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    Naples is an important coastal city in western Italy, located on the north shore of the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius to the south.  Before the unification of Italy, Naples was the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the French Bourbon dynasty!  Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte was once established as the king of the Kingdom of Naples!  During the unification of Italy, Garibaldi led the Red Shirt Army to land in the Kingdom of Naples, defeated the army of the Kingdom of Naples, and unified Italy!

    During the last world war, the Chinese army landed directly in Rome and captured the Italian royal family and senior government officials!  Therefore, Naples was not affected by the war!  This time, the Kingdom of Italy is once again an enemy of China. The main areas defended by the Italian Army are also Rome and Taranto in the south, which has been ceded to China.  As for Naples, it is only garrisoned by an infantry division of the Italian Army!  If this place is attacked, the Italian Army can at most mobilize reinforcements from a nearby army!  However, Italian senior officials generally believe that the Chinese army will land in Rome again and re-implement the last plan so that Italy can be forced to withdraw from this war as quickly as possible!  After all, the scale of this world war is far greater than that of the last world war. Even if China is strong, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be to China!  In order to persevere, the Italian kingdom and government naturally made Rome the focus of their defense!

    In the early morning of January 8, the 33rd Task Force of the Chinese Navy¡¯s Third Fleet was sailing in the Dianile Sea. The six huge ¡®Han-class¡¯ battleships looked so mighty and majestic!  Task Force 33 is the only task force in the Third Fleet with battleships as its main force.  6 ¡®Han-class¡¯ battleships.  Together with 6 "Jianghe-class" heavy cruisers, 12 "Ningbo-class" light cruisers, 12 "Fuqing-class" destroyers and 8 "Lop Nur-class" frigates, this task force has more than 40 warships.  Although these warships are basically warships that were in service before the last world war, they have been modernized and modified.  The combat power has been greatly improved, especially the anti-aircraft firepower, which has been comprehensively improved!

    Guarded in the middle by the 33rd Task Force were more than twenty transport ships transporting the 8th Marine Division!  The 8th Marine Division will land in Naples under the cover of Task Force 33 and seize as many of the Naples ports as possible.  Create conditions for the subsequent landing of the main force of the 20th Army!  The 20th Army's armored brigades, mechanized infantry divisions and motorized infantry divisions all have a large amount of heavy equipment, if not a well-equipped port.  Just loading and unloading is very troublesome!

    Fifty kilometers behind this fleet, the 32nd Task Force "Jiuhuashan" aircraft carrier battle group and "Putuoshan" aircraft carrier battle group of the Third Fleet are also sailing eastward!  These two aircraft carrier battle groups will provide air support for this landing operation!  It would take even longer for Army aviation to take off from Sicily and Sardinia!  Carrier-based aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier, which will undoubtedly provide more timely fire support for the landing troops!  As for the two aircraft carrier battle groups of Task Force 31, they entered the Adriatic Sea.  The 19th Group Army of the Chinese Army, which has come all the way, will land in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  We also need sea and air support!

    At 5:30 in the morning, the 33rd Task Force of the Chinese Navy entered the Bay of Naples, only 20 kilometers away from the coast of Naples!  Since the Kingdom of Italy was defeated in the last war, it has been stipulated that it is not allowed to have a navy. This makes the Kingdom of Italy's coastal defense almost blank and cannot pose any threat to the Chinese Navy at all!

    Lieutenant General Ren Binghong, commander of the 33rd Task Force, issued an order to bombard Naples!  The Military Intelligence Bureau has figured out the Italian Army's defense situation in Naples, and the 33rd Task Force can rely on the intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau.  Open fire on Italian Army defensive positions!  Of course, all the targets of the bombardment deliberately avoided the port of Naples to prevent the port from being damaged during the bombardment!

    At 5:45 in the morning, when the sea was still dark, the six "Han-class" battleships of the Chinese Navy's 33rd Task Force opened fire!  The three triple-mounted 343mm main guns on the flagship battleship 'Han Gaozu' opened fire first!  Balls of dazzling orange-red firelight shone on the sea, and the rumbling sound of artillery reverberated on the sea like thunder. Cannonballs weighing hundreds of kilograms roared towards the Italian Army's defensive positions!  After the battleship 'Han Gaozu' opened fire, the following five 'Han-class' battleships also opened fire one after another!  Six "Jianghe-class" heavy cruisers also arrived less than 15 kilometers from the coast.  Use the triple 210mm main gun on the battleship to fire on the target!

