Chapter 194: Alexander
Alexandria is on a sunny day, as Egypt can enjoy for several months in winter, with the Nile River bringing abundant water and lush green farmland outside the city. The seaplane slowly landed on the sea outside the harbor, dragging a long white trail in the turquoise waters, and the huge "Viking" then turned its bow and broke the waves towards the harbor breakwater a kilometer away.
"The plane has arrived, Your Excellency." The secretary opened the door of the Lanchester limousine. Sir Fay stepped out of the car, and straightened his appearance with a solemn expression, and the secretary helped Fay straighten the back of his dress, carefully straightened the two medals on his chest, and diligently dusted off the dust that did not exist on Sir Fay's shoulders.
"Alright, Blair, you're waiting here with the driver." Fay stopped the secretary who was about to crouch down to shine his shoes, and at the same time felt that the young man had a promising future.
"Yes, Your Excellency." Blair's humble bow should be.
Old Port Alexandria is shaped like a crescent moon, with two breakwaters extending from the tip of the crescent moon that encloses the harbor. The breakwater is made of huge stone blocks that have been repaired by the government over the years, and at the western end stands a huge castle overlooking the passage into and out of the port.
The fort is known as the Katba Fort, built in the 13th century, when Egypt was ruled by the powerful Mamluk dynasty.
The castle is famous for the materials used to build it, and all the stones used for this fort come from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which is known as the Seventh Wonder of the World, and in fact Katba Fort was built on the site of the Seventh Wonder.
The Sultan of Egypt at the time, Katba, was passionate about art and architecture, and during his reign, he built a large number of high-quality buildings in the areas controlled by the dynasty. When the Sultan of Katba traveled to this area, he noticed the lack of coastal defense in Alexandria, so he sent people to build the Katba Fort at the entrance and exit of the port. The Sultan sent an entire army to the fortress and ordered that the fort should not be appropriated under any circumstances.
More than 400 years have passed, and the dynasty has been reduced to ashes, but the castle still stands by the sea, guarding the safety of this ancient port.
Fort Battelle was still home to troops, but the structure of the fort was too old to be equipped with modern artillery. As a result, the British built a series of coastal artillery forts around the fort and set up coastal artillery positions, including 12-inch guns. This is the most important home port of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, concentrating the essence of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, although most of those huge ships were lost in the just-ended European war, but the surviving Royal Mediterranean Fleet is still a maritime force that should not be underestimated.
Today, in Alexandria Bay, there is a huge warship, which is the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, the Warrior, the fourth ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.
The Warrior had participated in the magnificent Battle of Jutland, when she was part of Sir Betty's Fifth Battleship Detachment, and had a head-on encounter with the main force of the German High Seas Fleet.
Historically, this battleship was attacked by the Italian Navy in 41 years by the torpedo "Pig", and immediately sank in Alexandria, because the water depth of the sinking position is relatively shallow, so although the cabin has been filled with seawater, the battleship is still exposed on the water, and the Royal Navy also deliberately published a photo of the battleship "intact" in the media to confuse the Italian official.
However, history has now changed, and the Warrior will not repeat its original fate, but her sisters have not had much luck, except for the Malaya captured by the Germans, and the rest have sunk to the bottom of the sea.
In the final battle of the home fleet, the Queen Elizabeth was ambushed by the German battlefleet, and although she desperately broke through, she finally sank in the shallow sea near Willem, and when the Germans found her, most of her bridge was still exposed. After the British Royal Navy inspected the [Queen Elizabeth], it was found that the keel of the battleship had been broken and completely lost the value of repair, so after disassembling the useful equipment on the battleship, it sold her to a French shipbreaking company.
The Warrior has become the only remaining battleship of the Royal Navy, and when you think about the grandeur of the Royal Navy's warships in the era of European grandmothers, and then look at the British fleet today, you can't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world. Seeing that he was full of guests and friends, the soldiers were strong and the horses were rampant all over the world, but in the blink of an eye, the wall collapsed, the building collapsed, the family was destroyed, and the emperor turned the hegemony into a spring dream.
