On the way to the Italian palace from Rome Airport, Colonel Machahe from France was surprised at the order of the city at this moment: the main road was unobstructed, and armed people in civilian dresses, as well as vehicles temporarily requisitioned by militants everywhere on the streets, but there was no barricade, and there was no barbed wire, and there was no nervous and serious expression on people's faces. When they learned that Colonel Machahe and his group were friends from France and were about to rush to the palace to meet with the power seizers, a young man wearing a baseball cap and a bolt-type rifle took the initiative to lead the way for them.

Benefiting from this, Colonel Machahe quickly arrived at the palace and met the Italian leader Canderone, an unemployment lawyer who claimed to be contemporary Caesar. Although the two sides had never had any interaction before and could not communicate directly in language, they were as happy as old friends who had known each other for many years, and gave each other great trust.

After preliminary communication, Colonel Machach realized that this group of **ists was simply a group of rabies with lack of organization, loose structure, and no clear belief and program. They nominally seized the city of Rome and got the opportunity to control the Italian regime, but they neither received the support of the army nor really controlled the capital. The Italian government and military only needed to mobilize an infantry regiment to wipe out this group of ignorant troublemakers. But at this point, he was really unwilling to go home empty-handedly and weighed repeatedly. He decided to take a risk and use his intelligence to help these guys who had good fortune take over the regime, and take the opportunity to achieve goals that are in line with France's strategic interests.

So Colonel Machach quickly entered the role and gave advice to Canderone and his comrades. Although the French did not have such rich practical command experience, looking at the world, if you look at the experience of citizens' uprisings, the French claimed to be the second, and no country dared to be the first.

As for the Italians who were still immersed in joy and ignorant of their lives, although there were retired soldiers among them, none of them had a level or qualification comparable to Colonel Machahe. Furthermore, they felt that Colonel Machahe came on behalf of the French government, and it was clear that they wanted to support them in changing the Italian political system, and they obeyed his advice.

One night, the paratrooper assault troops, who were highly anticipated by the Italian Umberto, arrived in Rome in the morning light. More than 200 white umbrella flowers bloomed over the Roman airport, and the scene was spectacular. Until the moment they landed, many Italian paratroopers were optimistic about the prospects of the trip. After all, the war had just ended, and the main forces of the Italian army were in the north. There were only a few second- and third-tier troops in the central and southern Apennine Peninsula. Even if these troops defected to the **ists, their combat effectiveness was not scary.

After the landing smoothly, more than 200 Italian paratroopers prepared to seize the airport tower, terminal, hangar and gate as planned, and deploy defenses based on the airport's buildings and existing fortifications, waiting for the arrival of subsequent paratroopers and aircraft landing troops. However, before the paratroopers approached the tower, a rumbling roar shocked them.

Then, two olive green-coated P-43 chariots were seen, and they were armed with several civilian-dressed armed personnel on their turrets and bodies.

Before sending paratroopers to the Roman airport, the Italian military staff felt that there were no armored troops stationed around the capital. The paratroopers would encounter at most several armored vehicles during the control of the airport, so they only needed to carry light anti-armor weapons such as armor-breaking grenades and steel-core bullets. As the most active combat chariot in the Italian army, the P-43's protection ability is not very good, but it is more than enough to resist shrapnel and bullets. More importantly, their appearance was completely beyond the expectations of the paratroopers, who immediately defeated in momentum.

During the armistice, the Italian army's armored troops were either deployed on the northern front, or stationed in Sardinia, Sicily and Malta. There were indeed no established armored troops within a radius of 100 kilometers of Rome. However, the staff of Umberto missed a little, that is, the Armored Soldier School located in the suburbs of Rome. There were more than 20 training vehicles, including six P-43s, P-30s that were in service earlier, and a large group of students in their prime. In fact, on the night when the French intervened, Canderone personally went to the Armored Soldier School, and persuaded some teachers and students to join the newly formed National Self-Defense Army.

Canderone and his assistants were laymen in the military field, and Colonel Machach's arrival did make up for this shortcoming. At the suggestion of the French, the National Self-Defense Forces of Canderone occupied several railway bridges north of Rome and buried explosives under the bridge. Once the troops were found to appear, the railway bridge was blown up. At the same time, the tanks that joined the National Self-Defense Forces were deployed to the airport and railway station respectively to control these important strategic bases.

When Colonel Machach learned that a company of Italian paratroopers had arrived at the Roman airport, Colonel Machach knew that the Italian rulers had begun to counterattack. Although the paratroopers carrying light weapons were temporarily blocked at the airport by tanks driven by trainees at the Armored Soldier School, the Italian military would definitely quickly dispatch more troops to come. The only opportunity to win at the moment is to mobilize those people who are dissatisfied with the Italian government, so that they can cause trouble everywhere, so that the Italian army gathered in the north cannot be smoothly mobilized.

