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Chapter 278 Italian Pasta

When Mussolini arrived in Albania, he held a massive military parade and invited countless reporters to interview and take photos so that he and his Italian army could show themselves and their Italian army majestic in front of the world. Mussolini also publicly issued an ultimatum to Greece, allowing Greece to accept the Italian garrison. Of course, Greece immediately rejected Mussolini's unreasonable request. (In order to commemorate the refusal to accept the last disc, this day was used as a national festival in Greece)

Greece, which was originally unprepared, immediately mobilized the whole country. The existing army was mobilized to the border overnight. When the 200,000 Greek troops were already on the Greek border, the Italian army still did not set out in the barracks. Mussolini, who was like a stupid pig, completely lost the opportunity to attack Greece suddenly, and at the same time lost the initiative in the battlefield. If the Italian army attacked at this time, it would attack the Greek army with perfect defense. How to fight this kind of battle? Can Mussolini fight such a battle that does not occupy the right time, place, and people? Just rely on Mussolini, a real "stupid pig"? No need to think about it.

On December 5, 1939, Italy finally slowly gathered on the Greek border. On the morning of the 6th, Mussolini ordered 250,000 Italian troops deployed in Albania to cross the Albanian border and start an invasion plan.

The main attack direction pointed to the Bandus Mountains near the city of Ioanina. There was some progress in the early stage. The Italian army crossed the Karastir River, but was quickly repelled and rushed back to Albania. The 250,000 Italian troops were chased like sheep in front of the 200,000 Greek troops, which were much worse than their weapons and equipment. The result of running slowly was that they were annihilated. Although Mussolini had shot more than a dozen Italian officers so far, they could not stop the collapse of the Italian army.

Within a week, the invaders in Greece were eliminated, and Mussolini, Italy ordered large reinforcements, but the mountainous areas in southern Albania were still in the hands of the Greek army. In this battle, more than 30,000 Italian soldiers were killed and 80,000 were captured. The 250,000 troops before the attack were almost half destroyed by Greece within a week, which made Mussolini furious.

When Mussolini mobilized 300,000 troops to reach Albania, it was December 20. At this time, the cold wave came, and heavy snow fell from the sky. After several weeks of severe winter, the Italian army launched a large-scale counterattack on the entire front line on January 9, 1940. Although the Italian army had an advantage in number and equipment, it still failed. After a week of battle and the price of 30,000 casualties, Mussolini decided to stop the offensive and leave Albania 12 days later.

Italy's failure was due to the fact that Mussolini's garbage command was one aspect. Military generals were insufficient to allocate military resources during combat, misjudgment of winter weather, and lacked sudden attacks. Without the support of the Bulgarians, there were even problems with basic equipment, such as not distributing winter uniforms, and Mussolini refused to accept the opinions of military industry advisers. Historically, even Germany on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, had caused a large number of soldiers to be frozen to death because they did not distribute winter clothes.

In a month's war against Italy, the Greek army eliminated the main force of the enemy. Greece had no military industry, and its military equipment and ammunition supply depended on captured from the British army in North Africa and from the defeated Italian army. The entire Greek battle Italy suffered heavy losses, almost 200,000 people. This war, which was related to the destiny of the country, was hurriedly ordered to be implemented by Mussolini, and it turned out like this.

Fortunately, the Greek army did not dare to pursue those in Albania, allowing the remaining Italian army to escape. It was not that the Greek army did not want to pursue them, but that the German ultimatum came, and Hitler sent a telegram to Greece very domineeringly.

"The Greek army immediately stopped this pursuit, otherwise the consequences would be borne by one's own consequences."

The Greek senior officials immediately stopped talking and hurriedly retreated fifty kilometers to distance themselves from the Italian army. A telegram from Hitler saved the remaining more than 300,000 Italian troops from the fate of being annihilated.

Of course, the Greek army can win is many reasons:

First, Greece was a war for the country, and all soldiers had the fighting spirit of sacrificing their lives.

Second, the Greek army knew about Italy's invasion plan in advance, which was earlier than the strategic points of the Italian army's occupation, allowing the Italian army to attack the solid defense line of the Greek army.

Third, the secret support of Britain and France is also very important. As long as the Greek army needs it, Britain and France will spare no effort to support Greece. It can be said that Britain and France helped Greece equipped about 500,000 regular troops. Imperialist people are familiar with the way to fight agent wars.

Mussolini left the Albanian front in sadness and quickly summoned Vincent to ask about the situation of the Italian German Armored Division. Vincent looked at Mussolini with dark face, red eyes and haggard expression. At this time, Mussolini was like a gambler with red eyes.

"Teacher Vincent, how are our German Armored Armored Division training? Can you go to the battlefield immediately now?"

If Vincent was training the All-German Italian Armored Division at this time, all of which were soldiers drawn from the Italian Armored Division. After a month of armored coordinated combat training, he could go to the battlefield. But this is the Italian army, Vincent would never dare to pull the Italian Armored Division to the battlefield at this time. A newly formed army will win the first stop, otherwise the army's spirit will collapse.

It is impossible for Vincent to take risks with the armored division he has worked hard to build at this time. You should know that in order to buy the German No. 4 tank, Vincent asked Mussolini to cut off the import of three million tons of red wine from the Italian army. Now many Italian young soldiers are cursing Vincent behind their backs:

"Vincent, a bitch, can actually make the romantic Italian soldiers drink without red wine. Then you can't help picking up girls. The gun under my crotch is on my own. When will the gun be fired, I will make the decision and leave. Brothers, go and have a date with girls..."

Of course, Vincent also heard some rumors, but Vincent directly ignored these dissatisfied remarks and still stood in the barracks every day, cruelly training the Italian young masters and soldiers. All the beauties who came to the barracks to date were kept out. If someone dared to climb out the barracks and go out to "fight" the beauties, the consequences of being caught were to hang up naked and show up. Then, all the soldiers of the group that was hung up to "fight" the Italian soldiers' jj, which would have to be bombed in total for more than 2,000 times. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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