Bulgarian Empire

Lieutenant General Walicott is holding a public security management meeting at the Allied Forces Command in Sicily, preparing to attack the unstable elements in the occupied area.

Recently, the Mafia in Sicily has become a little restless again. They are secretly connecting something in series. Obviously, this is something that the occupying forces cannot tolerate. Lieutenant General Walicott has decided to act first.

As for whether it will be wrong? He didn't have time to analyze the intentions of the Italians. Anyway, if there was any movement to suppress it, it would be bad luck for them to be wronged!

Suddenly a staff officer ran in and said, "General, domestic telegram."

Taking advantage of the situation, he took the telegram, and after a while, Lieutenant General Walicott read the content of the telegram and said: "The country ordered us to occupy Sardinia within two months and make a decision to land in Italy. Already coordinated, I continue to serve as overall commander of the operation.

Major General James and Major General Winston, you will also participate in this operation, and the order will be delivered to you later. Is there any problem? "

"No!" The two replied almost in unison.

During the Battle of Sicily, everyone has cooperated and got along fairly well. Although they represent Britain and France respectively, it is a pity that the troops they command are all colonial divisions, and the status of the cannon fodder troops is naturally not much higher, and it is impossible to compete for the command.

Walcott nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Okay, everyone will follow the plan. Before attacking Sardinia, everyone should clean up Sicily first."

The Allied Powers have already formulated multiple sets of combat plans, and how to implement them needs to be decided according to the actual situation. Now the Italian navy has also recovered a bit of vitality, but it is still huddled in the port.

To launch a landing operation, the cooperation of the French navy is indispensable, and specific actions need to be communicated.

Of course, Vallicott is not worried about the cooperation of the French. On the issue of fighting against Italy, the French have always been the most positive.

After all, as long as a war breaks out in mainland Italy, the Italians will have to draw troops from the front line, which will reduce the military pressure on mainland France.

The trouble is the attitude of the British. John Bull also hopes to consume the strength of the French, and is not active in the battle plan for landing in Italy. However, the main military forces of the Allied Powers in the Mediterranean are the two countries, as long as the two countries reach an agreement. Then you can act.

As for the combat effectiveness of the Italians, this does not need to be considered. Even if Rome cannot be occupied, as long as the Italians can be forced to transfer back to the front-line army, it has already succeeded strategically.

If there is no Italian army of one million on the western front, the Germans will inevitably send troops to fill the vacancy. During this gap, it will create a favorable opportunity for the British and French allied forces.

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Time flies, and in the palace of Sofia, Ferdinand is teaching his sons to practice calligraphy. This is something that can't be helped, and he can't do anything else!

In order to keep his great image in the minds of the children, he can only teach them calligraphy in addition to teaching them "Emperor Houhei", although Bulgarian does not have high requirements for writing!

Foreign Minister Meteff hurried over from the outside and said: "Your Majesty, something happened on the Eastern Front. The Russians' northern army failed to stop the German attack and was broken through the line of defense. Now it has been cut off by the Germans lazily. up!

If nothing else, the Russians have already failed in this Eastern Front War. The Tsarist government has just sent us a telegram for help, and the Russians can't hold it anymore! "

Ferdinand trembled slightly, and asked suspiciously: "What's going on? Didn't we already provide them with a batch of ammunition? How can the Russians last for another month or two?"

Megev said in a tone of hatred for iron and steel: "The Russians have a terrible logistics management system. So far, this batch of ammunition has not been fully distributed to all troops, especially the Northern Front. They have the longest distance. This batch of ammunition just arrived at their headquarters, and they didn't have time to distribute it to the soldiers on the front line!"

Ferdinand was a little speechless,

In normal times, it is understandable that weapons and ammunition are distributed step by step from top to bottom. If the frontline troops have sufficient ammunition, it is no big deal.

But now is the time of war, and the ammunition on the front line is in short supply, why not send it directly to the troops? Every minute of time during the war is precious, if there is one less transfer, the logistics transportation will save hundreds of miles!

I don't know what the Russians think. According to the deduction of the Bulgarian staff, they should have distributed all the ammunition to the troops a week ago, and now they are fighting with the German and Austrian coalition forces.

The result is now that most of the troops of the Northern Front have not received ammunition. No wonder they can't stop the German attack. How can they fight with fire sticks in their hands?

In fact, the performance of the Russians this time has been super-level. At least the Southwest Front Army and the Western Front Army have basically released their ammunition. According to their previous speed, they may not be able to reach the current level in a month or so. .

After thinking for a while, Ferdinand said: "Tell the Russians to hold on, we will end the war on the Asia Minor peninsula as soon as possible and launch an attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire."

Megev was slightly taken aback, isn't this a blank check? God knows how long the war on the Asia Minor peninsula will last?

After hesitating again and again, Megev said again: "Your Majesty, isn't this a little too unreasonable, after all, we have always been allies?"

Ferdinand nodded kindly, and then said: "Well, you really can't say that! How about telling Russia that we will launch an attack on the Western Front with Britain and France to force the Germans to withdraw from the Eastern Front, and at the same time launch an attack in the Balkans. !"

It will be Megeve's turn to be surprised, this is not His Majesty's style at all? If it were really so impartial, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would be over by now, and the Russians would chase after the Germans!

Megev said nervously, "Your Majesty, if we want to change our established strategy, shouldn't we discuss it with the military?"

He was really afraid that Ferdinand went to fill in the hole for Russia as soon as he got hot-headed. After all, launching an attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire now is not in the interests of Bulgaria.

Ferdinand laughed and explained, "You are the only one who has more thoughts! When did I say that I would change my strategy?

Don't we have troops on the Western Front? Let's launch a feint attack on the Germans together with Britain and France. You don't think Britain and France will really launch a full-scale attack on the Germans now, do you?

Anyway, as soon as we attack the Italian mainland, the Italian army will definitely retreat, and these lines of defense will need to be defended by the Germans. These troops that were supposed to reinforce the Eastern Front were held back.

As for us, let the frontline troops launch a feint attack, and the air force will send out to bomb the enemy's positions, and by the way, support the Russian army in Romania to help them gain air supremacy.

The cannon was also fired for me, and the momentum was set up to show the Russians that we really did our best. "

Megev has a new understanding of Ferdinand's ability to deceive people. Once the Russians believe it, the result is self-evident.

The most important thing is that even if it is cheated, the Russians don't know it! After all, on the surface, Bulgaria has really tried its best.

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