Expedition to Europe

The Italian attack actually lasted only one day before being unsustainable.

Mussolini brazenly declared war on Lanfang, which was certainly too sudden for Lanfang and equally sudden for the Italians.

At any rate, Lanfang's army is still vigilant due to successive years of war, and the troops maintain a certain degree of combat readiness. Once the war starts, Lanfang's army can complete war mobilization in the shortest possible time. This is not the case for the Italians. After the World War, Italy only launched one war against the Greeks, and was beaten to disgrace. The Greeks almost counterattacked the Italian mainland. Apart from this, the Italians never fought any war again. In Mexico Before Solini declared war on Lanfang, the Italian army was not prepared in any way. As a result, after Mussolini issued the order to attack, the Italians could only bite the bullet and attack the Lanfang army.

How unprepared were the Italians?

The Italian army on the front line has invaded Djibouti, and the logistical support from the rear is not ready. So when the front line troops need supplies, the supplies from the rear cannot be sent. As a result, the soldiers of the front line troops are hungry, so the Italian army's attack in July It started on the 7th and stopped on July 8th.

The Italian soldiers' request was "legitimate". If there was not enough pizza to eat, they refused to shoot at the Lanfang soldiers because they did not have the strength to raise their guns.

This gave Chen Kangjian time to calmly organize a counterattack.

On July 9, within just two days, the 5th Division of the Foreign Legion, which came from Little Aden for reinforcements, joined the battle, and Lanfang's army officially began to counterattack.

Before the counterattack, Cheng Zongyi, commander of the Fifth Division, approached Chen Kangjian and proposed to Chen Kangjian to persuade the Italian army to surrender.

"Persuading to surrender? Impossible. The Italians have just launched an attack and haven't even fought a battle yet. Isn't it too early to start persuading them to surrender?" Chen Kangjian looked confused.

"It's not early. Italy is a country that is very magical. As you will know gradually, I have many German staff here. They promise that if they persuade the Italian army to surrender, it will have a very good effect." Cheng Zongyi vowed. .

In fact, Germany has not announced its participation in the war at this time, but this does not affect the German soldiers fighting for Lanfang. As long as they are not fighting Germany, the German soldiers in Lanfang have no resistance at all.

In the last world war, the Germans were also deceived by the Italians. Italy first joined the Allied Powers led by Germany, then rebelled midway and joined the Allied Powers led by Britain and France. This disrupted the German plans and can be said to be Germany's failure. It has nothing to do with Italians.

As a former ally, the Germans knew the Italians very well. Those German staff officers even made a suggestion that sounded very unreliable. As long as they used planes to drop leaflets on the Italian army's positions, they could disintegrate the Italian army's will to fight. .

Cheng Zongyi took this suggestion to Chen Kangjian as a joke, but he did not expect that Chen Kangjian took it seriously and actually used a plane to drop flyers on the Italian positions. What was thrown down with the flyers was the menu of the "KFC" restaurant.

The "KFC" restaurant sells pizza——

And it tastes pretty good——

This made the starving Italians hungry. At noon that day, a group of Italian soldiers came to the position of Lanfang's army and surrendered to Lanfang's army.

Oh my God, it actually works!

Chen Kangjian's headquarters was really filled with broken eyes.

So more flyers were thrown at the Italians' position. The flyers not only contained beautifully printed menus, but also introduced the "KFC" restaurant, and even had discount coupons. Just take the flyers and go to the "KFC" restaurant to dine. With the flyer, you can enjoy a 20% discount, and you can also enjoy free "Pepsi" provided by the restaurant.

That night, more Italian troops surrendered to Lanfang's army, catching Lanfang's army by surprise.

In the border town of Mulule in Djibouti, a Lanfang officer was busy counting the seized supplies and had no time to care about the surrendered Italians. So Lanfang officer ordered the soldiers to get some tents and fences for the Italians. People build a temporary camp and lock themselves up.

Later, Italian prisoners in a camp rioted because the Lanfang soldiers guarding them did not provide them with enough pizza in time.

They escaped to a nearby POW camp because that camp had pizza.

The pursuing soldiers rushed to the prisoner-of-war camp, and after promising the Italians that there would be enough pizza supply, the Italians who participated in the riot followed the Lanfang soldiers back to the prisoner-of-war camp.

