It seems that the Americans were forced to use Plan B by the Soviet Union. It seems that this is good news for the Soviet Union? I am afraid it is not entirely true. For Britain and the United States, Italy is a core interest and it is impossible to make principled concessions. Naturally, this so-called Plan B is just a different form to protect their interests.

What is the plan b? That is, Britain and the United States agree that the Soviet Union will garrison troops in Italy, but the number of this garrison must be strictly controlled, preferably no more than one thousand people. In other words, this is just a form. To put it bluntly, it is the Soviet Union's face, and then everything will be the same.

"Everything is exactly what you expected, isn't it?" Yakov smiled.

Li Xiaofeng shrugged and replied indifferently: "Roosevelt and Churchill can't play any new tricks."

"Then do you accept it?" Yakov asked.

Li Xiaofeng asked back: "Why should I accept it?"

In Li Xiaofeng's opinion, the issue of Italian troops garrison is not a problem at all, because from the very beginning he knew that Britain and the United States would never allow the Soviet Union to interfere in Italy. As mentioned earlier, the reason why Li Xiaofeng attacked this issue was simply to force Britain and the United States to break the rules first. If the British and American ones break the rules first, then the Soviet Union will also be equal in the future, depending on what you can say!

"In the name of the People's Committee on Diplomatic Affairs, I asked the following questions: First, where was the Soviet Union occupied area in Italy? Second, where was the British and American occupied area in Italy? Third, did Britain and the United States only station troops of a thousand people in Italy?"

These three questions point directly to the core of the problem. Roosevelt's plan B only agreed to agree to the Soviet Union's garrison in Italy, but there was no mention of where to garrison and how big the occupied area was, and it also directly added a limit on the number of Soviet troops. Then Li Xiaofeng had to ask in reverse: You Britain and the United States are only stationed in an army of 1,000 people? How big is your British and American occupation area?

After all, the international status among allies is equal on the surface. The Soviet Union's occupied areas are not as big as soybeans, but the British and Americans are bigger than watermelons. The Soviet Union can only have 1,000 troops stationed by the Soviet Union, but you 100,000 troops stationed by you? What is this called equality?

Of course, both the United States and Britain responded to this question in line with their style: "Given the difficulty of logistics supply in Italy by the Soviet troops stationed in Italy and the actual situation of the current combat against Germany, it is meaningless for the Soviet Union to maintain a huge army in Italy for the time being. If the Soviet Union must do this, then we can't help but ask, what is the purpose of the Soviet Union's must send a large army to Italy at this time?"

Seeing that, this turned the tables and made a decisive mistake, and was ready to take the topic in the direction of conspiracy theories. Li Xiaofeng's reply was: "In Italy, the garrison is the legitimate rights and interests granted to the Soviet government by relevant agreements of allies. Of course, the Soviet government must safeguard its legitimate rights and interests. When will we garrison troops in Italy, how many troops will be stationed and whether it is difficult to replenish logistics supplies, is it not the turn of the British and American governments to worry on our behalf? Do you two governments plan to directly interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union?

Wan Bu said that the Soviet government had said that it was the fact that a large number of troops were sent to Italy immediately? What we have always wanted to figure out is where the occupied area that should be designated for the Soviet Red Army in accordance with the relevant agreement. Only by knowing the location and scope of the occupied area can our government know how many troops should be sent to Italy to maintain stability, right? But now the British and American governments avoid talking about this issue, saying that the Soviet government can only station troops of a scale of 1,000 people. Isn’t this the logic of robbers?”

This makes sense, at least in the eyes of ordinary people, why do you not even divide the occupied areas of Britain and the United States? It stipulates that the Soviet Union can only send 1,000 people to Italy? Besides, the Soviet Union is now in a tight logistics and has tight troops, but after destroying the Axis powers, it is no longer nervous, right? The Soviet Union did not say that it would go to Italy to garrison troops immediately. How many people are willing to send to Italy to safeguard its own national interests after victory is all about your British and American affairs!

However, Britain and the United States directly ignored these questions and said bluntly: "Now we only discuss the current issues. Under the current situation, only one thousand Soviet troops in Italy are allowed to be stationed in Italy. Things are so simple. The future issues will be discussed after defeating the Axis powers!"

