But are the Germans really not ready for war? An inspection at the border was ordered to block the border. In front of the Italian garrison, a German officer smiled and handed the certificate in his hand to the other party. His expression was natural and warm, and he looked like something happy.
"I’m sorry, captain, we have received an order to prohibit the German armed forces from entering Italy … although this order feels strange, I did receive this order." The Italian officer looked at the German officer in front of him and persuaded him.
He had to cope with the fact that the German team had been strong for a long time in front of him, not to mention that the leopard assault gun parked behind the German commandant was absolutely worthy of his awe. That thing is not easy to handle. It is said that one shot can end an entire bunker.
"It’s a pity that I was ordered to disarm you and cross the border to occupy several towns behind you." The German commandant took back his certificate and pointed to the leopard assault gun parked behind him, as well as an armored car and two trucks. He continued to say calmly, "If you refuse, then we will find out in another way when I go back."
The Italian officer coughed and smiled awkwardly. "Look, you said that I have always been inaccurate in our orders. We have always been solid allies, haven’t we?" Since you want to take over here or hurt our personal safety, I will wait for the new order in the barracks honestly. "
"Very well! Please hand over your weapons and take truck soldiers back to your barracks to take over the defense there. I have to go to a small town and hear that you have strengthened a regiment garrison there, "said the German commandant, turning back to the leopard assault gun that has been launched."
The Italian officer pulled out his waist weapon very well and threw it at the German guard post. His Italian soldiers also followed the example of their own officers and piled up their rifles at the German soldier’s feet.
The truck moved. German troops crossed the border defense line and entered the hinterland of Italy. The roadside was full of jokes. The Italian defenders seemed to have stepped on the land with their heads held high. It was not that they were ordered to guard the land. Generally, the Germans marched in as if they were on their own land. In most cases, they did not even encounter any resistance
"I said that these Italians didn’t mean to let us pass and then prepare to encircle us and annihilate us, did they?" A German recruit holding his Mao Se rifle in a truck was rather guilty. He looked at the Italian defenders who were several times more than them on the roadside and asked the old-timers around him.
Since the establishment of the J regiment, the old platoon leader of this infantry company took one look at his side, and this recruit sneered, "Just this group of Italians will lend them twice as much force to let our car dig a hole and stay here until the support arrives."
The radio also echoed Mussolini’s announcement of Italy’s withdrawal from the Axis countries. Here, German army troops have crossed the Italian border area, and most of the troops have disarmed without a shot. The number of Italian defenders stationed at the border has an absolute advantage.
One Italian after another was afraid that the tanks would rumble down the residents’ fence from the country road, and they were wary of German soldiers carrying their own weapons out of the rice fields. It took only ten minutes to drive teams of Italian soldiers out of their foxholes and simple bunkers.
"What? My orders are to hold your ground. If the Germans dare to shoot, you must fight back! Hold your positions! Speak clearly! What do you mean the Germans took your gun away? " An Italian division commander shouted angrily in his own headquarters that he didn’t hear the guns and cannons of the front-line troops, and as a result, the rear unit reported that they had seen German armored troops speeding through the highway.
"tu! Chug! " Before he could finish this sentence, the machine gun in a machine gun bunker outside the bunker sprayed a dazzling flame. Mussolini’s first unit was less than the main force, and the resistance order was carried out completely.
However, the target of this machine gun fire was a leopard tank approaching Germany. It hit the armor plate of the tank and splashed a piece of sparks. It knocked out a lot of paint but failed to penetrate thick steel. Soon, the German tank aimed its guns at the machine gun bunker, and before the people inside escaped, it lifted the bunker to the sky with one shot.
"Teachers get out of here! The Germans have already broken through our defense lines from the two wings, and they can’t come if they don’t go. "A staff member begged his company because he still wanted to leave a way for himself and his family after all. He begged his company and cursed this Mussolini German camp in his heart. It’s no joke. Isn’t it insane to announce his withdrawal from the Axis at this time?
"Don’t gun! We surrender! " Before the teacher changed his mind, there was a sound of surrender outside the door. Obviously, German soldiers had rushed into the command department and it was a dangerous fighting area.
"chug! Chug chug! " There was no answer. The sound sounded like a p44 assault rifle shooting. It seems that the Germans have no intention of capturing the rebels. They are responsible for leveling all the resistance forces and occupying the whole of Italy.
"Ready to break! Grenadier! Grenade ready! " They don’t care what kind of people are in the door. For these Germans who were ordered to kill a resistance force, Mussolini was in the door, and that was the best result.
Before the teacher and the staff could speak, the door was kicked from the outside, and then a Grenade rolled into the room and tinkled all the way to the floor of the teacher’s foot.
