Chapter 424: The Blue Helmets
The battle to defend the Aswan Dam lasted only two hours, in fact, the battlefield was far away from the dam, Kom Ombu, of course, the Egyptians did not dare to put the battlefield in Aswan, in case the bombs of the Ming army were thrown off, it would be a tragedy, they pushed the defensive battlefield forward by 50 kilometers, which also happened to fulfill Chen Zhendong's wish, he was worried that the attack distance was a little far.
Immediately afterwards, he gave the Egyptians a military education lesson on what is called three-dimensional assault.
The Ming army with Edfu as the starting point of the attack crossed the battlefield with an air cavalry battalion and landed to cut off the retreat of the Egyptian army to Aswan, the pirate attack aircraft bombed and cleared all the artillery accurately, and the remaining steel torrent composed of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was divided into three ways, a frontal attack and a breakthrough on the left flank, and a mechanized infantry battalion crossed the river from the west bank of the Nile River to use a powerful amphibious combat capability to sneak attack, and after a devastating battle, the Egyptian army with a total of less than 3,000 people was quickly wiped out.
In fact, the vast majority surrendered.
"This is the Saracens?"
Chen Zhendong stood next to the warrior military vehicle, looking at the Egyptian soldiers who were squatting on the ground with disdain, he actually captured more than 2,300 people in this battle, as for the total number of Egyptian soldiers killed will not exceed 500, and some simply threw down their weapons and ran, and the price paid by the Ming army was only two dead and five wounded.
"They are just some minions who served the British uncle in the colonial era, just like the clothes of the children of the Eight Banners, what else can you refer to them?"
His chief of staff said with a smile.
"A people like sand, the same place where they live."
Chen Zhendong said with a sneer.
"Brigade commander, the Egyptian reinforcements have begun to attack Edfu."
At this time an officer reported.
"Tell them to stop attacking immediately. Otherwise, I'll blow up the dam. ”
Chen Zhendong said with a sneer.
All right. This was the purpose of his attack on the Aswan Dam.
Egypt is a country that is actually inhabited along the Nile River. Starting from the Aswan Dam, the river stretches out for more than a dozen kilometers on the left and right, and together with the Nile Delta, it forms such an oasis area in the shape of ginkgo biloba leaves, and beyond this it is all desert, at most a little scattered small oasis.
That's why Nasser threw the whole country into building the dam, which has caused a lot of ecological damage, but it has shackled Egyptians in the most horrific nightmares for generations......
The Great Flood of the Nile.
It also provides a steady stream of cheap electricity for this resource-poor country.
But it also hung a sword over the head of the Egyptian nation. If the dam fails, the damage to the country will be even greater than throwing a bomb at them, and the entire core of the country will be destroyed in an instant.
So when the threat of the Ming army to blow up the dam was issued, Nasser was almost mad.
"These bastards, these bastards ......"
He was trembling and pacing his presidential palace, and His Excellency the President really couldn't find the words to describe these arrogant enemies, and they were going to bomb the Aswan Dam, weren't they afraid of public condemnation? Don't they know that this is tantamount to a killing? Aren't they afraid of being nailed to the pillar of shame in history?
Belch? It seems that the Britons in World War II were quite fond of doing this kind of thing. And he preached it everywhere as a great deed.
"The righteous people of the empire are all the righteous people of the empire!"
Nasser shouted with a flick of his fist in grief.
"President. What are we going to do? They have made a clear threat to withdraw from the port of Suez immediately and then they will be in charge of the peacekeeping mission. ”
Admiral Amir said cautiously.
"What to do? Do they really dare to blow up? ”
"Well, this, others may not be, but Yang Feng's words are really hard to say."
Admiral Amir said weakly.
Nasser calmed down suddenly, indeed, Yang Feng is notorious, a person who dares to throw atomic bombs on the Soviet Union, what else does he dare not do?
"Tell them we agree!"
He is also a well-known man, immediately made a choice without hesitation, there is a gamble not to lose, endure the anger of the moment to pass this pass first, if Yang Feng really blows up the Aswan Dam, then he will lose completely, even if people can evacuate before the flood arrives, but all the city's property will be destroyed, and it will be difficult to rebuild, not to mention that after the flood washes away the farmland, there will be a more terrible famine, when millions of people will starve to death.
"And this war?"
Admiral Amir asked.
"Alas! Let's end it! ”
Nasser let out a long sigh and said helplessly.
"There's no point in fighting again, stop fighting, let them be arrogant for a few years, and when our military strength is strong, it's a big deal to recapture what belongs to us, tell our soldiers, endure for five years, and after five years I will take them back everything that belongs to us, and let the enemy double the damage they have caused us."
Then he said with pride.
