Moreover, after more than 200 years of continuous immigration, Gibraltar's inhabitants are now mostly British, and the unity and resolute resistance of the Gibraltarian army and people in the face of the Spanish attack made it even more difficult to conquer. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Spanish Army was really poor, and as a result, it took several months to suffer 20,000 or 30,000 casualties in vain, but there was still no way to take it. Churchill may have known that the Spaniards could not take the fortress of Gibraltar, and did not even send reinforcements

It was not until later that Germany sent a "heavy Gustav" cannon with a caliber of 800mm to help, destroying part of the fortified fortress and the defenders' will to resist with more than 7 tons of concrete-destroying shells (at that time, Britain itself was in a difficult period when it was unable to send reinforcements, so it could not be supported in time, as discussed later). Gibraltar finally returned to Spain, and after offending the British this time, it was not so easy for Spain, which had joined the Axis powers, to turn against the water.

However, Franco was fortunate that perhaps it was the poor performance of the Spanish army and air force in the Battle of Gibraltar that caused the mustache to completely lose his trust in them, and only asked the Spanish navy to fight alongside the German army, which greatly reduced the loss of Spanish manpower during World War II and helped them recover as soon as possible. On the other hand, although the Spanish Navy does not have battleships and aircraft carriers, its overall strength can still rank in the top 10, and its large number of small and medium-sized ships can make up for the shortcomings of the German Navy in this regard.

After Spain officially entered the axis, the mustache told Franco that he wanted Laclem to join the gang. The dictator of Spain is naturally very dissatisfied, but at the moment he has already boarded the thief ship, and it will be difficult to think about it again, even if Spain has the opportunity to rejoin the alliance in the future, he, the boss, will definitely have to step down, and it is likely that he will be convicted as a war criminal, which Franco is not willing to accept in any case. What's more, he also knows that the current Spain is already unable to "recover" the Spanish Morocco that has been completely lost, and after negotiating peace with Krim, Spain actually has no actual losses, but can borrow the slope to get off the donkey and end this war that does not need to continue relatively decently.

And Kerim has also shown full sincerity to the Spanish government, although the land issue is not to be discussed. Instead, he agreed to unconditionally release more than 100,000 Spanish officers and soldiers captured by the rebels and some Spanish civilians who had been detained in Morocco because of the war. This will undoubtedly be in the best interest of Spain's recovery as soon as possible, and Kerim has agreed to the Spanish Navy to continue to use military bases in Madeira. Franco was so pleased with this that the two sides soon came to a smooth truce and sent ambassadors to each other, and the mustache who was fully committed to bringing about it was naturally the happiest

It is also worth mentioning. Spain is not very strong, though. But its entry into the shaft caused a series of chain reactions. Portugal had been a Spanish leader in diplomacy for many years, and since it was already a fascist government, it was only natural that Portugal would join the Axis powers. And these two countries in the Iberian Peninsula are the former suzerainty of almost all Latin American countries. Although there are very few people who dare to openly enter the axis under the pressure of the United States, there are far more secret tunes than in history, and the countries that finally choose to join the alliance are far fewer than in history

After the coercion of Spain worked, the mustache with great confidence was trying to force Italy to reconcile with the Arab League in the same way, but at this time, a coup d'état unexpectedly broke out in Italy, and Mussolini was ousted!

It turns out that there has always been a huge contradiction between the south and the north of Italy, and the north and south of Italy have been divided for hundreds of years in history, and Zuihou was bought back by Cavour from Garibaldi with money, and the economic base of the mountain people in the south is different from that of the northern industrial regions, so that the contradiction between the north and the south has existed for a long time, and to some extent it is somewhat similar to the United States before the Civil War.

In this context, the interests of the industrial population of the north were represented (the big Italian industrialists ate meat, and the workers could also drink soup. Mussolini used the military to sweep away the mafia by means that were even darker than the mafia (Note 1), and then rallied the lower classes of civilians who were relatively easy to win over through economic revitalization and foreign aggression. In addition, Italy's military system and bureaucracy itself had many serious problems that were not adapted to the war, which led to the continuous setbacks of Italy's foreign aggression, and the opposition took advantage of the discontent of the Italian people to launch a coup d'état.

Historically, although Italy suffered repeated setbacks at the beginning of World War II, it once occupied Ethiopia and other lands, so the domestic dissatisfaction was not too great, and it was not until later that the Allies began to counterattack and Italy's losses increased before the coup broke out. However, the resurgence of the Krim in this time and space led to the loss (permanent attrition) of more than 300,000 troops in Libya, and the troops drawn for this purpose quickly became active in Ethiopian guerrillas, taking the opportunity to recover a large area of lost territory. Selassie I immediately returned to China to lead the war of resistance, leading a counter-offensive with the modernly trained Guards in England and hundreds of thousands of guerrillas from all over the country, and had recently finally driven out the remnants of the Italian army on the land

So far, Mussolini's series of foreign expansion operations have all ended in failure, and he has not reaped any benefits, but has lost no less than 500,000 yuan in vain (in the entire history of World War II, Italy also lost more than 700,000 troops, including the losses of the war between the north and the south of Italy after Germany rescued Mussolini and installed a puppet government). The lives of the Italian youth, the war-weariness in Italy was unprecedentedly high, especially the army soldiers were mainly southern mountain people, and the large number of casualties among the children made the contradictions between the north and the south of Italy more and more intensified, coupled with the secret support and instigation of the British government, which eventually led to the reckless departure of some officers of the Italian army, and launched a coup d'état earlier than in history, because the capital Rome was also the territory of the southerners, so the coup was easily successful

Note 1: Some of those who escaped and survived ran to the United States, and later fought back to the U.S. military as a leading party, which is also the root cause of the Italian mafia's inability to eradicate, people were meritorious during World War II, just like Japan's underworld was meritorious during the Cold War. Of course, the strength of the mafia itself is not weak, and it is also a very important reason (to be continued......