After the outbreak of civil strife in Siam, it soon swept the whole country, despite the strong support of the Chinese side, but the army of the aristocratic faction will not be able to defeat the army of King Rama VI for a while, the two sides in their respective spheres of influence to develop the army on a large scale, expand the armament, and in this regard, Rama VI is not as good as his younger brother to Pachadipo led by the aristocratic faction, due to the strong economic blockade of the Chinese state, Rama VI has a strict military budget is insufficient, although the Chinese state has revoked the military blockade, At the instigation of China, the countries of the Southeast Peninsula have greatly increased their tariffs at border checkpoints and customs, which has undoubtedly dealt a devastating blow to Siam's economy.

However, the Siamese aristocracy, which was supported by the Chinese state, had money and weapons, and the officers sent by the Chinese state helped train the army, and Rama VI was soon in a disadvantageous position, and now he was only barely supporting, and his defeat was a matter of time.

Presidential palace.

Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff, came over to report to Xiao Zhenlei: "President, I just received a telegram from Wu Shiyou, the 201st Armored Division, the forward unit of the First Army of the Expeditionary Force, has arrived at the border city of Ilam, the Qajar Dynasty (Iran), and is resting there, and the British side has organized manpower to set up a large camp and build a large military airport for our army in Ilam, and the follow-up troops are advancing towards Ilam one after another, and it is expected that they will arrive one after another in the next week!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei, who was smoking a cigarette, heard the words and asked: "Has the first batch of military supplies delivered to the logistics supply promised by the British side arrived?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen replied: "It has already arrived, and the British still dare not give us a sloppy eye in this regard, after all, this is related to the security of the British mainland." They don't dare to delay! ”

Xiao Zhenlei walked to the military map and looked at it, thought for a moment and asked, "After Dijon's 201st Armored Division, whose troops will arrive first?" ”

"It's the 18th Division of the 54th Army. Division Commander Feng Yushen! ”

"Is there any reaction from the Ottoman Turkish side?"

Jiang Fangzhen said: "We have made such a big move with the Entente side, and the Allied side must have noticed it. According to information from our military intelligence, the Ottoman Turks have increased the strength of six divisions on the border with the Qajars, deployed in Basra, Kutjmara, Jerula, Sulaymaniyah, Raniyah, etc. However, after observing the news that our army was advancing towards Ilam, the troops at the north and south were massing towards Kutjmara and Jerula, between which was an endless desert, and behind the desert was Baghdad, the military and economic center of the Ottoman Turks in the eastern region! ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and asked, "Wu Shiyou didn't report the specific battle plan?" ”

"Not yet, because the forward force has just arrived in Ilam, so the troops are resting. And Wu Shiyou's headquarters is currently on its way to Ilam! ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the map and said: "I think we should adopt a one-size-fits-all strategy to deal with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire's ruling foundation in Egypt, Arabia and the Middle East is relatively weak, and the ruling foundation in the Asia Minor Peninsula is relatively deep, from the perspective of the eastern terrain, cities and population distribution, it is centered on Baghdad, distributed in the southeast, northwest and west directions, if our army captures Baghdad at lightning speed, Then, with Baghdad as a base, it quickly broke westward into Syria and Lebanon, occupied Jerusalem, and cut the entire Ottoman Turkish region into two parts. The Ottoman Turkish army in the south will not be able to receive timely support from the northern army, and our army can quickly use Baghdad as a base to advance to the southeast and southwest respectively, mainly to sweep away the Ottoman army in the south. In addition, many Arab nations did not submit to Ottoman rule, and with the help of these peoples, it was possible for our expeditionary force to solve the Ottoman army in southern Arabia and the Middle East as quickly as possible. After dealing with the army in the Ottoman South, our expeditionary force made contact with the Allied forces in North Africa. and supplies from them.

In the second stage, our army was divided into three routes and marched north. The first route advanced north along Lebanon and Syria near the Mediterranean coast and the East China Sea, contributing cities occupied by the Ottoman Turkish army along the way; the second way, along the banks of the Euphrates River to the northwest; The third way, along the Tigris River to the northwest, the second and third roads are what we call the two basins!

In order not to be harassed from other outside, it was also necessary to send a note to the Entente to the French to send the Mediterranean Fleet and part of their forces to capture Cyprus, so that the Turkish troops in Cyprus would not harass our flanks!

