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Chapter 1174 Surrender is the best choice
To be honest, the aid dropped by the British from the air was indeed very rich, so rich that General Prastilas was a little sincerely moved.In the entire Volos area, there are more than 15 Chinese peacekeeping troops from Yugoslavia alone, and the army is by no means less than this number.This powerful enemy has artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Under such circumstances, Plastiras believes that the comparison of the combat power between the enemy and us is no longer simply a matter of differences in the strength of troops and the quality of soldiers. It's just that his own troops can't compare with others at all. This is a battle that can't go on at all.

The battle last night still made Plastiras feel terrified. His three leading assault regiments had just launched two attacks on the Chinese positions, and the Chinese launched a counterattack like crazy.When a large number of Dragon Army soldiers, under the cover of hundreds of tanks, counterattacked from the front of their positions like a tide, Plastiras, who came to the front to command the battle, seemed to have returned to the battlefield against Germany many years ago. Those German attacks once made him feel terrified, but now the Chinese seem to be more aggressive than the original Germans.

Therefore, Plastiras, who was terrified, fled away as soon as the dragon army launched a counterattack, and the three so-called elite regiments he organized to launch the attack were so alive. Buried in the counterattack of the Dragon Army.

Although Plastiras is one of the most powerful generals in the Greek army, he is very timid, generally speaking.Cowardly people are smart, and this sentence seems to be worthy of the name on his Plastieras.The timid general believed that with the support of the British and the French, the situation in Greece could soon be temporarily controlled by the government headed by Spanoulis, even though the People's Liberation Army in Greece was very powerful at the time. .But at the same time, Plastiras also has another understanding, that is, the Chinese are never easy to mess with. If they do not interfere with the domestic situation in Greece, then naturally there is no problem, but once they officially intervene, then the military On the one hand, even with the support of Britain and the United States, this war may not be easy to deal with.

Before the dragon army intervened in the Battle of Volos, Plastiras felt somewhat lucky in the face of successive victories on the battlefield.He felt that the Chinese might not want to fall out with Britain and France at this time, so they would not interfere in the civil war in Greece.In order to take advantage of the weak opportunity of the Greek anti-armed forces to expand the results of the battle, Plastiras led his troops, coordinated with the flanking British troops, crossed the Athens plain, and launched a full-scale attack on the northern base of the Greek People's Army.

Now, seeing the main force of the People's Army, after being defeated twice in a row, it is powerless to resist.At this juncture, the situation changed suddenly. A British army going north along the Pindus Mountains was annihilated by the sudden appearance of the superior dragon army.When Plastiras heard the news, he instinctively felt that something was wrong.He once proposed to General Scobie, the commander-in-chief of the British army, to temporarily withdraw the troops on the front line of Volos to the rear.Wait until the situation is really clear before deciding whether to continue the attack or find another good strategy, but his request was rejected by Scobie without hesitation, in the view of the British general.It is shameful and unacceptable to retreat in the face of the enemy without fighting.

In desperation, Plastiras had no choice but to continue to order troops to wipe out the guerrillas of the People's Army in the Volos area, until the fragile guerrillas suddenly turned into a tiger-like dragon army.

Plastiras is very clear about how powerful the Dragon Army is. Even if he doesn't consider the fate of the Germans during World War II, he still has to look at what happened to his three elite regiments.Now, his troops of tens of thousands of people are besieged by hundreds of thousands of troops in Volos, in a dilemma, and the support of the British army seems to be in the foreseeable future. What should he do?Continue to fight until the last soldier, and then die gloriously?What a joke, he, Plastiras, is not that stupid, he still wants to continue to enjoy his happy life, he doesn't want to leave his beautiful wife and two secret lovers so early.

In this way, after some careful consideration, General Prastilas made his second, more sensible decision to surrender to the Chinese.

However, as a shrewd villain, Plastiras did not intend to surrender so simply, he wanted to use this complicated situation at this time to seek the greatest benefit for his future.For this purpose, on the one hand, he sent his cronies to get in touch with Long Jun, and revealed to the other party his decision to lead his troops to surrender, and asked Long Jun to make a promise: after he led his troops to surrender, he would allow He himself left Greece safely.

