The Suez Canal, which holds the maritime communication of Europe, Asia and Africa, has become a battleground for soldiers from all over the world since its completion, and its strategic position is extremely important. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The British Empire took all kinds of hard work to finally seize the Suez Canal at its strongest, even with the continuous decline of the empire on which the sun never sets, the control of the Suez Canal is still not relaxed, and the garrison of 100,000 British troops is maintained in peacetime, and there will be more garrisons during the war.

Two years after the outbreak of the World War, after the British army completed the general mobilization for the war, it first sent 300,000 additional troops to the Suez Canal, making the British army around the Suez Canal 400,000 and well-equipped.

At first, the main task of the 400,000 British troops was to attack the defenders of the Chinese Empire in Djibouti, and with the 100,000 French garrisons in French Somalia, the Anglo-French army reached 500,000.

Djibouti is an important strategic fortress for the Chinese Imperial Military to control the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, with elite troops stationed in two towns and an independent brigade with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops.

In the face of the Anglo-French army, which was ten times larger than their own, the defenders of the Chinese Empire relied on the fortifications of the Djibouti fortress to defend it to the death, and repelled hundreds of fierce attacks by the Anglo-French forces.

Since the Chinese Empire ceded Ethiopia to Italy, when the Anglo-French forces attacked Djibouti, they had to consider the more than 200,000 Italian troops next to it.

The Italian army was notoriously weak, unable to handle even a single Ethiopian guerrilla force, and in the face of a fierce attack by 500,000 Anglo-French troops, the Italian army was defeated one after another and suffered heavy losses.

However, it was precisely because the 200,000 Italian troops in Ethiopia attracted the hatred of the Anglo-French coalition that the defensive pressure of the Chinese Imperial Army in Djibouti was reduced a lot, and then the Chinese Empire took over the American battlefield and began to increase Djibouti's troops by 100,000, making Djibouti's defense impregnable.

The British and French forces saw that they could not get benefits, and they knew that the American and Japanese navies in the Pacific theater were finished, so the Royal Navy of the British Empire gave up the plan to go to the Pacific to participate in the war, so the importance of the Suez Canal was no longer so urgent, and the British and French forces stopped the attack on Djibouti and retreated to the Suez Canal.

With the successive victories in the Pacific Theater, the Chinese Imperial Navy completely achieved the control of the Pacific Sea, and the next step is to completely eliminate the Royal Navy of the British Empire and become the only maritime hegemon in the world, so the Suez Canal has become an obstacle to the entry of the Chinese Imperial Navy into Europe.

Germany, Italy and Austria and other Allied member states have always opposed the Chinese Empire's intervention in the European theater, which is due to the core national interests of Germany, Italy and Austria in Europe, and the Chinese Empire is not allowed to intervene in Europe.

To put it bluntly, that is, mutual recognition of the sphere of influence of allies, Germany, Italy and Austria recognize the absolute sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire in the Pacific Rim, and even North America is included in the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire, while South America is regarded as a sphere of influence by the Brazilian Empire and the Federation of Colombia, the Middle East is the sphere of influence of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe are the spheres of influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire respectively, North Africa is the sphere of influence of Italy, Western Europe, Northern Europe and West Africa were the spheres of influence of the German Empire.

When all the Allied member states formed an alliance, they had already divided up the world map, and other allies were not allowed to interfere in each other's spheres of influence.

The Chinese Empire was very friendly to its allies at the beginning, and always adhered to the principle of not crossing the line, exporting arms and strategic materials to its allies in the rear, and making a lot of money in silence.

However, with the emergence of the German Empire's trend of unifying Western Europe and Northern Europe, the Chinese Empire changed its principle of not crossing the line, because Li Weiguo knew very well that once the German Empire occupied France and Britain and unified Western Europe and Northern Europe, it would become the world's second largest superpower after the Chinese Empire, and it would threaten the global hegemony of the Chinese Empire.

This is a matter of time or time, so Li Weiguo did not hesitate and directly began to intervene in the European war with arms.

Previously, the Chinese Empire had been very quiet, and Britain, France, Russia and other countries were nervous that the Chinese Empire might open up a second battlefield in Europe after defeating the United States and Japan, but as the Chinese Empire had been stationary, Britain, France and Russia gradually understood that there was some kind of agreement between the Chinese Empire and Germany, Italy and Austria, and the Chinese Empire was not allowed to intervene in the European war.

