Chapter 326: Chapter 173: [Italy: I’m Neutral! You Guys Fight!]
Looking at Huang Yong’s words, the live broadcast chatroom was filled with messages.
[We all know Italy refused to send troops, is there any inside information?]
[No need to guess, Italy is definitely going to switch sides.]
[No way, aren’t they part of the Allies? Switching sides would be condemned by everyone.]
[The premise for anyone to condemn is that you’re still alive, didn’t you see Austria-Hungary and others were gone by World War II.]
Seeing the chat messages, Huang Yong spoke up:
"There’s some news, but I’m not sure if it’s useful or not."
Saying that, Huang Hao instructed someone to tidy up the dining table, and then he went to the office to find a map marked with many sketches.
Placing the map on the desk, Huang Hao said:
"Look at this map."
"The Imperial, Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Italy."
"These three countries are piled together."
"But between the Imperial and the Kingdom of Italy, there’s an Austria-Hungary in between."
"As we all know...border issues are common to varying degrees between countries that share a boundary."
"That’s precisely the case between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary."
Huang Yong pointed at the border between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary and said:
"Due to the relationship between national power and territory, Italy has always been at a disadvantage regarding border issues."
"There are quite a few disputed areas between Austria-Hungary and Italy."
"However, the Kingdom of Italy can’t beat Austria-Hungary and faces pressure from the Allied powers, joining the Allies is inevitable."
"But now with Austria-Hungary’s attack on Serbia."
"The Russian Empire’s declaration of war on Austria-Hungary is naturally what the Kingdom of Italy wants to see."
"Hence, when the Imperial, as an ally, declared war on the Russian and French Empires."
"The Kingdom of Italy, unwilling to get involved, refused to send troops citing ’the alliance only applied to defensive wars’ and declared neutrality."
"Although they’re not out of the Allies yet."
"But declaring neutrality means even France doesn’t want more pressure, so they naturally won’t bother about the Kingdom of Italy."
"And given the pressure from the Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary doesn’t have the time to deal with the Kingdom of Italy either."
"So now the Kingdom of Italy is in a state of enjoying the show with an Allies title."
"It’s uncertain whether they will switch sides eventually."
"After all, Italy was quite swift and decisive in switching sides in World War II."
Huang Yong teased.
But in reality.
Italia did indeed switch sides later.... As for why the Imperial still dared to cooperate with the Kingdom of Italy during World War II.
Perhaps they overestimated the bottom line of the Kingdom of Italy.
After all, all countries saw Italy’s switch during World War I as result of long-standing border territorial disputes with Austria-Hungary.
Which led Italy to switch sides so decisively.
And as there was no territorial adjacency between the Imperial and the Kingdom of Italy, the Imperial in World War II thought there were no contradictions so where’s the talk of switching sides.
But who could have guessed it?
Who says no conflict, can’t crave for a teammate’s land....
Huang Yong shared the collected information with the live stream.
As for the details....
There’s not much power here, even though he’s a big aristocrat, not everything can be inquired.
Knock knock knock—
A knock sounded, Huang Yong looked toward the door:
"Come in."
The adjutant pushed the door open, holding a stack of files:
"Sir."
"Those major criminals arrested earlier, they need your signature, determine their exile or...."
Zhu Yong waved his hand upon hearing:
"Exile, exile."
"Throw them all to Siberia."
The adjutant nodded upon seeing:
"Understood."
With the order issued, each prisoner was verified.
Handcuffed and shackled, they were escorted to Siberia.
At this time, the situation in World War I was stabilizing, entering a long war of attrition.
...
Meanwhile.
In the Cold War Clouds area, various streamers were playing enthusiastically.
In Yu Feng’s broadcast room.
Currently serving as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in the United States, collecting news from around the world.
Considering the officer’s identity, action was inconvenient.
So after World War II, entering the continuation, Yu Feng chose a new identity, and the editor-in-chief of a newspaper was much more convenient.
Not only was there branch office reporting news worldwide.
He could also contact other newspapers to exchange news, and indeed collected quite a lot of information during this period.
Regarding World War I, World War II, Soviet Union, and United States, etc.
Yu Feng was categorizing the collected materials.
At this time.
Fang Ming sent a communication link, Yu Feng was a bit surprised, picked up the voice call:
"What’s the situation?"
"Any orders from General Fang?"
Fang Ming responded sorrowfully:
"Being a general, what for, the squad got wiped out."
"[Huaxia] is too difficult, I need to take a break, how far have you played in the continuation, let’s team up directly."
Yu Feng replied:
"I’m just playing normally, you enter the game first."
"Team up."
Then Yu Feng sent the team link to Fang Ming.
Soon.
Fang Ming entered the team.
Yu Feng said with a smile:
"How did you get wiped out?"
"Didn’t the World War II tactics work?"
Fang Ming spoke with a ghost-seeing tone:
"Don’t mention it."
"World War II tactical theory did play a part."
"But damn it....[Huaxia]’s ancient people learn faster."
"I barely used it, Han Xin from the Han army got it figured out, playing Blitzkrieg better than me."
"I even thought about using cavalry Blitzkrieg to sweep the world."
"But couldn’t even get past the gates, Liu Bang’s camp’s NPCs hammered us down."
"The Xiang Yu following me is a stubborn mule."
"If you can’t win, just run."
"Didn’t run."
"Got blocked at the river by Liu Bang’s people."
"Guess what happened?"
Yu Feng was curious:
"What happened?"
Fang Ming vented incomprehensibly:
"That guy rather died."
"Than crossing the river back; you could have crossed, and returned with some troops."
"I thought he would be fierce based on various plots."
"But at the critical moment, he went for suicide."
"It annoys me."
Yu Feng also didn’t quite understand:
"Huh...."
"Then you?"
Fang Ming sighed:
"Liu Bang offered a reward for whoever retrieved Xiang Yu’s body."
"After Xiang Yu’s body was divided, they saw me alive and rushed to chop me."
Hiss—
Yu Feng drew in a sharp breath:
"Chop alive?"
Fang Ming replied irritably:
"Of course they chopped alive, there was no anesthetic in ancient times."
"Luckily, the first cut aimed at my head, quite quick."
After complaining, Fang Ming looked at the layout of the Cold War Clouds continuation and nodded, then asked:
"Just like World War II, start directly, right?"
"Which Federation did you choose?"
Yu Feng nodded, replied:
"Correct."
"Start directly, gameplay similar to World War II."
"I chose the United States of America."
Fang Ming said:
"Then I’ll try the Soviet Union."
"Let’s see what roles we can play together."
Saying that.
Fang Ming chose the Soviet Union.
As it was a customized plot, no need to consider much, Yu Feng clicked to start.
Then....
The screen dimmed, but didn’t light up immediately.
Yu Feng noticed something was wrong:
"Hmm?"
"Triggered hidden plot line?"
As soon as the words were spoken, the bird’s-eye view descended from the sky, seeing the outlines and terrain below, Yu Feng’s eyes widened:
"[Republic]?!"
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