In mid-April, the Syrian-Iraqi war finally made significant progress. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This starts with the Lanfang Army's march into Syria.

At the end of January, Lanfang and France reached an agreement under which France loaned two infantry divisions from Lanfang for use in the Syrian direction and for the war against the Iraqis.

Around mid-February, Lan Fang's army was assembled in Syria, and after half a month of rest, Lan Fang's army officially entered the war in early March.

By the time Lan Fang's army entered the war, the Syrians had already retreated into Syria and were powerless to deal with the Iraqi attack. In less than a month, the Lanfang army won three battles and three victories, annihilating the second and fourth divisions of the Iraqi army in succession, defeating as many as five divisions, and returning to the Syrian-Israeli border.

The French were not satisfied with this result, and according to Paris, the Lanfang army should march forward and capture Baghdad in one fell swoop, giving the Iraqis a lesson that they will never forget.

The idea is good, but it is not easy to do, the French were not prepared for long-term combat at the beginning of the war, and the retreat of the Syrian army at the beginning of the war led to the large number of hoarded materials being captured by the Iraqis, so although the Lanfang army still has spare strength, it is limited to insufficient logistics materials, and can only advance to the Syrian-Iraqi border.

Faced with this situation, the French were also helpless.

In fact, the French are not short of supplies, and the military supplies accumulated in the world war have not been used up until now, but the French do not dare to send too many supplies to Syria now, but Paris remembers Qin Zhiyuan's request, if the materials are enough, the Iraqis will not be pleased, and the Lanfang people will be a bigger trouble.

It is easy to please God, but it is difficult to send God.

The French have to borrow Lanfang's force and prevent Lanfang from sitting big in Syria, Lanfang must carefully maintain the balance of power on the Syrian-Iraqi border on the one hand, and on the other hand, he must guard against possible sneak attacks by the British, which is really a bit hard.

In fact, just after Lan Fang's army entered Syria, Lan Fang also had contact with the British, and in the strong opposition of the British, Lan Fang's military promised that the war would be limited to the Syrian-Iraqi border and would never burn into Iraq, which made the British reluctantly accept.

It is true that Iraq is a colony of the British, but the British have never paid attention to Iraq, and even in the eyes of the British government, not only Iraq, but the entire Middle East is a huge burden, and now there is no oil found in the Middle East, and this barren desert is indeed of no value in the eyes of the British.

Qin Zhiyuan's idea is actually not in Syria or Iraq, but in Saudi Arabia in eastern Iraq.

No, there was no Saudi Arabia in those years, and if there were no accidents, Saudi Arabia would not be officially established until 1926, and then in 27 years, Britain would give up its rule over the Saudi region and recognize Saudi Arabia as an independent country.

Look at it, the British just let it go so easily, because there is nothing in the Middle East that can make the British nostalgic, and Saudi oil fields will not be discovered until 1938.

In the current Saudi land, the Aziz family and the Rashid family are at loggerheads, and the Aziz family has gained the upper hand, they have occupied not only Riyadh, but also Najid, and are besieging the last stronghold of the Rashid family, Hijaz.

Britain's neglect of Saudi Arabia is evident in the rivalry between the Aziz and Rashid families, and the British don't care who wins or loses, and allows these Persians to fight and die on the land, without any restrictions at all.

For Qin Zhiyuan, now is a good time to intervene, if in a few years, when the Aziz family completely defeats the Rashid family, it will be more troublesome to intervene at that time.

In fact, since advancing the front to the Syrian-Iraqi border, Qin Haoge, the supreme commander of Lanfang's army in Syria, has been annoyed.

Qin Zhiyuan initially ordered Liu Zizheng to lead his army into Syria, but at the end of March, Liu Zizheng fell seriously ill due to water and soil adaptation, and Qin Zhiyuan had to order Qin Haoge to come to Syria.

When Qin Haoge arrived in Syria, the battle line had already advanced to the Syrian-Iraqi border. According to the agreement between Lan Fang and the British, the war should end here, but since he arrived in Syria, Qin Haoge has not been clean for a day, and the Iraqis have been making small moves, frequently sending small detachments across the border to attack Lan Fang's army, which makes Qin Haoge annoyed.

On April 1, Qin Haoge again received a report that the patrol team was attacked by the Iraqis, although the casualties were not serious, but it still made Qin Haoge angry.

"Send a telegram to Steven and ask him what's going on, and if he can't effectively control his army, then don't blame me for being rude." Qin Haoge was murderous, ready to tear up the tacit understanding between Lan Fang and Britain.

