If anyone remembers the phone calls made by Accardo when he was determined to raid Italy, then he should remember what he said on the phone: "No problem, my Führer...... It's just a slight shortage of manpower, and I hope to use some of the reserve forces. ”

Accardo agreed to this decision, so the German special forces transferred all the men trained in the school to Italy to collect weapons from the resistance forces. These special forces cadets were generally sent on missions in less dangerous locations, where they also secured a large number of surrenderers for the Germans.

Wren was ordered to rush to this not very tricky barracks, along with two officers, to collect the weapons of the 1,000 or so Italian troops, and order them to remain neutral in the conflict. However, there was a little more variable than planned, because the Italian side sent a more hard-line Mussolini lineage, which added some trouble to this integration mission.

So Alice directly killed the hapless Mussolini, and met such a female soldier who used machine guns to shoot the enemy all day long in the front line, and it was true to say that he was unlucky. As soon as this unlucky guy died, the situation was immediately controlled by the Germans, and all the Italian defenders cooperatively laid down their weapons and accepted the German army.

After all, these Italian soldiers were all trained by the German army, and many people had seen the horror of the German army's fighting quality, coupled with the chaos caused by Mussolini's temporary defection, the Italian troops, who were not very accustomed to playing on the spot, immediately forgot the fact that they were no longer allies with the German army.

For these Italians, surrendering their weapons to their allies, the Germans, was not a sign of treason or cowardice, and some of them were even more supportive of Marshal Garibaldi, so surrender was a matter of course.

The German tanks found a long-lost sense of advance in Italy, and these armored vehicles with a large number of cavalry advanced rapidly on the not very developed Italian roads. This can be said to be a real World War II German army attack on Italy exercise, the German army, led by horses and Leopard tanks, swept through the Italian army with no fighting mind.

The German Army Group J under General Hoult was not fully mobilized at all, and the only 8th Panzer Corps had been divided into battalion and battalion combat units because of the rapid advance, and it could not be concentrated to form an operational cluster. Now General Hult had only one SS Panzer Division in his hands as a reserve, and he looked very pitiful.

However, the Italian army did not even intend to counterattack, and most of the local defenders did not retreat, but waited for the Germans to enter the city, and then handed over their weapons to the German troops who came to collect them, even if they had completed their work. The Italian army in this way exceeded 400,000, so that the German army could not believe their eyes for a while.

Hundreds of thousands of Italian defenders laid down their weapons and made the decision to integrate the German army, on the one hand, Mussolini was not prepared for pre-war mobilization in order to cover up, and on the other hand, most of the Italian army pinned their hopes on the conjecture that the German army was only against Mussolini.

After all, Marshal Garibaldi seemed to be more likely to keep Italian power diplomacy going, and this deep army admired the marshal. Ten minutes ago, in southern Italy, he issued a statement against Mussolini, exposing to the people of the whole country Mussolini's ugly face of abandoning the North African Army and disregarding the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Italian soldiers for his own personal ambitions.

This incident made the Italian army more defective in the face of the German attack, although Mussolini hurriedly came out to refute the rumors, but at this time it had shaken the morale of the army, and the entire defense line was in a stage of collapse. Soon the important port ****** announced their support for Garibaldi, and the defenders of Bologna announced a change of flag.

The Germans went all the way south, and the Italians surrendered even faster than the Wehrmacht. Just 12 hours after the Italian Mussolini bloc announced its withdrawal from the Axis powers, the Italian North African Expeditionary Force and the governors of Libya and other regions collectively supported Marshal Garibaldi, and 10 hours later, 22 hours after Italy broke away from the Axis powers, the expeditionary force stationed in the Balkans declared that it was on the side of the Axis powers.

Before Mussolini could prepare his second layer of defense, the Germans had already rushed all the way north of Florence and San Marino, occupying all of northern Italy. And the price paid by the Germans for occupying such a vast area was the price of 240 paratroopers killed and 1,700 wounded.

