But even so, the German army was not easy. .

As the commander of the Goering Division, Hermann said: "Our personnel replenishment and weapons and equipment supply have been completely cut off, and all the requests have been signed by the Supreme Command and put aside. We don't know what to use to block the enemy's attack. Although we still have morale, we don't even have enough mines buried on the road..."

What Hermann said is not exaggerated at all, because since the Italian "uprising", the German logistics forces have no longer dared to pass through Rome as usual and then transport ammunition and supplies to the Group A Army as usual... This is almost equivalent to suicide when the situation is unclear and only two divisions have the strength of the troops near Rome.

In fact, the situation is far more serious than Hermann said.

The reason is that Italy was an allies with Germany before, so a considerable part of the German army's supply came directly from Italy's factories... For example, Germany has five arsenals in Italy, which produces the ammunition needed by the German army while most of the workers were Italians.

These workers can imagine that after learning about the Italian "uprising", they were unwilling to work for the German army, and even destroyed machines and incinerated factories.

Kesseling had no way of doing this, because he only had a few soldiers in his hands, and it was impossible for him to consider the arsenal issue when he was considering the attacks of Rome and the Allies.

The same thing happened in the food factory, which instantly put the Group A in trouble.

In addition, there is communication... Almost all of the German telephone communications depend on the Italian postal communication network, so of course it was completely cut off at this time.

This made it impossible for Kesseling to have a conversation with his own army commander, and he could only use very inefficient radio stations.

From this we can also see that if the Allies launched a fierce attack on the German army at this time... even if they did not land on the airborne and land on Rome as Zhang Chi thought, the Allies could cause the German army to flee at least the German army.

But Britain and the United States did not do this because they had their own ulterior motives.

Perhaps Britain and the United States think this is nothing, because the German army seems to have no other way out and can only continue to retreat, so what can I do to give Germany some extra time?

On the battlefield, time is one of the most important factors.

If it is in the hands of a mediocre person, it is indeed worthless, because he cannot think of a solution, and can only let these time and opportunities slip away from him bit by bit.

But Kesseling is not a mediocre person. In some ways, he is much more clever than Ronmel...

However, like Rommel, he is also a marshal who "will not accept foreign military orders."

After learning of the Italian army's "uprising", Hitler angrily ordered the disarming of all Italian troops and to contain them as prisoners...

Kesselin was puzzled by the command of the head of state: You must know that it was a million troops, and the only one he could use was less than 30,000 paratrooper divisions. The others were busy dealing with the Allied attacks in the south. Disarming the Italian army? How could it be done!

Of course, Keselin would not be so stupid that he really did this. He knew very well that if the conflict with the Italian army really intensified, it would only cause trouble in the end... Even if the sheep were annoyed, they would bite people, not to mention that this was still millions of sheep.

After thinking for a long time, Kesselin decided to take a moderate approach: negotiating with the Italians.

Because Bardoglio, the Italian king and even the Army Staff had fled, Kesselin could only negotiate with General Cosimo, who was in Rome to actually control the military power.

Keseling asked the soldiers to send a letter to Cosimo...he had to do so because the telephone communication in Germany had been cut off.

In the letter, Keselin strongly expressed his hope to talk to Cosimo, and in order to reduce unnecessary losses to the army on both sides, the location can be selected by Cosimo.

At this time, Cosimo was panicked and wondering what to do. Although he had 100,000 Italian troops in his hands, the head of state and the king all fled, and the Italian army had no confidence in fighting against the German army... For the Italian army, those German soldiers were all like war machines.

Therefore, Italian soldiers, including Cosimo himself, did not want to confront the German army head-on.

So Cosimo soon met Keselin in a small building in the middle.

"Dear General Cosimo!" Keselin wanted to hold Cosimo's hand enthusiastically and said, "I'm very happy to meet you. Please believe that I have no malice at all!"

This surprised Cosimo. He thought that this proud German would denounce Italy's betrayal as soon as he met!

"I'm very happy, Mr. Marshal!" Cosimo's expression was a little stiff, and he looked around alertly. He was a little worried that Keselin was Hongmen Yan.

Keselin disregarded himself, and asked Cosimo to sit down, handed a cigar, and said slowly: "I regret the current situation. We were comrades, but now we have become enemies. But I believe that a considerable number of you are unwilling to develop into this... However, since things have reached this point, I think we should seek a path to minimize bloodshed and conflicts, what do you think?"

"What is the road you are pointing to?" Cosimo asked: "Will we surrender and stand with the Germans? Impossible, this will leave us abandoned by all Italians!"

"No!" Keseling shook his head and said, "Of course I'm not referring to this, I know it's impossible! I'm referring to... Why don't we keep the status quo?"

"Keiseling's status quo?" Cosimo didn't understand Keseling's words. If it was to maintain the status quo, why did he ask for a meeting again?!

"That's right!" Kesselin explained: "Our purpose is to block the Allied attack. Your purpose is to reduce casualties as much as possible to avoid conflicts, and to stand on the side of the Allied forces... No problem is there. I mean, you are on the side of the Allied forces, and the Germans will not attack Rome or other cities. When the Allied forces attack Rome, you can also join them."

"So what are your requirements?" Cosimo didn't believe that such a good thing would be.
Chapter completed!