The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Historically, Mussolini only launched the campaign to march into Rome in 1922, and Mainz did not expect that because of the butterfly effect brought about by his own crossing, this matter was two years ahead of schedule!

It can be seen from the fact that Mussolini created a fascist party, this is a very fanatical nationalist, such a person, in general, is very keen on war and foreign expansion, so from a long-term point of view, Mussolini's rise to power is actually not good news for the German army.

But judging from the current situation, when Mussolini instigated the army to start marching towards Roma, there would definitely be a period of turmoil within Italy, during which it was unlikely that Italy would continue to send troops to attack Odily, so the security situation in the south was greatly eased!

In fact, when the Italian people, exhausted by Moder's harassment, found that their motherland was in chaos, and various factions were fighting for power, few people still remembered them trapped at the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the north and eating ashes!

After waiting for reinforcements for almost half a month without anyone to help them, this sluggish army was desperate, they had run out of ammunition and food by this time, and the reinforcements from the country were delayed, and they did not see the possibility of reinforcements coming.

If the Italian government had not collapsed before, then the government might have been able to organize the domestic army to come north to aid them, but at this time, the domestic government has been in a hurry with the internal strife in the country, and they are about to lose their own power, so how can they send troops to rescue this trapped Italian army?

Thinking of this, the commander of this Italian army, trapped at the foot of the Alps, gritted his teeth and made a decision: surrender to the Germans!

On November 4, 1919, the desperate Italian army formally surrendered to the Germans.

After signing the surrender agreement, the Idulli commander handed over his matching guns, and the Idulli soldiers also took off their weapons, raised their hands above their heads, held their weapons high and walked to the area designated by the German army, honestly put the weapons in their hands on the ground, and then were driven into the prisoner of war camp by the Germans in despair.

Being in a prisoner of war camp, the Italians not only didn't seem to be afraid, but they also breathed a sigh of relief, and one by one they were relieved from the previous state of fear, which was a good thing for them, at least in the prisoner of war camp, they had food to eat!

The Italian commander looked at the cheers of the German soldiers, and his heart was very bitter, he always thought that the German army had at least 150,000 troops, but the German army in front of him was only 10,000 men, which made him a little unbelievable.

Could it be that there are only so few enemies who held back his 100,000 troops and forced him to surrender?

How is this possible?

"I want to meet your commander!"

Because he was very puzzled by this matter, he made a request, he wanted to meet the commander of the German army, to see what kind of guy had blocked him, and of course to see who had accepted his surrender.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the commander of the people standing opposite you!"

The herald's face was pale, and he was not polite at all, because General Moder was standing opposite this guy and accepted his surrender, but this guy didn't know that this was the main general of the German army!

"W-how is this possible? You're not kidding, are you?"

Commander Iduli was shocked when he heard this, as if he had discovered something terrible!

"What's wrong, Commander, is there anything wrong?"

Moder sneered, and was also dissatisfied with the other party's reaction, because he saw contempt in the other party's eyes, and this contempt was revealed when the other party saw his rank before!

"No, no, no, Your Excellency, you misunderstood, for you personally, I definitely don't have any malice and disrespect, but I didn't expect at all that it was such a young general who commanded this army to defeat us, and your military rank is only lieutenant, I don't know what this means in your army, but in our country, a lieutenant can only be a company commander at most, so I didn't recognize you as the commander of this army at first, please forgive me for offending!"

Generally speaking, lieutenant is the corresponding rank of platoon commander and deputy company commander in the army, and some are company commanders, but there are fewer company commanders with the rank of lieutenant, generally speaking, the captain is the company commander, and the major is the battalion commander level officer!

The commander of this Italian army was a lieutenant general, and he felt that even if the German army on the opposite side was smaller than his own, there were 10,000 people, so at least there was a major general or a brigadier general, right?

As a result, the truth was far from what he thought in his heart, and the main general of the other party was actually a lieutenant, which made His Excellency the lieutenant general feel unexpected, really unexpected!

"We are different from you, our Wehrmacht is streamlined from the five million Second Empire troops, so almost all of the army are elite, 100,000 troops, how many generals do you think there can be, but condensation is the essence, although we are not large, but our combat effectiveness is very strong, I believe your army has seen this!"

Moder actually doesn't care much about his lieutenant's rank, meritorious service can be promoted, before this battle, he didn't have the opportunity to make meritorious service, and the military rank naturally couldn't go up, but after this battle, he made such a great contribution, how to say that he has to be promoted to one or two levels, maybe he can be promoted to the rank of major.

Although the rank of major is not high, the size of the German army at this time is limited, and almost all of the army is elite, in this case, the rank of major, which was not very large before, is extremely precious.

After listening to Moder's words, the Italian commander suddenly realized that this was the case!

He got it!

"I see, we were convinced, and there were no complaints!"

Moder didn't bother to care if the Germans had any complaints, and after supervising the surrender of 100,000 Italian troops, the Germans got 80,000 rifles, 100 machine guns, 50 cannons, and 200 submachine guns, 500 sniper rifles, 3 million rounds of ammunition and 100,000 shells!

Facts have proved that the ammunition that the Italian army said is not true, all these ammunition in their hands is enough for them to fight a breakthrough battle, but the Italian people are timid and afraid of death, and dare not fight hard, for them, since surrender can save their lives, then why risk their lives to fight?

Besides, if you surrender, you can eat steaming food immediately, but you can only eat ashes if you are desperate, since this is the case, you must choose to surrender!

For this kind of thinking of the Italis, Moder can only say that it is wonderful, such an army is good as an enemy, but as an ally, it is still forgotten!_

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