"Chirp...boom!boom!boom..." Countless artillery roared, and the German army, Italian army and Bulgarian army struggling to survive under artillery fire...

During World War II, Greece had only a small size and lacked equipment. But it was this army that directly curbed the Italian army trying to capture Greece.

"Hitler always asked me to accept the established facts. This time I want to return it to others. He will see the news of my capture of Greece in the newspaper." Mussolini's bold words were quite good, but the facts were

After his noodle army was killed by the Greeks for more than 10,000, he had to choose to retreat.

Fortunately, Greece itself did not have much military industrial foundation, and at the same time, the allies could not provide effective support that could have been given in history at that time.

This led to Greece being captured by the German army very quickly without effective support. In order to appease allies, the German army greatly cut off Greece and handed over part to the Italians and Bulgarians to rule.

As a result, Greece was cut off by the Axis powers by a brutal and direct manner. At the same time, some Greeks chose to surrender to the Axis powers and thus established a pro-Axis power political axe.

Germany assisted Italy and other Axis powers to attack Greece, which led to the inability of Barbarossa's plan to be successfully implemented. Although they annihilated a large number of main forces of the Soviet army, they were unable to capture Moscow within the scheduled time.

Later, he even suffered a big fall in Moscow and was caught off guard by the Allied forces, which resulted in a large number of troops losing their troops in the Battle of Moscow.

After the occupation, Greece was divided into the occupied areas of Italy, Germany and Bulgaria after negotiation.

The German team occupied the most strategically important areas, such as Athens, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia and several Aegean islands, including Crete.

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace were occupied and annexed by Bulgaria, which had long claimed to have this place. The remaining two-thirds of Greece were occupied by Italy, and the Ionian Islands were directly ruled as Italian territory.

After suffering the losses from Moscow, Germany became increasingly angry with Greece, which had resisted them and had to draw troops back to aid. As a result, their capture of Greece was more powerful than any part of Europe.

All raw materials, grain and machinery were requisitioned for free, and Greek collaborators were forced to bear the military expenditure of the occupying army, which caused extremely violent inflation in Greece at that time.

To make matters worse, Greece was forced to provide Germany with a large amount of "war loans", but Germany never repayed the loan, which caused the Greek Drachma to depreciate seriously and even worthless at one time.

Despite neutral countries such as Sweden and Turkey, most of the food fell into the hands of political officials and black market traders who had links to the occupation authorities of the Axis powers.

These foods have never reached the hands of the Greeks. Those with background and strength will "buy" these aids from the occupying authorities and then sell them to despair at a greatly increased price on the black market.

The hungry Greeks.

They scrupulously squeezed the last little property of the Greeks, forcing them to use their hidden assets to exchange for their own survival.

And those Greeks who had nothing could only starve to death in despair. The Axis powers and local powerful figures created the winter of 1941 and 1942, with 300,000 in Great Athens alone.

People die because of this.

The German rule in Greece was extremely cruel. Because of their exploitation, the Greek wars were everywhere. Guerrillas and rebellious forces were everywhere.

The German ruling authorities treated this resistance force and implemented the "Three Lights Policy" similar to Japan. During this period, hundreds of small Greek villages and towns disappeared, and tens of thousands of people who were executed were found.

people.

Millions of people are displaced and homeless. In fact, this is one of the reasons why later generations did not want the German-led EU to enter Greece even if it went bankrupt.

Nothing else, Germany hurt Greece so much back then. Later, Greece could not trust Germany, let alone the European Union dominated by Germany.

"Attack! Hurry up!! Follow the tanks to the position!!" A roar came out of the position, but countless figures in the night jumped out of the trenches and rushed forward.

This is a special unit affiliated to the Chinese National Defense Forces. Most of the officers and soldiers of this unit are Jewish. Only a small number are Chinese.

This was not the first time they entered the battlefield, but it was the time when they were most excited. In the past, they were all broken up and trained among the various troops of the National Defense Forces.

This time, it was the first time they were gathered together to fight on a battlefield.

On this battlefield, another army was active. They were Greek rebels and guerrillas, who were originally from their own hands.

