The temperature in the Gulf of Aden in November of the lunar calendar is not cold at all, it is a tropical arid and semi-arid climate, although it is winter, the climate is still above 20°. The Chinese, who have established themselves on the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden, have already crossed the Gulf of Curiamuria, and their forward airfield has reached Baihalef, less than 400 kilometers from Aden. If this was in Central Asia, the Chinese would have brought their own heavy bombers long ago, and Aden was already within the bombing range of Chinese fighters.

Therefore, in this war, the British, French and German coalition forces really occupied the most advantageous conditions.

For several months, the air battles between the two sides were one after another, and both sides continued to lose blood, but the Europeans, who had an all-round advantage in manpower and material resources, could not support it in the first place.

They could no longer find a pilot who dared to take to the skies.

Not to mention the morale of the Navy during these days, the Europeans in the Air Force have thoroughly seen the power of China. A steady stream of advanced fighters and highly trained pilots have been added to the battlefield, and the transport fleet, which frequently travels between the two sides of the Arabian Sea, has not flinched even in the slightest in the face of threats, and the strength of the Chinese has become stronger and stronger. And what about the West? With the withering of the best batch of pilots, the performance of the fighters is not bad, and the number can be guaranteed, but the combat effectiveness and will to fight are plummeting.

Further forward airfields for the Chinese are already under construction, and the Triple Alliance has blown up three oil refineries in Yemen and Muscat in order to prevent the Chinese navy from getting fuel supplies nearby. The Chinese were forced to add jet fuel quotas to their busy supply lines. It can also be regarded as a certain degree of sluggishness in the pace of the Chinese!

But that doesn't affect the whole picture.

Now the Chinese have built an advance base less than 250 kilometers east of the port of Aden, and when it is ready, a large number of aircraft can take off from the forward base and force directly towards the port of Aden.

What the joint forces of the three countries are now brewing is a major counterattack war involving the combined navy, land, and air forces. The British and French forces that had been taken from the Sinai Peninsula would launch a massive counterattack from land to the east, and all available aircraft would be thrown into the battle. At the same time, the joint fleet of the three countries will also dispatch all its high-speed warships -- with a standard line of 25 knots, to launch an attack on the main force of the Chinese Fleet staying along the coast of Baikhalev in a desperate manner. Jericho no longer thinks about the danger of leaks, they are the real danger if they don't.

Of course, the submarine force will also launch a sneak attack and harass the main force of the Chinese Grand Fleet like crazy.

The dire situation no longer allowed the Europeans to delay, and if they continued like this, they would either withdraw from the Gulf of Aden and hold on to the Suez Canal. For example, the canal channel will be blocked, or the entire fleet will be lost in the port of Aden.

The British were naturally reluctant to destroy the Suez Canal, and all Jellico had to do now was fight to the death.

If you win, the situation here can continue; If you lose, the rest of the fleet will honestly retreat to the Mediterranean and block the entire Suez Passage with transport ships.

As the sun went down, the port of Aden sounded one whistle after another, and warships that could maintain a speed of 25 knots left the harbor. At the head are the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships of the British Empire, these twenty or thirty-ton big guys and battle cruisers. It is the main force of this operation.

The man who led the fleet was Vice Admiral David Beatty of the British Royal Navy, who directly commanded as many as 13 super-battleships, six in the British Empire, four in the German Empire, one in the French Third Republic, and two super-dreadnought battleships of the former United States of America, the USS Nevada and the USS Oklahoma that had 'escaped' from distant North America to Europe.

Unlike the original plane, the Americans in this plane and plane received strong support from the British in shipbuilding technology. Both the Nevada and the Oklahoma have reached speeds of 25 knots, which is much stronger than the original space.

Franz von Hipper, the most experienced and trusted commander of the German Empire's battle cruisers. This time, he served as the deputy commander of the sortie fleet, and directly supervised the 12 battle cruisers of the entire fleet, including 6 ships of the British Empire, 5 ships of the German Empire, and 1 ship of the French.

Further down were the heavy and light patrol formations on both sides, and of course there were also destroyer formations and torpedo boat formations. If the war can really be launched, the trouble that the latter two may cause to the Chinese may not be worse than the heavy patrol and light patrol formations.

