readx;?“ Treachery! Shameful betrayal! Wilhelm II yelled at Schlieffen to vent his anger, but then he had to accept Schlieffen's suggestion to hold a meeting between China and the Allies to discuss the next steps, since the two countries had the same enemy. Ottoman Turkey www.biquge.info most urgent for this meeting, because China has infiltrated the Middle East, which is their traditional territory, and even if it is occupied by China, Turkey needs to gain some benefits from it.

The four topics of the talks, namely, reducing or stopping support for Russia, distributing oil interests in the Middle East, opening up the links between the Allies and China's views, and intensifying the offensive against the United States, became the main contents of the talks, and China must make compromises with the German-led Allies and cede some of their interests.

It is impossible for China to reduce its support for Russia, which is the main way to contain the allies, and the two sides quarreled over this, and finally reached an agreement that China must not export tanks, aircraft, heavy artillery and other equipment to Russia, which is already the result of concessions on both sides, after all, the two countries have not yet formed an alliance. As for the Middle East oil issue, China postponed this issue on the pretext that it had not completely driven the British out of the Middle East and could not predict the outcome of the issue, essentially because it did not want the outside world to undermine China's control over the Middle East. If you master oil, you will control the future, and other issues can be discussed, but oil cannot.

By the end of the talks, the Chinese army had accumulated millions of troops and massive war materials in the Middle East, and in the Persian Gulf, the Chinese army defeated the British and Iraqi forces and advanced the front to the northern part of Iraq. In the Arabian Peninsula, the Chinese mechanized troops galloped across the country, crushing the Arab cavalry units organized by the British, and gradually controlling the large and small tribes in the desert region. In semi-colonized Persia, China and the Kingdom of Iran signed a strategic cooperation agreement, under which the Chinese army leased three Iranian military bases, two airports and a port, stationed two divisions of troops for a long time, trained Iranian officers and soldiers, provided military supplies, and provided economic assistance. However, in order to prevent Iran from becoming a dominant player in the region, China has supported Iraq, provided more material aid, and secretly instigated contradictions between the two countries, so as to ensure China's right to speak in the Middle East.

On April 15, 1912, the 35th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the 65th Ottoman Infantry Division of the Chinese Army met in Beirut and began preparations for the invasion of Egypt. The loss of South Asia and the Middle East was a fatal blow to the British, whose industry was halted due to the lack of raw materials for the colonies, and the soldiers lacked even training ammunition for rifles, and if Egypt was lost again, the British would have to consider surrendering to the Central Powers.

Of course, the Americans do not want to see this, although Britain is difficult, but it is still an ally to resist the Allies and China, no matter how arrogant Uncle Sam is, he does not have the confidence to challenge China and the Allies alone, which is no different from being the enemy of the world. As a result, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and a large amount of supplies arrived in North Africa, and Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt, which were controlled by Britain and France, were unimpeded, so that Egypt was relatively well prepared for war. You must know that the route from South Africa to the Red Sea has been controlled by the Chinese Navy, and the Americans can only transport supplies to the coast of Morocco, and the shameless Italians have defected to the Central Powers, and their naval warships in the Mediterranean Sea have posed a great threat to the British Mediterranean Fleet, plus the Allied planes on key islands such as Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and Crete, and the Mediterranean routes of the Entente countries are at risk of being cut off.

At the beginning of the North African offensive, the Chinese army concentrated a tank army, a mechanized infantry corps, 25 infantry divisions, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and more than 800 aircraft through five months of preparation, and 60,000 Ottoman troops were responsible for logistics transportation and rear support. The British and Americans on the opposite side prepared 660,000 troops, including 330,000 American soldiers, 290,000 British soldiers, and 40,000 colonial soldiers, which was already the largest combat group of the British outside the homeland.

Britain, a traditional industrial power, used its own and Canadian factories to continuously produce weapons and ammunition, and at the same time, the United States made efforts to produce weapons and ammunition in its own country, and the United States showed more war potential after entering a state of war than Britain and Germany combined. On the busy Atlantic routes, numerous transport ships came and went, some sunk by German submarines and warships, and most could reach North Africa and the British mainland.

The abundance of supplies and troops gave the Allies great confidence, and they claimed that the North African campaign would be the Waterloo of the Chinese army, a turning point in the world war, and that the Allies would begin a counteroffensive after this battle. The front-line generals believed this, and the people in the rear preferred to believe it, but they all underestimated the level of preparation of the Chinese for the North African campaign.

Whether in terms of the number of tanks, artillery, or aircraft, the Chinese army is not lagging behind, and it has more experience in the combat of armored units. Although the Chinese army was only 460,000 troops, it had sufficient supplies, and it was impossible for the Allied generals to imagine that the Chinese army's logistical supply would be insufficient. China's maritime transport forces exceeded the total number of ships that the Entente could mobilize, and it was more efficient and had safer routes. After controlling the ports near the route, the Chinese transport ships can quickly and efficiently transport materials, from the South China Sea to the Red Sea, all under the control of the Chinese country, the elongation of the distance does not bring much trouble, and the rich crude oil in the Middle East and the gradual expansion of petrochemical plants in Kuwait and Iran, and the grain purchased from the local will reduce the cost of transporting fuel and improve transportation efficiency.