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" A violent explosion sounded on the Italian Army's defensive position, as if the sky was shattering!  Italian Army in NaplesThe coastal defense forts built in the west could not withstand the attack of 343mm armor-piercing projectiles, and were destroyed one after another in the fierce shelling!  Naples is not a key defense area of ??the Italian Army at all.  It is impossible to expect how strong these coastal defense forts are!  A large amount of combat supplies were concentrated in Rome. Vittorio Emanuele III and Prime Minister Mussonili were eager to build the surrounding areas of Rome into an impregnable fortress.

    "What's going on? Is the volcano erupting?" The violent explosion woke up the residents of Naples who were sleeping.  People's first reaction was that Mount Vesuvius had erupted!  After all, although the war has broken out, in the battles of the past few days, Naples was not the war zone between China and Germany. The residents of Naples also believed that the war seemed to be far away from them!

    Brigadier General Giovanni Messe, commander of the 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army, was also awakened. He rushed out of the dormitory immediately, holding a telescope, seemingly observing!  When he saw that the coastal defense position to the west of Naples was shrouded in fire, he immediately realized that the Chinese were launching an attack!  Moreover, listening to the sound of this explosion, it is clearly the sound of large-caliber naval gun shells exploding!

    "Oh God! The Chinese have launched a landing operation! They actually chose Naples as the landing point?" Brigadier General Giovanni Messe roared in horror!  There is only one infantry division of more than 10,000 people in Naples. It is poorly equipped and lacks heavy artillery and other weapons. It is impossible to withstand the attack of the fierce Chinese army, even if you think about it, it is impossible!

    "Come here! Order all ministries to prepare for battle! In addition, send a telegram to Rome. We have been violently attacked by the Chinese! The Chinese are launching a landing operation in Naples, and we need reinforcements!" Brigadier General Giovanni Messe shouted loudly  shouted!  Although he knew that the troops could not stop the Chinese attack, he had no other choice. As an army general of the Kingdom of Italy, it was his duty to hold his position and wait for reinforcements!

    Half an hour later, a hint of white fish belly appeared on the horizon!  After half an hour of attack, the coastal defense position in western Naples was in a mess.  All the coastal defense batteries were destroyed, and the barrels of each coastal defense gun were blown into pieces in the explosion.

    Next, the Chinese Navy¡¯s 33rd Task Force began to change its target and tilted the artillery shells towards the Italian Army¡¯s defensive positions.  At the same time, the first batch of landing troops of the 8th Marine Division of the Chinese Marine Corps, a battalion of Marines, had already set off on landing craft!

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Dense large-caliber artillery shells exploded on the defensive position of the Italian Army. Each explosion would leave a huge crater on the position.  The defensive positions built by the Italian Army were blown into a mess during the shelling.  The anti-gun holes, which were not very strong to begin with, were as if they were made of paper in front of the large-caliber naval guns of naval battleships!  Many Italian Army soldiers were buried alive in the collapsed shell-proof holes!

    "General, the Chinese firepower is too strong, and we have suffered heavy losses! A regiment on the front line defense position has already suffered more than half of its casualties in just a short time!" The chief of staff of the 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army asked Giowa with a look of horror.  Brigadier General Ni Mesai reported!

    "We must defend even if we can't! Let the 2nd Regiment be prepared. The Chinese Marine Corps has already set off. We must resist their attack! We cannot let them go ashore! Otherwise, we will be dead!"  Brigadier General Giovanni Messe said!  The 89th Infantry Division of the Italian Army has no heavy artillery and only one artillery battalion equipped with 18 75mm mountain guns.  After the battle began, Brigadier General Giovanni Messer never ordered the artillery to fire. He knew that these mountain cannons could not deal with the Chinese naval battleships on the sea, not to mention those battleships, even if they had to deal with the opponent's destroyers, the 75mm mountain cannons  The attack is of little use!  Therefore, he hid these artillery pieces and prepared to use them at critical moments!  When the Chinese Marine Corps lands, it is undoubtedly the most critical time!

    "Order the artillery battalion to fire! Bombard the Chinese Marine Corps!" When the landing craft of the Chinese Marine Corps was still two or three kilometers away from the sea, Brigadier General Giovanni Messer gave the order to fire!

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The 18 75mm mountain guns hidden on the coast began to fire crazily on the sea!  These 75mm mountain guns are technology imported from Germany by Italy. Although they are not very powerful, they have a range of six thousand meters and a maximum rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute. They may not be of much use against warships, but they can deal with landing craft and  For the Marines above, it is very effective!
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