Five years is enough, with the strong backing of the Soviet Union, five years is enough time for him to arm a powerful army, with the MiG-21 that Khrushchev promised him, and even Tu-16 bombers, the latest T55 tanks, all this will turn into a vengeful rage, to drown all those invaders, to turn them to ashes under the light of Allah!
Admiral Amir saluted solemnly.
"How good is this, wouldn't there be nothing to do earlier? I'm also for your good, with your little strength, if you continue to fight, you will lose sooner or later, but you will lose the lives of countless soldiers in vain, you can be regarded as giving me a face, stop fighting, as for the matter of the canal, I will make a ruling for you. In the future, the canal will be returned to the canal company, after all, you did not invest in digging this canal in the first place, this is like a foreign company to open a factory with you, you can collect taxes according to the law, but you can't directly rob it and become your own, so what's the difference between that and robbers?
In addition, in order to prevent the future war between you and the Canaanites from affecting the navigation of the canal, it is very necessary to establish a demilitarized zone in the canal zone.
The demilitarized zone is jointly garrisoned by us and Britain and France, so that it can be regarded as separating your two armies, otherwise you still have to fight, for the peace of the canal, we can only assume this responsibility, of course, the local management is still yours, we will not intervene in your internal affairs.
But you also have to restrain your people, don't treat the peacekeepers with a hostile attitude, we are here to help you, if there is an unfriendly incident like in previous years, we will take measures, as for the cost of our garrison, this can be deducted from the income of the canal company, anyway, it will not cost a few dollars, the canal tolls add up to so much, just take out a little casually.
Isn't that fair? ”
Yang Feng said to the Egyptian ambassador to China and the British, French, and Canaan ambassadors to Ming with a pure face, of course, mainly to the former.
In order to achieve peace on both sides of the canal at an early date, Fuhrer Yang has recently broken his heart, and even did not hesitate to personally intervene to mediate, but fortunately, the warring parties still gave him face, and even the Egyptian government, which had no diplomatic relations, hurriedly sent special envoys after hearing the call. In the end, thanks to his efforts, the parties agreed to a ceasefire and began negotiations, and the outcome of the negotiations was no longer important, anyway, the Egyptian army then withdrew from the port of Suez, Ismailia and other places that were in the midst of fierce fighting, while the Canaanite army withdrew to the east bank of the canal, almost dragging the world into a nuclear war The Suez Canal War ended in a hurry.
At the same time, a combat detachment of the Ming army was also stationed in the port of Suez to carry out peacekeeping missions.
The British and French troops, which were originally the invaders, quickly changed their signboards into peacekeepers in Ismailia, Port Said, Port Fouad and other places, and like the Ming army stationed in Port Said, they put a blue cloth cover on the outside of their helmets, and the Blue Helmets were officially born.
Originally, the first United Nations peacekeeping force in history was born at this time under the impetus of Canadian Foreign Minister Pearson, but that force was used to force out the British and French troops, and now Britain and France vetoed all the United Nations bills on this war, and then partnered with Yang Feng to bypass the United Nations and do such a thing by himself.
In fact, at this time, the United Nations was becoming more and more useless, powerless to deal with the Hungarian question, powerless to do anything about the Suez Canal war, just like the League of Nations in those years, and turned into a special waste of saliva.
The reason for this is actually because a powerful country that can change the situation at any time is outside the United Nations, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Empire also said that the people of the Ming Dynasty are very sad that the United Nations cannot uphold justice for the Hungarian people, and will not consider joining the United Nations in the short term.
After the Blue Helmets took over the canal, the Egyptian government also launched negotiations with the original canal company on the canal issue, and the principle of the negotiations was basically determined, that is, the canal was still operated by the canal company, and the focus of the negotiations became the tax rate, that is, the question of how much tax the canal company pays to the Egyptian government every year. Before the conclusion of the negotiations between the two sides, the toll of the canal was temporarily collected by the Ming army and the British troops occupying Port Said, deposited in a special account, and then paid to the canal company or the Egyptian government according to the results of the negotiations after the two sides completed the negotiations.
Of course, there is no need to say anything about this, anyway, including Daming, those Southeast Asian shipowners were very happy after learning the news.
As for the Ming army occupying the Aswan Dam, of course, this is not good to continue to rely on, after the Blue Helmets completed control of the canal area, the 2nd Marine Brigade and a later reinforced airborne brigade began to withdraw from the occupied area back to Port Alem, and then returned to Djibouti by sea warship.
The 2nd Marine Brigade is an important mobile combat force of the Ming Navy, and it is impossible to use it to garrison in the Middle East, and they will immediately return to their homeland and wait for the next sortie at any time. (To be continued.) )
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