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Volume 1 Pioneer of the Times Chapter 1269 Flying Soldiers in Apennines (Part 1)

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    This is a continuous mountain range, which is the Apennine Mountains that runs across the entire territory of Italy. The highest peak of the entire Apennine Mountains is called "Grand Sasso", located 160 kilometers northeast of Rome.  (Niu Wen Novel ~ Read Novel Online) Halfway up the Gran Sasso Mountain, at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, there is a hotel called "Campo Impaleta", next to a winter ski slope  Dao, in peacetime, every tourist season, the hotel is always full, but now is a war period, plus the ski season has not yet arrived, there are no tourists in the hotel, and there are no staff in the hotel itself, but this  It does not mean that there is no one at the Impaletta Hotel now. On the contrary, there are many people in the hotel, and they are all soldiers, Italian soldiers, and their main task is to "protect" an important person, and this  The ¡°important figure¡± was Mussolini, the leader of the Italian fascist movement.  "Protection" actually means surveillance and control. The Impaletta Hotel is actually a high-level prison used to house Mussolini, and those Italian soldiers are the guards of the prison.  Now, Mussolini was standing in front of the window of one of the luxurious rooms of the Impaletta Hotel, looking towards the steep hillside. Although there was no expression on his face, his mood at this moment was unbearable.  To describe it in words, if you have to find a word to describe Mussolini's current mood, perhaps the most appropriate word is "anger", and the thing that causes anger is "betrayal".  It was not only King Emmanuel III of Italy who betrayed Mussolini, but also a large group of people, from Marshal Badoglio to most members of the Fascist Grand Council, including Mussolini's son-in-law Zia.  Count No Facts have proved that Mussolini has been unable to gain the trust and support of the majority of Italians, and the root cause of all this seems to be the continuous military defeats. From the grasslands of South Russia to the deserts of North Africa, all Italian armies have set foot in  The battlefields were all filled with frequent news of defeat, which caused most Italian citizens to completely lose confidence in victory, and a defeatist sentiment spread among the Italians.  In the eyes of the betrayers, perhaps Italy should not have participated in this "German war" at all. Although Italy did well with Germany in the early stages of the war, and the domestic economy also became prosperous due to victory, but at that time  How many people could guess that when the war entered a stalemate, China suddenly joined the war?  If China had not participated in the war, then Fascist Italy would probably have won the war with Nazi Germany and shared part of the fruits of victory. However, history has no assumptions. The cruelty of reality is that relations between countries are not based on any  Regardless of the feelings or personal friendships between heads of state, the fundamental determinant of state-to-state relations still lies in national strategy. When the Chinese government realized that Germany and Italy were about to achieve the victory they wanted, this world war that originally did not involve Asia  The war finally evolved into a real global war, and when Asia joined this war that had reached a stalemate as a whole, the balance of the war quickly tilted towards the Allies, so it was not surprising that the Axis powers were defeated one after another.  .  Italy¡¯s military strength is far inferior to Germany¡¯s. With Germany also losing consecutive battles, how much can Italy¡¯s military machine do?  Therefore, defeat is inevitable, at least in the eyes of those betrayers. If Italy cannot take the initiative to cease the war as soon as possible and seek peace with the Allied Group, then what will happen to Italy will not just be ordinary aerial bombs.  So simple, the Allies dared to drop atomic bombs on Tokyo, the capital of Japan, why didn't they dare to drop atomic bombs on Rome, the capital of Italy?  It was precisely in the face of the naked nuclear blackmail from the allies that many senior Italian government officials and military generals became timid. After careful consideration, they were surprised to find that if Italy was to avoid becoming the second atomic bomb in the world,  In this country, the easiest way is to tell Mussolini to go away, because it is this leader Mussolini who has been claiming that Germany is researching secret weapons. Once Germany's research on secret weapons is successful, the war situation will immediately change. Then by  At that time, Italy can restore the glory of the ancient Roman Empire and once again turn the Mediterranean into Italy's inner lake, then the Italian people will not have to worry about the Allied atomic bombing.  Although Mussolini has always insisted that Germany will soon have new weapons, others do not think so. They insist that if there is no armistice, Italy will be hit by a nuclear strike from the Allies, and that nuclear strike will  The complete destruction of Italy and the fear of the atomic bomb were the background for the "Rome Coup", and the direct cause was Mussolini's tyranny.  It was Mussolini's insistence that triggered the "Roman Coup". A group of people who betrayed the leader instigated this bloodless coup and took Mussolini out of the political center city in the name of "protection".  He was placed under house arrest in several secret locations.Finally, Mussolini was brought to the Impaletta Hotel.  The specific process of the coup is not actually important. The bloodless coup was unremarkable. The coup makers cleverly took advantage of the war-weariness of the Italian people and deliberately exaggerated the power of the atomic bomb, thus ensuring Mussolini's resignation.  