Chapter 245: Anti-Han Fever

It turns out that the rabbit hunt does not require tradition, and it seems to be the nature of the Han army helicopter pilots.

A cook who doesn't want to be a carpenter is not a good driver, and a person who can't hunt rabbits is not a good helicopter pilot. The rout of the British army soon turned into a flight, a desperate run under the threat of hunters' guns.

Mount Gidi was not their target, and the entire Canal Zone had nothing to stop them, the British, who cried "I want to go home", aimed at the Mediterranean.

As for the Egyptians and the Assan, what goal do they have, anyway, the British just run and follow wherever they go.

The landing in the city of Tawfik on the north bank of the canal was the Jewish Brigade of Marines, and a Palestinian Haganah armed squad caused chaos in the city to make their landing smoother. After two hours of holding off the beach position, 3,000 British troops had to retreat along the north bank of the canal to the ninth station because of the enemy in the north.

But what awaits them can only be a point of no return. The Seventh Guards Army, airborne in the salt marshes of Tina, had captured Tiena and Lasouche, cutting off the retreat of the British army to the Mediterranean.

Compared with the airborne operations, the mud of the salt marshes and the monsoon winds of the Mediterranean Sea have become the biggest enemies of the paratroopers, more than half of the warrior airborne light tanks were forced to be thrown in the salt marshes, the vehicles and tanks that could reach the assembly site at the specified time were far below the training requirements of the paratroopers, and a sudden monsoon caused many paratroopers to deviate from the designated airborne area. Even a few hours later, a small force of paratroopers scattered by the monsoon had captured the military airfield in North Sangharjah, which was 50 kilometers away from the airborne area of the Canal Zone.

The capture of the Harjah airfield, where a battalion of Egyptian troops was garrisoned, by 28 paratroopers led by a lieutenant colonel became a joke in Operation Thunder. Of course, fortunately there is Beidou, otherwise, the final result of this small paratrooper unit fighting alone will definitely be surrounded, and what awaits them can only be to fight to the death and be annihilated - although the paratrooper regulations promulgated by His Majesty the Han Emperor himself have clearly pointed out that paratroopers are a special type of troops, and surrendering under special circumstances will not be regarded as a shame.

But since the airborne landing in Niigata, Japan, no captured Guards paratroopers have ever appeared, and no one wants to set this precedent. Even though His Majesty and Chief of General Staff Jiang Yunzhi have repeatedly emphasized that paratroopers can surrender, in several battles, the paratroopers of the Han Guards who were surrounded and could not get out fought to the death.

This small patchwork force at the North Sanharjah airport was undoubtedly lucky, and they quickly contacted the command through the Beidou system, and the unexpected capture of the Harjah airport was a small surprise for the headquarters. Four aerial cavalry transport planes landed on the runway of Harjah Airport an hour and a half later, and a Navy SEAL team of 500 special operations units quickly appeared at strategic points at the airport.

The captain of this Navy SEAL team is a colonel, but he still saluted the paratrooper squadron that seized the airfield with a standard military salute, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the 2nd Special Operations Group of the Navy SEALs has been ordered to take over the Harjeh airport, comrades paratroopers have worked hard!" Please return to the command headquarters immediately by transport plane, this is the order of Air Force Admiral Yun Jiu! ”

According to military regulations, regardless of the type of troops, those with low ranks must salute their commanders first, and the return salute of the paratrooper lieutenant colonel seems to be a bit of a hurry. Until the colonel of the Navy SEAL, who was a mysterious figure in the minds of all the officers and men of the army, had left, the lieutenant colonel was still secretly remorseful, "Nima, you lost the face of the paratroopers in front of the most cowish Navy SEALs!" ”

"Haha!" After handing over the position, the paratroopers ran back to the airport tarmac and looked at Commander Liu and grinned, although they were not all subordinate to Commander Liu. The lieutenant colonel blushed a little and looked at his paratrooper comrades around, they ...... Some were supported by others, and some were wrapped in layers of bandages, and they twisted in a circle,...... Not at all like a paratrooper unit known for its discipline.

The lieutenant colonel smiled, "Brothers, Admiral Yun Jiu wants us to take the transport plane back to the headquarters, but I think that if we return to the rear with this appearance now, we will definitely be scolded by the commander!" Oh, it's you, crooked, how can you look like a paratrooper? ”

"Haha......" The paratrooper who was pointed out was a machine gunner, and his arms were numb after a long time of shooting, and at this time, he leaned on the wreckage of a destroyed British Meteor fighter, knowing that Regiment Commander Liu was joking, and it was inevitable that he would blush a little.

"Brothers, I don't think the war is over, and as paratroopers who often fight behind enemy lines, we can't be the first to go back to the rear. So I decided to stay in North Sanharjah and continue to fight with the SEALs. Comrades who agree with my proposal, please raise your hand! ”

Twenty-seven hands were raised without hesitation, and with the addition of the lieutenant colonel, none of the 28 paratroopers flinched. After receiving the paratroopers' application, Yun Jiu thought about it for a long time at the general headquarters of Operation "Thunder" located in Asmara, the capital of the small country of Eritrea on the Red Sea, and agreed to the paratroopers' request that they could stay at the Harjah airport and continue to fight, except for the wounded.

The deeds of the 28 warriors of Harjie have also been passed down to all the Allied troops participating in the battle with the Beidou communication and command system, and in this era of positive energy, heroes are easier to worship and exciting.

The encouraged 7th Army pushed the battle line south to the important town of Kantara in the canal zone before dark, and controlled almost all of the Tina salt marsh section of the Suez Canal except for Port Said, the northernmost Mediterranean port of the canal, and surrounded Kantara with the two paratrooper divisions of the 8th Army parachuted in the airborne around the Bala Canal.

