And so Sir Forbes, with his lieutenant and chief of staff, and two captains and staff officers, followed the line of the Italian major, and swaggered out of the cabin where they were being held.

At the head of the procession, an Italian major wearing a blue summer uniform of the Italian Navy with a straight officer's small epaulettes.

Behind the major, there were two columns of soldiers, also dressed in Italian uniforms, 4 people each, for a total of 8 people.

What, why bring 8 people, of course, to move things.

Didn't Forbes say that 4 people can move half of it?

Then the Italian major brought 8 people, and he could just move all the valuable items.

Of course, this is all wishful thinking on the part of the major.

Further back in the procession is Sir Forbes and his party, who have been stripped of their epaulettes and cannot be seen in the high ranks.

As for the epaulettes of Forbes and their officers, they were all taken away by order of Lefeel.

Leffel, who had always hoped to defeat the British Royal Navy, had long wanted to add a row of British general's epaulettes to his collection.

Now that he had waited for this opportunity, Leffel took away the epaulettes of all the British officers without any reason, and beautified his reputation to facilitate the statistics of British captured officers at all levels, so as to arrange the corresponding treatment of various items.

Although there is no proof-level epaulette, Forbes's temperament still makes people see its identity at a glance.

On the one hand, Sir Forbes already has some gray temples, revealing his age and experience.

On the other hand, the other four British officers and soldiers who did not wear epaulettes, although their ranks were unknown, still marched behind Forbes in a column of two people.

Forbes' adjutant brought a column, and his chief of staff brought another. Two columns marched side by side, following the Italian ranks.

"Commander......." Forbes' chief of staff shouted contemptuously behind him.

"Huh!" Forbes quickly raised his hand and made a silencing gesture for the chief of staff to shut up.

Yes, there is no need to be reminded by the chief of staff, Forbes also saw it.

Directly in front of them, a group of Italian sailors, led by a lieutenant, was approaching them.

After all, they are all on the deck, and they can't see anyone looking up when they look down. The Italian lieutenant on the opposite side quickly spotted several Englishmen on this side.

"Hi, Major." The lieutenant waved his hand at the front of the Forbes team, then pointed at Forbes and said in Italian: "Why are the British prisoners traveling here?" ”

"Commander......." Forbes' adjutant was also a little impatient and reminded nervously.

"I know, don't move yet." Forbes once again raised his right hand, which he had just put down, with his palm outward, and made a boo gesture: "We are on the territory of the Italians, we can't mess around." ”

People are knives and I am fish and meat, which is what Forbes is talking about their current situation.

If they are a little careless, just 14 of them will definitely not be the opponent of more than 20 people on the opposite side.

Even if the opposite side couldn't subdue them, it wouldn't take long for the surrounding Italian soldiers to rush over after hearing the news.

Moreover, their team is only a short-term combination of interests.

Forbes and other 5 people are British troops who are bent on implementing the "British version of Operation Rainbow". The other 9 Italians were superficial teammates who were controlled by the major's selfish desires and only wanted to make a profit.

After all, others are still Italian soldiers.

"They?" The Italian major pointed to Forbes and the others at the back of the line, and said unabashedly: "I want to get some benefits from them, so I temporarily brought them out of the detention room." ”

Taking two steps forward, the Italian major patted the lieutenant who led the team on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You don't care so much, are the five people afraid that I won't be able to watch it?" ”

"Not really, after all, this is already our territory, so there is no need to worry." The lieutenant nodded and replied.

"Isn't that all right," said the Major, retracting his hand from the lieutenant's shoulder, and then said to him in a low voice, "If I get enough good, I'll treat you to a month's worth of pasta when I return home." ”

"And the pasta next to our port of Naples." The lieutenant smiled, and a consensus was reached.

After all, if he doesn't eat for nothing, he doesn't have to get along with the other party.

Why don't you just take 5 Britons out for a breather, and you can still turn the sky upside down?

Moreover, the other side is his own commander, he is a lieutenant, if he can't get along with the school officer, what good fruit can he eat.

So, under the deliberate dereliction of duty of the two Italian officers, with a strength of nearly a platoon, 24 Italian officers and soldiers, but without doing anything, were divided into two columns and spared from both sides of their ranks in Forbes.

Forbes's sideburns have already erupted two beads of crystal sweat.

Because they couldn't understand Italian, Forbes and his entourage didn't know the outcome of the Italian officers' deliberations.

Now, the Italian soldiers on both sides of them walked past them, although the ranks were lazy and their uniforms were loose, but after all, they had a weapon in their hands, and they had an absolute advantage in numbers.

Once the Italians figure it out, take out Forbes them.

The number is inferior, Forbes and others who have no guns and no bullets, that is not a lamb to the slaughter.

Not only Forbes, but also his adjutant, his chief of staff, and the two staff officers who followed him, were equally nervous.

Especially the two staff officers who were temporarily pulled in, almost invariably let their fingernails sink deep into their palms at this moment, and some of them turned blue.

They are still young and not calm enough, and their lack of experience makes the two lack of accumulation, and some of them can't hide their inner weakness.

In addition, this kind of anti-Japanese drama-like plot of sneaking behind enemy lines is the first time it has appeared in this time and space.

All around are enemies, and each with a gun. On my side, it's just 5 unarmed benefits.

Seriously, let them sneak into the Ark Royal, sink it, and then be glared at by the Italians at best, and there is no danger to their lives, right?

And in this way, the humiliation caused by their surrender will be immediately washed away by a heroic "British version of Operation Rainbow".

In this way, they will not be sinners of the British Royal Navy, but will become resilient heroes.

It's not that the bombing of the ship after the surrender can really atone for the crime and offset the losses caused by the surrender of the ship.

The reason why he became a hero is simply because of the government's propaganda needs.

It is not so much that the people of the Royal Navy's fleet are cowards who surrendered their ships, but of course they are all unyielding heroes, which can boost the morale of resistance at home.

Forbes, who is accustomed to the government's personality of reporting good news and not bad news, knows very well that as long as they can scuttle the Ark Royal, the government will definitely forcibly build them into heroes for the sake of public opinion propaganda.

As long as he can succeed, as long as he can mix the eyes of the Italians, he will not be the target of Sir Forbes!