Poor Najd people, with the corpses of more than 4,000 warriors, proved that even Sheng warriors are pure scum in the face of the storm of steel.

In fact, Abrams, who encouraged them to attack, shrugged his shoulders very casually when he learned that the decisive army of the Najd people had been annihilated, that more than 4,300 people had been killed, that most of them had been beaten to slag in the sand, that more than 700 had surrendered, and that there were more than 100 frightened people inside.

He knew that this would be the result, what era did he still play such a brainless tactic!

He was just trying to make King Najd die sooner.

Indeed, King Najd was completely dead at this time, less than twenty-four hours after the end of this battle, Najd announced that he would accept the mediation of the British government, stop the fighting and start peace talks, and at this time, Abha, who had been trapped for several months, was hungry and cannibal Abha surrendered to the Yemeni army, and the combined forces of Hejaz and Jordan also invaded Buraidah, but they also gave face to the Britons, and immediately after Najd announced the armistice, the three countries of Hejaz, Jordan and Yemen also announced a truce, as for the peace talks, it will be slowly talked later, Anyway, the battlefield was calm.

The war caused more than 10,000 U.S. casualties, hundreds of fighter and tank losses alone, two destroyers were sunk, two were destroyed, and another heavy aircraft carrier was heavily damaged.

As for the Najd people, the army and civilians alone suffered more than 200,000 casualties, considering that the total population of this country before the war was less than 4 million, this casualty figure is very scary, considering that the real most loyal troops of the Najd royal family are from the Najd Plateau and the eastern oil field area, so the vast majority of the casualties are also from these places, so it is even more terrifying, basically one in every ten Najd people is killed or wounded, if you simply count the young and middle-aged. Then basically half of the young and middle-aged people are either dead or injured, after all, the total population of their territory is only 15.6 million, and it can be said that the blood is about to run dry.

As for the loss of the Hejaz......

"Our soldiers suffered less than a thousand casualties, of which more than two hundred were killed in battle, and the mercenaries of the Hejaz King suffered more than 20,000 casualties, of which less than seven thousand died. The Jordanians suffered 10,000 casualties and more than 3,000 dead, and the Yemenis suffered the most casualties, more than 40,000, of which 15,000 were killed. ”

Chen Hu reported to Yang Feng.

"The Jordanians are playing well!"

Yang Feng said with some surprise.

Hussein's army attacked from the north, against the main force of the Najd Army, about 40,000 men, and was initially bombed by American troops. The ability to open the defensive line with only 10,000 casualties, and to conquer many cities one after another, and to drive more than 700 kilometers to Buraidah, such combat effectiveness is indeed very surprising among the Saracens.

"They were all trained by the British, and they had always been commanded by the British, and in the first Middle East war, their Saracen regiment was the absolute main force, while the Najd actually had only one division of the regular army, and the others were urgently armed with American munitions. Fighting the Jordanian army, which has been trained to target the Canaanites for war, is not too much. ”

Chen Hu said.

"Leave them alone. Let them talk about it, talk about when it will be when, withdraw all the marines, and keep an armored brigade and a mechanized infantry brigade there in the future, anyway, the people of the United States do not have the courage to provoke the war again. In addition, the two fleets were withdrawn, leaving a batch of missile boats for the Jordanians and the Hejad. There is no need to match destroyers or anything, and the aircraft carrier group should also be withdrawn. An air base was retained in the port of Jeddah, where a group of ghosts and flying leopards were stationed in the future, thus forming the port of Djibouti, Jeddah. Three bases in Port Suez are a thousand kilometers apart, the combat radius of the Phantom and the Flying Leopard covers the entire Red Sea shore, plus the base in Sharjah, the whole of the Middle East is completely covered by our fighters and tactical bombers. ”

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

In this way, the safety of his future crude oil and shipping routes can be guaranteed, who dares not to be honest and careful of bombs, the flying leopard that takes off from the port of Suez can even bomb to Baghdad under the escort of ghosts, and the north across the Mediterranean Sea can barely throw laser-guided bombs directly to Istanbul, taking off from the port of Jeddah and Sharjah is enough to bring Kuwait and Basra into the attack range, and from Djibouti to cover the whole of Yemen, it can be said that in the entire Middle East, there is not an inch of land that is not under the wings of the Ming army's war eagles, Even all of West Africa and Egypt had to look up to the majestic gaze of the Ming Empire.

"But there's still a link between us that hasn't been connected."

Chen Hu cautiously reminded him.

"Where?"

Yang Feng immediately asked.

"A route across the Indian Ocean.

