In the Syrian campaign, the Grand Alliance invested a total of 560,000 troops, while the Anglo-Indian army only had 270,000.

Churchill said: "It was an unfair war, Britain was less than a state in the Han Dynasty, and Britain was less populous than a colony in the Han Dynasty. ”

No one paid attention to him, and if everything in the world was fair, there would be no war at all. And if we talk about colonies, which country will have more than Britain? Canada plus India, if you want a territory, you want a population.

Had it not been for the emergence of the Han Empire, wouldn't the mighty Third German Reich have been dragged down by Britain's countless colonial populations and resources?

But in the face of the Han Empire, which has been founded for less than ten years, the empire that never sets when the rivers are falling and the heroes are twilight is so powerless.

The Middle East battlefield has been eroded to such an extent that Britain still does not dare to draw too many troops from India. Of course, at this point, the Military Intelligence Agency has made another great contribution.

Mu Yu successfully helped Chandra Bose, the leader of the Indian independence movement, escape the British colonial government in Calcutta, and then, with the support of the Han Empire's Military Intelligence Agency, Chandra established the Indian National Army, which was made up of Indian prisoners of war and Indians in exile throughout Southeast Asia, and used the cover of the jungle to fight against the British Indian army in Assam, Burma and Bengal!

At the same time, the military intelligence bureau also deliberately created false news that a powerful army would land in Burma, and at this time, the Judah Army and the Third Army of the South Seas were resting. Once hundreds of thousands of elite Grand Alliance troops landed in the Bay of Bengal, it was self-evident that the heavy blow to British India, especially the Indians had been fighting for independence, once the successful landing of the Grand Alliance troops provoked a wider Indian uprising, then the biggest jewel on the British king's scepter would undoubtedly be removed.

Because the outlet of the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden, have been controlled by the Han navy, and the British Royal Navy cannot go out of the Mediterranean, it is difficult to pose a threat to the Han navy with the strength of the Indian Royal Navy, not to mention that the Indians do not make an uprising, and the British are thankful.

There is also a Han southern fleet in the Persian Gulf, which can control the Arabian Sea and even the Indian Ocean at any time. It was as if all of a sudden, the British discovered that the invincible sun never set on the great navy was actually trapped in the small Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea.

The British army's jealousy in India gave the Grand Alliance army absolute superiority on the Syrian battlefield.

Lieutenant General Xiao Guoxing, who has been promoted to commander of the Guards Corps, commanded the Yanzhou Corps, the Yizhou Corps, and the Nanyang Second Corps, as well as the 9th Division of the Fourth Guards Mechanized Infantry Army and the Third Armored Army, and launched simultaneous attacks in Deir ez-Zor Province in Syria and Mujet in Jordan.

The Left Route Army was the Guards unit and the Yizhou Army Corps under the personal command of Xiao Guoxing, and more than 1,000 Tiger and Siberian Tiger medium tanks, plus 500 Mammoth heavy tanks of the 9th Guards Panzer Division, formed a torrent of steel, rapidly advancing on the Syrian desert. The British Crusader cruiser tank was a cup, its weak armor was simply vulnerable, and the Valentine six-pounder anti-tank gun, which had shown its prowess in the Battle of Bagla, was also in front of the huge armor cluster, like a sea of mantis arms blocking the car. The feeling of a small pebble smashing into the lake made the British army powerless and almost desperate, and the white-turbaned three brothers also lost their courage in Iraq.

The Guards marched almost at the speed of an off-road march into the royal palace of Amman, the rice flag representing British colonial rule was torn off, and the royal golden dragon battle flag of the Han Dynasty rose in the hot winds of the desert climate. This means that after Iraq, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has become the twelfth overseas territory of the Han Dynasty.

To the surprise of the British, Xiao Guoxing, after capturing the capital of Jordan and having a friendly conversation with King Abdullah, told the Han army to respect the traditions of the royal families and asked him to be king at ease, did not immediately go north to Irbid, attacking the last line of defense of Britain south of Damascus, nor did he advance westward to capture the Palestinian seaport city of Haifa, which was an important port for the Mediterranean fleet to replenish the Middle East.

The other iron pincer of the Middle East Front of the Grand Alliance, the Right Army, composed of the Yanzhou Army and the Nanyang Second Army, continued to attack Damascus, but Lieutenant General Xiao of the Left Army gave up a great opportunity to go down from the Golan Heights and attack Damascus on both sides. Instead, the troops were divided into two routes, one was the 9th Guards Division and the Yizhou Corps, which bypassed the Dead Sea and went straight to the holy city of Jerusalem, and the other was along the border between Palestine and Jordan, all the way south, into Ma'an Province.

When the British army understood that Xiao Guoxing's goal was the Gulf of Aqaba, they thought it was too late. Almost all British forces in the Middle East were concentrated around Damascus, holding the line between Lebanon and Homs, and keeping Beirut was the bottom line of the British army. Or else Britain will lose all land access with India, and sea access?

