"It is indeed thoughtless for Italy to do this, which is simply hurting the friendship between the two countries." Sitting on one side, Premier Augustus said that his ancestors were famous and bloody prime ministers. Naturally, he would not be indifferent to this kind of unilateral taking advantage of small things, so he looked at the Italian envoy who was about to be scolded and vomited blood by arcado and slowly stated his thoughts. "Mr. Mussolini must give a statement to the Third Reich. If he doesn’t give it to us, he will get it himself!"
The Italian messenger took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his forehead with sweat. Mussolini didn’t give much chips. He really had his own considerations for his delay in taking it out. After all, the former German and French issues, the Balkan issue and the North African issue were all very easy to talk about, which made Italy feel a little smug. It was argued that Germans were idiots. Italy just needed to make full use of the benefits.
Although there are not many supporters of this argument, Mussolini does forget a little about the terrible national strength of the Third Reich. It is also the fact that a steel knife hangs over Italy’s head. Italy can’t resist the 20,000 German teams in the Balkans and it will be easily settled. That is to say, it is not difficult to simply flatten Italy by the permanent troops of the German state without dispatching troops from the front.
So this poor envoy dare not say Mussolini’s similar provocative conditions now. He is really afraid that arcado, the head of the third Reich, the actual ruler of 70% of Europe, really makes attacking Italy almost a thing of the past.
Since the Italian navy can be frightened by the paper tiger Britain, which has dominated the world for a hundred years, its army can definitely regard the German army, which has not lost every time in Europe, as a god. If the British navy is terrible, then the German army is the enemy in the eyes of the Italians. Let the Italian defenders go against the enemy German army. These people will surrender immediately if they don’t rebel immediately.
"My head of state, an Italian diplomat, I hope that Koma will personally explain to the leader the dangers of this incident once he returns to China …" The Italian envoy wiped his head with sweat and explained, "If necessary, we can arrest several naval generals and dispose of them in your country!"
Let the Mediterranean Fleet go or let 20,000 British soldiers go. These are not the reasons that make arcado so angry. The main reason is that this big retreat reminds arcado that he personally killed the Dunkirk retreat. He doesn’t know what hidden dangers this small mistake will bring him in the end. It is because of the unknown that he is afraid. It is because of legal estimation and speculation that he is nervous and hysterical.
"This matter is not a problem that can be solved by a small diplomat." arcado waved his hand and refused the request of the Italian division envoy. After thinking about it, he continued to say coldly, "The Italian navy affairs should be put aside and let Mussolini personally come to Berlin to see me. The most important test of the Axis is coming. At this time, I don’t want unpredictable problems, such as this unilateral breach of contract."
He walked up to the envoy, his eyes with a little bloodshot eyes staring at each other like an eagle because of lack of rest, and said, "Why don’t you let Mussolini come to me personally?" Adjust the most beautiful diplomatic language. If you can’t, I’ll ask General Holt to invite him! "
General Holt is the commander-in-chief of the German J regiment. His troops are stationed in the Balkans and Crete, which are the closest to Italy. arcado, the German reorganization regiment, said that the threat was very obvious
"I’m white! My Fuhrer! I’m going back to Italy to invite you to the leader … "The Italian envoy now feels that he is really unlucky. When others come to Germany, they are all served with good wine and meat, which makes some excessive demands. Some parties in Germany will also promise to come as much as possible. Why has everything been so bad since they came to Germany?
By the time Italian envoys fled for their lives, arcado had reached the mobilization order of the J regiment and the A regiment, and the Germans were ready to make the worst plans for Italy.
Augustine’s age and recent German politics and economy have been working day and night, and his face is not very good. The whole person also looks a little senile. He glanced at it and gradually calmed down his anger. arcado said, "If Italy really doesn’t give us Egypt and won’t let our gendarmerie and instructors train Italian troops, are you really going to send troops to Italy?"