Occasionally fighting together, only a small-scale cooperation did not form a powerful force. It was not until Zhang Xueliang entered Turkey that they were tied together to form a complete combat force.

In order to join them, Zhang Xueliang completely attached the system of the National Defense Forces to this newly built army. Even in this army, many people had studied in the temporary non-commissioned officer training class established by Zhang Xueliang.

"Hurry! Those damn Jews and Greeks are coming up! Stop them!!" The German commander on the opposite position was also roaring.

A large number of German soldiers began to rush out of the anti-aircraft shelves and entered the position to prepare for a counterattack.

After a while, the German army's positions heard the roar of machine guns and the roar of artillery fire. After all, the German army was not Japanese army, and they had a complete industrial system and supporting ammunition supply.

Therefore, they still had a large number of artillery and tank armor groups. This put the attacking Wehrmacht under a lot of pressure. Before they could rush to the position, they encountered the German artillery fire.

Then, a large number of tanks roared directly towards them, strangled together with the Wehrmacht tanks trying to break through the position.

"It's not easy to fight..." Zhang Xueliang slowly put down his telescope and sighed: "These Germans are not easy to deal with. Compared with them, the Japanese are not a little worse than them..."

Wang Yajiao next to him nodded and said, "That's true. The Germans are not comparable to Japanese in terms of training and weapons and equipment. This is also the reason why the commander-in-chief has been postponing head-on combat with Germany...

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The Germans were indeed difficult to deal with. In history, the Soviet Union beat the German army half to death, and it suffered more than twice the total number of casualties in the entire World War II before winning.

When the Soviet army attacked the Japanese Kwantung Army, it was like adults fighting children without any delay. In less than a month, the millions of Kwantung Army, known as the flower of the Japanese Army, were wiped out.

Hundreds of thousands were shot dead, and all the remaining ones were captured. However, the Soviet army suffered only more than 30,000 casualties. Compared with the German army, the Japanese army was not a unit of the same level.

One is a strong army that is enough to give the Allies a headache, and the other is a group of almost mud-shaped troops.

"Boom!!" During the attack, a national defense force tank was directly exploded. The Germans also used large-caliber anti-tank guns and installed them on their Tiger tanks.

The power of this anti-tank gun is huge, enough to blow away the new tanks equipped in the National Defense Forces directly.

"Bang...boom!" The attacking National Wehrmacht troops were not weak and directly exploded two German tanks. Suddenly, the roar of the engine in front of the position, the sound of explosions and the sound of crawlers rolling into pieces.

Countless black shadows gathered in the flames, and the air torn by bullets and shells was flying...

"Retreat first. If we continue to fight like this, we can't get anything better..." Zhang Xueliang sighed helplessly as he looked at the situation on the position.

The chief of staff around him nodded, then hurriedly went down to pass the order. The troops who received the order began to slowly evacuate the offensive position, and the German army did not pursue it.

Both sides were so alert and retreated from the attacking area.

"Commander, I request another attack! This time, we will definitely be able to take the position! Once! Just once!!" Rambam, a division commander of the attacking Jewish legion.

His Chinese name is Xiang Cheng. After reading "Records of the Grand Historian", he admired Xiang Yu infinitely. He longed to become such a powerful person to protect his nation.

Therefore, he named Xiang Cheng.

"Old Xiang, it's not that I won't attack you. But look, I've been in a stalemate just now. If we keep fighting like this, we will suffer a lot!" Zhang Xueliang comforted the commander with a beard.

"We must adjust the tactics, and we can't be so tough! The soldiers are not afraid of death in battle, but this is not the reason why we ignore their fate." Zhang Xueliang said to Rambam: "I and the General Staff will see if we can see if we can do it again.

Use smaller losses to seize this position.”

"Yes!" Despite his unwillingness, Rambam followed the order. This is the habit of the National Defense Forces, and you can give your own opinions to your boss.

But the order must be thoroughly executed. Regardless of whether your boss explains to you or not, obedience is the duty of a soldier.

"Commander, it's sorted out..." After a while, the Chief of Staff returned to the command center with a gloomy face and handed a document to Zhang Xueliangdao.

