Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

That night, Mussolini's confession tape was played across Italian radio stations.

Open-air cinemas were set up in squares in many big cities, and video materials exposing the conspiracy between Mussolini and the British were played on a loop. And those small places where there are no conditions are also littered with confession leaflets from both sides.

"Your Highness, the whole of Italy is now completely boiling. Demonstrations have broken out in cities large and small, demanding that the government declare war on Britain and take revenge. The British Embassy in Italy and consulates everywhere have been surrounded by angry people. You see Do we need to further intensify the conflict?" Reinhard, who came to report on the situation in Italy, felt nothing but admiration. What kind of foresight did he start planning this just a few years ago?

Yannick nodded and ordered. "What's the point of just standing around and letting our people continue to incite? It's better to rush in and kill the ambassador. The consul is the irritant. Has our army encountered any resistance?"

"At the beginning, there was slight resistance in some places, but once the broadcasts and leaflets were dispersed, everything was unobstructed. One of our paratrooper divisions has landed in the city of Rome and controlled various key points. The royal family members also Every one of them is under control. The ground troops can advance to Rome in three hours, and we can control all of Italy in up to 36 hours."

"Tell General Hans Krebs and General Paul Hausser that I will leave them 100,000 people and let them train at least 1 million Italian troops capable of fighting hard. We must also step up the penetration and expansion of GSP."

"yes."

In the "Barbarossa Plan" of the original time and space, the German military strength on the Eastern Front was said to be 3.05 million, 3.2 million, and 5.5 million. The 3.05 million and 3.2 million here refer to the army strength of the German Army on the Eastern Front. The difference seems to be that the former is the 145 army divisions under the jurisdiction of the "Eastern Front" theater, and the latter also includes the 3 divisions deployed in the Finnish theater and 4 SS divisions. "5.5 million" is the Soviet version, which includes the total number of the German Army, Navy, Air Force and Servant Army. However, there seems to be no German material to confirm it, so it is rarely used by the West.

He hopes that when the "Barbarossa Plan" is implemented in this time and space, the number of servants and soldiers will reach 3 million or even 4 million; of which the Italian army will account for 700,000 to 800,000.

For a long time, due to Italy's poor strategic performance, people generally believed that the Italian army was of poor quality. Some even believed that Italy was holding back the Axis powers. There were black jokes about the Italian army flying all over the Internet. So what level is the Italian army at?

In terms of equipment, the level of the Italian army is really not bad. The Italian Air Force has excellent Macchi series and Fiat series fighters. Italian fighters are even exported to Japan. Italy's Fiat G55 is even evaluated by the Germans as the most promising fighter jet of the Axis powers; Italy's naval strength is also Yes, the design of the main battleship Veneto-class battleships is world-class, with beautiful appearance, strong firepower, strong defense, and fine workmanship. Its performance is even better than the French Richelieu-class, and it is on par with the American South Dakota-class, which fully reflects the It shows Italy’s industrial strength and industrial heritage. Italy's submarines and offshore combat vessels are also very good, and it also has the ability to design and build aircraft carriers. Its navy is considered to be world-class, second only to the United States, Britain and Japan. Although Italy's army equipment is worse than that of the German army, it is still better than the German army. Japan is not a little bit stronger. The Italian Army's weapons and equipment quality and mechanization level are far higher than Japan's, and it can be regarded as a quasi-first-class level in the world.

From a combat level point of view, the combat quality of the Italian army is not worse than that of the Japanese army. Italy adopts completely Western-style modern training. With the help of the Germans, its combat level has been greatly improved, and it has not fallen behind in the competition with the United Kingdom in North Africa. However, due to the lack of outstanding commanders in Italy, the lack of combat experience of the soldiers, and the weak will to fight, their performance was very average, barely considered second-rate.

From the perspective of individual combat capabilities, the Italian army is really average. Although the quality of Italian individual soldiers is good, due to the high level of war weariness and relatively weak will to fight in the Italian army, they generally will not fight until they are forced to a desperate situation. Therefore, it is difficult to defeat Greece and can only be regarded as a second-rate level. However, the Italian army swept across the Soviet army in Ukraine and captured 100,000 Soviet soldiers at once. Based on the war situation between the Soviet Union and the Japanese army, the Italian army's combat effectiveness may not be much worse than the Japanese army.

From the perspective of logistics supply, due to Italy's limited national strength, weak industrial base, and lack of resources, Italy's mechanization level is low, and its logistics supply is relatively poor. It is far worse than the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and it is second-rate among the major powers. However, compared to other second-rate countries, the Italian army is much happier. At least they can still have pasta and potatoes to eat, and they can drink red wine on the battlefield.

It's just that Italy in the original time and space was really not ready for war + had a pig-headed leader.

If you are familiar with World War II, you will find that when World War II broke out on September 1, 1939, Italy had enough steel for 14 days, coal for 50 days, and iron ore for 180 days.

This is still knitting and knitting...

No wonder then Foreign Minister Ciano wrote in his diary after inspecting Italian industry: "We are in such a situation, how dare we join the war!?"

Generally speaking, the Italian army's combat performance in World War II was indeed very poor, but in essence, it was also caused by insufficient war preparations, backward equipment, leaders' excessive interference in military command, and political instability.

The most important thing is that when Italy announced that it would join the Fascist War, most of the people in the country did not agree, but the Italian head of state, Mussolini, insisted on joining World War II. However, the domestic military equipment was not fully prepared, and the people's awareness of participating in the war was not high. Some people even deliberately let go during the war. That's why the Italian troops who had been fighting abroad were defeated so quickly and so ugly.

Now, the British encouraged Mussolini to kill their king. The whole country of Italy was so excited that they wanted to tear Britain into pieces.

Not enough weapons and equipment?

While the Germans captured hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers at Dunkirk, they also seized a large amount of weapons and equipment. More than 2,000 artillery pieces, 30,000 cars, 50,000 motorcycles, more than 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 20,000 machine guns, and 500,000 tons of military supplies. While Yannick ordered all these supplies to be allocated to Italy for emergency response, he also sent Speer to Italy to integrate their industries, especially the military industry; all weapons production lines were replaced with German standard weapons production lines.

Yannick yawned, looked at the clock, put away the documents and stood up. "Isn't it a bit overwhelming to occupy so many countries at once? But no matter how busy you are, you have to pay attention to your health. You should go back and rest early."

Reinhard thanked him with a flattered expression. "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness."

Back in the bedroom, looking at Princess Silvia in her sleep, Yannick kissed her on her white cheek and whispered softly. "Congratulations, my Queen."

"Brother Yannick." Sylvia opened her sleepy eyes, stretched out her hands to hug his neck, and murmured coquettishly. "I don't know how to run a country or anything like that."

"You don't have to worry, the people below will take care of it for you."