General Holt had not been confident about his Italian offensive a day before, because he had so few troops at his disposal. But after a day of fighting, he found that his troops were tired and forced to stop, and most of the troops who were on the road had not even fought a decent battle.

Most of the German forces were not even able to reach the Line of Actual Control on both sides, and they were forced to halt themselves and camp to rest in order to maintain a good fighting force in the future. The defective Italian forces also controlled large areas where the Germans had not arrived.

The famous Italian city of Naples welcomed Marshal Garibaldi on this night, and tens of thousands of people greeted the hero of the Italian expedition with torches. Torches were shaken and the heroes were sent to the town hall of Naples, and then the whole of southern Italy, including Sicily, declared that they would be at Garibaldi's disposal to free themselves from Mussolini's rule.

An officer loyal to Mussolini had just arrived in Bari at this time, and the port was stockpiled with a large amount of supplies and equipment. Most of the goods were purchased by Jewish merchants to support their own countries, such as equipment and food. There were even some private cars, as well as a large number of Jewish civilians ready to pour into Israel.

The whole port was in chaos, after all, the impact of the establishment of the state of Israel on the Jewish world was too great, and many people abandoned the prosperous life outside, willing to return to their hometowns, even if they lived in poverty. Coupled with the German-aided projects and supplies, the whole of Italy seems to be full of transport ships and cargo.

In order to intercept this shipment, it was also an important reason why Mussolini was in a hurry to launch. And this Mussolini's confidant officer, at this time, rushed over in a hurry, also for the large amount of arms and materials hoarded in the port of Bari.

"The order of the leader, the port must be closed here, pending further orders. The officer found the man in charge of the port, published Mussolini's orders, and he hurried here without even drinking a saliva. After finishing the order with a dry mouth, he began to arrange the task of how to transfer the port supplies.

However, he did not see it, and the eyes of the officers who had been ordered to leave were full of unfriendly looks. Soon the order to blockade the port was known to the Israeli officials who were transporting and loading and unloading the port, and even sooner, these Israeli officials were able to settle all uncooperative Italian garrisons with their money.

The port was indeed blocked, but the goods were still transported out of the port by steamships, and the busy appearance was no different from before the blockade, and even the Italian destroyers in charge of the blockade mission did not bother anyone.

Mussolini's officer, who was sitting in his office waiting for good news, was greeted by a dozen fierce guards, who burst into the office and beat the poor boss to death with the butts of their guns and leather boots. A few minutes later, Porto Bari declared its support for all Axis operations and sent an army of 500 men to Naples to fight for Marshal Garibaldi.

Only 30 hours after Mussolini announced his withdrawal from the Axis bloc, two-thirds of Italy was out of his control. Mussolini's rule, which seemed to be impregnable, collapsed in an instant. Even he himself did not understand why Accardo could bring all the Germans to their hearts by calling the Führer, while his self-proclaimed leader ended up in rebellion.

The most trustworthy Black Shirt units even took off their black shirts and changed into SS uniforms. These private armed forces, who had been firmly convicted, had subtly become loyal believers in Germany's Greater German Party, and they were no longer loyal to Mussolini, but to a strong and integrated Europe.

"How so? How can this be? What about the staff? Why haven't they come yet?" Mussolini had received the news of the fall of half of Italy in just a few hours, and he wandered around his office at a loss, waiting for the staff who had surrounded him on a daily basis to come up with a slightly decent idea.

But more than an hour passed, and none of those staff and generals appeared in front of him. He sent people to look for a few, and found that the existing ones were already empty and had already run out of the city of Rome, while some of them, although they were at home, heard that Mussolini had invited them, and immediately refused to come.

Now, as long as you are not a fool, you can clearly know that Mussolini has gone. No one wants to stand with the losers when they stand in line, do they? Therefore, those staff members who used to hope to gain high positions through Mussolini are avoiding him at this moment as if they were avoiding the plague.