"Where's the flag?" Taking off the armorer hat on his head, Lin Shuo jumped down from his Tiger chariot, looked at the piles of weapons and other military supplies placed on the side of the road, and stretched out his hand to point to a few tricolor flags and asked suspiciously. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Oh." The gendarme on the side of the road who was in charge of counting the materials of the surrendered enemy army raised his hand and put on the white military police steel helmet on his head, glanced at the rank on Lin Shuo's shoulder, and said, "This is the military flag of the Brazilian army." ”

"Brazil?" Lin Shuo, who had gone to school, naturally didn't know where Brazil was, he was just very surprised that he would meet the Brazilian army in Italy.

"Whoa." The gendarme raised his hand and pointed to a meadow on the side of the road not far away, where hundreds of Allied prisoners of war in green uniforms were crouching with their heads in their hands: "It's all Brazilian troops over there." ”

"Why did you come so far to fight here?" Lin Shuo said with a face full of surprise: "These Brazilian troops are really brave enough. ”

More than 100 years ago, the Ming Dynasty had to choose to withdraw from the Americas because of the fierce struggle for national rights between the royal family and the family consortium. The United States took advantage of the situation and enveloped the whole of America in its sphere of influence.

Although the countries of South America were not incorporated into the United States, those countries were also independent from the hands of the Ming Dynasty. stand out, and therefore it is also completely suppressed. After that, it was natural to become the follower of the United States, the strongest country in the Americas.

This time, almost all the countries in the world have joined forces to try to pull the Ming Dynasty down from the throne of the world hegemon, and there is naturally no reason for South American countries not to participate. There may be discerning politicians who are reluctant to get involved in the war, but in the Americas, where the United States is deeply influenced, no country can reject the will of the United States.

The Brazilian army sent about 200,000 men to fight in Europe. For European countries, these free cannon fodder are naturally quickly divided. The Germans deployed three Brazilian infantry divisions in Italy, one of which was near Naples. This Brazilian light infantry division was not able to hold out for even half a day after being attacked by the Ming armored forces. The Ming armored forces broke through all the Brazilian defenses with just one armored assault.

After the 14,000-strong Brazilian infantry division was defeated, most of the infantry had to raise their hands as prisoners because they could not outrun the wheels and tracks of the Ming troops.

"It's finally Naples." Lin Shuo looked at the crowds of prisoners of war from various countries beside the road around him, and looked at the piles of various weapons and materials on the ground. Shaking his head, he returned to his chariot and looked up at the city at the end of the road. He knew that that was his goal, Naples.

"Attention crews." Lin Shuo, who returned to his chariot, raised his hand and pressed his throat intercom, and shouted loudly, "We have arrived in Naples, and the beautiful Italian girls are waiting for us, forward!" ”

In just one week after the landing of the Ming Army in Salerno, the landing force had exceeded ten divisions. This force, supported by a strong naval and air force, quickly captured the important port city of Naples and marched east to Focha, cutting off the retreat of many German and Italian troops in southern Italy.

At the same time, the Ming Army also carried out large-scale landing operations in many port cities in southern Italy, thus greatly squeezing the living space of the German army. Of course, the landing force of the Ming Army went so smoothly. In addition to its own strength, the help of the Italian allies also played a very important role.

It was as if at the time of the landing at the military port of Taranto, a whole regiment of Italian defenders quickly fled from the main landing position without firing a shot. Even if they fled, they didn't even tell their German allies.

The Germans stupidly remained in the rear, completely unaware that there were no defenders left at the front. Even the German commander was surprised that his allies were so strong in combat that they could withstand the onslaught of the Ming Dynasty for more than half an hour.

In fact, in the past half an hour, the Ming landing force calmly sent the troops to the beachhead and established a solid defensive force. By the time the Germans reacted and hurriedly sent reinforcements, it was too late.

Taranto is just a microcosm. When the Ming Empire, which had been hovering in the hearts of the people of European countries for hundreds of years and running through the lives of many people, sent their troops back to the continent of Europa. It is a very normal thing that the morale of Europeans, who have had a psychological shadow on the Ming Dynasty for many generations, has been hit hard.

Xiao Hongbao's operation in Italy was very smooth. In fact, secret envoys like him and diplomats through regular channels are the same. What can really make a difference at the negotiating table is definitely not lip service, nor is it a tough attitude or weak crying and pleading. At the negotiating table, the only thing that can really make a difference is the national strength behind the diplomats!