"Just that moment, we lost more than 700 people. Four tanks were killed..." After a pause, the chief of staff smiled bitterly and said, "The losses of the Germans are immeasurable, but they stay on the battlefield.

There are three tanks. The bodies are probably two or three hundred…”

Zhang Xueliang's face looked very bad. Although he guessed that his side would suffer a lot of losses, he did not expect that he would suffer so much than the Germans.

When Wang Yajiao heard this, he sighed and left the command center. He was not the commander of the war, he was just the head of the intelligence agency. This time he came out of concern for the battlefield situation.

The battle was not good, and he had no intention of watching. What he wanted to do now was to contact the Greek resistance army in the rear to provide some assistance to the National Defense Forces as much as possible.

For example, the supply line that attacked the German army, and the strategic nodes that sneaked into the German army. Of course, the crows dormant in Turkey should also take action.

After Wang Yajiao left, Zhang Xueliang held an emergency military meeting. The topic of the meeting was how to attack the German positions. It has to be admitted that the Germans learned a lot from the failure of Japan.

For example, in terms of position defense, their fortifications obviously absorbed the characteristics of the Japanese and Soviet troops. The construction of anti-aircraft shelters and the construction of rear artillery concealed points were excellent.

The National Wehrmacht tried to destroy the German artillery, but found that the German artillery fire was still playing a role after the bombardment. For this reason, the National Wehrmacht sent a reconnaissance team.

Only then did they discover that the Germans placed artillery in anti-aircraft fortifications and pushed it out when used. They retreated after bombardment. Even their artillery counterattack caused certain losses to the Wehrmacht artillery.

The squad wanted to touch the German artillery position, but the helpless thing was that the German defense system was very sharp. They even had time to take action, and they had been discovered by the Germans just by observing.

If it weren't for the quick withdrawal, perhaps the entire team would have been annihilated by the Germans.

"It's not easy to fight! Damn it's not easy to fight!" Liang Dashan kept frowning at the map. The German army obviously considered every possible attack node.

At the same time, several counterattack positions were set up. In layers, even if part of the National Wehrmacht broke into the German position, as long as the rest of the troops did not keep up, they would face the danger of being surrounded and strangled by the German army.

Not only that, Bulgarian troops and Italian troops on the side were also coming. Several parties were eyeing each other and preparing to cooperate with the German army to launch a comprehensive counterattack against the National Defense Forces.

"We can't fight, we can only break it hard!" Yan Chenghan threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on the cigarette butt and said, "Our fighter jet unit cleaned the airspace first, and then exploded his bastard!"

"The armored troops followed, and then we rushed with our men!" Yan Chenghan said, pausing, "Now it seems that we can only fight like this. Otherwise, I can't think of any other way...

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The second artillery commander Li Yannian, who arrived at the position next to him, said hearingly: "Let the Air Force explode him first, and I will blow him up after the blow! I haven't found anyone to try our new rocket! They are here to try it!

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Gao Zhihang, the head of the Defense Force Air Force in the Expeditionary Force, nodded and said, "The vision is good during the day, and our fighter planes can be dispatched. Clean the airspace first. If they don't come, we will be warned first and then blow it up!"

Those who came here were veterans of the National Defense Army, and they were extremely agile in fighting each other. You could tell at a glance that the German army's defense was completely incomparable to the Japanese army.

This is completely an iron box, and there is no other way except to knock it to death with a hammer. In fact, wasn’t the Allies in the Soviet Union doing this?!

They only managed to pile up to death to finally take the German position. The National Wehrmacht on the other side suffered little losses because they were mainly attacking the US and Soviet troops.

Here, Zhang Xueliang faced the German troops directly. He had no way to dodge, so he could only fight with his teeth.

In the early morning, the adjusted troops began to slowly assemble. This time, the National Defense Force dispatched fifty-five tanks and more than 10,000 people. They were all on standby quietly on the position.

By seven o'clock in the morning, the roar of the plane slowly came. However, at least one hundred fighter jets flew from behind the National Wehrmacht, and these fighter jets hovered straight into the German positions!
To be continued...