In Rome, Valikot was in a state of distress at this time, and in the first week of the Italian counteroffensive, he was surprised by the bravery he showed at a high level.

Of course, if that's the case, it's not enough to worry him, anyway, the braver the Italians behave, the more casualties they will suffer, and if they can continue to maintain this level, another Roman version of the Verdun meat grinder!

It's a pity that he soon found out that the Italians have returned to normal again, and it may be that the second middle school boy who dared to fight and kill was almost dead, and the rest were old fritters.

Well, if Valikot has no ambitions and just wants to mess around, then now is the best state, anyway, he just needs to hold Rome, and it is not a problem to be promoted to a knighthood after the war.

However, if he wants to have a greater development, then this is not qualified, and the new generation of officers in the Bulgarian army who have the same record as the record is also in the double digits, and it is not easy for him to stand out from it!

The army is a place to talk about the achievements, but unfortunately because of the limited strength of the Italians, his combat exploits are to be discounted, and the ranking of the combat effectiveness of the armies of various countries made by the Bulgarian General Staff is a good reference!

After the outbreak of the World War, the Bulgarian General Staff re-evaluated the combat effectiveness of the armies of various countries according to their performance on the battlefield, and all of them took the combat achievements as the main criterion.

The full score is 100 points, which simply means that it is based on the performance on the battlefield, mainly based on the achievements of the army, and also integrates the morale of the army, weapons and equipment, logistics and supplies, and other factors.

The Germans still hold the top spot with a whopping 71 points, mainly due to logistical and strategic deductions, which have lowered the score.

And the Italians continued to be at the bottom, and the Bulgarian staff gave them a comedy of 5 points, and since the beginning of the war, all battles of more than 1,000 men have never been victorious; The morale of the army is low, the weapons and equipment are backward, and the logistics supply is rotten at home!

Ferdinand's comprehensive evaluation: The Italians' strategy is very clear, but unfortunately they have no ability to implement it!

So Valikot was a little embarrassed, although he had killed hundreds of thousands of Italian troops, this record was still unconvincing!

Unless he can stab Austria-Hungary after defeating the Italians, it is best to fight all the way to Germany, so that people can recognize him as the first man of the new generation of the Bulgarian Army!

Of course, this sweet dream is good to do while sleeping, unless he can open it, it cannot happen under normal circumstances.

As the days passed, the intensity of the Italians' attacks became less and less, and Valikot could still hold on, but his officers and men were already in a hurry.

Where to find such a good opponent for the Italians? In the event of a sudden surrender of the Italians, won't their exploits fly?

A young staff officer proposed: "General, why don't we fight a decisive battle with the Italians, now the total strength of the Entente in the Italian Peninsula is still nearly 300,000, and if we gather them all, we and the Italians may not have the strength to fight!" ”

Under Ferdinand's influence, none of the top brass in the Bulgarian army continued to take risks and add variables when the overall situation was decided, and Valikot was no exception.

Valikot thought for a moment and said, "No, we can concentrate our forces, and the Italians will follow suit!" This is their homeland, and with the current situation in Italy, they can still concentrate 1.23 million troops.

With 300,000 against more than 1 million, including nearly three-quarters of the colonial troops, the risk is too great!

It's better to delay time like now, I'm afraid that there will be a food panic in Italy at this time, and they won't be able to last long! ”

The staff officer said unwillingly: "General, are we just waiting and doing nothing?" ”

Valikot smiled and said, "Of course it can't be! Since the Italians are not coming, can't we go to them? ”

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Time flew by, and in a flash we entered 1917, the world war set off a new page, and the Italians finally couldn't hold it anymore and announced their surrender after Christmas!

Of course, militarily, whether Italy surrenders or not has little impact, anyway, they only have a little strength left, and they can't affect the trend of the world war.

However, the political influence is so great, from the beginning of the war in 1915 to the present, Belgium has been hung up among the members of the Entente, while the Allies have hung up a series of junior brothers, and now even Italy, a great power, has surrendered!

