In this world, the colonies in Africa of the Empire of the Sun Never Sets in another world belong to the Tang Empire. In West Africa, the boundary with the French colonies was the Niger River, which included Cameroon, the area around Lake Chad, Central Africa and the Belgian Congo, while southern and East Africa were directly under the Tang Empire.

The Abysian Empire in Northeast Africa is a hardcore ally of the Tang Empire, and with the support of the Tang Dynasty, it has always been on the front line of the battle against the expansion of the Great Food Empire in Africa.

After the outbreak of the war, the Imperial Navy transferred the West African detachment from West Africa to the Cape Province of South Africa, and Togoland (Ghana), which belonged to the Empire, was directly abandoned, and the Governor of the Imperial West African Colonies, Qi Guogong Li Anguo, and about 35,000 West African colonial garrisons were concentrated in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Brazzaville, Congo.

West Francia and the Spanish Afrika Korps quickly captured the ports along the Gulf of Guinea such as Buea, Douala, Kribi and Bata, but as they advanced inland, they were immediately counterattacked by the garrisons of the Tang colonies. The Franco-Spanish forces actually only occupied the coastal area and were unable to attack inland.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the European fleet were concentrated in North America and the Caribbean, the Imperial South African Fleet swept the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of West Africa, and the garrison of the Tang West African colonies took the opportunity to counterattack and regained the ports of Douala and Kribbi. About 4,500 Anglo-French African troops were captured.

At present, the garrison of the Tang West African colonies has a total strength of more than 60,000 troops, and the strength of the Franco-Spanish army in this area is insufficient, so it has not been able to launch a large-scale offensive into the inland area. The main reason why Byzantium and Dashi have not sent troops to attack the East African colonies of Detang is that they fought first with the Abysian scholars in Sudan.

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In September 307, the Tang Empire was located in Orsk, a border town on the banks of the Ural River.

In autumn, the Ural River flutters like a red and yellow ribbon at the southern foot of the Ural Mountains, and the golden aspen and birch trees and fiery maple trees dye the entire valley in brilliant colors.

It had just fallen in an autumn rain, and at dusk, a convoy of cars drove down a wet asphalt road with their headlights on.

On both sides of the misty highway were freshly harvested wheat fields, stacks of wheat scattered black on the muddy ground, like bunkers being built, and the white sky in the distance seemed to divide the earth and the sky into two completely different spaces. On the north side of the road, two railroad tracks bulge slightly above the ground and then stretch all the way into the distance.

A makeshift checkpoint appeared at the front of the road, and a man stood in front of the side of the railing, waving a small flag in his hand to signal the convoy to stop. The young Imperial Army soldier who was driving glanced at the captain sitting beside him: "Sir! ”

The captain shook his head a little impatiently, "Damn, there are so many things about the old hairymen, what are you asking?" Parking checks! ”

The young soldier, who had only just left the boot camp, did not dare to speak again, and the truck slowly slid for a while and stopped.

Several Wehrmacht soldiers in dark green Siberian camouflage combat uniforms stood on the side of the road, and one of the lieutenant officers asked: "Password!" ”

"Defend the Empire!"

The officer nodded, and a Wehrmacht soldier walked up to the car and, after saluting, said: "Sir, please show your ID and pass!" ”

The captain got out of the car, took out his military ID card from his jacket pocket, took out the pass from a paper bag and handed it over.

The soldier glanced at his ID card and pass, checked the number of vehicles behind him, and said, "What's on it?" Sir! ”

"Cement, for repairs." The captain deliberately said in Chinese.

"Please take your papers, sir!" The Wehrmacht soldier froze for a moment, sensed the captain's displeasure, immediately returned his papers, and then gave a military salute.

The Wehrmacht lieutenant motioned to his men to pull up the railing in the middle of the road, and then said to the Imperial Army captain who was getting into the car: "Won't you have something to drink?" ”

"No, I'm in a hurry to get these goods in front, it seems that war is coming." The captain sat in the car, then poked his head out of the window.

"Okay, okay, every time I see you, it seems to herald the coming of war." The Wehrmacht lieutenant, who was supposed to be of mixed race, raised his right hand and motioned for the vehicle to clear.

"If you don't see us, you'll be put in a labor camp by the Germans." The captain replied, then retracted his head back into the window and laughed smugly.

With the roar of the motors, the entire convoy continued to drive along the road.

The morning sun shines on the Ural Mountains, the vast birch forests are lush, the sun shines on the snow-capped peaks, and the cold air from the Arctic Ocean from time to time makes the summer climate in this area very cool and pleasant.

At the training camp of the armored forces of the Aktobe Empire in the city of the Urals.

With the low roar of the motor, clouds of pale yellow dirt rose between the green mountains and forests, and the tank battalion of the 372nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the 124th Armored Division of the 31st Group Army was conducting an assault formation drill on hilly terrain. Six assault squads of three tanks lined up and rolled up the mud and dust, like a yellow wave on the ground, surging towards the Aktobe base.

"The formation is not bad, but I don't know how it will perform when firing live ammunition a few days later." On a hillside in front of the Aktobe base, Wang Jingchen, chief of the combat training division of the 124th Division, put down the binoculars in his hand and turned to the lieutenant colonel beside him, who was engrossed in observing the movement of tanks, and said, Several kilometers away, more than a dozen combat vehicles loomed in the rolling up yellow dust.

"These are all under the guidance of Director Wang, so that they can have today's appearance, three months ago, when the armored division was just formed, these guys made the training ground a mess." Lieutenant Colonel Feng Jianjiang, commander of the tank battalion, put down his binoculars and turned his head to look at Yue Chengzong, with a slightly happy smile on his face.

During the winter offensive, the East Franconian Army captured Kervoy Rog, the largest iron ore region of the Don Empire in Europe, and the manganese mining area of Nikopol. The empire's largest iron and manganese mines in Europe fell into the hands of the East Franks, but due to the existence of the Tang Black Sea Fleet, the iron ore and manganese ore mined here could not be transported back to Europe for the time being.

The 124th Division, due to its outstanding performance in the Battle of Donets, became the first unit of the 31st Army to be reorganized into an armored division. According to the latest establishment plan, each army group of the Imperial Army will have one armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions, and the establishment of armored divisions will be abolished as brigade-level units, and three armored regiments or tank regiments will generally be under their jurisdiction.

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