Twenty kilometers away from the coastline of Djibouti, on the sea of Tajoura Bay, more than 100 warships are moored, stretching for hundreds of square nautical miles, and the scene is extremely spectacular. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The golden dragon flag flutters in the wind, and the colored flag is called, which is the combat strike group of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

It includes four dreadnought battleships, four dreadnought battlecruisers, six heavy cruisers, twelve light cruisers, seventeen destroyers, eleven frigates, eight submarines, one communications reconnaissance ship, one hospital ship, sixty-two troop carriers, eleven supply ships, plus two tugboats.

At this moment, the city of Djibouti is in shambles, houses have collapsed, and the streets are covered with huge deep pits, which are huge craters that have been blown open by at least one shell of more than 330 millimeters, and the surrounding area is charred black, and even the stones have melted.

The fire was scorching and black smoke billowed out.

Last night's heavy shelling not only drove away the Ethiopian army, but also the citizens who lived in the city had already fled the city, making it a dead city.

Not far from Djibouti, on the opposite bank of the Royada River, is the British and French concessions.

At this moment, the British and French troops had built a long defensive position on the river bank that had accumulated with sandbags, and the soldiers all looked as if they were facing a great enemy.

"What terrifying naval artillery fire!"

"They are all 343 mm caliber naval guns, how do I feel that the naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy are far more powerful than the naval guns of the same caliber in our British Empire? Do you have wood to feel like this? ”

"I think so, too! I can't imagine that just a dozen rounds of fire salvos can flatten the entire city of Djibouti to the ground! ”

"We are the enemies of the Chinese Empire, what if their naval guns suddenly turn their guns and aim at us?"

On the defensive positions in the concession area, the British officers and soldiers turned pale, and they were all worried that the Chinese Imperial Navy would drop shells on their heads in the next moment.

The French army on the other side, too, was frightened by the fierce offensive of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

In the Forward Position Headquarters, the Supreme Commanders of the Djibouti Concession of Britain and France met here to discuss the military operations of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

"Can a small Ethiopian country use such a large fleet? I think the Chinese Empire is too much of a fuss! ”

Ma Zhu, the governor of Djibouti, France, mocked without hesitation.

"There is an old Chinese saying that the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength. Although it is only a small Ethiopia, after all, after defeating the military invasion of Italy, the Chinese Empire probably does not want to capsize in the gutter, if it is also defeated by the Ethiopian army, then the Chinese Empire will lose its dead in the future, so the Chinese Imperial Army will be so cautious and important. ”

Blair, the governor of Djibouti, looked cautious, after all, the British Empire and the Chinese Empire had been fighting wars for more than 20 years, and they both knew a lot about each other.

"However, did the Chinese Empire really help Italy get angry? I always feel that it is not that simple! ”

Ma Zhu sneered: "You are too worried! I'm afraid that the Chinese Empire is going to conduct another major military training! Look at the Balkan War, it is clear that as long as the Chinese Empire dispatches elite troops, it can destroy the Balkan Allied Army in minutes, but they just don't do that, but instead send batch after batch of recruits, mostly student soldiers, in the name of military training, I think it's a waste of resources, so many college students, not used to engage in invention and economic development, but let them serve in the military, it's really a brain in the water! ”

Blair smiled bitterly: "You just don't know this, the Chinese Empire really does not lack those hundreds of thousands of student soldiers, you must know that the Chinese Empire has completed the popularization of high school education, a huge empire with a population of nearly 400 million, more than 20 years ago it was still the bottom of the world's illiterate and backward country, but now education has come to the forefront of the world, it is scary to think about." ”

Ma Zhu continued to mock: "Hooligans are not scary, I'm afraid that hooligans are educated!" The Chinese Empire is a complete hooligan! ”

Blair laughed: "I agree with this sentence!" But I'm afraid that the Chinese Empire will really play hooligans, and after fighting Ethiopia, it will stay here and not leave! ”

Ma Zhu asked rhetorically, "What does this mean?" ”

Blair pointed to the north and said, "You forgot that there is our Suez Canal!" Once the Allies and the Entente go to war, the fleets of our Entente Powers will inevitably go on an expedition to the Pacific Ocean, join forces with the American and Japanese fleets, and together destroy the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. Then it is inevitable to go through the Suez Canal, if the Chinese Empire does not go to Djibouti, this is the mouth of the Suez Canal, if the Chinese Empire deploys naval forces here, large-scale distribution of radium, blockade of the shipping lane, you can imagine! ”

Ma Zhu snorted coldly, the Suez Canal is British, and it has nothing to do with them French, he said disapprerovitically: "Even if this place is blocked, can't you still make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa?" ”

Blair rolled his eyes and said, "It will take three more months to spare the Cape of Good Hope, do you know what will happen in three months?" It is possible that the Chinese Empire will first concentrate on destroying the combined U.S.-Japan Pacific Fleet, and then turn around and come back to ambush our combined British-French-Russian fleet. ”

Now Ma Zhu understands that this is a typical time difference tactic!