"Is there anything else in the Indian Ocean about our Royal Navy of the British Empire?" Former Secretary of the Navy and current British Prime Minister Winston Churchill shouted.

But the British did not expect that the Grand Alliance Army did not think about India at all, or that the matter of India did not enter the eyes of the Han Emperor at all.

The Mediterranean is lost, Britain is lost, is the matter of India still a thing?

Xiao Guoxing's previous deployment was to lure the British to defend Damascus and Homs, and even use the strength of two corps to make a feint. If they don't go all out to defend Ismiye and Palmyra on the northern front, then with the strength of nearly 300,000 troops of the Yanzhou Army and the Second Army of the South Seas, they can completely capture Homs or Damascus, and the British are still counting on India's resources to feed back the British Isles, they dare not take this risk, and they don't even dare to think about the consequences of losing Lebanon.

However, Britain and the United States were preparing for the "torch" operation for the landing of multinational forces in North Africa, and they simply did not have more troops to take care of the Middle East, and the lack of troops made the British army have no choice. Unexpectedly, Commander Xiao didn't play his cards according to the routine at all, and he actually commanded the elite guards to turn the head of the car and go straight to Aqaba, the only port city in Jordan.

Now there is no need to choose, even a non-commissioned officer understands that the Han army is a drunkard, and they don't mean to drink, they didn't think about cutting off the so-called British Indian communication line at all, their purpose is the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean!

"Operation Torch must be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise there is no need to wait for us to land in Africa, and the Han people will go directly!" Qiu Jilin didn't care about his demeanor anymore, and he habitually held the big pipe in his hand and knew where it had gone. As prime minister, he should not have appeared at the joint meeting of the British and American chiefs of staff, but the news that the Han army had taken control of the Gulf of Aqaba in Jordan made him unable to sit still in Downing Street anyway.

Regarding Churchill's rudeness, US Chief of Staff Marshall expressed understanding. "Mr. Prime Minister, we are finalizing the concrete plan, and please be assured that the multinational force will launch an attack soon."

In Gibraltar, Admiral Dwight D. Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of Operation Torchlight, is making final arrangements with the commander-in-chief of the Multinational Force's Navy, Downingham.

The three landing sites identified by the multinational force are in the north-western African countries of Morocco and Algeria, which are controlled by the French Government of Vichy. Vicky France had about 60,000 soldiers and coastal batteries in Morocco, supported by tanks and aircraft, and stationed 10 or more battleships and 11 submarines in Casablanca.

Eisenhower decided that the French would not confront the multinational force, and the U.S. ambassador to Algeria, Miffy, provided this information, and most French soldiers did not have a good opinion of the Germans who had defeated their homeland. However, Cunningham of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet and his deputy, Vice Admiral Ramsay, refused to believe this information, and after the French surrendered, the British Royal Navy attacked the French Navy at Millsbeele in order to prevent French warships from falling into German hands.

Today, Ambassador Mayfe once again received news that General Charles Emmanuel, the Supreme Commander of the French Army in Algiers, had expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Multinational Force, but had requested a secret meeting in Algiers with a senior Allied officer. Eisenhower sent his senior commander, Vice Admiral Mark Wayne Clark, to Algiers aboard the submarine Seraphim to meet with these senior French officers.

Lieutenant General Clark had not yet received any news, but Eisenhower had received telegrams from Washington and London, the contents of which were almost identical, and both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill demanded that he must land in North Africa as soon as possible to change the situation on the African battlefield.

Because...... The British army is almost unable to hold in the Middle East!

Fortunately, Clark didn't keep Eisenhower too long, and he succeeded in meeting with General Henry of Vicky France on the submarine, but surprisingly the cargo made a ridiculous request: he would be the commander-in-chief of the multinational force.

Eisenhower was, if you really cooperate well, it would be good if you were a temporary uprising, and you still want to be the commander-in-chief of the multinational force? If you really let him do it, then why should I go? The romance in the bones of the French is still ...... It's romantic.

Corningham, who had always disagreed with the French rebels, was happy, even though Britain and France were both Allied countries in the war, and even though the two armies fought together in France, but for historical reasons, the British and French people have always looked down on each other. The French lost such a big ugly man, or in front of the Americans, it is estimated that all the British will be very happy!

"Ike, let's execute Plan B!"

It's a good thing, you can land smoothly without casualties, I didn't expect to encounter such a superlative, Eisenhower, who commanded the battle alone for the first time, nodded quite depressedly, "Okay, I agree to implement Plan B!" ”

Plan B was to force a landing on the basis of considering the resistance of the French.

Three landing sites in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers, three task forces, each headed by an army commander and a naval general.

Jimmy Doolittle, a major general in the U.S. Air Force, became famous in his previous life for commanding the bombing of Tokyo, which was called the impossible. In this life, he was not so famous, in Operation Torch, he was only responsible for commanding the US Army Air Force in the west, and his immediate superior, the commander of the Western Task Force responsible for the Casablanca landing, was ...... George Patton.