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Chapter 1011: Noodles are burnt (Part 2)

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    Throughout human history, turmoil often means the arrival of opportunities and the emergence of heroes.  Hearing about the turmoil in Italy after the war, some people in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Soviet Russia, the United States, France and even distant Japan smelled an opportunity, but some were just ready to make a move, while others immediately took action.  When the paratrooper assault troops urgently recruited by Italian dictator Umberto arrived at Rome Airport, the situation in the capital had developed into a situation worse than the worst expectations.  The reason is that the French suddenly intervened, thus changing the direction of the entire Italian situation.  In fact, if the Italian paratroopers could arrive and control the Rome airport a dozen hours earlier, there would be nothing wrong with the French here.  In this race against time, the first person to "cross the line" was a Frenchman named Romain Machach.  This man is 54 years old and has served in the French Army for 37 years. He was promoted to colonel 9 years ago. However, due to lack of sufficiently convincing military contributions, he has stayed put. According to the regulations of the French Army, he should be transferred in a few months.  If you join the reserve force, you will basically have no chance of being a general in this life.  Colonel Machach came to Italy at this critical moment, not just to take a risk to gain military exploits before retiring.  He personally experienced the First World War. As a scout, he single-handedly captured a German signal soldier. As a demolitionist, he destroyed a German tank during the Vichy Defense War. He was one of the most important members of the French army in that war.  Few heroes.  Between the two world wars, he entered military academies three times, step by step from a low-level noncommissioned officer to a colonel, and became a well-known tactical expert in the military, both in training exercises and in dealing with anti-government armed forces.  During combat operations, the troops he led performed commendably.  After the end of World War II, Machach began to study international politics and national strategy. His articles published in military publications attracted the attention of superiors. He then got the opportunity to go to the United States for military exchanges, and thus came into contact with the U.S-Mexican War and the Spanish-American War.  War and a large amount of information on the US-Japanese Pacific War, providing an in-depth study and understanding of the United States' modern military expansion and war adventures.  After returning to China, Machach wrote and published the book "France Will Rise Again", which caused a strong response in the military and political circles. As a result, he got to know many senior military and political figures, which paved the way for his future single-handed flight to Italy.  When talking about the relationship between France and Italy, we have to talk about the completely different ups and downs of the two countries since World War I.  Counting from the time it became a defeated country in World War I, France had been in decline for more than thirty years.  In addition to not falling into disintegration, it has almost experienced the worst situation that people can imagine, including the loss of sovereignty, bullying, political chaos, economic decline, inflation, people's livelihood decline, social unrest, revolution, smoke everywhere,  War disasters resumed By the mid-1930s, when France's political situation stabilized again, various economic and social indicators had fallen to the levels around 1900. This meant that for twenty years, instead of making progress, the French  Going backwards.  During World War II, France, with its weakened national power, became the stepping stone for the Western Allies to attack Britain. The ports, airports and railway systems in northern France were forcibly used by the German army. Many important ports in western France were still controlled by Germany, and therefore  Attacked by American and British fighter jets.  Even though all French people had no intention of being involved in this war, France was still inevitably affected by the flames of war, and hundreds of innocent civilians became victims of the war.  The two world wars completely changed the world structure. The emerging Germany finally replaced the old empires such as Britain, the United States, France and Russia and became a new generation of "the empire on which the sun never sets."  After clearing the obstacles to global hegemony, the German leaders turned their strategic vision to the more distant Americas and Asia. The inactive French were thus freed from the embarrassing situation of surviving in the cracks, and their country entered a period of long-term development.  More than ten years of stable recovery.  By 1948, France's economic and industrial scale finally exceeded the peak of 1913, and the total population reversed upward from the bottom of the U-shape, reaching the 1910 level.  When the domestic situation was improving, the French political circles learned from the pain and concluded their strategic development positioning of actively integrating into the camp of the Western Allies and striving to return to the ranks of great powers.  Under this position, they not only "let bygones be bygones" to their former enemies, but also act as followers in various international affairs, actively contributing, and thus gaining the opportunity to rebuild the military industry and reorganize armaments.  On the other hand, the French are trying their best to compete for the international trade market in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, light industry, and metallurgy. For this reason, they regard the trilateral economic alliance formed by Ireland, Spain, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire as their number one competitor, and actively win over Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark.  And Italy and other neighboring countries work together.  