The new Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Middle East Corps, Infantry Admiral Covis, left the heavily guarded Salonika pier in the dark of night on the light cruiser Aspen and accompanied by the destroyer Lancers. There was a crescent moon in the sky, and a few scattered clouds could be seen in the night sky, and the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and the sea seemed very quiet, and the sea beat against the side of the ship, making a roaring sound, as if on the shore.

"Aspen" sailed through the Aegean Sea at cruising speed, heading southeast. Fearing an attack by a British submarine, the ships sailing at night were strictly controlled by their lights, and the whole warship was like a floating rocky reef, dark with no light.

Covis, however, was so excited that he couldn't sleep in the cabin specially prepared for the commander, so he simply got up and called Mr. Carsfield, a professor of history at the University of Vienna, an expert on Middle Eastern issues who had come from above to the Middle East military, to chat in the living room.

Throughout the war, Kovis's 5th Army had little chance of showing offensive, was constantly on the defensive of the Serbs, and was defeated by the Serbian army at the Battle of Valevo early in the war. Corvis was always looking for an opportunity to save face and reputation, but the crown prince, who had gradually gained military power, was never interested in any plan to attack Serbia.

After the defeat of the Italians, the Austro-Hungarian army finally had its hands free to start fighting Serbia with all its might, but the limelight was stolen by the Germans, and the Balkan Army under the command of Mackensen became the protagonist, while Covis and his 5th Army played an insignificant auxiliary role throughout the Balkan campaign.

The 5th Army, one of the main Austro-Hungarian armies, had been acting as a garrison, and Kovis watched with greed as Bolojevic, Dankel, Eli-Moore, Offenberg and others were fighting in the east and west, constantly building up feats, but he never got the opportunity.

This time, at his repeated requests, perhaps as a reward for his diligence and hard work in recent years, His Majesty finally agreed to send the 5th Army to the Middle East battlefield to form the Middle East Army, and at the same time put the 7th Army, the most elite army in the empire, under his command.

Now, the time has finally come.

Professor Casfield was a tall, thin Jew, in his fifties, with gray hair that looked like he was in his sixties. He wore an earthy yellow suit with a dark checker, and a pipe in his mouth, but he didn't light it, and followed the lieutenant into the room.

"General, do you have something to do with me?" Carsfield asked.

"Oh, it's nothing, I wanted to ask you about the situation in the Middle East, where our troops have already begun to land." Covis stood up and greeted the professor, "What do you want to drink?" Coffee or black tea? ”

"Black tea, with some milk, Jews are still very conservative and not very comfortable with coffee." Carsfield sat down on the couch, lit his pipe with a match, took two puffs, and then said, "I happen to be bored by myself, and I want someone to talk to." I was ordered by the government to coordinate the relationship between the Middle East Corps and the locals, especially in terms of local history, geography, religion and culture. For your reference when making your battle plan. ”

"I've been really interested in the history of the Middle East lately." Covis motioned for the adjutant to bring a pot of black tea and milk, and then said to the professor: "I heard that you are a Jew, and the Levant region can be said to be your original homeland, so it is better to start here, after all, our soldiers are now fighting bloodied for it." ”

"All right, General." Casfield cleared his throat, sat up a little straighter, and said, "When it comes to the history of the Levant, it has to start with the origin of the Jews, which are well remembered in the Bible. ”

Corvis nodded, "Well, I'm a devout Catholic and can basically memorize the Old Testament in its entirety. ”

"Many Jews think that the Levant is their homeland, but this is not the case." Professor Casfield took his pipe away from his mouth and continued: "It was the Phoenicians who first established a highly civilized ancient state on the coast of the Levant, which has a history of more than three thousand years, more than the history of most peoples in Europe today. However, the city-states established by the Phoenicians were eventually destroyed by the Roman army led by Alexander of Macedon, the Roman Empire, and the Phoenicia eventually died. However, the Pinyin alphabet of the Zào, created by the Phoenicians, has survived and evolved into today's Hebrew alphabet, Arabic, Greek, and Latin alphabets. It can be said that it is precisely because of the Pinyin alphabet created by the Phoenicians that the Western civilization based on Pinyin script was created today, which is by no means different from the ancient Egyptian civilization based on hieroglyphs and the Eastern civilization centered on China that continues to this day. ”

The adjutant brought the tea and milk, and Carsfield added milk to the tea, put a piece of white sugar, and stirred it slowly with a spoon, "The languages spoken by the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula are divided into Semitic and Hanyu, and the language spoken by the Jews belongs to one of the ancient Semitic languages. This language originated in the valley of the two rivers, and the language spoken by the ancient Babylonians was also Semitic. During the period when the Phoenicians were strong, the Jews migrated from the valley of the two rivers into Canaan and reached the Levant. The Canaanites of the Levant at that time referred to the Jews as "Hebrews," which means "those who come from the other side of the river." This river refers to the Euphrates. In fact, the Jews originally lived in the valley of the Two Rivers and inherited the civilization of the Two Rivers that had long been lost. These are the four great ancient civilizations alongside the ancient oriental civilization and the now disappeared ancient Egyptian civilization and ancient Greek civilization. It is a pity that the ancient civilization was eroded by the barbarians, and only the ancient oriental civilization was preserved.

According to "The Origin of Religion", both Christianity and Elamism today originated from the religion of the Jews, and many of the contents of the Bible and the Koran are the same as those in the Jewish Bible, but later, both Christianity and Elamism began to reject Judaism, perhaps because of vicious competition between religions.

After the fall of the Phoenicians, and with the decline of the Macedonian Empire, the Jews established the state of Israel in the Levant, with Jerusalem as its capital, and during the reign of King Solomon, the state of Israel reached its heyday, dominating almost all of Asia Minor and Egypt. But with the rise of the Roman Empire, Israel was eventually destroyed in the process of rebellion against the Roman Empire, and the Jews were subsequently expelled from the Levant and scattered throughout North Africa and Europe. These are described in the Old Testament. It is recorded in the book of Exodus. The people who live in this area are basically Arabs, including the various ethnic groups that speak Semitic and Han languages, and with the continuous fusion of the two languages, the Semitic language family in the modern sense has been formed. ”

"Uh-huh, what do we need to be aware of here?" Covis said.

"Oh......" Carsfield refilled his pipe, lit it and took a few puffs, before continuing, "the main thing is to be careful about the diet, not to drink and eat pork in front of them. There was a period of time in Christianity that slandered the Jews for not eating pork, slandering that the ancestors of the Jews were monkeys and pigs, which is actually misleading. The Jewish taboo on pork was inherited from the Phoenicians, who in ancient times developed the habit of not eating pork in order to avoid the threat of human-pig infectious diseases. Lanism also inherits this tradition. There is nothing special, just a habit of life, except that later religious rulers deliberately emphasized this in order to distinguish groups of people. ”

"Oh, I'll get the troops to take notice." Adjusting to local habits can be a headache, says Covis.

The two continued to talk, but the destroyer "Lancer", which was on guard, suddenly raised an alarm, possibly discovering a British submarine, and the two destroyers dropped depth charges in the suspicious sea area, and the sea was suddenly in chaos.

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