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~Chapter 618 Showing Determination

Then, more than a dozen people walked out of the cable car station, all of whom were soldiers. One was wearing light green Italian military uniforms, while the other was wearing jungle camouflage combat uniforms, but they were not the kind of camouflage that the German army had seen in Germany, but the American jungle camouflage uniforms made in the United States.

It is said that this kind of combat camouflage uniform was pirated by Americans from the Chinese. Because of war, patent fees and other things will definitely not be paid for.

The distance between the two sides is not too far, and you can vaguely see the other party holding the star and striped flag.

"American?"

Mussolini was shocked, and then he realized that the paratroopers he had just seen from the valleys and hillsides were not coming to rescue his German special forces, but came to arrest his American paratroopers.

As a former Italian leader, Mussolini was shocked: "When did the Americans find this place? These damn traitors actually colluded with foreign enemies!"

After panic, he was extremely disappointed and depressed. At this time, Mussolini suddenly made an amazing move, and he poked his entire upper body out of the window.

He looked downstairs, then rode onto the windowsill, then jumped and jumped down from the window of the Inpaletta Hotel guest room.

Although Mussolini really wanted to jump down the stairs and hit the ground first, so that he could finish everything and not have to be taken to the prisoner-of-war camp by the Allies and be interrogated.

He hopes to show the betrayer an unyielding gesture in this way and to use this action to awaken the hotel guards' unforgettable "conscience".

But unfortunately, Mussolini's first landing was not the head, but the right foot and right leg.

Although he jumped from the second floor of the Impaleta Hotel and the height was not very high, due to his weight and his posture when he landed, the action of jumping out of the window caused great pain to Mussolini.

His right leg was broken, and the severe pain and the force of the impact almost immediately made him lose consciousness, his eyes turned dark and he fainted.

When Mussolini woke up again, he was already lying in a medical room.

“Where am I?”

Mussolini saw several Italian officers standing not far from him and said.

"You are in the first floor infirmary of the Inpaletta Hotel, from here, you can't jump off the building."

One of the Italian Army lieutenant colonels answered Mussolini's words coldly, and his tone was very rude.

"Benito Mussolini, now I formally arrest you in the name of the Allied Joint Command. This is an arrest warrant issued by the Allied Joint Command. From now on, you will be under my custody."

At this time, a Western leader, an officer wearing Allied camouflage combat uniform, walked to Mussolini's hospital bed and issued an arrest order to the former Italian ruler in American English. An interpreter translated these sentences into Italian. After that, two Allied non-commissioned officers walked up and handcuffed Mussolini's hands.

It was not until this time that Mussolini felt the severe pain coming from his right calf.

"Mordine I need morphine My leg breaks me protest your abuse of prisoners of war"

Mussolini roared at the officer who was probably a U.S. paratrooper lieutenant colonel, waving the two hands that had been handcuffed together. The facial muscles became distorted by emotional excitement, looking like a roaring beast.

The translator translated Mussolini's protest to the officer, and the paratrooper officer just smiled mockingly.

"Prison of war? Nobenito Mussolini, you are not a prisoner of war from the Allied Army. You were arrested by Allied soldiers as a war criminal. After your leg injury is handled properly, you will be escorted to a secret place to be imprisoned. When the war is over, what awaits you will be a solemn and fair trial."

"War criminals? Is this a crime made up by the Allied Command? It's so ridiculous. You are persecuting the losers unscrupulously. You are giving up the false kindness and righteousness you said. Only cowards will use this ridiculous trick to conceal their inner fear! I am a revolutionary, I am not a war criminal. If you want to find the so-called 'war criminals', please go to the governments of the United States and China to find it."

Mussolini fully demonstrated his eloquence, but unfortunately, even the Italian officers present were indifferent to it.

"Mussolini, put away your performance. Now I'll give the doctor here an hour to deal with your leg injury. In an hour, we will take you out of here and to an airport where there are planes waiting for you."

Speaking of this, the US military officer sneered and stared at the embarrassed former dictator.

"Now, I advise you to calm down and think carefully about how to defend yourself after you go to court. Of course, lawyers will serve you, but in my opinion, the possibility of your innocence is very low. The Allies have already obtained a lot of reliable evidence that the Italian army committed various war crimes in war, and many of the crimes were directly from your will."

The officer scolded him, then called a doctor and several medical soldiers to deal with Mussolini's fractured right leg, while the officer himself left the infirmary, stood in the corridor and lit a cigarette.

This officer is Lieutenant Colonel Kent, the US Airborne Force. The rank of Lieutenant Colonel was just promoted on the eve of this mission. During this war, Kenti commanded paratroopers to carry out airborne combat missions many times, and all tasks were basically completed successfully.