After more than thirty years of political and economic changes, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark, several small European countries that were once prosperous in history, have been deeply embedded in the German local economic circle and have basically lost their independence in the field of industrial economy and trade.  , truly have the conditions to follow the lawLooking at Europe, the only country in Europe that can cooperate with others and achieve the "1+1>2" effect is Italy.  However, the Italians have always been immersed in the dream of "Mediterranean hegemony". They feel that the countries along the Mediterranean are either weak or enemies of weak and underdeveloped countries such as Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and they are worthy of their cooperation. Austria-Hungary  The Empire, France, and Spain, these established powers, are all direct competitors that need to be suppressed and squeezed out.  Taking advantage of the two world wars, Italy plundered many African colonies and several Mediterranean islands from France. Therefore, it has both a psychological advantage and an emotional wariness over France. It always feels that the French intend to take back these.  overseas territories.  Faced with the olive branch offered by the French, Italian senior officials behaved very cautiously, and the warmer the French attitude, the more fishy the Italian politicians felt.  In recent years, although the economic and trade relations between the two countries have improved and some cooperation has been carried out, there has been a lack of substantive results.  After the Italians hit a wall here, the French tried to cooperate with the Soviet Union and the United States, but due to weak complementarity in technology and resources, they never achieved the expected results.  In desperation, the French high-level officials turned their attention back to the Italians. However, after several trials, they finally realized that the current Italian government was fundamentally opposed to cooperation with France. Therefore, they asserted that "unless there is an Italian government that is close to France,  Otherwise, there will be no quasi-strategic cooperation between France and Italy. "Just when the French were at their wits' end, Italy was attacked by the New United Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Germans remained neutral on the surface, but behind the scenes they were attacking the Italians.  Japan is a secret ally that has given Italy a lot of benefits, but it is difficult to quench the thirst from afar and cannot help at all.  Seeing that the Italian army was beaten to death by the coalition forces, and the Italian senior officials were like ants on a hot pot, the French senior officials felt very happy. They expected that the Italians would put away their arrogance after the war and carry out all-round cooperation with France in a down-to-earth manner.  Rejected the inducements of New Ireland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and maintained good-faith neutrality toward Italy during the war.  As the war progressed, the Italians unexpectedly lost to their opponents and signed a humiliating armistice treaty. Just when the French took the initiative to open their hearts to this loser, turmoil broke out in Italy. First, people from all over the country held protest marches.  , and showed signs of evolving into a large-scale anti-government action, and then the army mutinied, and the royal family and government heads fled Rome in a hurry. Immediately afterwards, anti-government activists claiming to be Italian Republicans occupied the palace and announced the establishment of a provisional government  While the governments of most major powers stood idly by, the French felt that this was an excellent opportunity to change their strategic situation.  After learning that Italian anti-government rebels had occupied the palace, Colonel Machach visited the French Prime Minister and Defense Minister without stopping. After receiving their support, he took an adjutant, a translator and a volunteer pilot from France.  The Air Force "successfully" received a German-made He-type long-range reconnaissance aircraft fully loaded with fuel. It departed from the airport outside Paris and flew directly to Rome, the capital of Italy.  Based on the situation at that time, this voyage of less than 1,200 kilometers was full of uncertainties.  Not to mention the bad weather conditions that may be encountered when flying over the Alps, and the possibility of getting lost without radio guidance. After entering Italian airspace, they are likely to be intercepted by the Italian Air Force. In the absence of smooth communication,  It ranges from being expelled from the airspace to being directly shot down.  In the end, even if the plane reaches Rome without being blocked, it may still face the dilemma of the airport being unusable, and the plane's fuel will not be able to support their flight from Italy back to France in any case Even so, the adventurer Machach still  He embarked on the journey without hesitation.  During the nearly three-hour flight, he spent most of the time sitting in the co-pilot position, holding an aviation atlas published 15 years ago to guide the pilot to Rome, the Italian capital, where the situation was unknown.  In order to easily determine their direction, after crossing the Alps, they flew to the seaside, and then flew south along the coastline.  During the flight, the radar wave detector on the plane almost kept ringing, which meant that they were always under the monitoring of the Italian ground radar station. The Italians could send fighter planes to intercept at any time, and on the sea below the plane, there were also  Italian warships appeared several times.  Fortunately, this high-speed flying He- was not attacked in any form by the Italians. Even more fortunately, when they flew over Rome, the runway of the Rome Airport was empty, and several anti-aircraft positions around the airport were missing.  Have any precautions.  Colonel Machach made a concerted effort and ordered the pilot to land the plane directly.  After landing, they discovered that the Rome airport was uncontrolled and undefended.  In order to catch up with the anti-government activists who occupied the palace, Machach and his deputies found a truck from the warehouse and rushed to the palace according to the Rome tourist map (End of this chapter)
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