On August 6, 1916, the combined Entente forces of the United Kingdom, France, and Bulgaria successfully landed at Civitavecchia. More than seventy thousand Italian defenders, together with over eighty thousand reinforcements rushed in from Rome, were routed by the allied army. The whole of Italy was shaken!
Vittorio Emanuele III hastily convened an emergency military conference. The fall of Civitavecchia meant that Rome was no longer safe.
Entente troops could land at Civitavecchia in an endless stream. To the south, they could attack Rome; to the northeast, they could sever Italy's north-south transport routes. The Kingdom of Italy had reached its most perilous hour.
Without question, fierce quarrelling broke out as soon as the meeting began. The peace faction struck first, accusing the war faction of deliberately provoking the war. The war faction refused to be outdone. Damn it, the enemy had dragged them into this war—how could that be blamed on them?
In truth, neither the war faction nor the peace faction wanted the war to continue now. Judging from the current situation, the Kingdom of Italy could no longer keep fighting!
But no one knew how to end the war. At present, the Entente and the Alliance were evenly matched. The Alliance held a slight advantage on the Western Front and an absolute advantage on the Eastern Front; it seemed to have better odds of winning.
Unfortunately, on the Mediterranean battlefield alone, the Alliance's little brothers in the Near East had either already been destroyed or were on the verge of destruction. In the Mediterranean, only the Italians remained, propping up a lone tree!
Judging from the current situation, the Entente might truly split the Kingdom of Italy in two. If the war continued, it was uncertain whether the Alliance could achieve victory—but the Kingdom of Italy certainly