Across the Syrian-Iraqi border is Steven Streich, this old man is now the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi army, his troops were nearly 200,000 when they were at their strongest, and now there are only a little more than 100,000 left, and they are all remnants of the defeated army, although the number is much more than Qin Haoge's people, but the morale and combat effectiveness are not the same.

"Yes, General." Qin Haoge's adjutant is Qin Mu.

After Qin Mu came to Syria, he first served as Lan Fang's liaison officer stationed in the Syrian army and Jerusalem, and then became Qin Haoge's adjutant. Of course, Qin Haoge also has a secret mission, he is responsible for contacting the Iraqi side, not only Steven Streich, but also Yang Deshan.

That's right, Yang Deshan was in Iraq, and after the relationship between the Brotherly Alliance and the British eased, Yang Deshan led the Brotherly Alliance into Iraq to help the British fight the Syrians. Yang Deshan fought a little fiercely, and accidentally recruited the Lanfang army, so Yang Deshan was not on the Syrian-Iraqi border recently, but resting in Iraq.

In fact, Qin Haoge knew who was making small moves, Karim, the commander of the Iraqi First Division, this is the most effective unit in the hands of Steven Strayge, and he also has an inextricable relationship with Lan Fang, but Karim doesn't know it, Karim believes that his success is entirely due to his dedication to hatred.

Steven Stredge's reply was quick, and as before, Steven Stredge's reply was just one sentence: investigating.

In fact, similar sneak attacks have happened many times, and to be honest, the losses on Qin Haoge's side are not big, even if there are losses, Qin Haoge doesn't care, because the dead are all Syrians, and they have nothing to do with the Foreign Legion.

Before Lan Fang's army arrived in Syria, the French had already trained a unit in Syria, and they hired Lan Fang's instructors. It is said that this unit should have a certain combat effectiveness, but the French are not completely at ease with the Lanfang instructors, the officers in the army are basically French, and the French still insist on respecting national habits even when they have burned their eyebrows, which really makes the Lanfang instructors feel more than capable of strength.

This force may not be able to use it on the battlefield to meet the Iraqis, but if it is simply stationed and patrolled, this force is still competent.

Since he is competent, of course Qin Haoge will not be polite when he uses it, but now that there is a problem, it is necessary for Qin Haoge to seek justice for them.

"Tell Steven Strait that he doesn't need to investigate, I'll help him investigate." Qin Haoge finally got impatient.

This "investigation" is just an excuse, there have been so many attacks before, Steven Streich's reply every time is "investigation", but there is never a result, the attack that should have happened will still happen, at most it is forced to throw out two "scapegoats" to fill the scene, and there is no further action.

In fact, just last night, Qin Mu had already reported the latest progress of Yang Deshan, Yang Deshan now has two divisions of nearly 40,000 troops, this force is currently resting in the Muthanna area on the border between Iraq and Kuwait, as long as Qin Haoge's troops enter Iraq, Yang Deshan can cooperate with Qin Haoge to perform, and then Qin Haoge's troops can take advantage of the situation to attack Saudi Arabia.

It must be noted that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have a special relationship, and the Aziz family, which currently has an advantage in the Saudi civil war, has used Kuwait as its nest to launch an attack on the Rashid family.

Relatively speaking, the British also attach more importance to Kuwait, because of Kuwait's geographical location, Kuwait is close to the Persian Gulf and is in the center of the Middle East, and the British need to use Kuwait's geographical location to maintain influence in the Middle East.

The course of history also proves this, and without Lan Fang's intervention, the British would have abandoned Saudi Arabia in the near future, and at the same time the British would have strengthened their control over Kuwait, which would have officially become a British protectorate by 1939.

That was, of course, after the discovery of oil in Kuwait, and if Kuwait had not discovered oil in 1938, the British would have had no interest in Kuwait either.

Now because of the emergence of Lanfang, I am afraid that the British will withdraw from the Middle East earlier than the original history, because the Middle East is a huge cornucopia of oil reserves, Qin Zhiyuan will never allow others to get involved.

After deciding to break through the tacit restrictions, Qin Haoge immediately ordered the troops to assemble and prepare to cross the Syrian-Iraqi border line and launch an attack on the First Division of the Iraqi National Guard in Iraq.

The build-up of Lan Fang's army made the Syrian-Iraqi border area suddenly tense again, and the first to react was the French.

The French have always wanted the Lanfang army to invade Iraq, and it is best to die with the Iraqis, which is in line with the interests of the French.

At the beginning of May, a large amount of military supplies arrived in Hasakah, and preparations for the attack were completed, and the flames of war were imminent.