In order to block the entry of the Don army into Italy, the Italian king Napoleon? Bonaparte personally sat in charge of the Alpine line. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoSince the independence of Italy, the country has been largely nationalized and a unified Italian consciousness has been established everywhere. The small man from Corsica brought about a huge change in Italy, and even at the industrial level, Italy was ranked only behind Britain, Germany and France, and was the fourth largest in Europe, even stronger than the larger Russian country and the old colonial power Spain.

The French mercenaries who started with Napoleon at the beginning are also gone, but the mantle has been passed down, and Napoleon called the Old Guard, and now it is the size of a group army, which is the most elite unit in Italy. Napoleon gave the Old Guard, who himself was the commander of the Old Guard, with all the best equipment he could get his hands on, and which was under the orders of His Majesty alone.

Although Italy had the Alps as a barrier, relying on the steep and continuous Alps, Italy had built a solid defensive line, and it was difficult for the Don army to pass through here. In particular, the Tang Army was mainly composed of mechanized troops, and there were only a limited number of roads that could be used to cross the mountainous areas, and the transportation conditions were relatively poor. The Italian army relied on the mountainous terrain to hold the limit, and the Tang army always had to pay some price to break through.

After the capture of France, the Tang army began to gather a large number of troops on the western border of France, targeting Germany and Italy. The Datang Air Force also continued to launch air strikes on important cities in Italy, such as Turin and Milan. However, Italy had built a large number of fortifications in the Alps, and was able to hide its troops relatively easily. Even Italy blew up several roads in the northern Italian plains, which caused the Tang army to run into some trouble.

It's just that the Don Army didn't have to cross over the Alps to destroy Italy. The Tang Navy played an important role in this Italian campaign, with three aircraft carrier battle groups cruising in the Mediterranean, constantly sending fighter planes to strike at the Italian coastal areas. At the beginning of the period, the Italians only thought that this was a normal air raid by the Don army, but then what happened took them by surprise.

Because of the lack of air supremacy and reconnaissance capabilities, Italy did not know exactly what was happening at sea, and in addition to the three aircraft carrier battle groups, Datang also brought together three amphibious strike groups along the Italian coast. Datang's amphibious strike group is specially designed for amphibious landing operations, and its core ships include large landing ships such as amphibious assault ships and dock landing ships.

At a time when the Italian army was focusing on defending the Alps and was heavily defending areas prone to sea raids such as Sicily, the Tang Army unexpectedly chose an area where the Italians felt that it was impossible to launch a landing operation and launched an amphibious operation.

The location of the landing ground was in Tuscany, the middle part of the Apennine Peninsula, although the Italian army was also mobilized, but it was obviously impossible to deploy heavy troops everywhere, the focus of the Italian defense was on the north and south, and other important cities such as Rome and Naples were also deployed around the periphery. It can be said that Napoleon did not ignore the possible landing operation launched by the Don Army, but in his opinion, the landing operation itself is a relatively limited thing, especially the poor hydrological conditions of many coasts, which are not very suitable for amphibious operations.

However, the Tang Army's amphibious operation mode has been upgraded from a relatively traditional amphibious operation to the current amphibious joint operation. When the Tuscan landing broke out, the Don army did not make any tentative feints, because the Don army had already reconnoitred that the Italian troops guarding the coast and in the depths were less than 10,000 men, and the heavy firepower was not much.

About 7,000 airborne troops were parachuted on large transport planes to a depth of about 15 kilometers at the landing site, and helicopters taking off from amphibious assault ships were able to carry a battalion of troops to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy's defensive forces. The dock landing ship will release more than a dozen amphibious hovercraft carrying large numbers of infantry and armor to land on the beachhead. Since hovercraft are not picky about hydrology, as long as the wind and waves are not particularly strong, it is fine, and it doesn't care what is underwater at all. After all, this is the Mediterranean Sea, and the wind and waves are extremely small, which also facilitates the projection of troops of the Tang Army.

Before the landing, the aircraft carrier aircraft unit attacked the Italian troops on the coast, and although the Italian troops retreated for a while after being attacked by the air attack, they realized something, and there were signs of mobilizing troops from the rear to come to support. However, by this time the Don Army had already landed on the beachhead, and although the scale was not very large, a lineup of an armored regiment and an airborne brigade had already been formed.

The airborne troops and marines swept away the remnants of the Italian army, and the Italian troops from the rear tried to drive away the Tang army, but after all, the Tang army enjoyed absolute air supremacy and had a strong air-ground strike capability, so it was even difficult for the Italian army to gain a firm foothold and was beaten back. In one day, the Tang Army expanded the depth of the landing to 50 kilometers and the width to 70 kilometers. More than 20,000 soldiers of the Don Army have already landed in Tuscany, Italy.

Immediately the Don army took Grosseto and took control of the local airfield, which the Italians did not even have time to destroy. Through this airport, the Datang Air Force began to transport more soldiers and supplies. The Don army also then occupied the nearby port of Piombino. Although the port was only a small port, it was already able to dock the transport ships of the Don Army, through which the Don Army could carry more soldiers and heavy equipment into Italy.

Napoleon was caught by surprise by the Tang army's single-handedly cutting off the central part of the Apennine Peninsula, and he immediately sent troops to try to contain the Don army and regain control of Tuscany, but more and more Tang troops occupied more and more territory. The Tang people also cooperated with the local national revolutionary forces again, proclaimed the abolition of the Kingdom of Italy, established the Italian Republic, and preached to the Italians to stop the war and withdraw from Napoleon's army.

For a while, Napoleon's army was shaken, except for the old guard, which was still relatively reliable, and within a month the generals of the Italian army led the troops to revolt, declaring obedience to the orders of the republic, and not to the tyrant King Napoleon.

At this juncture, the Don Army launched the Battle of the Alps, a large number of airborne troops appeared in the rear of the Italian army, and the mountain troops of the Don Army began to surround from all corners of the Alps and oppress Napoleon's army. Even though Napoleon resisted valiantly, he was still unable to recover and was finally defeated by the Don army at Rivoli. (To be continued.) )