Chapter 215: Thunder Strike
In May 1941, just before the "Song of Heaven" project was launched at the same time as the German "Barbarossa", the Italian army was defeated by the British 150,000 colonial troops, and the 230,000 Italian troops surrendered to the British army, which was mainly black Kenyan and Sudanese.
The British army in Northeast Africa was relieved of the danger and armed a large number of colonial armies with the weapons of the Italian army to support the Northern Army. Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, Mussolini's mustache grew and sent a tank and a light infantry division led by Rommel to Libya to drive the British Nile Army back to Egypt.
However, after losing the containment of Northeast Africa, the British colonial army was continuously replenished to North Africa, and the British Nile Army was renamed the 8th Group Private Car, and its strength was greatly enhanced. Coupled with the launch of "Barbarossa", Germany, which was fighting on two fronts, was unable to replenish Rommel with more elite troops, and the Italian army ...... No matter how many Italian troops there is, is there any use for anything other than to be strong?
Under the rapid turn of the rivalry of strength between the two sides in Africa, Hitler appointed Ribbentrop to come to Chang'an again, using Rommel's personal friendship with Jiang Yunzhi to lobby the Han to send troops to Africa.
Zhong Yi did not agree lightly, that place in Africa is a quagmire, it is okay to talk about getting some resources or something, it is not a suitable place to fight and die, if the surrender of the Italian army is because rotten wood cannot be carved, then the Boer War is enough to prove everything.
But Churchill's arrogance once again angered His Majesty the Han Emperor, because of the surrender of the Italian army in East Africa, the British army, which had no rival, remembered the Somalia given to the Han State in the Chamberlain era, and Churchill ordered Cunningham, the commander of the British Army in Africa, to ask the Han State for the right to colonize Somalia.
Qiu Fatzi is starting to be nervous, Germany is fighting on two fronts, and the air force is inclined to the eastern front, so the pressure on the sky over Britain is much less. The British began to have the energy to worry about the colonies.
The opportunity to get involved in the periphery of the Red Sea and the bay has come! Your Majesty laughed secretly, I won't mess with you, you will provoke me! Old friend Chamberlain, don't blame me for not giving you face, and the British in the empire, what else do you have to say?
On August 4, Cunningham sent an ultimatum to the 3rd Division of the Han Marine Corps in Mogadishu, Somalia, demanding that all personnel of the Han Empire return to Sobariland within 10 days and return Somalia to the British, otherwise they would bear the consequences.
At the same time, Admiral Hans of the Imperial Army led the Coastal Corps, escorted by the Southern Fleet, to set off at the port of Jincheng in Liangzhou and embarked on a journey to Africa across the Indian Ocean.
Before leaving, His Majesty had a conversation with Hans in the Weiqing Pavilion: Did you defeat your own master?
-- Cunningham, the British commander in Africa, taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Hans didn't explain anything, but replied to His Majesty with a Tang poem: Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned if it is not broken.
The sentence "From the Army" expresses the pride and ambition of Admiral Hans, and His Majesty sends it with a military salute!
The 6th Mechanized Infantry of the Guards Regiment joined the ranks of the Afrika Korps to make up for the lack of firepower of the Coast Corps, and Major General Shui Mo was transferred back from Japan to serve as Chief of Staff of the Afrika Korps. This guy is still a little dissatisfied, the small days in Japan are too comfortable, watching TV every day, and then coming to the body to have a drop of pastime, especially recently I have been obsessed with a Japanese TV drama star, chasing other people's eight o'clock files every day to watch the positive energy.
After returning to Chang'an, he heard that he was going to be sent to Africa, and General Shui almost collapsed. From Japan, which no one dares to take care of, he kicked to Africa, and introduced ...... The gap is too big, but before he can complain a few words, he just showed a reluctant expression on his face, and was scolded by Jiang Hei with a hooded face.
"You think I don't know your life in Japan? A boy should take Wu Hook and fight thousands of miles to find the marquis, you indulged in wine and fun at a young age, lingering in the wind and moon, what kind of soldier are you? What else qualifies to stay in the Guards Corps? The great husband was born in sorrow and died in peace! Think about Mr. Ye, and then think about yourself, don't you feel ashamed? Go and think for yourself, if you don't understand, get out of the Guards for me. ”
Looking at Admiral Jiang who threw his sleeves and left, Shui Mo flattened his mouth, I have to roll around when I close it, right? Hey, it seems that I can't escape the trip to Africa, so I'd better send a telegram to the Governor of the National Assembly first, asking him to help me take care of Michiko and wait for me to come back from Africa. "Nima, this Italian army is really a waste, and Rommel is also a braggass, so that the British have to be like that, so that Lao Tzu wants to leave Michiko behind and go to the place where rabbits don't pull dung in Africa to tan!"
No one knew that a year later, at the Battle of El Alamein, General Ink, who had a crushing Montgomery, had in mind that he had in mind: to drive the British out of Africa as soon as possible, so that they could return to Japan as soon as possible.
After a week, the Coast Corps arrived in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. The day after disembarking, Shui Mo led the Sixth Guards Army to begin a rapid march and stationed in Mogadishu.
And on behalf of the General Staff of the Imperial Army, he issued a statement: The Han Imperial Army has the confidence and ability to protect all the overseas territories of the Empire.
The Han military responded to the instigation of the British army with an extremely tough posture.
On August 13, the day before the deadline for the evacuation of the Han troops by the British army, Lieutenant General Liningan, the headquarters of the British Eighth Army in Cairo, received a letter from his student Hans, in which Hans thanked him for the careful instruction he had received from the British instructors during his studies at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. But now that each is its own master, especially the British and Chinese allies, when the swords and soldiers are fighting, I hope the teacher will not blame the students!
