Problems that can't be solved by mouth cannons will eventually need to be solved with artillery, and in the same way, when the two sides are at loggerheads on the battlefield, the two sides still need to bargain at the negotiating table. Get what you can't get on the battlefield. Of course, both sides are big countries, and both exist with status and status, and in this case, it is inconvenient for no one to pull down their faces and take the initiative to seek peace, and whoever takes the initiative will suffer losses, which is a lesson learned for hundreds of years! As a result, the two sides first began to engage with civil society organizations under the pretext of protecting the personal rights and interests of the prisoners, and then the government chose a small country to negotiate secretly. At this point, both sides have the intention of stopping. Formal official contact was quickly established, and the two sides entered the bargaining phase.

The only way to negotiate was to ask for a high price and to pay back the money, and the Allies and the Allies did follow this principle, and the Allies agreed to exchange prisoners of war from both sides, but at the same time emphasized that the Italian prisoners of war were not among them, they were considered traitors and the initiators of the war! And demanded that the Entente give up the protection of the Italian Navy and other forces under it, and let them be tried by the "new Italian government"! At the same time, the remaining equipment of the Italian army had to be handed over to the "Italian government". In return, of course, Germany allowed the safe withdrawal of Allied forces from Italy.

In the face of the sky-high price offered by the Allies, the Entente was not ambiguous! First of all, the Entente clarified from a legal point of view that the Italian Navy's purge of the Blackshirts was an internal matter of the state, and that it was a legitimate action taken by the state apparatus against the hostile elements in the country after obtaining the authorization of the government. Germany, as a backer behind the scenes, was the party to the aggression. Although the Italian government will lose its territory in this war, the Allied government agrees with Italy to establish a government-in-exile abroad, and will not recognize the government supported by Germany, and the Entente states that the direct boundary between the two sides should be based on the actual control area, and the current Italian government controls southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. And Mussolini's government controlled other areas.

The conditions offered by both sides are so high. So much so that they directly rejected each other's proposals. And then the two sides began to discuss each issue one by one. The first problem, of course, was the question of control of post-war Italy, where the Germans, who had the upper hand, did not give up an inch. The representative of Germany stressed that the Allied Army and the Italian Blackshirts had already occupied 70 percent of Italy's territory and almost all of its overseas colonies. It was impossible to withdraw from it, and with the strong support of the Luftwaffe, it would be easy to cross the narrow Strait of Messina and capture Sicily, if the Entente were unwilling to admit this fact, then the two sides could have won and lost on the battlefield instead of dreaming at the negotiating table!

The Entente did not argue much with the Germans over territory, but they did not concede an inch of territory on the Italian navy and the military supplies under their control. At the same time, it was stated that the Allies and their puppets must guarantee the safety of all willing Italians. Since you can't control this country, let's find a way to hollow out this country. This was the most immediate and practical idea of the Entente. Moreover, under the propaganda of the Italian government and the Entente, many southern Italians are also very afraid of the revenge of the Black Shirts, and at the same time, the Chinese and British governments said that they will provide all kinds of help to the Italians far away from their homeland in Nanyang and Australia, and the Italian people dare not guarantee the credibility of the British, but there is a full good impression of China, which has nearly 40 years of traditional friendship with Italy, especially in the areas related to the shipbuilding industry in southern Italy. So many Italians hope to take this opportunity to leave the country that is about to fall. …

The Allies reacted so strongly against this blatant plundering of population and funds by the Entente that Mussolini's representatives even clamored at the negotiating table that the property of these traitors would be nationalized. And the personnel are sent to the mines and colonies to serve their sentences! Of course, both sides automatically ignored the clamor of this guy who didn't know the depths, and in the negotiation and bargaining, both sides gradually figured out each other's intentions.

The Germans quickly realized that sooner or later the other side would abandon Italy, and not only the current occupation zone. Even Sardinia, far from the Apennine Peninsula, will give up, and in a way, this is almost the closest point of view between the two sides. Of course, the Germans were well aware that it was almost impossible to keep the Italian navy and other units under their control. Even factories and ports that could not be moved would be destroyed before they could be evacuated. The ultimate point of contention between the two sides was whether ordinary Italians could leave Italy with their possessions.

In Germany's plan for the future, Italy was a vassal, a country capable of providing the Allies with manpower, capacity, and cannon fodder for the war machine, and they would not receive war dividends but only hard labor. Although Germany and Austria-Hungary possessed much larger territories than they had historically, there was an unavoidable problem relative to the Entente and China. The human resources of the Allies remained very tight. The population of Austria-Hungary is inferior to that of France, and the population of Germany cannot be compared with that of the United States. Not to mention comparing with Huaxia. Moreover, compared with the colonial powers of Britain and France, Germany's biggest problem was that it did not have vast colonies. Britain and France could draw labor from the colonies. And the Allies were difficult. As for Russia, it was set by Germany as a defense against China's entry into Europe, and Russia, which had lost a large number of people in World War I, was already overstretched for self-defense, so naturally it could not provide too much population.

On this issue, the Entente and Huaxia also grasped it very tightly, and there was no sign of relenting. In fact, the Entente and the Italian navy are racing against time to hollow out the country's elite. Gold reserves and equipment that can be measured in monetary terms have been removed, and more valuable human resources are being channelled along roads and railways to Sicily and Naples. If they do not give in to each other, the final solution of the two sides can only be to return to the battlefield from the negotiating table and use blood and fire to distinguish between high and low.

After the five-nation joint fleet arrived on the battlefield, in addition to the first two large-scale air raids, there was no large-scale air raid on a target of more than 300 planes, two high-intensity air raids and sporadic attacks have made the reserves of some aircraft carriers a little stretched, now everyone goes out according to the standard bomb load to carry, and in the history of the Pacific theater in the late stage of World War II, the US aircraft carriers generally carry about twice the standard amount of aviation ammunition, even in order to reduce weight, The amount of ammunition for anti-aircraft guns was limited. So the two sides inevitably entered the stalemate stage.

Thank you for the monthly pass support of the book-friend, asking passers-by~~~. There will be a more ~~~ later. Recently, the side subscription is a little sad, and I ask for support ~~~. (To be continued)