"Col. The sea is full of Chinese ships! What should we do? Fiumicino, a low-ranking officer reported to Colonel Fabio, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army.
"Order the 1st Battalion to enter the position immediately, and the 2nd Battalion is also ready. In any case, it must resist the attack of the Chinese! In addition, we send a telegram to the division headquarters, we need reinforcements! Otherwise, we cannot resist the attack of the Chinese!"
Colonel Bio shouted in panic.
The Chinese army's invasion suddenly came to their heads, and the Italian army was not prepared at all. Fiumicino only had a regiment and an artillery battalion garrison of the 14th Infantry Division, and had to resist China without preparation.
The army's attack is harder than climbing to the sky!
The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Italian Army rushed out of the barracks and headed towards the coast. Many people had not put on their clothes and pants, and rushed out of the barracks with rifles, and even
Some people were wearing flowery shorts.
The battleships, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers of the Chinese Navy Indian Ocean Fleet on the sea began to fire at Fiumicino. The dense shells exploded in the city, and buildings were destroyed in the explosion, and the military camps were even more focused on attacking.
The target. Before many Italian troops could rush out of the barracks, they were blown up by the bombings and suffered heavy losses!
Thousands of officers and soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 81st Regiment of the Chinese Marine Corps were sailing quickly towards the port area of Fiumicino on landing craft. Because the Italian army had no defense, they almost launched their attack.
There was no obstacle. After the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 81st Regiment of the Marine Corps came ashore, the Italian Army had not even arrived at the port!
The officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 81st Regiment of the Marine Corps immediately began to build defensive positions, and the transport ships on the sea also began to sail towards the port. The officers and soldiers of the 7th Army of the Chinese Army loaded on the transport ship will be disembarked one after another, and the first batch will be
The landing was the 23rd Infantry Division of the 7th Army of the Chinese Army. After the 23rd Infantry Division controlled the situation in Fiumicino, the subsequent cavalry brigades and armored brigades would land and then launch an attack on Rome. In Lidodi Rome,
The 8th Army is doing the same thing again!
When the troops of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army arrived at the port, they found that the port had fallen under the control of the Chinese army. The transport ships on the sea were coming towards the port, which made these Italian Army officers and soldiers.
The scalp is numb. The port falls into the hands of the Chinese army intact, which means that the Chinese army can easily use the port to load and unload the soldiers and heavy equipment on the transport ship. In this way, the Chinese army will land exponentially
Reduce and the reaction time left to the Italian Army will be shorter!
Under the order of Colonel Fabio, soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army launched an attack on the port. However, they were hit hard by the 1st Battalion of the 81st Regiment of the Chinese Marine Corps. From the troops' equipment
Judging from machine guns and artillery, a battalion of the Chinese army equipped with much more machine guns and artillery than a regiment of the Italian Army. Not to mention that the Chinese army can also receive firepower support from warships on the sea.
Several destroyers even drove to a place less than one kilometer from the coast, using rapid-fire cannons on the warships to open fire at the Italian army on the shore. The dense shells exploded in the crowd, easily tearing the fragile human body to pieces!
The attack of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army was quickly repelled, and one attack caused more than half of his 1st battalion to lose. The remaining soldiers did not dare to launch another attack, and could only keep their eyes open.
Watching a large number of Chinese soldiers descending from the transport ship. The reinforcements were unable to arrive for a long time, which made the Italian Army's desire to defend Fiumicino a delusion. After the 231st Regiment of the Chinese Army landed, it immediately launched a foulicino city.
Attack, the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the Italian Army was defeated and had to retreat!
After the landing of the 23rd Infantry Division of the Chinese Army, the subsequent Cavalry Brigades and Armored Brigades of the 7th Army began to land. The intact facilities at the port greatly improved the loading and unloading efficiency of the Chinese Army. Originally, an infantry division was abolished.
Extremely equipped, without two or three hours, it is impossible to unload the transport ship. But now one hour is enough for an infantry division to disembark. Even if the tanks and armored vehicles of the Armored Brigade take a little, two or three hours
It's totally enough!
It took less than an hour from the attack of the Chinese Marine Corps to the capture of Fiumicino. The same was true for the 8th Army's attack on Lidodi Rome. At 6:45 in the morning, the 14th Infantry of the Italian Army was the same.
Major General Gasparai, the commander of the division, had already led the remaining defeated generals to flee to Rome in a mess. Within this hour, Rome had no time to send reinforcements to the front line!
At 5:40 am on May 20, Italian Army Deputy Chief of Staff Petro.
