Eight hundred and twentieth seventh chapter Palermo (two)
The situation on the Second Regiment was similar. The reason why the second Regiment encountered about a platoon of Italian troops... The reason why they stayed on the defense was just because a bonfire party was held by the beach. For this reason, the Italian troops in the platoon even called a few dancers to sing and dance all night.
I don’t know if it was because of the bonfire or because the dozens of Italian soldiers were already drunk, but they didn’t notice it when the soldiers of the Zoafu Corps surrounded them. There were even Italian soldiers holding up their glasses to invite the Zoafu soldiers to drink a drink together.
The result can be imagined, and they soon became prisoners of Zoaf's soldiers.
Zhang Chi led his troops to continue walking forward and soon entered the streets of the ancient city.
The troops were divided into several parts according to the plan and spread out to occupy the commanding heights of each street... Everything went very smoothly. It can almost be said that the Italian army in the barracks were sleeping without notice.
It was not until Zhang Chi led his troops to attack the barracks that several Italian troops who had gotten up and removed from their beds.
"British!" several Italian soldiers shouted, and then subconsciously touched the gun.
But the Zoaf soldiers did not allow them to move at all, and knocked them to the ground after a few gunshots.
The gunshots quickly alarmed the other Italian troops. The Italian troops who woke up from their sleep hurriedly put on their clothes and looked for guns... But because the training was too loose, the panic and darkness were in chaos and could not organize effective resistance at all.
Then the Zoaf soldiers rushed into the barracks like heavenly soldiers, swinging the Arab scimitar and slashing and killing without saying a word... At this time, the scimitar is definitely more useful than the spear. Once you get close to it and in a narrow space, the spear can easily encounter obstacles or even be snatched by the enemy, and there is also the problem of changing ammunition.
However, in the hand, the scimitar can open and close together as if entering a nobody's realm, and only kill Deyi Jun with a scream of ghosts and wolves.
The battle lasted only twenty minutes.
Because the Italian army surrendered twenty minutes later, the Zoaf soldiers occupied three military camps in Palermo with almost no effort... In fact, there were only more than 10,000 Italian soldiers in these three military camps. The reason was that a considerable number of Italian troops did not spend the night in the military camps. Some of them were in taverns, some were in brothels, or some were in their own homes... Most of the officers had their own residences, which may be one of the reasons why the Italian army could not organize defense.
But later, these Italian troops scattered among the civilians came to surrender, and they came in one go, and almost no one fell by clicking the list.
What made Zhang Chi even feel even more incredible was that the Italian commander Marshal Azo even complained that the soldiers of Zoafu killed too many people.
"You actually don't need to do this!" Marshal Azo said: "Why do you have to attack? And you have killed so many people. If you tell us in advance, we can resolve the issue through negotiation!"
The implication is that as long as the Zoaf soldiers fired a few shots outside the city, the Italian army would surrender with both hands.
Of course, this is just what Palermo said after he was captured.
Zhang Chi believed that with the Italian character, if he knew that he could defend Palermo, he would still be ashamed to show off his might in front of the Allies.
So Zhang Chi suddenly had more than 20,000 prisoners of war.
The British said this when facing the Italian army: "When facing the Italian army, what you need to worry about is not the bullets fired from the opposite side, but about being trampled to death by the rushing captives!"
Now it seems that this sentence is really a fucking truth.
Without surprise, Zhang Chi reaped the spoils of this victory... After opening the warehouse, it was filled with mines, guns, ammunition, and even many tanks.
Zhang Chi knew in advance that Palermo must have many spoils, because it was a port. The German and Italian troops had to transport supplies to reinforce Africa through Palermo or Messina several ports as transit stations, but like the two elite divisions of the German army, they were all stranded in Sicily.
However, Zhang Chi did not expect that there would be so many spoils. Zhang Chi even found the German tank No. 3 and No. 4 in the tank.
After asking Marshal Azo, I found out that these tanks were transported from Italy yesterday by the German army to deal with the Allied forces' battle to land 6 in Sicily. Unexpectedly, they were seized by the Zoafu army before they were transported to the German army.
Now I have found a treasure.
Zhang Chi asked someone to take a look at it. There were a total of 60 German tanks and more than 100 Italian tanks.
Of course, most of the Italian tanks are useless, and they are almost the target of the enemy's anti-tank weapons. Zhang Chi does not intend to bother to use them.
After that, Zhang Chi sent a telegram to the command center: "We successfully occupied Palermo, with 31 casualties!"
General Zhu An took the telegram and looked confused, and then called back in confusion: "Are you sure you occupied Palermo? Haven't you gone to the wrong place?"
"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied: "This is indeed Palermo. There is no doubt that I have asked the prisoners!"
"But... there are 20,000 defenders there!"
"They are already our prisoners!"
"God!" General Zhu An couldn't believe it was true.
When Patton heard the news, he laughed: "Major General, you have created a miracle again. In just twenty minutes, you occupied a city, a city with 20,000 troops, and a city that everyone dreamed of! Now, the Germans are finished!"
Patton's words are not completely correct, because the Germans will not be ruined by Palermo's loss.
Because the Germans rely on the retreating ports to be not only Palermo.
Of course Patton knew this, but he was unwilling to say another sentence too clearly: "The Germans are going to retreat, and the British's plan is over!"
Montgomery didn't even know the news at this time.
After thinking about it, Patton sent a telegram to Montgomery: "General Montgomery, I regret to tell you that one of our teams was lost and they accidentally occupied an enemy city, which was beyond our plan!"
"Oh!" Montgomery did not take this matter too seriously, so he replied: "This is a good thing, and we should celebrate and commend this brave force for it!"
"Is that so? Then I'll feel relieved!" Patton couldn't help laughing at Montgomery's call back.
After a while, Montgomery asked again: "By the way, I want to know which city this unexpectedly occupied?"
Patton replied with three words: "Palermo!"
Chapter completed!