The Hunan battlefield was in full swing, and Wang Maoru's army in the north was also frequently transferred, and the fourth and seventh divisions were transferred to Yingkou, Liaoning, to prepare for boarding. Duan Qirui, in the name of the Chinese War Department, leased a Japanese ferry to the First Route Army, a 50,000-strong participating army of two divisions and a guard regiment. Due to the Russian civil war, it was impossible to go from Russia, so it could only take a boat through the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean, through the Arabian Sea into the Gulf of Aden, and then through the Guò Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea, and rushed directly to Italy to cooperate with the Italian army to attack Carinthia in Austria-Hungary, because the Italian army had been attacking Carinthia for three years without success...... Fortunately, the German Navy had no power beyond a few submarines in the Mediterranean, and the Italian Army was like pigs, but the Italian Air Force and Navy were decent.

Since Wang Maoru's army landed directly in Italy, it was the Entente Italy that fought against Austria-Hungary, but also participated in the First World War. Italy, on the other hand, originally supported Germany, but Germany's alliance with Austria-Hungary made Italy very unhappy...... Italy and Austria-Hungary are feuding countries,

Within Italy, the hatred of Austria was an irresolvable national sentiment, and the tyrannical Austrian Empire had divided Italy, obstructed its unification, stifled the Italian revolution, and even occupied Italian territories (Trento, Tyrol, and Di Trieste).

Although the conflict between North Africa and France over Libya forced Italy to throw itself into the Triple Alliance, with the victory in the Italo-Turkish War in 1910 and the division of French interests in North Africa, Italy returned to hatred of Austria.

With the outbreak of war. Public opinion in Italy is increasingly moving towards two propositions: first, the Italian Social Democratic Party, which represents the workers and left-wing intellectuals, advocates not to participate in this "fight between imperialists". The second was the idea of representing Italian nationalism: to enter the war on the side of the Entente and regain the lands occupied by Austria.

No one advocated the fulfillment of the German-Italian-Austrian Triple Alliance Treaty and fought on the side of Germany and Austria.

Out of hatred for Austria, as early as 1914, there were Italian volunteers to join the French ** team, the children and nephews of the Italian national hero Galibaldi pulled up more than 4,000 "Italian volunteers" to join the French army, and his two sons died in France.

Italy's ruling Salandra government has resorted to opportunistic tactics. On the one hand, they carried out a partial mobilization, conscripting about 00,000 soldiers, and on the other hand, they asked Austria for Trento. South Tyrol, Udine and the regions of Diriaeste, claimed if Austria returned the aforementioned regions to Italy. Italy would enter the war on the side of the Triple Alliance.

At that time, in order to win over Italy, the anxious Germans urged Austria-Hungary to accept the above proposals, and assured that Austria-Hungary would receive great territorial compensation in the Balkans and Ukraine, while Vienna was ambiguous and noncommittal. On April 26, 19, Italy formally signed the London Agreement with the Entente Powers, stipulating that Italy's remuneration for participating in the war was not only the above-mentioned regions, but also included the Istrian Peninsula and the Dalmatian region of Albania. Vlora, and several German colonies in Africa.

After weighing the pros and cons, Italian Prime Minister Sarandl decided to join the Entente and fight against the Central Powers, so Italy immediately withdrew from the Central Powers. His character of seeing the wind makes the rudder show. On May 24, 19, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, however, out of fear, the Italians did not dare to declare war on Germany, but only declared war on Austria-Hungary, hoping to regain the territory.

The Italian army had a total of 1.7 million men at that time. However, in addition to the huge number of people, Italy's war preparation was extremely poor, except for the Alpine infantry, no other troops were ready for war, the Italian artillery was inadequate, the machine guns were only enough to equip two regiments, there were no grenades, and many officers had to spend their own money to buy pistols. The Italian army even had a shortage of helmets, which had to be supplied by France, with the letters RF (meaning French Republic) printed on them. The Italian soldiers had neither explosives nor pliers, so they had to use gardening scissors to cut the barbed wire.

When Italy declared war, the Austro-Hungarian side was responsible for the defense of the Tyrolean archers, and the fierce mountain people of Tyrol were quickly mobilized.

The first battle was fought at Cassel, and the Italian troops attacking on the back were almost crushed at the touch of a button, and the Austrian local troops were surprised to find that they could easily defeat the huge number of Italian soldiers by sending machine gun squads to control the various peaks and deploying a small number of light infantry on the ridge line of the saddle.

The Italians wasted precious time, the huge front-line troops totaling 700,000 and the 300,000 troops engaged in the attack, but they could not break through the defenses of the four Austrian local troop regiments, and the Austrians suffered very few casualties, which is truly a miracle in the history of world warfare.

In mid-June 19, Austria-Hungary transferred 5 infantry divisions nearby, mobilized 39,000 reserves from the border provinces, and increased the Austro-Italian border front troops to nearly 100,000 people, although the Austro-Hungarian army only had 49 cannons, but completely stabilized the front, and the Italian army of 700,000 advanced less than 5 kilometers in a few weeks.

