Chapter 674

"Did he really say that?" When Mussolini got akado's request from the special envoy, he didn't know whether he was scared or angry. His clenched fist was a little trembling. He looked like an old Parkinson's disease patient.

In fact, the Italian Navy is better than the army in fighting will and combat preparation. In fact, the main reason why dozens of warships stayed in the harbor was not that the Navy generals were cowardly, but that they faithfully carried out Mussolini's order not to fight with the Mediterranean fleet of the British Navy outside Alexandria.

In Mussolini's opinion, the Mediterranean fleet of the British navy can't beat the main fleet of Italy. However, after meeting with several generals of the Navy, Mussolini firmly believed that even if the British navy is finally surrounded and annihilated by the Italian Navy, the Italian Navy will lose 20% to 30% in the end.

Theoretically speaking, if the British Mediterranean fleet is annihilated, the Italian Navy will have no rivals in the whole Mediterranean. Even if it is to fight for losses and eat the opponents, it is not an unacceptable thing for the Italian Navy who wants to control the Mediterranean. However, Mussolini is from a political background. What he wants is not just a complete balance of military power.

Politicians often see more and more comprehensive things in their eyes. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it's a tragedy. In Mussolini's eyes, after the total annihilation of the 1 ﹣ British Mediterranean fleet, there is not only an Italian Navy on the whole "Italian inland lake", but also a weak but not negligible French naval fleet, as well as the future Mediterranean naval sub fleet that Mussolini is more worried about.

Therefore, he felt that he should do something to keep the size and strength of the Italian Navy. He felt that in the future Mediterranean area, the Italian Navy should maintain a small range of absolute strength. In order to ensure this strength, he decided to break faith once.

As everyone knows, after the loss of Alexandria and other coastal ports, the British Mediterranean fleet had only two ends, either leaving the Mediterranean or surrendering to the axis powers in the Mediterranean region. No matter which way the British chose, it had no essential influence on the Italian Navy's goal of dominating the Mediterranean.

As for the far future, Mussolini was too lazy to worry about it any more, and he really didn't have the idea to let the Italian Navy expedition in the Indian Ocean. For the Italian Navy, which lacks the ability to deploy for ocean operations, dominating the Mediterranean is the biggest dream they can think of in their life.

Because the highest ideal, or the highest strategic goal, for Italy to join the axis powers and launch a war is to "build the glory of the Roman Empire" and "make the Mediterranean the inner lake of the Italian kingdom". As for other ideas, Italians have no courage or imagination to practice them.

The slogan of establishing the glory of the Roman Empire is a bit too ambitious. After all, the Roman regime in the Roman era had France, Switzerland, most of Germany, the whole Balkans and almost all of North Africa. But now, unless the Italians are crazy, not to mention half of France and Italy, they still can't get into trouble, They would never dare to ask Germany to hand over Munich to Italy and rebuild the Roman Empire.

Therefore, Mussolini's another slogan "let the Mediterranean become the inner lake of the Italian kingdom" has become the last thought of the Italian top leaders. So several generals of the Italian Navy united to bewitch Mussolini and worked out such a plan that acardo lost 3000 German Paratroopers.

Now that the Germans have shown their swords, and they are under pressure, there is no room for the Italians to maneuver. Either promise a series of humiliating treaties to compensate the German for the loss of being teased, or prepare to meet the fury of the German J group army.

Mussolini's first reaction when he heard the news was dizziness. Is the j group army in Hote's hand what his group of useless army generals can resist? If Italy had the ability to fight alone with 200000 German soldiers, it would not be chased by tens of thousands of British soldiers in North Africa.

In his mind, he kept flashing the past achievements: Rommel and goodrian led four armored divisions to sweep France, and the French knelt down to beg for mercy, while the Italian troops were beaten back to the border by the French; Hundreds of thousands of Italian troops were chased back to Tunis by tens of thousands of British troops all the way from the Egyptian border. Now Rommel has arrived in the North African War and is ready to take his Marshal's Scepter at the right time; The Italian troops in the Balkans were beaten by Greece and Yugoslavia. In the end, they got their face back by asking the German for help.