In this way, Britain, France and Russia breathed a sigh of relief, the Tsarist Empire only retained one million troops on the Sino-Russian border, and the rest of the troops were all transferred to the Eastern Front to attack and contain the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

However, in order to prevent the Chinese Empire from discovering it, the British and French military secretly transported the wounded British and French soldiers on the Western Front to Suez and North Africa, creating the false impression that the British and French forces in the region had not decreased, but had increased, in order to deter the Chinese Empire from acting rashly in the region.

At the same time, the prolonged silence of the Chinese Empire also gave Britain, France and Russia a certain illusion that the Chinese Empire would not send troops to Europe.

As a result, when the Chinese Imperial Army really appeared in the Suez Canal, the British army was instantly stunned.

"Damn, why did we find out when the enemy arrived at our doorstep? Did the scouts all grow up eating Xiang? ”

At the head of Suez City, the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Donald, roared like thunder, scolding several British officers in charge of reconnaissance.

The British army had reconnaissance planes, but when they flew out, they were shot down by the fighters of the Chinese Empire.

In this attack on the Suez Canal, the Chinese Imperial Military mobilized elite units of the Navy, Army and Air Force, and the latest 1,500 F-16 fighters of the Air Force arrived at the Air Base on the island of Cyprus three days ago after several transfers.

At the same time, the Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet also arrived in Djibouti five days ago and entered combat readiness. The other fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet, had also returned to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea four days earlier, covering the Imperial Chinese defenders in Cyprus to attack Port Said and divert the attention of the British.

In the direction of Djibouti, there are the 22nd, 23rd, 75th, and 125th towns of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, as well as the Fifth Brigade of the Dragoon Regiment and the Desert Fox Special Forces, carrying 240 T23 tanks, 120 W18 tanks, and 500 artillery pieces, of which 200 are siege artillery, with a total strength of more than 100,000 people, and went straight to Suez City.

Before the arrival of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, these 100,000 troops were the main force to attack Suez City.

At a distance of ten kilometers from Suez City, it had already entered the radium area buried by the British army.

The Imperial Chinese Army opened the way with bulldozers, and huge forklifts pushed directly out of a safe passage, followed by T23 tanks, and behind the tanks were infantry.

At this time, the defensive artillery of the British army opened fire first.

At a distance of ten kilometers, it was almost out of the range of British artillery, but the British still opened fire first.

As the commander, Lieutenant General Donald, he had to boost the morale of the British troops, fire first, give the opposing Imperial Chinese army a dismount, and that's it.

However, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army is not frightened, the young recruits have already experienced the baptism of blood and fire, and most of the Chinese Imperial Army stationed in Djibouti are the elite of a hundred battles, they have participated in the Ethiopian War, the South African War, and even some officers and soldiers have participated in the Battle of New York and the Battle of Washington, transferred back from the American battlefield, and come here to teach combat experience to the fraternal troops.

Although the soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army were not afraid of the British artillery deterrence, it was necessary to fight back.

In the distance, the artillery of the Imperial Chinese Army had already set up all the artillery, and 200 siege cannons of 280 mm caliber quickly concentrated fire on the salvo.

Knock knock!

Knock knock!

The siege guns opened fire one after another, and the huge muzzle spewed out flames more than ten meters long, and one after another armor-piercing blasting shells weighing hundreds of kilograms burst out from the muzzle of the gun, roaring and shooting towards the Suez city wall.

Ten seconds later, 200 armor-piercing blast rounds accurately hit the walls of Suez, shooting into the walls more than two meters deep.

The British soldiers on the city wall screamed in fright, most of them were veterans of the European battlefield, experienced, and when they saw the dense cannonballs hitting the city wall, the instant thought was to run.

"Run!"

"Get out of the walls!"

The veterans turned around and ran, and even jumped directly from the city wall, but no matter how fast they reacted, they were not as fast as the cannonballs, and in an instant of 0.1 seconds, the cannonballs that were fired into the city wall exploded one after another.

Boom!

Boom!

In an instant, the city wall, which was considered extremely strong by the British army, exploded in an instant, spewed out gunsmoke, crumbled boulders, and clouds of fiery red mushrooms rose into the sky, and then dust flew and spread in all directions.

The British soldiers lying on the head of the city ready to fight were blown away one after another, and their bodies rolled in the air with various high difficulties, or somersaulted for ten and a half weeks, or turned 7,200 degrees.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the entire Suez city wall was flattened by three meters, and the city wall, which was originally close to ten meters, was only less than seven meters high.

"Damn, this is definitely prepared!"

