The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"Ha!" Colonel Dennis laughed, "Second Lieutenant, if you think this will make me give up, you are wrong!"

"Oh, really?" Qin Chuan asked back, "Then Colonel, I know you were originally affiliated with the 13th Infantry Division of Greece. After withdrawing from mainland Greece to Crete, why didn't you join the Greek government army but the National Liberation Front?"

Colonel Dennis was stunned when he heard this. Qin Chuan had hit the nail on the head.

At this time, Greece was still a monarchy, and another meaning of monarchy was hereditary and dictatorship. Greece was a veritable dictatorship: they dissolved parliament, arrested workers' leaders, declared strikes illegal, and suppressed freedom of speech; left-wing politicians were either exiled or imprisoned; a strict censorship system was established, and even the works of Plato, Thucydides and Xenophon were listed as banned books. Workers' strikes and marches were all ruthlessly suppressed by force.

All of this was tolerable. As a member of the government army, Colonel Dennis thought that this was understandable for establishing a regime. However, when he saw that the royal family, which had been dominating the Greek people, fled in panic with the help of the British at the critical moment of resisting the German and Italian troops, Colonel Dennis was completely chilled.

Colonel Dennis did not think that he could pin the fate of Greece on such a royal family and government army, so he resolutely joined the National Liberation Front when he fled to Crete.

"This is not the reason why I would choose to surrender!" Colonel Dennis's face became very ugly.

"Of course!" Qin Chuan said, "Then can I ask why your equipment is so poor?"

Qin Chuan glanced at the Greek militia on the other side who were waiting in a serious battle. At this moment, their equipment was better because of the "funding" from the British, but there were still spears or grenades in their hands.

Colonel Dennis gritted his teeth. Qin Chuan was right. The British have always been unwilling to provide equipment for the militia, even if there are many redundant equipment in the warehouse.

"This has nothing to do with you, right?" Colonel Dennis replied.

"No, it has something to do with us!" Qin Chuan replied, "Because if your equipment was better, I mean, as long as each of you had a rifle... you would have wiped us out on the high ground at the Iraqi airport!"

Colonel Dennis's eyes at this time can be described as "sad and angry".

Because Qin Chuan was right, the main reason why the militia lost the battle on the high ground was insufficient firepower, and Colonel Dennis, who had combat experience, knew this very well.

"So!" Qin Chuan said, "Let's go back to the original question... Let's look further, what will happen if things continue to develop like this. You may win, because I see the courage and spirit of the Greeks, but even if you win, what can you get? The king returns to Greece to sit on the throne again, and then begins to suppress the National Liberation Front with the support of the British. Then... Colonel Dennis, who do you think will win in the end? You or the royal family supported by the British?"

As he said this, Qin Chuan handed a cigarette to Dennis, who was already anxious, and lit it for him.

These are not Qin Chuan's nonsense, but real events in history... The Greek National Liberation Front continued to fight against the German and Italian troops in the country, and finally liberated Greece, but the British army landed in Greece under the banner of "fighting against Germany and liberating Greece", and then the civil war broke out before the end of World War II.

There is no need to say what the final result is. The National Liberation Front is no match for the government army supported by Britain.

This is also the hypocrisy of Western countries. They will not support Greece just because it is a dictatorship. What "freedom", "democracy", "human rights" and the like are only used when they are needed, otherwise they will pretend not to see them.

"Or..." Qin Chuan asked: "You might think that the British will turn to support you?"

"No!" Colonel Dennis shook his head and replied: "Our king is the great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom!"

"Hmm!" Qin Chuan nodded.

He actually knew this, which is one of the reasons why Britain spared no effort to support Greece.

"Colonel Dennis!" Qin Chuan said, "Excuse me, your spirit is very respectable, but if you continue like this, there is only one way to go!" "We don't seem to have any other choice!" Colonel Dennis looked up at Qin Chuan.

"No, you have a choice!" Qin Chuan said, "You can choose to cooperate with us!"

"Cooperation?" Colonel Dennis asked, "But what good is this for you?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend!" Qin Chuan replied, "It's just that you didn't see it clearly. Like I said... We are not enemies. Germany has no interest in Greece. It was the Italians who occupied your land, and now they still occupy most of Greece's territory. Germany's enemy is the British, and the British are also your potential enemies!"

"How do you want us to cooperate?" Colonel Dennis asked.

"Surrender!" Qin Chuan said, "First you have to survive, otherwise there will be no cooperation!"

"Why should I believe you?" Colonel Dennis asked. Qin Chuan looked at the German army behind him and replied, "With them!" Colonel Dennis was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that Qin Chuan had no need to lie to him, because all he needed to do was nod, and everyone, including Colonel Dennis, would immediately become a pile of corpses.

So Qinchuan returned to the camp with more than 300 prisoners without any bloodshed. In addition to more than 200 rifles and several tons of explosives, the seized materials also included several 80MM caliber mortars and a batch of artillery shells... See When seeing this thing, Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly thought, "Hey guys, if this thing is used to hit an arsenal, hitting it randomly across a hill may cause a chain explosion."

When Qin Chuan walked into the headquarters and reported to Rommel, Rommel asked in surprise: "Second Lieutenant, you did a good job, but... why are they prisoners and not corpses?"

"General!" Qin Chuan replied: "They are militiamen, militiamen from the common people. If we kill one group, another group will appear, unless we kill all the Greeks on Crete!"

Rommel couldn't help but nodded after hearing this.

"So!" Qin Chuan said: "I think it is more useful for the militia to control rather than massacre. If we can control them within a certain range or establish a certain degree of cooperation, then we will save a lot of trouble!"

"Cooperation?" Rommel was a little confused. He didn't know what to cooperate with the National Liberation Front.

Other officers also looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.