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    Italian Prime Minister Mussolini and Chief of General Staff General Badoglio looked at the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III in stunned silence!  The war has just begun. The heroic Italian army is resisting the invasion of the Chinese, but Vittorio Emanuele III, the dead king, is actually running away. Isn't this a bit too chilling?  Although the statement stated that he was going to Germany to request assistance, wasn't he actually running away for his life?  If word spreads, this will definitely be a heavy blow to the morale of the Italian military and people!

    "Your Majesty! The war has just begun. If Your Majesty stays in the country, it can stabilize the morale of the military in the country! This will be very helpful for us to resist the Chinese attack!" Prime Minister Mussonili persuaded!

    "Your Excellency Prime Minister! The Chinese are coming fiercely. With Italy's current strength, it is difficult to resist the Chinese attack! We must have outside assistance! My trip to Berlin is not to run away from the battle, but to ask for help from Germany.  ! Italy is an ally of Germany, and Germany should fully support us!" Vittorio Emanuele III said.

    "Your Majesty, we can entrust the request for help to Germany to the ambassador in Germany. If that doesn't work, we can ask the foreign minister to go there! Now the skies in Italy have been controlled by Chinese planes. Your Majesty left Rome and headed for Berlin.  What if we are bombed by the Chinese?" Mussolini said.  I hope I can use this method to make Vittorio Emanuele III change his mind!  However, he didn't know that Vittorio Emanuele III had already made up his mind!

    Although, Vittorio Emanuele III wanted to defeat China and avenge his past humiliation.  but.  He is also afraid that the last tragic experience will happen again!  Last time they escaped to the Vatican, but the Chinese didn't even buy it.  There is no safe place in Italy!  Therefore, under the pretext of asking for help from Germany, he went to Germany for refuge.  It became the best excuse for Vittorio Emanuele III to flee Italy!  Anyway, as the king, he has transferred power to the government and the army, so there is no use for him to stay in Italy.  Heading to the safety of Berlin is the best outcome.  In this way, even if Italy is occupied by China.  But he won't have any safety concerns either.  Even after the Holy Alliance defeats China, he can return to Italy and continue to be his king!

    "Your Excellency Prime Minister! How can I personally come forward when the Foreign Minister goes to Berlin? Needless to say, I have made up my mind! From now on, Italy's affairs will be left to you!" Vittorio Emanuele III insisted  road!

    In this regard, Prime Minister Mussolini and General Badoglio were very speechless.  But there is no other way!  In their hearts, they were very ashamed of Vittorio Emanuele III's behavior of abandoning the country and his people and running away.

    The king is running away, but the war will continue unless Italy admits defeat now!  However, Prime Minister Mussonili, who has huge ambitions, obviously does not want to admit defeat now!  After he and General Badoglio left the palace, they went to the Italian Army Staff for a meeting to discuss how to deal with the current crisis!

    Less than half an hour.  General Badoglio issued an order on behalf of the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, ordering the troops around Naples to assemble towards Naples to prepare to block the Chinese.  At the same time, an armored division was transferred from Rome and 10 infantry divisions were sent south to support Naples.  Finally, the army in northern Italy was ordered to go south to prepare to defend central Italy!  Originally, northern Italy was also the focus of the Italian Army's defense!  But after the Austro-Hungarian Empire was invaded by Germany, northern Italy had no enemies!  Originally, the Italian government wanted to take the opportunity to regain the territories occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the last world war, but China's landing operations.  It completely disrupted their plans!

    The Italian Army has two armored divisions with a total of more than 400 tanks and armored vehicles!  However, these tanks and armored vehicles were all equipment that had been eliminated by the German Army, and were then half-sold and half-given to the Italian Army!  These tanks and armored vehicles are mainly the T5 "Cheetah" tanks that Germany originally imported from China.  The German Army calls it the Panzer II tank. The German Army imitates the T5 "Cheetah" tank. The German Army sincerely calls it the Panzer III tank!  There are also a lot of light tanks!  Although the performance of the tanks is very backward, these two armored divisions have always been regarded as treasures by the Italian Army!  Now sending an armored division south to rescue Naples shows their determination!  However, Naples is a full two hundred kilometers away from Rome. Even if Italy's transportation facilities are pretty good, it will take at least the afternoon of the next day for the reinforcements to arrive in Naples from Rome!  Before that, can the Italian Army hold Naples?  the answer is negative!

