While the troops were conducting intense training, the bombing of Sicily had already begun.

Of course, in order not to expose the intention to attack, the Allied bombing was not only directed at Sicily, but also in Greece and southern France.

Because all three places may be the locations where the Allied forces landed 6, especially in southern France... Because the Germans believed that the Allied forces had obtained 200,000 French troops and a strong French fleet, they would be impatient to fight back to France, so southern France was a good choice.

In terms of bombing, the intelligence departments of the British and American troops are still very experienced. After all, they are all old industrial empires, and the intelligence and deception are all very smooth.

If you follow the ordinary people's ideas, the less you want to expose your strategic intentions, the more you should avoid it. For example, in these three locations, because Sicily is the real place for the Allied forces to land 6, the intensity of the bombing should be smaller, so that the German army can believe that it is not the target of the Allied forces.

But the British intelligence department believed that Hitler was arrogant and often liked to pretend to be smart, especially because he was still very stubborn... This is very important, and stubborn means that he cannot hear other people's opinions.

So Britain and the United States decided to do the opposite, and the bombing of Sicily was particularly fierce, but the bombing of southern France and Greece was almost symbolic.

What is more obvious is that the British and US air forces even bombed and blocked an island called "Banterella". This island is located between Tunisia and Sicily, only 110 kilometers away from Sicily. It can be used as a base for the Allied forces to attack Sicily, that is, the equipment, supplies, army and even the air force of the Allied forces can gather here. The meaning of blocking and bombing this island is to clearly attack Sicily.

But Hitler didn't think so.

"These idiots!" Hitler said to the map: "Do they think I'm so easy to be fooled? They can't do it so obvious, so their target is definitely not Sicily, and I think it's more likely that France... You know, the generals of France can't wait to liberate their motherland!"

So Hitler focused his attention on southern France, which was even more ridiculous. Even later, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops had already landed in Sicily. Hitler was still emphasizing: "That may be the enemy's trick!"

Therefore, Hitler did not do his best to rescue Banterelli Island.

In fact, even the German army's full rescue efforts would be useless, because there is a serious defect in the Banterelli Island, that is, insufficient water supply.

There were more than 10,000 people on the entire island, and it was barely enough to rely on the three wells on the island and the roof to receive rainwater when it rained... But the German and Italian troops deployed more than 10,000 troops here, including more than 2,000 German troops and 10,000 Italian troops.

This increases the water burden on the island, increasing the water demand by nearly twice as much as usual.

The reason why it has increased by nearly twice... is that the military needs much more water for training and fortifications than the people, and they do not know how to save.

The result must be that Germany and the Italian army would transport tamsui by ship through Sicily.

There is no problem with this in normal times. After all, Sicily and Banterelli Island are only more than 100 kilometers away, and ships can reach it within a few hours. However, during the war... As soon as the British, US air force and submarines blocked Banterelli Island, serious water shortage occurred on the island.

What's worse is that the British army sent intelligence personnel to find out the locations of the three wells on the island and sent bombers to blow them up... So it was no longer a "severe lack of water", but a "water cutoff".

This situation made the German and Italian troops stationed on Banterelli Island understand that it was almost impossible to defend the island, so the German troops quickly withdrew from Banterelli Island.

This made the Italian army, which had low morale, worse. They raised the white flag on the radio antenna early to prepare for surrender. But what was sad... the fierce bombing of the Allied forces made the island full of gunpowder and dust, and the gunpowder and dust still remained undispersed for a long time.

The Mediterranean region has this characteristic: humid air will cause smoke and dust to cover the islands for a long time like a sandstorm.

This made the Allied pilots unable to see the white flag hung by the Italian army. It was not until the Allied forces sent an infantry division to carefully board the sixth boat to rush to the beach that the Italian army was surprised to have waved the white flag...

Neither side suffered much casualties in this battle. The Italian army died only 56 people and injured 196 people in the air strike. One Allied forces were injured. And they were bitten because they went to tease a snail after landing on the island.

As a result, a famous saying was circulated by the Allied forces: "Compared to the Italian army, be more careful of the snails!"

Soon this famous quote was broken by another thing.

This incident was actually an accident. An Allied pilot got lost while performing a bombing mission. The result of being lost at sea was that it was insufficient fuel. So when I saw an island from afar, whether it was an enemy or an own, I landed in a plane...

After landing, the pilot found himself unfortunate because he recognized the soldier running towards him in Italian uniforms.

But soon he found himself lucky because the Italian soldiers who were rushing towards him were not here to arrest him, but to surrender to him.

So he set a record, one man occupied an island, captured thousands of Italian troops, and he was even a pilot.

As a result, the Allied forces also found out the bottom of the Italian army... If this is the case with the Italian army on the islands around Sicily, then the morale of the Italian army on Sicily is probably not much better.

Then there is only one problem next, that is, the problem of landing in Sicily.

But even on this issue, Britain and the United States still had a debate.

"Let me tell you the details of this battle of the 6th!" Alexander said at the meeting: "Since the Allies' continuous bombing on Sicily achieved obvious results, we not only successfully seized the air and sea control rights of Sicily, but also basically paralyzed the traffic of Sicily. Therefore, I think... we can use surprise attacks to carry out the 6th battle!"

This statement caused a sensation among the US generals as soon as it was made.
Chapter completed!