Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

The two allies Adolf favored were the Gallic Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, which had the same ideology as him.

Speaking of this Italian kingdom, it needs to be said in detail.

The Kingdom of Italy was a member of the Allied Powers during World War I.

Since the Allies lost the war in World War I, Italy paid a large sum of war reparations after the war.

In addition, the consortium did not let Italy go, plundering a large amount of Italian national wealth, leading to the bankruptcy of the Italian Kingdom and bringing Lao Mo to power.

Anyone who knows Lao Mo knows very well that he is actually a person with high ambitions and low abilities, and is a little neurotic.

He likes to live in his fantasy and vows to restore the glory of the ancient Roman Empire.

But in reality, the Italian army under his leadership could not even defeat a group of African natives armed with primitive weapons.

Of course, this does not mean that Italy's combat effectiveness is not good, and Italy's people are naturally casual. They advocate romance, like a leisurely life, and do not like war.

This is very similar to the ancient Roman aristocrats. They all like to enjoy themselves and are unwilling to endure hardship.

Therefore, they hate war and want to escape from it.

However, if you think that Italy's combat effectiveness is weak, you are totally wrong.

In many records about World War I and World War II in later generations, there are never records about Italy's weak combat effectiveness, only records about their extravagant lifestyle.

To give a few examples, the refrigerator used in daily life was actually invented by Italians, and the reason why it was invented was just because Italian executives wanted the soldiers to eat better and eat fresh food on the front line. food.

In the North African battlefield, Italy encountered the 22nd Armored Division of the John Empire. Italy demanded surrender, but this request was rejected by the commander of the 22nd Armored Division.

The result was that the Italian army defeated the 22nd Armored Division of the John Empire in just two hours and successfully made the other side accept its surrender request.

Similarly, on the Soviet-German battlefield, facing the steel torrent of the Budapest Republic, the Hans Empire was completely defeated, but Italy fought a bloody path in this defeat.

Therefore, judging from historical records, the Italian army actually has high combat effectiveness, but their fighting will is not strong.

This is because Italians like to enjoy life rather than war. This led to the fact that in the original history, the Italians led by Lao Mo could only use forced enlistment on the people to ensure the size of the army.

How much combat effectiveness can such forcibly recruited soldiers have?

But now this time and space is different.

Due to the plundering of too many resources by the consortium, the living standards of Italians have dropped. It can almost be said that this group of Italians has no pasta to eat.

Faced with this situation, the people of Italy were angry.

Therefore, now that Lao Mo has come to power, he has recruited enough soldiers without spending much effort.

Moreover, these soldiers have a very high fighting will. So, judging from the level of Adolf's allies this time, it's actually quite good.

It’s just that the Italian brain circuit is still different from that of the public.

This is reflected in their weapon design.

For example, the MIAS single-man assault vehicle, the CV33 light tank, which can only seat two people and is not as fast as infantry, or the first manually controlled "pig" torpedo.

All in all, although the enthusiasm of the people to join the army in Italy in this time and space is much higher than in the original time and space, there is still a long way to go in terms of weapon design.

However, this did not hinder Adolf's determination to form an alliance with Italy.

Therefore, after three months of negotiations with Lao Mo, the leader of Italy, Italy and the Hans Empire signed a document on trade cooperation.

Although this is just a trade treaty, it only stipulates the circulation of goods, tariffs, etc. between Italy and the Hans Empire.

But both Lao Mo and Adolf knew that this treaty was only for outsiders to see, and the real core of this treaty was actually only one.

Both parties need to ensure the circulation of the other party's goods within their own country. If there are reasons caused by a third party, both countries need to bear the responsibility together.

As for what the third-party reason here refers to, the two countries have a tacit understanding and have not specified it, but they both know it well.

Now is not the time for a complete showdown, so when doing these things, you need to be concealed.

As the two men expected, the signing of their treaty still attracted the attention of Western countries.

But it was just a matter of caution, and there were no restrictions or precautions against this kind of treaty.

After the Hans Empire signed a treaty with Itali, a large number of engineers from the Hans Empire secretly entered Italy to help them improve and optimize their weapons.

There was nothing I could do about it. Italy's weird weapon designs made Adolf, an art student, really unable to stand it.

Italy, which received technical support from the Hans Empire, finally showed its industrial strength this time.

A large number of new weapons were designed and manufactured.

Although Italian engineers have been complaining that the weapons designed by the Hans do not possess artistry and wild imagination, but only industrially produced models.

But it’s really hard to use the weapon.

After successfully changing the strange brain circuits of the Italian engineers, these Italian engineers were finally able to use their strengths.

They began to add traditional Italian artistic ideas to some of the more successful weapon designs.

For example, they made changes based on the latest tank designed by the Hans Empire, the No. 1 tank.

What the Hans Empire handed over to the Italians was the Type 1 A tank, which is the most consistent with modern people's impression of tanks and uses a two-man turret.

However, due to some technical problems, the Type A tank only used two 7.62 mm machine guns.

However, this group of Italian engineers did not believe in evil. They felt that just two machine guns could not meet their vision of a tank.

As a result, this group of daring Italian engineers forced a 1mm gun into the turret of the No. 37 Type A tank.

You know, in the original history, the improved version of the Type A tank only had a 20mm gun inserted into it.

God knows how this group of Italian engineers managed to stuff a 37mm cannon into it while ensuring the universality of its members.

Seeing such design results, Adolf felt bad. He began to dislike his engineers.

Because he felt that the engineers on his side did not inherit his level of appreciation at all, and their abilities were not good enough.

At least this group of engineers couldn't fit a 37mm gun into it.

Therefore, Adolf could only go around and buy several improved Type A tanks so that engineers could reverse-engineer and develop these tanks.