"Führer, Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal."

Yang Feng just sent off Jorio. Curie received a piece of good news that he had been waiting for.

"It's finally begun."

The guy said with a sigh of relief, that he was finally ready to start.

"Did they establish diplomatic relations with Xinhua?"

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng asked Hu Hao, who told him the news.

"Yes, a month ago, diplomatic relations were established, the people of the United States withdrew all economic aid to Egypt for this, and refused to provide them with loans through the World Bank, Nasser has no money to build the Aswan Dam, so he can only nationalize the Suez Canal and use tolls to build the dam."

Hu Hao said.

"Very well, go and call Pierre, and say I have something to do with him."

Yang Feng said.

Soon Pierre, the Gaul ambassador to the Ming Empire, hurried to the Führer's capital.

"Pierre, I need to lend you a place in Djibouti as a base."

Yang Feng said directly.

"Lend the base? Well, Your Excellency, I will report back to the country, I don't think there will be much of a problem. ”

Pierre thought for a moment and said.

It's not a big deal, Djibouti is not a valuable place, although it holds the exit from the Red Sea, but it has no resources to die of poverty, it is the capital of French Somaliland, and of course, the whole of French Somaliland is still a city there. Now those are also making trouble, but the population is too small, and it is divided into two races, so it can't be a climate, if Yang Feng rents a base there. There will definitely be a large number of Ming troops passing over. It can also be regarded as boosting the economy. These guys have money in their hands, and although the Ming army will certainly not be interested in, the needs of daily food and drink are also a lot of income.

Of course, he knew that Yang Feng would definitely not be interested in this land, and it was estimated that he would not want those barren mountains and mountains for nothing.

"Führer, why did you think of building a base there?"

He asked curiously.

"So what are you going to do about the Suez Canal?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"The shares in the canal were in our hands and in the hands of the Britons, and it was all guaranteed by contract, and the canal was operated by the Canal Company. What the Egyptians are doing is very crude and illegal, and we will never allow the interests of Gallic investors to be violated, and we are preparing to invite all countries, including yours, to convene an international conference to resolve this issue. ”

Pierre said.

"So what if it can't be solved?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Then we have to take the necessary measures, and in order to protect our interests, we can only choose force as a last resort."

Pierre said.

"Isn't this the end of it, once you have a war with Egypt, then I can only support you, but if I want to support you, Nasser will definitely not allow my merchant ships to pass through this canal again. I have to warn him if he does. I'm going to be angry, and if I'm angry, then he's going to have to pay the price. In order to be able to react as quickly as possible, I had to bring my army as close as possible to Egypt, Haile. Surely Selassie will not allow me to garrison troops in Eritrea, and the Sudanese will certainly not allow me to garrison troops on their soil, do I have any other choice but Djibouti? ”

Yang Feng said.

"In that case, we will welcome your troops there even more."

Pierre said with a smile.

This is fine, with a base in Djibouti, the Ming army can extend its tentacles all the way to the depths of the Red Sea, starting from Banda Aceh and going to Diego Garcia for 3,000 kilometers, from Diego Garcia to Djibouti for less than 4,000 kilometers, and from Djibouti to Canaan for more than 2,000 kilometers, and Yang Feng's strategic transport aircraft Kunpeng, which is under development, has a full load range of 4,000 kilometers, and it just jumps over one level at a time. If an air base could be seized in places like Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula in the event of war, the deployment of Phantom fighter jets could even provide full escort for transport aircraft.

With such a string of pearls on the sea, even if you look at the Suez Canal thoroughly, no matter how the Middle East fights in the future, whoever dares to block the Suez Canal must first consider the air attack of the Ming army.

In the final analysis, the control of this canal in anyone's hands is not insured, only the control in their own hands is the safest, you must know that more than one-third of the trade volume of the Ming Dynasty is through this canal, any unexpected situation will have a serious impact on the economy of the Ming Dynasty, if it is the same as the third Middle East war in the original history of eight years, the Ming and Southeast Asian Chinese capitalists will suffer heavy losses.

Not to mention the suspension of flights for eight years, it is like Sadat to sit on the ground and increase the price three times, which will cause him heavy losses every year, he doesn't want the money of the Ming Dynasty to feed the Egyptians continuously, so he must first set up the rules, and if he wants to set up the rules, he must use his fists.

As for the next international negotiations, this Yang Feng has no interest in caring about it, anyway, it is destined to be impossible to succeed, just let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs send a delegation to fight soy sauce, anyway, there is a principle, no matter who controls the Suez Canal, first, the price cannot be raised, and second, the canal must not be closed under any circumstances, otherwise don't blame Yang for being polite, he is also the fourth largest power in the world, so he can't be without a little temper, right?

