"What medicine did Americans take wrong? Before the war was fought, he actually turned against the caliph first, but the Middle East is the world of M'slin! As soon as the Americans were sent away, Zhao Zhen, chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, snorted.

Chang Ruiqing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm afraid this is what the British have insisted on repeatedly, and the Americans also know that Caliph Hussein is supported by us, if he is allowed to become bigger, the Middle East in the future may be divided into three parts of the world!" ”

"Three points of the world? Hehe, with the tens of thousands of British and American troops in Egypt and the hundreds of thousands of caliphs, I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat India Asan! Lin Trough said coldly.

"Is it really going to be unbeatable? How powerful was the Indian Red Army? Chen Xinrui, who had never spoken, couldn't help but interject.

"Of course I can't beat it!" Lin Zuoda sneered: "I have been in India for more than half a year, and I have fought more than a dozen battles with the Indian Red Army, and I think I still know them well. Strictly speaking, the Indian Red Army should be regarded as weak soldiers, more than 90 percent of the soldiers are illiterate, very short in stature, and have not undergone strict training, discipline is somewhat lax, and the level of artillery, armored troops and other technical arms is also very poor, and multi-arms coordinated operations are just beginning. ”

Chen Xinrui frowned slightly when she heard this, and couldn't help but interject again: "How can such an army win against Britain and the United States?" ”

Lin Zuoda replied with a wry smile: "Didn't such an army defeat us?" Chen Xinrui thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "Didn't President Mao's investigation report say that the failure of the expeditionary force was not due to military reasons but political factors, and it was lost to the British Indian authorities and the Indian autonomy and unpopularity?" ”

Lin Zuo shook his head: "I don't know what the political factors are, I only know that on the battlefield of fierce confrontation, the gap in the combat power of the strong and weak soldiers is not as big as imagined."

As long as the weak soldiers can have an overwhelming numerical advantage, and are well commanded and organized, their morale is kept high, and they play a jīng god who is not afraid of sacrifice or hardship, they can still defeat the strong soldiers!

And it seems to me that the command and organization of the Red Army in India was quite good, the morale was always high, the courage to sacrifice and the hardships of the battle, and their numbers were almost endless! The ability of the Indian GCD to mobilize and organize the people far exceeds our ・・・・・・" Speaking of this, he suddenly felt a little raised his head and looked at Chang Ruiqing, and did not go further.

Chang Ruiqing nodded slightly, and then followed Lin Zuoda's words and said: "Yang Chūn's analysis is very correct, the Soviet GCD and the Indian GCD are indeed super strong in mobilizing and organizing the people!" He frowned: "The General Staff estimates that by the end of last year, the Soviet Union had mobilized nearly 4ooo million strong men to join the Red Army!" It accounts for more than 26% of its total population・・・・・・ if the Indian GCD can also mobilize this number, I am afraid that there will be 10,000 Indian Red Army fighting against us! ”

"Ten thousand!" Chen Xinrui exclaimed: "How is this possible!" How can there be so many soldiers?

Zhao Zhen also followed with a smile and said: "Even if Indian Ah San can mobilize 10,000 people as soldiers, what will they use to arm and train such an army?" What is the use of being a rabble when the time comes? ”

"Chief, the Prime Minister did not say that the Indian GCD would arm 10,000 troops at the same time," Lin Zuo shook his head, and explained for Chang Ruiqing with a solemn face: "10,000 people may be their conscription limit, and the army they have at the same time will not exceed 10,000 at most." As for equipment and training...... The ministry believed that it was possible to rely on the industrial strength of India and the Soviet Union to provide these troops with the most basic armament and training. He accentuated his tone: "Moreover, according to the experience of the division, as long as the morale is high and the organization and command are relatively good, even the poorly equipped and poorly trained troops can rely on numerical superiority to defeat the enemy armed to the teeth!" The Ministry of Duty believed that on the battlefield in India, the ratio of combat strength of the Indian Red Army to the expeditionary force should be between 1:3 and 1:5. ”

"1:3 to 1:! How is this possible! ”

