What finally made Mussolini decide to break away from the German coercion was a report submitted by General Diego on the morning of the fifth day on the plan to delay the departure from the Axis powers, which clearly stated that a large number of munitions and supplies were not prepared in place, and that the possible outbreak of war against Germany would be lost.

However, this poor General Diego was removed by Mussolini because of this report, and he was not even given a chance to explain. Surprisingly, General Diego did not intend to explain all this, but happily handed over his office, left Rome with a large sum of money, and his whereabouts are unknown.

After removing "this obstacle that the Germans had erected," Mussolini felt he had to act. Because he already thinks that he has disposed of the internal response of the Germans, the relative Germans will immediately be vigilant and take action, and there is really not much time left for him.

In this world, a lot of things will happen in a single time, and maybe while killing people in one corner, a new life will be born in another corner.

And at about the same time as the founding of the Jewish state, Mussolini was also preparing a speech to the nation on the withdrawal from the Axis powers. He had already made up his mind, and the American support fleet had already sailed out of the harbor, and this was his last chance, betting that the Germans were not ready for all-out war.

But were the Germans really not ready for war? At a checkpoint on the border, in front of the Italian defenders who had been ordered to begin sealing the border, a German officer smiled and handed the other party the document in his hand, his expression was naturally kind, and he looked like he was happy about something.

"I'm sorry, Captain, we have received an order to prohibit any German armed forces from entering Italy...... It may seem strange, but I did receive it. The Italian officer looked at the German officer in front of him and spoke persuasively.

He had to deal with the Germans in front of him in a low voice, because aside from the long-standing strength of the German army, the Leopard assault gun parked behind the German captain alone was definitely worthy of his awe. That thing isn't easy to mess with, and I've heard that a single shot can take down an entire bunker.

"Unfortunately, I have been ordered to disarm you and cross the border here to occupy a few towns behind you. The German captain took back his papers, then pointed to the Leopard assault gun parked on the side of the road behind him, as well as an armored car and two trucks, and continued in a calm tone: "If you refuse, then I will go back, and we will see you in another way." ”

The Italian officer coughed, then smiled awkwardly: "Look at what you said, I always thought that the orders we received were inaccurate, and we have always been solid allies, haven't we? ”

"Very well, please hand over your weapons, and take the soldiers in the truck back to your barracks, and take over the defenses there, and I'll go to the next town, where I've heard you've reinforced a regiment of defenders. The German captain said as he turned back and walked towards the Leopard assault gun, which had already been launched.

The Italian officer very cooperatively drew the weapon from his waist and threw it to the post where the German guards had already stood, and the other Italian soldiers followed the example of their own commanders and stacked their rifles at the feet of the German soldier.

The trucks moved and the German troops crossed the border and headed for the heart of Italy. The roadside was filled with laughing Italian defenders, as if the swaggering German soldiers had not stepped on the ground they had been ordered to defend. The Germans drove in as if they were on their own soil, and in most cases did not meet even the slightest resistance.

"I said, these Italians didn't deliberately let us go and then prepare to encircle and annihilate us, right?" A German recruit sitting in a truck and holding his Mauser rifle looked at the Italian defenders on the side of the road who were several times more numerous than them, and asked the old-timers around him.

The old platoon commander, who had served in this infantry company since the establishment of the J Army, glanced at the recruit beside him and sneered: "Just this group of Italians, if you borrow twice their strength, as long as we get out of the car and dig a pit, we can hold out here until support arrives." ”

Mussolini's announcement of Italy's withdrawal from the Axis powers was still echoing on the radio, and the German Army units had crossed the Italian border on all fronts, and most of them had disarmed the outnumbered Italian defenders stationed on the border without even firing a shot.

One after another, the tanks that the Italians feared, with the rumbling sound of their engines, swept down the fences of the inhabitants from the country roads, and the vigilant German soldiers carried their weapons out of the rice fields, and in just ten minutes, drove the groups of Italian soldiers out of their foxholes and improvised bunkers.

