What happened in the East did not cause much of a sensation in the whole world, because no one cared, and Western civilization was a very self-contained civilization, and they did not have other civilizations in their eyes, or regarded other civilizations as inferior civilizations, and they only had their world in their eyes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even Americans care more about Europe than they care about their American neighbors, and the United States is far closer to Europe than they are to neighbors like Cuba and Mexico, and to Americans, London seems to be next door, while Mexico City sounds like it's on another ancient continent.

Now the whole West is more concerned about the war in Europe.

In September last year, just after Churchill returned to England, 300,000 Italian troops attacked Egypt from Libya to the north and Ethiopia to the south.

However, the land war between the two countries was completely a bad final, and Italy attacked 2 divisions and 2 independent brigades under the command of General Wavell of Britain with a total strength of 5 divisions, 1 regimental group, and 6 tank battalions.

It was not surprising that the Italian army had the upper hand and the British army retreated, but the attacking Italian army was very unpresentable, and after advancing 90 kilometers, it had to stop the offensive due to a failure of command and supply interruptions, and how poorly prepared the attack was.

The retreat of the British army is not strange, but the retreat of the sequential and planned retreat can also be regarded as a strategic shift, but the performance of the British is really so that people don't know how to wash the floor if they want to wash the floor. The Italians themselves were not supported enough, and after they took the initiative to stop the pursuit, the British still retreated vigorously, and they were simply unable to stand on their feet.

The result was a strange 130-kilometre-wide vacuum between the opposing sides.

Mussolini was proud of the victory over the British in North Africa, but Adolf, who had become the de facto boss of the fascist bloc, did not say anything about it, which hurt Mussolini, and Germany seemed to be ignoring Italy's military operations, and he decided to give Adolf a good idea of his strength after achieving some new victories.

Mussolini's chosen target was Italy, which he thought would be very easy to occupy, and he had previously sunk a Greek warship with a submarine attack, and the Greeks always said that they would remain neutral in the war in Europe, and they did not even fight back when the warship was bombed.

The Greeks endured, Mussolini triumphed, but the Germans still did not say anything about it, and the Germans did not seem to care about the expansion of Italy in southern Europe, and Mussolini continued to be wounded.

Mussolini was very proud, he believed that the Italian army had absolute superiority in front of the Greeks, in fact, everyone thought so, including the Italian generals and other countries, and even the Greeks.

In October, Mussolini issued an ultimatum to the Greeks to allow Italian troops to enter and occupy strategic points, which the Greeks could not agree to for any reason, so they refused.

So at the end of October, Italy invaded Greece.

One question is, why did Italy invade Greece, when these two countries were not neighbors?

In fact, five months before the German invasion of Poland, Italy invaded Albania, Greece's northern neighbor, after the Munich conspiracy, and even Czechoslovakia, the territory of Austria-Hungary, the country in the heart of Europe, Britain and France did not protect it, let alone a small southern European country, Albania is much the same as an Asian country to the British Empire.

So the Italian army could attack Greece through Albania without fighting across the sea.

Italy dispatched the 25th Army, under the jurisdiction of the 23rd and 51st Infantry Divisions, the 131st Armored Division, and was also supported by the Littoral Combat Brigade and the 3rd Alpine Mountain Division from the Italian mainland, with a total strength of about 85,000 troops, equipped with 163 tanks, more than 600 artillery pieces and 187 aircraft.

On the Greek side, only the 8th Infantry Division under the command of Major General Casimitros was on the front line, and the West Macedonian Cluster and the Bandus Regiment were responsible for the support and flank cover tasks, with a total strength of only 30,000 troops, and a lack of tanks, howitzers and other heavy weapons, and the Air Force only had some old aircraft.

The commander-in-chief of the Italian army is Bolasca, a modern army with such superiority, he is 100% sure of Greece, which is still at the level of World War I. He believed that only three Italian divisions would be able to penetrate the heart of Greece, and that within two weeks, the Greek government would bend its knees and surrender, and that the ancient Romans had conquered Greece through four wars, and that they must have done a better job than their predecessors.

But the Italians soon realized that the ideal was very plump, and the reality was very skinny, and they kept attacking, always advancing, and the Greeks did seem vulnerable, and the Italian army scrambled to advance like Ioannina, the first large city on the Greek border.

Luck didn't help them either, the Italian army advanced, the entire Epirus Mountains in northern Greece rained heavily, the local transportation was very backward, the Greek army retreated and destroyed a large number of tunnels and bridges, making it difficult for the Italian mechanized troops to advance, many tanks and trucks could only be abandoned on the side of the road, and the Italian young soldiers from the big cities carried heavy equipment through the jungle slopes, and their morale plummeted.

At this point, the Greek army is even better than the Italian and British armies, and at least it can destroy communication roads when retreating, of course, this is just common sense for modern armies, just basic qualities.

