English gentlemen will fight to the death only in two situations, one is about honor and the other is about business. The lobster soldiers had no honor at all, they were a business of life, the soldiers were fighting for a few pennies a week, and the generals were trying to recoup the investment they had made before they were sent out. Whether it was the Opium War or the Boer War, as long as it was related to business, the London Parliament would be as excited as chickens.

Before receiving the "exploration report" provided by the German side, the British cabinet had a very ambiguous attitude towards the Middle East issue, and although it had long been dissatisfied with the "ungrateful" Saudi government, politicians were also worried that a rash start of war might trigger a chain reaction in neighboring countries.

Saudi Arabia already controls Mecca and Medina, and every year Muslims from neighboring countries make pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and Ibn Saud has considerable influence in the Muslim world.

The surrounding Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean coast, and the southern part of the peninsula were all traditional British spheres of influence. Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, etc., are now either British protectorates or autonomous colonies, and these areas either have various mineral resources, or occupy important coastlines and ports, which are indispensable links in the global strategy of the empire on which the sun never sets. Although the British Empire had declined at this time, the foundation laid by the ancestors was not something that could be thrown away.

However, when the Germans put a detailed "resource survey report" on the table of the British cabinet, the thinking of British politicians immediately changed, because the nature of the problem was different, and the previous discussion was about national strategy, but here it is talking about a big business worth tens of billions of pounds.

The heads of the informed lords of the House of Lords were full of words starting with H and F, and they never dreamed that there would be so much oil hidden beneath that barren desert. Faced with the twelve-figure reserves, even Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain couldn't sit still, and he even repeatedly asked the German ambassador to verify whether there was a problem with the data in this report, and whether it could be that some careless foreign secretary had made a few more zeros.

After receiving an affirmative answer from Germany, the House of Lords voted overwhelmingly unanimously that night to approve the proposal of Chamberlain's cabinet, and the British Empire entered a state of war with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with immediate effect.

Immediately, London assembled two fully equipped infantry regiments and a light armored battalion from the British troops stationed in Egypt and Sudan, and directly joined the first phase of the German offensive. London also plans to draw an armoured brigade and 12 infantry battalions from its home garrison as follow-up support, which is expected to embark in Portsmouth Harbour next week and the Arabian Peninsula early next year.

Xu Jun's timetable was clear: the large-scale military operation must be ended by the end of the year, followed by a maximum of one to two months of law and order warfare, and the rest of the garbage time will be left to the British.

The situation in this country is different from that of China, most of the land is deserts and mountains that are difficult for humans to live in, the population of the country is extremely limited, and it has also been divided into independent tribes, and the accumulated contradictions between the tribes are still very deep, and these chieftains with heavy armies would have started a civil war long ago without the mediation of the royal family in these years.

The geography and climate of the Arabian Peninsula are not as complex as those of Afghanistan and Iran, and the local nomads have outdated weapons and rigid tactics, making it impossible to carry out any guerrilla warfare in the face of modern reconnaissance methods.

Don't look at the Middle East in the 40s of the 20th century through the eyes of the Gulf War, these nomads carried single-shot rifles in their hands, rode Arabian horses and camels, ate date palms and mutton, and drank yogurt and spring water.

At that time, the city of the Arabian Peninsula was not as large as a village in the future, except for the city center with some mud brick and rammed earth buildings, and the surrounding area was one tent after another, not to mention the use of artillery, a white phosphorus grenade could burn the whole city to the ground.

More importantly, the enemies they are facing now are not at all bound by so many international laws and regulations in later generations, and the United Nations is still nowhere to be seen at this time, let alone any human rights conventions. The Europeans were pursuing a single-minded all-out war, and they had no mercy for the civilian population of the enemy.

The Germans fully implemented the idea of total warfare, and in history, whether in Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Lithuania or the jungles of Ukraine, whether it was the SS or the Wehrmacht, countless brave rebels used their lives to prove the crime and cruelty of the Nazi German army.

The Afrika Korps, which had already received permission from the Führer to kill, showed considerable patience in the war, which was directly related to the personal character of the commander, and Quchreel was not a ruthless general.

Of course, this does not mean that the locals can challenge the dignity of the IDF at will, and the number of villages and Bedouin tribes completely destroyed by the Afrika Korps along the way has exceeded 30.

There's not the slightest sense of war in Cairo, the ancient city has its own rhythm, with stalls lining its main thoroughfares and bustling people in the narrow aisles between the stalls.

As the afternoon sun shone directly on the dusty streets, and the air smelled of dry metal, Xu Jun stood in front of the hotel that the Cairo embassy had arranged for Randolph, looking up at the Black Eagle banner hanging upstairs. Xu Jun felt that Randolph really had some taste, and seeing that he decorated this place, he could directly use it as a scene for "Return to Wolfenstein".

Randolph was not prepared to stay on the front line for too long this time, he still had the mission given by the Führer, so he did not take all the attachés with him. A squad of soldiers of the Guard Flag Team and torture experts from the General Security Bureau stayed, and the criminal network case has not yet been closed, and the digging is still continuing.

In order to report to the ambassador about Randolph's disappearance, Captain Dietretz flew back from the Yanbu port base with the remaining members of the Grey Swords, and now lives in the hotel.

In addition, there are the two French ladies who have not met their relatives, because the police have not found the missing French archaeological team, and they promised Horn and Krieger to wait for them to return, so they still stayed in the hotel and did not leave. Besides, it's hard to find a safer place in Cairo, after all, no hotel has a machine gun in front of the door.

Xu Jun was on a secret trip this time, and although the Cairo embassy was notified, it did not relay the news to the people in the hotel. This is completely understandable, the whereabouts of the Führer are a state secret, how can it be known to these inconsequential little people.

As a result, when Xu Jun and his party appeared at the door of the hotel, the guards and flag soldiers guarding the door could hardly believe their eyes.

"Hey! Reinhart! After making sure that he was not insane, the SS raised his right hand almost reflexively.

Sergeant Claire of the torture team was sneaking out of the hotel with a cigarette in his mouth at this time, and Leng Buding was startled by the shouts of the sentry, and the SS sergeant hurriedly looked towards the door, but when he saw the face of the comer clearly, the big man with a height of more than 1.9 meters immediately rolled his eyes with excitement and fainted on the top of the stairs.

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