Lechelton was not worried about the outcome of the French campaign, and in another time and space, the Germans were able to smash the French line to pieces with only 2,200 inferior II. tanks, and some III and IV tanks. And now the German army, which is equipped with more than 4,000 Mark III light tanks and Mark IV medium tanks with better performance, and the two Austro-Hungarian Panzer Corps with 1,200 tanks, and the German-Austrian army, which has more than 6,000 combat aircraft, can no longer defeat the British and French forces.

Now, what he wants to do is to take advantage of the fact that the British are too busy to take advantage of the fact that they are busy and quickly expand the scope of the "territory".

The main forces of the Japanese navy were now concentrated in the Malay Peninsula and the Dutch East Indies, and the British did not know what benefits were promised to the Japanese behind the scenes, so they worked hard to help the British to hold the line between Malaya and Australia.

In the absence of an advantage in naval strength, the counteroffensive against the Far East is still an unplanned matter, and the focus of the attack is the Persian Gulf and South Africa.

Before the war, Germany and Austria themselves had already controlled Iraq, and Britain's sphere of influence in the Middle East was the emirate states of the Adipor Peninsula such as Hejaz and Yemen, while the Persian king Resaak Khan, although supported by the British, had always maintained a pro-German position. After the outbreak of the war, King Resak Khan expressed several times his desire to join the German-Austrian Axis and expel the British power. However, before the German-Austrian army had gained control of the Arabian Sea, German advisers had been opposed to him doing so.

Now, the time was ripe for the Austro-Hungarian Navy to drive the British Navy out of the area.

The fundamental reason for King Resakhan's opposition to the British was profit, the British controlled all the oil fields in Iran, and almost all of the huge wealth was grabbed, and the Persians, whose families were so poor, were of course blushing.

There are currently about 350,000 British troops in the Middle East. The Arabian Peninsula has been abandoned and all withdrawn to Persia. The problem was that the British, who lacked naval support, would not fight at all, and it would not be much difficult to defeat them.

Austria-Hungary, which owns the oil fields of Bukovina and Libya, produces more than 7 million tons of crude oil per year, and is not in such a hurry to own oil fields as the Germans, who have already begun to use artificial oil. Therefore, the war in the Middle East was dominated by the Germans, and the Austro-Hungarian side mainly sent the navy to support it.

The Ottoman Empire was in a state of disarray. The Anatolian Social Workers partisans, supported by the Russians, expanded dramatically after the Soviets occupied the Caucasus, and had moved out of the mountains to occupy the central Anatolian town of Sivas. In Mosul, the Kurdish forces, which Austria-Hungary secretly supported, also formed a separatist trend. In addition, the Syrians in the Levant also carried out several anti-Ottoman riots in Damascus.

The wind and rain are shaking, and this decaying empire that has lasted for nearly two decades is really coming to an end this time.

The Bolgars and Greeks were salivating in the face of the imminent collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and Helmeton was also very interested in controlling the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara, but now that the Ottomans still had the support of the Germans, this idea had to be abandoned for the time being.

Vilmots. The Austro-Hungarian task force under Admiral Yankel flourished off the coast of East Africa and in the southern Indian Ocean. It's hard to find enemies. On this day, there was nothing to do, and Yankel simply took the fleet to sabotage South Africa, the most important colony of the British in Africa.

On 8 May, just before the start of the French campaign, Yankel ordered the fleet to bomb Durban.

Surprisingly, after a short bombardment, a white flag flew over the city of Durban, and soon the mayor of Durban sent someone to contact Yankel by boat, indicating that Durban was willing to surrender. As long as the Austro-Hungarian navy does not continue to bomb this place.

For this result, Yankel was nothing but dumbfounded. I had to immediately ask the country what to do.

There were only a few thousand regular troops and 20,000 or 30,000 militiamen in South Africa under British rule, and it was clear to Lee Haydon that he actually planned to start in South Africa after the end of the French campaign. But the result of Yankel's operation was still very surprising to him, and it was not a joke to force Durban, the second largest port in South Africa and the largest port city in Africa in the future, to surrender with just a few bombs, right?

After repeatedly confirming the authenticity of the news. Lehedon ordered the task force to immediately send garrisons on warships to occupy Durban, and demanded that the South African Expeditionary Force, which had already been formed, send an advance force to set off immediately.

The waters of the southern Indian Ocean are constantly lapping against ships, a slight chill, and the salty and humid sea breeze blows in your face. It's already late autumn. Rear Admiral Sa Shijun, who had just been promoted, changed into a new navy uniform of dark blue autumn and winter, and watched boredly as the Austro-Hungarian sailors lined up on the dock for a ceremony.

Each warship was equipped with a naval garrison with guns, ranging in number from tens to more than one hundred and thirty people. Admiral Yankel scraped together a force of 1,000 men to get ashore, which at least looked "spectacular".

On the docks, some South African sailors were still busy, doing what they had to do, and it seemed that the arrival of the Austrians did not have much effect on them, and there were many onlookers on the docks, and some people actually waved the banner of "Welcome to the liberators". After making up for his knowledge of South Africa's history, he now understands why the Durbanites did not resist at all, but welcomed the "invasion" of the Austro-Hungarian navy, and the northeastern part of South Africa was heavily influenced by the Boers, where the white majority was strong and the opposition to British rule was strong.

Prior to this, these people were opposed to South Africa following into the war, and many people took advantage of the opportunity to move South Africa out of British rule when Britain was mired in war.

Many Boers regarded South African Prime Minister Smutz as a "traitor."

Looking at the cheering crowd on the dock, Sa Shijun felt a little ridiculous, the front door drove the tiger, the back door led the wolf, could it be that after the Germans and Austrian-Hungarians came here, they would withdraw lightly?

The general strategy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire distracted him and made some criticisms of it. Now the motherland is in the midst of a bitter and arduous war of resistance, but the main force of the Chinese navy has followed the Austro-Hungarian fleet all the way to distant South Africa. Many generals were very dissatisfied with the Austrians' methods, and went to the commander of the fleet, Chen Shiying, but they were all reprimanded by Admiral Chen, and obediently returned to their warships.

"Local interests should be subordinated to global interests?! Fuck off, the Austrians just don't want to fight the Japanese! Sa Shijun scolded mentally. (To be continued......) R1292