The convoy of the expeditionary force needs to rest and assemble on Zhiqiu Island in the South Seas. There, they will receive some battlefield emergency training. The operational environment in Africa and around the Mediterranean is very different from that of the domestic battlefield.

What's more, the Imperial General Logistics Department will complete the outfit here for them. By the time they assembled in Taichung, they had already been equipped with all-Han weapons. In Jakarta, the expeditionary force consisting of three army groups will continue to be equipped with heavy weapons and equipment such as artillery vehicles, and three motorized infantry divisions will be reorganized into armored divisions.

This is completely in accordance with the posture of the front army to build an expeditionary force.

Vice Admiral Kang, the head of the General Logistics Department, said when he passed on His Majesty's order to Sun Liren: "The Chinese Expeditionary Force is not a colonial army, and you are also Han Chinese. Therefore, the treatment and equipment are all on par with the 13th Army Corps of the Empire, and if the supply of the Taiwan side is insufficient, the General Logistics Department of the Empire will be responsible for it. ”

Sun Liren is grateful for something, in the country/army for so many years, although Sun Liren has been mixed with the tax police regiment, with the god of wealth Song Ziwen as the background, has never tasted the taste of lack of pay and lack of food, but in other countries/army units, he has seen too many things about deducting military salaries and making up for shortages, even between the descendants and non-descendants in the central army, there is a huge gap.

When it comes to the Han Emperor, people's routines are completely different from those of the chairman. The military quartermaster system of the Han Empire was undoubtedly above board and much more formal.

Moreover, looking at the quantity and specifications of this equipment, you can see that the expeditionary force is not regarded as an outsider. "The treatment and equipment are all on par with the Thirteen Legions of the Empire!" Hearing these words made Sun Liren's heart warm.

It can be seen that the fear of being used as cannon fodder by the Han army before the expedition is completely superfluous.

"Treat the belly of a gentleman with the view of a villain...... I didn't expect my Sun Fumin to have this time! ”

However, what Sun Liren didn't know was that although the Han Emperor treated the expeditionary force equally, what awaited them on the Mediterranean front was by no means an easy journey.

The 300,000 Chinese Expeditionary Force landed at the port of Suez, and Sun Liren arrived in Cairo by plane to report to Jiang Yunzhi, commander-in-chief of the Allied Mediterranean Theater.

Xiao Guoxing, Guan Canghai, Long Zhou, Rommel, plus Sun Liren, Jiang Yunzhi's "Five Tiger Generals" have finally gathered, and the arrival of the Chinese Expeditionary Force can be regarded as the last piece of the puzzle to complete the operation codenamed "Kicker".

As the name suggests, when a game is over, someone will be out and someone will enjoy the joy of victory.

His Majesty had no interest in playing here with the Allies any longer, and the war of attrition for nearly a year had made Britain, which had lost a large number of colonies, gradually overwhelmed. The United States has mobilized for war, its industrial potential is in full swing, and the output of aircraft, tanks, and warships is amazing, but the German Sea Wolves, which have lost their worries, are also frequently dispatched, and Dönitz's U submarine force has seriously restricted the United States' maritime transportation capacity in the Atlantic Ocean, and even a passenger ship carrying an integrated Canadian brigade has been sent by U submarines to the icy bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

"The war is fought like this, someone can be out!" The night before Jiang Yunzhi left Chang'an, His Majesty said lightly when he held a banquet for him in Jinhua Palace.

When His Majesty said that the person who was out of the game, he undoubtedly meant Churchill. Three Kingdoms Dou landlord, you have to be qualified. Without India, the Middle East, and Africa, would Britain still have the qualifications to fight landlords with Han and the United States?

"I don't care how you fight, and I don't want any small local victories of one ship, one ship, one city and one island, that's all your business! All I need is a good news of victory, a good news to blast the multinational force out of Africa, out of the Mediterranean! Yunzhi, I'm looking forward to watching the sunrise in Gibraltar! ”

In a word, a glass of wine, a small ...... Request.

In Jiang Yunzhi's view, it was really a "small request". His Majesty merely wanted to go to that channel to see the sunrise, although since the defeat of the Spanish Armada in the eighteenth century, no other emperor could stand there except the King of England.

Every year, the British king holds a sunshine ceremony on the top of the Gibraltar Rock, which has almost become a symbol of British hegemony. "Hehe, after going once, will Your Majesty collapse that small hilltop?" The corners of Jiang Yunzhi's mouth at the conference table showed a hint of evil smile, which made the big Han generals sitting on both sides feel a little uneasy in their hearts. Within the Han Imperial Army, many people know that Chief Jiang's black face is innate, and no matter how black it is, it doesn't matter; President Jiang's evil smile is terrifying, which means that someone is going to be unlucky.

This is an important pre-war preparation meeting, the generals of the Dihai Front gathered, and the long table was filled with the green, white, and blue uniforms of the imperial navy, army, and air force, and the earthy yellow military uniforms of the colonial army, as well as the dark gray combat uniforms of the German army, and of course, the standard military uniforms of the country/army.

This shine is not the epaulettes of the generals, but the generals themselves.

The German Rommel, the Italian Gigliziani, the Chinese Sun Liren, and more of course the Han generals. Jiang Yunzhi doesn't need to say much, Long Zhou, Guan Canghai, and Xiao Guoxing are all imperial generals.

