Daming 1805

Chapter 568 "Surrender for the sake of the Kingdom and people of Italy!"

After Yang Yuchun observed the power of nuclear explosions on the front line, he returned to his headquarters and issued an order to prepare to cross the sea.

The specific operation plan is to use a large number of helicopters and hovercrafts to cooperate with the airborne troops to launch a landing battle under the cover of the Ming Dynasty Air Force.

After all, this strait is only two kilometers wide, so there is no need for special landing ships to cooperate.

The target location for landing is under the foundation of an old bridge on the Black Sea side, [-] kilometers northeast of the old city of Constantinople.

Then let the specialized "pontoon tool ship" build a large pontoon bridge, a military pontoon bridge that is large enough for armored combat vehicles to drive over normally.

A temporary road will be built to connect the floating bridge with the original road behind the bridge.

After the main force has passed part of the way and completely occupied the land across the sea, real engineering forces can then repair the bridge and railway.

This task is certainly not difficult at all.

At this time, the Ottomans, Romans, Lucians, Germans, and Italians across the strait were all shocked by the physical punishment of God.

There is no defensive force on the other side of the strait. No one has the consciousness or the courage to defend.

It's just that this process takes a little time.

During this period of time, the situation in the entire western continent has rapidly undergone unexpected changes.

The first was King Vittorio of Italy, who was already despairing of the current situation.

After receiving the notice of the Ming Dynasty's strategic attack on Constantinople, the three Roman kingdoms said goodbye to the monarchs of Germany and Lucia.

He took his family, ministers and staff, packed his things and returned to his native capital, Rome.

Vittorio thought simpler, it was time to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

The war cannot continue like this.

When the train Vittorio took entered the city of Rome, the whole city was "jubilant".

Countless citizens took to the streets and shouted chaotically and violently.

But they were not here to welcome their king.

Riots broke out in the city of Rome.

Italy's national power is limited and the benefits it can gain from foreign wars are also limited.

After the Ming Dynasty entered the war, it directly eliminated 300 million Roman soldiers from the Three Kingdoms at the beginning of the war, and more than 200 million soldiers were eliminated and captured in subsequent conventional wars.

The battlefields are all in Lucia, and the vast majority of the soldiers are of course Lucia, accounting for more than 300 million people.

The Germans have also sacrificed hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

The number of soldiers lost by Italy was the lowest among the three countries, but it totaled almost 60 million.

In addition, before the Ming Dynasty entered the war, Italy suffered the greatest losses among the three countries in the conventional wars against Austria, France and Spain on the Western continent.

From AD to the present, Italy has lost more than one million soldiers.

This is the number of soldiers who have physically disappeared, either eliminated or captured from the point of return.

If Italy wants to maintain the operation of its national institutions and sustain subsequent foreign wars, it needs to maintain a larger army.

There are still more than 200 million soldiers in Italy now, and the Savoy royal family continues to recruit more soldiers.

The key is that Italy itself has a population of less than 4000 million, only half of the population of Germany and one-third of the population of Lucia.

Adding the casualties to the current total of nearly 300 million soldiers, plus the police in various places to maintain law and order, the total number of armed personnel may have exceeded 400 million.

This has reached one-tenth of the total local population.

This has reached and will soon exceed the limit of the armed mobilization capabilities of this era.

The Italians' fighting will is not strong to begin with.

Not as good as the Germans who are blessed with the effect of Unifying Germany, and not as good as the Lucians who are blessed by the effect of Rebuilding Rome.

The current Italian soldiers' fighting will is even weaker.

Italy's industrial capabilities were originally inferior to Germany's, and the colonial resources it controlled were also inferior to Germany's.

Nowadays, a large number of young and middle-aged people have become soldiers and have left their families, factories, and farms.

Most of the demands for militarization have squeezed out the share of civilian industrial production, causing the living standards of ordinary people in Italy to continue to decline.

Relatives around you died on the battlefield, or were about to be sent to the battlefield, and this kind of mental pressure also continued to increase.

