What is the difference between Montgomery and Eisenhower?

After the allied forces conquered Paris, the European war was coming to an end. But at this time, Montgomery began to have major differences of opinion with the Allied High Command represented by Eisenhower and the United States War Department.

Montgomery advocated taking Paris as the center and focusing on the main force to advance to the northeast. The goal is to build a powerful air base in Belgium, capture the Ruhr area on the Franco-German border before winter comes, and destroy Germany's military industry.

He planned that the 2 1 army group would be responsible for the west wing of the campaign, and the 12 army group would be responsible for the east wing, while the dragoons from the south of France would go straight to Nancy and Sal. Montgomery advocated determining the main attack direction and ensuring strong troops in the main attack area in order to achieve decisive results quickly.

Eisenhower, on the other hand, advocated the strategy of "magnanimous and frontal combat", based on the Seine River, attacking the main towns of the Rhine River on the open ground from The Hague in the north and the Swiss border in the south, in order to annihilate the enemy's effective strength.

Montgomery pointed out that if we adopt a broad and active strategy of advancing on all fronts and attacking in an all-round way, the attack will not be very strong, and even it will have to stop at the end, which will give the Germans a breathing space and delay the war. Although Montgomery tried hard, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Forces, and his opinions were finally implemented.

According to the decision, the main force of 12 army group still points to the east, attacking Mace and Sal. Just when Montgomery was uneasy about the "fragmented" battlefield, the British royal family promoted him as a field marshal in September 1 2008.

On September 4, when Antwerp and Leuven were recovered, he made a proposal to Eisenhower again, but it was still not adopted and implemented.

Due to the lack of materials and supplies, Montgomery failed to quickly capture the Ruhr, advance into Berlin, and delayed the plan to launch a large-scale attack on Anan. After Montgomery's repeated efforts, the plan was finally revised. After exchanging views with Eisenhower by telephone, his plan was finally supported, but the development of the situation at this time was worrying.

/kloc-in September of 0/7, the Battle of Arnhem began. Because the Allied Command did not take this campaign as the main action in the north wing, the overall deployment of the campaign was improper, and due to the influence of bad weather, the Allies failed to conquer the last bridgehead north of Anan as expected. On September 25, the frontline troops were forced to retreat, and the Battle of Arnhem was not completely won.

On February 6th, 65438, the German army under the command of Lundstedt suddenly stormed the Ardennes, the front of the US 1 Army. Its purpose is to strive for the last major action of the so-called "Germany won the war." This attack has formed a quite prominent position on the American defense line. The situation deteriorated rapidly, and the 12 army group finally split in two.

Montgomery was ordered to organize troops to counterattack. He put the British Ninth Army under the jurisdiction to fight the American army, and asked the army to take over some positions of the 1 Army. Before the formation of the American Reserve, he put the British army behind 1 and the 9th Army as the reserve echelon.

Under Montgomery's organization and deployment, the situation gradually stabilized. Subsequently, he was ordered to command the allied forces on the entire northern front. Allied forces fought together for two weeks, wiped out the attacking Germans and shattered Lundstedt's plot.

After the Battle of Ardennes, Eisenhower accepted Montgomery's suggestion, concentrated on attacking the northern line of Ruhr-gebiet, and appointed Montgomery to command and master allied operations.

1on February 8, 945, the ninth army of the United States cooperated with the Canadian army to attack the north. By March 10, the 9 th Army and the 2 1 Army Group of the United States were in position on the west bank of the Rhine. At the same time, the United States 1 regiment completely won the railway bridge in Remagen on March 7, and immediately established a bridgehead on the east coast.

On March 23rd, Montgomery commanded the Anglo-American allied forces to cross the Rhine, defeated the Germans on the north german plain, and then went straight to the Baltic coast day and night to prevent the Soviet troops from entering Denmark first, thus controlling the entrance to the Baltic Sea.

On May 2, the troops arrived in Wisma and Lubeck in the Baltic Sea, and blocked the Danish Peninsula six hours before the Soviet troops arrived.

After that, the British army built two lines of defense in the east-west direction, and the Second Army captured nearly 500,000 prisoners of war in two days.

On May 4th,1.5000 German troops stationed in Holland, northwest Germany and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery. At the last moment of the war against Germany, Hitler's fascist Germany faced complete collapse.

1on may 8, 945, the war on the European battlefield officially ended, and the military representative of the german high command signed a military surrender.