432 Italian Han Army
Although the fighting will of the Italian Han Association Army is unsatisfactory, the advantage in weapons can still easily crush the Sicilian guerrillas, and the guerrillas, such an armed organization, their own will to fight is also very problematic, if all the guerrillas are like the anti-Japanese drama in the marksmanship and are not afraid of life and death, even with millet plus rifles can drive away the enemy of machine guns and cannons.
After all, the guerrillas will always outnumber the occupying forces in terms of numbers......
Therefore, a few grenades from the Italian artillery bombarded down, and the Sicilian partisans were scattered.
No one is really afraid of death, and it is a very common thing that the blood that is aroused for a while by shouting slogans will collapse under the roar of artillery and the flying of bullets.
The Europeans had a humanitarian tradition of surrendering to save their lives, and the Sicilian guerrillas were soon captured by nearly half of them, and their future destiny was to become part of the Italian concentration camp-style collective farms that would contribute to Lin Haoda's career.
Interestingly, after the battle, the Italian Han Army, after being fully rested and soothed, skillfully cleaned the mud-covered military uniform, straight and solemn, with the shoulders of the gun and the head held high, almost marching meticulously with the attitude of an honor guard.
Cheng Xiaoyu looked at the horizontal and vertical marching troops in his own queue, and couldn't help but sigh: "This group of Italian cowards is really neatly walked, if you hadn't seen them fight with your own eyes, I don't know how many people would be deceived by their appearance and think that they are elite soldiers in a hundred battles......
The Italians have done a perfect job of face engineering. ”
What Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know was that the most famous of the spaghetti gentlemen in history was their queue grooming, whether it was the Italian royal family or later Mussolini, they were all rulers who valued face, especially Mussolini made all the troops of the Italian army into a master of 'kicking the right step', every time he followed the German army into an occupied city, he was like a proud rooster and the queue drove in neatly, putting on the posture of a winner.
The uninformed common people looked at it and thought that those ragged German soldiers were playing for the Italian honor guard......
Of course, the actual situation is just the opposite, because the Germans have always been in front as the main force, and the Italians are only responsible for logistics and transportation and the combat mission of garrisoning the defense area......
It's just that although the German soldiers are all ruthless at will, they have always discriminated against the Italian soldiers, even if the Italian soldiers show a noble and neat queue every time, but in fact, they also have inferiority complex in their hearts.
It is this inferiority complex that makes them more inclined to make their appearance more gorgeous to cover up their inner inadequacies, and it is also this inferiority complex that causes the Italian army to always collapse at the touch of a button......
However, the object of the Italians is the real enemy, not a group of mob guerrillas who take up arms, cowardice does not mean that Italian soldiers dare not kill, on the contrary, in the suppression of the weak, in order to show their 'bravery', the Italian Han army often abuses the guerrilla prisoners, and kills the enemy without mercy, sometimes even more actively than the Han Chinese!
It was these 'advantages' that made the Han Army Staff firm up on the plan to use the Italian Han Army, and the murderous suppression of the puppet army was exactly what Lin Haoda needed.
The addition of the Italian Han Coalition Army greatly reduced the casualties of the mobilized soldiers, and also allowed the Han Army to have more wealthy troops to deploy on the Italian border, paving the way for the upcoming 'lightning attack'.
At least every time after encircling and suppressing the guerrillas, when the Italian Han Association army entered the city, it would tell the Italian civilians in the city that this was another 'brilliant' victory......
In fact, this brilliance was entirely based on the power of advanced firing rifles and Italian guns, and had nothing to do with the combat effectiveness of the Italian Han Army.
The Italian Han Association Army has the combat quality of regular army soldiers, but it does not have the strong willpower of regular army soldiers to fight.
In the city of Rome, Qin Xue'er urgently sent a message: "The master, the Italian National Republic in Sicily, under the leadership of Garibaldi, has landed in France. ”
"Oh? There is only one Garibaldi left in Sicily and there are still soldiers to fight across the ocean? That's right, with the British fleet, Sicily is absolutely safe......" Lin Haoda couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity, the anti-Han alliance seemed to be naked contempt for the naval shortcomings of the Han army!
But if you land in France, you can land, anyway, it is already regarded as an outcast, and one more Garibaldi who carries the flag and earns shouts will not change anything.
"Master, this is not the point, according to uncertain secret information, the British have landed in Sardinia, the Sardinian royal family seems to be about to be unable to withstand the pressure, the anti-Han alliance does not seem to want to maintain the situation of the two Italians, they want to forcibly pinch the remnants of Italy!
Although the combat effectiveness of the Italian army is not good, the prestige of the Italian national republic in the Italian peninsula is still very high, they naturally occupy the Italian national righteousness, and there are still many people in the area under our control who are inclined to the Italian nation, and once we play the banner of the Han Empire, it will inevitably stimulate the outbreak of Italian national sentiment in the opposite direction, and the anti-Han alliance should have seen this, so it bothered to support Garibaldi's Italian national republic.
And the neutrality of the Sardinian royal family did not cooperate, which was obviously not in the interests of the anti-Han League, for the anti-Han League, the British casually sent a force to land in Sardinia, which was enough for the Sardinian royal family to drink a pot. ”
Lin Haoda shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "It is impossible for the British to exterminate the Sardinian royal family, they still have a lot of prestige in the Italians and Sardinia, and killing the Sardinian royal family has no meaning to the anti-Han alliance except for the benefits of Garibaldi."
However, now that the British have landed, it may not be long before Sardinia will become part of the Italian national republic, and it is not new for the European republics to allow the existence of the aristocratic class, and it seems that the Sardinian royal family will be weakened again.
In this case, we naturally have to fall into the ground, the dead ghost king of the Sardinian royal family, but there is no less trouble for me, take advantage of this opportunity to completely wash away the small forces related to the Sardinian royal family on the Italian peninsula, and it is rare to be able to uproot a centuries-old royal foundation. ”