Anyway, the attitude of Britain and the United States is the final say. What can you do to me? It seems that the Soviet Union can't do to them, and we can't turn against each other for this little thing, right?

In response, Li Xiaofeng's reply was: "We have once again experienced the shamelessness of imperialist hegemony, and the Soviet government expressed that it would never accept it!"

What afterwards? There is nothing after that, because Li Xiaofeng has already got everything he wants, he just wants Britain and the United States to be shameless, which makes him shameless behind him. Of course, the most critical issue now is to see whether Britain and the United States run faster or the Soviet Red Army run faster, who can occupy Germany faster is the big winner.

Britain and the United States naturally realized this, so they rushed towards Germany hard, not only rushing hard, but more importantly, they also began to dig into "sham tricks" to see if there is a way to quickly occupy Germany.

This kind of wrong move is reflected in two aspects, one is military and the other is political. Montgomery once again stood up, and he once again proposed the famous "Market Garden Operation", preparing to quickly capture the Low Countries through the cooperation of airborne troops and mechanized troops, and then enter Germany in one fell swoop.

The plan was quickly approved, and the Market Garden Operation, which had been late for four months, finally hit the stage of history again. So can it be better than the historical results?

Dmitry Alexander Lovich sat in the cafe again, but this time he was not waiting for Abel, but another Soviet agent lurking among the Nazis.

"What are the requirements at home?" the secret agent asked without saying a word.

Dmitry Alexandrovic gently patted the newspaper in his hand and said, "Look at the newspaper well, there is a lot of new news today!"

After saying this, he put down the newspaper and flew away, while the secret agent stopped for a while and picked up the thick newspaper.

The information recorded in this newspaper is very important. To be specific, it is the entire plan of Montgomery's upcoming Market Garden Operation. From the goal and deployment to the specific time, it is clear. If this precious information is mastered by the Nazis, the market Garden will be fun.

So how did this top-secret information fall into the hands of kgb? This involves a very awesome spy, whose name is Philby.

Historically, Western researchers almost agreed that Jim Philby was the most outstanding agent of this century. He has many different names: "mole among the moles" and "scum of the nation" attributed to a title of "traitor". But they always have to preface a modifier "the most powerful", and usually give a high evaluation of his IQ and real spy. You must know that within the British intelligence agency "MI6", he will never be regarded as the most promising next person in charge of the department without any basis.

Speaking of "betrayal", Jiffelby himself disdained this statement and was very disgusted with the word to use it to evaluate his personality and activities he was engaged in. He said: "Betrayal first requires a betrayal, and I have never belonged to anyone."

Garolite Adrian Russell (Jim). Philby was born in India. His father was an official of the British colonial government. Because he was proficient in many Eastern languages ​​and was a famous Arabic expert, Philby's father worked in the British intelligence agency in the Middle East. He encouraged the Arabs to fight against Ottoman Turkey. After the end of World War I, when he realized that it was the British who betrayed the Arabs, he left the British and went to Saudi Arabia. There he began to believe in the ****** religion and married an Arab woman as his second wife. In his will, he warned Jiphirby: "Don't believe in the British Empire at any time." Undoubtedly, Philby's father planted the seeds of "betrayal" for Philby.

In 1929, Gifellby was admitted to Cambridge University. After graduation, he participated in the revolutionary movement in Austria for several months. After returning to Britain, he was ready to actively participate in communist activities. After getting to know the Soviet agent Gifellby, under his influence, Gifellby agreed to conduct intelligence espionage activities for the Soviet Union.

After providing necessary training for Jifeilby, Giyich gave him a major task to secretly sneak into the British intelligence department. From then on, all of Philby's activities served this goal. After hard work, he began his first contact with the intelligence department in 1940, and in 1941 he was already an important member of the "MI6" MI6". Subsequently, Jifeilby had a successful career, and by 1945, he had already taken the position of director of the MI6 counter-espionage department. Through this MI6 counter-espionage department, Giffelby fully grasped all the spy agencies of the "MI6" MI6, which were specifically used to oppose the Soviet Union and its Eastern European Union countries. It was with Philby's cooperation that Li Xiaofeng could eradicate the inside line of MI6's development in the Soviet Union again and again, and let Li Erwin retreat in a mess again and again.

