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Since Rome, the capital of Italy, was also part of the south, the coup d'état went very well, and Mussolini, who had lost his soul, was quickly captured, and after several transfers, he was taken to the summit of Mount Grande Sasso, the highest peak in the Apennines, and placed under house arrest. After learning of this, the mustache was shocked, on the one hand, he ordered the German special forces, who had not yet had the opportunity to participate in the actual battle, to rescue Mussolini, and on the other hand, he urgently transferred troops into Italy to preemptively strike, due to the rush of time, the first batch of German troops to fight in Italy only had three light infantry divisions, but even the mustache, who was already extremely disappointed in the combat effectiveness of the Italian Army, did not expect that the German army of these three divisions would be invincible all the way, and in just one month, more than 20 divisions of Italian troops were defeated in a row, and basically controlled the industrial areas of northern Italy

However, the mustache soon understood that the combat effectiveness of the Italian Army was not good, and 5 divisions may not be able to beat a German division, and now that the coup has just happened, the position of the opposition has not yet been fully recognized by the Italian army, and it is even more premature to completely unify the armed forces of the whole country, so the current Italian army is even more scattered, although the total strength is much more than the German army, but it is easy to be broken by each of them, and the German attack comes very quickly, Italy's weakness was all the more evident because it had been an Axis power and had not fortified its northern frontier at all

In addition, the German special forces lived up to the mustache's expectations and managed to rescue Mussolini without breaking a single person. It fully demonstrates the results of their study and special training in China. Due to Mussolini's high support in the industrial areas of northern Italy, when he announced the establishment of the "Italian Social Republic" through the radio with the support of the mustache, some of the garrisons in northern Italy chose to annex, although the proportion of the army was not very high, but it was enough to make the Italian army's hastily established defense line more porous, only to be defeated by the German army, which was far less numerous than itself, and the German army only paid the price of less than 8,000 casualties, and killed and captured nearly 150,000 Italian troops. The number of captives alone exceeded 100,000

And with the successive victories of the German army, more and more Italian troops fell to Mussolini. This further accelerated the rout of opposition supporters. Had it not been for the timely landing of British troops in southern Italy to support the opposition government, the "Italian Social Republic" would probably have unified the country in just two months. Moreover, even though the "Italian Social Republic" still controlled only half of Italy's territory for the time being, the Italian navy and air force were more supportive of Mussolini (the Jishu army was naturally close to the Industrial Party), and most of the officers and soldiers chose to go north. Although due to a sneak attack by the opposition-flagged army. Warships and aircraft were more damaged. But more than seventy percent of the people voted, which was enough to make Mussolini very happy.

As for the loss of aircraft, there was help from Germany. In addition, the northern industrial zone has been completely recovered, and it will not take long to make up for it. Only the navy because the large shipbuilding bases are in the south, and the construction and repair of large surface ships take a long time, there is no doubt that the vitality is greatly damaged, but fortunately, the main force of small and medium-sized ships with higher personnel quality in the Italian navy is still there, and the construction of ships is relatively easy, so at least from the perspective of Germany, in fact, the losses are not as great as they seem.

More importantly, after Germany sent troops to help Mussolini return to power, the relationship between Germany and Mussolini's Italian government in the north is no longer the former alliance, but closer to the relationship between the suzerainty and the client state, especially in terms of the army, Germany has completely mastered the command of the Italian Northern Army. However, this enabled the Italian Northern Army to successfully get rid of the various institutional shortcomings of the original Italian Army, and also limited the negative impact of Mussolini's chaotic command, so that the combat effectiveness was greatly improved, although it was still far from being comparable with the German army, but at least it could reach the level of the Vichy French Army, and it was easier to fight the army of the southern Italian government, although their troops were smaller at first.

The rise of the Italian Northern Army greatly reduced the burden on the German army, and only the three German divisions were always engaged in the battle (although some soldiers were replenished in the meantime), and the myth of the "invincibility of the German Army" became more and more spread among the Allies

On the contrary, the British army that urgently assisted the southern Italian government was often hit by the southern Italian army that often collapsed on the battlefield, and the German army was always killed by the "pig teammates" of noodles in history, but the British army was unlucky in this time and space, and under the drag of these "pig teammates", they even had a very hard time with the Italian Northern Army, not only failed to prevent the northern Italian government from unifying the country, but also sacrificed more than 200,000 people on the Italian battlefield, including no less than 120,000 native British troops from the British Isles, You must know that during the entire World War II in history, the British army died less than 400,000 in battle

In the end, because of this early coup d'état, although Italy's national and military strength was greatly reduced, it was a greater boost for Germany, and their number one enemy at this time, the British, paid a huge additional price, and the balance of power between the two camps was further reversed.

And because of the impact of this coup, the issue of the Arab League's occupation of Libya was easily resolved, the Italian government in the north recognized Libya as the territory of the Arab League, and Kerim unconditionally released no less than 200,000 Italian prisoners of war, which was one of the important reasons why the northern Italian government was able to quickly defeat the southern allies, including a large number of British troops, without the German army increasing its troops.

Originally, because the British Mediterranean Fleet controlled the sea supremacy in the Mediterranean, even if Kerim released the prisoners of war, those Italians could not return to their homeland to participate in the civil war. However, at that time, the strength of the British Mediterranean Fleet was far less than before, and it was difficult to protect itself, let alone blockade the Mediterranean

The first is that two battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet were sunk by frogmen of the Italian Navy in Alexandria before the Italian coup d'état; Then in the Battle of Toulon Bay, it suffered even greater losses, sinking 3 aircraft carriers and 3 battleships at once, and even the British Royal Navy, which was known as the first Shijie, was inevitably broken; Then, because the German Navy expanded the scale of submarine warfare, the Luftwaffe also began to use British ships at sea as the main target of its attack, and the unprepared Britain was not only sunk a large number of merchant ships, but also suffered a lot of losses from warships, among which the battleship "Barham" was sunk by a submarine torpedo, and the "War Weariness", which was sent to Egypt to join the formation of the Mediterranean Fleet, was seriously injured by heavy bombs dropped by German bombers supporting the Arab coalition forces to attack Egypt, in order to avoid being captured by the Krim army that entered Egypt. The British officers and men on board sunk itself in Alexandria (to be continued......