"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Shells exploded on the positions of the British and Indian troops. The positions of the British and Indian troops were destroyed little by little in the explosion. One by one, the fire points of reinforced concrete structures or civil engineering structures were blown into the sky. Although these British and Indian soldiers were originally just farmers or handicraftsmen, and although they received the most basic military training after joining the army, and the British officers taught them how to shoot and lie down, for most of the British and Indian soldiers, how to dig trenches and build machine gun fire points, this kind of somewhat technical work is not at all. In other words, the lazy Indian Asans are too lazy to do such heavy work. Only under the bayonet and the whip can they do the heavy work like a stupid soldier.

The British positions in Dammam were not at all vulnerable, and a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications could provide them with relatively safe shelter. If it had been a purely British army, now the soldiers of the British Empire had retreated into the fortifications one by one. Then these British and Indian troops, the sudden shelling made them feel as if they had returned to the Indian battlefield a few months ago, and these Indian Asan, who had no will to fight, were in a hurry, and even the British, who served as officers, could not let them be quiet and calm down.

Even on the front line, these Indian Asans would not honestly sleep in the narrow tunnels and fortifications, and the British officers, who were the backbone, would not take the initiative to suffer like this. At first, they were nervous and stationed in the tunnels and fortifications in a decent manner, but now, on top of the Anglo-Indian front positions in Dammam, there were naturally more tents, and a large number of soldiers and officers lived in these relatively comfortable tents. And then at this moment it was blown to pieces.

Wooden houses were also shattered in the shelling. Many Indian and British officers were killed in their sleep, and the British and Indian officers and soldiers who were lucky not to be killed also rushed out of the wooden houses or tents in panic. Flee for your life. Quite a few even had bare butts, and many did not have guns. Few even had the heart to run to the fortifications that were more densely covered by artillery fire. The Indians' laziness and low morale made the battle a smooth one.

What is the difference between the fact that the Chinese army, which is about to move, and who dares to sleep most of the people in defenseless tents and wooden huts, instead of strong anti-artillery holes, bomb shelters and deep tunnels?

Colonel Phil. Lambart woke up in his sleep, and when he finished dressing and hurried to the outer line of Manchester City, he saw the panicked British and Indian soldiers rushing towards the city of Dammam like a herd of frightened wild horses.

"Bastard! You idiots, fast forward to the position. Fast forward to the position, those yellow-skinned monkeys are about to start attacking! Captain Owen, hurry up and send a telegram to Your Excellency the Lieutenant General, the Chinese are attacking us! The Chinese are attacking us! The colonel yelled loudly.

Under the scolding of the officers from the British Army, they managed to stop the fleeing British and Indian soldiers and began to stop them from rushing towards the position. It's just that in the face of the dense shells that rained down, the British and Indian troops paid a heavy price. Dammam City must hold on, Phil. Lambart was well aware of his mission. It doesn't take long, just one day, as long as you can hold Dammam for a day, it's enough. It's just that this desire of his came with the bombers flying all over the world. It became a complete luxury.

In Bahrain at this time, the command of the 13th Army had already received reports from the front. Robert had a ...... look on his face No expression.

The last line of defense outside Dammam City.

Only ten minutes after the start of the shelling of the Chinese Army, accompanied by the roar of machines. Dozens of tanks, in cooperation with a battalion of infantry, launched an offensive against the position. The planes circled over the heads of the British, and shells exploded in their backs.

One was captured in this war. A British lieutenant officer, who was repatriated after the war, told his reporters: "At that moment I felt like I was alone. Alone in the face of the world's most terrible war. "The planes are Chinese planes, and the shells cut off the retreat of the first-line Anglo-Indian troops, and in front of them is the imposing Chinese army.

Compared with the demoralized Anglo-Indian army, the Chinese soldiers of the Peninsula Column had too many necessary victories. Whether it is military or personal treatment, whether material or spiritual, they are worlds apart from the Anglo-Indian army.

