The Chinese Empire's march into the Middle East was extremely difficult, and it could be said that it was the most difficult of all the military operations of the Chinese Empire.

First of all, Prince Ibrahim's territory is in the innermost part of the Persian Gulf, and if the Chinese Imperial Army wants to rush to Prince Ibrahim's territory, it must pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been blocked by the combined forces of various countries.

Secondly, Prince Ibrahim's territory is extremely far away from the Chinese Empire, and the closest place to Kuwait City in the Chinese Empire is Ceylon Island, which has just been taken, and Ceylon Island is also more than 4,000 kilometers away from Kuwait City, and the direct problem for the Chinese Empire is that the supply line is too long.

Finally, the long-distance transportation capacity of the Chinese Empire is insufficient, Lin Fei has already stockpiled fuel, ammunition and other materials, but there are not many ships that can cross the distance of 4,000 kilometers for transportation, and now the long-distance transportation capacity in Lin Fei's hands, after so many years of operation, is only 20,000 tons, and if you want to support the war of the Chinese Empire to support Prince Ibrahim, you need at least about 100,000 tons of long-distance transportation capacity.

The first Lin Fei was not worried about these three major problems, because the multinational joint forces only had large battleships and no aircraft, and they were definitely not opponents of aircraft carriers and aircraft.

The second and third can be regarded as a problem, and the solution that Lin Fei thought of was to use the strength of the United States and the United Kingdom to supplement the capacity.

The United Kingdom has been engaged in international trade for many years and has sufficient long-distance shipping capacity, and the United States is an emerging ocean-going trading power, which also has huge long-distance shipping capacity.

Lin Fei threw an olive branch to the capitalists of the United States and Britain, and the capitalists of the two countries gladly accepted it, after all, the capitalists have no motherland, and the Chinese Empire has a huge transportation business opportunity, and the capitalists will never give up.

At this time, the Chinese Empire was the most populous country in the world, and the largest population meant that the market was the largest, and the capitalists in Britain and the United States were unwilling to provoke Lin Fei and lose the big market of the Chinese Empire.

It is worth mentioning that Britain is the country that instigated against Prince Ibrahim, so Britain is very reluctant to see the British help the Chinese Empire, but they really can't control the British merchants, first of all, most of the merchants who provide long-distance transportation capacity for Lin Fei are in India, and the British merchants in India seem to have formed their own faction, and they disobey the orders of the British government.

After hundreds of years of British operation, India has given birth to a large number of "local capitalists", although these people are British, but what they want is India's independence, because once India is independent, they will no longer have to listen to the British in terms of taxation, so they will make more money.

Second, Britain is a country that emphasizes "Western-style democracy", and it is difficult for the government to use coercive means to prevent merchants from doing business with certain objects, so the British can only watch as Indian British merchants transport goods for the Chinese Empire.

The first stop of the Chinese imperial fleet into the Middle East was Muscat, a port city at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, which was located at the southern end of the Strait of Hormuz, facing the Gulf of Oman, and was the territory of the Sultanate of Oman.

Muscat is a historic city through which the Chinese Maritime Silk Road passed, and it is also a testimony to the historical friendship between the Arab region and the Chinese region.

During the voyage of the Chinese Imperial fleet, on October 14, Sheikh Ahmed, with the support of Germany, France, Russia and other countries, launched an attack on Kuwait City.

On October 15, Prince Ibrahim abandoned Kuwait City and retreated south, and Prince Ibrahim's plan was to abandon Kuwait City and the surrounding territories and retreat directly to Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, to wait for the rescue of the Chinese Empire.

Germany, France, and Russia did not spare Prince Ibrahim, because they knew very well that as long as Prince Ibrahim was alive, Lin Fei would use him to enter the Middle East, and the three countries instructed Sheikh Ahmet to pursue Prince Ibrahim all the way south.

From Kuwait City to Muscat, there are several large chieftains' territories in between, Prince Ibrahim, with the support and help of Lin Fei, has already bought them, most of them are in the form of in-laws, Prince Ibrahim either marries the daughter of the chief (polygamy in Arabia, the status of wives is equal), or marries his daughter to their son, Prince Ibrahim's daughter is not very old, but it doesn't matter, just marry a "baby kiss".

These great chiefs sheltered Prince Ibrahim, making it difficult for Sheikh Ahmet and the German, French, and Russian forces behind him, because they did not want to provoke so many forces at the same time.

At the same time, Lin Fei quietly gave Prince Ibrahim an idea, and asked Prince Ibrahim to publicize that "Sheikh Ahmad is a lackey of Western countries", Western countries and the Arab nation have been fighting for thousands of years because of their different religious beliefs, and the resentment is very deep, Prince Ibrahim's propaganda is extremely lethal to Sheikh Ahmad, and the big sheikhs in the Arab region have stood up against Sheikh Ahmed, and some even hope to establish an alliance to fight back against Sheikh Ahmad.

