Chapter 727 (1/2)
Southern Europe, Spain.
The frantic actions of Germany and Italy undoubtedly show how resolute their support for Franco is.
Portugal also followed suit, providing Franco with a lot of war supplies.
This worsened the situation faced by the Spanish Republic, but the Italian Army's follow-up support, which had been promised by Italy, had been delayed.
In Ethiopia, the rearmed guerrillas dealt a heavy blow to the Italian army.
Two arsenals were blown up, and a tank battalion was destroyed by suicide attacks. They were like rats hiding in a dirty ditch.
Whenever you want to find them and kill them, these guys will disappear completely. When you are not paying attention, they will sneak out to do some damage.
Because of this, general Bono's hair was all white.
The war, which was expected to end in 10 months, has been fighting for a year and a half now. The Italian army is like falling into a quagmire, and the more it struggles, the deeper it gets.
Mussolini could not accept the end of the defeat, sent more soldiers, tanks and planes to Eritrean, and launched an offensive against the Egyptian army full of anger.
But it was all in vain.
The Italian army in Ethiopia has no fighting spirit. The daily attacks and harassment have left them physically and mentally exhausted.
Now they just want to go home early. Those damned mice are too hard to catch.
These guerrillas are all over Ethiopia, and when they wipe out one, countless will split up.
residents on the outskirts of the city will help them. Some people are providing weapons for them. Women walking around the streets may be guerrilla lines.
It's a terrible feeling.
Compared with Italy in the mire, Germany's military support.
The air force, with a force of 16000, arrived in Portugal in early December to join the already chaotic western front.
They also brought a large number of advanced weapons from Germany to support Franco's rebel forces, and recorded the data performance of weapons in actual combat.
The Spanish battlefield is not only a problem of rebellion within the country, but also a training ground, military academy and weapon testing ground for Germany.
Western capital, FSX doctrine and communism are at the front line of collision and confrontation.
In order to ensure that Spain becomes the fxsist front, the dwarfs raised the financial aid to Franco to 2 billion marks,
seeing that Germany directly participated in the war, the Soviet Union also increased its support for the Spanish republican government, and the president of the Republic also sent representatives to actively go.
At this time, the attitude of Britain and France has changed.
Originally intended to support the government of the Republic, the poor Frenchman, who was about to sell his underpants, felt that he was suffering from the enemy and that he could not eat and sleep. He once again declared his ”neutral” position.
Britain became anxious. The performance of German supported weapons on the battlefield and the rampant behavior of German and Italian FXS made them realize the threat in a real sense.
As a result, at the end of 1936, Britain officially announced that the Strait of gibraltarian would be under control from today on, and no armed forces could pass through it.
The British naval fleet in the port of gibraltarian was no longer idle.
Under the threat of German and Italian destroyers and battleships, they sailed out of the port and completely blocked the Strait of gibraltarian from south to north.
However, due to the strength of Germany and Italy, as well as the domestic anti war ideology, the rotten affairs of India and the relationship between the Communist International, Britain once again refused Spain's request for assistance.
Meanwhile, in Madrid, the Spanish capital, volunteers from all over the world formed the first anti FXS volunteer army, the international column.