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Volume 1 Pioneer of the Times Chapter 1270 Flying Soldiers in Apennines (Part 2)

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    Although Mussolini very much hoped to jump off the building and land on his head first, so that he would be done with it and would not have to be taken to a prison camp and interrogated by the Allies. In this way, he hoped to show the betrayers his unyielding courage.  gesture, and used this action to awaken the "conscience" of the hotel guards that has not yet been extinguished.  (Niu Wen Novel ~ Read Novel Online) But unfortunately, it was not his head that hit the ground first, but his right foot and leg. Although he jumped from the second floor of the Impaletta Hotel, the height was not the same.  Not very high, but because of his weight and his posture when he landed, this move of jumping out of the window caused Mussolini great pain. His right leg was broken, severe pain, and the force of the impact.  Almost immediately, he lost consciousness, his eyes darkened, and he passed out.  When Mussolini woke up again, he was already lying in an infirmary.  "Where am I?" Mussolini saw several Italian officers standing not far away from him, so he asked.  "You are in the infirmary on the first floor of the Impaletta Hotel. From here, you cannot jump again." One of the Italian army lieutenant colonels answered Mussolini's words coldly, with a very rude tone.  "Benito Mussolini, now, I formally arrest you in the name of the Allied Joint Command. This is an arrest warrant issued by the Allied Joint Command. From now on, you will be under my custody."  , an oriental-looking officer wearing a camouflage combat uniform of the Asian Alliance Alliance walked to Mussolini's bedside and issued an arrest order to the former Italian ruler in Chinese. An interpreter translated these sentences  After translating into Italian, two non-commissioned officers of the Asian Alliance Army stepped forward and cuffed Mussolini's hands with a pair of handcuffs.  It was only then that Mussolini felt severe pain coming from his right calf.  "Morphine, I need morphine. My leg is broken and I protest against your mistreatment of prisoners of war." Mussolini roared at the officer, who was probably a Chinese paratrooper lieutenant colonel, waving his two hands that had been handcuffed together.  The facial muscles became distorted due to emotional excitement, looking like a roaring beast.  The translator translated Mussolini¡¯s protest to the officer, and the paratrooper officer just smiled mockingly.  "Prisoner of war? No. Benito Mussolini, you are not a prisoner of war of the Allied forces. You were arrested by the Allied soldiers as a war criminal. After your leg injury is properly treated, you will be escorted to a certain place.  He will be held in a secret location. When the war is over, a solemn and fair trial will await you. " "War criminal? Is this a crime fabricated by the Allied Forces Command? It's so ridiculous that you are targeting the losers.  Carry out unscrupulous persecution and give up the hypocrisy in your mouth. Only cowards will use such ridiculous tricks to cover up their inner fears. I am a **, I am not a war criminal. If you want to find the so-called "war criminal"  ', please go to the presidential palaces of the United States and China to find it." Mussolini gave full play to his eloquence, but unfortunately, even the few Italian officers present were indifferent to it.  "Mussolini, put away your show. Now I will give the doctors here an hour to treat your leg injury. After an hour, we will take you away from here to an airport where there are planes."  Waiting for you. Now, I advise you to calm down and think about how to defend yourself after going to court. Of course, a lawyer will serve you, but in my opinion, you have no chance of innocence.  The Allies have obtained a large amount of reliable evidence that the Italian army committed various war crimes during the war, and the execution orders for many of these crimes came directly from your will.¡±  After talking for a while, a doctor and several medical soldiers were called to treat Mussolini's broken right leg. The officer himself left the infirmary, stood in the corridor, and lit a cigarette.  This officer is Lieutenant Colonel Qi Chengfeng of the Chinese Airborne Forces. His rank was promoted just before this mission. During this war, Qi Chengfeng commanded the paratroopers to perform airborne combat missions many times, and all missions were successfully completed.  His superiors admired his courage and wisdom very much. They specially assigned him to direct the operation during the "Porter" operation.  "Operation Porter" was to arrest Mussolini and take him to Sicily, and then transfer him from Sicily to Egypt.  In fact, on the eve of the execution of Operation "Porter", Qi Chengfeng had just completed another airborne mission. It was a large-scale airborne operation code-named "Operation Controlling the Fruit and Vegetable Market". The purpose was to control the transportation hub in the central region of the Apennine Peninsula in Italy.  , the campaign was launched five days ago, mainly to cooperate with the Allied landing fleet in southern Sicily.The Allied Army Landing Force set out from Tunisia. Under the cover of the Allied Naval Escort Fleet, the first batch of landing fleets successfully transported 200,000 Chinese, American, British, and French multinational joint forces.  They boarded two landing sites very close to each other in southern Sicily and successfully established a landing site. Just before the landing site was established, the Allied paratroopers' 60,000 troops had already deployed in the central part of the Italian Apennine Peninsula in two days.  The region carried out airborne operations and successfully captured the city of Naples, cutting off the northern German army's transportation channel for reinforcements to the south. In this operation, the Allied forces received assistance from the Italian army. The new Italian government tried to use this operation  Gain the favor of the allies and avoid Italy becoming a defeated country.  Merely assisting the Allied forces in operations did not seem to be enough to show the peace sincerity of the new Italian government. Therefore, under the firm request of US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Attlee, and Soviet Commander Beria, the new Italian government finally agreed to  Mussolini, who was under house arrest, was handed over to the custody of the Allies. In order to prevent the Germans from obstructing the transfer, the new Italian government suggested that the Allies directly send paratroopers to the place of house arrest to take over control of Mussolini, so there was  "Operation Porter" was carried out not only by American paratroopers, but also by Chinese paratroopers. However, the task of the American paratroopers was to control traffic in the area around the Gran Sasso Mountains, so the task of arresting Mussolini fell to China.  