The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 302

But in the meantime, he seemed to have discovered his honorable prime minister status again.

So he immediately let go of the assistant's collar, turned to the side, straightened his tie, cleared his throat and said, "Okay, I see. You...you...you go Inform all the senior generals in Rome that there will be a meeting in my ward in half an hour."

"Yes, Prime Minister! I'll do it right away." After finishing speaking, the assistant quickly ran away.He was quite frightened by the prime minister today, and he had long wanted to find a chance to escape.

More than half an hour later, in Mussolini's ward, almost all the senior generals of the Italian armed forces arrived and crowded into this small sick room.

To be honest, the room assigned to Mussolini at the San Giovanni Hospital is not insignificant.However, admitting dozens of high-ranking generals to enter together at one go, it will naturally appear that there is not enough space.

Among the many generals, only Admiral Lefer, who had just returned to Rome, buried his head and dared not speak.

Because he was directly in charge of the cruiser Gildio.

Mussolini naturally knew about this, so he asked Lefer directly: "What is going on with your navy? So many British bombers have never been shot down by you, but our Air Marshal's special plane came from you. When the warship passed by, it happened to be shot down by you!"

Lefer knew that he was wrong, but he still couldn't help explaining: "Prime Minister, this was an accident, a big accident. I have ordered the suspension of the captain of the cruiser Gilgio and the gunner who shot down Marshal Balbo's plane." Investigate, we must investigate this matter to the bottom."

"Accident? You told me it was an accident?!"

Mussolini's fiery eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

He roared with his eyes tearing apart: "In my opinion, it was an accident that you group of idiots appeared here! It was an accident that your father and your mother gave birth to you back then, right? The special plane was also shot down by your navy. You ran to my tombstone again and told me it was an accident!"

Mussolini was furious, obviously not accepting that this was an accidental explanation.

After all, the one who died was the famous Italian pioneer aviator, leader of the Black Shirt Party, colonial ruler, Mussolini's designated successor and personal friend, and he was the most important of the four core figures under his command.

For such an important person under his command, if he said he would die, he would die so wrongly that no one would accept it!

"Well, from today onwards, you will fly back and forth between North Africa and Rome every day, and see if you can have an accident!" Mussolini said coldly.

He did not hesitate to hide his anger in front of the generals of the three armies, which was enough to show that Balbo held an important position in his heart.

Although Lefer was aggrieved, he still didn't dare to speak in the face of Mussolini's indiscriminate bombing.

He lowered his head and endured all this silently.

Fortunately, at this time, General Rudolfo Graziani stood up and spoke for him: "Leader, we are also very sad that Marshal Balbo left us, but this has become a fact, and we have no way to change it. Besides, Admiral Lefer just defeated the British fleet in the Battle of Oran and captured the most advanced British aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal. It can be regarded as a great achievement, because this accident is not rewarded but punished, I am afraid it will shake the morale of the marines .”

"And all we can do now is to suffer the result silently, and then try our best to make up for what we lost after Marshal Balbo left." Graziani continued.

Mussolini squinted at Graziani, who was interceding for Lefer, and snorted coldly: "Well, then I will officially appoint you, General Rudolfo Graziani, as the new Governor of Libya. .”

"This..." Graziani really didn't expect that the position of Governor of Libya would fall to himself.Now let him take this position, isn't it just to go to North Africa to fight the British? !

Graziani, who had always been afraid of the UK, shook his head quickly, ready to refuse.

Unfortunately, before he opened his mouth to evade, Mussolini said first: "In addition, to the outside world, we must strictly block the news that Marshal Balbo was accidentally injured and died by our own navy. Just say... He was killed by the British!"

Then... and then, Mussolini passed out and fell into a faint on the hospital bed.

After all, the last time Reinhardt was stunned was not long ago.

Now, not long after, the Italians came to continue to anger him.

Even if Mussolini has a strong psychological quality, it is impossible to bear it!

Seeing Mussolini fainted on the hospital bed, Graziani was also dizzy.

The leader collapsed after finishing the task, didn't Graziani have no choice but to refuse the drudgery of fighting the British......

Body 4 Chapter [-] Do you want to be a marshal (plus more)

"This stupid pig!" After walking out of the ward, Lefer went to a place where no one was around and cursed secretly.

He had just defeated the mighty British Forbes task force for the Kingdom of Italy, Mussolini's "New Roman Empire", and captured the first ever aircraft carrier for the Italian Navy.

In terms of merit, in the whole of Italy, who else's credit can be compared with his Admiral Lefer!

However, because of a little trouble with his subordinates, Mussolini, a stupid pig, actually ordered him to fly back and forth between Tobruk and Rome to "send his death".

Serious meritorious deeds are not rewarded, petty crimes are severely punished!

Such an idiot is actually his immediate boss!

Every time Lefer thought of this, he was so angry that he wanted to find a pillar and hit him to death.

In the beginning, Lefer thought that Mussolini and himself were quite right-tempered, and had a good impression of him.

Mussolini had ambitions, and Lefer also had ambitions. Until today, Lefer has always regarded Mussolini as a good leader who can be loyal.

However, what happened today chilled him.

Having been Mussolini's thug for so many years and making such great military exploits for his "New Roman Empire", in the end it was so easy to turn his face and deny anyone.

"Boom!" Lefer punched the wall heavily.

Excessive force made the bones at the tip of his fist a little painless.However, what hurts more at this moment is his heart that was still boiling with blood not long ago.

Mussolini, actually treats himself like a dog!

Humiliated in public, ridiculed in every possible way, transferred Graziani, who interceded for him, to Africa, and said nothing about his illustrious military exploits.

Does he really have no self-esteem when he is Lefer?

However, while Lefer secretly resented Mussolini, another vice admiral who had been with him in the ward before and witnessed everything quietly walked behind him.

Although they are both in the navy, this civilian lieutenant general who has stayed in Rome for a long time is not familiar with Leifer, the "military" general who leads troops to fight.

"General Lefer, please wait!"

The lieutenant general who was catching up suddenly made a sound, which made Leifer feel a little abrupt.

"You are?" Lefer obviously failed to recognize the name of the lieutenant general who was chasing up from behind him.

"General Leifer doesn't know me. It's not surprising. After all, I usually stay in the office and rarely go to the army." The lieutenant general smiled very kindly and introduced himself: "Please allow me to introduce myself Name, Abraham Kerber."

Abraham was originally a small person. If it weren't for the respect and support of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Rossi, let alone lieutenant general, he wouldn't even be able to get the rank of major general.

"Then Lieutenant General Abraham," Leifer glanced at the military rank on the opponent's shoulder, and asked calmly, "What do you want from me?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that I admire you, the general who defeated the British Royal Navy, and I want to get to know an excellent general like you." The lieutenant general smiled and complimented: "Looking at the generals in our Italian navy, it can be said No one's achievements in battle can be compared with yours, General."

"That's true." Lefer nodded happily.

As long as you are an individual, you will like to praise yourself.What's more, when Mussolini scolded himself, Leifer must still be in a good mood when he heard the praise from his confidant.

However, the purpose of Abraham finding Leifel was not just to praise him.