Of course, Philby's most important achievement is not this, but has successfully developed the "Cambridge******". In addition to Philby, these five people also include Donald Marklin, "Figaro" Bergers of the intelligence agency, "King's Staff" Anthony Brandt and the mysterious John Cohencross. These five masters involved all the British intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It can be said that the five of them almost turned British intelligence into one-way transparency to the Soviet Union. Even even cunning like Learvin did not discover these five powerful guys.

Let’s not talk about the Cambridge Five. In the future, they will be their most important stage. The competition between low territories is the focus of the Allies and the Germans on the Western Front. Let’s first look at the situation on the battlefield. The Allied Western Front’s main attack cluster is two army groups, Montgomery’s 21st Army Group in the north, and Bradley’s 12th Army Group in the south. Although Eisenhower has always wanted the two Allied Army Groups to attack Germany in a lenient front, he could not do this at all.

As of January 1945, the deep-water port that the British and American Allies could use on the Western Front was still Cherbourg. This port not only had to supply all the supplies of the two armies of the Western Front, but also had to supply the huge material consumption of Paris. To put it this way, it was simply not enough to make ends meet.

So for Eisenhower, the facts are obvious. He can only focus on ensuring that one group of troops launches an attack, while the other needs to wait. After some insider trading, Montgomery got the priority of supply as he wished. Eisenhower hopes that the British Field Marshal can quickly take over the Low Countries and let large deep-water ports such as Antwerp and Rotterdam play a role, so that the Allies on the Western Front can accelerate their advancement and not let the Soviets take the lead first.

Therefore, the Market Garden Operation is of great significance, which is directly related to the supply situation and attack speed of the Allies in the next stage. To be honest, Britain and the United States really devoted all their efforts to prepare for the battle. Let's put it this way, Montgomery got everything he wanted!

Of course, both the British and Americans didn't know that this action, which they valued very much, turned into a colander from the beginning. kgb made a blunt move and leaked all Montgomery's plan to Germany.

To be honest, the Germans were shocked at first, and could not believe that such a big gift package would fall from the sky, and even suspected that this was another "Calais-style deception". However, when the German intelligence agencies began to pay attention to this matter, a lot of clues were exposed.

On January 13, Hitler declared to his staff: "This is a godsend opportunity. If we can fight an annihilation war in the Low Countries, Britain and the United States will collapse, and then we can repeat the glory of 1940 and once again use armored forces to drive the enemy into the sea. This can completely force Britain and the United States to withdraw from the war. Without the interference of Britain and the United States, it will be no problem for us to defeat Russia!"

The head of state believed that this was a fortune similar to that of the German in the Seven Years' War, which was a symbol of God's blessing for Germany. Therefore, despite the warnings and persuasion of the staff, the head of state insisted on drawing armored troops from the Western Front for the "Lowland War".

Hitler also took the initiative to fight this battle. After learning that Britain and the United States were preparing to carry out large-scale airborne operations again, he deployed a large number of fighter jets on this line, waiting for the British and American transport fleet to come and die.

Lieutenant Hank of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army recalled: "This was a nightmare journey. We were intercepted by the Nazis over the Netherlands. One transport plane after another was shot down. Even if the fighter squadron escorted us to intercept it to death, it was meaningless. My plane was also hit, and soon the flames swallowed everyone in the cabin. I was no exception. At the critical moment, the cabin door was finally opened, and I jumped out with a ball of flame..."

Lieutenant Hank was seriously burned and was sent to a German prisoner of war camp after landing. However, he was lucky and was rescued by the Soviet Red Army who arrived just a month later. Compared with those partners who had no chance to jump out of the cabin, he was extremely lucky.

The entire airborne operation was an absolute disaster. About half of the transport planes and **** were shot down in the air, and one-third of the other half was declared scrapped after being severely damaged in the air. And less than one-fifth of the paratroopers who finally landed successfully.

And the poor one-fifth of the paratroopers were soon surrounded by the German army, and there was no way to complete the bridge-grabbing mission assigned to them by Montgomery.

The paratroopers were a mess, and Montgomery's ground troops were not much stronger. They were blocked by the German army just after the attack was launched. After a fierce stalemate, the attacking troops were quickly consumed, especially after the German armored troops were put into counterattack, Montgomery's disaster came.

