At about 7 o'clock in the morning, behind a sand dune south of Ramla City, two "gray squirrel" wheeled armored vehicles were put on a T-shape, and two soldiers wearing crash caps and camouflage uniforms were lying on the sand dunes like lizards, observing the situation inside the city through military binoculars. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Both men have high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, typical European faces, a red nose, a beard, a hooked nose, a cleanly shaved beard, and a tomahawk badge on the neckline.

"Those Arabs have just started digging trenches, it's too late!" The red nose muttered.

"Digging trenches shows that they intend to defend the city and wait for reinforcements to arrive, rather than abandon the city and flee!" The hooked nose answered.

"Do you want to give them a chance to test the fire?" The red nose tip suggests.

Hooknose didn't say anything, but turned his head to look northwest. There was a slight roar in the sky, and two Curtiss F-11s flew low, and the pilot didn't seem to notice the two friendly reconnaissance vehicles in the wilderness, and they flew along the road from Tel Aviv to Ramla, maintaining a smooth and monotonous flight attitude the whole time. When they were closer, the people on the ground could clearly see a round, black creature hanging from each of their bellies. When approaching the sky over the city, they drop their loads one after the other. A moment later, only a loud bang was heard, and a burst of firecrackers appeared on the edge of the city.

"One of them is a dud?" Rednose shook his head with disdain.

Hooknose said in the affirmative, "This is a Jewish-made aerial bomb, and a normal explosion would be nice." ”

"That's ......," the red nose agreed.

The aftermath of the explosion quickly dissipated, the smoke and dust slowly dispersed, and the Arabs who had been digging the trenches disappeared as if out of thin air, until the two bomb-dropping planes flew away, and they got up in twos and threes, and stayed where they were, dazed and hesitant. After a long time, men who looked like officers finally came out to clean up the situation, and under their orders, the soldiers and men picked up their tools in a daze, and the few wounded were carried to the city on camels......

The hook-nosed on the sand dune raised his hand and looked at his watch: "A bomb has kept these Arabs busy for half an hour, shall we give them something more interesting?" ”

The red-nosed head grinned, "Why not?" ”

Hooknose raised his fist: "See you later!" ”

"See you in a moment!" The red nose head punches with it.

In a few moments, the two "gray squirrels" started one after another with a pleasant roar, and they drove out of the sand dunes one after the other, speeding towards Ramla, kicking up the dust like a speedboat splitting the waves. Before they could get closer, the Arabs who were building the fortifications outside Ramla noticed the unusual scene, and they raised their voices to warn their companions, and the soldiers and men who were toiling were thrown into confusion again. The soldiers took up their arms one after another, and the people ran into the city in a panic.

Two or three kilometers from the Arab fortifications, two "Grey Squirrels" opened fire as they marched, and the 20-mm guns spewed out a series of shells with a crisp roar, each of which was marked with tracer bullets at the end of the trajectory, which looked particularly clear. Wherever the shells went, sand and debris flew everywhere, and the Arab soldiers did not dare to confront them, one by one they cowered in the trenches, and the machine gunners deployed in the fortified buildings hurriedly opened fire, but how could the range of ordinary machine guns exceed a kilometer?

The two "Grey Squirrels" moved rapidly outside the range of the defenders' machine guns, and although the cannon fire was not enough to kill and injure the Arabs in large numbers, it made it impossible for the Arab soldiers in the positions outside the city to advance or retreat. After about ten minutes, the cannon roared in the city, and the shells whistled and fell outside the city, and the sound of their explosion was far less powerful than the previous aerial bomb, but it was much more powerful than the light artillery used by the Arab Guards Cavalry Division, and its effective killing range could reach twenty or thirty meters, as long as it fell close to the enemy's wheeled armored vehicles, it could be easily destroyed, but the two "gray squirrels" were so dexterous that they quickly escaped without waiting for the Arab artillery to get close, and they acted separately, one went around the west of the city, and the other ran to the east of the city, It made it even more difficult for the Arab artillery to catch their tracks.

After repeated reconnaissance raids, the two "Grey Squirrels" immediately retreated south and withdrew from the battle unscathed.

40 minutes later, the 1st Armored Combat Company of the "Viking Battalion" of the Irish Foreign Legion drove south of Ramla along the road, accompanied by more than 500 people from four squadrons of the Jewish "Flying Army", and the main force of the 1st Guards Cavalry Division of the Arab Kingdom originally stationed in Ramla had been destroyed in the Battle of Rehovot, and the soldiers and equipment sent by the Guards Artillery Division to help were basically gone, and at this time there was only one cavalry battalion, one heavy artillery battalion and some baggage units of the Arabs left in Ramla, although there were still more than 2,000 soldiers, Seeing the chariots of the Jewish camp rumbling towards them, most of the Arabs were already frightened, and they did not have the confidence and courage to resist at all.