Although the Italians announced their withdrawal from the war last year, everyone knew that they wanted to speculate again, and some even thought that it was the Italians who asked too high for John Bull.

But no one could have imagined that the Italians would announce their surrender so quickly! It's a great power anyway, how can you be so cowardly?

Even Ferdinand was a little puzzled, this time the Italians surrendered too simply, right? Due to the start of the battle on the Southern Front, he had not paid attention to the Italian battlefield for a long time.

"What's the matter, why are the Italians going to surrender so soon?"

The acting chief of the General Staff, Klosf, gloated: "Your Majesty, in fact, the Italian government has announced its surrender now, and there is no way to do it!"

The Italians had exhausted their last war potential in order to counterattack Rome, and in just a few months, they had paid at least 200,000 casualties, but they still did not succeed, and the brutal casualties caused the Italian army to collapse!

In fact, with the exception of the first week or so, the Italians burst out with amazing courage, which soon returned to their normal level.

On December 2 last year, our troops in Rome launched a sneak attack, and accidentally captured an Italian division of prisoners, twice as many as we went to sneak attack!

General Valcote judged that the morale of the Italians had collapsed, and then concentrated all the Allied forces in Italy to fight a decisive battle with the Italians, although the Italians still had several times our strength at that time, but they were still at a disadvantage.

On Christmas Eve, the Italian army mutinied again, and the troops on the front seized the opportunity to attack.

Nearly 100,000 Italian soldiers came into our prisoner of war camps on their own initiative, and the only demand was that we should give them the right treatment, and some even asked our soldiers for Christmas gifts!

The Italian government now has no choice but to continue the war, because they don't know when the troops at the front will surrender! ”

Ferdinand rubbed his forehead, he thought he had heard it wrong, how could such a strange thing happen? But thinking about historical Italy, Ferdinand felt that there was nothing impossible that seemed to happen to them!

Historically, a pilot parachuted to capture an Italian infantry regiment, and the British and Italians were at war, and the capture of prisoners was counted in acres!

Now that the Italians are beginning to surrender en masse, it is not necessary to think that Ferdinand can guess, for nothing more than the following reasons:

1. They are desperate for this war and do not want to fight again;

2. There are problems in the supply of logistical materials, such as the food standards of the soldiers have declined; (Note: Italian soldiers have high requirements for food, but unfortunately their logistics are simply not satisfied, and there have been many incidents in history where soldiers surrendered to the enemy on a large scale because the food standards were too low!) ）

3. The casualties are too great, they can't stand it!

It seems that now these three iron laws have appeared in the Italian army, and surrender seems to be their normal operation.

As for courage, can this be eaten? Except for the beginning, everyone knew that they were played by John Bull and lost Rome, and suddenly they wanted to fight the enemy desperately, and after calming down, the Italians found that it seemed that this war was not worth fighting!

It is really not worth it to pay for your own life for a war that loses on your own initiative!

Even if Rome is recovered, what can it do? It still can't change the outcome of this war, and besides, recovering Rome by force will definitely turn Rome into ruins, and in the end, it's not Italy that will be injured?

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The question of why the Italians surrendered is not important, the key is to clean up the aftermath. Italy was also one of the great powers, and it still has some family backgrounds, so as the victorious country, it is natural to divide it!

Ferdinand pondered for a moment and then said, "Let the Foreign Office communicate with Britain and France, and see what kind of conditions the British will give, and we can trade elsewhere on the matter of dividing up Italy!" ”

Obviously, it was impossible for the British to allow the Bulgarians and the French to easily divide Italy, otherwise how would John Bull gain a foothold in the Mediterranean in the future?

Of course, no matter how awesome John Bull is now, if he doesn't exchange real money for full benefits, it is impossible to make the two countries easily concede!

From the outbreak of the world war to the present, Bulgaria has been struggling, from the Arabian Peninsula to the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria now occupies millions of square kilometers of territory, and it is time to digest it!

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