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Chapter 1012: Noodles are mushy (Part 2)

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    While driving from the Rome Airport to the Italian Palace, Colonel Machach from France couldn't help but be surprised by the order of the city at the moment: the main roads were unobstructed, armed men in civilian attire could be seen everywhere on the streets, as well as some vehicles temporarily commandeered by the militants.  But there was no barricade, no barbed wire, and no nervous and serious expressions on people's faces.  When they learned that Colonel Machach and his party were friends from France, and were rushing to the palace to meet with the power seizers, a young man wearing a peaked cap and carrying a bolt-action rifle took the initiative to guide them. Benefiting from this, Colonel Machach  Soon he arrived at the palace and met Candrone, the leader of this group of Italian separatists, an unemployed lawyer who claimed to be a contemporary Caesar.  Although the two parties had never met each other before and could not communicate directly in language, they talked happily like old friends who had known each other for many years and gave each other great trust.  After preliminary communication, Colonel Machach realized that this group of separatists was basically a group of rabble with no organization, loose structure, and no clear beliefs and programs. They nominally captured the city of Rome and got the opportunity to control the Italian power, but  With neither the support of the army nor real control of the capital area, the Italian government and military only needed to mobilize an infantry regiment to wipe out this group of troublemakers who knew nothing about the sky and the earth.  But the matter has come to this, and he is really unwilling to go home empty-handed. After repeated weighing, he decides to take a risk and use his intelligence and wisdom to help these lucky guys take power and take the opportunity to achieve goals that are in line with France's strategic interests.  .  So, Colonel Machach quickly stepped into the role and advised Candrone and his comrades.  Although the French do not have that much experience in actual combat command, looking at the world, when it comes to experience in citizen uprisings, the French claim to be second, and no country dares to claim first.  As for this group of Italian democrats who are still immersed in joy and do not know whether to live or die, although there are retired soldiers among them, none of them have the rank and qualifications to compare with Colonel Machach. Furthermore, they feel that Colonel Machach  He came on behalf of the French government and made it clear that he wanted to support them in changing the Italian political system. He followed his suggestions.  "One night later, the paratrooper assault troops, who had high hopes from Italian dictator Umberto, arrived in Rome at dawn. More than two hundred white umbrella flowers bloomed over the Rome airport. The scene was very spectacular.  Until the moment they landed, many Italian paratroopers were still optimistic about the prospects of the trip. After all, the war had just ended, and the main forces of the Italian army were in the north. There were only a few second- and third-line troops stationed in the central and southern parts of the Apennine Peninsula. Even though  These troops have defected to the Nazis, and their combat effectiveness is not to be feared.  After landing successfully, more than two hundred Italian paratroopers prepared to seize the airport tower, terminal building, hangar and gate as planned, and relied on the airport's buildings and existing fortifications to deploy defenses, waiting for the arrival of subsequent paratroopers and airborne troops.  However, before the paratroopers could get close to the tower, they were startled by a rumble.  What then appeared in sight were two P-43 tanks painted in olive green. On their turrets and bodies were a number of armed personnel in civilian attire.  Before dispatching paratroopers to land at Rome Airport, Italian military staff believed that there were no armored troops stationed around the capital. The paratroopers would encounter at most a few armored vehicles while controlling the airport, so they only needed to carry armor-piercing grenades, steel-core bullets and other light-weight vehicles.  Anti-armor weapons.  As the largest number of tanks in active service in the Italian army, the P-43's protective capabilities are not very good, but it is more than enough to withstand shrapnel and bullets. More importantly, their appearance was completely unexpected by the paratroopers, who immediately gained momentum.  Up and down.  At the time of the armistice, the Italian armored forces were either deployed on the northern front, or stationed on Sardinia, Sicily and Malta. There were indeed no organized armored forces within a hundred kilometers of Rome. However, **** Weng  Beto's staff missed one point, and that was the Armored Corps School located on the outskirts of Rome.  There are more than twenty training vehicles here, including six better-performing P-43s and P-30s that were put into service earlier, as well as a large group of trainees who are in their prime.  In fact, on the night when the French intervened in the situation, Candrone personally went to the Armored Forces School and skillfully persuaded some instructors and trainees to join the newly formed National Guard.  Candrone and his assistants are laymen in the military field, and the arrival of Colonel Machach has indeed made up for this shortcoming for them.  At the suggestion of the French, Candrone's National Guard occupied a number of railway bridges north of Rome and planted explosives under the bridges. Once military columns carrying troops were discovered, they would blow up the railway bridges.  At the same time, tanks joining the National Guard were deployed to the airport and train stations to control these important strategic points. After learning that a company of Italian paratroopers had landed at the Rome airport, Colonel Machach knew that the Italian authorities had begun to counterattack.  .  exhaustAlthough the paratroopers carrying light weapons were temporarily blocked at the airport by tanks driven by students from the Armored Forces School, the Italian military will definitely dispatch more troops quickly.  