"Of course!" Montgomery replied: "Of course I know that Port Messina is the most worried about the Germans, but... what does this have to do with the Eighth Army?"

Montgomery obviously didn't understand what Zhang Chi meant.

"There is a saying that 'care will cause chaos'!" Zhang Chi explained: "Because they are most worried about Messina, so Messina is their soft frenzy!"

"Hmm!" Montgomery seemed to understand a little: "Major General, what do you mean is... attacking Messina and forced the Germans to return to aid? But the Germans built a line of defense in the Etna area to surround the Port of Messina, and we couldn't find a breakthrough!"

"I didn't say attacking from land!" Zhang Chi said.

When Montgomery heard this, he opened his mouth wide. He finally understood what Zhang Chi meant. This was indeed a good idea. Two German divisions formed a circle to protect the Port of Messina in the Etna area, but the sea was empty... As long as the Allies acted to attack or even land on the Port of Messina from the sea, the Germans would be in trouble.

Montgomery was stunned while holding the telegram, and after a while, he sighed.

The staff officers beside him looked at Montgomery's expression and thought the matter could not be resolved, so they all looked at each other without any idea.

What the staff didn't know was that Montgomery's sigh was not because the problem was not solved. In fact, Montgomery believed that Zhang Chi's method could completely solve the problem.

The reason why Montgomery sighed was that he felt that there was always a gap between him and Zhang Chi... In fact, Montgomery knew in his heart that not only was there a gap between them, but the gap was not small.

At this time, Montgomery hoped that this Chinese would never appear in his sight. Even if the British army would defeat the war because of this... Montgomery, who was proud and conceited and liked to pursue fame and fortune, was unwilling to surrender himself to others, especially in Montgomery's proud command wisdom.

In fact, objectively speaking, Montgomery did not have much command wisdom. To talk about the contributions of Montgomery in the middle and upper class, it was his conservative tactics that made the Commonwealth Army know what they should do.

Such tactics and strategies were originally unable to win Rommel. Rommel lost in the end...a large part of the reason was that Malta blocked the African legion's transportation line and caused a situation of "a skillful woman could not cook without rice". On the other hand, Montgomery received a large number of US aids, including 300 "Sheerman" tanks.

If there is a huge gap in military strength and supply, it would be strange if the British army fails to win.

However, outsiders who don’t understand the inside story will not consider these gaps. They only know that others were beaten by Rommel on the African battlefield, and Montgomery turned defeat into victory in just a few months after going to Africa. Isn’t this Montgomery’s credit or who’s credit?!

Among them, the British people and the government... Under the German blockade and bombing, they were eager to discover a hero to boost morale and make people believe that the war was developing on the better side, so Montgomery became a role model.

But now, Zhang Chi is challenging Montgomery's authority, and such a thing may happen in the future, so of course Montgomery will not be able to live a better life.

But having said that, Montgomery still knew what was most important now, so he immediately asked the staff to draw up a plan, a plan to "attack" Port Messina.

When he was planning this plan, Montgomery's expression was awkward, because although he didn't say it, he knew in his heart that the plan actually came from Zhang Chi's hands, and his staff also knew it.

The plan was not complicated. Montgomery ordered the US military not to go east to rescue the British army, because it was too late to do so. When the US military arrived, all they could get was probably the corpses of the British army.

The Chinese and American troops were ordered to continue to advance north as planned, with the goal of Port Palermo.

On the other hand, Montgomery ordered the First Division of the Zoaf Corps, the troops led by Zhang Chi, to rebuild the airport and port in Palermo... This work is not difficult, because the Palermo airport and port fell into Zhang Chi almost intact, and Zhang Chi even asked most of the staff to maintain their posts.

The reason for doing this is first of all because the Italians are very distributive, and they don’t look like prisoners, but more like innocent people who are “oppressed by fascists” liberated by the Allies. Therefore, their work attitude and enthusiasm are even better than before.

Secondly, Zhang Chi will not find so many staff to replace them for a while, and Zhang Chi needs the port and airport to maintain good operating conditions.

After everything was done, the US military's fighter jets, transport aircraft and warships drove to Palermo in batches, and the British army also made the same moves in the port of Syracuse... A large number of troops, transport aircraft and warships gathered.

This is still a certain difficulty for the British army, because their main force was surrounded in Catania, so there were not so many troops to build momentum, so Montgomery even used the reserve team and even the guards.

These actions of the Allied forces were soon spread to the German command... After all, Sicily was still Germany not long ago, and the Italian army's territory, and the Allied forces' every move could not escape Germany and the Italian army's eyes and ears.

Keseling sighed at the map with the small flag representing the position of our enemy and our troops, and said, "Gentlemen, I think we have to retreat!"

This statement soon aroused the opposition of General Ludwig.

This was not surprising to Kesselin, because Ludwig was a firm supporter of the head of state, and like the great head of state, he thought that as long as he had enough will, he could overcome all difficulties, so he always hoped to defeat the Allies in Sicily.

"Marson, we cannot retreat at this time!" Ludwig said: "The current situation is developing in a favorable direction, right? Our army is surrounding the British Eighth Army, and the British Eighth Army suffers heavy casualties. In just a few more days... we can defeat them. Once the British Eighth Army is defeated by us, Syracuse will be no problem, and the US military will be alone, so we will still stand firmly on Sicily!"
Chapter completed!