Chapter 1063 The Miracle of War Belonging to Italy
"The miracle of war that belongs to us is coming soon!" In Rome, the party leader Mussolini announced to his party members excitedly.
Originally, Mussolini single-handedly founded the fxs party, which blossomed all over Europe. When Mussolini became the ruler of Italy in Rome, the German students next door had not launched a coup in the beer hall!
As the mentor of the revolution, Mussolini was originally very beautiful, but now, in the whole of Europe, who still remembers Mussolini? Even Hitler is rarely mentioned, and the most popular is Cyric!
Under the leadership of Cyric, Germany launched a war of revenge. Now, all of Europe is German. In contrast, what has Italy done?
As a prestigious country, as a member of the Axis powers, Mussolini certainly wanted to perform some miracles.
Now that Italy has occupied Albania, using Albania as a springboard, it can quickly conquer Greece!
In this way, Italy can form an antagonism with the colony Libya on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and consolidate Italy's "great power status". Now that the whole Middle East is German, Italy has to grab something!
"Party leader, Italy does not agree with our request, ceding their territory in exchange for peace, I think, we will simply send troops directly to occupy Greece!" Lieutenant General Visconti-Polaska said.
Now, Visconti is the commander of the 25th Army of the Italian Army in Albania. He looks at the opposite Greece every day. Post, get the old man Badoglio out of office!
"Leader, the Greek army is very poor. We only need 3 Italian divisions to enter the Greek hinterland. Within two weeks, the Greek government will surrender. Ancient Rome has conquered Greece through four wars. We must be first People do it better," Visconti swore below.
Visconti is definitely the main fighting faction. After occupying Albania, he can't wait and looks at Greece every day.
And now, Greece has rejected Italy's request, then, next, it can only be solved by war!
Hearing Visconti's words, Mussolini was even more happy in his heart: "Yes, with our strong Italian army, we can definitely solve Greece as soon as possible and expand our territory!"
Then, Mussolini turned his head to look at Marshal Bagdoglio, the chief of staff next to him, and said, "Well, the time is set for October 28, how about that?"
October 28 is of great significance to Mussolini, as it happens to be the anniversary of the 1922 anniversary of his leadership of the Fascists to the supremacy of power in Italy.
Now, 18 years have passed, and in this day of incomparable years, it is really nice that the Italian army occupied Greece and defeated this world enemy as a tribute to Mussolini.
However, after hearing Mussolini's words, Marshal Bagdoglio on the side shook his head like a rattle: "No, party leader, our army is not ready, the time is too tight, I don't think we can rely on it. With three divisions of our 25th Army in Albania, we will be able to defeat Greece."
Marshal Bagdoglio was quite dissatisfied with Visconti. This guy, who has no such ability at all, has to pat his chest and talk big!
"Greece is not the same as Albania, Greece has enough strength, I think we have to mobilize at least 20 divisions to have an overwhelming advantage, but now, in our army, as many as 500,000 soldiers are allowed Temporarily demobilized and went back to the countryside to help the autumn harvest. I suggest that we can postpone the attack until December, when our troops are remobilized, and then go to attack Greece.”
Hearing Bagdoglio's words, Mussolini's face suddenly sank, and the last thing he wanted to hear was such words.
Seeing Mussolini's face, Visconti's heart was even more happy, and he continued to fan the flames: "Your Excellency Marshal, you are really too old and short-sighted to see the true strength of our army, we are not what we were. We have an army. We have been reorganized and have the same combat effectiveness as the German army, especially our 131st Panzer Division, which is very advanced in equipment."
Now and history are different. Italian tanks are no longer CV33. The Italian Fiat company received technical assistance from Germany a year ago and transformed its production line.
They are producing the newer M13 medium tank as well as the P26 heavy tank.
This tank model has also appeared in history, but now, this Italian tank is completely different from the historical model. This is a new tank produced according to the drawings of the German Panther 2 tank.
Yes, the 20-ton Panther 2 tank is at most a medium tank by German standards, but when it comes to Italy, it becomes a heavy tank. Fiat deliberately transformed its high-power gasoline engine into the tank. Inside, everything else is almost unchanged.
In particular, Fiat's technicians, trained in Germany, can finally weld the hull and turret. Due to the fragile military industry, previous Italian tanks used bolts to fix the armor directly. When the armor was hit At the same time, bolts or rivets fly out, causing terrible lethality, and now, welding is finally adopted.
This makes them more confident.
Among the three divisions under Visconti, there is an armored division, and this armored division has been equipped with 30 such P26 tanks, and the rest are M13.
That's why he has confidence.
"There is still a certain gap between our equipment and the Germans. However, even if we bring the Germans' equipment, we cannot fight like the Germans, because our soldiers lack the morale of the Germans." Marshal Bagdoglio saw it clearly: "Unless, as we did in North Africa, we put our troops under the command of the Germans and fight side by side with the Germans."
Hearing this, Mussolini was even more unhappy. He was most tired of people telling him how brave the German army was and how incompetent his own army was. He wanted to fight Greece, but he wanted to show the Germans. The Italian army is also capable of fighting!
So, with a gloomy face, he said to Visconti: "Visconti, now, I order you to prepare for battle and launch an attack on October 28! We must conquer Greece! Create a military that belongs to our Italy. Miracle!"
All the Italian officers present immediately looked at each other, only Visconti looked excited: "Yes, I will definitely complete the task."