It was only in the operations and battles of the Grand Fleet that the destroyer and torpedo boat formations were subordinate to the lowest level of the entire army.

Under the sea surface, which is invisible to the naked eye, hundreds of specially assembled submarines also set off from the port of Aden early. With the straight line between the east and west fleets as the central axis, it spreads out in circles to drive away the Chinese submarine forces with the greatest intensity and ensure the safety and secrecy of the advance of its own fleet.

It's just that no one can say how much of a role this secrecy work can play.

In terms of the months of the Western calendar, it is already in the middle of December, which is not the season of heavy storms and waves in the Gulf of Aden. In this battle, if the Chinese side does not retreat, the two sides will be in full swing in two days at the latest.

The Europeans put everything they had at the table, and if they were strong, the Ottoman war would be irretrievable. The Chinese could easily occupy the entire peninsula, cutting off all European routes for oil from the peninsula. They can send superior air power to destroy all the refineries and oil wells in North Africa, increase the number of active submarines in West African waters, and cut off the oil routes from West Africa to Europe. Of course, they would most likely go directly to the Ottoman theater and push the fighting back from the Ottomans' territory to southeastern Europe, where the Ottomans would be more than happy to divide the entire Balkans with the Moscow government and take a large chunk of the Austrians by the way.

No one believed that Karl I would be able to continue fighting when the Chinese army pressed down on Austria. Years of war had destroyed everything in Austria-Hungary and destroyed the confidence of the Austro-Hungarian people in victory and government. Besides, as a new emperor who had just succeeded to the throne, Karl I's roots were too shallow and shallow for him to dominate the Austro-Hungarian Empire at all.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was destroyed, and the equally exhausted Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire, which saw no hope of victory, could it hold on? Italy doesn't talk about it, China is quite good to Germany, I have never heard the shouting in the air during this time, and the conditions are not harsh. The devil knows if the disabled person in Berlin is secretly communicating with the Chinese.

Without these two countries, how can France and the United Kingdom turn the tables around?

And is Britain and France really okay now? The British had lost all their colonies except the African continent, and Canada had become independent, and it could only be regarded as a member of the British Commonwealth, not a colony of the British Empire.

The defeat of the naval battle would have caused them to completely abandon the Arab world. The empire of the Anglo-Saxons has collapsed. They have such a huge territory in Africa, but they can't transform it into combat effectiveness. In this respect, they were inferior to the French, who were arrogant but also took out a foreign legion to make the most of the colony's manpower. What do the British have? After leaving India, which had a huge population and a tame character, their war power had fallen to the bottom.

The French had the most intact army of any European country, and they had just entered the Ottoman battlefield on a large scale, and then the peninsular battlefield, and their losses were quite limited. Coupled with the fact that the French had no colonies in East Asia or North America, they were the smallest of the five European countries in terms of losses.

But this is also a short inside pull general. Compared to the Italians, Austria-Hungary, the British, and the Germans, the Gallic rooster suffered the least loss, but it was not really that small. The French organized an army of more than two million troops, which seriously took up their young and strong labor. As a result, large numbers of women were forced to work in factories and fields, while the food and machinery they had worked so hard to produce were transported to the Austro-Hungarians, Italians, and even to the hostile Germans.

France's human resources have not suffered much, but its finances are almost unsustainable. Especially since the beginning of this year, their army has begun to enter the war in large quantities. The French are also a little overwhelmed.

So, that's a domino. It only takes one of the first to fall, and the whole group is finished.

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The old emperor saw all the movements of the Europeans, and the powerful fast fleet was not something that the Chinese navy could resist in close combat, so it was necessary for the large fleet to move. But for the upcoming battle, Liu Xian's heart was full of joy,

He didn't want to spend any more time here. The drift at sea was unbearable for him, an 80-year-old man. If he could do what he wanted, he wanted to end the naval battle in the next moment, and then put down the flames of the whole of Europe, and return to Beijing by himself.

