Before the start of the North African Campaign, Mussolini was asked the question of how Italy would bear if the North African campaign had suffered too many casualties.

As a result, Mussolini smiled and said to the man: "It is just right that my Roman Empire will take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate all the cowards and the weak, leaving only the bravest and most warlike people." In this way, the lineage of the soldiers of the Roman Empire was evolved. ”

Now, that man is unfortunately right.

Italy not only suffered heavy losses in North Africa, but also lost its territory, and everything in East Africa was completely lost, and the remaining remnants of the army fled to the territory of the French to hide.

However, Mussolini felt that since Garibaldi told him that there were still more than 100,000 Italian remnants in Africa when he reported to Africa, it meant that the Italian army still had strength in Africa.

If you have the strength, you have to do things, you can join forces with the French and counterattack the British army!

Having confirmed his alliance with Petain and sensing the crisis, Mussolini gave a famous speech to the Italian soldiers in Africa, which was called the best speech of his life:

"Italian warriors fighting in Libya, in Algeria.

The British invading army is rushing towards Valderra, rushing towards Ghairdaye, in a vain attempt to occupy the great lands of Italy and its ally France at all costs!

The British colonizers have made no secret of their vain attempts to seize the oil and mineral resources there.

Now, we have lost our geographical advantage, and we have also lost the advantage of material reserves.

Continuing to retreat does not mean suicide, it means giving in!

And the great Italian people never knew how to give in!

The Roman Empire didn't need cowards either!

We retreat and retreat, what do we lack?

What we lack is the establishment of iron order and discipline in all troops!

This is our current Achilles' heel. If we are to salvage the situation and defend justice in North Africa, we must establish strict order and iron discipline in the army!

At this time of existential crisis, I, Benito? Mussolini, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, decided to give the supreme directives of the Kingdom!

Those who panic and those who are cowardly and afraid of death must be shot on the spot!

From now on, every officer, soldier, and later officer should observe this iron discipline: no step back is allowed without the order of the Italian Supreme Commander in North Africa! ”

In fact, the first person to applaud Mussolini's speech was Reinhardt in Berlin.

It is rare to see Mussolini's eloquence so good, and Reinhardt really can't help but feel that his "friend" has made progress and applaud him from the bottom of his heart.

As for the Italian officers and soldiers in Africa who thought they could hide behind the French army and enjoy peace, after listening to the leader's speech, it was even more uncomfortable to eat.

Isn't it good to sit behind the French and enjoy it? and they will drive us to war.

If you are afraid of death, you have to be shot on the spot...... It's too ruthless!

Crucially, the Italian officers and soldiers in Africa soon discovered that Mussolini had brought them the order to execute the executions by the French Warlords.

These are good, and there is no mercy in killing people.

How do you say that, the child who picks it up is kicked as a ball.

When the French army came to supervise the battle, couldn't it be possible to kick the Italian army as a ball?

In accordance with the instructions sent by his old superior, Petain, Berant really sent a dozen war commissioners to each Italian battalion to help the Italians fight.

Of course, Petain's order was also at Mussolini's request.

As for why Mussolini asked the French to do it, because he decided that he would not feel guilt himself.

And Mussolini, who was accustomed to giving similar orders, did not decide that there was nothing wrong with such orders.

In his eyes, he just wanted to teach those Italian cowards on the front line a lesson, but he didn't expect that his order was quite wise.

In fact, we only need to compare them, and we will find that the leaders of the world have their own different sets of command styles.

Stalin in the Soviet Union liked to give dead orders such as "not to take a step back". Not to mention, this kind of order sounds very morale-boosting a lot.

However, Berente of Algeria could not have given such an order. Of course, Petain was not good at giving such orders.

Mussolini, on the other hand, liked to give another order: "Victory, or death?" ”

It's a pity that Mussolini's Italian officers have not been able to execute it in place.

After all, they can't really die.

To use an interesting analogy, it is similar to the Italian national football match against the Chinese national football team, Mussolini made it clear that the Italian team must win the championship: "It's a choice question, win or die." ”

As a result, his generals would tell him: "If the Chinese national football team is really good at playing better than us on the field, then we should be content to be the runner-up." ”

It's ironic, but that's what Mussolini faced.

In contrast, Petain, with whom Mussolini joined forces, was very good at giving some clear orders, of course, not by threatening the soldiers.

But Mussolini was different, he liked to give orders that made him feel face-saving, so he could come up with any strange order.

Under normal circumstances, the Italian army has never bought Mussolini's orders. Their attitude is often that if they can't implement it, they won't execute it, if you have to do it, you can't rely on me if you lose, right?

However, this time, Mussolini hired Beronte's men to help him supervise the execution, which made the execution of the Italian army increase a lot.

In fact, when I just heard that Mussolini was looking for an inspection team, Reinhardt wanted to send Rommel's people to be the inspectors.

How good it is to stand behind and supervise the battle, and to ensure the safety of this group of troops.

Unfortunately, Rommel could not accept it, he felt that such behavior would damage the honor of the soldiers, and the officers of the German Afrika Korps generally felt the same way, and Reinhardt gave up this time. 、

In fact, even the overseers that Belante found for Mussolini were mostly white soldiers with a dozen black soldiers recruited by Algeria, and he would not say that he would use his elite troops to supervise the war.

After the death of the heart of the war, Reinhardt also changed the original plan to discuss with Mussolini to let him use the Italian fleet to escort Rommel's troops to Africa, and be responsible for the logistics of the German Afrika Korps, that is, to help the German army raise this group of people.

Of course, it was not raised for nothing, it was sent by Germany to help Italy fight the war, and Mussolini was not stupid, of course, he won the war.

Anyway, the conditions of the Germans were not excessive, and Reinhardt personally promised that in the territory that the Germans fought for Italy, he only needed to take a part of the land in Libya.