"Boom!" After an explosion, the Germans rushed into the house and found flying dust and two bloody bodies lying on the ground. A German veteran went to the body, kicked the body with his boots and then left his mouth. "It’s a division chief, not small."
In Rome, the Italian border defense headquarters was very busy, and everyone was dealing with the sudden situation. The border defense line, which claimed to be able to stop the Germans for three to seven days, only let the Germans wave for one minute, and then the line collapsed and leaked like a screen.
"quick! Contact the leader quickly! Just say there’s something wrong with the border area! Our defense line was easily broken by the Germans! " An Italian officer finally remembered one thing in his panic, that is, to report this chaotic situation to Mr. Mussolini, the leader who is still unaware.
"What a joke! It’s less than a minute now, and the leader is still on the podium. Tell him that our defense has been breached at this time? How can I tell him? Pull him out of the national live broadcast microphone? " Another Mussolini cronies general carrying a hand some angry big asked.
Although he heard that there were many * * phenomena in the construction of the border defense line, he didn’t expect it to be so eroded. He has always recognized that the border defense line body is still very sure even if it doesn’t last for 7 days, but it seems that he is too optimistic. His troops failed to resist for 3 hours and then collapsed and surrendered.
"Command second-line troops immediately on the counter! Germans have tanks, don’t we? Order those troops to hold the main towns in the second line as much as possible. I need them to buy a day so that we can strengthen the defense near Rome! " The Italian general thought about it and reached the order that he thought Italy could take the best response to the current situation.
Continue to make up more tonight, but maybe the last one will be a little late. You can watch it early!
Chapter 13 131 Can’t see the smoke
There is a tall old tree that can enjoy the cool at the intersection of a main Italian highway, and a "SDKFZ-222" armored reconnaissance vehicle equipped by the vanguard troops of the J regiment of the German Defence Force is hidden in the knee-high grass of this old tree, but this vehicle is not mainly to detect the trend of Italian defenders, but to divert the crowded traffic for the main forces passing through here.
"That a few carriages on the left! Too much pulling, too slow! Let the infantry go by road! Put tanks and armored vehicles through here first! " A conductor with a traffic sign at an intersection lost his helmet because of the hot weather.
Troops carrying their own equipment and luggage are on their way. The German infantry complained that jumping from the road to the subgrade has become a little looser. A German-equipped Leopard tank roared past the parked roadside and two carriages were slow to move because of too much luggage piled up.
The base number of German active forces is so huge that it is impossible to realize the mechanization of this force. After the German army is equipped with tens of thousands of tanks and tens of thousands of cars, it still plays a very important labor role along a large number of horses.
Obviously, the J regiment is not the most important elite unit of the German army. Although it has rich experience in fighting guerrillas all the year round, it still cannot change the fate of its own serious shortage of equipment. Except for the first armored division of the elite Panzer Corps, most infantry still rely on horses and their mobile means of transportation.
"There was a fight in the town of Roni in front. I heard that it was the main Italian armored force that crashed into the protection area of two armored battalions of the first armored forward force." An infantry commander riding a marooned horse passed by here and introduced the news to the adjutant who was also riding a horse around him. "The battle was fierce. This time, the Italians can be regarded as a real battle."
History shows that Italy really can’t fight less. When it didn’t finish the war preparation, it always held the Germans back. The Balkans and North Africa were all defeated by Italy, and then the German water was pulled.
However, no matter how strong the troops are, there are troops that can play well in the Southern Song Dynasty, isn’t it? However, the fishing city has been blocked for 30 years, and it is not surprising that some troops who dare to fight for World War I have emerged in Italy at this time.
In front of Roni town, an armored brigade in Italy attacked madly. After losing more than two tanks, the German army gave up the attack and was forced to retreat. However, their efforts were not ineffective. They killed the first German soldier since the Germans crossed the Italian border.
After losing a truck, a German tank counterattacked and repelled the Italians. Four hours later, the Italian regiment deployed in this direction and announced that it would lay down its weapons. Four divisions of the German J regiment continued to close.
"I said that it is not easy to get to Rome at our advancing speed. The Fuehrer will certainly not mobilize such an army as ours. What about his troops? Or should we reinforce the troops? " Shake the adjutant of General Lihot in armoured command vehicle and ask our company, "It’s no secret now that the action has been taken, right?"
"Yes, it’s no secret …" General Holt answered his own question with a smile. "In fact, we have never been incorporated into the main Italian army. Our real identity is actually reinforcements."
After that, General Holt pointed to his head and proudly said to his adjutant, "It’s not our J regiment that entered Depth Charge this time, but their … soldiers who are advancing faster than our armored forces!"
