Glorious Mission 1937

While Japan was busy formulating a new national policy, the situation in Europe has changed again, but this time the protagonist is not the Germans, but the Italians.

Italy is a very funny country. To use a very fashionable saying in later generations, it is a bit natural and cute.In the history of modern warfare, if there is no Italy, it will only be full of blood and killings, and there will be no jokes at all.The existence of Italy, on the other hand, added some comic color to the modern war.

The country of Italy is really worthy of the evaluation of "dumbness", just like the comment given to Italy by German military enthusiasts: "If Italy remains neutral, it is equivalent to adding 10 divisions to our army; if Italy Fighting against fascism is equivalent to adding 20 divisions to our army; but if Italy wants to join the Axis powers, our army must spend 50 divisions to protect it!"

Italy in World War II was known as one of the three great Sith powers, but its war history can be said to be the most humorous.

Italy, like Japan, is defined as a rising industrial country. During the First World War, the Italian government once abandoned its alliance with the Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and turned to the side of Britain and France, thus gaining the status of a victorious country in World War I.However, in the "Treaty of Versailles" in 1919, Italy did not gain any benefits like Britain, France, and the United States, and it was not even as good as Japan, which only fought a small battle in Qingdao.

At any rate, Japan received its privileges in China and some German island colonies in the Pacific Ocean from the defeated Germany, and also allocated several battleships of the German Ocean Fleet.Moreover, it earned enough weight in the subsequent naval negotiations, and became a second-class sea power alongside Italy and France and second only to Britain and the United States.

But Italy didn't even get an overseas colony of Germany!Compared to the wounds caused by the war to Italy, this little gain is simply a drop in the bucket. As a result, Italy's domestic economy began to regress, the political situation became unstable, new trends of thought began to flood, and the government could not control the situation.

In 1922, Mossolini's fascist party came to power, and Italy became the first fascist country with dictatorship and centralization.However.Fascism did not save Italy.From 1922 to 1931, the economic situation in Italy continued to deteriorate, and the number of unemployed people also increased steadily.The situation of Italy's foreign aggression and expansion is not optimistic.

Italy's military strength has not made any great progress because of the fascist dictatorship and militarism.The demoralized Italian army soon suffered from the war.The combat effectiveness of the Italian army is indeed not very good.This can be seen from their two invasions of Abyssinia.

This Abyssinia is later Ethiopia, a landlocked country located in northeastern Africa, with a national area of ​​about 122 million square kilometers.Not big, but it's big compared to Europe.

Italy's coveting of the land of Africa actually began as early as the 19th century. In 1896, the Italian colonial army once carried out a brutal and brutal invasion of Abyssinia at that time. In 1890, Italy merged the northern territory it had seized from Ethiopia with the Eritrean colony, but the Ethiopian government refused to accept the demand and did not recognize its occupation.

Subsequently, the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II notified the Italian government that he would no longer perform all the rights and obligations of the "Usiali Treaty" from May 1894, 5.To this end, Italy prepared 2 corps to be handed over to General Baratieri to command an armed invasion of Ethiopia.

Looking at the comparison of the military strength of the two parties involved, Italy was equipped with the most advanced rifles and artillery in Europe at that time, and Italy at that time had already completed the industrial revolution.As for Ethiopia, they don't even have muskets. All they have are spears, javelins, bows and arrows, and some African weapons that we don't know much about.

To go out on the battlefield with such primitive weapons and face an Italian army equipped with advanced machine guns, cannons, tanks, and planes is, in our eyes, suicide.However, it was under such a gap between suicidal weapons and civilization that the tenacious Abyssinian people launched resistance to the Italian invaders.It is unimaginable that under the leadership of the magical king, the Abyssinian people miraculously won the war.

On March 1896, 3, the Ethiopian military first investigated the Italian barracks to learn combat information.The distance between the Italian armies was widened due to the separation of the marches, which enabled the Egyptian army to inflict heavy losses on the scattered Italian armies one by one.The Ethiopian command used frontal attacks and deep flank operations to combine forces and encircle enemy forces.The main target was the Italian column of General Aliberton. Although the Italian artillery effectively sniped the attack, the Italian column was still defeated and almost wiped out, and other Italian columns were also defeated.Although the Italian army had good equipment and military technology, the Italian army was defeated again in the Battle of Adwa.

