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"Colonel, the sea is full of Chinese ships! What should we do? Fiumicino, a junior officer, reported to Colonel Fabio, commander of the 14th Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Italian Army.

"Order the 1st Battalion to enter the position immediately, and the 2nd Battalion is also ready, no matter what, it must withstand the attack of the Chinese! In addition, send a telegram to the division headquarters, we need reinforcements! Otherwise, we will not be able to withstand the attacks of the Chinese! Colonel Fabio yelled in some panic. The attack of the squadron suddenly befell them, and the Italian army was not prepared at all. Fiumicino was only garrisoned by a regiment and an artillery battalion of the 14th Infantry Division, and without preparation, it was more difficult to resist the attack of the squadron than to ascend to the sky!

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Italian Army, at the urging of their commanders, rushed out of the barracks and rushed towards the coast. Many of them rushed out of the barracks with rifles and trousers undressed, and some even wore floral trousers.

The battleships, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy on the sea all began to fire at Fiumicino, and a dense number of shells exploded in the city, destroying buildings one after another, and the barracks were the main targets. Before many Italian troops could rush out of the barracks, they were overturned by the bombers and suffered heavy losses!

Thousands of officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 81st Regiment of the Chinese Marine Corps were sailing quickly towards the port area of Fiumicino in landing craft, because the Italian Army was unprepared, so they launched an attack. There was almost no obstruction. When the officers and men of the 81st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment went ashore. The Italian Army has not even arrived in the port yet!

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 81st Marine Regiment immediately began to build defensive positions. At the same time, the transport ships on the sea began to sail towards the port. The officers and men of the 7th Group Army of the Chinese Army loaded on the transport ship will disembark one after another, and the first to land is the 23rd Infantry Division of the 7th Group Army of the Chinese Army. After the 23rd Infantry Division had taken control of the situation in Fiumicino, the subsequent cavalry and armored brigades would land and then attack Rome. In Lido di Rome, the 8th Army was doing the same thing again!

When the troops of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army arrived at the port, they found that the port had fallen into the hands of the squadron. The transport ships on the sea were heading towards the port, which made the scalps of these Italian army officers and men tingle. The port fell intact into the hands of the squadron, which meant that the squadron could use the harbor to load and unload soldiers and heavy equipment on transport ships. That's the case. The time for the landing of the squadron will be reduced exponentially, leaving the Italian Army with even less reaction time!

On the orders of Colonel Fabio, the soldiers of the 14th Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Italian Army launched an attack on the port. However, they were hit by heavy fire from the 81st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Chinese Marine Corps. Judging by the machine guns and artillery equipped with the troops, a battalion of the squadron was equipped with much more machine guns and artillery than a regiment of the Italian Army. Not to mention that the squadron can also get fire support from warships on the sea. Several destroyers even drove less than a kilometer from the coast and fired at the Italian army on the shore with the rapid-fire guns on the battleships.

The attack of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army was quickly repulsed, and in a single attack, he lost more than half of his 1st Battalion. The rest of the soldiers did not dare to attack anymore, and could only watch as a large number of Chinese soldiers disembarked from the transport ship. Reinforcements were delayed. This made it delusional for the Italian Army to hold Fiumicino. Immediately after the landing of the 231st Regiment of the Chinese Army, an attack was launched on the city of Fiumicino, and the 14th Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Italian Army was defeated and had to retreat!

After the landing of the 23rd Infantry Division of the Chinese Army, the cavalry brigades and armored brigades of the subsequent 7th Army began to land. The intact facilities in the port have greatly improved the loading and unloading efficiency of the Chinese Army. Originally, an infantry division was extremely well equipped, and without two or three hours, it was simply impossible to unload the transport ship. But now, an hour is enough for an infantry division to disembark. Even if the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored brigade take a little time, two or three hours is completely enough!

From the launch of the Chinese Marine Corps attack to the capture of Fiumicino, it took less than an hour. The same was true of the 8th Army's attack on Lidodi Rome, and by 6:45 a.m., Major General Gasparé, commander of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army, had fled to Rome with the remaining remnants of the defeated army. In this hour, Rome simply did not have time to send reinforcements to the front!

At 5:40 a.m. on May 20, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, Petro. Admiral Badoglio was asleep because he had gone to see King Vittorio last night. Emmanuele II, after returning to the General Staff, gave orders for the Italian army to be on higher alert and other military affairs, and did not rest until one o'clock in the morning.