"This is inevitable," arcado said, looking at the map of the war zone in front of him with a cold hum. "We must hold the Suez Canal in our own hands. Since Italy has given us this opportunity, we must seize it. If we don’t strengthen the combat effectiveness of Italian troops on the eastern front, do we dare to slow down these keys all the time, idiot?"
Augustus nodded and asked another question, "If we take Italy, it seems that it is not good for us to involve some troops and expect hundreds of thousands of Italian allies to be less?"
"A country that is afraid of the British Mediterranean fleet without battleships, do you expect them to dare to go against the will of the Third Reich?" Arcado burst out laughing. "Get ready for Mussolini. Just hit him hard."
Augustus followed to laugh and walked out slowly.
Chapter 674 674 The situation is better than people.
"Did he really say that?" When Mussolini got arcado’s request from the envoy, he didn’t know whether he was scared or angry. He clenched his fist and trembled slightly, looking like an elderly Parkinson’s disease patient.
In fact, compared with the army, the Italian navy is better in fighting will and preparation. The main reason why dozens of warships are parked in the port is not because the naval generals are timid and afraid to fight, but because they are cowardly and afraid to fight. They faithfully carried out the order of the leader Mussolini not to fight the battle of the British navy Mediterranean fleet outside Alexandria
Mussolini seems that the British Navy Mediterranean Fleet really can’t beat the Italian main fleet, but after meeting with several naval generals, he strengthened his mind. He and these naval generals all agreed that the British Navy would lose 20% to 30% even if it was finally surrounded by the Italian Navy.
Theoretically speaking, it is not unacceptable for the Italian navy to control the Mediterranean even if it kills the British Mediterranean fleet and the Italian navy has no rivals in the whole Mediterranean. However, Mussolini is from a political background, and he thinks it is not the end of the military power comparison.
Politicians often see more things in their eyes, sometimes it is a good thing, and sometimes it is a tragedy. In Mussolini’s eyes, after the British Mediterranean fleet was wiped out, the whole "Italian Lake" not only had an Italian navy, but also the French naval fleet, which was weak but could not be ignored, made Mussolini worry about the future Mediterranean naval fleet.
Therefore, he felt that he should do something to keep the size and strength of the Italian navy. He felt that the Italian navy should maintain a small-scale absolute strength in the Mediterranean in the future, and he decided to betray it once.
Everyone knows that after losing the coastal ports such as Alexandria, the British Mediterranean fleet has two fields, either leaving the Mediterranean or surrendering to the axis power in the Mediterranean region. It has no qualitative influence on the Italian navy’s goal of dominating the Mediterranean.
In the distant future, Mussolini is too lazy to care about it, and he really didn’t let the Italian navy explore the Indian Ocean. For the Italian navy, which lacks the ability to deploy ocean warfare, dominating the Mediterranean is the biggest dream they can think of in this life.
Because Italy joined the Axis and brazenly launched a war, the highest ideal or the highest strategic goal is to "establish the glory of the Roman Empire" and "make the Mediterranean Sea a lake of the Kingdom of Italy", which means that he thinks that Italians really have no courage or imagination to practice.
After all, in Roman times, Roman government owned France, Switzerland, most of Germany, the whole Balkans and almost all of North Africa. But now, unless the Italians are crazy, let them go and order Germany to hand over Munich to Italy to rebuild the Roman Empire. They absolutely dare not.
Mussolini’s another slogan, "Let the Mediterranean become the Lake of the Kingdom of Italy", has become the most haunting thing in Italy’s high-level mind. At the last point, I thought that several Italian naval generals joined forces to confuse Mussolini and worked out such a plan that arcado lost a full three German paratroopers.
Now the Germans have shown their swords, and Mount Tai is overwhelming, leaving no room for manoeuvre for the Italians. They must either promise a series of humiliating covenants to compensate the Germans for being teased this time or prepare for the great anger of the German J regiment.