The request of Prastilas was conveyed to Li Zongren by the commander of the Dragon Army's Volos regional campaign. For the purpose of ending the campaign as soon as possible, Li Zongren, as the commander-in-chief of the Middle East Military Region, agreed to the enemy general's request, but The premise is that Prastilas must surrender unconditionally before [-] pm on the [-]th.

After receiving the promise from China, Plastiras was ecstatic, and he began to plan his next move.This was later called by Churchill the most despicable and shameless Greek military officer in the history of human warfare. While making up his mind to surrender to China, he continuously sent reports to the British commander Scobie, claiming that he had decided to fight the Chinese in Volos. Never step back.However, due to the large consumption of troops on the battlefield, logistical supply has already encountered difficulties. In order not to affect the campaign in this regard, he urgently needs material support from the British allies.

There is no doubt that Plastieras' "heroic" performance has completely moved the British. As the only operation that can support this "fearless" general at present, General Scobie agreed to the request for airdrop assistance without hesitation.Therefore, starting from the [-]th, a large amount of food, weapons, ammunition, fuel, and communication equipment were continuously dropped into the area controlled by the Greek army in Volos through the aviation of the British aircraft carrier fleet, and this airdrop operation was intermittent. It lasted until the day of the eighth day.

Obviously, the selfless assistance of the British ally has completely moved General Plastiras. In return, he issued a notice on the afternoon of the [-]th that all the officers and soldiers of the Greek army led by him will be sent to the great dragon army and the army from today. The heroic Greek People's Liberation Army led by Mr. Tsimas and Marcos surrendered.Also in this notice, Plastieras whitewashed himself as a hero who "infiltrated the enemy and was ready to raise the banner of national liberation and national independence". He claimed that the British had invaded Greece, and The temporary led by Spanoulis was a puppet supported by the British.It is through this that the British hope to achieve colonial rule over Greece.As a dignified and patriotic Greek, he called on all the Greek people to stand up and fight against the greedy and shameless British and Spanoulis who lost their national dignity under their support. struggle.

The notice of Plastieras appeared on the front pages of the major newspapers of the Great China Federation on November 11th. With the help of this notice, the propaganda tools of the empire, which have been silent for several days, Finally launched a fierce offensive against the West.

In response to Plastiras' announcement, the major newspapers of the empire criticized the British army's invasion of Greece and planned large-scale bloody massacres in Greece. Some scaremongering.After the attacks and descriptions of these newspapers, the British army stationed in Greece seemed to have become the SS under the German Communist regime.They have done all kinds of evil in Greece, which has aroused great indignation among the Greek people.

In the face of this sudden change, especially the fatal counterattack of Plastieras.Britain, with Churchill at its core, panicked for a while.You know, on the [-]th, the United Kingdom also publicly commended this heroic Greek general. Now, this is only two days, and this guy has played such a trick.In this case, how should the spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party refute the Chinese attacks?To say that Prastilas is a lackey of the Chinese is not to be believed?Just kidding, didn't you slap yourself in the face.Said that the general lied because he was threatened by the Chinese?This is also not possible, because China announced that in order to disclose the truth behind the Greek incident to the world, Long Jun will cooperate with the Greek National Liberation Committee to hold an on-site press conference in Larissa, and Plastiras will be the The protagonist at the press conference, at that time, journalists from all over the world can go to participate.By then it will be clear whether Plastierus himself has been threatened or not.

In desperation, the British had no choice but to fabricate a self-justifying lie based on the fragmentary information they received. They claimed that Plastierus had been bought by the Chinese, and that the traitor surrendered to the Chinese while surrendering to the Chinese. , Also sold a large amount of materials defrauded from the British army to the Chinese at a price of 75 pounds.

This impromptu lie is also credible, because on the day Plastiras surrendered, his family in Athens and two secret friends disappeared mysteriously, and various signs showed that these people were all It was transferred in advance by Chinese secret agents.

(End of this chapter)