The airborne troops are very obvious, because Belgium has the Ardennes and the Netherlands has the same terrain. If you want to break through here, you can only use the airborne troops to control the bridges, roads and important places in this area like Germany in a "blitz war", so that your mechanized troops and armored troops can quickly break through.

Otherwise, it would be a situation where two armies use infantry to consume hard in the mountains, mud and mountainous areas, and this is something the Allied forces would never want to see.

"But this is impossible!" said Longdstedt: "A few of their airborne divisions have been defeated by us in Normandy. I am afraid that less than one-third of them can escape back!"

The US airborne troops are worthy of being an elite army. In that case, they knew they could not complete the task, so they settled down and chose to preserve their strength...the method was to escape to the jungle or defend the countryside with fewer German troops.

The German army, because the British and American troops were attacking with all their strength, could not fully encircle and suppress the US airborne troops, so they finally let them escape back part of them.

"These remnants are no longer enough to airborne the Netherlands!" Longdstedt said: "Even if they dare to airborne!"

Longdestedt means that the US airborne troops have suffered such huge losses, and it is hard to believe that they will carry out another large-scale airborne.

Longdestedt was right, Americans did not want to, but Montgomery insisted on doing so.

At this time, there were five airborne divisions in the United States, namely the 11th Division, the 13th Division, the 17th Division, the 82nd Division and the 101st Division.

The 82nd Division and the 101st Division suffered heavy losses in the airborne battle in Normandy and were indeed unable to participate in the war.

The 13th Division was formed in the United States.

The 17th Division serves as a reserve in the UK.

But only one 17th Division was not enough, so after the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division suffered heavy losses, Eisenhower urgently transferred the 11th Airborne Division to Britain on the Pacific battlefield.

The 11th Airborne Division was originally used to deal with the Japanese, but it was almost impossible to use airborne troops in the landing battles of small islands in the Pacific. The 11th Airborne Division was only prepared as a reserve force in case there was no troops available when airborne was needed.

(Note: The 11th Airborne Division in history was finally used as an ordinary infantry on the Pacific battlefield)

This also gave Montgomery three more airborne divisions: the 11th, the 17th Airborne Division, and the 1st Airborne Division of the United Kingdom.

As early as the German army retreated on a large scale, Montgomery had already begun to consider the issue of attacking the German defense line.

He believed that the fastest and relatively easy thing was to pass through Belgium, the Netherlands, and then through the Lower Rhine region to bypass Germany's "Zigfeld" defense line, and then sweep across northern Germany.

(Note: The "Zigeffe" defense line is a line of defense built by Germany to fight against the French "Magino" defense line. After the German army broke through the "Magino" defense line, the "Zigeffe" defense line was considered to have lost its meaning, so the artillery and others were removed to the "Atlantic Barrier")

According to Montgomery's attack direction, the Allies needed to first capture the Maas River, Val River and the Lower Rhine Bridge, and open a path for the Armored Division to advance.

So Montgomery developed a combat plan called "Market Garden".

According to Montgomery's idea, the Allies would control key bridges in the Netherlands through large-scale airborne wars. At the same time, the airborne troops and British armored troops attacked the German troops in the Ardennes mountainous area of ​​Belgium. They quickly broke through and occupied the entire Netherlands through the highways and bridges guarded by the airborne troops, and then entered the German land.

This is a bold offensive plan, and it is completely different from Montgomery's conservative and old-fashioned command style.

However, if you think about it in detail, it is normal for Montgomery to make such a plan...

The French army actually attacked Paris, and the 3rd Army led by Patton made a splash on the battlefield. As a result, Britain was forced to declare to the world that the US army led by Patton was the first to liberate Paris.

So what did the British army do?

The British Empire, known as the "Empire of the Sun," was actually unable to move forward in the entire battle by the Germans. This was not in line with the identity of "the world's largest power" in any case.

So Montgomery needed to take back this face, or to take back this face for Britain.

As for whether the airborne troops will be in danger... the two airborne divisions are American, and only one airborne division is British, and this level of risk is acceptable.

Once the "Market Garden" operation is successful, the British army will become the first force to attack Germany's mainland and even occupy the German Ruhr industrial zone to a considerable extent, which determines the outcome of the battle.

This contribution is much greater than the liberation of Paris, especially the UK can also grab advanced equipment and engineering talents from the Ruhr Industrial Zone.

So Montgomery decided to do so without thinking too much.

"This will be the largest airborne combat in human history!" Montgomery said: "Our airborne troops have three divisions, with a total strength of 34,600 people, of which 20,011 people were parachute-dived and 14,589 people were parachute-dived. At the same time, the glider will also transport 1,736 vehicles of various types and 263 artillery, and there will be about 3,342 tons of ammunition and supplies to be delivered to the war zone through parachute-dived and aircraft-dived..."

"No, we can't do this!" Eisenhower opposed worriedly: "It's too risky. If the enemy deploys armored divisions in the Netherlands, our airborne divisions with only light weapons will suffer heavy casualties again!"

"We don't need to worry about this, General!" Montgomery replied: "You know the terrain of the Netherlands, which is not suitable for armored troops. At the same time, our spies in the Netherlands also told us that there were no German armored troops there, and their main forces were retreating to the 'Zigfey' defense line!"

What Montgomery said was not the truth.

"Super Intelligence" obtained information that the German armored division had increased troops to the Netherlands, but Montgomery turned a blind eye to this information. Not only that, he also suppressed the information.

On the other hand, Major Ert, the "Spray Fire" Type 11 reconnaissance aircraft of the RAF's 16th Reconnaissance Plane, also reported that German tank units were found in the Netherlands.

Montgomery once again ignored this information and ordered the British military doctor to give Major Ert to sick leave, on the grounds: "Major Ert is so tired that he is a little nervous!"

These are obviously a series of low-level errors.

Or Montgomery believes that these German tanks are not fearful, and the British or British and American airborne troops have the ability to kill them and eventually win.

Or, Montgomery was too urgent to compete for the victory of the German mainland, so he ignored many things that could not be ignored in normal times.
Chapter completed!