However, his lieutenant woke him up at this time, and Petro was disturbed from sleeping. Admiral Badoglio was very annoyed, but before he could scold the adjutant, the adjutant reported his news, but he was completely stunned!

"General, the Chinese are now violently shelling Fiumicino and Lido di Rome, they have already sent troops to land, Major General Gaspar is leading the army to resist, but the Chinese are attacking very fiercely, Major General Gaspar is asking for reinforcements!" The adjutant said.

"Bastard! How could the Chinese attack so quickly? Order the 13th Infantry Division and the 16th Infantry Division to hurry forward to support the 14th Infantry Division, and in any case must resist the attack of the Chinese! "Petro. After Admiral Badoglio calmed down, he gave the order. In addition to sending two infantry divisions to reinforce the front line, he ordered the troops deployed around Rome to assemble immediately!

It's just that Petro. Although Admiral Badoglio's order was given, the Italian army, which was completely unprepared, could not be dispatched immediately even if it received the battle order. By the time they had completed their preparations and drove from the barracks to the front, an hour had already passed, and Fiumicino and Lidodi Roma had already been taken by the squadron!

The 13th and 16th Infantry Divisions of the Italian Army, which reinforced the front line, encountered the routed 14th Infantry Division on the way, and after receiving the terror of the squadron from Major General Gasparre, they immediately abandoned their previous mission and stopped halfway through, while sending a telegram to Petro. Major General Gasparé, ask for a defense in place, and don't forget to ask for more reinforcements!

At 7 a.m., carrier-based aircraft units of the Chinese Navy took off from the aircraft carriers Jiuhuashan and Putuoshan to bomb Italian troops. Originally, these carrier-based planes were going to bomb the military camps around Rome, but after discovering that tens of thousands of Italian troops were less than ten kilometers from the coast, they immediately bombed these Italian troops!

Hundreds of fighters and bombers took off from two aircraft carriers and inflicted heavy blows on the remnants of the 13th and 16th Infantry Divisions and the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army. F5B "Puffin" fighters are hung under the wings of small bombs to carry out bombing missions, although the bombing accuracy is not high, but tens of thousands of Italian troops gathered together, as long as the bombs are dropped, they can blow up one piece. The H5C Osprey torpedo attack aircraft also carried heavy bombs and carried out ground bombing missions. Not to mention the H5D 'Fish Eagle' dive bomber, every dive bombing, accompanied by the kind of screaming sound that seems to be able to pierce people's eardrums, the heavy bombs dropped can cause extremely heavy casualties to the Italian Army!

In the midst of the bombing and strafing of the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy, the Italian Army, which had suffered such a blow for the first time, collapsed, abandoned their weapons, abandoned all their heavy equipment, and fled to Rome with wolves. Under the blow of the carrier-based aircraft units of the Chinese Navy, their confidence was completely destroyed! The combat effectiveness of the Italian Army was not high, and even the Austro-Hungarian Army could not defeat it, let alone the squadron. The fire attack from the air made them completely lose their fighting spirit!

At 8:35 a.m., the armored brigade of the 7th Group Army of the Chinese Army had all disembarked, and more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles were all ready. The cavalry brigades of the 7th Army also began to disembark, and the cavalry brigades disembarked much faster than the armored brigades! The commander of the 7th Army, Admiral Du Qizheng, gave the order to march to Rome! The 7th Panzer Brigade was to assault Rome, but instead of attacking Rome, it would build a defensive line north and east of Rome to prevent the Italians in Rome from escaping. Although the 7th Armored Brigade alone is strong, its strength is too weak, so the 23rd Infantry Division of the 7th Army will cooperate with the 7th Armored Brigade, and the cavalry brigades of the 7th Army, which will be disembarked later, will also fill this defensive line.

The 8th Army was a little slower, but at 8:58 a.m., the 8th Panzer Brigade and the 9th Infantry Division of the 8th Army also set out from Lidoci Rome, their target was the south of Rome, and when they joined forces with the 7th Army, they could build a defensive line on the outskirts of Rome.

An hour later, the 7th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army appeared north of Rome, cutting off the passage from Rome to the north. At 10:25, the 8th Panzer Brigade appeared in the south of Rome and joined the 7th Panzer Brigade in the east of Rome! (To be continued......)