Radell asked about the details, it was true.

This seems to be a bit serious. The submarine tracking fleet is either looking for opportunities to attack or grasping the position of the enemy fleet for further and larger-scale operations.

It’s okay to say the former, but if it were the latter... Qin Chuan’s worries will soon appear.

"No!" Then Redell shook his head and said, "In such weather, it is difficult for British planes to find targets!"

Redell was right. It was raining outside, and there was a gray area everywhere. Visibility was very low.

In this case, even though the British army had grasped the position of the fleet and had even flew above the fleet, it was difficult for the pilots to drop bombs on warships on high-speed fighter jets.

However, at this moment someone whispered: "Marcedes-in-law, the rain seems to be getting lighter!"

Redell looked out the window and saw a little sunshine even appeared in the sky.

"God!" Raidel could no longer calm down, and immediately ordered: "Immediately order General Adrien to move closer to us!"

He paused and ordered again: "Import the general of Garibo immediately to strengthen the air defense of Sicily!"

But there is actually not much difference between saying something and not saying it... Garibo's words did pass on this to Lieutenant General Guzoni, the commander of the 6th Army stationed in Sicily. Lieutenant General Guzoni also conveyed the order, but basically no one took it seriously when the divisions were all taken.

Because the Army would think it was the Navy's business, the Navy thought it was the Air Force's business, and the Air Force believed that someone should give them intelligence to them before they could attack... This is the consequence of the serious lack of communication in the sea, land and air. Everyone thought that the war would not burn to Sicily so quickly, so they would do whatever they should do. Even when the British fighter jets crossed Sicily, the Italians thought that those were German aircraft.

Of course, this is also related to the quality of the Italian army. Although the 6th Army in Sicily is huge, with 9 divisions and two brigades, only 4 field divisions have certain combat effectiveness, and the rest are basically militia-like, which also determines that they cannot effectively intercept the British army fleet.

Montgomery's plan was actually very simple, which was to annihilate or severely damage the German fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Originally, Montgomery was still worried about the German army because the main force of the German Navy was in Algiers and Bisserda Port.

Algiers is 300 kilometers away from Malta, which has reached the critical combat radius of British fighter jets (Note: the combat range of Spitfire fighter jets when loading equipment is 760 kilometers). More importantly,... to bomb Algiers, it must pass through Tunisia, and there is the 27th Air Force of the German army.

Needless to mention the combat effectiveness of German fighter jets. Although the British army was unstoppable on land during this period, they suffered heavy losses in the air. Especially the German pilot named Marceyu, it is said that he had captured more than fifty British fighter jets by his own strength, and this was a record set within a month... This made the British pilots have a psychological shadow.

Therefore, there is the same problem with the Port of Bisseda, which is protected by the German 27th Air Force.

Montgomery suddenly realized that although he had more fighter jets and was ready for everything, he was somewhat powerful and unable to use it.

"What are you hesitating about, Monty?" Eisenhower asked: "We have to attack Bisselda Port, which is in our way!"

"But Ike!" Montgomery replied: "There is a guy in the German pilot who can shoot down 8 planes in ten minutes and 17 planes in the same day... and he is in Tunisia!"

Eisenhower nodded: "I've heard of him. Are you worried that our fighter planes will be attacked by the Luftwaffe and suffer heavy losses when bombing the enemy fleet?"

"Yes!" Montgomery nodded.
Chapter completed!