Mussolini’s first reaction when he heard the news was dizziness. Holt had the J regiment army. Is that what his worthless army generals could resist? If Italy had the ability to fight against the 20 thousand German team, North Africa would not have been chased and beaten by tens of thousands of British soldiers
His mind kept flashing to the record. Rommel and guderian led four armored divisions across France and beat France to beg for mercy. At the same time, Italian troops were beaten back to the border by the French. Hundreds of thousands of Italian troops were chased by tens of thousands of British troops all the way from the Egyptian border back to Tumnus. Now Rommel has arrived in Luocheng to get his marshal’s staff at the right time. The Italian troops in the Balkans were beaten by Greece and Yugoslavia to find their teeth. Finally, they asked the Germans for help to get their noodles back.
Thought of this, he couldn’t help but wipe his face and sweat. Once Germany and Italy really became enemies, he could see the beautiful scenery of Germany encircling Rome in a few days. His army generals probably heard the Germans calling, and their first reaction was not to organize resistance, but to take him to the German Lord.
Two days ago, when it was learned that the navy had released the British Mediterranean fleet instead of going to sea, the army generals met Mussolini. At that time, the chief of staff of the Italian army said to Mussolini in tears, "Once the German army entered Rome regardless of the two countries, Italy could last up to 12 weeks … depending on the speed at which the German army gathered prisoners and advanced, the Italian army resisted."
From then on, Mussolini knew that it was more realistic to expect these army generals to fight to the end to create a miracle to defeat the German army than to pray for the emperor to kill arcado with a flash. Some navies supported his decision, but once the German army picked a fault, the navy at most gave him a boat and sent him to South America or North America. There were many similar successful cases, such as Charles de Gaulle and the British royal family …
Thinking about Mussolini, I think it’s better to go to Berlin, kneel in front of arcado’s boots, and then nod all the time no matter what the other party says. So few Axis emperors, arcado, probably won the position of the first loyal dog, which is absolutely shocking.
"Help me prepare for it. I’ll go to Berlin myself. It seems that German Chancellor arcado? Mr. Rudolph misunderstood us Italians, and we must explain to our old friends face to face in order to safeguard the friendship between the two countries. "Although everyone knows that this time I went to Berlin to beg for mercy, Mussolini must put his words in a high-sounding manner."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Since Mussolini is so soft, Germany and Italy won’t meet each other. We can talk about the glory of the Third Reich at least. There is always a saying that if someone goes soft, everything will be fine. Who will install this grandson? That is not the category that everyone is worried about.
"Leader! Prepare a plane or a train? " Mussolini, who was in charge of Mussolini’s itinerary, asked in a low voice that he had to prepare the transportation before, and it was up to the leader to decide which one to use.
"Fly …" Mussolini just wanted to say that he would fly to Germany when he remembered a trip to Germany to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Third Reich Financial Building. As soon as the plane entered Germany, it was surrounded by four fighters. I thought it would be safer to go by train. I heard that German radar can now find a bird flying from a distance. In case the other party wants to change an obedient Italian leader, it will be difficult to make it out.
Thinking of this, he decided to be on the safe side. "Let’s not prepare the plane. Let’s go by train. In addition, Mr. Special Envoy should go to Berlin again and leave by plane tonight. Tell the Fuehrer that everything is negotiable."
Didn’t Mussolini also want to train and command Italian troops? I’ll give the old bachelor as much as he wants at a time. It’s only natural that Italy can benefit from the country behind rammstein and pay a little price for his local interests. To put it bluntly, it’s also German help. I’ll give it where I want it if it’s not too much. I’ll make up my mind to be an ostrich this time!
Mussolini, who had already made this plan, thought that since he had done it, it would be better to give all the scenes to arcado and the German generals at once, so that the Germans would at least have to restrain themselves when preparing wild speculations.
So he waved to his secret trick and ordered, "Let the honor guard of the black shirt army prepare to go to Berlin, Germany with me this time, and then help me prepare three huge wreaths and transport them to Germany on a special train. I want the fallen paratroopers to present wreaths and bow and repent!"