The situation and atmosphere in Italy and on the home front have also become extremely depressing.

The Ming Dynasty's continuous victories and the various news released are increasing pressure on Italy.

Ming Dynasty's strategic strike warning against Constantinople became the last straw that broke the domestic situation in Italy.

A group of teenagers were forcibly recruited and were about to be sent to the front line together. They suddenly shot and killed the military police who were managing and escorting them.

These recruits simply did not want to be sent to the front lines to die.

They all know that there is no possibility of victory in the battle with Ming Dynasty, because Ming Dynasty controls divine punishment.

The key is that before the war, Ming Dynasty continued to promote propaganda. Many people felt that their country was doing something wrong and should not take the initiative to attack other countries.

It would be easy to say that this kind of war is victorious. Ordinary people will support this kind of war after receiving more or less benefits.

But now that there is no possibility of victory, they will no longer support it.

The resistance of the new recruits triggered a chain reaction. Many veterans and lower-level officers who also felt great pressure directly launched mutinies.

They killed the gendarmerie and took high-ranking officers hostage.

The key is that someone soon decided as a matter of course and launched the slogan "No war, just pizza," which immediately gained support from ordinary people.

A riot quickly spread in Rome, the real ancient capital of Italy.

A large number or mass of soldiers and officers who were very dissatisfied with the status quo, and the people who followed them, quickly took control of Italy's state institutions.

A small number of Italian state officials and officials in the city of Rome participated in the riots, and most of them were imprisoned.

Some of those with bad reputations were publicly shot in the streets.

After the riot reached a certain scale, certain organizations spontaneously formed, and some professionals also joined in.

They needed to control the court and various public institutions.

The railway stations of the city of Rome and the royal railway stations were also controlled by those who participated in the riots.

Vittorio's special train drove into the dedicated station normally, but the train was immediately controlled by the rioters as soon as it stopped.

A group of soldiers rushed directly to the car, blocked and captured the guards on the car, and then directly controlled the king.

When Vittorio realized that there was a riot in the capital and that he had fallen into the hands of the rebels, he almost escaped.

Vittorio immediately thought of the unlucky King Charles I who was executed by the British.

The key is that this youngest daughter of Charles I was named Henrietta Anne Stuart, and she was her grandfather's mother-in-law.

She married Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, brother of King Louis XIV of France.One of Philip I's daughters, Anne Marie d'Orléans, married her grandfather Vittorio Amedeo II.

For this reason, he is even now the legal King of England recognized by the British Jacobites.

Hanover's ability to take over the UK has a similar relationship, and their family should be ranked behind his own.

There are inextricably linked relationships between the royal families of various countries in the western continent.

When a king is executed, everyone else may feel the same way, so traditional kings rarely execute their opponents.

Everyone is basically a relative, or a well-documented relative.

When Vittorio panicked, he helped the rebels take out a draft document and asked him to sign and execute it immediately.

The main content of the document was to require Italy to stop the war, withdraw all frontline troops, and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Isn’t this what I want to do!
Vittorio was a little hesitant at first, a little undecided about whether to surrender.

After all, if you really surrender to Ming Dynasty unconditionally, you will definitely accept Ming Dynasty's comprehensive control and transformation.

The position of king of one's own family may not be preserved.

Even if he could continue to be king, he would definitely lose most of his authority and become nothing more than a rubber stamp.

But the choice between being executed in anger by the rebels or losing his authority would not be difficult for Vittorio.

After Vittorio figured it out, he immediately came to his senses and said righteously:
“If my beloved people of Sardinia and Italy ask only of me, the King, to put an end to this senseless war.

"Then I won't have any hesitation!
"I am back to Rome now just to handle this matter.

“If I had asked for surrender to the Ming people in Berlin, I probably wouldn’t have had a chance to come out alive.

“I’ve had enough of this war with no future, we Italians have been screwed by the Germans and Lucia.

“We haven’t received much money or resources, but we have lost millions of our compatriots.