The superior appreciated his courage and wisdom very much. This time, the superior carried out the "beast hunting" operation, and the superior specially transferred him to command the operation. The "beast hunting" operation was to arrest Mussolini and take the man to Sicily, and then transfer from Sicily to Egypt.

In fact, on the eve of the execution of the "Beast Catching" operation, Kenti had just completed another airborne mission, a large-scale airborne operation code-named "Operation Garden Walking" with the goal of controlling the central region of the Apennine Peninsula in Italy.

The battle was initiated five days ago, mainly to cooperate with the landing operations of the Allied landing fleet in the southern part of Sicily, and the Allied Army landing forces set out from Tunisia.

Under the cover of the Allied Navy's escort fleet, the first landing fleet successfully sent 200,000 US, British, and French joint forces to two very close landing sites in the southern part of Sicily and successfully established a landing site.

Just before the landing ground was established, the Allied 60,000 paratroopers had already carried out airborne operations in the central region of the Apennine Peninsula in Italy in two days, and successfully captured the city of Naples, cutting off the traffic channel for the German army to reinforce south in the north.

In this operation, the Allied forces received assistance from the Italian army, and the new Italian government tried to use this operation to win the favor of the allies and avoid making Italy a defeated country.

Just assisting the Allied forces to act seems not enough to show the peace and sincerity of the new Italian government. Therefore, at the firm request of US President Truman, British Prime Minister Attley, and Soviet Commander Beria, the new Italian government finally agreed to hand over Mussolini, who had been under house arrest, to the Allied forces for custody.

In order to prevent the German army from obstructing the transfer, the new Italian government suggested that the Allies directly send paratroopers to house arrest sites to take over control of Mussolini, and thus "beast hunting operation" was launched.

Not only American paratroopers were carried out, but also British paratroopers, but the British paratroopers' mission was to control the traffic around the Greater Sasso Mountain, so the task of arresting Mussolini fell on the shoulders of the American paratroopers. The execution power of this mission was won by the US President.

So far, everything has been going well in the "Beast Catching Operation". As long as the medical staff put plaster or plywood on Mussolini's legs, they can carry the founder of the European fascist movement to leave the hotel.

However, before Kenting finished smoking the cigarette, he heard the shrill whistle of the air defense alarm, so he hurriedly rushed into the infirmary with the cigarette in his mouth, stood in front of the window, and looked into the sky. Sure enough, he saw many small black dots, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

Finally, he could confirm that it was a Luftwaffe aircraft, including fighter jets, bombers, and transport aircraft. Judging from the speed, they were all old-style propeller aircraft.

With the range of the US Air Force P80 fighter jet, if it takes off from the Sicily airport, Allied fighters can fly to Rome to perform air defense missions.

But now, there is no Allied fighter jet in the sky, because the Allied Air Force Command believes that the most important task at present is not to safely transfer Mussolini to Egypt, but to defend Rome, prevent the Germans from moving south from northern Italy to occupy Rome, and support the puppet regime.

Therefore, the Greater Sasso Mountain is not the key combat airspace for Allied fighter jets.

Kenti immediately threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomped his feet and then gave an order to the soldiers, "Please the prisoner onto the stretcher, let's leave here immediately."

The situation was urgent and it was too late to put plaster on Mussolini's broken leg. He could only fix it with a plywood first, and then give Mussolini a shot of morphine to make him quieter.

When the Luftwaffe planes were seen appearing, most of the Italian soldiers in the hotel left their posts and fled into the woods near the hotel. Even the air-resistant machine guns and machine guns on the roof of the building were left uncontrollably operated.

Naturally, the operators on the cable car were gone. When Qi Chengfeng and the paratroopers carried Mussolini to the cable car station, they found that the operator was missing.

The paratroopers had to do it themselves and tried to operate the cable car, but they were surprised to find that when the operator was running away, for some reason, he took away the keys of the cable car operation table. Using an automatic rifle may be able to break the lock, but no one can guarantee that the bullets will not break the machine.

The hotel is built on the top of a cliff, and the cable car is the only passage to the outside world, connecting a valley a hundred meters away.

After hesitating for a while, Kent immediately decided to return to the hotel immediately, look for the cable car keys, and contact the Air Force to request reinforcements. He was not sure of the purpose of the German planes coming, but his intuition told him that it might be the German army who came to rescue Mussolini.

As it turns out, Kent's speculation is correct. German fighters and bombers did not come to bomb the Inpaleta Hotel, but just covered a group of transporters towed gliders to carry out aircraft landings on the hotel.

When the gliders loosened the ropes that were hanging on the transport, they began to pounce on an open space near the hotel. At the same time, the fighters and bombers turned their courses and rushed to the southwest. There was no doubt that they were going to bomb Rome, but just came over to provide escort for the transport planes.