Because the weather was very bad, the Allied air support was greatly reduced. Without the support of the Air Force, the Allied forces on the Western Front could not withstand the German armored forces. Tigers and leopards rushed out in a swarm and kept having fun on the Montgomery front. In the first three days of the battle, Montgomery lost 200 tanks, and its attack spearhead was almost knocked into a colander. The poor Seventh Armored Division was almost broken. If it weren't for the sunny weather on the fourth day, the Allied air force rushed to the rescue site, the unit might have been cut by the German army to drink.

A crushing defeat!

Montgomery made a mess, and the joint operation of the air-ground that he had high hopes proved to be an absolute farce. Not only did he trap the Allied airborne troops, but even worse, after paying a heavy price, the 21st Army Group not only failed to make great strides as he wished, but was repelled by the Germans step by step and had to turn into defense.

"Why did it turn out like this?" Churchill was so angry that he even threw away his cigar. The Market Garden was too important to him to the British Empire. If he could succeed, it would greatly boost the morale of the empire and would attack the German hinterland before the Soviet Union.

And now? The market garden has become a gutter, and the British Empire has conquered its ship!

Lilwin's face was also quite bad. She replied: "Based on our reactions in the Nazis, Hitler seemed to have insight into our actions. He took a targeted arrangement and drew a large number of fighter jets and tanks from the eastern front to the side of Marshal Montgomery. When the battle started, the strength comparison between the enemy and us was not as great as we had imagined when we made the plan..."

Churchill asked calmly: "So, can MI6 tell me how Hitler knew about our plan? I remember that the plan was not highly confidential? Could he predict the future?"

Learwin smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid there are still German spies lurking in our government, so I want to launch another anti-espionage operation in the near future."

To be honest, this is a hindsight and has no use. But now the British can only do so much. If a few German spies can be found, Churchill can at least have an explanation to the parliament.

Of course, the old smoker also gave instructions: "One person is responsible for this anti-espionage operation. We have carried out many anti-espionage operations, but each time the results are not ideal. I doubt the reliability of the anti-espionage department!"

Li Erwin nodded: "I have similar ideas, so I suggest that I personally take charge of this anti-espionage operation!"

Churchill agreed little by little, and he felt that Lilwin could at least trust. It seemed that the situation was very bad for Philby? As the director of the MI6 Counter-espionage department, he could not lead the counter-espionage operation, which was a kind of distrust in itself. But Philby said nothing, instead he sincerely said: "In view of the fact that all the counter-espionage operations have not achieved satisfactory results, as the director of the counter-espionage department, I am willing to accept any form of review, and my department will cooperate with the review with all our might."

Although such a statement is not enough to completely dispel Learvin's doubts, it still slightly alleviates Philby's suspicion. So why is Philby so calm? The reason is very simple. As the main assistant to the person in charge of this counter-espionage review is John Cohencross, one of the "Five Cambridge Masters".

As the last member to be developed into the five-member group, Cohencross has a shallow qualification, but has very strong abilities. Historically, kgb's evaluation of him was: "Except for Philby, Kerncross's achievements are even better than any of the "Five Heroes".

This shows how powerful this person is. This time, with him as Learwin's assistant, Philby naturally doesn't have to worry too much, and his family, namely the kgb headquarters, also told him: "Let's relax, there will be no problems!"

Obviously, in order to protect the crucial Five Cambridge Masters, a certain immortal took action personally, and for him, it was really difficult for Li Erwin to find evidence.

Learwin handed over the review of the Counter-Espionage Office to Cohenclos because she had no interest in such boring document review and inquiries. If there was really a problem with the Counter-Espionage Office, there would be no such review. Learwin felt that the key to everything lies in Germany. If he could figure out how the Germans learned about the Market Garden Operation, then all problems would be solved.

Learwin flew to Switzerland again and issued instructions to the MI6 spies lurking in Germany, asking them to investigate with all their might.

"You mean the information was obtained by the Gestapo?"

Lilwin obviously did not believe this answer, because in her opinion, Gestafi is not a powerful spy structure. In her eyes, this organization is more like a robber and bandit institution. In addition to confiscating Jewish property, robbing the occupying power and cracking down on dissidents, it can be said that it is a mess in intelligence work. Top secrets like Operation Market Garden are unlikely to be found by Gestapo.

Learwin ordered without hesitation: "Tell me the name of the person who is directly in charge of the information, and I will greet them one by one!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!