"So, I've made a decision -

“For the peace of the world and Europe, for the life and future of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Italy and all people, we Italy should surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

“As the king of Sardinia and Italy, I am willing to go to the Ming army in person to submit a formal surrender document.

"I am willing to order the soldiers to return to their hometowns to reunite with their families, and I am willing to ask the Ming Dynasty to provide relief to the Italian people who are living in difficulty.

"I would give up all dignity for my children and all the Italian people."

After Vittorio finished speaking, he signed his name on the document vigorously, and then immediately continued:
"We should draw up a more formal and sincere document, but I can sign this document first to show my attitude, decision and sincerity."

The rebel officers and soldiers, as well as the officials, watched in shock at Vittorio's reaction.

There was an eerie silence for several seconds.

They originally thought that this king would definitely be extremely stubborn and would definitely reject their request.

The officers on the scene were ready to execute Vittorio and hire someone to be the king.

It turns out that the king seems to have the same ideas and concepts as himself?

And what he said makes sense. The fact that he is willing to come back obviously means parting ways with Deutsch and Lucia.

If it does not surrender to the Ming Dynasty, then Rome is a potential target of the Ming Dynasty.

One strike of divine punishment can turn the whole of Rome into ashes, and he may be directly bombed to death when he returns.

Vittorio looked at the reaction at the scene and continued to analyze the current situation.

In a somewhat chaotic but harmonious environment, Vittorio also led the civil servants on the scene to personally draft a more formal and detailed surrender letter.

And still signed his name on it again without hesitation.

Finally, Vittorio once again requested to go to the Ming army in person to submit the surrender document.

Vittorio was so cooperative that some of the soldiers who participated in the riot thought they had done something wrong.

But some people doubt that Vittorio acted.

Therefore, Vittorio's suggestion to surrender in person before the Ming army was finally rejected.

Vittorio wanted to surrender in person, but it was actually because he was a little scared and was afraid of being killed by the rebels.

Compared with the rebels, even the monarch of the enemy country made him feel more cordial and safe.

However, his suggestion was rejected...

The rebels asked him to send his only son, Prince Carlo Emanuele, to go in front of the Ming army with representatives of the rebels.

In the history of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, Carlo Emanuele died of smallpox at the age of three, but he was very lucky to survive in this life.

In fact, Vittorio should be dead now, all because the world has changed and his destiny has also changed.

Before taking action, Italy must first restore the most basic order within Italy.

Although the king announced his agreement to surrender, it was impossible for the officials and officers who had been arrested to be released directly.

The officers and soldiers who actually launched mutinies and riots also hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to gain status.

But they soon discovered that things were not as simple as they thought.

Officers, soldiers, workers, factory owners, and businessmen have different interests.

They either became excited because the pressure reached a critical point, or they participated in the riot with some speculation.

Everyone started things together with similar goals.

But when it comes to how to continue things, or when it comes to distributing phased results, disagreements begin to appear within the temporary community.

Some military officers wanted to become officials and generals of the new court, and citizens or workers wanted to get food and jobs.

Merchants and factory owners hoped that their industries would be maintained and not be harmed.

The most important thing is that many businessmen and factory owners originally joined the riots with a speculative mentality.

What they wanted was to benefit from the new court.

But now both the king and the new court want to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, which will inevitably lead to direct damage to their interests.

So when the decision has been made, these people start procrastinating and stumbling.

But the excited soldiers and young officers, as well as the ordinary workers who are about to be overwhelmed by the cost of living, are no longer within their control.

The key is that after the dispute lasted for several days, the news came that Constantinople was destroyed by divine punishment, and the pressure on the entire country suddenly increased a lot.

As a result, a group of "traitorous businessmen" were shot, and other businessmen became honest.

Then, the new court finally officially began to implement the surrender.

Giuseppe Mazzini, an army officer who was only 19 years old, played a major role in the organization of the middle and later stages of the riot, mainly because he had his own ideological opinions.

This time, he took a group of soldiers to escort and supervise Prince Carlo Emanuele on his way to the League of Nations headquarters.

(End of this chapter)