Now Liu Xian's desire to return home is getting stronger and stronger, and his willingness to end the war is also getting stronger and stronger. Luckily, he's not old enough to know what comes first. However, Liu Xian also understood why there were so many Ming Jun who had no guarantee in history. This man is old, not to mention anything else, his willpower is poor at home. You can't stop all kinds of strange ideas!

As far as he is concerned, there are many historical lessons for him, right? But what's going on in your head right now? What do you want most? It's all about living a quiet and happy life, listening to good news and good words, and spending your old age comfortably. Information or something, it's annoying to look at it, and it's a headache to think about messy things.

As far as this war is concerned, Liu Xian only played a leading role, far less laborious than the previous war. This is not that he is really completely relieved of China's military and political affairs, but that he 'does not want to' pay attention to it. The so-called command is all relying on the golden finger to charge 13. That stack of staff reports, summaries, and analyses is less than eleven!

His high 'alertness' is such a decadence, and he can also be considerate of Tang Xuanzong, who is not in good health in history.

Liu Xian never thought that people could live for thousands of years, and he made up his mind early on to let go of power, his life can be regarded as the life of the richest man in the world, people's status is guaranteed, life is guaranteed, life is guaranteed, and the wealth of future generations is guaranteed'ideal life', and his only 'thought' under such a life is the last step to realize his 'grand cause', such an obsession in his heart should be firm and unshakable in terms of his own complex experience, but now? He was tired of the war.

Liu Xian finally understood why there was never a shortage of emperors and generals in Chinese history, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Qianlong.

No matter how strong the will is, it will be consumed in time, and no matter how strong the mind is, it will slack off in the efforts of day after day. With the solution of the problem in India, Liu Xian's 'ambition' has been worn out and is close to decay, so what is not to understand the 'collapse' at the end of the reign of Tang Xuanzong?

It can only be said that Liu Xiaozhu, Li Longji and others deserve to live so old, if they can hang up in their early fifties like Li Er, they are definitely the few Ming monarchs and saints in Chinese history, and they will not experience the misery of their later years.

The entire Chinese Grand Fleet also moved, and the three task forces rushed towards the way of the combined fleet of the three countries, to be precise, this force should be the four countries, but the United States of America is resolutely not recognized by China, and the so-called government-in-exile in London, the Great Qin Empire, disdains to leave one more.

The sudden westward advance of the main force of the Chinese Grand Fleet can be said to have greatly surprised Jericho and exceeded the expectations of the entire Combined Command. The hundreds of submarines they summoned in the rear of the Chinese Grand Fleet can be said to have been in vain. Not to mention that the Chinese Grand Fleet heading west had gone no more than thirty nautical miles and then suddenly changed its direction to the southwest, and when Jericho and others redetermined the position of the Chinese Grand Fleet, all the people were as disgusting as if they had seen a piece of flight.

The place where the main force of the Chinese Grand Fleet is located is the area where the submarines are most sparsely arranged in the entire operation of the Triple Alliance, because it is already enough to reach the attack radius of the three countries' aviation forces on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden. But Liu Xian resolutely put the fleet in this place that the three joint commands thought was most impossible, so that the arrangement of the three joint navies on the submarines was completely disrupted.

Surface ships can easily turn around, but submarines can't, their speed is too slow, and Liu Xian's direction here changes......

On land, the landing marines and some of the elite army are also making preparations for battle. Fortifications are already being built rapidly, and Liu Xian also has to thank the land along the coast of the Gulf of Aden, fortunately this is not a desert area, otherwise the army units that are absolutely inferior in terms of strength will not be able to count on it at all.

- The terrain is all desert, and it will be difficult to defend because it will be difficult for you to build strong fortifications in a short period of time. But the concealment of the enemy is even more difficult. At that time, the victory or defeat of the ground war on the north shore of the Gulf of Aden did not lie in the confrontation of soldiers, but in the strength of the air force, as long as the Chinese air force suppressed the air forces of Britain, France and Germany on the opposite side, no matter how many land forces Britain and France had, they would be arbitrarily slaughtered on the board.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings! The imminent atmosphere of the great war swept every soldier of the Eastern and Western armies, and the unexpected actions of the Chinese Grand Fleet made every officer and soldier of the attacking fleet even more uneasy. (To be continued.) )