Lieutenant General Donald gritted his teeth in anger, and as soon as he saw the destructive power of the shells, he knew that it was a siege cannon specially designed to shoot at the city walls.

In the face of such siege weapons, no matter how strong the walls are, they will not help.

"Order all the defenders of the eastern wall to withdraw!"

Donald judged that the outer city walls could not stop the Chinese Imperial Army's siege artillery salvo at all, and no matter how many troops were invested on it, it would be useless and he would die in vain.

Sure enough, the artillery of the Chinese Imperial Army continued to fire, and the siege artillery spewed out tongues of fire, which was incomparably powerful, and in less than half an hour, the wall east of Suez City was almost completely destroyed.

At this time, under the cover of artillery fire, the Chinese Imperial Army had safely passed through the British army's radium field, and the T23 tank made a huge roar, spewed black smoke, and rushed towards the Suez city wall with a overwhelming momentum.

The ruined Suez city wall was no longer a vertical wall, but a small hill, and the T23 tank ran over the falling masonry and began to climb upward.

British artillery fire came again, trying to block the breach, occasionally blowing up a few T23 tanks, but to no avail, the Chinese Imperial Army tank units quickly rushed to the city walls, and the infantry then fought into the city.

The siege cannon was a direct-fire cannon, and when the British abandoned the frontal walls and retreated into the city, the ruined walls blocked the firing range of the siege cannons.

At this time, the British army began to organize a counterattack, and heavy machine guns were deployed at various firing points, attacking the T23 tank in front of it, and also looking for an angle to shoot the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army hiding behind the tank.

A T23 tank was parked on the rubble, its turret turning, and its 37mm short-barreled smoothbore gun was aimed at a hidden British firing point, and with a thud, the enemy was destroyed with a single shot.

The side cover of another T23 Tucker next to it opened, and a tanker of the Imperial Chinese Army showed his head, turned the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun, and fired fiercely at the British troops on the flank, quickly suppressing the British machine gun fire.

The infantry of the Imperial Chinese Army behind the tank, covered by machine guns and artillery, scattered in formation, looking for cover in the surrounding area, and then fired at the British with submachine guns.

The British infantry here still used old-fashioned single-shot rifles, which were difficult to concentrate in street fighting, while the submachine guns used by the soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army played a greater and stronger advantage in close-range firepower in street fighting.

Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da!

The Chinese Imperial Army was all automatic firepower, and the bullets were overwhelmingly strafing the British army, so that the British army did not dare to show its head at all.

At this time, several flamethrowers of the Chinese Imperial Army quietly approached, and suddenly several flames erupted, more than ten meters away, directly into the bunker where the British soldiers were hiding.

"I'm on fire!"

"Help!"

"Ahh

The screams rang out, and the British soldiers instantly turned into burning men, rolling all over the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

But that kind of flame is very difficult to extinguish.

Several British soldiers rushed out of the bunkers, they did not want to be burned alive, and as soon as they came out, they were killed by intensive fire.

"Kill those goddamn Pyros!"

Some British officers were so angry that they saw their men burned alive and vowed to kill the flamethrowers of the Imperial Chinese Army.

It's just that when the British officers showed their heads, on the commanding heights in the distance, the hidden snipers of the Chinese Imperial Army finally had a chance to fire.

Bang!

When the gun rang out, the British officer's head exploded, arterial blood spurted out more than ten meters away, and the corpse fell to the ground with a whirl.

Kill the British commander, and the other British soldiers in the vicinity are instantly out of command and are quickly eliminated or they themselves flee in fright.

The Imperial Chinese Army opened the way with tanks, and the infantry, flamethrowers, and snipers cooperated with each other, and the British troops killed were powerless.

In the rear, Donald saw that the war was unfavorable and feared that Suez City would soon be lost if it went on like this, so he ordered the artillery to open fire.

"General, there are still a large number of officers and soldiers of our army on the position, they are stuck with the enemy and cannot retreat!"

"I know! Fire now! ”

"General!"

"Didn't you hear my orders? Fire now! Don't make me repeat it a third time! I can't help but shoot you in the head! ”

Donald is really crazy, but it has to be said that this ruthless method of his has achieved a certain tactical effect.

The artillery of the British army was howitzers, which could be launched in street battles, and the Chinese and British armies who were fighting on the firing line were instantly swallowed up by the British army's concentrated fire salvo.

The British army then temporarily blocked the offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army, but the British army itself suffered heavy casualties, and this tactic was also a symptom rather than a cure. (To be continued.) )