Bulgarian Empire

Chapter 120, Italy's Surrender

On the Roman battlefield, Valikot was worried at this time. The Italians played horizontally in the first week of the counterattack, and he was surprised by the bravery they showed.

Of course, if this is the case, it is not enough to worry him. Anyway, the braver the Italians behave, the greater their casualties. If they can continue to maintain this level, it will be another Roman version of Verdun ground meat machine!

It's a pity that he soon discovered that the Italians had returned to their normal level again. It may be that the two-year-old boy who dared to fight and kill was almost dead, and the rest were old fritters.

Well, if Walicott has no ambitions and just wants to dawdle, then now is the best state. Anyway, he just needs to keep Rome, and it is not a problem to increase his official status after the war.

However, if he wants to have a greater development, then this is not enough. The new generation of officers in the Bulgarian army with comparable records also have double digits. It is not easy for him to stand out from the crowd!

The army is the place to talk about the record. Unfortunately, because the strength of the Italian is limited, his military exploits must be discounted. The ranking list of the combat effectiveness of the armies of various countries compiled by the Bulgarian General Staff is a good reference!

After the outbreak of the World War, the Bulgarian General Staff conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the armies of each country based on the performance of the armies of each country on the battlefield, all of which took the record as the main criterion.

The full score is 100 points. To put it simply, it is based on the performance on the battlefield, mainly based on the record, and also integrates various factors such as the morale of the army, weapons and equipment, and logistics supplies.

The Germans still occupy the list with a total score of 71 points, mainly due to the serious deduction of points in logistics and strategy, which lowered the score.

The Italians continued to be at the bottom, and the Bulgarian staff gave them a 5 in a comedy. Since the beginning of the war, there has never been a victory in any battle with more than a thousand people;

The comprehensive evaluation given by Ferdinand: The Italians have a very clear strategy, but unfortunately they don't have the ability to implement it!

So Walcott was a little embarrassed. Although he had killed hundreds of thousands of Italian troops, this record was still not convincing!

Unless he can stab the Austro-Hungarian Empire after defeating the Italians, it is best to hit Germany all the way, so that people can recognize him as the first person of the new generation of the Bulgarian Army!

Of course, it is good to have this dream while sleeping, unless he can open it, otherwise it is impossible to have it under normal circumstances.

As time passed, the Italians' offensive intensity became lower and lower. Valikot could still hold on, but his officers and soldiers were already in a hurry.

Where can the Italians find such a good opponent? If the Italians suddenly surrendered after being dragged down, wouldn't their military exploits be lost?

A young staff officer suggested: "General, why don't we have a decisive battle with the Italians, the Allied Powers still have nearly 300,000 troops in the Italian peninsula, if we gather them all, we may not be powerless against the Italians! "

Influenced by Ferdinand, the senior leaders of the Bulgarian army did not like to continue to take risks and increase variables when the overall situation was settled, and Valikot was no exception.

Walicott thought for a while and said: "No, we can concentrate our forces, and the Italians will follow suit! This is their homeland. With the current situation in Italy, they can still concentrate 1.23 million troops.

With 300,000 against more than one million, and nearly three-quarters of them are colonial troops, the risk is too great!

It's better to delay the time like now. At this moment, there may be a food panic in Italy, and they won't last long! "

The staff officer said unwillingly: "General, why don't we just wait and do nothing?"

Walcott said with a smile: "Of course it's impossible! Since the Italians don't come, can't we go to them?"

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Time passed by in a hurry, and 1917 entered in a blink of an eye.

The world war has turned a new page. The Italians finally couldn't hold it anymore and announced their surrender after Christmas!

Of course, militarily, whether Italy surrenders or not has little effect. Anyway, they only have so little strength left, which cannot affect the direction of the world war.

However, the political impact was enormous. From the start of the war in 1915 to the present, Belgium was killed among the members of the Allied Powers, but a series of younger brothers were killed by the Allied Powers. Now even the big country Italy has surrendered!