The paratroopers quickly took over the unmanned anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns, and fired violently at the German gliders that rushed to the hotel. The sky was filled with bombs, and several gliders were intercepted by fire and could not be properly operated, and eventually crashed in the valley.

But other gliders landed wildly on a small triangular clearing at the back of the hotel, and soldiers from the German assault forces rushed out of the cabins of the gliders.

However, after the German commandos rushed out of the cabin, they were surprised to find that they were not Italian soldiers with no fighting will, but a group of American special forces soldiers wearing camouflage combat uniforms.

Moreover, the infantry weapon that intercepted them was not Italian rifles, but the fastest updated automatic rifle in the United States (Wentian Xiaji, the fierce firepower immediately blocked the German commando in that small open space. Within almost a few minutes, most of the German commando landed on the open space were killed by fire, and the triangular open space became a killing field.

Just fifteen minutes later, the short battle ended, and the alive German commandos raised white flags and announced their surrender, and the Impaletta Hotel returned to tranquility.

The results were counted and seventy German commandos were killed, not including those German soldiers who crashed into the glider in the valley, and six German soldiers were captured alive.

After interrogation, Kent learned that the commando was code-named "Oak Tree" and its mission was indeed to rescue Mussolini who was under house arrest, and it was an order issued by Hitler himself.

The commando captain was SS Colonel Otto Scholzne, who himself participated in the assault. However, the glider he was riding on did not land on the open space behind the hotel. It was obviously intercepted by ground air defense fire and crashed into the valley.

Although he defeated Germany's rescue of Mussolini, Kent did not dare to take it lightly. He found the cable car operator, got the key to the cable car operation table, and quickly took the soldiers to leave the Impaleta Hotel and successfully met the troops at the foot of the mountain.

Then he took Mussolini to Rome, took a transport plane from the Rome airport and flew directly to Sicily.

This "beast hunting operation" was very successful, with only five American paratroopers killed!

Since fighting against China's elite troops on the battlefield, the United States has grown rapidly, even though it has paid an extremely tragic price for it.

Berlin, 9:20 am, in front of Brandenburg.

Like many national rallies in the past, today's Berlin citizens' rallies are still held in a nearly hypnotic fanatic atmosphere.

On both sides of Charlottenburg Avenue were filled with fanatical Berlin citizens and Nazis who came from other places. The wide Charlottenburg Avenue was a space for the National Square and the SS team to kick the goose steps, and it will also serve as a passage for the head of state.

In order to protect the safety of the head of state, the entire Charlottenburg Avenue and the Bodhi Avenue under the Bodhi Tree were warned by fully armed SS troops. The carefully selected SS soldiers will perform the task of defending the head of state with a loyalty like a "sacred mission". They not only have the power but also have the courage to shoot at any suspicious person who broke into the guard zone without authorization.

It is very necessary to have extreme strict vigilance measures. After all, for Nazi Germany, the current domestic and international situation is very critical.

The increasingly tense food supply has caused more and more Germans to be tempted by anti-Nazi "sweet words", and they gradually become indifferent to "rights and wrongs". These Germans who are dissatisfied with the Nazis are the main enemies in the country.

As for the international community, the allies led by China, the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union are continuing to attack Germany with a "crazy and irrational" attitude.

Since the coup in Italy and the fall of Mussolini government, Allied bombers have begun to bomb military and civilian facilities in Germany more frequently, and the German peace talks delegation is still quarrel with governments in Cairo, Egypt.

The situation in Italy is the most dangerous. For Nazi Germany, losing Italy is equivalent to losing an important barrier to the southern border.

What is even more worrying is that when the news of the Italian coup group forming a new government and seeking reconciliation with the allies spread, the Franco regime in Spain and the Holti regime in Hungary all showed a kind of "confusion".

The word "wallowing" with a vague meaning is just a diplomatic rhetoric, which is actually a wavering. After it is shaken, no one can guarantee that Spain and Hungary will not follow in Italy's footsteps and seek reconciliation with their allies.

After all, even Nazi Germany sent a peace talks to Cairo, Egypt, asking allies to approve the date of implementation of the ultimatum on nuclear strikes, so don't expect the Axis Group to remain consistent.

It is precisely for this reason that it was under such a critical domestic and international situation that the Nazi German government decided to hold a massive national rally in Berlin to show the unyielding fighting will of the German Third Reich to the people.

And it also took this opportunity to demonstrate the victory belief of the Third Reich to other countries in the Axis Group.

Therefore, the great figures attending today's Berlin National Assembly include not only the head of Nazi Germany, Hitler, but also the Hungarian Regent Holtie.

The two heads of state will take a convertible car to inspect the German armed forces and the paramilitary forces of the German national group, and will cruise along Charlottenburg Avenue and Bodhi Avenue to show the unity of the Axis Powers to the German nationals.

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