Weak countries have no diplomacy, which is the right of survival of the fittest granted by the laws of nature.

The only reason why Xiao Hongbao was able to instigate a large number of local forces in Italy was that the strength of the Ming Dynasty was strong enough. It allows him to easily achieve some things that are difficult to do on the battlefield at the negotiating table.

When the Ming army landed, many Italian troops collapsed at the touch of a button, in addition to the weak combat ability of the Italian army itself, a large part of the reason was that many Italian local forces did not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty and tried to sell good to the Ming Dynasty.

When the time came to January 16, 1942, more than 300,000 Ming troops and a large number of various supplies had landed in southern Italy. After the Ming landing force occupies Naples and rebuilds the port, the number of personnel and materials carried ashore will be greatly increased.

When Rommel worked hard to gather the Italian and North African troops near Rome under the powerful bombardment of the Ming army, the Ming landing force had completed the encirclement of the German and Italian forces in southern Italy.

During this time, the Germans withdrew to the north or the Balkans by sea, air, and by land before the capture of Focha, with fewer than 100,000 German troops. The remaining 12 divisions, nearly 200,000 German troops, were already encircled in the triangle of Taranto, Bari, and Potanka. The situation is very serious.

The fact that the situation in the German army deteriorated so quickly had a lot to do with the fact that the Italian troops who disappeared when they were ordered to hold their positions, could not find anyone when they were ordered to attack, fled faster than the Ming armored troops, and were able to betray their German allies without warning. This is no longer a team-mate of the cheating father, the Italian's performance is simply the most perfect Infernal Affairs.

Two hundred thousand German troops were surrounded, and the whole of Germany was shaken. From the German Emperor to the Prime Minister, from the General Staff to the Army Commander, all sent telegrams to Rommel, demanding that Rommel rescue all the encircled German troops no matter what. Rommel could only shake his head with a wry smile at these orders.

He had at this moment assembled a powerful army, including armored units, near Rome. This was the elite unit of the German Army in Italy deployed in central and northern Italy. However, Rommel gathered his troops not to relieve the encircled troops hundreds of kilometers to the south, but to prevent the Ming army from continuing to attack and form a strong defensive line.

Rommel, who had a high level of tactical literacy and a keen sense of the battlefield, knew that the encircled German army to the south was hopeless. The distance was too far, and the Ming army occupied an all-round advantage of land, sea and air. Not to mention that Nengbu can break through the Ming army's resistance, even if he can lead his troops to kill it, it will take a long time. And this time was enough for the Ming army to wipe out all the encircled German troops.

It's just that although Rommel has the courage to disobey military orders, he is not a fool. Faced with orders from almost the entire German power apparatus to free his troops, he was not stupid enough to refuse outright. Germany's power apparatus is not stupid, on the contrary, institutions such as the German Army General Staff are full of the country's elite. What Rommel could see, they could understand.

It's just that no one can stand idly by while the 200,000-strong army is wiped out. From the royal family to the government, from the prime minister to the people, everyone is paying close attention. The German army had to act even if it was just for show.

In desperation, Rommel could only order his troops to attack Naples in the south, trying to force the Ming army to retreat by encircling Wei and saving Zhao. It's just that this time, Rommel was also cheated.

Because of the poor performance of the Italian army before, and the German military spy department issued a warning that there were many local Italian forces that had secret dealings with the Ming Dynasty. When Rommel went south to fight, he only brought the Italian army, which was mainly the army of the former Kingdom of Sardinia, as cannon fodder. As for the defense of northern Italy after the elite troops moved south, Rommel was all entrusted to the newly arrived troops from the German mainland.

Rommel personally led four armored divisions as the main force to the south, including the Imperial Division, known as the Flower of the Empire. As well as an Panzergrenadier Division and three Motorized Rifle Divisions as support.

As a fighting nation, the Germans did not like to concentrate their elite troops near their capital, but stationed them on the front lines to fight the enemy. The Imperial Division had been prepared to go to ****** as reinforcements. However, when he first arrived in Italy****** the campaign was already over. Later, because Italy was facing the threat of the Ming army from North Africa, the Imperial Division was also stationed in Italy.

Previously, the Imperial Division had been stationed near Rome and was one of the most powerful armed forces in Rommel's hands. In order to show his determination to fight southward this time, Rommel specially brought this ace army with him.

Rommel, who was high-spirited and attacked with more than 100,000 troops and a large number of Italian cannon fodder, would never have thought that he would be betrayed by the Italians when he set off! (To be continued.) )