At present, our fighters have to take off from the mainland with a full tank or refuel in the air to Diego Garcia, and then fly to Djibouti in the same way from there, and make a transfer flight in this way, which is very dangerous, and if someone builds an air base in the middle of the way, especially west of Diego Garcia, such as the Seychelles, or simply cruises there for a long time with a sufficiently powerful aircraft carrier, it may threaten our route at any time. ”

Chen Hu said.

"You mean to let me take the Seychelles down?"

Yang Feng asked.

"No, no, Seychelles is too remote, what we need is to have an air base in Ceylon, so that our fighters can fly there with ammunition from Banda Aceh and then to Mumbai, and from Mumbai to Sharjah, or first to Karachi and then to Sharjah, in short, we can shorten the length of the connection between all our bases to within the range of Phantom fighters. The Banda Aceh base takes off and lands in Ceylon after a halfway operation, takes off from the Ceylon base and lands in Mumbai, takes off from Mumbai and lands in Sharjah, and if Oman does not allow us to fly over their airspace, then turn Karachi, so that we can really connect our homeland with the Middle East. ”

Chen Hu said.

"This is a very important question, remember to make an appointment for me to meet the ambassador of Ceylon one day."

Yang Feng said to Hu Hao.

As for the question of whether the Ceylonese will agree, there is no need to consider this, the Ming Dynasty went to them to garrison the army to give them face, and besides, as for those poor ghosts, the Ming soldiers used to give them a prosperous economy.

In this way, the number of overseas bases of the Ming Dynasty is also quite a lot, at least the two sides of the North Indian Ocean are completely wrapped, Imphal, Chittagong, Mumbai, Karachi, Djibouti, Jeddah Port, Suez Port, Diego Garcia, plus Ceylon, and Sharjah, which counts its own territory, and Australia's Port Hedland and Perth, Port Broome to the south, not counting the bases in Southeast Asia and the base on Jeju Island in the north, there are more than a dozen bases that do not belong to their own territory.

"Am I also considered to be a reckless soldier?"

Yang Feng said in horror.

"If it can't bring enough benefits, or the force invested is not enough to get back many times the return, then it can be regarded as a reckless force, if the invested force can be exchanged for enough benefits, far more than the benefits invested, then it doesn't count, and each of our bases has brought us huge benefits, obviously this is not a reckless force."

Chen Hu said seriously.

"I feel so much better when you say that."

Yang Feng also said seriously.

Then they both laughed out loud at the same time.

However, the fact that there are so many bases has also caused a serious consequence, that is, the strength of the Ming army has been greatly dispersed, and now there are four of the seven armies officially organized, the Fourth Army in Assam, the Fifth Army in Mumbai and Pakistan, the Sixth Army in the Middle East, the Seventh Army in Australia, and only the first, second, and third armies are left on the mainland. However, because of the problem of operational allocation, the strength of these three group armies is not large, and the Third Group Army with Banda Aceh as its headquarters currently has only two infantry brigades and three local garrisons, with a total strength of a little more than 20,000.

This is the strength of the army, and the strength of the air force is more dispersed.

The Ming Air Force has seven air squadrons, but at least two-thirds of the combat aircraft are in the last four air squadrons, ten fighter wings of 1,100 Phantom and Tiger Shark fighters, seven of which are in the last four air squadrons, and the least second fighter wing even has only two fighter groups below, and the other is in Australia's tenth wing.

The only thing that was not dispersed was the navy, but the war also exposed the problem of insufficient number of warships.

"We still have to expand the army!"

Yang Feng said somewhat melancholy.

Hearing this, all the generals of the expanded army widened their eyes, and at the same time looked at each other with vigilant eyes, obviously thinking about taking an extra piece of cake.

"The Army will add two more armored brigades and three mechanized infantry brigades to increase the total strength to 40 brigades, and the Marine Corps will increase its total strength by three brigades to bring the total strength to 10 brigades, so that the strength we can use for ground operations will reach 50 brigades, close to 300,000 standing combat troops, and with our combat effectiveness and equipment level, this is basically equivalent to 500,000 US troops, and the US Army's 18 divisions plus some brigade-level combat units will make the total combat strength that.

The Air Force must increase by a large margin, adding four Ghost Fighter Wings and two Flying Leopard Fighter-Bomber Wings, so that we have seven Ghost Wings and seven Tiger Shark Wings, adding up to nearly 1,600 fighters, six Flying Leopard Wings and 700 fighter-bombers, and the others should not be increased for the time being, and two wings of Yinglong bombing will be enough.

The Navy can only continue to build Qi Jiguang-class destroyers when the construction of a new generation of capital ships has not yet begun, and now the number is twenty-four, so build another twelve improved ones, don't use old-fashioned steam turbines, directly replace gas turbines, just as a transition before the new capital ship is put into service, and the four 15,000-horsepower gas turbines add up to 60,000 horsepower, which is basically enough. ”

Yang Feng said quickly. (To be continued.) )