Perhaps due to a guilty conscience, Ciano, who planned the assassination, did not have the courage to go to the hospital to visit the surviving Mussolini.
He just filmed Oliver and went to visit him on his behalf, and came back to inquire about the news.
Even if no one knew that it was Ciano who did it, even if he thought he had hidden it deep enough, at this time, he still didn't want to get close to Mussolini and get close to unknown dangers.
Ciano couldn't figure it out. How could Mussolini not be killed on the spot after using an entire squadron of bombers?!
There were clearly visible beads of sweat on Ciano's forehead. The entire office was eerily quiet. Everyone present was waiting for a result, a result that would determine their fate.
A burst of urgent phone calls interrupted the tranquility of the office.
Everyone suddenly stared at the phone. The tense atmosphere made them swallow their saliva involuntarily.
As the central figure and the leader in planning the entire assassination operation, Ciano naturally had to answer the call himself.
After a moment, a burst of laughter that was both relieved and excited broke out on Ciano's face.
"He's finished!" Ciano yelled violently.
Beside him, the air force colonel who participated in the assassination took a small step forward and was about to ask Ciano for details.
But before he could speak, Ciano loudly repeated again: "Mussolini is finished! Both the doctors at San Giovanni Hospital and the medical expert team brought by Rossi have concluded that Mussolini is dead."
Rini has only a few days to live."
"You mean..." the air force colonel said excitedly.
"We succeeded!" Ciano laughed wildly.
A burst of cheers that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly resounded throughout this small office of the Foreign Secretary.
At this moment, everyone in the Ciano faction felt a burst of heartfelt relief. They no longer had to lower their voices in fear and anxiously suppress themselves in the office.
Although this is the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ciano's territory, it is impossible for anyone to hear their conversation. However, when everyone was talking before, everyone lowered their volume intentionally or unintentionally.
Now, everything has finally become a thing of the past, and there is no longer anything for them to worry about. In a few days, everyone in this group will reach the sky in one step, and will be held tightly in the hands of Mussolini before they are accepted.
power, at that time, they will no longer need to fear anyone, they will soon become the new masters of Italy!
As Ciano's earliest confidant in this assassination plan, Matthew, who stayed in the office, breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It seems that we in Italy can finally get off the sinking ship of Germany.
"
After all, everyone knows that Ciano is the group of people who least wants to get together with the Germans. As early as during the Polish campaign, he made it clear that he hoped to keep a proper distance from the Germans.
Matthew's words hit Ciano's heart. After listening, Ciano also smiled in relief and said: "I have long seen that the reason why the Germans formed an alliance with us is just because we can contain some enemy forces.
, to reduce the pressure on the German front. There is no other reason other than this.”
After hearing this, everyone nodded for a while. Among them, there was admiration for Ciano's unique vision, and there was also attentiveness to the future new prime minister.
Seeing that everyone was nodding in praise of his analysis, Ciano also said with more interest: "The Germans don't care about our fate at all. Because they know that it is they, not us, who decide the war. And
After the war, all they promised to leave us was some nutritious leftovers."
In fact, it was precisely because of Ciano's exposure that Reinhard had already guessed that he could no longer count on Solini to act in sync with him. However, he still wanted to tie down Solini.
Therefore, he also said some classic quotes to Mussolini.
Before the Polish campaign, Reinhard swore to Mussolini sincerely that he personally felt very lucky to be "born in an era when, besides himself, there was another politician who went down in history as a great and unique figure.
It was his great personal luck to be able to make friends with such a person.
Reinhard also assured Mussolini that "when the time comes for a common war, no matter what happens, he will always be at the leader's left."
This struck a chord with Mussolini.
Although it was Reinhard who wanted to go to war, he did not say that he wanted to go to war on behalf of Mussolini, and then he just stood by Mussolini's side and participated in the war together.
Such a shameless act of pretending that what you want to do is done by others is actually very clumsy. But coincidentally, Mussolini really wanted war just like Reinhardt said.
In this way, no matter what Reinhard's purpose was, he fulfilled Mussolini's original wish.
In this way, Reinhardt really pulled Mussolini, and by the way, the whole of Italy into World War II.
"Some time ago, Ribbentrop actually contacted me secretly, hoping that Italy could send expeditionary forces from three armies to the Eastern Front to cooperate with the German army against the Soviet invasion force." Ciano said more and more excitedly: "
Why should we go to war with the Soviet Union for the benefit of the Germans!"
"Yes, Mussolini would agree to the German request for the sake of Italy's prestige within the Allied Powers. Prime Minister Ciano would never agree to such a boring reason!"
After knowing that Mussolini was in danger, the names of these people under Ciano naturally changed their names.
Although they did not call Mussolini leader before, they at least had to use a relatively neutral term like prime minister. But now, when this foreign ministry official who is Ciano's confidant opens his mouth again, he has directly addressed Mussolini.
Ni's name.
Not only did he call Mussolini by his first name, he also called Ciano prime minister in advance. Everyone could hear this blatant flattery.
However, Ciano obviously didn't mind not being called Prime Minister in advance. He even seemed a little satisfied with the flattery of his confidant, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, if it were me, I would agree to send a regiment to the Germans."
, at most, agree to send a volunteer division to join their Eastern Front."
"Moreover, I will not agree to let the Germans command our troops on the African battlefield. I will let our own generals command our own Italian troops." Before he became prime minister, Ciano was already excited.