    At seven o¡¯clock in the morning, the 8th Marine Corps of the Chinese People¡¯s Liberation Army??A regiment of troops has already landed ashore. They did not immediately launch an attack on the main city of Naples, but instead stormed the port area!  Several destroyers of the 33rd Task Force of the Chinese Navy even saw the coast. At the risk of running aground, they opened fire violently with the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the battleships to provide fire cover for the Marines attacking the port!

    Only then did Giovanni Messe, commander of the 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army, realize the danger!  He wants to send troops to retake the port, or completely destroy the port!  But he found that he couldn't do it now!  In previous battles, his 89th Infantry Division had suffered heavy casualties. It was very difficult to defend the main city of Naples, let alone recapture the port!

    Less than half an hour later, the Chinese Marine Corps captured the port of Naples!  In the battle to seize the port, they did not use large-caliber artillery, so they caused little damage to the port.  It's just that in the process of seizing the port, the price paid was a little higher!  But, it's totally worth it!  After the port is captured, the main forces of the Chinese Marine Corps and Army can land ashore faster!  This is very important for landing operations!

    At 8 o'clock in the morning, the main force of the 8th Marine Division of the Chinese Marine Corps had already landed ashore, and under the cover of Navy warships and aircraft in the sky, they launched a fierce attack on the main city of Naples!  The absolute main force of the Army's 20th Group Army, the 20th Armored Brigade, also began to land.  With the help of the port, the 40-ton 'Leopard' tank equipped by the 20th Armored Brigade can easily go ashore!  Otherwise, it would be a huge headache to get such heavy equipment ashore!

    As the tanks equipped by the Chinese Army's armored forces become larger and larger, although their performance becomes more and more advanced, the difficulties of logistical supply are also increasing!  Therefore, the Chinese Army's armored forces have reorganized their organization!  Originally, an armored brigade had more than two hundred tanks, and each tank battalion had as many as 72 tanks!  Although this makes the armored brigade extremely powerful in combat effectiveness, it also places a heavy burden on logistical supplies!  The current armored brigade has 5 tank battalions, a self-propelled artillery battalion, a supply battalion, as well as brigade-affiliated security, communications, reconnaissance and field hospital units. The entire brigade has more than 10,000 people!  Each tank battalion includes 4 tank companies, each company has three platoons, a total of 9 tanks!  In this way, a tank battalion has 36 tanks, and the entire brigade has 180 tanks and 36 105 mm caliber self-propelled artillery!

    It is not easy to send all the personnel and equipment of the 20th Armored Brigade ashore.  It wasn't until 9 a.m. that the 20th Armored Brigade came ashore!  However, the battle in Naples has come to an end at this time!  The 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army suffered heavy losses under the attack of the 8th Marine Division!  In street fighting, the Italian Army's weak combat effectiveness is no match for the Chinese Marine Corps!  The Q5 "Night Owl" attack aircraft hovered over the city. Once they discovered the Italian Army's firepower, they immediately dropped bombs or strafed.  The key parts of the Q5 Night Owl attack aircraft are equipped with new armor, which is designed to withstand large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. As long as it is not directly hit by an anti-aircraft gun, there is generally no danger of being shot down!  Coupled with the fierce artillery fire, the 8th Marine Division's attack went very smoothly!

    At 9:16 a.m., Brigadier General Giovanni Messe, commander of the 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army, ordered the remaining troops of the 89th Infantry Division to surrender to the Chinese!  He has tried his best.  But the gap between the two sides is really too big, especially after the 20th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army came ashore, those huge tanks drove into the streets of the city with the sound of rumbling motors, giving the Italian Army a great shock!  Brigadier General Giovanni Messe saw with his own eyes an anti-tank of the Italian Army firing at a Chinese tank two hundred meters away!  However, the armor-piercing bullet only left a white mark on the front of what he saw, and did not cause any damage to the tank!  Therefore, Brigadier General Giovanni Messer knew that this battle could not be fought. If he persisted, all the 89th Infantry Division would be killed!

    The Orientals will fight to the end, and shrouding a body in horse leather is the highest honor for a soldier!  But Westerners are different. When they lose hope, they are more willing to surrender to save their lives!  However, even so, when the 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army surrendered, there were only less than 3,000 people left in the division of more than 10,000 people. The rest were killed, many of whom were killed by the Chinese Navy.  The battleship was killed by large-caliber artillery shells and bombs dropped by aircraft!
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