But was the Chinese Empire that smart?

The answer is clearly yes!

"Oh no, if you really guess it, then it's going to be troublesome!"

"I've already reported it to Downing Street, I don't know if it will be taken seriously!"

"No, I also have to report to the Palace of Versailles, His Majesty the Emperor is wise and powerful, and he will definitely understand!"

……

"Look! The Chinese Imperial Shence Army has begun to land! ”

At this time, a soldier pointed to the sea in the distance and suddenly shouted loudly.

Blair and Ma Zhu looked over at the same time, and suddenly gasped.

I saw thousands of small boats being lowered from the troop carriers, carrying groups of soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army with loaded guns and ammunition, and they were rushing to the coastline at a rapid pace.

"What a fast landing craft!"

"Did you find it! The landing craft of the Chinese Imperial Army are special! ”

Following the direction of Blair's finger, Ma Zhu was also startled.

I saw that the landing force of the Chinese Imperial Army was riding a new type of landing craft, with a flying scissor bow, splitting the waves at high speed, a square stern, stabilizing the direction and center of the hull, and an inclined baffle above the bow, which should be used to block bullets, and the center of the baffle was opened, and a bloody heavy machine gun opened fire, which could suppress the fire of the coastal defense troops.

"I'm afraid it's 35 knots!"

"What kind of landing ship is this!"

Blair frowned and replied, "The biggest threat to the landing ship comes from the speed of the ship, and the slower the ship, the easier it is to be destroyed!" Unexpectedly, the Chinese Imperial Army already had such a powerful landing craft, and at this speed, it only took twenty minutes to be able to rush ashore. ”

Ma Zhu suddenly said with envy: "If the landing craft of our French army lands at this distance, it will take at least two hours to land!" It seems that we have accidentally discovered a new piece of equipment from the Chinese Empire! ”

Blair nodded, and immediately called the guards, telling him to take his camera and come back with a few pictures as close as possible.

The Chinese Empire's new landing equipment must be made known to the British Imperial military as soon as possible, otherwise it will inevitably suffer a great loss when it conducts an operation to land and seize the island in the future.

An hour later, the Imperial Chinese Army had sent a whole brigade of marines to the beachhead.

Blair kept pinching his watch, and his heart was shocked.

"It only took an hour for all the troops of a brigade to go ashore, and this ability to quickly land on the beach is really terrifying!"

"It's just that the Ethiopian army has scared them away, if it is replaced by our French Imperial army to defend, let alone an hour, they won't be able to attack it in a day."

Ma Zhu immediately bragged.

Blair just smiled slightly and didn't refute, but he snorted coldly in his heart, what is so great about the French army, it is not the same as being beaten all over the ground by the German army.

At this time, the first landing force of the Chinese Imperial Army was building a beachhead defensive position, and it was very cautious.

Ma Zhu suddenly laughed and said, "Look at it, this is the legendary world's most powerful Chinese Imperial Divine Army?" Even the beachhead defense is still being built? I don't think they're as good as the local security team! ”

Blair asked puzzledly: "It's not wrong for people to build beachhead fortifications!" ”

Ma Zhu snorted coldly: "Who will you fight with that score!" If you fight with our mighty French army, the Chinese Imperial Army is so cautious, that's right! But now the Chinese Imperial Army is facing Ethiopia, which is not even a fifth-rate power in the world, and the army has already withdrawn from Djibouti, which is empty, but the Chinese Imperial Army does not dare to rush in directly, not cowardly! In the case of our French army, we would have rushed in and chased the Ethiopian army for hundreds of kilometers! ”

Blair shook his head slightly and said, "It's not wrong to be careful!" ”

Soon, the Chinese Imperial Army completed the beachhead fortifications, and the pilot reconnaissance battalion began to advance in depth to the city of Djibouti.

As a result, as soon as the Chinese Imperial Army rushed into the city of Djibouti, it was suddenly ambushed by the Ethiopian army.