The surprise of the Greek army seemed to be more than just this common sense and foundation, and the commander of their 8th Division, Casimitros, consciously reduced his troops to the main position on the Kalamas River, not far south of the Greco-Argentine border line, and waited for the exhausted Italian army to come and die.

It is clear that the Greeks believed that they could not fight the Italian army head-on in the border area, so they chose to retreat step by step and clear the wall, in fact, if they did fight the Italian army, perhaps they would not have this consciousness, and they would not be so cautious.

There was no big mistake in being careful, the tactics of the Greeks paid off.

When the main force of the Italian army finally hit the bank of the Kalamas River, before they had time to catch their breath, the Greek army, which was waiting for work, suddenly launched a counter-assault, and the Greek soldiers rushing down from the mountains quickly cut off the 23rd division, the vanguard of the Italian army, into several sections, and the Italian army urgently called for artillery and aviation support, and barely stabilized its position.

The littoral combat brigade on the right flank of the Italian army was overwhelmed by the minefields set up by the Greek army and the elusive mountain guerrillas, and the battle lasted until November 8, when the first round of the Italian offensive was declared bankrupt, and they only crossed more than 30 kilometers into Greek territory.

The Italian commander Bolaska ordered the elite (so-called) 3rd Alpine Division to attack from the direction of Bandus, detour back to the back of the Greek 8th Division, and separate the main Greek forces assembled in the Epirus Mountains from the second line of troops.

The division lived up to expectations and reached the village of Voruzha, north of Mai Tsoung, in only five days, but they could not move any further, and the Greek Bantus regiment in front of them was supported by a large number of militias, and on November 2, they attacked the logistics station of the 3rd Alpine Division, capturing a large amount of military supplies, and the offensive and defensive situation of both sides immediately changed.

On 4 November, Greek reinforcements from Macedonia launched a counterattack with the Bandus, quickly recaptured the village of Voruza and formed a counter-encirclement of the Italian army. Feeling bad, the Italian division commander Mario Giroti hurriedly asked the commander-in-chief Bolásca for help, but the latter did not respond. After four days of fierce fighting, the 3rd Alpine Division lost most of its positions, and some officers even abandoned their troops and fled to Albania on their own, and by 13 November, the division had more than 2,000 dead and the rest of the troops were completely disorganized.

Well, the strength of several regiments of Greece, plus a group of militia, annihilated one of the ace divisions of the Italian army.

At this time, the Greeks saw the quality of the Italian army, launched a counteroffensive on almost all fronts, the Italian army was really defeated at one blow, starting from the counteroffensive on November 14, the Italian army withdrew from Greek territory within a few days, and the Greeks also entered Albania, which was annexed by Italy, and penetrated 80 kilometers into Albania.

At the end of December, they gathered forces and crushed the Italian army in front, but the British government decided to transfer troops into Greece and take advantage of the opportunity of Greece to defeat Italy and open a second front in the Greek direction.

The British gave Italy a respite in North Africa, but their actions made the Germans focus on their allies, whose achievements were impressive, and the Nazis did not dare to risk the loss of Italy, which had expanded Libyan oil production to 100 million barrels a year, the result of a frenzied exploitation with German support.

The oil had greatly supported the German military machine, so it was absolutely unwilling to give up the area, so in North Africa, the German army went in and helped the Italians stabilize the defensive line.

But the Nazis were not very happy to invade Greece, which was full of mountains, and as a result, because the British tried to establish a base in Greece, they also had to plan to send troops to Greece, which greatly delayed the German invasion of Soviet Russia.

That's an afterword.

Now it was only March, and the Italian army launched a second round of attacks on Greece, of course, only what they claimed, in fact all the battles were fought in Albania, that is, on the territory of Italy, as a result, the Italian army continued to suffer heavy defeats, but the Greeks could not keep up with their weapons, because they did not have their own military industry, and the ammunition used was captured in Italy, and now that the ammunition was used up, the offensive could not be continued.

The Italians escaped and were not completely driven out of Albania.

At the time of the fierce war in Europe, it was clear that they did not care about the conflict between the two East Asian countries, and North Korea was too foreign to them.

However, Britain and the United States, such as the political high-level with world ambitions and world vision, are obviously very concerned about the situation in East Asia, but they do not think that a war will break out in Asia, at most in the end the Japanese pull out a few scapegoats, and then lose a little money, and then Japan has a strong navy becomes a fact, and begins to fight with China again in Asia, so that the Chinese can not bring an absolute threat to Britain and the United States.

But they underestimate North Korea too much, and Jin Jiu obviously will not be willing to do things like an obscure country in the eyes of others.

The strength of the DPRK is by no means what they show it to be, the Japanese have a powerful capital ship, known as the second in Asia, but in fact, the North Koreans are, because the North Koreans have the group of capital ships, 10 aircraft carriers and 10 battleships that the Mexicans commissioned them to build!

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