Thinking of this, he could not help wiping the cold sweat on his face. Once Germany and Italy really had a bad relationship, he could see the beautiful scenery of the German encirclement of Rome in a few days. His army generals probably heard that the German called, and the first reaction was not to organize resistance, but to take people to seize him and give him to the German master.

Two days ago, when it was learned that the Navy did not go to sea, but released the British Mediterranean fleet, the generals of the army met Mussolini. At that time, the chief of staff of the Italian army said to Mussolini in tears: "once the German army entered Rome regardless of the relationship between the two countries, Italy can hold on for one to two weeks at most... The specific time depends on the speed of the German army's capture and advance, and has nothing to do with the resistance of the Italian army. "

From then on, Mussolini knew that it was more realistic to expect these army generals to fight to the end and create a miracle to defeat the German army than to pray for God's lightning strike to kill akador in the church. The Navy supported his decision. However, once the German army launched a case against him, the navy would at most give him a boat to send him to South America or North America. There were many similar successful cases, such as Charles de Gaulle and the British royal family. After thinking about it, Mussolini thought there was a better way: to go to Berlin and kneel in front of akado's boots, Then no matter what the other party said, he nodded, at least no one could shake the position of the first loyal dog under his majesty akado“ Help me prepare. I'll go to Berlin myself. It seems that the German head of state, akkado? Mr. Rudolph has misunderstood us Italians. With the attitude of maintaining the traditional friendship between the two countries, we must explain to our old friends face to face. " Although everyone knows that this time he went to Berlin, he knelt down to beg for mercy, but at least in face, Mussolini had to speak with high sounding. Everyone breathed a long sigh. Since Mussolini was soft hearted, at least Germany and Italy would not meet each other in arms. At least we could be prosperous. Let's talk about how to make a small fortune in the glory of the third empire. In a word, if someone is soft, everything will be fine. As for who is going to pretend to be the grandson, it's not everyone's concern“ Leader! Are you going to fly or train? " A secretary in charge of Mussolini's itinerary asked in a low voice behind Mussolini. He must prepare the means of transportation in advance. As for which one to use, it depends on the leader's own meaning“ Flying... "Mussolini just wanted to say that he wanted to take a plane to Germany. He remembered the last time he went to Germany to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Third Reich financial building. As soon as the plane entered German airspace, it was surrounded by four fighters and accompanied by the flight. He thought it would be safer to go by train. I heard that German radar can now find a bird's flight in a long distance, If the other party wants to change an obedient Italian leader, it will create an air crash. Thinking of this, he decided to be on the safe side: "don't prepare the plane. Take the train. In addition, I have to trouble Mr. special envoy to go to Berlin again. Take the plane and leave tonight. Tell the head of state that everything is negotiable." Mussolini also want to open, is not to the Italian army training and command it? I'll give as much as I want to be single once. In short, Italy is a country behind the German chariot. It's natural for Italy to get some benefits and pay a little price. As for the interests of other places, to put it bluntly, they were all brought down by the help of the Germans. As long as they didn't go too far, I decided to be an ostrich this time! Mussolini, who has already made this plan, thinks that now that he has done it, he should do all the scenes at once to give akkado and the German generals a big face. In this way, when the Germans are ready to ask for prices, they have to be restrained. So he waved to his secretary and said, "let the guard of honor of the black shirt army prepare for it. This time, he will go with me to Berlin, Germany, and help me prepare 30 huge wreaths to be transported to Germany by special train. I will lay wreaths for the dead paratroopers and bow to repent." After thinking about it, he took a look at the chief of staff of the Navy, who had secretly decided to take the blame for the incident. Finally, he added: "the chief of staff of the Navy should come with me to Berlin, too. If the German people..." leader! Don't say any more. After all, the situation is better than others. I'll go to Berlin with you to see the head of state. If he can't swallow his breath, I'll make my own decision in front of him and give an account to the third empire! " Knowing the end of his life, and knowing that stretching his head is also a cut, shrinking his head is also a cut, the chief of staff of the Navy bowed his head and said, "I will bear all the responsibilities."