The bombers cleared the way for the attacking Chinese troops, and all the leaked artillery positions of the British ceased to exist. It was the first time that many officers and men of the British and Indian armies had seen such a large aircraft group, which was larger than the air force of the Chinese army when it was fighting in India. More than 100 fighters of all kinds surrounded a small Daman to deal with a British and Indian division of 10,000 people, which was too costly.

Although in the past, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force would also cross the border from time to time to reconnoiter the situation on the peninsula. However, it is impossible to dispatch more than 100 fighters at one time. At present, more than 100 planes are all surrounding a small Dammam, which makes the Indian Amen San very shocked. When the bullets fired from the fighter plane caused many Indian Ahsan to fall in a pool of blood, and the aerial bombs dropped on the fighter plane turned their positions into a sea of fire, devouring the lives of countless Indian Ahsan, these low-fighting British and Indian troops collapsed. One by one, as if they had returned to the Indian battlefield a few months ago, their hearts were completely occupied by fear, and groups of soldiers began to flee, ignoring the threat of the British officers. They shouted that the Chinese were all devils, and prayed for the blessings of Lord Shiva, jumped out of the position, and fled backwards in embarrassment and madness.

"Damn! Give me back! All back! That's a plane for the Chinese, not the devil! The junior and middle-ranking officers, who were officers of the British Army, shouted loudly. However, the effect is 0.

While the Anglo-Indian army was in a panic, the attacking troops of the peninsula column successfully marched into the city of Daman. With the cooperation of the tanks, groups of Indians were taken prisoner with their heads in their hands, and their colonels and division commanders watched the terrible scene with tears in their eyes. With the strength of a division, Daman resisted for less than 3 hours. Lambart knew his future was over.

Five days later, just five days later. The flames of war have reached Qatar.

Vice Admiral Robert fled here on a steamer. The island of Bahrain has already raised the white flag in the baptism of planes. This holy land of freedom in the heavenly world, which has been firmly resisting the 'tyranny' of the Ottomans for all these years, knelt like a girl without resistance in the face of real tyranny. Just because China is not an Ottoman. The Ottoman Empire did not dare to completely offend the British, and China has now completely started a war with the British.

So it is 48 kilometers long from north to south. Bahrain Island, which is 16 kilometers wide from east to west and covers an area of only 562 square kilometers, completely gave up resistance under the baptism of hundreds of warplanes for three days. The Khalifa followed the British to Oman, and they could run all the way to Oman, while poor General Robert had to endure in Qatar.

It was only a matter of time before a corps of the Anglo-Indian 11th Army had arrived in Qatar and united the remnants of the 13th Army to defend the Qatar Peninsula with 40,000 troops.

"The 1 battalion assaulted to the left. Take down the town over there, block the back roads of those Indian Ahsan, and don't let them escape! The 2nd and 3rd battalions gave me a frontal assault! Artillerymen pay attention to cover! ”

The brigade commander, who still held the brigade guard unit in his hands, shouted and gave orders. Wu Peifu didn't care at all about the combat effectiveness of the Anglo-Indian army on the other side, compared to the kung fu of these Asan's escapes, their fighting skills were invisible.

And the reality is indeed as Wu Peifu imagined. His attack on the British and Indian troops was very smooth, and after heavy artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment, the morale of the remnants of the 13th Army on the opposite side had dropped to a very low level, and they were almost about to collapse. Even if the British officers scolded and drove them away, they could no longer let those Indian A-San fight like soldiers.

It's like the battles in Kirana and Dohan. Although the Indian Ah San in front of him was not strong in combat, he was faster than a rabbit when he fled for his life, and when the officers and soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions cooperated with the armor to launch a charge, the battle took less than 1 hour. These Indian Ah San began to flee for their lives, and many of them even lost their rifles in their hands!

The gap in the combat effectiveness of the armies on the two sides is too great to be bridged by numbers. It's like the period of resistance in the original time and space. The Japanese can beat the troops of a division of the G Army like a rabbit, and the strength of a wing of the Japanese can shake the strength of the G Army and an army.

And the peninsula is local. The tribal forces that 'made a comeback' with the withdrawal of the Ottoman forces faced an overwhelming three-dimensional attack. Riding their camels, turn into the wind. Those people will not enter such a dead place as the Qatar peninsula, even the Emir of Qatar, the Al Thani family, let the heir lead the main force of the family to 'transfer' to Abu Dhabi, only the old emir and a small number of forces to accompany the British to stay in Qatar.