On the shoulders of the paratroopers, the execution authority of this mission was fought hard for by the Chinese President.  So far, "Operation Porter" has been going well. As long as the medics put a plaster or splint on Mussolini's leg, they can then carry the originator of the European fascist movement out of the hotel.  However, before Qi Chengfeng finished smoking the cigarette, he heard the shrill whistle of the air raid siren, so he hurriedly ran into the infirmary with the cigarette in his mouth, stood in front of the window, looked up at the sky, and sure enough he saw many little black men.  point, and the distance was getting closer and closer. Finally, he could confirm that it was a German Air Force aircraft, including fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft. Judging from the speed, they were all old propeller aircraft.  Based on the range of the Chinese Air Force's "Lightning" fighter jets and the U.S. Air Force's P80 fighter jets, if they take off from the Sicilian airport, the Allied fighter jets can completely fly to Rome to perform air defense missions, but now, there is not a single one in the sky.  Allied fighter jets, because the Allied Air Force Command believes that the most important task at present is not to safely transfer Mussolini to Egypt, but to defend Rome and prevent the German army from moving south from northern Italy to occupy Rome and support the puppet regime.  , the Grand Sasso Mountain is not the key combat airspace for Allied fighter jets.  Qi Chengfeng immediately threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stamped it out with his foot, and then issued an order to the soldiers.  "Put the prisoner on the stretcher and let's get out of here immediately." The situation was urgent. It was too late to put a plaster on Mussolini's broken leg. We could only fix it with a splint and then give Mussolini an injection of morphine.  He is quieter.  When they saw the Luftwaffe planes appearing, most of the Italian soldiers in the hotel left their posts and fled into the woods near the hotel. Even the anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns on the roof of the building were unmanned. Naturally, there was no one on the cable car side.  The operator also disappeared. When Qi Chengfeng led the paratroopers to carry Mussolini to the cable car station, they found that the operator was missing. The paratroopers had to do it themselves and tried to operate the cable car, but they failed  I was surprised to find that when the operator was escaping, out of caution or for some other reason, he actually took away the key to the cable car console. It might be possible to break the lock with an automatic rifle, but no one can guarantee that the bullet will  Won't break the machine.  The hotel is built on the top of a cliff, and the cable car is the only way to the outside world, connecting to a valley a hundred meters away.  After hesitating for a while, Qi Chengfeng immediately decided to return to the hotel, look for the keys to the cable car, and contact the Air Force to request reinforcements. He was not sure about the purpose of those German planes coming over, but his intuition told him that they might be German bombers.  team came to rescue Mussolini.  Facts have proved that Qi Chengfeng's conjecture was correct. The German fighter jets and bombers were not here to bomb the Impaletta Hotel, but were just covering a group of gliders towed by transport aircraft to land on the hotel. When those gliders were released and hung on the transport aircraft,  After getting on the rope, they began to rush towards an open space near the hotel. At the same time, the fighter jets and bombers turned around and flew towards the southwest. There was no doubt that they were going to bomb Rome and were just passing by.  Provide escort for transport aircraft.  The paratroopers quickly took over the unmanned anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns, and fired fiercely at the German gliders that rushed towards the hotel. Bullets rained from the sky. Several gliders were intercepted by fire and could not be controlled correctly, and finally ended up in the valley.  crashed, but other gliders were still flying wildly in a small triangular open space behind the hotel.As soon as it fell, the German assault troops rushed out of the cabins of the gliders.  However, after the German commandos rushed out of the cabin, they were surprised to find that they were not greeted by Italian soldiers with no fighting will, but a group of Oriental-faced soldiers wearing camouflage combat uniforms, and the infantry weapons that intercepted them were also  It was not an Italian rifle, but an automatic rifle made in China. The ferocious firepower immediately blocked the German commandos in that small open space. Within a few minutes, most of the German commandos who landed in the open space were under fire.  The triangular open space became a killing field.  After only fifteen minutes, this short battle ended. The surviving German commandos raised the white flag and announced their surrender. As a result, the Impaleta Hotel returned to silence.  Counting the results, seventy German commandos were killed, not including those German soldiers who crashed on the glider in the valley. Six German soldiers were captured alive. After interrogation, Qi Chengfeng learned that this commando was codenamed "Oak"  , its mission was indeed to rescue Mussolini who was under house arrest here, and it was an order personally given by Hitler. The leader of the commando team was SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who also participated.  He participated in the assault, but the glider he was riding in did not land in the open space behind the hotel at all. It was obviously intercepted by ground anti-aircraft fire and crashed in the valley.  Although the German operation to rescue Mussolini was foiled, Qi Chengfeng did not dare to take it lightly. He found the cable car operator, obtained the key to the cable car operating platform, and then quickly left Impaleta with the soldiers.  hotel, and successfully rendezvoused with the troops at the foot of the mountain, then escorted Mussolini to Rome, took a transport plane from the Rome airport and flew directly to Sicily.  This "Operation Porter" was very successful, and no Chinese paratroopers were killed.
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