The Gallic government quickly agreed to Yang Feng's request to set up a military base in Djibouti, which will include three parts of the army, navy and air force, and the Ming General Staff also announced that it would build an aircraft carrier military port in Djibouti, but no one has the right to say anything about this matter, it is a colony of the Gauls, and they can lease it to whoever they want. Although the people of the United States wanted to make trouble from it, the Gallic government adopted a similar approach to Qiu Fatzi's year, and authorized Pierre to sign an agreement with Yang Feng in Yingtian as quickly as possible before the people of the United States reacted.

In this way, the people of the United States will not be able to do anything anymore.

And at this time, Eisenhower didn't want to offend Yang Feng too much, the reason was actually very simple, he was a little troublesome now.

Comrade Li was constantly moving in the strait, fighting with the skinheads and fighting back and forth, and the guerrillas of the Japanese Socialist Workers' Party took advantage of the fact that a large number of Mi troops were transferred to Annam, and there were also signs of a resurgence, especially in Hokkaido, and the situation was even very serious. Because of the support of the common people, they were always elusive in the mountains, and the only areas that the Japanese government could control were Sapporo and the cities on the main transportation routes, and as long as they left the plains, they were all guerrilla areas. And what made him even more troublesome was that the Viet Minh guerrillas in Annam were also getting more and more intense, because they were backed by the support of North Vietnam, those monkeys frequently attacked in the jungle, and Ngo Dinh Diem's army was a bunch of scum, and there was hardly any news of their victory.

In this case, he really didn't have the energy to toss with Yang Feng.

In this way, when the relationship between Britain, France and Egypt over the canal became more and more tense, the Ming army also began to quietly settle in Djibouti, and then transported a large number of materials from China and began to build a large naval and air base.

And at this time, the first amphibious assault ship of the Ming army was finally put into service.

This amphibious assault ship with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons was shocked, in fact, there was no concept of an amphibious assault ship at this time, and Yang Feng did not announce its real purpose, whether it was the United States or the Soviet Union and other countries, they thought that he was building a low-cost aircraft carrier ready to use Harrier fighters, after all, the cost of a Yingtian-class aircraft carrier is very expensive, steam catapults, blocking cables are the most expensive equipment on the aircraft carrier, and vertical take-off and landing aircraft carriers can greatly reduce costs.

Such an aircraft carrier, whether anti-submarine, covering landing, bullying small countries, it is very useful.

However, when the giant battleship, named Loyalty, drove to Yingtian Military Harbor, the tail dock door opened, and hovercraft carrying Leopard tanks drove out of it, everyone was dumbfounded.

Nima, this is a landing ship ?!

A landing ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons ?!

"It's called an amphibious assault ship."

Yang Feng was very disdainful to popularize science to the foreign envoys beside him.

However, because the Loyalty does not have a Harrier fighter, the best way to use it at present is to fight with the Dreadnought formation, and the latter provides a fixed-wing carrier-based attack aircraft, that is, the A1 Sky Raider he is currently using, this aircraft is still very easy to use, mainly because the Loyalty does not have a blocking line and the Dreadnought has it, and the Cobra gunship is also carried by the Dreadnought, but the original Pixiu helicopter is not needed.

Because by this time he already had a better one, that is, a carrier-based version of the Elephant helicopter, which was actually the CH46 Sea Knight.

But because of the height restrictions, this helicopter can not be loaded into the dreadnought hangar, so it can only be carried by the Loyalty, a Loyalty can carry up to forty-two such heavy helicopters, and one such helicopter can take a platoon of soldiers to carry out vertical landing missions, that is to say, at most one can transport a reinforced battalion for vertical landing, and the dock of the Loyalty can also be equipped with three air-cushion landing craft to directly transport heavy tanks ashore.

Such a two-ship formation, plus four dock landing ships, can basically carry a fully integrated mechanized infantry brigade of the Ming army, plus an air cavalry battalion, and the necessary air support, together to form a powerful combat group.

However, with the level of equipment, the quality of the soldiers, and the combat experience of the Ming army, basically no country in such a combat cluster can block their three-dimensional landing attack on a beachhead, even if it is replaced by the US army. In fact, foreign newspapers have long made comparisons, one mechanized infantry brigade of the Ming army is enough to fight one infantry division of the US army, two mechanized infantry brigades of the Ming army can basically defeat one infantry division of the US army, and it is very easy for three brigades to kill one division of the US army.

Of course, this has to be if the air forces of both sides do not participate in the war, and if the air forces participate in the war, then the US military will lose even more.

And such a force is Yang Feng's expeditionary strike group. (To be continued.) )

PS: I wrote the chapter serial number wrong.,But I can't find the new version of the background to change the serial number.,Make do with it first.,I'll contact the editor later.。