The whistle sounded, and the ship was about to enter the port. Judging by the flag hoisted on the steamer, this is an Italian freighter, which set sail from the Italian port of Sicily. Now, it has arrived at its destination, Alexandria, Egypt, and is about to dock at the dock to unload its cargo.

This Italian freighter is the Mediterranean, which is the largest tonnage ship on the entire Mediterranean route, and the tonnage of 18,000 tons is also the largest among ocean-going vessels. In the past, there were eight cargo ships of the same class as the China Shipping on the Mediterranean route, but now those ships have either been diverted to the Northern Sea Route or have been sunk on the Mediterranean route. At present, only one Mediterranean is still active in the Mediterranean, providing the German, Italian and French forces in North Africa again and again with a large amount of supplies necessary for the army. Although it has also been attacked by bombers of the air force of the Arab League Joint Armed Forces, they have not been in danger. In particular, this time the voyage had a smooth journey, and without any air raids and submarines at all, it successfully arrived at the anchorage of Alexandria, Egypt.

Today, Alexandria, Egypt, is not only the largest port in Egypt, but also the busiest port in North Africa. On the entire African continent, Alexandria has also surpassed the port of Cape Town in South Africa, throwing the hat of Africa's second largest port to it, and enjoying the crown of the most noble king.

The entire Arab League is also constantly sending strategic materials to Djibouti, and they also have China, the No. 1 hegemon in the world today, as a backer, but a large amount of materials are transported from the Black Sea, from Persia, and from Asia to the Middle East, and it will waste too much time after all. The Arab League [including Ottoman, Iraqi, Persian, and peninsular countries such as the Hejaz, Najd, Yemen, and Oman] is a small league attached to China, which is itself very rich because of the sale of oil, but its industrial power is much worse than that of Europe.

In the second half of 1939. Germany's irreconcilable conflict of interests with the poor party coalition in the Balkans ignited the war altogether. Russia immediately declared its intervention in the war. In 1927, two years before the death of the old Chinese emperor, they fought with Germany alone for the sake of East Prussia, and as a result, the confident St. Petersburg government suffered a series of heavy defeats on the battlefield, and was swept out of East Prussia by the German Wehrmacht, and lost the Czech Republic. The cause of the war between Russia and Germany was a combination of old and new hatreds, not just listening to China.

Before their war with Germany, the St. Petersburg government had its tail high, and they had several times of secret contact with Britain and France. Britain and France were naturally willing to accept St. Petersburg, a regime that was not weak, but Russia's ambitions were too great, and it wanted to completely overwhelm Germany. Kerensky's group was not stupid, and it could be seen that the Germans regarded Russia as their mortal enemy because of East Prussia. But the British and French decisively chose the opposite of what the St. Petersburg government wanted, and they chose the Germans between Russia and the German Empire.

The conflict of interests in the Balkans involved not only the German Union with Austria at its core, but also the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the interests of the Arabs.

The Ottoman Civil War of that year. After less than half a year, it was completely subdued, and the local real power bigwigs and governors became independent one after another, and suddenly added six or seven countries large and small to the Arab League in the near future. However, the Ottomans, who retained the Turkish region, the core of the empire, are still the bosses of the entire heavenly world in terms of strength.

Twenty years. The Persian kingdom came close to the Ottomans' GDP several times, but was never able to surpass it. just sat firmly in his position as the second thousand-year-old.

The Afghans under the Kingdom of Persia were too homogeneous in their economy. Pakistan is too poor. In the short term, it will not be able to threaten the status of the 'second' of the Persian Kingdom.

The Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Macedonia soon declared war on Germany and Austria, and then negotiated a series of treaties between them. The war between the entire Arab League and Western and Southern Europe is inevitable.

Britain and France could not wait to wage war against Egypt, and the weak Egyptians had the support of the entire Arab League - and everyone knew who was really behind this. Anyway, the armies of the Arab League converged on Egypt, and the Germans, who had the most effective army in Italy and all of Europe, soon got involved. On the current battlefield in North Africa, the European armies are divided into two groups, Britain, France, and the United States are one wave, and Germany and Italy are one wave.

It's just that Europeans have a benefit and a disadvantage. Their industrial strength is far stronger than that of the Arab League, but oil is needed for all machines to operate. Since the beginning of the war, the Arab League has cut off oil supplies to Europe, and has also sent long-range bombers to bomb oil wells in Libya, Algeria and Romania. And along the Atlantic Ocean, there are also submarine forces of the Arab League active, oil tankers are their favorite targets, and the fuel consumption of the whole of Europe is no longer enough for their oil production.