"Why? My order is to hold your position, and if the Germans dare to shoot, you must return fire! Hold your position! You make it clear! What do you mean that the Germans have taken your guns away?" an Italian division commander shouted angrily in his own headquarters, and he did not hear the gunfire and artillery of the front-line troops, and as a result, the subordinate units behind reported that they had seen the German armored units speeding over the road.

"Suddenly, suddenly!" Before he could finish his call, the machine gun in a machine-gun bunker outside the bunker erupted with dazzling tongues of fire. As a descendant of Mussolini's troops, at least within the scope of the main regiment, the order of resistance was carried out relatively thoroughly.

It's just that the target of this machine gun fire is a German Leopard tank that is approaching. The bullet hit the tank's armor plate, splattering sparks and knocking off a lot of paint, but it couldn't penetrate the heavy steel. Soon the German tanks aimed their guns at the machine-gun bunker, and before the people inside could escape, they lifted the bunker into the sky with one shot.

"Divisional commander, get out of here! The Germans have already broken through our defenses from both flanks, and it will be too late to leave. A staff officer pleaded with his superiors because he wanted to leave a way for himself and his family to survive. While pleading with his superiors, he scolded Mussolini in his heart, the concentration camps of the Germans were not a joke, and it was not normal to announce their withdrawal from the Axis at such a time.

"Don't shoot! We surrender!" Before the division commander could change his mind, a sound of surrender sounded outside the door, and it was obvious that the German soldiers had rushed into the headquarters, and outside the door was a dangerous area of engagement.

"Tutu, Tutu!" There was no reply, but the sound of MP-44 assault rifle fire sounded, it seemed that the Germans did not mean to take prisoners of the rebels, they were only responsible for bullishing all the forces of resistance and occupying all of Italy.

"Prepare to break down!grenadiers!Grenades ready!" shouted in German outside the door. They don't care what kind of person is standing in the door. For these German troops, who were ordered to kill the resistance together, the man standing in the door was Mussolini, and that was the best outcome.

Before the division commander and the staff officer could speak, the door was kicked open from the outside, and then a grenade rolled into the room, clanging all the way to a stop on the floor at the division commander's feet.

"Boom!" After an explosion, the Germans burst into the house, finding dust flying in the air and two bloody corpses lying on the ground. A German veteran led by the German army walked to the corpse, kicked the corpse with the leather boots on his feet, and then pouted: "It's a division commander, and the officer is not small." ”

In Rome, the Italian Border Defense Command, the telephone was extremely busy, and everyone was dealing with the sudden situation, the border line that claimed to be able to stop the German army for three to seven days only wasted 10 minutes, and the whole line collapsed, like a sieve on all sides.

"Quick! Contact the leader quickly! Just say that there is a problem in the border area! We, our defensive line, have been easily broken through by the Germans!" An Italian officer, in a panic, finally remembered one thing, that is, to report the chaotic situation before him to the unwitting leader, Mr. Mussolini.

"What are you kidding? It's only been less than 10 minutes, and the leader is still on the podium, and at this time tell him that our line of defense has been breached, and how can we tell him? Pull him out of the radio microphone of the national broadcast?" another Mussolini confidant asked in a loud and irritated voice, with his hands behind his back.

Although he had heard that there was a lot of corruption in the construction of the border defense line, he did not expect that it would really be so corrupt. He had always believed that even if the defense system on the border could not hold out for seven days, it was still very certain that three days would be possible - but now it seems that his estimate was too optimistic, and his troops failed to withstand it for three hours, and then they were defeated and surrendered.

"Order the troops of the second line to immediately start a counterattack on the spot! The Germans have tanks, don't we have them too? Order those troops to hold the main towns of the second line as much as possible, and I need them to buy a day so that we can strengthen the defenses near Rome!" The Italian general thought for a moment and gave the order that he thought was the best thing Italy could do in response to the present situation.

I will continue to make up for it tonight, but maybe the last one will be a little late, so you can watch it tomorrow morning!