When Mussolini arrived in Albania, he held a huge military parade and invited countless reporters to interview and take pictures, so that he and his Italian army could be displayed in front of the whole world in a majestic manner, and Mussolini also openly issued an ultimatum to Greece to accept the Italian garrison, and Greece of course immediately rejected Mussolini's unreasonable demands. (To commemorate the refusal to accept the ultimatum, this day is observed as a national holiday in Greece)

Greece, which was unprepared, immediately mobilized the whole country, and the existing army was transferred to the border overnight, and when the Greek army of 200,000 was already waiting on the Greek border, the Italian army was still in the barracks and did not set off, and Mussolini, who was like a stupid pig, completely lost the opportunity to attack Greece suddenly, and at the same time lost the initiative on the battlefield, if the Italian army attacked at this time, it was completely against the Greek army with perfect defense, how to fight this kind of battle, Mussolini could fight this kind of battle that did not occupy the time, the place, and the people? Is it just Mussolini, a real "stupid pig"? Don't think about it.

On December 5, 1939, Italy finally slowly rallied to the Greek border. On the morning of the 6th, Mussolini ordered 250,000 Italian troops deployed in Albania to cross the Albanian border and begin the invasion plan.

The main direction of the attack was directed towards the Bandus Mountains near the city of Ioannina, and there was some initial progress, as the Italian army crossed the Carastir River, but was quickly repulsed and driven back to Albania. The 250,000 Italian troops were pursued like sheep in front of the 200,000 Greek troops, who were much worse armed than them, and the slow end was annihilation, although Mussolini had shot more than a dozen Italian officers, but he could not prevent the collapse of the Italian army.

Within a week, the invaders in Greece were cleared, and the Italian Mussolini ordered a large reinforcement, but the southern mountains of Albania still fell into the hands of the Greek army, and the Italian soldiers were killed and 80,000 were taken prisoner. The 250,000 troops before the attack were almost half wiped out by Greece in a week, which made Mussolini furious.

By the time Mussolini mobilized 300,000 troops to reach Albania, the time was already December 20, when the cold wave came, the sky was drifting goose feathers and heavy snow, after several weeks of severe winter, the Italian army launched a large-scale counteroffensive on the entire front line on January 9, 1940, although the Italian army had an advantage in numbers and equipment, but still failed, after a week of fighting and paying the price of 30,000 casualties, Mussolini decided to stop the offensive and leave Albania after 12 days.

The defeat of Italy was due to the command of Mussolini's garbage was one aspect, the military generals did not allocate military resources enough in the operation, misjudged the winter weather, the lack of suddenness of the offensive, the lack of support from the Bulgarians, and even problems with basic equipment, such as the non-distribution of winter uniforms, while Mussolini refused to accept the advice of the military-industrial advisers. Historically, even Germany on the battlefield of the Soviet Union caused a large number of soldiers to freeze to death and frostbite because they were not issued winter clothes.

During a month's war against Italy, the Greek army eliminated the main forces of the enemy. Greece did not have its own military-industrial complex, and the supply of equipment and ammunition for the army depended on supplies from the British in North Africa and captured from the defeated Italian army. Italy suffered heavy losses in the entire Greek campaign, losing almost 200,000 men, and this kind of battle, which was hastily ordered by Mussolini, was carried out like this.

Fortunately, the Greek army did not dare to pursue the Albanian territory, allowing the remnants of the Italian army to escape. It was not that the Greek army did not want to pursue, but that the German ultimatum came, and Hitler sent a telegram to Greece very domineeringly.

"The Greek army immediately halted this pursuit, or else they will bear the consequences."

The Greek top brass immediately stopped talking and hurriedly withdrew the army fifty kilometers back and distanced itself from the Italian army. It took a telegram from Hitler to save the remaining 300,000-odd Italian troops from annihilation.

The Greek army was able to win for many reasons:

First, Greece is a war for the country, and all soldiers have the fighting spirit of forgetting their lives.

Second, the Greek army knew the Italian invasion plan in advance, and the Italian army occupied strategic points before the Italian army, leaving the Italian army entirely attacking the strong defensive line of the Greek army.

Thirdly, the secret support of Britain and France is also very important, as long as the Greek army needs it, Britain and France spared no effort to support Greece, it can be said that Britain and France helped Greece equip about half a million regular troops. In this kind of proxy war, imperialism is familiar with it.

Mussolini left the Albanian front in a gloomy state and hurriedly summoned Vincent to inquire about the situation of the German armored division in Italy. Vincent looked at Mussolini, whose face was dark, his eyes were red, and his expression was haggard, and Mussolini was like a gambler with red eyes after losing.

"Division Commander Vincent, how is the training of our German Armored Division, can we go to the battlefield immediately?"

If Vincent had been training an all-German Italian armored division at this time, and the personnel in it were all soldiers drawn from the Italian armored division, he would have been able to go to the battlefield after a month of armored cooperative combat training. But this is the Italian army, Vincent will never dare to pull the Italian German armored division into the battlefield at this time, a newly formed army, the first stop must win, otherwise the military soul of this army will collapse.

It is impossible for Vincent to risk his hard-built armored division at this time, you must know that in order to buy the German No. 4 tank, Vincent asked Mussolini to cut off the Italian army's three million tons of red wine imports, and now many Italian young masters are cursing Vincent behind his back:

"* Vincent, who is raised by the son, can actually let the romantic Italian soldiers have no red wine to drink, then you don't care if Lao Tzu goes to pick up girls, the gun under Lao Tzu's crotch is on Lao Tzu himself, when to release the gun, Lao Tzu is in charge, go; Brothers, find a girl to go on a date......"

Of course, Vincent also heard some rumors, but Vincent directly ignored these dissatisfied remarks, and still stuck to the barracks every day, brutally training those Italian young master soldiers, all the beauties who came to the barracks for a date, all turned away, if anyone dared to climb out of the barracks courtyard wall, go out to "fight in the field" with beauties, the end of being caught was to hang naked to show the public, and then all the soldiers of the regiment that were hung up, each of them dared to go out to "fight" the Italian soldiers**, 1152

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