In the third stage, the three-way army attacked the Asia Minor Peninsula together, let the armored forces be the pioneer, use the army infantry with tanks, and armored personnel carriers to carry the infantry, and break through the enemy's defense line before the enemy army had time to deploy with a blitzkrieg attack, and kill the Ottoman Turks by surprise, but this qiē must be kept up with the logistics in time! ”

Jiang Fangzhen thought for a while and nodded: "Yes, it seems that our logistics can't be completely transported from India, and it is relatively far from India, can we find a way from North Africa?" Let the Entente organize ships to cross the Mediterranean, so that the speed is faster! ”

"I think so! Where did the naval fleet go? ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Yesterday morning we arrived in the Persian Gulf, and in the afternoon Shen Shoukun sent a telegram saying that the 29th Division had landed in Kuwait, and at about 9 o'clock this morning, the 29th Division fully occupied Kuwait City, and several ships deployed by the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Kuwait have been sunk by our fleet, and no Allied ships have been found in the Persian Gulf region for the time being."

Xiao Zhenlei smoked a cigarette and thought for a while and said: "Since there are no ships and fighters of the Allies in the Persian Gulf region, let Shen Shoukun lead the fleet to quickly rush to the Mediterranean Sea to meet Wu Shiyou's First Route Army to the north, and the logistics of the 29th Division will be handed over to the transport ships. ”

"Understood!"

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The Qajar Dynasty, on the road to Ilam, the long road that stretches to the sky as far as the eye can see, the smoke and dust rise from the sky, off-road jeeps, large trucks, horse-drawn carriages, etc., driving on this road run out of tanks, this is an army, this army does not have a single soldier walking, most of them are on horseback, a few sit in carriages or trucks, and the carriages and trucks pull food, weapons and ammunition, oil and other military supplies.

Wu Shiyou sat in the back seat of an off-road jeep wearing a desert-colored steel helmet and pretended to sleep, thinking about the battle strategy after arriving in Ilam, when another jeep caught up from behind, and the driver gestured to the co-pilot here, and handed a telegram through the window.

When the adjutant saw it, he took it and looked at it, turned his head to Wu Shiyou, who was sitting in the back seat, and said, "Commander, there is a call from the Supreme Command, signed in the name of the president."

"Oh? Show me! Wu Shiyou opened his eyes when he heard this.

Took the telegram and read it from beginning to end, after reading it, he had a bottom in his heart, to be honest, he had never been to the Middle East before, he was extremely unfamiliar with this place, and his understanding of this place was only limited to the map, so for the next combat strategy, he had thought of several plans, but in the end they were all vetoed by himself, this telegram signed in the name of Xiao Zhenlei put forward a general strategic combat plan, but there was no specific tactical arrangement, that is to say, let him implement this strategic plan, as for what tactics to use, The command doesn't care, as long as the strategic intent of the command is completed, which reduces Wu Shiyou's pressure a lot.

"With Baghdad as the center, it first penetrated westward to the Mediterranean coast, and cut the Ottomans into two sections from east to west, north and south, and the Ottoman forces in the Arab region were not deployed much, and the 29th Division landed in Kuwait swept through the Arab region, and the First Army of the Expeditionary Force was divided into three large armies, and the first was ??????."

Wu Shiyou studied the telegram and thought in his mind, if he first attacked Baghdad by surprise, he would annihilate the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops deployed on the eastern border!

After a bumpy ride, Wu Shiyou finally arrived at Elam with his headquarters, and he ordered Feng Yushen of the 54th Division to quickly rest for two days, and then act with Dijon's 201st Armored Division two days later.

The armored division has been here from China, and along the way due to various mechanical problems or environmental reasons, two battalions of tanks and armored vehicles have been lost, some of which have been repaired and followed, and some of which have been dismantled and blown up after being repaired.

On this day, Wu Shiyou summoned Di Rong, the commander of the 201st Armored Division, and Feng Yu, the commander of the 54th Division, who had arrived, to have a brief meeting, and he said to the two: "It is not difficult to break through the Ottoman Turkish defense line, it is rare how to quickly solve the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops deployed here, we don't have to worry about how much threat they will have to us in the morning, we still have hundreds of thousands of follow-up troops are arriving one after another, and there are troops of the Qajar Dynasty on the border to guard against them, I plan to let your two divisions cooperate, A part of the soldiers of Feng Yushen's 54th Division took the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored division to open the road in front, and the rest of the horses followed behind, and the logistics baggage troops followed up, we did not take the usual road, directly from Ilam across the border and then crossed the desert, appeared directly outside the city of Baghdad, and took Baghdad as quickly as possible, the enemy thought that the vast desert could stop us, in fact, our army was already mechanized, of course, it was difficult to get out of the desert by manpower, but it was not a problem for mechanized troops to cross the desert, After occupying Baghdad, the Panzer Division immediately made a quick assault to the west to disrupt the enemy's deployment, and the 54th Division sent a regiment to follow, leaving part of it to garrison Baghdad, and the rest quickly went down to the southeast to flank the Ottoman army on the southeast border with the 29th Division that landed in Kuwait! (To be continued......)