The French refused to send troops to rescue. Now the Italians were dumbfounded. They were indeed not afraid of the Osi fleet entering Taranto. The place was as if it was made of iron. There were dense mines outside and countless coastal defense guns and towers inside.
The excellent terrain of the Lanto military port is one of the best in the world. Not to mention the Ossi fleet, even with the help of the German High Seas Fleet, the Italians are confident that they can defend this military port.
But the question is what to do on land?
There is no need to destroy the Italian navy at all. They just need to block the Taranto military port so that the Italian fleet cannot get out, and then casually land at any Italian port on the Adriatic Sea. It happens that the Austro-Hungarian navy is still idle for six months.
A landing ship, the Greek Navy also has three of these, plus a large number of merchant ships, troop carriers, and even fishing boats can easily sail across three to four hundred kilometers of sea.
What will Italy do at that time? What can they do to resist the Greeks who are constantly landing? Although this country is weak, it still has a population of four million, and it can still gather an army of 500,000. Italy has already lost
With more than two million troops, it still maintains less than 1.5 million land troops, all of which are in a stalemate with almost 500,000 Austro-Hungarian troops in the northern Apennine Mountains. Greece really wants to land two armies in the south, one in the south and one in the north.
One clip, Italy is going to die!
The Italians, who were forced to panic, angrily accused Britain and France in newspapers of betraying their allies and sitting back and watching their dangerous situation. They also began to discuss whether they should switch sides and join the Allies, and then follow the German-Austrian coalition to kill France. They were not just
It was just a threat. Emanuele III, who was invited to Vienna, was already a guest at Schönbrunn Palace, and it was said that he got along very well with Archduke Ferdinand. He often went out to visit places of interest and other places of interest, without any pretense of being a prisoner.
, it makes people feel that there is a lot of adultery in it.
Facing this shameless guy, the British were in a dilemma, but the French were deeply hurt and bitten to death. No matter whether the Italians lived or died, there was nothing they could do. After thinking about it, the British had no choice but to send their eight old battleships
They were sent out, of course, not to rescue the siege. If these battleships really went to find the Oshi fleet for a decisive battle, it would be no different from committing suicide.
These old antiques, which have been in service for less than ten years, are here to show their existence to the Italians. To put it bluntly, it is a symbolic meaning, letting the Italian people see that as an ally, Britain does not ignore them, so this fleet did not rush to Taranto, and
They went directly to Naples, under the pretext of going to Naples to replenish fuel, and then go south to face their common enemy. Of course, this is purely an insult to the intelligence of the Italian people. Those diesel battleships can sail from Toulon to Singapore without any problem.
.Just a few hundred kilometers requires a lot of fuel.
In addition to naval reinforcements, the British Army urgently transported two divisions to Italy. However, these two divisions did not go to the Apennines. Instead, they were sent to Sicily to prepare for possible Greek landings. Obviously the British were also there.
To guard against Italian rebellion, they already have almost 100,000 troops in Italy at this time. Once Italy rebels, these people must have a place to stay nearby, and Sicily is very suitable, together with the Navy's Mediterranean Fleet. It is not a big deal to defend Sicily.
questionable.
At the same time as the British army was mobilizing on a large scale, another heavy blow fell on the head of the Allied Powers. After some preparations, the Greek Army, which had just joined the war, landed in southern Italy under the cover of the maritime fleet, and landed
The point is at the Port of Bari, which is less than a hundred kilometers away from the Taranto military port. It is obvious that the Greeks' goal is to attack this military port from land.
This news did not arouse much reaction from the Allied Powers. Ever since Greece declared war on Italy, the generals of Britain and France had already guessed this outcome. Besides, the incoming bad news had already made them numb, and they did not care about one more.
What's more, the level of the Greek army is probably about the same as that of the Italians. If there is any army in the world that can compare with the Italians, it is probably the Greek Army.
Their guess was absolutely correct. The subsequent landing battle of the Greek army was very unsatisfactory. Most of the Greek army's divisions, which were the first batch of nine landing ships to seize the beach, were almost wiped out by the Italians on the beach south of Bari Port. If not
With the cover of those large-caliber naval guns at sea, all 10,000 people would probably have to be stabbed into the sea by Italians with bayonets. As the saying goes, rabbits bite when they are anxious. Being beaten by the Germans and Austrians is just like that. What is Greece?