The speed of the coup was beyond Mussolini's expectation. Since the coup, the Italian people did not show any nostalgia for their leader. Almost overnight, the Italians forgot about Mussolini's existence and began to look forward to it.  The new Italian government has negotiated with the allies. The Italians hope not to appear on the post-war international political stage as a "defeated country". At the same time, they also hope to retain the territories they "recovered" during the war.  The desire for peace of the Italian people is understandable. Since the German and Italian troops suffered repeated defeats in the African battlefield and retreated to Algeria, Allied bombers began to use airports along the North African coast as forward bases, escorted by fighter jets across the Mediterranean, and targeted the Italians.  Italian cities and transportation hubs were bombed indiscriminately. This strategic air raid involved not only U.S. strategic bombers, but also long-range bombers of the Chinese Air Force. These bombers used high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs to turn Italian cities into ruins.  , and destroyed the Italian people's confidence in victory. Since the strategic bombing began, food prices in Rome have tripled, which directly led to riots among the residents of Rome. Facts have proved that when the citizens began to worry about whether the bread for their next meal would still be available  When it is obtained, anyone who continues to clamor for war will be abandoned by the people, even if he has led the people to a glorious victory.  The citizens are always forgetful. Mussolini hated the conspirators who took advantage of these citizens who did not distinguish between right and wrong. He cursed the King of Italy and all the betrayers of the Italian fascist cause.  It had been four days since he was taken to the Impaletta Hotel. Mussolini had been waiting for rescue. He believed that not all Italian people would abandon their leader and that the people would eventually wake up.  A hoax, the atomic bomb is also a hoax. It was a psychological warfare on the part of the Allies. Once the people wake up, the fascist movement will lead the Italian people again. What's more, the German Nazis will not sit back and watch their allies in danger. Mussolini believed that Hitler  The head of state will definitely send troops to rescue him, and he will also destroy those traitors.  Mussolini stood in front of the hotel room window, overlooking the valleys and mountain peaks, for an hour. Then, he saw some small black spots appearing in the sky, getting closer and closer, and soon he could see them clearly.  The silhouette is exactly that of some transport aircraft.  Listening to the roar of the transport plane's engine, Mussolini finally smiled. He knew that the rescue he had been waiting for had arrived.  Soon, those transport planes passed over the valley near the Impaleta Hotel, and before flying over, the transport planes had already scattered many parachutes in the sky, that is, paratroopers. They would land in the valleys and hillsides near the hotel, and then  The hotel can be reached via a cable car that connects the valley to the hotel.  Mussolini has even begun to plan his escape route. He cannot go to the southern part of Italy, he can only go to the northern part. Not only is it very close to Germany, but there are also many German army troops stationed there. Relying on those German troops  * Troops, Mussolini can not only ensure his own safety, but can even command the troops loyal to him and stage another "March on Rome". He is fully confident that he will once again lead Italy towards a true renaissance.  Of course, this must have a premise, that is, Mussolini can survive until the rescue force finds him, because it is difficult to say that the coup group will not jump over the wall in a hurry and execute Mussolini before the rescue force arrives. Therefore, Mussolini  After seeing those transport planes, Mussolini immediately started looking for a hiding place. The door of the guest room was locked from the outside. Apart from the bed and table, there was almost no other furniture in the room. Where could Mussolini hide?  ?  After searching again, Mussolini found nothing. He could only sit by the bed with a backrest chair beside him. Whenever something went wrong, he would throw the chair at the guards and soldiers who broke into the guest room.  However, to Mussolini's expectation, the door to the room was always locked, and no soldiers or officers rushed in and shouted at him. In fact, it was eerily quiet outside the hotel. Since the transport plane flew away,  It was quiet outside the hotel, as if there was no one around.  Finally, Mussolini heard the sound of the cable car starting. He walked back to the window curiously and looked towards the ski slope. A few minutes later, he saw the cable car carriage arriving at the hotel cable car station. Then, from the cable car  A dozen people walked out of the station, all of them soldiers. One party was wearing a light green Italian military uniform, while the other party was wearing a jungle camouflage combat uniform, but it was not the camouflage of the German army, but the jungle camouflage of the Asian Alliance Alliance.  ¡°Chinese?¡± MussoliniTurning pale with shock, he realized that the paratroopers he had just seen descending into the valleys and hillsides were not German special forces who came to rescue him, but Allied paratroopers who came to arrest him.  After the panic, there was extreme disappointment and frustration. At this time, Mussolini suddenly made an astonishing move. He leaned his entire upper body out of the window, looked downstairs, and then sat on the window sill.  , then jumped out of the window of the Impaletta Hotel room.
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