But the paratroopers were in no hurry to attack the heavily defended British Kantara, because they had already received information from the command that the 4th Guards Infantry Corps and the 3rd Panzer Corps, which had set off at Aqaba, had broken through the British fortress of Mitra in the Sinai Peninsula and occupied the Haitan Valley.

In Mistagg, the British army was supported by naval artillery fire from the C fleet, and the British army deployed a large number of anti-tank guns here and built dozens of anti-tank bunkers, constituting a relatively complete defense system. The Guards' armored assault suffered its first setback, and the loss of more than 60 Tiger tanks was also a battle in which the Guards armored forces suffered heavy casualties. The General Command halted the assault on Mistag and prepared for the continuation of the siege by the 4th Mechanized Infantry Corps, while the 3rd Panzer Corps bypassed Mistag and continued to reinforce the paratrooper units. Although this will lead to the dispersion of troops, which will have a certain impact on the next stage of operations, it is even more dangerous to let the paratrooper units with weak firepower fight alone.

And at this moment, His Majesty sent a telegram to storm Mistag with all his might, and the British Navy had the Luftwaffe to deal with.

Seeing that the Han army-dominated Grand Alliance Army was fighting in the Middle East and North Africa, the mustache naturally did not want to watch from the sidelines. If the Middle East and North Africa are taken by the big man, what will Germany play?

The idea that the Mediterranean Sea is the inland sea of Europe is deeply ingrained in the minds of Europeans, whether Germans or British, or even Italians.

Knowing that the Han Guards were being blocked at Mistag, Adolf immediately ordered Goering's air force to attack the C Fleet to support the Han army.

The 10th Luftwaffe Army stationed in Greece immediately moved to the island of Cyprus and used the airfields of Nicosia and Limassol as bases to carry out frenzied bombardment of the C Flotilla near Port Said.

Because the land-based airfields in northeastern Egypt were bombed by the Han army, the British air force in Egypt was almost completely lost. In the multinational force navy in the port of Benghazi in the Bay of Sirte, the large British aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal, HMS Fury and HMS Valiant, the flagship of the American Atlantic Fleet, USS Ranger, bombed airfields on the island of Cyprus.

Americans have also read "The Art of War", and the plan to save Zhao from Wei is a good one.

But the Han Chinese, who were obsessed with reciprocating favors, certainly did not sit idly by and watch their allies be besieged, and two air carriers of the Northern Fleet in the Red Sea also took off carrier-based aircraft to join the air battle over Port Said.

The melee of the air forces of many countries is an advanced jet fighter with a speed of about 1,000 kilometers per hour, and the allies who are not equipped with the identification system of friend or foe are also very likely to avoid mutual accidental injury.

Gao Jian, the ace pilot of the Northern Fleet, admitted after returning home that one of the three planes he shot down had accidentally hit the Luftwaffe's Swallow, that is, the ME-262A fighter.

The battle was a dizzy one, and both sides quickly retreated. Gao Jian led the Sea Dragon group to withdraw from the battle first, and the Luftwaffe then returned and withdrew from the air combat area. This made the British and American carrier-based pilots of the multinational forces very excited, although they may have suffered a slight loss in terms of combat results, but after all, they repelled the air forces of the Allied powers, defended their own naval ships and Port Said, and regarded it as a victory for the air power of the Entente powers. British pilots, in particular, have been fighting for two years, and they have rarely been able to gain an advantage in air combat.

With the advancement of the battlefield, the airfields of the Royal Han Air Force have gradually moved forward, especially the use of airfields along the Red Sea coast, so that the eastern waters of the Mediterranean Sea have entered the combat distance of the Royal Air Force, Yun Jiu applied to His Majesty: In order to avoid the recurrence of accidental injuries, please come forward to coordinate the combat scope of the Luftwaffe, it is best to be responsible for the direction of Malta Island and Libya, and the Egyptian side will be handed over to our Han Air Force!

Unexpectedly, Yun Jiu's application was severely reprimanded by His Majesty, what arrogance, arrogance, and lack of understanding of uniting allies...... All of his brains smashed over, smashing Comrade Lao Jiu into a daze.

A few days later, Jiang Yunzhi personally sent a telegram, and Yun Jiu realized that he had hit the muzzle of the gun!

This muzzle has nothing to do with the war in the Mediterranean, and it is not Commander Yun's fault, but the fault of Chairman Zhonghua.

Seeing that there was no hope of a military victory, the Nanjing Nationalist Army, which had been defeated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Beiping on the frontal battlefield, resorted to the political means that it was good at.

The agents of the military command released the news through various channels: the Han insisted on Beiping because they agreed to cede Northeast China and Taiwan to the Han Empire. As soon as this news came out, it immediately aroused the anti-Han upsurge among the people, especially the students, but this matter is really unclear. The Japanese in Taiwan were driven away, but the governor of Dongying was still located in Taichung, making it clear that the Han army did not want to leave.

In order to meet the needs of the war in the Far East, in the northeast, the Han army established a large number of factories in Jilin Province to produce materials needed for the front line, and expanded and renovated the Fengtian Arsenal to replenish the guns and ammunition of the million-strong army nearby and reduce the pressure on logistics replenishment. Even in the Hulunbuir grassland, several tanneries and meat processing factories have been built.

Once the Far East War ended, a large number of ready-made factories could be left for the Northeast, and after the transformation of the military into civilians, it would be able to drive the development of local industries.

Unexpectedly, this became a tongue for people to attack the Han Dynasty's intention to colonize the Northeast, and the reason is also very good: the Japanese did it in the first place.