The only chance of victory at the moment is to mobilize the people who are dissatisfied with the Italian government and let them cause troubles everywhere, making it impossible for the Italian army, whose main force is concentrated in the north, to mobilize smoothly.  Whether it is successful or not depends on Candrone¡¯s deception skills.  So, when the National Guard was confronting the Italian paratroopers who landed at Rome Airport, Candrone came to the National Broadcasting Building with several speeches that he had rewritten, and delivered a speech to the entire Italian people aimed at establishing a republican system.  speech.  From an objective standpoint, his speech was not well-conceived, the levels were not clear enough, the cited materials were not very convincing, and there were even one or two logical errors. However, Candrone captured the Italian people's attitude toward officials.  They are deeply abhorred by problems such as corruption, administrative inefficiency, backward armaments, and low morale. With the goal of changing the current situation of economic growth, unwinnable wars, and weak diplomacy, they call on the people to abandon the decadent and weak monarchy and support democracy and enlightenment.  republican system.  In fact, Candrone¡¯s speech not only changed his personal destiny, but also changed the entire Italian society.  According to incomplete statistics, 60% of Italians listened to the rolling radio speech that day, including a considerable number of active military personnel. Candrone's political views were supported by many people and many military personnel, and even more  What is important is that the Italian business community, which was deeply dissatisfied with the terms of the armistice agreement, collectively turned to this emerging "coup hero" and supported him in various forms to reorganize the government and implement republic.  On the other side, after the first batch of paratroopers encountered obstacles, Italian General Umberto and his staff officers hesitated.  They spent a lot of time and effort to investigate and find out that the tanks that appeared at the Rome airport came from the Armored Forces School.  The officers were well aware that those training tanks had some technical problems and were unlikely to carry sufficient ammunition. However, even so, due to the strong objections of the commanders of the paratroopers and infantry units scheduled to participate in the operation,  Objection, **** Umberto had to order a postponement of the action.  After acquiring anti-tank rocket launchers and heavy anti-tank grenades, the second batch of paratroopers finally embarked on the journey. However, the first batch of airborne troops carried additional combat anti-tank artillery and ammunition, and the number of people they carried was reduced from 900 to 750.  people.  The actions of the airborne troops were delayed for some reason, and the various troops ordered to march to Rome by land and sea also encountered various obstacles: the garrison starting from Pescara stayed for more than ten hours due to railway failure, and finally had to  Instead of marching on foot; the cavalry troops heading south from Florence first encountered road blockage, and then mutinied in Bolsena, more than 60 kilometers away from Rome; the 39th Infantry Division of the Army stationed in Messina was originally scheduled to march from Mexico  They set off by boat from the Port of Sina, landed at the mouth of the Tiber River, and then drove directly into the city of Rome. However, the naval ship responsible for transporting them was delayed for half a day on the way. After arriving at the Port of Messina, it was delayed for another day due to a strike by port workers.  ; The army's 56th Infantry Division, which embarked from Cagliari, encountered strong waves during the voyage and had to go to Naples to take shelter. Due to the above reasons, when various Italian troops gradually arrived at the city of Rome  , Candrone has formed a provisional government with the help of the French that meets all basic conditions, and has won the support of people from all walks of life in Italy.  The National Guard under his command suddenly increased from a few thousand to more than 100,000. They obtained firearms and ammunition from police stations, prisons and militia armories in Rome, and used local materials to build barricades in Rome.  In the battle against the New Austrian Allied Forces, the Italian army performed unsatisfactory most of the time. The soldiers were unwilling to obey the officers' orders and point their guns at the enemy, but they were not willing to point their guns at the civilians of their own country.  Individuals are loyal to their officers.  As a result, more than 8,000 army soldiers transferred from Cagliari and Messina stopped at the mouth of the Tiber River, and more than 2,000 cavalry from Florence were blocked by more than 50 national self-defense troops 20 kilometers away from the Rome airport.  The blockade built by the army, and more than 4,000 garrison soldiers who arrived at the eastern suburbs of Rome from Pescara stopped advancing on the grounds that they were not good at attacking, and showed more than 200 National Guardsmen their ability to dig fortifications. The following days  On that day, the only achievement achieved by the Italian army loyal to the royal family was that the paratroopers seized control of the Rome airport.  In the process of driving the National Guards out of the airport, the paratroopers fired the first shot of the Italian Civil War and successively destroyed two P-43s and a P-30, causing more than 30 casualties on the other side.  The Italian paratroopers were praised and commended by General Umberto for their brave and loyal performance. As a result, they were criticized and rebuked by people from all walks of life, causing the morale of the troops participating in the war to plummet.  Although the Rome Airport was lost, the Candrone regime, which received the support of the Italian people and the secret help of the French government, has increasingly shown its "kingly aura".  Fighting for all walks of lifeWhile provincial and municipal officials supported it, they sent telegrams to all Italian military ministries, encouraging officers and soldiers to abandon the decadent royal power and support Italy's implementation of a republican system. This put the Italian royal family and government into an extremely passive position.  (End of this chapter)
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