Thing, even a pug dared to bite someone. For the first time, the enraged idiots broke out with such impressive courage. The three Italian divisions deployed here just killed more than 5,000 Greeks with hand-to-hand combat, and the remaining
Four thousand people ran to the naval gun protection circle, and then the overwhelming shells hit them. Only then did they repel the Italians and let them breathe.
Fortunately, they were only the first batch, and there were still many follow-up troops. A large number of merchant ships sailed from Greece and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Under the cover of the gunfire of the battleships, they transported fully armed Greek soldiers to the shore in batches, and then
Join the fight against the Italians.
At this time, Italians mobilized from the north were also arriving in a steady stream. In order to deal with the Greek landing, the Italians withdrew a full 500,000 troops from the Apennine Mountains, and this also included three British divisions, preparing to completely
The idea of the Greeks getting involved in Italy was eliminated. Of course, the consequence of this is that the originally planned counterattack in the north was shelved indefinitely. It would be good if the remaining Italian army could hold the defense line. How could they still have the ability to counterattack? The French did not care about Italy.
Life or death? Then Italy doesn't have to worry about France's life or death. Do the British want to counterattack? Okay, you can mobilize two more armies to do it yourself.
However, the Italian reinforcements to Bari took time. As the Greeks landed one after another, the numerical advantage slowly emerged. For this landing, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Greece mobilized almost all the ships in their hands.
They even hired a large number of people from the Ottomans, bringing a total of 60,000 people at once. Obviously, even if the Greeks have poor combat effectiveness, they cannot be stopped by the Italian defenders with only three divisions. After countless naval guns
Under the cover, the landing Greek troops, with their ambitions to expand their territory, bravely attacked the Italian defense line, and the scope of the landing site became larger and larger. In order to defend their homeland, the Italians also fought desperately to block the invaders.
The battle between the two sides became more and more intense and bloody. The two armies, which were both notoriously bad, actually fought so hard that the outside world looked at them with admiration.
The battle between the two sides at the landing site continued until their respective reinforcements arrived. The final winner was the Greeks because they received a very fierce reinforcements and the landing ship that unloaded the first batch of landing troops did not return.
Instead, Greece went directly north to the port of Spimit, where it pulled over two Montenegrin army divisions that were originally preparing to reinforce the northern line. These fierce mountain people who were so poor that they had only one life left were not at the same level as the Greeks in terms of combat effectiveness.
As soon as they entered the battlefield, they immediately broke through the Italian defense line with blood and blood, and even the latest British division to arrive was beaten to a pulp.
The addition of this new force completely broke the balance on the battlefield. After breaking through the Italian defense line, the Greek and Montenegrin forces, which pursued the victory, quickly captured the Port of Bari under the cover of naval guns, followed by more Greek troops and the last remaining Montenegrin.
The division was also transported over. Although the Italian army reached 200,000 people at this time, these invaders had already obtained the foothold they wanted. With the Port of Bari in hand, the next step was just simple transportation.
Problem.
At this point in the war in Europe, it can be said that there is no suspense about the outcome. Although the war is not over yet, the overall situation has been decided. There is no hope for the Allied Powers to stand up. The newspapers of the Allied Powers have begun to cheer for the victory.
Some impatient people even put out maps and redistributed the world in newspapers in a serious manner.
As for the media of those Allied countries, there was silence. The bad news that followed made the skies over the countries shrouded in dark clouds. Countless people were waiting for their gloomy future in grief and anger, without the slightest idea that the thing that would change their destiny had already been sent to the battlefield.
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The Isère Valley in France, the exit of the Alps, is where the fate of the French is decided.
Although the British and French allied forces had fought bloody battles in the high mountains of the Alcé Valley, they still did not change their fate of defeat. It is not that their enemies were too powerful. In the Alcé Valley, which was only a few hundred meters at its narrowest point, their numbers were already gone.
Meaning, even if the Germans have three armies, they will not use more than one regiment to attack. It should be said that such terrain is absolutely invincible. Two machine guns can make an empire bloody.
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But the problem is that the German airship and coagulation qi decoy bomb are already cheating. The narrow terrain and dense vegetation, especially the dense vegetation in winter, infinitely amplify the power of the hell fire. The Germans do not need to attack at all.
The airship flying along the Alc River Valley only needs to drop coagulated decoys one after another over this hundred-kilometer-long passage. No matter how brave the French who defend their homeland are, in a thousand-degree environment
The only option is to run away in front of the flames. The forest fires set by the Germans have not burned out yet, and have even melted the snow in the high places. If the snow water had not caused flash floods, the Germans would have burned out Albany by now.
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