On the side of the Jewish camp, the morale of the joint combat forces, which had won a big victory at Rehovot, had the absolute upper hand. After previous fire reconnaissance, they knew that there was still Arab artillery in the city, so before they could get close to Ramla, more than 20 chariots and more than 500 infantry scattered in the wilderness on both sides of the road, and then slowly advanced towards the city of Ramla.

At this time, an armored command vehicle with a half-track construction drove straight up the sand dunes where the two scouts had stayed, and then stopped. Kurt Meyer wore his favorite German short-brimmed hat, black trench coat, black gloves and black leather boots, and looked out over the quaint and old city of Ramla. In the magnified field of view through the telescope, there was not a single figure in the position outside the city, and the Arab soldiers defending the city must have been hiding in the unfinished trenches, shivering. As for the Arab Guards cavalry battalion in the mouth of the prisoners of war, perhaps hiding in the city, waiting for the right moment to give it a go, or perhaps having no intention of fighting, it has already fled.

If they launched a strong attack at any cost, these chariots and infantry were capable of clearing the Arab defenders outside Ramla, but the Arab artillery inside the city was likely to cause them to suffer heavy losses, including the destruction of some of the chariots, which was obviously something that Meyer did not want to see. The reason why the 1st Panzer Company of the "Viking" Battalion and the 1st Division of the Jewish "Flying Army" put up an offensive position in this wilderness was only to attract the attention of the opponent and make the flank attacks of the 2nd and 3rd Panzer Companies reach a certain suddenness.

Sure enough, Ramla's Arab defenders kept an eye on the enemy approaching from the south, and soon the city erupted with the sound of rumbling artillery. Heavy shells screeched down in front of the combined forces of the Jews and their foreign aid, sending up clouds of dust and sand in the wilderness. The moving chariots came to a halt, only to see them adjust their turrets, raise their muzzles, and open fire. In the case of grenades, the guns of the Celtic Knights H could attack targets at a distance of 10 km, and their absolute range was slightly inferior to the old howitzers equipped with the Arab Guards Artillery Division, but it was more than enough to bombard defensive positions outside the city beyond the range of the defenders' artillery fire.

After several rounds of grenades were fired at the defenders' positions, the vehicles of the 1st Armoured Combat Company of the "Viking" Battalion began to fire smoke grenades, and white smoke dispersed over the positions south of Ramla to interfere with the Arab artillery's sighting. The Arabs thought this was a way to reduce casualties from the attack, and faintly heard the roar of the chariots, so they continued to interdict the fire, but the enemy chariots and infantry remained out of range of their artillery and waited for the order to attack.

It was not long before there was a billowing of dust and smoke in both the southeast and southwest directions of Ramla -- according to the previously established battle plan, the 2nd and 3rd Panzer Companies of the "Viking" Battalion were to fight at full speed to the east and west of Ramla after the 1st Panzer Company exchanged fire with the defenders, and each had more than 200 mobile Jewish "Flying Corps" soldiers fighting in tandem. However, there is a terrible danger to this coherent plan, that is, the Jewish air force is unable to provide adequate cover for their ground forces, not to mention that their number of American-made fighters is so small that even in a one-on-one battle, their pilots will hardly have an advantage over the air force of the Kingdom of Arabia, which is also equipped with American-made fighters - since the vast majority of Arabs have a low level of modern culture, the cost of training them to become qualified pilots is far greater than directly hiring foreign pilots, The government of the Arab kingdom has been employing retired pilots from the armies of the United States and Italy for many years, many of whom have participated in wars, and it is easy to deal with those Jewish pilots who have only flown for a few months.

Fortunately, most of the military airfields of the Arab kingdom were built around the capital and along the Persian Gulf coast, and there were few airfields in the central and northwestern regions, and the long-distance movement of air force units and their logistics and supply units took a long time, coupled with the contempt for the Jewish armed forces, the Arabs at this time had only a few flying squadrons in the Palestinian area, and the coordination with the ground forces was very unfamiliar. By the time four American-made Martin B-10 bombers appeared over Ramla, the "Celtic Knights" of the 2nd Armoured Combat Company of the "Viking" Battalion and the "Irish Panthers" of the 3rd Armoured Assault Company had broken through the fragile defenses of the Arab defenders to the east and west of the city with an unstoppable momentum. In such a situation, the bombers of the Arab Kingdom Air Force could not help at all, and four Martin B-10s circled in vain over the city, and finally had to drop their bombs on the Jewish coalition forces that carried out a feint attack in the south of the city, killing and wounding more than a dozen members of the Jewish "flying army" and a tank belonging to the "Viking" battalion of the Irish Foreign Regiment......

After less than half an hour of fighting, the Jewish coalition overwhelmingly captured Ramla, capturing 11 105mm howitzers, 5 150mm howitzers and thousands of unused shells from the Arab Kingdom government forces, which were immediately dragged back to Tel Aviv by the Jewish forces. The Arab Kingdom, which was unwilling to lose the war, accused the new United Kingdom of sending troops to interfere in its own affairs in violation of the Neutrality Act, and submitted a request to the League of Nations for intervention and punishment.

(End of chapter)