It was also Hitler's sorrow to have Mussolini as an ally, the German army fought desperately to defend Italian soil, while the Italians themselves were scattered and fled, and if they could not escape, they would surrender as soon as possible.

These Italian soldiers were also very professional, and directly asked the Allies to treat them as prisoners of war, these Italians were able to cook macaroni easily, and the war finally said goodbye to them, and who wanted to risk their lives all day. It wasn't good to enjoy the food and the sun, and the Italians in the camps were very obedient, and the thousands of captives often needed only a small number of guards to keep them honest.

Compared to the German prisoners of war, these Italians were simply the standard three good students, and even many Italian soldiers voluntarily surrendered and entered the Allied prisoner of war camps. It was a dream thing for them to be able to eat and drink well, and not to be in danger of their lives, compared to those comrades who were still fighting on the battlefield.

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an important link in the German-Italian Mediterranean route, is now lost, which is equivalent to a leg being cut off by Germany and Italy, and the impact can be imagined.

The Allies then used Sicily as a base to launch a large-scale bombardment of Italian territory, focusing on the traditional industrial areas of northeastern Italy, razing a large number of factories to the ground and causing heavy losses in human life.

The more intense the Allied attack, the greater the determination of the Italians to free themselves from Mussolini's rule, which was almost unstoppable, and then the Allied forces used Sicily as a base to carry out a landing operation in southern Italy. The Italian army had no fighting spirit and was on the verge of collapse.

The situation in Rome became more and more unfavorable for Mussolini, and all the opposition united to form a large anti-Mussolini force. Moreover, they also publicly elected the respected Marshal Badogglio as the chief leader.

After enlisting the support of both the military and the government. Badoglio organized a coup d'état. In one fell swoop, he destroyed Mussolini's power, imprisoned Mussolini, and at the same time expressed his acceptance of unconditional surrender and withdrew from the war. Among the three fascist states. Almost everyone thinks that the first to be unstoppable will be the Japanese, after all, under the crazy attack of China and the United States, the end is imminent.

But it turns out that everyone was wrong, and Japan is far more tenacious than expected. Even after a large-scale landing attack on the mainland, the Japanese did not choose to surrender. The first to be eliminated was Italy, which is definitely the biggest bale in Europe, to everyone's surprise.

Hitler, who was in the wolf's den, was both resentful and deplorable for Mussolini's ally, and at the same time had a sense of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox. Mussolini was the founder of fascism, and established a dictatorship in Italy at an early age, under his rule, Italy became one of the several European powers, and when Germany was first armed, it had to look up to Italy.

But the times have passed. The war soon brought the straw bale power to its original form, and Hitler lost a loyal helper. Suddenly it seemed extremely lonely, and Germany's ability to choose allies was indeed not very good. Mussolini was loyal, but he was too wasteful, and Japan, although tenacious, was a reckless man, and it was Japan's crazy actions that dragged both China and the United States into the water, forming a powerful anti-fascist alliance,

The thought of Hitler was extremely disturbing, every battlefield was constantly defeated, and Stalin also launched a super-large-scale offensive, constantly driving the German army out of the homeland, and taking the opportunity to enter Eastern Europe. The battle of the United States and Britain to open a second battlefield was just around the corner, and the German forces were stretched to the point of tearing down the east wall and replacing the west wall, and Hitler could only find hope of victory from the mystics.

Qiao Yu paid close attention to the situation in Europe, and he was keeping an eye on the most important trophy of this world war, that is, Germany's scientific research achievements!

Before World War II, there was no doubt that Germany was the country with the highest level of science and technology, such as Germany's missile technology, jet fighter technology, and even nuclear weapons research, all of which had considerable technological accumulation, but Hitler did not give full play to the power of these new technologies.

And Qiao Yu knows that this is only a superficial achievement, behind which is Germany's strong mechanical equipment manufacturing capacity, and has a high-precision machine tool production capacity. China once built a 10,000-ton forging press with the help of Germany, and then China carried out reverse engineering and began to design and produce its own.

Chinese engineers have also built China's own forging presses, but the actual quality is still worse than that of German goods, this is not that the engineers are not smart enough, but the gap in the accumulation of industrial technology, you must know that so far, the only countries that can manufacture this large machinery are Germany, China and the United Kingdom, and the United States and the Soviet Union do not have this ability.

