Giampaolo was originally a cartographer, responsible for helping the French draw maps of Naples and surrounding areas. Later, he became a captain and staff officer in the military with his professional skills.
It's ridiculous. The current Kingdom of Naples has no king. The former king, the European Emperor Louis XIV, has resigned. However, the Ming Emperor Zhu Cixiang who received the title transfer is not recognized by the locals.
The King of Naples' army is a self-established armed force. According to legal principles, it does not comply with relevant regulations. At most, it is a private guard of a bunch of nobles, but it calls itself the royal army!
From generals to officers, military ranks at all levels are obtained through donations and recruitment, which is a typical self-entertainment model.
But the natives of the Kingdom of Naples didn't think so, and finally got the good news that the French were leaving.
They no longer want to have multiple fathers, not to mention that this father needs to be supported by themselves.
No matter how wealthy the Kingdom of Naples is, it still has no obligation or responsibility to support the new father!
If the new father insists on asking for support, all they can do is refuse and resist!
It doesn't matter if the newly formed army lacks systematic training. Firstly, it can get training from Rome, and secondly, it can continue to accumulate experience through actual combat.
Although the Battle of Sicily was painful, everyone still learned a lot.
For example, you cannot just use the mountainous areas to carry out guerrilla warfare. This method will not be able to repel the yellow-skinned monkeys.
It is necessary to dig burrows, use guerrilla warfare and burrow warfare, plus night raids, a three-in-one tactic to effectively block the yellow-skinned monkey's attack.
Not only do caves need to be dug in mountainous areas, but also in towns and cities, and any enemy that is interested in them can be turned into a cemetery to bury them!
Although our own side cannot compete with the yellow-skinned monkey in terms of weapons and equipment, we can obtain endless power from the masses. This is the correct way to achieve final victory.
We cannot be discouraged or even give up resistance because of early failures. We must persist in guerrilla warfare, cave warfare, and night raid warfare. Only in this way can we gain precious freedom!
On March 7, when there was no intact building in Naples and turned into a large ruin, Jiexuan ordered the Marine Brigade to land.
The Marines have long been suffocated. Although they are very interested in taking a boat to watch the excitement, the feeling of setting foot on land always makes everyone feel so at ease.
The most important thing is that on the boat, everyone has to line up to go to the toilet. When they get to the shore, just dig a hole. Sometimes there is no need to dig a hole...
However, there are some regulations that must be followed and cannot be violated. For example, drinking water must be boiled and filtered before drinking, otherwise just diarrhea will make you collapse.
According to the defense map provided by Giampaolo, after landing, the Marine Brigade focused on checking the corresponding artillery positions and places to absorb troops.
Because the fleet's firepower was so fierce, and it bombed six times in a row, all the potentially dangerous places had collapsed.
The exposed gun emplacements were bombarded into large craters. Except for some scrap metal and lumps similar to human tissue, no complete weapons or corpses could be seen at all.
Those who participated in the war were all veterans, so they would not vomit on the spot after seeing such a scene. At lunch time, everyone should still eat and drink, and everything was as usual.
Bombard six and get only one ruin?
If it were any other dynasty, this would probably be a good excuse for the imperial censor to rant!
However, in this dynasty, the frontline generals can do whatever they want as long as they do not make major misjudgments that cause large-scale casualties on their own side.
Zhu Cihong, like Louis XIV, was very concerned about pensions. The pensions of Ming soldiers were much higher than those of the French army.
Which general of the King's army dares to kill someone thousands of miles away, then he can retire early, and Emperor Haojing can guarantee that he will not rise again!
This case should not be taken lightly, otherwise there will be tens of thousands of casualties, and the court will have to pay tens of millions in pensions. Who the hell can bear this?
No matter how experienced the veteran is, can his pension be redeemed?
Aren’t the costs of early training and feed all wasted?
We must save where we can. Emperor Haojing would rather use the money to pay bonuses than to pay pensions.
Jiexuan was an old friend of the emperor and knew the emperor's heart well. In terms of tactics, he always adopted the strategy of firing more cannons and killing fewer people.
Whatever the Navy can do to help the Army, it will definitely handle it properly, and the Army brothers will never have to worry about it again.
The army naturally likes to hang out with the navy, especially in coastal operations. With the cover of naval guns, it can really get twice the result with half the effort.
