"Report!" An official responsible for receiving foreign visitors knocked on the door of Reinhard's office, interrupting his communication with Ribbentrop.
"Head of State, Italian Prime Minister Mussolini has arrived at the airport on the outskirts of Berlin and requests to discuss with you."
"Oh?" Reinhard said with a strange expression: "He actually has the nerve to negotiate terms with me?"
Lao Shi went out and attacked in multiple directions with 32 main divisions. In the end, the French army fought a classic counterattack with Berante's 3 divisions as the vanguard and a total of no more than 5 divisions.
Facing the French army, which had been almost wiped out by the Germans, they resorted to more strikes and fewer strikes, and it was a sudden attack, but in the end they ended up with a disastrous defeat.
After all, Gambara was considered a famous Italian army general, but he was beaten to a pulp by a French lieutenant general named Berante despite having every advantage.
Based on Reinhard's understanding of Mussolini, it was already embarrassing enough that he had lost face and failed to get any benefits from the French. However, he could still shamelessly come to his German allies to divide the spoils.
Then it was made.
In fact, even Mussolini himself really feels a little shameless now.
He didn't understand why he had such a thick skin and went to Germany again and again.
In fact, Mussolini went to Berlin three times.
The first time he went to Berlin, he told Reinhard that Italy was not ready for war and would not declare war on Britain and France immediately, making Italy seem useless.
The second time he ran to Berlin and told Reinhard the news that Italy had declared war on France and wanted to steal part of Germany's victory. It also made Italy seem to be very opportunistic.
This time he was going to Berlin again, and the news he told Reinhard was to ask Germany to consider Italy's interests and feelings on the issue of France's surrender, and to give Italy some benefits.
These three times, Italy has always caused trouble for Germany. Whoever it is, would not have the shame to continue causing trouble for Germany.
As the saying goes, there are only three things to do.
"What face does Italy have? What face do you allow me to go to Germany again and again and let the Germans, who are invincible on the European battlefield, consider our bullshit feelings? Just rely on our shamelessness to ask for help from Germany.
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As early as on the plane, Mussolini had yelled at his men.
At this time, he clearly remembered the Italian Army's surprise battle against the French Army in southern France not long ago.
Originally, the Italian army wanted to take advantage of the French army's lack of attention and take advantage of the French army with its superior strength.
But that good-for-nothing General Gambara, who commanded 32 heavy divisions, was easily beaten by the French army. As a result, Mussolini made a fool of himself after his speech.
However, Mussolini soon became quiet.
Because as his men said before: Italy must gain certain benefits from France. After all, they also have to consider the future and destiny of this country.
The war was almost over when the Germans and France signed an armistice.
At this time, what he should consider is how to divide the benefits after the war, instead of dwelling on past failures.
After further consideration, Mussolini, who had definitely lost face in front of the French, hoped that the British would not surrender immediately when Germany attacked.
Because in that case, the Italian army would have no chance to truly compete with the British army and regain face.
Mussolini not only believed that Italy had the ability to help Germany in the war with Britain, but also believed that Italy would be an important part of the war against Britain.
Of course, no one knows where Mussolini got his confidence in his army.
As far as Ciano knew about Mussolini's little thoughts, he also hoped that the Germans would suffer at least 1 million casualties when they invaded England, so that Italy could show their importance and so that the Germans would know that the Italian army was important to them.
How important it is to us, we couldn’t do it without them!
According to the characteristics of Mussolini's character, he was not satisfied with being able to win honors without much effort.
He wanted military victory, not a compromised peace.
He is a fanatical war fighter!
However, he himself had little commanding ability and combat ability, which can be seen from the defeats fought by Italy.
While in Italy, he learned from Grandi and other diplomats returning from London that Britain was on the verge of collapse, further justifying his disdain for the "Anglo-Saxon nation" and his agitators.
The statement about the British team being greedy for life and fearing death is also correct.
This thought inspired Mussolini to ask Reinhardt for special treatment for the Italian army to participate in the invasion of England.
Britain, this weak country, must learn to be humble and humble under the iron heel of the Italian occupying forces.
In Mussolini's eyes, the Italian army was invincible in the world. At most, no one except the Germans could defeat them. Although, they had lost more than one war.
Italy had lost to the French army before, but now the enemy that defeated Italy was wiped out by the German army.
So, if you have to imagine now, among the remaining ** teams, no one except the German army can defeat the Italian army, which is also reasonable.
Unfortunately, Solini, as the supreme commander of Italy, made many rash decisions, which hindered the Italian army that had the potential to become stronger again and again.
First, he demobilized part of the army to provide labor for harvesting crops.
This turned many Italian soldiers into farmers.
Although it is good to farm, we should not miss the most basic military training because of this. It just so happens that the Italian army made this mistake.
Second, Mussolini took it for granted that Italy had complete control of the sea and air in the entire Mediterranean, so he rested on his laurels and refused to engage in in-depth naval and air force military cooperation with Reinhardt.
And he wanted to deepen cooperation with Germany's army, but Reinhardt was not willing.
At the same time, he also believed that 100,000 people walking across 600 kilometers of desert in midsummer would not encounter any difficulties or risk.
It has to be said that Mussolini was really a leader who took things for granted. And this time he believed that his biggest bargaining chip with Reinhardt was to use his Italian army to launch a massive attack on the British colonies in the African desert.
A large-scale offensive in response to German military operations against the British mainland.