This section of Li Ning'an is quite comfortable to see, although with the current situation, Britain and Han can no longer stand in the same trench, but their students are still quite polite, and they are already ...... Admiral. It is the wish of every teacher to be blue, and Li Ningan does not feel uncomfortable for his student's military rank to surpass him.
But in the next paragraph, Li Ning'an, who usually pays attention to demeanor, was scolded angrily, and Hans politely said in the letter: Because Ethiopia is the overseas territory of Italy, an ally of the Han Dynasty, although this ally is not the teacher's opponent, the Han Emperor will not sit idly by and watch his allies be bullied, and hopes that the teacher can return the territory of Italy to others, so that students and teachers can still avoid meeting each other on the battlefield!
What kind of student is this? A few words of false greetings, and then I came to ask for the territory. In a fit of rage, Liningan ordered the British troops in Kenya to forcibly take back Somalia on time.
Tear Hans's letter to shreds, and there is no need to reply to the letter, tomorrow the war will begin, what is the reply?
British forces in East Africa quickly approached Somalia in both directions, Kenya and Ethiopia. British Sudanese colonial forces set out in the northeastern Ethiopian city of Harar to threaten the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa.
The Kenyan colonial army, which was clamoring for the recovery of Mogadishu, had received weapons and equipment from the Italians, and under the command of a few British officers, set out from the small town of Mandela in Kenya and Sebianjing to attack Galbaharé on the west bank of the Juba River, and defeated a small Somali garrison. The Kenyans were in a battle of confidence, and the British officers sent a telegram to Cairo to exaggerate their achievements, claiming to have defeated the Han marines. But in fact, the 3rd Marine Division, which was "defeated by the British", had already handed over positions with the Sixth Guards Army in Mogadishu, boarded the transport ships of the Southern Fleet, and headed for the Persian Gulf.
London was also greatly encouraged, and Churchill claimed in a telephone call with Roosevelt that the combat effectiveness of the Han army was exaggerated, and that they could only deal with those yellow-skinned monkeys in Asia, and that even the troops commanded by British officers could defeat their elite marines.
Roosevelt didn't believe this nonsense of the British, and the Han Dynasty has fought fewer wars with white Westerners since the founding of the country? Not to mention anything else, the South China Continent of the Han Dynasty is still snatched from you British!
Roosevelt, who was particularly jealous of the great Han's huge interests in the Asia-Pacific region, still sent the US Pacific Fleet to visit China according to the plan, and the visiting fleet, which included six battleships and two aircraft carriers, included most of the main ships of the Pacific Fleet, and Admiral Kimmel, commander of the Taiping Fleet, personally led a huge fleet to Shanghai to conduct friendly exchanges with the navy of the Nationalist Government that had returned to Nanjing, and was personally received by the chairman of the Chinese head of state.
The news released by the US Foreign Ministry is undoubtedly a bombshell, and as early as a few days ago, the Royal Navy of Dahan had already obtained information on the departure of the US Pacific ship in Hawaii.
Navy Commander Zhang Zheng and Deputy Commander Long Zhou are the only two admirals in the Navy, and even His Majesty attaches great importance to their joint request for a meeting. Long Zhou believes that the US Pacific Fleet's departure from Pearl Harbor is "a lame man dancing a sword, which is intended for Your Majesty!" ”
His Majesty clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Commander Long's metaphor is good, the United States seems to be very powerful, and as of the first half of this year, the gross domestic product of the United States is still twice that of the empire. But the war is not only about the economy, we have successfully deployed in the Asia-Pacific region, and since the United States wants to get in, then let it come! Isn't Commander Long likening the United States to Xiang Yu, yes, the United States is as powerful as the King of Chu, but today's Asia-Pacific region is no longer an era when the Eight-Nation Alliance can do whatever it wants, the East China Sea is not Hongmen, Taiwan is ours, Japan is ours, Korea is ours, and even the coast of China is also the world of our Royal Navy's submarine force, and the East China Sea is not only not Hongmen, but Jiuli Mountain. ”
"The battlefield was set up in front of Jiuli Mountain, and the shepherd boy picked up old knives and guns. The wind blows the water of the Wujiang River, just like Yu Ji is not an overlord. Commander Long, can you play General Han Xin? ”
"Your Majesty, the minister has an order. If the Americans dare to come, I will bury them in the East China Sea and establish the military prestige of the Han Royal Navy! ”
Zhang Zheng on the side looked funny, for His Majesty's order to General Longzhou, Zhang Zheng was convinced, in terms of naval command, no one in the empire could leave Longzhou. But the two gentlemen and ministers sang a big drama while talking, which was really unbearable.
"Marquis Huaiyin, the U.S. Navy is heavy, how do you want to bury it in the East China Sea? Wouldn't it be embattled too? I'm afraid that the Americans can't understand! In addition, the Northern Fleet is in Vladivostok and the Southern Fleet is in the Persian Gulf, so you only have two fleets at your disposal......"
Yes, even the Marquis of Huaiyin shouted, Your Majesty is playing more and more!
"Your Majesty!" Long Fat Man also knew how to cooperate, and hugged his hands, as if he really bent over and respectfully like the general of the ancient Han Dynasty, "Although Han Xin ordered troops - the more the merrier, but against the US navy, the two ocean fleets are enough!" The minister wants to implement the policy of fiction and reality, and sings it if it is false, as if it is embattled; In fact, it is attacked, and the thunder strikes! ”