It turned out that the commander of the Ethiopian Army, seeing that the Chinese Imperial Army had strong naval artillery support, knew that if he defended Djibouti any longer, he would simply deliver food, and he would be blown into barbecue jerky by all the shells of the Chinese Imperial Army.

Therefore, the commander of the Egyptian army adopted an evacuation tactic, waited until the Chinese Imperial Navy stopped shelling, and quietly sent troops to sneak back to the city of Djibouti, and quietly lurked in the ruins, waiting for the Chinese Imperial Army to rush in and fight an ambush battle.

Although the Chinese Imperial Army was ambushed, because it was a leading reconnaissance battalion unit with strong combat effectiveness, it resisted stubbornly in the face of an ambush by Egyptian troops several times larger than its own, and retreated after fighting, and even escaped from the tiger's mouth and quickly retreated to the beachhead defensive position.

The Egyptian army then pursued closely, only to find that the Chinese Imperial Army had built a beachhead defensive position in such a short period of time, and had charged several times at a time, but it was difficult to overcome and could not drive the landing Chinese Imperial Army into the sea.

"Knock knock!"

On the sea, the naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy roared again.

Countless shells rained down and exploded, dense explosion points, as if a ten-magnitude earthquake, instantly overwhelming mountains and seas, the shock wave of the explosion swept together, flying sand and rocks, gunpowder smoke rose into the air, up to hundreds of meters.

All this came too quickly, and it was clear that the well-trained Imperial Chinese Army was already familiar with this tactic.

On the other hand, the Ethiopian army thought that it could drive the Chinese Imperial Army into the sea in one fell swoop by fighting an ambush war, but it was counter-ambushed by the Chinese Imperial Army.

In an instant, thousands of Ethiopian troops were engulfed in fire and smoke.

The trumpet sounded, and the Chinese Imperial Army counterattacked again. The soldiers were divided into three routes, one frontal assault, and the other two left and right outflanking.

The Egyptian army was struck by a thunderbolt and was already crushed, but was chased and killed by the Chinese Imperial Army all the way, with corpses all over the field and rivers of blood.

"It is worthy of being the strongest army in the world, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, it really lives up to its name, this tactical use, this combat psychology, even if you encounter a weak person like Ethiopia, you are not arrogant or impatient, a lure to the enemy, you will completely annihilate thousands of Ethiopian troops stationed in Djibouti, you know, it is this Ethiopian army, it has just defeated the Italian army, it is the elite of the Egyptian army, and the result is so vulnerable in front of the Chinese Imperial Army!"

Seeing all this, Ma Zhu was also dumbfounded.

Hearing Blair's words again, Ma Zhu felt as if his face had been slapped a hundred times, his face was as red and swollen as a monkey's buttocks, and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

At sunset the next day, the Imperial Chinese Army took full control of Djibouti.

A large number of heavy equipment and supplies have been brought ashore one after another, and the endless joint operation is like a green ocean.

In this attack on Ethiopia, the Chinese Imperial Army dispatched a Marine Division in full formation, and another town army had already taken the World Railway to the Red Sea coast via Baghdad and arrived in Djibouti a week later.

The Chinese Imperial Army was not in a hurry to pursue the Ethiopian army to expand its gains, but was rebuilding the city of Djibouti.

This made both Blair and Ma Zhu feel deeply worried, because they understood that the Chinese Empire was preparing for a long war! It's a rhythm that doesn't go!

The news reached Downing Street and Versailles, and British Prime Minister William and French Emperor Napoleon III immediately spoke on the phone.

On the phone, both of them were deeply worried about the purpose of the Chinese Empire's invasion of Ethiopia, and suspected that the Chinese Empire planned to build a naval base in Djibouti, probably in order to block the Red Sea access to the sea and blockade the Suez Canal in disguise.

Both knew perfectly well that in the event of a blockade of the Suez Canal, then the British, French, and Russian navies would not be able to directly access the Indian Ocean from the Mediterranean.

"Ethiopia must be fully supported!"

"The Chinese Empire must not be allowed to gain a foothold in Djibouti!"

"Don't let them build a military base!"

The British and French leaders agreed to fully support the Ethiopian army with the intention of driving the Chinese Empire out of Djibouti.

As a result, Djibouti, a small place in the Red Sea, was finally elevated to a strategic point in the eyes of the Entente and the Allied bloc and became a place of contention.

This also means that Britain and France will not give up Djibouti, and the Chinese Empire will not give in, and from then on there will be a medicine keg that can detonate a world war. (To be continued.) )