Chapter 423 Straight to the Heart
"Mr. Chen, why is he? Isn't he a Chinese like you? Why doesn't he see any of your virtues? Your kindness, your nobility, your selflessness, why can't you find all these things in him? β
In Cairo, like the collapse of the presidential palace, Nasser said to Chen Jiakang, the ambassador of Xinhua to Egypt, that there was a check for $20 million written by HSBC beside him, which Comrade Li specially sent to assist the Egyptian people in the cause of freedom and freedom.
Oh my God, why is it that we are all the same nation, and the difference in life is so big?
"Well, Your Excellency, Yang Feng is a narrow-minded nationalist, and his mind is still stuck in the era of feudal dynasties, which is completely different from ours."
Ambassador Chen said with some embarrassment.
"Alas!"
Nasser sighed sadly.
"Your Excellency, you can rest assured that we will always stand firmly by the side of your people, and we have prepared a batch of arms that are being shipped here."
Ambassador Chen then said.
Nasser nodded, he knew that it was useless, and when Xinhua's arms were transported here, it was estimated that the war would be almost over, not to mention that Xinhua's arms were not as good as those of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would not be able to do anything about them.
Of course, it is also impossible to abandon the port of Suez, and what is he holding on to now? How could he admit defeat and fight because of the threat of the Ming army. As soon as you enter the street fight, all the technical advantages of the enemy are lost. The numerical superiority of the Egyptian army and civilians would have overwhelmed all invaders like a great flood of the Nile. After all, the victory was still lost to them.
At this time, his Minister of Defense, Admiral Amir, walked in, Nasser looked at him with an inquiring gaze, the latter did not speak, Ambassador Chen looked very amused, and after he left, Admiral Amir said: "President, the Soviets want that missile." β
The British's Thunderbolt missile, which did not explode, ended up crashing on a sandy beach off the coast, as the soft sand cushion was not too damaged. In particular, most of the most important seeker remained intact and was immediately picked up by the Egyptian army, and no one else knew about it except them and the nearby Soviet advisers, who had long been salivating over the Thunderbolt missile, and immediately instructed the Soviet advisers in Egypt to get their hands on the missile no matter what.
"What about their offer?"
Nasser said.
"A hundred of the latest MiG-21 fighters, but deliveries did not begin until five or eight years, because at this time they were not officially put into production, but they can guarantee it. In the first half of five or eight years, at least one squadron of the first batch will inevitably be in our hands, according to them. This is a two-Mach class fighter, the performance is far superior to that of the Tiger Shark, and once their imitation of the air-to-air missile is successful, it will also equip us with them. β
Admiral Amir said.
"Deal!
Nasser said excitedly that this missile was of no use in his hands, it was nothing more than to sell it to the Soviet Union or the United States, but it can be seen from this war that it is obvious that the Soviets are more trustworthy, although their arms are a little worse, but the United States does not seem to be much stronger, the Korean War has long proved this, anyway, it is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, he is not worried that the Soviets will break their promises, Egypt is the only ally of the Soviet Union in the Middle East at present, it is impossible to do such a stupid thing.
"President, the Ming army has landed!"
Just then, an officer hurried in, screaming with a white face.
"What's the panic? What if they landed? Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Port Suez will turn it into a grave where they are buried! β
Nasser snapped.
"But, but they didn't land in the port of Suez?"
The officer said weakly.
"Huh? So where did they land? β
"Port Alem."
"Ah, Port Alem? Where do they go and what do they do? β
Nasser was at a loss.
The port of Alem is in the south of Egypt, nearly 700 kilometers away from the port of Suez, and it is only a small fishing port with no strategic value, what is the use of landing there.
Suddenly, his mind moved, and a cold sweat fell almost at the same time.
"Oh no, they're targeting the Aswan Dam!"
The next moment, Nasser suddenly let out a scream.
"Look, how nice that is! Why bother going to the port of Suez to fight the Egyptians in the streets? The bazooka is not easy to mess with, we have to achieve the goal at the lowest cost, anyway, we just want the port of Suez, hundreds of dead and wounded to beat the Egyptian army out is to achieve the goal, and forcing them to withdraw unscathed is also to achieve the goal, so why do we have to choose the former? The FΓΌhrer said that street fighting is a grave, and unless there is no other choice, street fighting must not be fought. β
Colonel Chen Zhendong, commander of the Second Brigade of the Ming Army, sat in his warrior car and said to his chief of staff quite proudly.