Of course, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and other countries have their own oil reserves, and there is no rush for a while. It's just that in the long run, it's not pretty.

Now the European forces are already attacking Egypt and seizing control of the Suez Canal, the Egyptian army took control of the canal at the first time of the war, expelled the British and French, but it was only three months before everything was reversed.

Due to the rapid development of aircraft in the past 20 years, it is too dangerous for warships to stay in this small pothole in the Mediterranean, and most of the time both sides are using shore-based aviation and torpedo boat formations deployed on the islands to cooperate with a small number of capable large surface ships and submarines.

For most of the first half of the war, naval battles in the Mediterranean were not so much a confrontation between warships as a strangulation of each other's transport lines. In particular, with the invention and widespread application of radar, the technological content of warfare has been constantly escalating.

Italy, France, and some of the capital ships of Great Britain have taken refuge in the Atlantic. But there was no shortage of enough escort ships in the Mediterranean, and it was only in order to reduce the proportion of losses that European transports had to adopt a single-ship approach in order to evade attacks.

The performance of aircraft is constantly improving, and the difficulty of manufacturing aircraft is also increasing, and the output is naturally declining vertically. At present, even China, which is the absolute first in national strength, has only about 10,000 standing air forces. Of course, everyone knows that the real air force of the Chinese has always been hidden behind the unknown. The performance of their fighters on the surface is only a small level higher than that of European fighters.

Germany has only about 2,000 fighters, Italy has only over 1,000, and all the member countries of the Arab League are added together, and 10,000 can be surpassed, but the number of enemy fighters put on the Mediterranean battlefield is only more than 2,000 by Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States combined, and the Arab League air force opposite them is also about the same number. Compared with the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea is not smaller, but after all, it has such a large area, more than 2,000 planes seem to be a lot, and the scattered arrangement is only about a dozen airports. After radar has been widely used in military affairs, radars of different powers have been placed on small islands in the Mediterranean Sea and on some warships, and the large-scale sorties of fighters on both sides are very targeted, and each other can no longer be careful. In this case, they are quite tricky for a separate transport ship.

Because there are too many ships sailing on the sea at the same time, and countless radars are watching the sky, once a fighter plane takes off, it is almost impossible not to fall into the 'eye', which is very dangerous. Who knows if those ships will be bait.

Today, the Mediterranean arrived in Alexandria on a single ship, and the cargo on board was very important, one was the Iron Cross tank that the Germans had just built, and the other was a large amount of fuel. These are the two things that the German and Italian armies on the African battlefield need most now.

Although it was a freighter, it was also loaded with a number of people, most of whom were soldiers from Nazi Germany and Italy. Some of them were officers who had just returned to the battlefield from leave, and some were officers who had been ordered to be transferred from Europe to the African theater.

At this moment, the steamer had entered the harbor, and the officers on board stood on the deck and looked out over the harbor. Some of the officers were on their first trip to the African battlefield and were "touring" the buildings in Alexandria with a friend's introduction. Judging from the position of these officers, the German officers and the Italian officers were very happy.

Standing next to the porthole of the cabin, glancing at several German and Italian officers on the deck, Hitler smiled with a hint of excitement on the edge of the corner, then shrank his head back from the porthole, sat back on the sofa under the porthole, and turned on the switch of the ore radio resting on the coffee table. At the moment, the radio was broadcasting German-language news from Radio Alexandria. As in World War II, both the European side and the Arab League paid great attention to propaganda in this war.

Within a week of the occupation of Alexandria by European troops, radio stations in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States were all set up. There are channels not only in their native languages, but also in Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and many more.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Since Egypt became independent, and soon Sudan became independent, the establishment of the Arab League has injected an upsurge of national liberation and national independence into the entire Middle East region, and the propaganda of European powers such as Britain and France is still a colonization in the final analysis. The Arab League's radio stations are also quite loud and have spared no effort to refute European propaganda, and unlike the dry propaganda of the Europeans, the Arab League has real evidence that can be used.

China occupies most of the peninsula, and has supported many countries such as Najd, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, except for Kuwait, where the Chinese have invested a lot of money, which is sure not to be let go by the Chinese, and other places have established a national frame and order.

Who is a fool in the world??? (To be continued.) )