In later generations, someone once made a statistic, that is, in this Cairo meeting presided over by Jiang Yunzhi, seven marshals and eleven generals came out!

The "Kicker" operation fulfilled His Majesty the Han Emperor's wish to enjoy the sunrise in Gibrö, and also fulfilled the peerless feats of many military geniuses!

It was under the guidance of the Han Emperor's strategic thinking of "kicking people out of the game and solving problems" and under the planning of the powerful armies of these countries that the "kicker" plan came into being.

In the whole grand plan, Rommel commanded the German-Italian Afrika Korps in the Battle of Benghazi, which became an important strategic node.

"Take advantage of the naval and air superiority established by the Allies in the nearly year-long war of attrition, and take advantage of the superiority of forces in the Gulf of Sirte area to encircle and annihilate the British Eighth Army."

In Jiang Yunzhi's cold tone, the "kicker" operation was officially launched.

Under the command of Lieutenant General Xiao Guoxing, the 3rd Armored Corps, the 4th Mechanized Infantry Corps, the Yanzhou Corps, the Judah Corps, and the 2nd Nanyang Corps crossed the border between Egypt and Libya in Gussebaye.

Prior to this, the Northern Fleet of the Royal Navy in Guancanghai sent a battlefleet led by the battleships Fengxian and Wenju (Kongrong) to join the Italian Navy in the southern Peloponnese Peninsula and out of the Ionian Sea, so that the multinational forces thought that the Allies were going to launch the long-awaited battle to seize the island of Malta.

The Sicily Air Force continued to bomb Malta indiscriminately, and the defenders of Malta were so nervous that they did not dare to return to the barracks, so they simply slept in the fortifications behind the beach. But this battlefleet did not even turn around and went straight to the Gulf of Sirte in Libya.

Because of the loss of air superiority over the Mediterranean, coupled with the arrogance of German and Han submarines, the multinational forces even learned the next day that the target of the Allied battlefleet was the Gulf of Sirte.

At the General Headquarters of the Multinational Mediterranean Front in Constantine, British Army General Alexander's brow almost frowned. He knew that Brooke was in danger, and the British super-large Eighth Army was in danger!

The Allied air forces in Sardinia and Sicily weaved a wide net and pinned the Allied navies to the west of the Tunis Strait, while in the Gulf of Sirte, the Allied air forces were simply powerless. No pilot wants to run long distances and then break into the encirclement of enemy aircraft carriers.

But...... Once the Allied naval battlefleet had taken the back route of Benghazi at sea, what else could Brooke do to bring the Eighth Army out?

It seemed like an absolute dead end, but the stubbornness of the British nature made Alexander not give up, and he still stared at the map, looking for loopholes in the Allied encirclement.

The phone rang suddenly, and Alexander's eyebrows suddenly dissipated, and his eyes were firmly fixed on a point on the map, just as he was when he first met the "peerless beauty" Margaret at the Covent Garden Opera House in London when he was young.

"Sir, it's General Eisenhower's call!" The voice of the staff officer came, and Alexander smiled his trademark gentlemanly smile - he was also looking for Eisenhower.

"Hey! Ike! ”

"Hello, Sir!" The legend came from the microphone that Eisenhower's gentle voice came. Alexander liked to be called a knight, and in addition to his brilliant achievements in the military world, he was the hereditary Viscount of Cotter of the British Empire. "Sir, the Eighth Army is in danger, we thought, we have to do something! The only hope is ......"

"Ajdabia!"

The two generals uttered the name of a place in unison, the only difference being the obvious difference in the accent between British English and American English.

Ajdabia, located southwest of Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, is known as the "gateway to Benghazi", less than 200 kilometers from Benghazi and 20 kilometers from the coastline, just outside the gunfire of battleships.

As long as this point can be seized, a narrow evacuation route will be opened for the Eighth Army along the geographical line of Sur Bay, although such an evacuation will inevitably lead to a joint bombing by the Allied air force and naval carrier-based aircraft, but it is better than holding on to Benghazi and being surrounded and annihilated!

The loss of Benghazi is a foregone conclusion, but if Brooke can show the level of command that he had at the time of the Dunkirk retreat two years ago, and once again put on a good show, it will undoubtedly bring about a major strategic and tactical turning point for the multinational forces, and even interrupt the Allied offensive plans.

The two commanders of the multinational force coincidentally saw the battle node of Ajdabia, and Xiao Guoxing, who was the commander of the peripheral forces of the Benghazi battle, also saw this strategic point. Sehabi Fort, located more than 100 kilometers from Ajdabia, is three hours away from the march of mechanized troops, if it is in a hurry.

However, the Yanzhou Army, the Judah Army, and the two Nanyang Army, which were the blocking forces, were still marching along the Hamim River. The first to reach Sehabi were the only two corps of the 3rd and 4th Guards Corps.

However, even if people can persevere, the vehicle must be overhauled! After a rapid march of more than 500 kilometers in 24 hours, the engine performance of the Tiger tank is strong enough, and the one-to-one engineer unit of the armored unit of the Guards can guarantee such a long-distance continuous march. Ordered the armored corps to continue to advance without stopping, without stopping the fire?

The latest information is that a mechanized vanguard of the Multinational Force has arrived in the Port Brega area. Xiao Guoxing looked at the map and sighed, the preparation for the battle was still very flawed, and how far away was the starting point of the allied forces.

"Your Majesty is still in too much of a hurry!"