In the middle of the night, the Italians organized an attack, and a Lanfang unit was ordered to retreat. As a result, the prisoners who had not yet been transferred were left unattended. To the surprise of all Lanfang soldiers, the prisoners not only did not take the opportunity to escape , instead retreated with the Lanfang soldiers. When asked why, the Italians said plausibly: "We can't go back. If we go back, we will be sent here as cannon fodder. If we don't meet you by then, other Lanfang people will What should we do if Fangren abuses us?”

Speaking of abuse, not delivering pizza on time is probably the biggest abuse for Italians.

In order to allow Lanfang soldiers to run faster, Italian prisoners even helped carry supplies——

This is exactly like the husky that cannot become a police dog because it is easy to agree with criminals.

After Lanfang's army launched a counterattack, more speechless things continued to happen.

When the Italians began to attack, at the border post in Djibouti, a captain of the Lanfang army was captured because he did not have time to retreat and fought hard. On the night of his capture, the Italians did not engage in discordant things such as torture and extortion of confessions, but instead Captain Lanfang was locked in a single cell, and he was given a feast including appetizers, main dishes, fruits after the meal, and even three kinds of red wine to accompany the meal.

Captain Lanfang, who was already determined to die, thought this was the last supper, so he thought that he would be a well-fed ghost even if he died. The captain ate his heart out and had a hearty meal. As a result, by the next morning, the Italian 45th The division commander Romagnoli personally came to visit the captain and said to the captain apologetically: "Yesterday we made a small mistake and provided your Excellency, as an officer, with dinner for ordinary soldiers. This is You definitely didn’t intend to torture the prisoners, can you forgive the guard who made the mistake for my sake?”

sure--

The poor captain was too shocked to speak.

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After the invasion of Eritrea, the 18th Division of the Lanfang Army was very popular with the Italians because of the delicious pizza they provided. The Italians proved this by rushing to surrender, so in the subsequent "battle", the Foreign Legion's first The Fifth Division had to put up a slogan: Our pizza is equally delicious, and comes from the same chef as the Eighteenth Division's pizza!

Why is this still a war? It's clearly a dinner party.

By July 12, all Italian troops in Eritrea had surrendered. Only a regiment composed of local Eritreans was still resisting. Moreover, due to lack of strength, this regiment had retreated to Ethiopia and continued to fight. This gave Lan Fang The reason why the army invaded Ethiopia.

This made the Ethiopians very aggrieved. The Ethiopians believed that they had no intention to join the war and no intention to be hostile to Lanfang, so Lanfang's army should not invade Ethiopia. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie even assured Chen Kangjian that Ethiopia would definitely He will destroy the Eritrean army that fled into Ethiopia and give Lan Fang an explanation.

Chen Kangjian refused to let go of the Ethiopians. When Italy launched an attack on Djibouti, Asaita on the southern route was originally Ethiopian territory. Since the Italians could launch an attack on Djibouti through Ethiopia, it means that the existence of Ethiopians and Italians is certain. This made Chen Kangjian very dissatisfied and asked Haile Selassie to give Lan Fang an explanation.

What can Haile Selassie say?

Ethiopia is indeed not afraid of the Italians, and Ethiopia has resolutely resisted Italian aggression. However, in terms of overall national strength, there is a huge gap between Ethiopia and Italy. Therefore, the border areas between Ethiopia and Eritrea are undefended, and the Ethiopians are also Only by using the plateau terrain can we withstand the Italian attack.

Since it is undefended, the Italians will definitely be able to take advantage of those border areas calmly.

Perhaps for Haile Selassie, this was a helpless choice, but for Chen Kangjian, this explanation was obviously not enough to calm Chen Kangjian's anger, so on the fifth day of the war, Lanfang occupied the entire territory of Eritrea, and at the same time began and border demarcation negotiations with Ethiopia.

Regarding this negotiation, Cheng Zongyi, who has become Chen Kangjian's number one general, has another suggestion: "We don't need to negotiate with the Ethiopians. Although Ethiopia has 600,000 troops, most of them are equipped with old single-shot muskets and even smoothbore rifles." With guns and bows and arrows, such an army cannot compete with us. With just one order from you, the 5th Division of the Foreign Legion can pacify the entire Ethiopia. "

Cheng Zongyi is also very ambitious. Even though Lanfang is now surrounded by enemies, Cheng Zongyi still wants to expand.

"Now is not the time to fight Ethiopia. We defeated the Italians here. The British will definitely not be able to sit still. Before the British join the war, we must exercise restraint and concentrate our efforts to defeat the British first. As long as we defeat the British "People, Africa is our world." Chen Kangjian has ideals and has regarded Africa as Lan Fang's possession.

Chen Kangjian is right, the British are indeed unable to sit still.