"What else can I do? We can now only acquiesce in the entry of German troops into the Balkans. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "In Rome, the capital of Italy, Mussolini sat helplessly in his place and said to his generals and marshals.

He once decided to attack the Balkans with great ambition, and once took out part of the interests of the Libyan oil fields in order to stabilize Germany.

Now it seems that the most idiotic thing is what he did before! The invasion of the Balkans once again exposed Italy's weak combat power to the world; And asking the Germans not to meddle at the cost now seems even more stupid to the extreme.

Now, Mussolini had to give the Germans another favor, so that after Germany invaded the Balkans, he would give Italy a piece of the pie......

"We can only wait for the Germans to go south and open up the situation to see how much benefit we can get." When Mussolini mentioned these things, he was angry.

His deliberate plot against the Balkans was once again limited to a portion of the Balkan benefits under the wing of the Germans - which was grossly inconsistent with his plans for the revival of the Roman Empire......

Mussolini had the impression that the mighty Roman Empire was a country that swept away the barbarians and dominated the world. But now his Italy, let alone sweeping his opponents, did not even give a decent victory to Mussolini.

Wretched! Lamentable! Cry! Alas! Mussolini now wants to use various arias to express his inner desolation and pain.

Mussolini did not have many options in front of him, and he could either come up with the conditions that the Germans were interested in and once again delay the Germans' intervention.

Either they had to keep their previous agreement and promise the Germans to enter Yugoslavia from the north and attack Greece from there.

Looking at the generals sitting in front of him, who were silent and silent, Mussolini suddenly felt that it was more realistic to honestly follow Germany and drink soup than to rely on these fools and the army they commanded......

After thinking about all this, Mussolini suddenly found bitterly that if he had seen through it earlier, he could at least save a lot of time and capital.

The most painful thing in the world is to find that the card with a 50% discount is on the top of your head after you have paid the cash for shopping......

"Since there is no opinion on the matter, then I will inform Count Ziano and let him inform the Germans of our decision......," Mussolini said at last.

In front of him, the Italian generals and marshals were still silent. Jokes, what to say at this time, isn't it their style at all?

In the hearts of these generals and marshals, they have long been determined to carry out the soy sauce to the end. If you want to be a good extra, you must have the persistence of an extra-you - if you don't have lines, you don't have lines, and you don't give more lunches, so why work hard?

Helplessly looking at the men in front of him who didn't look at him at all, Mussolini finally sighed and announced the dissolution of the meeting.

Then these marshals and generals, who were like mud bodhisattvas, came back to life at once, and walked out of the conference room in groups, leaving Mussolini, a lonely leader, looking at the clean ashtray on the conference table in a daze.

If it weren't for the scruples of smoking in front of the leader, maybe these generals would really fill these beautiful ashtrays made of glass with cigarette butts, right?

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"Yes! Got it! The offensive will start in 2 hours! In the operational headquarters of the 12th Army, Marshal Liszt pinched the telephone receiver in his hand and assured the Führer over there.

He was ordered to carry out the plan of action to invade the Balkans, and the Germans would attack within 2 hours. His troops had absolute superiority, and his opponents were simply pitifully weak.

The 12th Army amassed hundreds of bombers, as well as corresponding fighter escorts. These aircraft ensured Germany's absolute air supremacy in the Balkans.

And the number of artillery and tanks, the Germans also had a complete advantage. Liszt's troops could easily cross the border and enter Yugoslavia.

On the forward positions, the 12th Army was also well established. Stretching from Hungary to Bulgaria, Germany surrounded Yugoslavia from three directions, and the opposing side simply could not concentrate its forces on defense.

In such a situation, Liszt's 12th Army, and the German 2nd Army, commanded by Weix, which secured the flanks of his army, could easily tear through the opponent's defenses.

Putting down the phone from the Führer, Liszt grabbed the telephone set for giving orders and said his order: "Let the troops cross the border and enter Yugoslavia in two hours!" ”

It didn't take two hours, because the preparation was so thorough, and after an hour, the German infantry pushed through the makeshift barricades that blocked the border road.