Whether it is successful or not depends on Canderone's deception skills.

Therefore, when the National Self-Defense Force confronted the Italian paratroopers who had arrived at the Roman airport, Canderone came to the National Radio Building with several speeches of Yiqi's draft and delivered a speech to the Italian people all aiming to establish a republic system. From an objective standpoint, his speech was not meticulous, the level was not clear enough, the citation materials were not so convincing, and there were even one or two logical errors. However, Canderone seized the Italian people's deep hatred of the officials, inefficient administration, backward military equipment, and sluggish morale. He aimed to change the current situation such as economic failure, unwinning wars, and poor diplomacy, and called on the people to abandon the corrupt and weak monarchy system and support the democratic and enlightened republic system.

In fact, Canderone's speech not only changed his personal destiny, but also changed the entire Italy's ****. According to incomplete statistics, 60% of Italians played a scrolling broadcast speech on the same day, including a considerable number of active-duty soldiers. Canderone's political views were supported by many people and many soldiers. More importantly, the Italian business community, who was deeply dissatisfied with the provisions of the Armistice Agreement, collectively turned to this "coup hero" who emerged, in various forms to support and support him in reorganization of the government and promote the republic.

On the other hand, after the first batch of paratroopers encountered obstacles, the Italian Umberto and his staff officers hesitated. It took them a lot of time and effort to investigate clearly that the chariots that appeared at the Roman airport came from the Armored Forces School. The officers knew that the trained chariots had more or less technical problems and were unlikely to carry enough ammunition. However, even so, due to the strong opposition of the paratroopers and infantry commanders who were originally scheduled to participate in the operation, Umberto had to order the postponement of the operation. After obtaining the anti-war chariot bazooka and heavy anti-war chariot grenades, the second batch of paratroopers finally embarked on the journey, and the first batch of aircraft landing troops carried additional war defense artillery and ammunition, the number of people carrying more than 900 to 750.

The airborne troops were delayed for some reason, and the troops ordered to advance to Rome by land and sea also encountered various obstacles: the garrison troops departed from Pescara stayed for more than ten hours due to railway failure halfway through the road, and finally had to marche in hiking; the cavalry troops departing south from Florence were first blocked by road, and then mutiny in Bolsena, more than 60 kilometers away from the city of Rome; the 39th Infantry Division of the Army stationed in Messina was originally scheduled to set off from the port of Messina, landed at the mouth of the Tiber River, and then drove directly into the city of Rome. The naval ships responsible for transporting them were delayed for half a day on the way, and after arriving at the port of Messina, they were delayed for a day because of the strike of the port workers; the 56th Infantry Division of the Army departing from Cagliari, encountered great storms and had to go to Napoli to shelter the wind.

Based on the above reasons, when the Italian troops approached the city of Rome one after another, Canderone had formed a temporary government with the help of the French, and won the support of the people from all walks of life in Italy. The National Self-Defense Army under its command increased sharply from a few thousand to more than 100,000. They obtained guns and ammunition from the police stations, prisons and militia armories in the city of Rome, and used materials locally to build barricade defense lines in the city of Rome.

In the battle against the New Austrian coalition, the Italian army performed poorly most of the time. The soldiers were unwilling to obey the officer's orders and sent them to the guns at the civilians of their country. Few people were fooled by their officers. As a result, more than 8,000 army soldiers transferred from Cagliari and Messina stopped at the mouth of the Tiber River. More than 2,000 cavalrymen from Florence were blocked by the blockade line built by more than 50 National Self-Defense Forces 20 kilometers away from the Roman airport. More than 4,000 garrison soldiers who arrived from Pescara to the eastern suburbs of Rome stopped advancing on the grounds that they were not good at attack and showed more than 200 National Self-Defense Forces their ability to excavate fortifications to more than 200 National Self-Defense Forces.

A few days later, the only record achieved by the Italian army loyal to the royal family was that the paratroopers seized control of the Roman airport. In the process of expelling the National Self-Defense Army from the airport, the paratroopers fired the first shot of the Italian civil war and successively destroyed two p-43s and one p-30, causing more than 30 casualties on the other side. The Italian paratroopers were praised and commended by Umberto for their brave and loyal performance, and were criticized and rebuked by people from all walks of life, causing the morale of the participating troops to plummet.

Although the Roman airport was lost, the Canderone regime, which received support from the Italian people and secretly helped by the French government, has increasingly shown a "king spirit". While seeking support from officials from various provinces and municipalities, they telegraphed all departments of the Italian army, inciting officers and soldiers to abandon the corrupt and declining royal power and support Italy in the implementation of the republic system, thus putting the Italian royal family and government into an extremely passive situation.
Chapter completed!