General Badouglifan was sleeping soundly because he went to meet King Vittorio Emanuele II last night. After returning to the General Staff, he issued an order to strengthen the guard of the Italian army and handle other military affairs until
It's not resting at 1:00 a.m.
However, his adjutant woke him up at this time, Petro who was disturbed by sleeping.
Admiral Bardoglio was very annoyed, but before he could even scold the adjutant and reported his news, he was shocked!
"General The Chinese are now violently bombarding Fiumicino and Lidodi Rome. They have sent troops to land. Major General Gasparai is leading his troops to resist, but the Chinese are attacking very fiercely. Major General Gasparai requested
Reinforcement!" said the adjutant.
"Bastard! How could the Chinese attack be so fast? Order the 13th Infantry Division and the 16th Infantry Division to quickly support the 14th Infantry Division, and must resist the Chinese attack no matter what!" Petro.
After calming down, General Bardoglio issued an order. In addition to sending two infantry divisions to reinforce the front line, he also ordered the troops deployed around Rome to assemble immediately!
But Petro.
Although the order of General Bardoglio was issued, the Italian army, which had no preparation at all, could not be dispatched immediately even if they received the combat order. When they completed their preparations and drove from the barracks to the front line, it took an hour to
Time has passed, and Fiumicino and Lidodi Roma have long been taken down by the Chinese army!
The 13th Infantry Division and 16th Infantry Division of the Italian Army who were reinforced on the front line encountered the defeated 14th Infantry Division halfway. After receiving the terror of the Chinese army from Major General Gasparai, they immediately gave up their previous mission and transferred.
And he stopped halfway and sent a telegram to Petro.
Major General Gasparai requested on-site defense, and also asked for more reinforcements!
At 7 a.m., the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft units took off from the USS Jiuhua Mountain, the USS Putuo Mountain, and the USS Putuo Mountain, and bombed the Italian army. Originally, these carrier-based aircraft were intended to bomb the military camps around Rome.
But after discovering that tens of thousands of Italian troops were less than ten kilometers away from the coast, they immediately bombed these Italian troops!
Hundreds of fighter jets and bombers that took off from two aircraft carriers carried out fierce attacks on the remnants of the Italian Army's 13th Infantry Division, the 16th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division. The F58' Puffin, under the wings of the fighter jets
A small bomb was hung to perform the bombing mission. Although the bombing accuracy was not high, tens of thousands of Italian troops gathered together and could kill a piece of it as long as the bomb was dropped. C'Osprey, the torpedo attack aircraft also carried heavy bombs,
Perform ground bombing missions. Not to mention HBD's fish eagle, dive bomber. Every dive bombing, accompanied by the sharp whistle that seemed to pierce a person's eardrum, can cause heavy bombs to the Italian Army.
Extremely heavy casualties!
During the bombing and strafing of the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft, the Italian army, which was hit like this for the first time, collapsed. They abandoned their weapons, gave up all their heavy equipment, and fled to Rome in a panic.
Under the attack of the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft troops, their confidence was completely destroyed! The Italian army was not very powerful, and even the Austro-Hungarian army could not defeat it, let alone the Chinese army.
The firepower strike completely lost their fighting spirit!
At 8:35 in the morning, the armored brigade of the 7th Army of the Chinese Army had been disembarked, and more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles were all ready. The cavalry brigade of the 7th Army also began to disembark. The cavalry brigade of the cavalry brigade was also disembarked, and the speed of the cavalry brigade was relatively high.
The Armored Brigade is much faster! General Du Qizheng, commander of the 7th Army, issued an order to march towards Rome! The 7th Armored Brigade will attack Rome, but will not attack Rome, but will build a team in the north and east of Rome.
The defense line prevents everyone in Rome from escaping from here. Although the 7th Armored Brigade alone has strong combat power, its military strength is too weak. Therefore, the 23rd Infantry Division of the 7th Army will cooperate with the 7th Armored Trip and then disembark.
The cavalry brigade of the 7th Army will also fill this line of defense.
The 8th Army was relatively slower, but at 8:58 in the morning, the 8th Armored Brigade and the 9th Infantry Division of the 8th Army also set out from Lidodi Rome, whose target was southern Rome, and
After the 7th Army's troops gathered, they were able to build a line of defense on the periphery of Rome.
An hour later, the 7th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army appeared in northern Rome, cutting off the passage from Rome to the north. At 10:25, the 8th Armored Brigade appeared in southern Rome and met with the 7th Armored Brigade in eastern Rome!