This victory is no longer something that human civilization and wisdom can explain clearly. Can you imagine a group of modern troops equipped with advanced weapons that can cover opponents with shells and suppress firepower from a distance of several kilometers or even tens of kilometers? Will it be lost to a group of natives with spears?

If it is one-on-one, there is a possibility, but if the army meets the army, the one holding the spear can only die.But they actually won, it is really unimaginable, this kind of fact can only be imagined by novelists, and it has to be a plot that can only be imagined by those novelists who write legendary novels or fantasy mythological novels.Such a scene can only appear on the movie screen, and it must be a children's file.

Perhaps some unknowable force really manipulated this war. Maybe there was a great wizard under the king of Abyssinia. He cast witchcraft on the king's army and made them All the Italian enemy troops will be paralyzed, or all comatose, or all will enter a state of mental retardation, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure that these natives will not be completely wiped out when they are halfway through the charge.

The end result is that there have been countless such charges that the Abyssinians have succeeded, so the only explanation is that the Italians have collectively been enchanted by wizards, and their failure is inevitable, so Abyssinians Asia won the war.

The number of casualties in this victory was also unimaginably bizarre. The Italian invading army suffered as many as 6500 casualties, and 2500 were captured. As the backward party of the natives, they fought with spears, only injuring a mere 3000 people. , even less than half of the Italian casualties, it is really difficult to explain.The natives with bows and arrows cannot be defeated with cannons and machine guns, and only Italy can defeat wooden ships with steel ships.

This is a glorious victory in the history of world anti-colonialism. I thank God for giving this world an Italy, so that all the people in the colonized lands can see hope. After this victory, at least for decades, Abyss Nigeria has maintained an independent stance.

This is just one example of Italy's poor performance, there are many such things, such as on June 1940, 6, Marshal Balbo, the Italian Governor in Libya, was shot down by Italy's own anti-aircraft artillery over Tobruk.In order to cover up this tragedy, the Italians announced that the marshal was killed in an air battle with the British.Mistakenly shooting his own marshal with an anti-aircraft gun made him the highest-ranked soldier in World War II who was accidentally injured. This kind of thing can only be done by Italy.

For example, when Germany attacked France last year, I saw the Germans advancing triumphantly and invincible all the way.Mussolini knew that France was about to be defeated, so he hoped to take advantage of the fire to seize the land in southern France.Italy then declared war on France and Great Britain.

But Italy did not complete the preparations for the war at that time. Italy launched an attack on France more than ten days later. The Italian army crossed the Italian-French border in three ways and attacked in two directions, attacking Nice through the Alps and along the Mediterranean Sea. .Initially the Italians enjoyed a degree of success, as the French devoted most of their forces against the Germans, but later the Italians were plagued by cold weather in the Alps, and encountered difficulties on the Alpine Line and south of the Maginot Line in the Mediterranean. Tenacious resistance, so in the end they only advanced 3 kilometers and stopped at the Riviera.The Italian army paid 2 casualties and missing figures in this short battle, while the opposite France had only 5 casualties and missing persons.

For example, when Italy attacked Greece a few months ago, the Italian soldiers unanimously said that we cannot attack because there are Finnish troops in Greece.Although Finland is not a big country and its national strength is not strong, the Finnish soldiers beat the Soviets so badly in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War that the combat effectiveness of the Finnish army was infinitely exaggerated. No country in Europe dares to ignore Finland .

Mussolini knew the reaction of the troops, so he immediately called the Finnish government and asked Finland to withdraw its troops from Greece. The Finnish government was very strange at the time, they did not send troops to Greece, let alone the relationship between Finland and Germany. It is an ally of Italy again, and it is impossible for Finland to send troops to fight the Italians anyway!

In desperation, the Finnish government had no choice but to send people to Greece to investigate. To the dismay of the Finnish government, they found only three Finnish soldiers and three officers serving as volunteers in Greece, so they replied to Mussolini that the so-called troops were only Six volunteers.Mussolini was very angry, and sent a telegram to Finland: "I mean these people!" In this way, it is not difficult to see the combat effectiveness of the Italian army.

But it is such an army, and Italy is one of the most active countries in Europe at this time, and the Italians captured Ethiopia as early as 1935, and captured a piece of land in southern France last year. Two months ago, Mussory Regardless of Hitler's dissuasion, he launched an attack on Greece, and the changes in the European situation at this time were caused by this. (To be continued..)