With the gradual arrival of the Austro-Hungarian Boroyevich Army Group, the Italian Chief of the General Staff Cadore decided to launch a large-scale offensive in the Isonzo River valley, and Italy mobilized 370,000 troops and 111 cavalry squadrons in an attempt to cross the Isonzo River, cross the border mountains, and break into the Balkan direction. With only 100,000 men on the defending side, Austria-Hungary, half of whom were improvised recruits, it can be said that Cardona took the pair for granted, ignoring the numerous mountains and peaks between Italy and Austria-Hungary. The Austro-Hungarian ** team only needed one platoon to hold on the hill to block an Italian division for a day and a night. Italy launched an attack on June 23 and continued until July 6, at the cost of 30,000 casualties, and was finally pushed back to Italy by the counterattack of the Austro-Hungarian 94th Reserve Infantry Division and the Albanian Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

At the urging of Britain and France, the Italian chief of staff, Karna, launched several attacks on Austria-Hungary. On the basis of several times with the enemy's army, repeatedly defeated. From June 1915 to August 1917, it took the Italian army two years to acquire only a few square miles of land on the Isonzo River, at the cost of millions of casualties.

In October 1917, due to Russia's announcement of its withdrawal from the European war, Austria-Hungary finally concentrated 250,000 troops and relied on artillery. Gas bombs and smoke bombs, launching a general offensive against the Italian army. It took only three days for the Austro-Hungarian Army to recapture the Isonzo River. On the Italian side, more than 40,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, 290,000 soldiers surrendered, and the rest of the soldiers only fled back to Piave, Italy.

The Italian Chief of Staff, Cardor, was dismissed. Armando? Diaz became Chief of the General Staff of the Italian Army, and at this time the German-Austrian army also made a difficulty, they crossed the mountains (Alps) to defeat the Italian army, but because there were no cars, they could only temporarily use horses to pull cannons, bullets and shells and other strategic materials, simply, the road was full of artillery, bullets, shells and vehicles discarded by Italy.

At this time, in order to support Italy, Britain and France had to send six French divisions and five British divisions, and because Italy had never had a foreign ** team on its territory for a long time. Italy was suddenly unusually united, and in time withstood the German-Austrian attack.

In November 1917, the leaders of Britain, France, the United States and Italy convened an emergency meeting and decided to appoint French Field Marshal Ferdinand? Foch as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, Ferdinand? Foch decided to protect Italy. So three French divisions, two British divisions, and an American division that was about to enter the war were transferred, and according to the Americans' proposal, six army divisions of the Chinese army were to receive 100,000 men to defend Italy.

This is also the reason why the participating troops of the Beiyang Army of the Republic of China were sent to Venice, Italy, and they were used against Austria-Hungary.

I don't know if Foch was crazy by Italian popularity or what. Foch preferred to trust the Chinese army from afar than the Italian army. However, after all, the Italians looted 1.7 million troops -- the second line of the Italian-Austrian battlefield, which was called a deterrent force, and the front line of the Italian-Austrian battlefield was handed over to the British and French troops and the future American ** team to confront the Austrians. and demanded the right to administer the Italian army.

Everyone in the Allied Command scolded the Italians for being shameless, and if you had been able to command, you would have defeated the Austrians with 1.7 million troops. However, the allied forces could not sit idly by in response to the shameless demands of the Italians, in case the Italians suddenly turned around at this critical moment and said: "Lao Tzu is with the Germans again." "Doesn't it make everyone sick enough?

So Foch appointed the old Italian marshal, Barrioli as commander-in-chief of the coalition forces on the Italian side, the Frenchman Hauge as deputy commander, and Armando, chief of the General Staff of the Italian army? Diaz is also Chief of Staff of the Coalition Forces. In other words, this Barrioli is over seventy years old, and his ears are not very good, and having him as commander-in-chief can be regarded as giving the Italians great face and glory. When the Italians mention the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Barrioli, they will always proudly say: "Look, the foreign ** team also has to be under the command of our Italians......"

When preparing for going to Europe, Wang Maoru didn't have time to go back to Harbin to say goodbye to his family, so he asked the four ladies to come to Shenyang for a happy get-together. The whole family ran to Shenyang to say goodbye, as soon as they saw the second lady Yuzhuo, they immediately cried like a tearful person, and the eldest lady Ulan Tuya was quite atmospheric and held the pregnant belly with one hand and waved it with the other, quite like the leader of later generations said: "Let's go, my master will give you a hanging, saying that you can't die." When you come back and the child is born, you can think of a name first. What if it's a boy, what's a girl's name? ”

Wang Maoru said: "Girl, called Wang Seagull, may she fly freely over the vast ocean like a seagull." Boy, it's called Wang Zongou, the European Europe, to commemorate my participation in the European War. ”

Ulan Tuya said angrily: "Are you so random in choosing a name? Just a few words to get away? ”

Wang Maoru said: "This is not random, I have been thinking about it for many months." ”

Ulan Tuya was satisfied and said, "It's almost ......."

Jade Cicada took the corner of his clothes and said, "I don't want you to go, I haven't seen you for a long time." Wang Maoru hugged her and said in her ear: "Then you will accompany me tonight?" ”

The jade cicada nodded with a red face and said, "Don't be laipi." ”

"No." Wang Maoru replied heavily. rs