The limits of China's transportation were much more than that, and while preparing for the North African campaign, fleets and supplies of almost the same size were converging to Guam, Midway, Hawaii, and Australia. More than twice the steel production of the United States is not only reflected in the numbers, but also from the micro level, the strength of China's industrial accumulation, the huge steel production efficiently transported to countless shipyards along the coast, and then quickly transformed into standard large-tonnage carriers. If the British and Americans were allowed to experience the construction process of a transport ship in China, perhaps the desire to fight would disappear in an instant.

"It doesn't get any worse than that!" These are the words of the US President to the Chief of the General Staff after receiving the move of China in the Pacific, and China is preparing for the campaign of landing in the United States at the same time as preparing for the North African campaign -- there is no doubt that the Chinese army's hoarding of troops and supplies on the Pacific islands is aimed at the United States.

At the beginning of July, the first battle of the North African campaign, the Battle of Jerusalem, began. The ambitious British and American forces dispatched more than 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 500 aircraft, and more than 1,600 artillery pieces to launch an active attack on the Chinese army. This was a concentrated and large-scale demonstration of the research results of the Allied Military Research Committee, and most of the weapons and equipment of the Allied forces were the latest equipment, even including individual rapid-fire rifles, semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, plus new tanks and airplanes, which greatly reduced the level of equipment in the eyes of China and the Entente countries.

It was only narrowed, but the gap did not disappear, and the speed of the Entente's development of new equipment and the speed of industrial production made Lu Liang appreciate, but the gap could still collapse the British and American soldiers participating in the war. On the first day of the war, the largest air battle in the history of the world broke out, and the sunny and dry weather here made the two armies unanimously regard the seizure of air supremacy as the primary condition for victory. 330 new metal monoplane fighters named "Hurricane" and 215 "Camel" biplane fighters took part in the battle, and the air battle was extremely fierce, and the pilots returning to the airfield could only rest for half an hour.

In this battle, the main fighter of the Chinese army, the Mustang, exposed the problem of insufficient firepower, because the previous battle was very easy, the Chinese army did not add cannons to the Mustang fighters, and the aviation machine guns needed to hit the vital points to cause fatal damage to the enemy aircraft. As a result, many enemy fighters were able to flee the battlefield and rejoin the battle after repairing them, making it more difficult for the Chinese army.

Soon after the start of the air battle, the Anglo-American coalition forces did not wait for the results of the air battle to send a large army to Beirut in an attempt to recapture the bridgehead on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. The open terrain provides the greatest convenience for the play of armored forces, and this is not a complete desert area, but also a terrain dominated by the Gobi and desert, and the tracks of tanks and armored vehicles will not easily fall into the sand, and even trucks and other mobile tools can be fully utilized. In the face of the attacking forces of the British and American coalition forces, the tank units of the Chinese army rose head-on, and the tank battle composed of more than 1,500 tanks was recorded in history by later generations and became a classic example in the textbooks of major armored colleges.

More than 150 Tiger tanks in the Chinese army have become a nightmare for the Anglo-American allied tanks, and in the face of the Chinese army's Leopard tanks, their latest "Chieftain" tanks can still cope with one or two, and even their heavy tank "Wellington" can pose a threat to the frontal armor of the Leopard tanks. However, in the face of the Tiger tank, the allied tank guns had to aim at the rear armor of the Tiger tank and shoot at a distance of 100 meters in order to inflict damage on it, but there was not much opportunity for the allied tanks to go around in actual combat, because they were often destroyed by the Chinese tanks from 300 meters away -- Britain and the United States still had a long way to go on the road to catch up with the Chinese tanks.

Before the tank battle ended, the air battle came to a conclusion, the Chinese army shot down 336 fighters of the coalition forces at the cost of losing 45 fighters in the battle, forcing the coalition forces to cede air supremacy in the theater, and the planes returned to the rear airfield **** wound, waiting for the rear to support more fighters and pilots. The huge casualty exchange calmed down the coalition generals, but they also caused damage to more than forty planes of the Chinese army, and the pilots also grew up in the engagement, which was much better than the previous one-sided battle.

At this time, it was the time of the Chinese bombers, and the advanced dreadnought dive bombers appeared in large numbers on the heads of the British and American allied tank troops, dropping bombs with a scream and accuracy, blowing up the allied tanks at the same time, and bringing great damage to the artillery positions, logistics supply centers, and communication lines in the rear. This made the situation worse for the tank troops of the coalition army, and just when the tank troops could not support it because of the huge damage, a mechanized unit of the Chinese army suddenly appeared on the flank of the coalition army, and launched a fierce offensive on the flank with the support of the air force, and the rout inevitably appeared. (To be continued.) )