Anyway, the old emir will not die, the British still occupy the sea supremacy in the Persian Gulf, if necessary they can withdraw important people from Qatar by steamer, and even the old emir himself hides a small passenger plane made - in-chain.

The small plane could only carry eight passengers, but for the old emir himself, it was enough.

Since the beginning of the war, the British have not transferred purebred British troops to the Persian Gulf, they have not transferred planes like the Persian Gulf, and even naval ships have not increased, and no one is a fool. Why did the British do this? This is an obvious abandonment of the Persian Gulf.

The Red Sea is their lifeblood!

In the central part of the peninsula, the eastern part of Najd, there is a great and desolate desert, and only the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf can survive humans. China can advance along the coastal line all the way towards the Strait of Hormuz, and at the critical moment when the battle of the Arabian Sea is on the verge of breaking out, the Strait of Hormuz, the British can give up. Even the Chinese peninsular column can break into Oman. However, further south from Oman, without the help of the sea, the transport route is too long.

The tribal forces on the peninsula can withstand a frontal battle, but they are able to penetrate the desolate desert and attack the fragile and long logistical supply lines of the Chinese attacking forces. As long as China does not completely occupy control of the sea, the Chinese offensive force will reach Abu Dhabi, and it will be the end. Perhaps they can go further and capture the Musandam Peninsula [Strait of Hormuz - the herringbone salient of the peninsula], but it is impossible to really attack Oman.

The combat effectiveness of modern armies is not comparable to that of ancient armies, and at the same time, the dependence of modern armies on logistics is not comparable to that of ancient armies. Without logistics, China's offensive forces are a tiger without minions, and they are not at all threatening.

The old emperor, who was still floating on the sea, was very clear about the British abacus Yemen. China's sudden assertion on the peninsula was only to contain the energy of the British, to relieve a little pressure as much as possible for the upcoming decisive naval battle between the East and the West, and to establish rules for the establishment of a ruling order on the peninsula after the war.

The battle that really determines the fate of each other depends on the sea. If the combined fleet of Britain, France and Germany was defeated, then everything would be natural. But if China is defeated, or if the two sides are tied, and no one can destroy anyone for a while, then the situation on the peninsula will change with the result.

In these days floating on the sea, the combined fleet of the British, French and German trilateral fleets had entered the Suez Canal from the western Mediterranean. The main forces remained in the Gulf of Aden, and the vanguard entered the island of Socotra.

These days, the most frequent confrontation between the two sides is not planes, nor naval guns, but submarines on both sides.

The main force of China's fleet is always under the siege of the European submarine forces, and the joint navies of the three countries that go east out of the Suez Canal are also in the midst of the sneak attacks of the Chinese submarine forces all the time.

And they fought each other.

The number of submarines deployed by the Europeans in the Arabian Sea is 436, which has now been reduced to 420. And the Chinese fleet came with 157 Chinese submarines, divided into 22 formations, plus the 25 that were originally cruising in this generation, a total of 182, and now there are 174 left.

This major battle can not only be called the largest tonnage naval battle in the history of this time and space, but also the battle with the largest number of submarines invested by both sides. How unthinkable it is that there are 600 submarines in one Arabian Sea.

The submarine forces on both sides are divided into two parts, one is self-protection, which serves as a perimeter guard post for the fleet's defense circle; The second is to take the initiative to attack and fight, as a powerful weapon against the other side. Especially the Europeans, submarines are already their most threatening means of the Chinese Navy.

These things, which are not large in tonnage and have little financial and material resources, are more effective than tall and mighty dreadnoughts. At least China's aircraft carriers are afraid of submarines, and as long as there is one submarine, it can make the Chinese of the entire fleet nervous. And in the face of ships on the water, no matter how tall and mighty you are, the aircraft carrier can 'fly kites' and kill them!

In the dark night, a fleet is facing the moonlight, cleaving the waves...... (To be continued.) )