Since March, the Imperial Army has been flooding the ports along the Persian Gulf coast. Bataan, Bakou, Dubai and Fao are packed with makeshift barracks everywhere. At the same time, more than a dozen field airfields are also being built at an accelerated pace, and the army's aviation units have begun to be stationed in batches.

Since its landing in the Gulf Province, the 11th Mountain Infantry Division has been outside Fao and has not operated in any particular way other than its daily training.

What excites Ling most about these days is that they have learned to drive: first motorcycles, ordinary Hongqi or Great Wall cars, off-road jeeps, and then trucks.

After half a month, at the request of their superiors, some soldiers with better driving skills were selected to learn to drive tracked vehicles, initially an open-top light tracked tractor that could only fit five people, then a tracked armored transporter, and finally let them learn how to drive and operate a tank - a small training tank weighing only 11 tons, in which only two people can sit.

They need to train to drive the tank through some difficult terrain, sand, river ditches, steep slopes and muddy puddles, although they bump and bump in the car, everyone is very excited, talking and laughing, and soon they all master the driving skills of the tank.

The Imperial Army has been landing in the Middle East for two months, and has not launched a large-scale offensive, it has been preparing and waiting.

Mainly in Northeast Africa, the Abysian Empire in Northeast Africa was defeated by the Great Food Empire and the Byzantine coalition, and the top base of the empire was weighing whether to rescue North Africa first or launch an offensive in the Middle East first.

It is impossible for the Gulf Province ceded by the Empire from the Great Food Empire in the early years of the Empire, mainly because it is a major oil producing area, and the purpose of the Great Food Empire and the Byzantine Empire to covet it is mainly for the oil here. This time, the two countries joined forces with the European Union and brazenly declared war on the Tang Empire, precisely because of this huge oil interest.

Ling Kaiyue and the 4th Mountain Army continued to stay near the bus station, training boringly day after day.

Summer is coming, there is a light rain in the sky, and the ground is muddy. When we came back from training every day, everyone was covered in mud and tired, but a group of young people were still full of laughter together.

It was not until June 2 that a new operational order was issued.

The soldiers of the 7th Company came to the courtyard in the rain after breakfast, and the commander of the "butcher" company, Captain Mu Zhenwu, stood in an open-top jeep and waited for his men to assemble. After making sure that all of his men had arrived, Da began to speak loudly to the company.

Captain Mu Zhenwu's mobilization speech clearly recited the speech of the political officer, which roughly means that the Levantine people living in the "dire straits" are suffering from the cruel persecution of the nobles of the Great Eater, and at the request of Prime Minister Rashid of the Levant Kingdom, the Imperial Army will march into the two river valleys to "liberate" the Levant people who have been oppressed by the "Pasha".

He doesn't even believe in this kind of mobilization speech, and everyone knows that the world is the size of a fist.

All the big countries, mainly the Tang Empire, and others like the Great Eclipse, Byzantium, and the East and West Frankish Kingdoms, are all rogue states, and if they want to start a war, they just need to turn black and white upside down and find some excuse. For example, the invasion of Northwest Africa by the Spaniards was under the banner of suppressing bandits.

As for whether the people of the Levant really welcomed the "People's Liberation Army" sent by the Tang Empire, only the devil knows.

"The 4th Mountain Army will march along both sides of the Euphrates, and our task is to secure the logistics and transport lines of the Panzer Division, with the 3rd Panzer Division and the 7th Panzer Division leading the way. Everyone will receive a seven-day ration, and you will need to keep it for yourselves. Now line up at the armory to pick up your weapons and ammo, and the troops will be leaving in two hours! ”

Everyone ran back to the barracks, packed their bags, carried their backpacks, and went to the armory to pick up their weapons.

The weapon used by Ling Kaiyue is a Jiangxia G95 semi-automatic rifle produced by the Liuzhou factory, which is still a little different from the rifle produced by the Jiangxia factory, especially the bolt is a straight pull handle, which makes it a little difficult for people to use the fingers, and it is not as easy to use as the original round handle bolt of the Jiangxia Arsenal.

Assigned to the riflemen were 12 magazines per person, a total of 120 rounds, four wooden-handled grenades. Sergeants who use automatic rifles have magazines of 5 30 rounds per person, but automatic rifles have lighter bullets, so the ammunition is not heavier than that of riflemen.

Ling Kaiyue noticed that some people's faces became unusually pale due to nervousness, which was a normal reaction, a group of young people who had just walked out of school at the age of eighteen or nine, but now they were going to the battlefield to kill people.

"Butcher" Mu Zhenwu noticed the reaction of his men, and he told his men that the Byzantines and the Great Cannibal Army were very vegetable, and they were at the level of a third-rate army, just like the East Franks. He also read the latest Imperial Army Bulletin: the Imperial Caucasian Corps under the command of General Meng Changling had just won a great victory in the Arras Mountains, recovering the Byzantine Empire's occupied kingdom of Armenia and was marching on Trabzon.

His words really inspired the boys, "Long live the Empire!" The soldiers shouted.

Under the command of Sergeant Major Lao Keqin, everyone walked out of the barracks in a neat queue.

There were several rows of camouflage canvas trucks parked outside the barracks, and these light Great Wall trucks, which only had a load of one and a half tons, could only hold one shift of soldiers, and only seven such light infantry companies needed 12 trucks and two jeeps. And artillery units and armored battalions need even more vehicles.

Compared with the Caucasian Corps, which only had 5 divisions in the hands of General Meng Changling, the Middle East Corps under the command of General Shi Guofan gathered many elites in the imperial army: the 2nd and 5th Armored Corps of the Army, the 7th and 11th Mechanized Group Armies, the 2nd and 4th Mountain Armies, etc., with a total strength of 21 divisions and more than 300,000 people.

The difficulties of fighting in the Middle East are the constraints of the movement of troops by the transport capacity of the ports of the Persian Gulf, as well as the very poor traffic situation in the region. Under the "governance" of the Great Cannibals and the Byzantines, the "Fertile Crescent" region was backward in production, there were not many roads, let alone railways.

The only railway was the Empire's Caspian Sea-Persian Gulf Railway.

Since the discovery of crude oil here, the Empire has carried out a large-scale expansion and renovation of the ports along the Persian Gulf coast in order to completely control the Persian Gulf region, and the construction of a second road and oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus to the region is underway, and the Empire plans to build two more railway lines around the Gulf here.

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