Chapter 371 Hauser and Heinrich Rectify the Italian Army
In Montenegro, in the north-central Balkans, Hauser and Heinrich were talking in their combat command room.
"We have almost eliminated the guerrillas and the People's Army. Should we evacuate the Montenegro region immediately? The Sicily Battle has begun!"
Heinrich asked anxiously at Hauser, who was looking at the map of Romania.
"Well! I also want to evacuate here immediately and fight in Sicily, but so far, we have not received the evacuation order from the Head of State!"
"And when we attacked the headquarters of the corps, we had not yet bombed him or captured him! Now I don't know whether he continued to hide in Yugoslavia, or had already arrived in other areas of Bosnia, or had fled to other countries to hide!"
Hauser shook his head and said.
"Yes! The information collected by our intelligence network in Yugoslavia under the leadership of the Tel. It is not efficient at all! And there is also a lot of information that is wrongly guided!"
"But I also unexpectedly, the last large-scale sneak attack was entrusted to escape by this cunning corps!"
Heinrich responded a little unwillingly.
"The last time he was asked to escape, there was no way. But we have to deal with more important things now, that is, we have to deal with the fourteen reorganized Italian divisions and four missing divisions deployed by Mussolini in Yugoslavia."
"Because Mussolini has been imprisoned by the Italian king and the others, and the whereabouts are not understood for the time being. Although Marshal Rommel has led his troops to surround Rome, in order to prevent something unexpected, we should deal with these Italian troops immediately!"
Hauser suddenly changed the subject.
"Well! If you don't talk about this, I think and do the same! But how should we deal with these Italian masters now! There are quite a few people!"
Heinrich nodded in agreement.
"Plus and reorganize them! Those who do not want to fight will immediately seize their weapons and equipment and let them get out of here immediately! It is better to waste food and destroy our morale in our troops! Of course, there are also Italian troops who resist or want to be unfavorable to us, immediately annihilate them without leaving any one!"
Hauser replied immediately without thinking.
"Yeah! Then I understand!"
Heinrich nodded seriously and agreed.
"In addition, we must also let the intelligence departments send more intelligence officers to Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Sanjak; Montenegro, Herzegovina, Lika, Korton, and Bania and other places to quickly find out where the Telto and his remnants were hiding!"
"We must deal with them as soon as possible, transfer all the German troops in Yugoslavia from here, and wait for the new orders of the head of state!"
Hauser added.
"I'll inform you about this matter soon. I must give some pressure on the intelligence departments to make their reconnaissance faster. Otherwise, if it's so slow, I'm afraid the Sicily Battle is over. We still have to stay here and fight guerrilla warfare with the guerrilla leader!"
Heinrich agreed very much.
"By the way, how many total troops are we on hand now?"
Hauser asked suddenly.
"When we surrounded Montenegro, we mobilized about 130,000 people, and now there are almost 400,000 people. Although many of them are Italian troops and puppet troops from other servant countries, more than 100,000 people from our German troops have arrived!"
"But many of these German troops were taken from the National Wehrmacht and the SS!"
Heinrich thought for a while and said.
"Well! It really surprised me! When I first received the order from the head of state to come to Serbia to deal with the troop, I thought that only the head of state personally established the air cavalry regiment and the SS12 Hitler Youth Group Armored Division!"
"I really didn't expect that now I am a commander who leads more than 400,000 troops. This is a really difficult opportunity!"
Hearing this, Hausel was stunned for a moment, and grinned happily.
"Hey! Then do I want to congratulate you on becoming the general!"
Seeing this, Heinrich was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile.
Hausel just smiled and did not respond to the question.
"Ah! I almost forgot. Before I came to you, I received a big piece of information, which said that the British and American headquarters planned to provide the guerrillas and the People's Army with about 160,000 rifles, 60,000 machine guns, 700 tanks, and 200 aircraft, 7,000 artillery, and a large number of grenades and other weapons and equipment."
Heinrich suddenly remembered.
"Well! Why are the top leaders in Britain and the United States suddenly so good, providing so many weapons and equipment to these foreign guerrillas? What are their plans?"
Hearing such important information, Hausel asked back with a strange and puzzled expression.
"Because they did not ask their weapons and equipment for free, the first thing they asked them to hold back our hundreds of thousands of troops in Serbia and Yugoslavia, and not allow us to have any extra troops to be dispatched to the battlefield in Sicily and participate in the battle!"
"The second is to ask these guerrillas to find ways to seize the weapons and ammunition from the weapons warehouses of Italian troops who were preparing to abandon the war or surrender!"
Heinrich explained.
"Hey! I say that these British and American senior officials are not as good as that, everything comes at a price!"
Hauser looked at Heinrich with such a look and said with a smile.
"Then how do you plan to deal with the support of these weapons and equipment from the top leaders of the UK and the United States?"
Heinrich also said with a smile.
"Of course, kill the Tel and his troops before they get these weapons and equipment!"
Hauser responded with certainty.
"Since that's the case, I'll go out and rectify the Italian troops first! For those troops who like to drag their backs, or are tired of war and like to have a knife behind the back, give us a stab in the back!"
Heinrich said calmly.
Hauser nodded in agreement, and then he continued to look at his combat map.
As for Heinrich, he immediately left the combat command room and quickly issued an order to rectify the Italian troops.
In a short while, many Italian troops were disarmed, disposed of, or reorganized.
However, during this rectification operation, a small number of Italian troops resisted, and then fought a brief and fierce battle with the German army led by Heinrich.
Chapter completed!