Under these circumstances, Sheikh Ahmed's march was difficult, and Prince Ibrahim successfully escaped to Muscat, where Sheikh Ahmad captured Kuwait City but was of little use.

On October 29, the aircraft carriers 1 and 2 arrived in Muscat, escorted by two Dynasty-class battleships and two Emperor-class cruisers.

When Prince Ibrahim saw Liu Daming, he was so excited that tears were about to fall, and he immediately asked Liu Daming to lead the fleet and recapture Kuwait City.

Liu Daming carefully analyzed the current situation and believed that in order to regain Kuwait City, it is first necessary to grasp the sea control of the Persian Gulf, and if you want to master the sea control of the Persian Gulf, it is necessary to seize the Strait of Hormuz, that is to say, the fleet of the Chinese Empire must solve the problem of the fleets of the three countries cruising in the Strait of Hormuz.

After a day's rest, on 30 October, Liu Daming led two aircraft carriers and four warships to the Strait of Hormuz in search of the fleets of the three countries.

At this time, the fleets of the three countries also knew the news of the arrival of the Chinese Imperial fleet, and they had already heard the news that the British battleship had been sunk by aircraft, so they decided to strike first, find the Chinese Imperial Fleet for a decisive battle, and sink the Chinese Imperial fleet.

The two sides searched for each other on the sea, and after a day, on 31 October, the planes of the Chinese Empire discovered the Three Kingdoms fleet, and the Three Kingdoms fleet did not find the reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire.

Liu Daming then ordered air force fighters to launch a strike against the fleets of the three countries.

The fleets of the three countries had four large battleships, eight cruisers, and ten destroyers, and the number of cruisers and destroyers had reached eighteen, which seemed amazing, but in fact, these warships were subsequently transferred by various countries, and the countries learned the lesson of the British fleet being defeated by Chinese planes, and installed a large number of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the cruisers and destroyers to protect the large battleships.

Lin Gecheng led fifty Nine Flying Dragon fighters and flew towards the Three Kingdoms fleet, Lin Gecheng saw a large number of warships on the sea from a distance, these battleships formed a diamond shape, and the four largest battleships were protected at the core, surrounded by small warships.

This time, the Nine Flying Dragon fighters did not carry torpedoes, but machine guns and bombs, and Ringe Cheng considered that there were many enemy warships, and the anti-aircraft fire might be relatively intensive, and before dropping the torpedo, the fighters needed to fly at low altitude for a long time, and the speed was slow, and it was easy to be hit by anti-aircraft fire, so he did not order the Nine Flying Dragon fighters to carry torpedoes.

Fifty Nine Flying Dragon fighters flew towards the fleets of the three countries, and the cruisers and destroyers escorting the ships immediately poured fire into the sky, and the dense shells weaved a huge fire net in the sky, and the tracer bullets roared across the sky, Lin Gecheng's heart couldn't help but tremble, the enemy's anti-aircraft fire was too dense, and if we continued to attack, it was very likely that we would suffer heavy casualties.

Lin Gecheng did not know at this time that in order to install more anti-aircraft guns, the German, French, and Russian cruisers and destroyers had removed all the large-caliber main guns installed on the battleships, and only two secondary guns were retained, and all the other positions were equipped with anti-aircraft guns.

Germany, France, and Russia all have anti-aircraft guns, and there are quite a few anti-aircraft guns, because although the countries of the world have not developed aircraft, they have concentrated their efforts on developing airships, and anti-aircraft guns are also needed to defend airships.

In this case, a large number of anti-aircraft guns were installed on the warships of the fleets of the three countries, making it difficult for the Nine Flying Dragon fighters to get close for a while.

Thinking of this, Lin Gecheng hurriedly ordered to circle in the sky, looking for opportunities, and the fifty Nine Wyvern fighters were divided into five batches and circled in the sky, looking for an opportunity to launch a dive bombing.

It's a pity that the Three Kingdoms Fleet is like a hedgehog full of thorns, the Nine Flying Dragon fighters in the sky want to eat it, but there is nowhere to eat, the Nine Dragons fighters can't carry out dive bombing, so they can only drop the bomb at high altitude, but in this way, the accuracy of the bomb cannot be guaranteed, and it may not be able to hit.

Lin Gecheng was unwilling to let the Nine Dragons fighter dive and attack at the risk of being shot down, so he could only retreat back to the aircraft carrier first, but according to the aircraft carrier aircraft take-off and landing regulations formulated by Lin Fei, it was absolutely not allowed to land with bombs and torpedoes, so Lin Gecheng decided to raise to a height that was difficult for the enemy fleet's air defense guns to reach, drop bombs, and immediately return to the aircraft carrier after the bombs were dropped.

Most of the anti-aircraft guns of the fleets of the three countries fired at an altitude of just over 2,000 meters, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighters could easily fly beyond the height of the anti-aircraft guns and drop bombs. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch, if you have any comments, you can also leave a message directly on the public platform.) ）