The sky was covered with dark clouds, and rolling thunderclouds were churning and surging. www.biquge.info Thunder and lightning flashed like silver snakes in the pitch-black inky clouds, and lightning continued to beat in the black clouds.

In a small town called Ciampino, just off Highway 6 south of Rome, a search unit of the Ming Army is resting and sheltering from the rain. This Ming army, which was only a few hundred men, received an order to go to Rome desperately, because the Germans from all sides were also frantically rushing to Rome, and everyone was chasing time.

After coming to Ciampino and driving out the local Italian garrison, the Ming army, which was short of fuel, saw that the heavy rain was coming, and chose to temporarily rest in this town and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops and the troops transporting the oil.

'Pap~Pap~Pap~' The bean-sized raindrops hit the houses in the town, and the initial bits and pieces quickly turned into a rapid downpour. The whole town was soon covered in a torrential downpour, and the sky and earth were covered in gray.

"It's time to eat!" The door of a small two-story building in the town was pushed open, and the cook, who was carrying an aluminum box, took off his poncho and walked into the small building with mud and water on his feet, shouting, "Come and eat." ”

This beautifully decorated two-storey building was originally used by a Ming merchant to support his Italian lover. However, it was quickly taken away by the local garrison after the start of the battle, and even the lover was taken with him. As for the Ming merchant, no one knows where he went. Now after the Ming army returned to kill, this building was temporarily requisitioned and used as a resting place.

'Knock knock~~~' A sound of footsteps sounded from all over the house, and a whole platoon of dozens of Ming soldiers poured out from all over the place to meet the cooking soldiers, and the aluminum box behind them.

"Oh? Noodles? It smells so good. After the two large aluminum boxes were opened, many Ming soldiers who were attracted by the fragrance wafting out with the hot air moved their index fingers, and they picked up their stainless steel lunch boxes and chopsticks around the aluminum boxes to salvage their dinner. The whole day was either fighting or on the road, and everyone was already hungry.

"It's raining so hard." In the fragrant room, the soldiers of the Ming army who had eaten hot noodles took out their cigarettes and lit them, looking at the lightning and thunder outside the window, and there were many discussions.

"With such heavy rain, the roads are all soaked, and it will be troublesome to continue the march now." A soldier said worriedly.

The city of Rome is a thousand-year-old city, the size of the city is huge, and it is full of dense buildings of all kinds, which is simply the best defensive position. Now that the Ming and German armies are advancing towards the city of Rome together, whoever can reach first will have the advantage. As for those Italian armies, after this period of time they collapsed at the touch of a button, or even collapsed without contact. The disdain of the Ming army for the Italians has been deeply imprinted in the depths of their hearts.

In fact, although the Italian army was very poor, it was not yet completely vulnerable, they were still an army after all.

The main reason why the Italians behaved so poorly was that they didn't know what they were fighting for. The training and equipment of the Italians really sucked in front of the Ming army and the German army. But no matter how bad it is, it will not be much worse than the Chinese army on the anti-Japanese battlefield in the history of modern time and space and the Soviet army during the Great Patriotic War.

Compared to the two armies that fought to the death to defend their homeland, the Italian army now does not know what it is fighting for. The Kingdom of Italy, which had just been unified for only two or three years, had not yet generated any centripetal force. The armies and people of various places, even the people of the original Kingdom of Sardinia, had no sense of belonging to this new country, and naturally did not have the courage and desire to give everything for this country.

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, almost the entire country was controlled by the Germans, the economy collapsed, and the people were miserable. Coupled with the Ming counterattack back to Italy, the continuous heavy bombardment, the extreme scarcity of various materials and the independence of the various member kingdoms. The severity between the city-states and so on and so on and so The faithless Italian people and army had no desire to fight. When facing the elite Ming army, it is naturally a one-touch collapse.

