The German raided a villa on the outskirts of Rome, which was not good news for all the Italian leaders. His majesty called all the ministers he could find, including Mussolini, to ask whether the German army would invade Rome and control the whole Italy. ∈ ↗ The climax novel,
After Mussolini insisted that it was only a small German army, several Italian leaders who supported the secession from the axis finally relented. But they still asked Mussolini to arrange credible troops to enter Rome and increase the security forces around their houses.
After agreeing to these people's demands, Mussolini finally left the king's house. He already felt that the situation was very bad, but he was still full of hope for his future. Even the collapse of the border troops did not make him so depressed, but the fall of the villa made him feel the coming of the crisis.
"There are more than 300 mines laid on the road to the top of the mountain around the villa! I have deployed a reinforced battalion there, which is more than 600 people! " Mussolini's henchman, who was in charge of the villa, lowered his head, waiting for his boss to be furious. He knew that he had messed up, and that it was an irreparable kind of thing.
"I don't want to know how you screwed it up. I just know you screwed it up!" Mussolini complained angrily: "the special envoy of the United States is on my chassis, and he has been killed by the German troops... If you were the United States government, would this account be in my head?"
In fact, what he fears most is not the blame of the Americans, but that the United States gave up its plan to support Italy because of this raid. This is the real fatal problem. Once the United States abandons Italy, how long can Italy, a country with weak fighting capacity, struggle under the iron fist of the German army?
Thinking of this, Mussolini clenched his teeth. He knew that he had no way back, so he had to harden his head and move on: "you go, inform all ports, seize German goods, including those sent to Israel! Order the navy to seal off all the sea areas... Besides, invite all my staff here, go ahead. "
"Yes! Mr. leader! I'll do it now! If there's no other orders, I'll go out first! " See Mussolini impatiently waved his hand, the confidant quickly nodded, out of Mussolini's office.
Mussolini in the room changed his face. He whispered, "if it wasn't for me, I would have killed you such a fool!"
After scolding his disheartened man, he grabbed the phone and dialed the officer's office of the security forces downstairs: "Hello, I'm Mussolini. Raise the security around my office to another level and double my strength! If necessary, air defense anti-aircraft guns and iron fist rocket launchers should be arranged... "
"Yes, leader! I'm going to take another battalion from the capital defense force and deploy a guard around your office! " On the other side of the phone, the officer in charge of Mussolini's safety agreed loudly.
Mussolini was slightly relieved to hear the promise. He sighed helplessly as he looked at the ever expanding territory of Italy on the wall since he took office. Libya's oil exploration rights, transportation roads and even tax rights have been bought by the Germans at a low price. What's the difference between this vast colony and not?
Looking at the chaotic situation, he is in the dead Balkans every day, which is a pity for the Italian leader to give up. He did get part of the Balkans, but he fell into the endless harassment of the local guerrillas and could not get away.
"I just want to make my motherland strong. Is it so heinous?" Mussolini moaned again. In his opinion, he was only seeking the normal means to seek the prosperity of his country. Not long ago, we all did this. We swayed back and forth among the big powers, and constantly used alliance and betrayal to gain benefits.
However, in just a few decades, the two world wars have changed everything. Now the alliance needs more strategic vision than before, and it is not easy to change. Everything in the world has changed, becoming more bloody, more cruel and cold.
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While Mussolini was disconsolate in his office, the German Paratroopers were crouching under the enemy's machine guns. Not all Italians were slaves of subjugation. In this important strategic airport, a real fierce battle broke out between the local garrison and the German Paratroopers who came to occupy it.
"Battalion commander, two companies in the East are suppressed by air defense machine guns! Their firepower is too strong for us to make a breakthrough in the East. " A signalman with a radio on his back, lying beside borol, reported the news that had just been delivered.
They had tried to build an offensive siege nearby, but the Italian defenders in the airport unexpectedly refused to surrender and tried to fire back at all attacks. The other side had plenty of ammunition and was well prepared, so there was no good way for the German army to take advantage of the airport with a circular defensive position.
"Hell, who said this parachute to Italy was a happy trip?" Borol looked at the distance with a telescope and kept firing at the nearby Italian antiaircraft gun turret built on the platform. He complained: "I knew I should have taken the parachute chariot, not to give up so many heavy equipment in order to load more parachutes." This time, in order to achieve the goal of parachuting to the maximum extent and range and quickly occupying the largest area of Italian territory, the German parachutes did not carry a large number of heavy weapons. The 75mm multi-purpose infantry artillery and parachute chariots did not parachute with the troops. They only had individual weapons such as grenades and explosive packs. The German army did achieve the tactical goal they wanted, and the number of paratroopers was increased. So in the first 10 hours after the war, German Paratroopers took control of the vast northern part of Italy, preparing for the rapid advance of German ground forces“ Take a class of soldiers and attack another 30 meters from that direction! Can you do it? I'll support you with all the firepower I can find, build a forward machine gun position at that distance, and then disperse the enemy's firepower. I'll attack on this side! " Borol said to the one armed Donner beside him. Donna immediately nodded, turned back and yelled, "soldiers of 1 company, 2 platoons and 1 class, follow me! Let the Italians see what we're good at Although he had only one hand, he had only one arm. The name of Donald was well known in the whole paratrooper camp. He lost his hand in Damanhur, but found a temperament there, a temperament about soldiers. Now he stands there, will let the human feel that unusual majesty, that is one kind and his age some does not match the texture“ Machine gun! Fire at the enemy's point of fire! Suppress the enemy's weapons! Our men are ready to attack The commander of company 1 leaned against the wall of a foxhole and yelled to a machine gun group not far away. The shooter who put the butt of G42 machine gun on his shoulder nodded his head at his company commander. Then the machine gun in his hand vibrated, the bullet chain seemed to be pulled into the gun body by some force, and the scattered shells fell to the ground from the shell throwing window. The fire tongue of the machine gun is continuously ejecting, and the tracer bullet clip is mixed in the bullet rain and flies to the distant target“ Attack Seeing the Italian's firepower suppressed, downer leaped out from behind the bunker, waving his bare wrist and shouting to his comrades in arms. With his shouts, more than a dozen German Paratroopers jumped up from their hiding place. They lowered their bodies as much as possible, carrying their own weapons, facing the dense barrage of enemy bullets, and rushed towards their targets. Some were hit by bullets, struggling to roll to the ground, while the rest continued to rush forward to fulfill their sacred mission“ sniper! Can you take out the shooter at the firing point? That machine gun position is a serious threat. " Looking at downer's attack, someone was hit by a bullet. Borol was so anxious that he turned back and asked the sniper behind him“ I'm firing! It's not a good distance! " The sniper did not let his eyes away from the rifle sight when he answered, he focused on his prey, and then shot away the life of the prey. His hand was so steady that he didn't even tremble when he was carrying the gun“ Bang With the sound of a gun, the threat of a very large machine gun positions, continued fire no longer flashing. After firing more than a dozen bullets at the machine gun position, the sniper seems to have finally completed his combat mission at this moment. The Italian firepower pillar appeared a short pause, so the German attack momentum suddenly fierce, these brave German Paratroopers shouting the slogan of Damanhur, crazy close to the Italian position. In the end, they got close enough to give full play to their courage“ Damanhur! Attack Borol saw that the enemy's firepower was partially suppressed by the machine gun position established by the protruding downer, and decisively gave the order to attack. So hundreds of German soldiers jumped out of their bunkers and began to rush towards the Italians opposite.