Werner and others were destined to be unable to see the Americans travel back to the United States, although this was indeed very tempting to annihilate an infantry division and an armored division of the US army.

However, Qin Chuan knew that the US military was ready at the beachhead.

It is true that an infantry division and an armored division of the US military certainly could not withstand the attacks of a German armored division and a mechanized infantry division.

However, the US military has strong naval and air power: the United States has the world's most powerful air force and the world's second navy... At this time, the US Navy was still nominally second, and the first one was the British Navy, but in fact the British Navy can no longer compete with the US Navy.

The reason is as mentioned before. The United States has strong industrial capabilities and can mass-produce a large number of advanced warships and aircraft carriers in a short period of time. However, Britain no longer has this capability, of course it is only the number one at sea on paper.

It is conceivable that if the German army attacked the beachheads where the US troops were stationed, it would have paid a heavy price even if it could defeat the US troops.

This is not what Qin Chuan wants, nor is it what Rommel wants.

This time, the German army's target was guessed by Montgomery... that is, what Montgomery said to Eisenhower, Syracuse.

Of course, Eisenhower would not believe Montgomery, of course, nor could he believe Montgomery.

Because if you believe in Montgomery and transfer the warships and fighter planes to the British direction and prepare for it, the US military will be finished.

But of course Qin Chuan would not make the US military so relaxed.

The German army drove the 1st American Infantry Division back to the beach. The main force transferred to Syracuse and headed straight for Syracuse, leaving only a few small troops hiding in the palm forest in front of the port of Trapa.

General Patton personally commanded the beach. After all, this was already the last position of the US military, and at least the situation seemed very serious to the US military... The enemy was in a palm forest, while the US military built fortifications on the empty beach. There was no place to dig trenches on the beach. The US military could only use it to make sandbags and place them together with thirty tanks, and then add mines and barbed wire to build a simple line of defense.

But General Patton knew that such a line of defense could not stop the German attack at all. German cannons would turn mines out of the beach, tank tracks would easily roll over barbed wire and sandbags, and bazooka would smash dozens of "General Grant"-style tanks with problems with shooting.

The only thing the US military can rely on or rely on for survival is the dozens of warships on the sea behind it.

"General!" The communications soldier handed the phone to Patton.

Eisenhower's slightly nervous voice came from the other end of the phone: "Can we stop them, Joe?"

Patton looked at the palm forest in the darkness, and a sea breeze blew, and the palm trees swayed in the wind, like a giant force rushing towards the US troops guarding the beach.

"Who knows?" Barton replied: "But I will do my best!"

Eisenhower on the other end of the phone nodded: "Don't let them come over, remember, we have shells, we will do our best to ensure the supply of ammunition, and we will leave the defense line to you!"

"Okay, Ike!" Patton put down the phone, knowing that his friend was timid.

It is normal to be timid, because the responsibility is too great... As the supreme commander of the Mediterranean War Zone, Eisenhower is in principle responsible for the victory or defeat of the entire battle.

But this is not the worst, because victory or defeat is common in military affairs, and there is no permanent general on the battlefield. What's more, everyone knows that American generals, including Eisenhower, originally supported another combat plan, that is, Patton's combat plan to directly attack Messina.

It was Montgomery who insisted on denying this plan for his own selfishness and proposed the traditional plan to carry out, which was dull and allowed the enemy to reinforce the plan to Sicily... A considerable number of American generals thought that Enna's German army crossed the Strait of Messina from Italy to reinforce. If the US plan was based on the US plan, Sicily would not have had several German troops.

Therefore, Eisenhower is not very responsible for the entire battle.

However, if the Germans broke through the US defense line and occupied the beachhead, things would be troublesome.

This is not only a positional problem, but a problem that the 45th Infantry Division and the 2nd Armored Division have no way to retreat.

Behind it is the sea. Although there are many warships and many lifeboats are prepared, the two divisions have more than 30,000 people, and there are German machine gun strafing behind it...

What's more serious is that the remaining soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division who were defeated and scattered in the jungle and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Palermo direction had no way out.

By then, a large number of American soldiers will be killed or have to choose to surrender, which is definitely a major tragedy for the US military.

All of this was caused by Eisenhower, because he agreed to this plan that was obviously unfair to the US military. The US military and civilians would vent all their anger on Eisenhower, and Eisenhower would completely become a "traitor" and a "traitor".

Patton held a cigar and put it in front of his nose and smelled it, but he dared not light it because he knew the Germans were in the palm woods.

What are they afraid of?

Patton thought they were worried about the fleet behind the US military and the large caliber guns on the warships.

But in fact, even Patton himself was not sure whether these naval guns could resist the German attack... There was a common military view in this era, that is, naval guns were not suitable for fire cover on the other side.

This sounds a bit ridiculous, because in modern movies, naval guns are bombarded on the other side of the shore and then blow up bunkers on the shore, and cars fly into the sky in an instant.

But in fact it has its own reasons...

Naval guns are on warships, warships are on the sea, and the sea water is constantly fluctuating, especially when warships fire their huge recoils will cause warships to shake violently on the sea surface.

Therefore, aiming at the target on a warship is two different things:

According to the adjustment of the artillery on the shore, the error can be controlled within 100 meters, which means that all the elements are correct. After firing, the shells may deviate by 100 meters from the target.

The same situation is when changing to a naval gun, that is, all the elements are right, but the shells may deviate from the target after firing. In addition, the speed of the target is inaccurate in actual combat, and the shells deviate from the target by several kilometers... This is also the reason why volleys are often needed in naval battles. At the same time, a row of shells can be fired, which depends on luck.

According to statistics from British battleships, the average hit rate of MARK1 gun hits 15-inch (381MM) is only 2.17%, which means that only two shots hit after firing one hundred shells, which is just a hit.
Chapter completed!