German soldiers carrying Mauser 98K rifles led trucks and motorcycles across the border and into Yugoslavia. The reporters accompanying the army used the cameras in their hands to record the "heroic" posture of these soldiers.

In fact, in the border areas, the overwhelming majority of German units did not meet resistance. The sporadic defensive lines were soon broken through by the powerful German forces, and village after village and city were occupied by the German troops advancing at high speed.

Because Yugoslavia was a pro-German regime before, because of the Italian attack, the relationship between the two sides suddenly became tense.

Now, the arrival of the Germans is seen by many as a kind of liberation. They welcomed the arrival of German troops in the middle of the road, leaving the German commanders at a loss.

In Croatia, for example, there are many ethnic Germans, and the rest are more German-friendly. The Germans were greeted warmly, and even children followed behind German cars, cheering and begging for candy.

Although there may have been countless guerrilla formations that would have spawned here, at least for now, the Germans are still very popular.

The two marshals Liszt and Weix, the two army groups under their command marched in unison and advanced 50 kilometers in one day.

No one thought at all that Germany would fight this war so smoothly. Even Field Marshal Brauchitsch of the Army General Headquarters was shocked by this.

The Führer seemed to have expected it right, and after the Italian invasion of the Balkans, he took a third of Yugoslavia almost without bloodshed!

What is even more gratifying is that it seems that depending on the situation, they will also take the other two-thirds of Yugoslav territory at the same price.

Liszt's headquarters was in disarray, as his troops advanced so fast that his plans were almost all waste.

"Hello? Command? Right! My infantry division has advanced more than 30 kilometers...... The flanks are dangerous, right! I have to stop! On the phone, the commander of an infantry division opened his mouth to introduce the situation.

In another phone, the armored units of the 12th Army, which were stuck in a traffic jam and were stuck on the road, asked the engineering units to rush over and help......

The air force's reconnaissance to search for the enemy's position was somewhat redundant, and the hundreds of planes that took off were in the sky, but they did not find any valuable targets.

Liszt and his lieutenants, as well as the commanders of the 12th Army, were busy. They had to move their headquarters forward to keep up with the speed of the troops' advance.

As a result, before he could leave his office, the area occupied by the front-line reconnaissance unit advanced another 5 kilometers.

The German command was in chaos because it was advancing too quickly, and the Greek defenders were also in chaos because of the sudden German attack.

In the already chaotic headquarters, the phone rings as if it never stops. No one paid attention because all the phones were ringing.

There were reports that Germany had entered Yugoslavia, and there were reports that German planes had appeared on the border.

There were also calls from the garrison command on the northern front, which were requests for reinforcements or more ammunition.

News is coming from all directions, giving headaches to those who hear it. The entire northern line of defense was like a fishing net, full of holes and leaking air on all sides.

It is impossible to rely on such a line of defense to stop the enemy's attack, so everyone is desperately deploying troops in the hope of strengthening the defense there......

Unfortunately, this kind of deployment, because of the shortage of its own weapons and the shortage of the number of troops, has not had much effect at all.

Greece now has only 15 infantry divisions, all of which are now on the front lines of the war against Italy.

As for the northern regions, Greece has deployed improvised forces. Not to mention the low combat effectiveness, even weapons and equipment are scarce.

The combat effectiveness of both sides was completely out of the same rank: the Germans had more than 1,000 aircraft, while the Greek and British expeditionary forces combined had only 400 aircraft.

Of course, if you take into account the mass gap between the aircraft, this balance of power is even wider.

Who could have predicted such an abrupt start of the German offensive and a direct threat to the flank of the Greek defenders?

The British were still busy withdrawing their own forces, and the Greek defenders, short of ammunition, had only a pitiful number of troops on the northern defensive line.

The current situation is not good for Greece, but it is also bad for the British and American plans to use Crete.

The German armies of the 12th and 2nd armies in Yugoslavia were attacking too fast and were already seriously threatening the security of Crete.

The British troops, who had been ordered to guard the security of Crete, could only quickly withdraw from the Albanian region directed against Italy and move towards the northern line of defense.

Their strength was very small, and compared to the hundreds of thousands of German troops, it was simply negligible. But these British troops could only obey the order, rush to the defense area, and fight to the end with ten times the enemy.

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