The Zoafu Corps and the Chinese Army have three hours of preparation time.

This is because Zhang Chi hopes to launch a raid at night... Although it is very dangerous to launch a raid at night in this weather, with heavy wind and heavy rain, and marching is very difficult, let alone a raid.

But Zhang Chi knew that the most important thing about this raid was to be unexpected. As for the difficulties in the marching, they could be overcome as long as they thought of a way.

Eisenhower also knew the importance of this raid, so he suggested that ammunition and cars be drawn from the Allies as much as possible for Zhang Chi to use, but Zhang Chi refused, except for the jeep.

"Too much ammunition is useless to us!" Zhang Chi said: "Indeed, we are likely to lack ammunition. But Caen is fifty kilometers away from Normandy, and we must arrive in Caen within ten hours or one night, or at least reach the vicinity of Caen, so that we can launch a raid on Caen... and carrying too much ammunition will only slow down our marching speed!"

"I agree!" Eisenhower said: "The good news is that I just got a telegram from the Meteorological Bureau. They thought the wind would weaken at night and that the center of the storm would move northward, which means... as you march south, the impact of the storm will be reduced!"

"This is indeed good news!" Zhang Chi replied.

"Good luck to you!"

"Thank you, we really need luck!"

...

The action was one hour ahead of the plan, because under the influence of the storm, it was already dark at around 4 o'clock in the evening. In order to gain more time, Zhang Chi decided to set off immediately.

The first troops were a division led by Cookie... as usual, they set out with bicycles.

Many people think this is not a good idea, because it is difficult to maintain balance in storms and nights, so it is basically impossible to use normally.

But in the end, I decided to take it on the road because the equipment a person needs to carry, such as weapons, ammunition, explosives, shells, etc., which are at least hundreds of kilograms of it. It is almost unimaginable that a person will carry it and then march for fifty kilometers in this situation. Even if a bicycle cannot be used, it will be much easier to push and walk than to walk.

A regiment of the second group of walking Chinese troops.

Unlike the First Division of the Zoafu Corps, most of the Chinese army's regiments took jeeps... This used almost all the jeeps of the US military, and hundreds of vehicles lined up in a long row.

The advantage of a jeep is that it can carry more equipment quickly and quickly, which is beyond doubt, but to some extent it relies more on the road. Although it has strong off-road capabilities, it still has widths that cannot be used as narrow as a bicycle.

So these two troops actually form a complementary form: the Jeep convoy has few troops and is well equipped, and is expected to arrive in Caen first and launch an attack. Then, the cycling convoy will immediately reinforce it after arriving.

In order to protect the two convoys from successfully interspersing Caen, the other troops remained in the Normandy area and launched an attack on the "Omaha" depression... The Germans would find that the troops attacking them included Chinese and Algerian troops, so they thought that both of them were still nearby, but they did not know that part of them had been divided into two troops and entered Lyon.

In fact, Rommel did not expect this. At this time, he was looking proudly at the front line command center at the sand table full of small flags representing the enemy and our troops, and said to the staff: "Look, everything is developing as I expected. The Chinese army's Zoafu Corps has launched an attack on us!"

"Yes, Marshal!" said the staff officer in admiration: "Especially the use of diving tanks has enabled us to successfully regain the Omaha Beach. Now... as long as we can hold on to the Omaha Beach, then the victory will be ours!"

"We will!" Rommel said: "As long as we can withstand the attack of the Chinese army... do you know? What I worry about the most is not the British or the Americans, because what they will do next is as expected, but this Chinese..."

"This time, weren't they also expected the marshal?" The staff officer interrupted in time.

"It's true!" Rommel nodded, but said with some concern: "But who can say it correctly? The Chinese always surprise us, especially Zhang Chi..."

Rommel was not wrong in guessing, but he didn't know that Zhang Chi was on the way to Caen at this time.

Zhang Chi chose a highway that is not often moved, because only such a highway can reduce the trouble as much as possible... At this time, the highway should be full of German troops to reinforce Normandy. If the Chinese army's jeep convoy drove on the highway like this, I was afraid that they would fight the German troops within a few steps.

It should be said that this is also a blessing for the Allied bombing.

Before attacking Normandy, the Allies carried out indiscriminate bombings in northern France for more than a month. The bombing almost destroyed all the roads and railways in northern France. The German army's resources were limited, so they could only choose a few spacious and nearer main roads for uninterrupted maintenance... that is, they would repair them as they exploded to ensure smooth traffic.

As for other inconspicuous roads, the German army simply gave up them.

Therefore, there were no German troops walking on these highways, and there were even fewer checkpoints... Many bridges on these roads were broken and were not open at all, so of course no one would take it seriously.

This gave the Expeditionary Force an opportunity to take advantage of it. Zhang Chi sent a team of French people to reconnaise in front... The French were relatively safe to reconnaise. Even if they were discovered by the Germans, they could lie that the French people were confused and escaped.

It is not difficult to find a few French people in the Algiers government... The guard company brought by General Juan is a good choice.

This French army reported the situation to Zhang Chi at the forefront, such as a broken bridge a few miles ahead, and engineers needed to build a bridge, and a German offing far away, which required troops to be sent to solve the problem.

Then the Expeditionary Force will send a small team to solve these "troubles" one by one.

The solution to the checkpoints is usually hard... that is, kill them all.

As for worrying about whether to leak the secret, Zhang Chi had already thought about this: when the Chinese army launched an attack on the Germans, the clothes of the French people were wearing, and from time to time they shouted a few words of French that had just learned from the French.
Chapter completed!