He thought for a moment and took a look. He had privately decided to take the blame for it. The Chief of Staff of the Navy finally added, "Let’s go to Berlin with me, Germans, if …"
"Leader! Don’t say any more. After all, the situation is better than others. I will go to Berlin with you to meet the Fuehrer. If he can’t swallow this tone, I will kill myself in front of him and give an explanation to the Third Reich! " Knowing his own ending, I also know that it is also a knife to shrink my head and a knife. The Navy Chief of Staff bowed his head and promised, "I will bear all the responsibilities!"
Chapter 675 675 Clowns and protagonists
In order to maintain the absolute superiority of the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean, Mussolini was able to find the most money. He brought a full 30,000 Italian assault medals to be awarded to all German paratroopers and pilots who participated in the war, and even brought a large sum of money to express condolences to the families of German paratroopers who died in battle. The general Italian practice is to let them fight or not, and other things are negotiable.
When I met arcado, Mussolini showed his greatest sincerity. In front of many media cameras, he bowed to the wreath laying at the German paratroopers martyrs cemetery and took care of the disabled and the pensions of the soldiers who died-the standard was twice as normal.
"My head of state 40000! 40,000 Italian volunteers joined the German team in the Third Reich War! After being placed under the command of Germany, another 30,000 people will be trained by the German Defence Forces to cooperate with the German war. "Mussolini is similar to pleading and said to arcado," The preparation for the Italian war has never been completed. It is obviously unrealistic to deploy 20,000 troops. It is already our department to find a way to take out 70,000 troops. "
Mussolini is telling the truth. After all, part of the Italian troops are now in North Africa, and it is quite sincere to move 70,000 troops to Germany on the eastern front. It can be said that the territorial expansion of Italy has reached its limit, and even if it sends its own troops to participate in the war, it will not be able to gain more peripheral benefits.
Germany has no excessive demands on the Mediterranean, but Germany, Turkey and Italy have signed the Balkan Fast Track Agreement, which stipulates that Germany can build a railway and highway composite transportation line extending from Germany to Athens, and in the future, it can develop or jointly develop this line of oil and gas pipelines.
This ensures that Germany has a convenient transportation channel leading to the Mediterranean, together with enough for it to control Crete, an important Mediterranean unsinkable aircraft carrier, and once the Suez Canal is controlled, Germany can continuously transport Middle East oil to German soil. No one knows the fact that it is Germany, and another person knows the North Sea oil and gas field. If Romania oil field is added, Germany’s future oil and gas resources will meet the country’s oil and gas consumption.
Mussolini put on a gesture of killing and beating. Instead, arcado had no reason to fall into the well again. He took the initiative to give up the idea of investigating the responsibility of Italian naval generals because of Mussolini’s compensation for paratroopers who died.
Of course, Akkado asked for the port of Alexandria and the Suez Canal, and Mussolini also nodded and agreed. It was slightly that this important chip got a certain amount of oil share in the Middle East. This exchange was a bit grovelling and made arcado feel that the Italians really realized their mistakes this time.
He sent Mussolini back to arcado Berlin with his hands behind his back. He felt that this meeting was a little unexpected. He couldn’t say what went wrong, but he had an intuition that something was wrong. So he stayed there for a short time, hoping to recall the flaws in the whole meeting.
Augustus had a face of old gods around him. In the end, he decided not to let arcado worry about such a trivial matter. He said that the secret was broken. "The Italians are so upset that it is not unexpected to throw in the towel this time, but they did not show any unwillingness. This matter deserves our attention."
"What do you mean? Is there any expert advice from the Italians? " Arcado frowned and really didn’t think of any commendable Italian strategists during World War II. This nation is accustomed to leaning on both sides by virtue of the wind direction. It seems that there is nothing special about strategic vision.