Although the Italians announced their withdrawal from the war last year, everyone knew that they wanted to speculate again. Some people even thought that the Italians asked for too high a price, so they were put on the table by John Bull.

But no one would have thought that the Italians announced their surrender so quickly! Anyway, they are also great powers, how can they be so cowardly?

Even Ferdinand was a little confused. The Italians surrendered too simply this time, right? Due to the start of the battle on the southern front, he has not paid attention to the Italian battlefield for a long time.

"What's going on, why are the Italians surrendering so soon?"

Acting Chief of Staff Klosf gloated and said, "Your Majesty, there is actually no other way for the Italian government to announce its surrender now!

In order to counterattack Rome, the Italians have exhausted their last war potential. In just a few months, they have paid at least more than 200,000 casualties, but they still have not succeeded. The brutal casualties have caused the Italian army to collapse !

In fact, apart from the amazing courage of the Italians in the first week or so, they quickly returned to their normal level.

On December 2 last year, our troops in Rome launched a sneak attack and accidentally captured a prisoner of an Italian division, which was twice the number of people we went to sneak attack!

General Vallicott judged that the morale of the Italians had collapsed, and then concentrated all the troops of the Allied Powers in Italy to fight a decisive battle with the Italians. Although the Italians still had several times as many troops as ours at that time, they still at a disadvantage.

On Christmas Eve, the Italian army unexpectedly mutinied again, and the frontline troops seized the opportunity to attack.

Nearly 100,000 Italian soldiers voluntarily walked into our prisoner-of-war camps. The only request was that we give them treatment that matched their status. Some even asked our soldiers for Christmas gifts!

Even if the Italian government wants to continue the war, they have nothing to do now, because they don't know when the troops on the front line will surrender! "

Ferdinand rubbed his forehead. He thought he had misheard. How could such a weird thing happen? But after thinking about Italy in history, Ferdinand felt that there was nothing impossible about being born in them!

In history, a pilot parachute can capture an Italian infantry regiment. When the British and Italians fought, the captives were calculated in acres!

Now that the Italians have begun to surrender on a large scale, Ferdinand can guess it without thinking about it. It is nothing more than the following reasons:

1. They have despaired of this war and do not want to fight any more;

2. There is a problem with the supply of logistics materials, such as the decline in the standard of food for the soldiers; (Note: Italian soldiers have very high food requirements, but unfortunately their logistics cannot meet it at all. There have been many cases in history that soldiers suffered from food The standard is too low, the event of mass surrender to the enemy!)

3. The casualties are too great, they can't take it anymore!

It seems that these three iron laws have all appeared in the Italian army now, and surrender seems to be their normal operation.

As for courage, can this be eaten? Except at the beginning, everyone knew that they were tricked by John Bull and lost Rome, and suddenly they wanted to fight the enemy desperately. After calming down, the Italians realized that this war seemed uneconomical!

It's really not worth it to pay your own life for a war that actively fails!

Even if Rome is recovered, so what? It still can't change the outcome of this war. Besides, taking back Rome by force will definitely turn Rome into ruins. In the end, isn't it Italy who is injured?

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Why the Italians surrendered is not important, the key is to deal with the aftermath. Anyway, Italy was once a member of the great powers, and it still has some family assets. As a victorious country, it is natural to divide it up!

After pondering for a moment, Ferdinand said: "Let the Foreign Ministry communicate with Britain and France, and see what conditions the British will offer. On the issue of partitioning Italy, we can make deals elsewhere!"

Obviously, it is impossible for the British to allow Bulgaria and the French to carve up Italy easily, otherwise how will John Bull gain a foothold in the Mediterranean in the future?

Of course, no matter how awesome John Bull is now, if he doesn't offer real money in exchange, it is impossible for the two countries to make concessions easily!

From the outbreak of the World War to the present, Bulgaria has been struggling. From the Arabian Peninsula to the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria's newly occupied territory has already reached millions of square kilometers. It is time to digest it!

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