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The face of the swaying cabin was covered with oil paint. German soldiers sat in two rows next to each other. They held p44 assault rifles and g43 semi-automatic rifles in their arms. Perhaps they were a little afraid that the world would forget what they had done. This time, they set out to prepare for a new victory to wake up their opponents. There are some things that must not be forgotten.
"The horse will arrive at the designated landing place, gentlemen! Check your parachutes and weapons. I need everyone to be alert to your feet and surroundings! The gun kills all targets that look threatening! " Borol got up from the last row of soldiers and walked past him one by one. This time, he still led this battalion of soldiers to parachute into the wild to seize the airport and control all the Italian military facilities around him.
The red warning light in the dim cabin finally went out, and the green skydiving light came on when it was allowed. The weather was very good and the view was very good. The pilot soon found that they needed to find the terrain sign, so he immediately lit the green skydiving light.
"all right! Gentlemen! Jump! Jump! Jump! Let’s go and tell the Italians that they have got things completely wrong this time! " Bourroul pushed the door of the plane and shouted to his hands, "Jump! One after another! Stretch yourself! Come on! Come on! Quick! "
German paratroopers trembled slightly. One by one, the planes jumped out of the plane, hung up the plane umbrella rope and pulled the soldiers’ parachutes. The sky immediately bloomed with white flowers, which soon became a piece like dandelions floating in the wind.
Watching his hands all jump out of the plane, Bourroul finally jumped out of his plane and got familiar with the wind blowing on his cheek, which made him feel the long-lost sense of belonging again.
"Damanhur!" He shouted out this word that inspired tens of thousands of German paratroopers, which belonged to the pride of German paratroopers and proved to the enemy. Every time he jumped from the plane, he would think of the place full of smoke, the battlefield in North Africa because they were well known.
"My emperor! Germans! German paratroopers! " An Italian soldier on sentry duty watched German paratroopers flying all over the sky and screamed in horror, "What’s going on? Chef! Sir … Germans! The Germans are coming! "
He quickly jumped out of his post and ran towards the camp chief’s office. A group of Italian soldiers who had just got up were shaving themselves by the pool and washing themselves. They watched the sentries run by in a hurry and noticed the German paratroopers descending in droves in the distant sky.
An Italian soldier swallowed all the toothpaste in his mouth in fear. They just received an order today to step up their guard against possible German invasion. However, this order was ignored as a joke. After all, the alliance with Germany and lax combat readiness made these Italian defenders have no intention of preparing for war.
Unfortunately, this scene now made their final fantasy come to nothing, and the Germans really came over, and it was such a shocking scene when they appeared.
"Anti-aircraft gun position? What is not fire? " I got the news in the office, and the officer on duty called angrily to question the anti-aircraft gun fortifications at the airport, where there were two anti-aircraft guns, but none of them fired at the German army.
"What do you mean you didn’t get the fire command? The Germans invaded! Are you blind? Fire strikes back! " Holding the words, the Italian officer heard the prevarication across the street and immediately became angry from embarrassment and roared
It’s a pity that he didn’t have any effect after yelling, because there was a different person over there and a flat stereo sounded up, but it was German. "Sorry, we have taken over here. If you can understand me, please give up unnecessary resistance."
Then the words over there were hung up, and the Italian officers here were left with a blank mind
Borol was not idle. He hung up his hand and then launched an attack on the airport with his people. The battle lasted for just a few minutes. Several Italian defenders were shot and wailed. After the death, the Italian garrison commander Zhi announced the decision to give up resistance.
German paratroopers all over the sky were like steel knives stabbing into the hearts of Italian defenders. This chaotic situation had an unparalleled effect. Soon, all the major towns in northern Italy collapsed into German-occupied Turin, Milan, Brescia, bolzano and Venice, and one city after another changed its flag and became a German-controlled city.
That poor border defense line, which claims to be able to stop the Germans for three to seven days, has been ironically left behind by German paratroopers, and this German-Italian war is like a military exercise compared with the cruel eastern front battlefield, and there is generally no smoke at all.
Chapter 131 132 Raid the villa
Several German helicopters were flying close to the ground. They arrived at a nearby field airport a few days ago and lurked. The commander of this field airport was a pro-German general, supported by the Italian state.
This small-scale special force was ordered to carry out a project called "Correc Plan", which they have practiced several times. Today, they got off and carried out this order, so they immediately took action today.
The executive front-line commander is holding a building map of a house, which outlines the layout of the house and the direction of the corridor in detail, and even marks what some houses do. At first glance, this map shows that people who have been to this house have drawn very detailed records of everything he saw.