"We can't get by, and neither can the Germans." A soldier of the Ming army on the side smoked a cigarette and said, "Didn't you say that this heavy rain will cover the whole of central Italy?" We are now stuck in the quagmire, and the Germans should not try to get through it. ”

"That's right. We were just trapped by the heavy rain, and the Germans were not just suffering from the heavy rain. Another soldier exclaimed, "When I went to the battalion headquarters, I heard the news that we had a special operations unit wreaking havoc on the way to the north, and that the Germans were on a much harder path than we did." ”

"When I enter the city of Rome, I must have a good meal." A Ming soldier shouted loudly with excitement in his voice, "Since I got on the ship, every meal has been a battlefield supply, and the bird is about to fade out of my mouth." I've heard that Italians are very good at making noodles, and when I arrive in Rome, I must eat them all day and night! ”

"A day and a night? Hold you out! A colleague on the side laughed and quipped, "If you have time to eat, you might as well go to a few Italian girls to play, it's much more fun than eating." ”

"Hey, hey, hey~~~" The Ming officers and soldiers in the room suddenly let out a burst of knowing laughter. It's all big guys, and this kind of thing is easy to resonate with.

'Da Da Da~~~' Just when the Ming officers and soldiers in the room were laughing wantonly and enjoying the rare leisure time on the battlefield, a burst of gunfire suddenly came from outside the room.

'Boom~~~' The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who were still smoking and relaxing, instantly woke up from their lazy state when they heard the gunshots, picked up their respective weapons and immediately entered a state of combat readiness.

"What's going on?" After a while, the Ming officers and soldiers who were hiding in the house and looking out looked at each other, and wondered, "Why do you hear that all of them are our own guns?" ”

"Go out and have a look!" A sergeant gave the order in a deep voice. Several Ming officers and soldiers immediately got up, opened the door, and went out.

I don't know when it started, but the originally stormy and heavy rain weather gradually began to clear up. The rain had subsided, but the gunfire outside the house was getting more and more intense, mixed with bursts of cheers.

The Ming officers and soldiers in the house didn't know what was going on outside, and they were all anxious like cat's paws. They could vaguely feel as if something terrible had happened!

"It's back!" A moment later, the Ming army saw through the window the soldiers who had gone out to inquire about the situation rushing in the rain like lightning. The door was pushed open with a loud bang, and the red-faced soldier gasped for breath, his eyes faintly shining, and shouted "We have won!" The Italians surrendered!! ”

On the afternoon of January 30, 1942, a news that shocked the world spread to all countries. One of the member countries of the Anti-Ming Alliance, the Kingdom of Italy, which claims to be able to rank among the top ten in the world in terms of military strength and national strength, suddenly sent a telegram announcing its unconditional surrender to the Ming Empire!

The news spread throughout the world in the shortest possible time. All the nations have their eyes on the horseshoe-shaped peninsula in the south of Europa. Those with keen eyes can vaguely feel that this event is like an anthill on a giant dam, which will bring the light of an end to this cruel and bloody war that has lasted for more than two years and has drawn countless people into it.

Italy's surrender was not groundless, there were already signs of it, and almost everyone knew that Italy could no longer fight. It's just that everyone didn't expect this day to come so soon. In this matter, Xiao Hongbao played a very important role.

The domestic economy collapsed, the social order collapsed, and all the powerful local factions were separated from Germany, when the Ming army re-landed on the Apennine Peninsula and entered the city of Rome. can only choose to fall to the Ming Dynasty and beg for the Ming's forgiveness to get a way out for his country. Because the thing is very simple, if you continue to fight, the whole of Italy will be completely destroyed.

When they learned that Italy had betrayed the allies, the nations were furious and horrified. They fear that this will be the first of a collapsed domino, causing a chain reaction.

After all, none of the countries in the anti-Ming alliance can confront the Ming Dynasty alone, and they have been able to hold on to the Ming Dynasty until now, relying on the joint operations of various countries. And the betrayal of the Italians would have very serious consequences and repercussions for the entire Union. Once many small countries rebelled against the alliance in the footsteps of the Italians, the only way for everyone to end up was defeat.

The United States, France, Britain, Russia and other countries strongly condemned the betrayal of the Italians and said that they would take brutal revenge on the Italians. Italians in various countries were arrested, and property and goods, such as bank deposits, ships, etc., were confiscated.

The Germans, who were in de facto control of Italy, reacted very quickly, immediately sending troops to occupy all the main communication routes on the Italian border with Germany, France, and other countries, and soon took full control of northern Italy.

At the same time, when the Ming army was the first to enter the city of Rome, and the Italian troops everywhere received orders to start resisting the German army, they sent a large number of air forces to bombard major cities, including Rome and other places.

The Italians were also very sad, not only did the allies want to bomb them, but the Ming Army Aviation was not idle, and they were also bombing Italy. The whole country was reduced to a huge battlefield. (To be continued.) )