"Your Excellency, the battle of the Imperial Army in Calais is truly wonderful. Air-ground joint operations, high-speed tank assaults, plus pincer offensives of mechanized troops and traditional infantry, a series of combination punches are beaten, and the British and French have no temper at all! Mussolini stepped out of a Daleam Benz limousine and strode towards Lyon, who was standing at the door to greet his guests, "Germany under your leadership, the occupation of Paris is just around the corner!" ”

"Everywhere, it is the officers and soldiers of the empire who fight bravely, how can I have any credit." Leon modestly waved his hand, "But the capture of Paris is really just around the corner." ”

"Hey, Yuan Xiansheng is really modest, your generals have told me that many of the tactics and tactics adopted by the German army were taught to them by you personally." Mussolini smiled and said, "Yuan Xiansheng, you can teach my generals when you have time, haha!" ”

When Leon heard this, he laughed and patted Mussolini on the shoulder while agreeing, but in fact he was full of slander in his heart.

Teaching you a fart, there are so many people in the Italian Army, and the real fight is only 200,000 Alpine mountain troops, Leon snorted with disdain in his heart.

It is also true that since the Italian mountain troops crossed the Alps and invaded southeastern France, the progress of the troops has plummeted, and the Italian army, which was able to destroy the elite French mountain troops, was often chased and beaten by the second-rate French army on the plains.

The reason for this situation is actually very simple, there are two main points - the first point is that the Italian army's supply line needs to cross the Alps, so compared to the French army, the Italian army's supply transportation is more difficult.

The second and most important point is that the wonderful performance of the Italian army in the Alps made Mussolini begin to be blindly confident, he believed that the combat quality of the Italian army was not worse than that of the first-line German army, so he withdrew the elite Alpine troops to the country to preserve their strength, and replaced them with ordinary front-line troops in Italy.

However, it turned out that Mussolini really thought too much, and the ordinary Italian troops were far worse than the mountain troops in terms of combat experience and fighting will, and in many battles, there was a phenomenon that the casualties of the troops began to rout as soon as they exceeded 10%, and the German army, which was "not much different from the Italian troops", often lost more than half of its strength and still fought to the death.

As for the successive defeats of the Italian army in southeastern France, Lyon did not care too much, in his opinion, Italy had no problem withdrawing its mountain troops, because the progress of the German army was abnormal, and the defeat of France was already a matter of time, so the Italian offensive in southeastern France had no impact on the course of the entire French campaign, and there was no need to consume the only army that Italy could fight there.

Mussolini and Lyon chatted a few more words, and then went to the manor first, knowing that many others would have to be greeted by Lyon himself.

"Say, what does this German Führer want to do today?" As he walked inside the manor, he asked the adjutant beside him, "As far as I know, almost all the leaders of the Axis powers have been invited tonight...... Did he want to mock our defeat in France with the victory at Dunkirk in front of so many people? ”

"I don't know, Dear Mr. Leader." The adjutant shook his head, "But I don't think it's mocking you, because he doesn't dare, after all, you're his mentor." ”

"Yes!" Mussolini smiled, "I forgive him for not daring!" ”

The clock pointed to 8 o'clock in the evening, and all the invited guests had already arrived, and the party officially kicked off.

The first event of the evening was the awarding of medals, which, of course, were limited by the number of people, and only the winners of the Knight's Iron Cross were present. There were more than 120 of them, and with the exception of a few high-ranking commanders, the rest were all the elite of their respective troops, and for some time to come, Goebbels' propaganda apparatus would use them as key propaganda targets and portray them as heroes of the empire, so as to attract more people to join the army.

The second was Raeder's marshal promotion ceremony, Raeder had not yet recovered from his injuries, he was wrapped in a thick bandage, sitting in a wheelchair to receive the marshal's scepter handed to him by Leon.

In his own self-deprecating words, it was "a mummy who became the first marshal of the Empire."

After participating in these two projects, Lyon left the party, along with more than a dozen Axis leaders.

Yes, as Mussolini thought, Lyon's party had a more important purpose than just a celebration of victory and an award.

Führer's estate, conference room.

Throughout the entire Führer Manor, this meeting room can be said to be the most luxurious house in the entire manor, whether it is a huge conference table or chairs, all of which are made of extremely luxurious materials, and compared to the snow-white walls of Lyon's bedroom, the walls of this meeting room are covered with famous paintings.

"I want everyone who enters this room to have a deep understanding of Germany's great power!" This is Lyon's exact words to the designer.

The people sitting in this room now have no sense of the luxury of the surroundings, because all of them stand on top of the world without exception, and the ugly Tiger tank is more interesting than these priceless works of art.

Strange to say, each of these people is a being who can influence the course of history, but most of them are in awe of the man sitting at the head of the conference table.

"Do you have any thoughts on my proposal?" Leon propped his hands on the table and said to the people around him with a smile.

"With all due respect, Yuan Xiansheng, should you ask our opinion before you engage in this 'Axis Joint Operations Command'?" Mussolini held up the plan in front of him and took the lead in saying, "It's not appropriate that you want us to hand over the military power at a word, right?" ”

"Am I not asking your opinions?" Leon smiled, "Besides, this command is not to have full authority over the actions of the troops of various countries, it is mainly to strengthen the connection between the military operations of our countries." ”

"Mr. Leon, do you think I can't read?" Mussolini said angrily, "This plan clearly states, 'In exceptional circumstances, the Joint Operations Command has the right to directly command the armies of all countries in the theater'!" ”

"It's not like you're going to hand over your military power." "The Joint Operations Command is made up of all of us, so isn't it the same as us commanding together?" ”