The core of General Bonazzoli's first line of defense was Naples. As a result, the opponent destroyed and occupied the city in less than a week.
He still wanted to continue to lead his troops to resist, but the city of Naples had been reduced to ruins, and most of the bunkers needed by the defenders had been destroyed under the fierce enemy artillery fire.
Without bunkers, infantry alone would be completely unable to withstand the yellow-skinned monkey's tank advance.
To destroy one of the opponent's heavy tanks, they would have to pay a heavy price of dozens of people.
It doesn't cost so much to attack a tank alone. There are infantry advancing in coordination near the tank.
The defenders' infantry is mainly infantry, supplemented by a small number of submachine guns and machine guns.
The Ming Army infantry is equipped with a large number of assault rifles with scopes. Each squad is also equipped with a machine gun, a sniper rifle, and a rocket launcher. Platoon-level units are also equipped with mortars.
This allows direct fire, deflection fire, and targeted elimination. If the opponent wants to fight with the Ming Army infantry squad and platoon-level units, unless they have a strength advantage, they will be suppressed by firepower.
If the fighting distance between the two sides is within 100 meters, the indigenous defenders with a small number of automatic light weapons are no match for the Ming army.
Beyond a hundred meters, the opponent will be suppressed by the combination of tanks, machine guns, and sniper rifles, and the Ming army can name them one by one.
Tanks engage in street fighting for no other reason than to remove any fish that have slipped through the net after being covered by naval gun fire, leaving not even half a building in the city left.
Wherever there is a place where there are ruins and ruins, grenades will be thrown first. The infantry will then go over to check the specific situation. When they see corpses with no obvious signs of injury, they all need to be reloaded.
In cities such as Catania, Palermo, and Messina in Sicily, the Ming Army infantry units advanced in this way, and the local indigenous people never won a single street battle.
A week after Naples fell, Del Greco, Annunziata, and Fort Stabia, three tactical nodes on the first line of defense, also fell one after another.
The specific process is exactly the same as that in Naples. This is not something the defenders can hold on to if they have determination and courage and are not afraid of death. Faced with naval gunfire, their flesh and blood bodies eventually turned into bulk cooked meat...
"The yellow-skinned monkey's offensive is very fierce. We can only temporarily retreat to the second line of defense, use the mountains and caves as cover, and use a combination of guerrilla warfare and night raids to eliminate them!"
General Bonazzoli did not want to get too hung up on the issue of the loss of the first line of defense. Under the current situation, such words would have no effect other than damaging morale and creating conflicts.
Everyone has tried their best, and now is not the time to hold people accountable. All four important areas on the first line of defense have been lost, so the responsibility naturally falls on most people.
Who do you blame?
We can only blame the yellow-skinned monkey's firepower for being too fierce, and the tactics he used were not what we imagined.
The response was very cruel and cunning, and infantry would not be easily dispatched to fight in the streets until the city was completely destroyed.
This is something worth summarizing and analyzing. We must learn relevant lessons in the future and strive to turn the tide of the war.
"As long as the yellow-skinned monkeys are ambitious enough, they will definitely go north. We still have a chance on the second line of defense!"
Deputy Army Commander Biraj went down. He was eager to retreat to the second line of defense as soon as possible, because the firepower of the yellow-skinned monkeys was so terrifying.
If he couldn't hide himself well, he would be shot immediately and he might not be able to keep the whole body. Then he wouldn't even need a coffin, he would just find a box to put it in.
It sounds ridiculous, but this is the actual situation. There is no moisture at all. Thousands of people have been killed by this method, and some have even been buried alive by collapsed walls.
Before the war started, everyone thought they could kill a yellow-skinned monkey with one shot during street fighting.
Only after the fight started did I realize that one shot from the other side could send a group of our own people directly to the attack...
The yellow-skinned monkey is not only very smart, but also very good at fighting, and does not fall into his own trap at all.
Most of the landmines and deep pits in the city have no effect at all, and they are as dead as the soldiers.
The defenders used buildings as bunkers, but little did they know that these buildings were all big targets in the eyes of the opponent.
In the past six years, everyone has been living in fear, not knowing which shell will send them away directly.
Many people did not become heroes, but directly became martyrs...
What is the difference between a hero and a martyr?
The former has results, the latter does not.
If you die with zero results, there is no need to mention the record on your tombstone.