"The British Navy is strengthening the Mediterranean Fleet, and they will hold the Black Sea straits." Standing on the transport boat, Werler pointed to the warships anchored in the harbor.
"What's going on over there?" The Reich Führer asked, pointing to a group of workboats leaning together.
"I don't know, my Führer, maybe I'm dredging the waterway." Weirle replied with a shrug of his shoulders.
The German Army units stationed in Alexandria had now cordoned off the entire port area, snipers and machine guns were deployed at all the commanding heights, and German soldiers with loaded guns stood guard at the intersections of every alley.
Mobile anti-aircraft positions have been set up on the two sections of the breakwater, and the antennas on the new mobile radar vehicles are constantly rotating, closely monitoring air activity within a radius of 100 kilometers around the perimeter. Guarding the skies was an entire squadron of BF109 fighters, and the Mercedes-Schmidt twin squadron roared across the sky, and the pilots were ordered by their superiors to shoot down any suspicious target that dared to approach the Führer's plane, even if the fuselage was painted with the Iron Cross insignia.
Vice Admiral Cunningham was at the Admiralty in London at this time, and it was thought that he would most likely take over the post of commander of the Home Fleet, and now commanding the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Squadron was the Deputy Commander of the Fleet, Henry Cunningham, who had just been transferred from London last month. Rear Admiral Harwood, the cruiser he commanded, intercepted the German pocket battleship Count Spee and forced it to sink itself in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay.
As a result of this "brilliant" achievement, Harwood was promoted to Rear Admiral and knighted, and was transferred to the Royal Admiralty as Chief of Naval Staff, where he was regarded as the seed of the next generation of leadership in the Royal Navy until the Battle of Dunkirk.
No one could have imagined that the war would deteriorate dramatically in just a few months, and with the Royal Navy battered at Dunkirk, all the fingers were pointed at the Admiralty, and Harwood, chief assistant to the chief of staff, became an excellent scapegoat.
Rear Admiral Harwood was transferred out of the General Staff and subsequently thrown into an idle transportation management office under the Admiralty, and if you thought that was the end, you guessed wrong, because the bad luck of the Rear Admiral was not over.
His office then participated in the planning of the "continuation operation", as a result of which the transport fleet, laden with treasury treasures, was ambushed by the German fleet and annihilated in the Faroe Islands.
Probably thinking that Sir Harwood had already carried a pot on his back, it didn't matter if he stacked another one, so the rear admiral once again took on the responsibility of not being able to fight with him, and was finally demoted to the Naval Coastal Defense Command in Kent, and went to guard the beach with the marines... As a result, a month later, the German Army landed in Kent.
Harwood had only four companies of Marines under his command, and in front of the elite of the German Army, he couldn't even make a splash, and the rookies were wiped out almost as soon as they fought, and the Germans didn't even know which unit they were fighting with.
Rear Admiral Harwood led the remnants of his army all the way in, and he managed to escape back to London, but this time the Admiralty did not need to find someone to take the blame, because with the king's surrender order, the entire Royal Navy became prisoners of the enemy.
Maybe it's because the bad luck is to the extreme, but after the end of the war, this major general suddenly came to work.
In the process of personnel adjustment of the Admiralty, the person in charge of the Admiralty made it clear that the general who was more senior than this knight had either died in battle or had a bad debt, and this rear admiral became the highest-ranking general on the promotion ladder of the Navy. Just as the Admiralty was preparing to find a fleet commander to replace Cunningham, Harwood became the most suitable person, and now just waiting for Cunningham to officially leave office, the rear admiral could be immediately regularized and add a ring of gold to the cuffs.
By the time the young German Führer stepped off the transport boat, he had long been waiting for the commander of the German garrison Rudolf on the pier. Colonel Lawx, with his command team, came forward with an excited face.
"Welcome to Alexandria, my Führer! Hi! Heinhardt! As the commander raised his arm, the dock was lined with arms in an instant, neatly "Victory" and "Hi! Reinhardt!" The sound echoed alternately over this ancient harbor.
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