The latter was looking enviously at the Jieyue in his hand, this one-foot-long miniature version of the Jin Yue represents the supreme commander of the theater, and can mobilize any of the Ming armed forces operating in the theater of the army, navy and air force to serve him, even if the commander of the aircraft carrier formation at sea must obey the command of Jieyue.
So far, except for the commander of the ******** Army, who is also a lieutenant general, no other officer has it, even if it is temporary, but a junior colonel can obtain this kind of thing, even if it is used temporarily, it is like being hit on the head by a gold cake.
Next to their warrior military vehicles, there are Leopard tanks driving at high speed, and on the beach behind them are air cushion landing craft lying on the sand, more Leopard tanks are driving down from them, and on both sides of the air cushion landing craft, infantry fighting vehicles are driving up to the beach with full sea water, and there are more infantry fighting vehicles with only their turrets exposed in the water behind them slowly paddling forward.
On the sea farther away, the dock doors of the giant dock landing ships were opened, the air-cushion landing craft loaded with other vehicles drove directly out of the dock cabins, and in the sky overhead were helicopter gunships covering the landing, and the elephant helicopters transporting soldiers were landing on the beach, and at higher altitudes, Tiger Shark fighters were circling, and the radar of the Eagle Eye early warning aircraft was constantly rotating, monitoring everything in the sky within a radius of 300 kilometers.
This is the landing ground of the Ming army, Port Alem.
This port is not worth mentioning, in fact, in the eyes of the Ming army, it is just a slightly larger fishing village, without any defensive army, only a few officials and policemen surrounded by ordinary people, trembling at the American blockbuster in front of them as if they have traveled through time and space.
It's not worth mentioning, but two hundred kilometers to the west is the heart of the Egyptians.
Aswan Dam.
The Three Gorges Dam of the Egyptians.
Although the modern Aswan Dam was only completed in the seventies, it was actually a new dam, and there was an old dam seven kilometers downstream, which was left by the British, and was built from the end of the 19th century, and then it was raised twice, and then it was really impossible to increase the height before the study of building a new dam, which was later known as the Aswan Dam, but at this time it was still the old dam that controlled the Nile, and the new dam was only in the initial construction stage.
Originally, the United States and Britain gave Nasser a loan, but after Nasser fell to the Soviet Union and established diplomatic relations with Xinhua, the United States and Britain stopped lending to him and replaced it with a loan from the Soviet Union, but this was still not enough, so Nasser set his sights on the Suez Canal and used the toll of the Suez Canal to supplement the construction of the dam.
The sinister Chen Zhendong set his sights on the Egyptian's life at a glance.
The fully mechanized 2nd Marine Brigade of the Ming Army, after completing the landing in Port Alem, quickly slaughtered Aswan, and the torrent of steel advanced at a speed of 80 kilometers a day along the road to Edfu on the empty and arid Egyptian wasteland. There was no resistance along the way, it was the simplest march, there was nothing to restrain them except the constant ability of the tanks, and the road from Port Alem to Aswan was a completely dry semi-desert, except for a few settlements that had no cities or transportation hubs at all, let alone any defenders.
All of Egypt's forces had been invested on the canal battlefield on the map, which was 700 miles away in a straight line, and was actually a thousand kilometers away.
Nasser was in a hurry, he had no army to mobilize, and it was impossible for the army he could mobilize to rush to Aswan before the Ming army, even if he could transport a small number of troops with a few remaining transport planes, he would not be able to fight against an entire elite mechanized infantry brigade of the Ming army.
He knows the combat effectiveness of the US army, and the current unanimous evaluation is that the two brigades of the Ming army are equivalent to a fully equipped division of the US army.
No matter how confident he was, he knew that without 20,000 men, it would be absolutely impossible to fight against this brigade.
But by this time, the Ming army had moved out of the way, the Canaanite army resumed the attack on the port of Suez, and tens of thousands of British and French troops on the northern front were also invested in Ismailia, and almost all the forces he could use were devoted to the defense of these two cities.
Where will he go to find another 20,000 troops?
It was difficult for him to squeeze out even two thousand troops.
As a result, on the third day after the landing, the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Ming Army arrived in Edfu with all the personnel and equipment, except for six Leopard tanks and several infantry fighting vehicles that could not be repaired for a short time due to serious breakdowns and had to be temporarily buried.
Then the soldiers occupied the city bloodlessly, and built a field airfield as fast as possible, and the Hercules transport planes flying from Djibouti sent them a large number of supplies and some reinforcements, and then after leaving a force to guard Edfu, the rest of the Ming army was all killed to Aswan.
At this time, all Nasser could do was to put together less than 3,000 soldiers to defend the dam. (To be continued.) )
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