There were many similar things in Warsaw back then, and there was a lot of clamor before the war.
After being bombed by more than a thousand planes in a row, they were buried en masse without achieving a single victory!
When the coalition forces captured the important coastal areas of Naples, Admiral Bonazzoli was already looking into the distance on the Matese Mountains.
The main force of the First Army has to withdraw to the second line of defense, but as a senior general, he has the right to command operations on the third line of defense. It is safer here and will not be attacked by yellow-skinned monkeys for the time being.
In the Maggiore Mountains south of the Matese Mountains, this has become a new battlefield.
The indigenous soldiers responsible for defending here had never seen so many aircraft, especially helicopters circling at low altitudes.
The French army stationed in Naples had been equipped with helicopters before, but the number was less than ten, which was very precious.
The Ming army attacking here almost used the "Condor" utility helicopter as a truck when the terrain was not conducive to the advancement of armored forces.
The "Black Hawk" armed helicopter is responsible for clearing enemy firepower points in the mountainous area. When it is almost cleared, the "Condor" general-purpose helicopter is used to carry infantry up to seize the territory.
In particular, the commanding heights where you can overlook the mountain roads are the focus of competition between the two sides.
The indigenous armed forces deployed machine guns and machine guns in many places on the top of the mountain and halfway up the mountain for air defense operations.
However, the advantage of helicopters is that they can hover at low altitudes and hover at low speeds, and are also convenient for decentralized roundabouts and concentrated attacks, making them particularly suitable for operations in mountainous areas.
The wealthy Ming army could mobilize more than ten helicopters at a time to launch a concentrated fire attack on a high ground in order to seize a hilltop, and they could also receive fire support from "air gunships".
This was something that the defenders could not imagine and could not do. They could only resist desperately until they were all killed.
Needless to say, such soldiers are warriors and every soldier on both sides needs to possess this kind of courage.
But the Ming Dynasty King Shi was not an invader and had ownership of the entire Kingdom of Naples.
This was obtained through legal and reasonable means, and what is being carried out now is a legitimate military operation to regain lost territory.
The indigenous armed forces were not legal armed forces approved by the Ming Emperor, but illegal gangs formed for their own selfish desires.
If they refuse to surrender, justice will definitely be waiting for them!
Those responsible for attacking Mount Maggiore were the 7th Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army and the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades of the Japanese Army. There were no armored units in the real sense because they were of no use at all.
The local terrain is either two mountains sandwiched between a ditch, or a large area of hills. The armored troops can at best be stationed in a plain under the mountain, where there are still towns blocking the highway.
Fortunately, Emperor Haojing mobilized more than 2,000 helicopters. Otherwise, if the armored troops took the road alone, they would be hit by crossfire from the indigenous people on the mountains on both sides.
When the weather is good, there are always more than twenty helicopters active near Mount Maggiore at any time.
The Japanese army has planted its flag on the high ground, but the campaign is far from over.
Capturing the summit of Maggiore took less than an hour, but every nearby hilltop had to be carefully inspected.
The soldiers of the Ming army would not rush into the caves. Instead, they would carry out the orders issued by their superiors and use explosives to blow up all the cave entrances they found.
This is the cheapest way to deal with the "moles" inside. Even if a Ming soldier dies at the entrance of the cave, the cost will immediately take off...
The task of the Japanese Ashigaru was very simple, which was to search for other cave entrances and use explosives to blow them up if they found them.
The indigenous people want the coalition soldiers to enter the cave, and the coalition forces don't want them to come out again.
If you can always live in it, then you have the ability.
Otherwise, this hole will be the cemetery you dug yourself!
Jiexuan had already ordered shiploads of explosives from the Ottomans, all of which could be used to blow up the cave entrance.
As the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, he wanted to see whether he had more explosives or the other party dug more holes!
War has been a game of wits and courage since ancient times.
But so far, there are few enemies who are smarter than the Ming Dynasty King.
The indigenous people on the Apennine Peninsula could think of the burrow tactic, which was considered to be because they had used their brains in advance.
In this regard, it is at least much better than those in the Holy Roman Empire.
Leopold and his son were obsessed with using legion tactics and the help of allies to defeat the Ming Dynasty, thus neglecting the method of digging holes.
Maybe the indigenous people opposite have the military and industrial production capacity of the Holy Roman Empire, and they don't bother to dig holes...
