If everything is just as Ziano depicts, then wouldn't Italy have an advantage against the sky? Of course, this powerful advantage does not exist.

In order to draw the leader's attention away from the dangerous north and back to the less dangerous south, Ziano deliberately concealed many factors that were unfavorable to Italy's Mediterranean strategy.

First of all, the islands of Corsica and Malta were under French and British control, respectively, severely limited the Italian Mediterranean advantage that Ziano had previously mentioned. Although Italy is the strongest power in the region, it is still a long way from eliminating the power of Britain and France in the Mediterranean at the same time.

Coupled with the closed nature of the Mediterranean, even if Italy really won partial hegemony in the Mediterranean through all odds, it would not be able to have the opportunity to compete for world hegemony as Mussolini imagined.

After all, at the moment when Britain controls Gibraltar and Egypt at the same time, even if Italy seeks regional hegemony in the Mediterranean, it will be difficult to freely enter and exit the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, let alone seek world hegemony like Britain.

"I have decided that if Italy wants to achieve world hegemony, it must come up with a record that convinces the world!" Mussolini said to himself: "Add another 100,000 troops to our Afrika Korps and strive to further expand the territory of the new Roman Empire." ”

Pinch soft persimmons in Africa. Yes, that's acceptable. Ziano nodded respectfully in response.

"Also, recruit another mercenary army in Albania, and the more troops you recruit, the better. As for the weapons and materials needed, they will be transferred as soon as possible. Mussolini continued to give instructions.

Hearing this, Ziano sighed helplessly in his heart again. His father-in-law seems to think that more troops means more force, and he always likes to expand the number of troops, even if it is not much of the same.

He seemed to be completely oblivious to the report that he had been reminding Germany of the shortage of supplies. Obviously, Italy has to rely on imports for a long time on key strategic resources such as coal, iron ore and oil. When the supplies of the existing army cannot be guaranteed, does the leader still want to expand the new troops and use hoes as weapons for the new troops?!

Of course, this kind of words can only be thought of in the heart. On the surface, Ziano replied very respectfully: "No problem, great leader." We will definitely prepare as soon as possible! ”

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"Then you should be ready as soon as possible." Something similar happened at the Allied Command Headquarters set up by Gammel in Paris.

Sitting behind Brooke, commander of the 2nd Army of the British Expeditionary Force, Montgomery tilted his head contemptuously.

As the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Gan Molin does not seem to have figured out the current situation at all. For the sake of an unknown piece of information, he gathered all the coalition forces that could be mobilized in the Belgian rear, preparing to fight a preemptive war on Belgian soil, a trench war with no technical content.

For this plan, he actually took command of the British Expeditionary Force and asked all British officers and soldiers to be prepared.

"General Brooke," Montgomery said to his immediate superior, Lieutenant General Brooke, in a low voice, "and this does not bode well for us, the French general, who is the commander-in-chief, to have no idea of reserving reserves. ”

Brooke also frowned, turned his head slightly to Montgomery and whispered: "I don't know, they seem to have an unusually good faith in the captured German advance order, so they are completely only in the deployment plan for that march order........

"Not bad! We have reason to believe in the authenticity of the German war plan captured in Belgium. Ganmarin interrupted loudly, turning his gaze to where Montgomery and Brooke were.

Such a whisper was also heard?!

Montgomery looked surprised as he looked at the French commander-in-chief, who was staring at him. This man's ears are so bright!

Several French generals on the side looked at this scene awkwardly and smiled silently.

Gammelin's temper, they are clear. What this French general hates the most is that someone dictates his plan, even if it is a little flawed!

Fortunately, there were several British Allied generals who were quietly talking at the bottom, and this was the French generals........ Then go back and wait to be put in small shoes.

Fortunately, Gammelin was in a good mood now, and it was impossible for him to really clean up the Allied generals, so he didn't start to get angry as before. Not only did he not get angry, but he also had rare patience to give an explanation to several British generals.

"We have the impregnable Maginot Line to rely on, and we already have a large number of troops stationed inside the line, so there is no need to leave reserves in case anything else." Ganmalin confidently walked to the huge map of the conference room, sketched along the Maginot Line with a telescopic pole, and said: "This line is a natural danger that will never be crossed!" ”

Gan Molin's self-confidence is not groundless. In the eyes of him, and the entire French military department, the Well-designed, expensive, and reinforced concrete permanent fortifications of the Maginot Line were a red line that the Germans would never dare to touch.

The Maginot Line, which is a permanent fortification of about 5,800 for various purposes, with a density of 15 fronts per kilometer, the strongest reinforced concrete fortifications with a roof and walls up to 3.5 meters thick, armored towers with armor thickness of 300 mm, full of anti-tank trenches, cliffs, cliffs and metal and concrete piles, reinforced with minefields, less than metal piles and wooden piles barbed wire, set up a death red line of electrified barbed wire!

As long as there was one person in the German hierarchy who remembered the battle of the First World War, called the Verdun Meat Grinder, they would not have the courage to challenge today's Maginot Line.

"The Germans can only attack us via Belgium." Ganmalin's telescopic pole gradually moved to the north of the map: "This is their only chance!" In the last world war, they did not dare to attack us head-on. Now that we have the Maginot Line, they don't dare to attack us head-on. ”

"It's in their interest!" Ganmalin put away the telescopic rod and turned to everyone at the conference table: "So, that plan is their only option. Even knowing that the plan had been leaked, they had no other choice. ”

"Defending Belgium is tantamount to stopping the hope of victory for the German army." "I don't know why it is necessary to cowardly leave a large number of reserves when the only option is to know the enemy, instead of going all out, defeating the opponent head-on and fighting for .........."

"We'll obey!" Lord Gott, who was sitting in front, suddenly got up and used his body to block the aggressive Gammelin for his two generals: "The British Expeditionary Force has no opinion on the D-shaped counterattack plan. ”

"Good." Gan Molin smiled slightly, waved his hand, and turned back to his position.

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