"If there were Mussolini, the Italians wouldn’t have rushed to send troops to France and lost in a daze. Now there is such a pile of junk in Ethiopia." Augustus shook his head and said, "It’s very simple. It would be a ghost if it weren’t for the Americans."
"Americans? You mean? Americans are allied with Italy? " Arcado’s deployment of intelligence services in Italy has been reported in this regard. The United States and Germany-or the United States and the Axis countries have not officially turned against each other. The US Embassy in Italy is still quite active now. They frequently meet with Italian high-level officials and seem to have signed some small contracts of humble economic agreements.
"Recently, Gaskell has cracked several espionage cases, including bribing petty bourgeoisie and other marginal espionage cases. There are some American figures behind them." Augustus walked first with a cane behind his hand, and arcado followed suit and walked beside his master.
"The Axis Group accounts for almost half of the world’s industrial base, and it has the granaries of Ukraine and Poland, and most of the ores and industrial raw materials are also mastered … If it is integrated, it can be said that it has been in an invincible position." Augustus said as he walked, "If I can’t break the huge alliance with external forces, the best way is, of course, division and disintegration."
"This is not a bit funny? Italy, although the heart of Germany is not as big as the Mediterranean Sea, will give us control of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Even if we rebel, how many waves can we turn up? " Arcado felt that he would not draw up such a plan. On the surface, it seemed that this doomed failure was meaningless.
"If Italy hadn’t really defeated us," Augustus certainly wouldn’t have thought that only one Italy could have caused an unmanageable crisis in front of Germany, but he went on to say that "shaking the Axis alliance is already a good business with less investment. After all, Americans are just a bunch of conditions, just as disgusting as Australia changing its flag. We are really enough."
He went to the stairs and stopped, then turned to arcado. "My head of state, I am worried that it is not what is happening in Italy now, but that once the war situation is deadlocked, it will come out and ruin us. Although it is not enough, it is more than enough."
Arcado nodded his head and agreed with Augustus’ idea. He carefully thought about it and then said, "The two schemes can either be started now and directly come to once and for all … or they can keep Holt waiting for them to push first and then we can get a justified one."
"Keep an eye on the hostile forces in Italy and then draw up a feasible emergency plan and adopt the second plan." Augustus also thought deeply and finally chose the second plan. "Now we have nothing to say about exporting evidence, which will seriously affect the letter of the Axis Department. After all, it is not a good thing for many allies to think that we are too tough."
After Augustus finished, arcado went up the steps and walked into the tunnel light. It became slightly dim here. arcado waved his hand to signal that guards and followers should not follow. Some people guarded the entrance, while others immediately turned around and ran to the other side of the tunnel.
In the passage, Augustus seemed to suddenly remember something and said to arcado, "I almost forgot that earlier today, the United States sent a formal protest asking us not to try to get close to the Middle East again. In private, they revealed to our diplomats that they were willing to give up some oil shares and hoped that we would maintain the actual control line between Egypt and."
Acado laughed after hearing this, and then said with a smile, "Americans are getting more and more funny. When they fight, they say they will fight, but when they fight, they think that if they give us a little money, they can end the war. Are we beggars in the Third Reich?"
"What about us?" Augustus eyes a bright know arcado this time may be more aggressive.
"continue to be stupid!" Arcado gave a long-term solution without thinking deeply. "Since they don’t have American troops in the Middle East, we will continue to fight on the Suez Canal!" They either pinch their noses and admit this dumb loss or smash the table and have a real knife and gun war with us! "
As they spoke, the two men walked out of the tunnel. The exit was full of SS soldiers and military generals who maintained order and security. They were not foreign journalists who used the royal media such as Deutsche Bahn. They had already waited here and pressed the shutter for the most powerful man in the Third Reich.
"Mr. Head of State, what do you think of the results of this meeting with Italian leader Mussolini? Is it satisfactory? " "Mr. Fuhrer, do you think the North African military cooperation will extend to the Suez Canal?" Everyone kept asking about topics of interest to them, staring at the protagonist with a look of expectation.