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union advanced by leaps and bounds in the field of military technology and led the trend of the world, largely because the United States and the Soviet Union carved up Germany's industrial technology and robbed a large number of Nazi scientists, so that the two countries could lead the world. After many years of cooperation with Germany, Qiao Yu is very aware of the ability of these German scientists, and from the current point of view, China's industrial technology as a whole is still far behind the United States, and even slightly behind the Soviet Union. 、

But this gap is not insurmountable, strictly speaking, it is only a mutual short-term and long-term, but once the United States and the Soviet Union carve up Germany's technological accumulation, China is afraid that it will be thrown away by these two countries, so Qiao Yu very much hopes to participate in the war against Germany. Participate in the post-war partition occupation and then get a piece of this technological feast.

Of course, this is just Qiao Yu's idea in his heart, it is not easy to go to Europe to fight in the ocean, and it depends on the meaning of the United States, this is different from the Asia-Pacific region, at its own doorstep, China can come casually, if it is in the sphere of influence of the United States and Britain, things will not be easy to do.

After Qiao Yu communicated his thoughts to Jiang Baili, Jiang Baili came up with an idea, that is, to let the Americans take the initiative to ask China to send troops to assist them in counterattacking Europe. To do this is actually very simple, it is nothing more than to let the Americans know the difficulty of the landing operation, so China and the United States divide the labor, with the United States attacking Japan's Shikoku Island and China attacking Honshu Island.

Among the Japanese archipelago, Shikoku Island acts as the gateway to Tokyo and other places, and if Shikoku Island is lost, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and other places are exposed to the attack, so Japan's defense on Shikoku Island is quite tight, no worse than Honshu Island.

The Americans independently undertake the task of attacking, which is to let them hit a nail, after all, the American system determines that they cannot afford too serious losses, and Roosevelt will definitely find a way to avoid too many casualties.

Of course, Qiao Yu will not pin all his hopes on the Americans for help, you must know that those cowboys in the United States are also a very tenacious group, and Roosevelt is an old fox, he absolutely does not want to watch China get benefits, so Qiao Yu also secretly sent some agents to Europe in order to be prepared, even if he can't clearly carve up Germany's industrial technology, it can still be obtained through some other means.

Even if they can't get it, they must take advantage of the chaos to kill these people as much as possible, so as to weaken the scientific and technological strength of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the three-country game between China, the United States and the Soviet Union has actually begun.

Each of the three countries was enclosing its own sphere, and in this war, the Soviet Union took Eastern Europe, plus the Balkans, and extended its hand to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. China, for its part, has established its sovereignty over the Western Pacific and has penetrated deep into the Indian Ocean. As for the United States, it has put the Atlantic, most of the Pacific Ocean, and the whole of Western Europe into its pocket, and has eaten the fattest piece.

Britain, the former hegemon, faced the fate of being slaughtered, the original sphere of influence in Europe almost disappeared, the overseas colonial order also completely collapsed, and the financial center moved from London to New York, which tore off the last bit of face of the British Empire.

Now Britain's only remaining sphere of influence is the Middle East, because Britain has made a lot of efforts in the North African battlefield, firmly holding the Suez Canal, and also controls the Strait of Gibraltar, Britain still has a huge influence in the Middle East.

But this is also a matter of time, China and the Soviet Union have begun to get involved in the Middle East, the United States has also stepped up the pace, a world war, the biggest loss may not be the defeated Germany, but the victorious Britain, this is really a great irony.

Qiao Yu was playing the idea of German industrial technology, and when the Americans attacked Shikoku Island, they really ran into big trouble, Shikoku Island is different from Kyushu Island, more than 80% of the area is mountainous, with a population of more than three million, Shikoku Island is a relatively backward area of Japanese industry, but the more so, the more fierce the people's customs.

After the landing operation was launched, the Americans were met with stubborn counterattacks, especially the Japanese made full use of the complex terrain to build a large number of concealed pillboxes, which were rigorously calculated to minimize the American firepower superiority.

Moreover, the Japanese also played a trick of fiction and reality, and in some forts, they did not arrange personnel to guard them, but put poison gas bombs, and when the American soldiers approached, the Japanese hiding in the distance detonated the poison gas bombs again, causing heavy casualties to the unsuspecting American troops.

In the first 10 days of the landing operation, the United States killed more than 40,000 people, and this casualty figure shocked the American military, and they estimated that they would have to pay at least 200,000 lives to take the entire Shikoku Island.

What also made Roosevelt even more worried was Normandy, if the Germans were as crazy and tenacious as the Japanese, then how many deaths would the United States have to die before it could successfully counterattack the European continent? Will it attract the discontent of voters? These are all issues that must be considered as the president of the United States, and Roosevelt had to set his sights on China.

Chinese people have abundant human resources, the government is strong-willed, and the soldiers are extremely sacrificial and stubborn in their will to fight. It can completely bear a large number of casualties, which the United States cannot match, should we find a way to make China bear the most difficult beach-rushing landing? (To be continued.) )