Zhao Zhen and Chen Xinrui shook their heads at the same time to express disbelief, but Chang Ruiqing knew that what Lin Zuoda said was true. Historically, during the Anti-Japanese War, according to the relatively consistent estimates of the two armies, the comparison of the combat power of the Rì Army and the general troops of the Chinese Kuomintang Army was also around 71. In other words, the Kuomintang could draw with the rì army with 7 times the strength of the army, and if it was replaced by some Kuomintang jīng sharp troops, it would be able to draw with the same number of rì troops with double the strength! Moreover, such achievements were based on the premise that the morale of the Kuomintang army was generally not high and the level of organization and command of the troops was poor. And now the Indian Red Army is under the direct command of the Soviet advisory group, and there are Indian and G political workers cheering and supervising the war! On average, the Chinese National Defense Forces can have 3 to 5 times their combat effectiveness.

You must know that the Indian Red Army is a people's armed force under the leadership of GCD!

If we take into account the gap between Stilwell, an American general who can only talk on paper, and Blyukher, Ubolevich, and Yakil, who are famous generals of the Soviet army in a hundred battles, such as Blyukhel, Ubolevich, and Yakil, the British and American counteroffensive may really end up in a fiasco!

Thinking of this, Chang Ruiqing immediately instructed Lin Zuodao: "Yang Chūn, you immediately return to Port Sudan to take over the command of the Caliphate's army. I suspect that Hussein will definitely counterattack the Arabian Peninsula, and you will have to fight this battle for him, not only to preserve the main force of the caliphate, but also to hold the territory of the Red Sea Province of Sudan...... If possible, wait for the opportunity to occupy Egypt! Egypt is the most populous Arab country, and if you defeat the Egyptian Caliphate, you will have enough cannon fodder to consume! ”

Lin Zuoda was slightly stunned, then seemed to think of something, and asked again: "Regarding Egypt, does the prime minister have any specific instructions?" ”

"Nope! Whatever you do, as long as you can take Egypt for the caliphate in the face of a defeat for the British and Americans! ”

A deep smile appeared on Chang Ruiqing's face, and Lin Zuoda smiled slightly in his heart, already understanding what His Excellency the Prime Minister meant.

The next day, Lin Zuoda took a special plane to Dhaka, where the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was located.

Dhaka is now the only way to fly west from Nanjing, and then has to make detours through British-controlled Ceylon, the Maldives, and Italian Somalia to reach Port Sudan. The entire journey took more than 11,000 kilometers, and even if the He-111 flew non-stop, it would take more than 30 hours. Of course, the maximum range of the He-111 was not so far, and it was only possible to constantly land and refuel in the middle of the route. And considering the safety of the flight, the plane will not take the Indian Ocean route at night, so Lin Zuoda can only stay overnight in Dhaka and fly to Port Sudan in the morning.

It was on this evening that Lin Zuoda approached his former boss, Peng Dhuai, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, to learn more about the latest situation in the Indian Red Army. Peng Dhuai did his best to meet Lin Zuoda's request, and after introducing a large number of recent situations in India and the Indian Red Army, he asked tentatively: "Yang Chūn, is the Caliphate going to participate in the British and American counteroffensive this time?" ”

"No, it won't." Lin Zuo shook his head and said: "The prime minister is extremely unoptimistic about the results of the British and American counteroffensive in the Middle East, and he even thinks that Britain is very likely to lose Egypt in the counterattack of the Indian Red Army, and the task he gave me is to help the caliph capture Egypt." Shi Gong, I'm afraid that the cooperation of your expeditionary force will be indispensable at that time. ”

Of course, Peng Dhuai could hear Lin Zuoda's words, he had not been very active in fighting against India, and it was only because of Mao Zd that he retained his position as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and Lin Zuoda knew this very well. So now Lin Zuoda will give him a preventive shot in advance, lest the expeditionary force refuse to actively cooperate with the caliphate's army to attack Egypt. Peng Dhuai smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I will fully cooperate with Jianshuai with the Caliphate, Yang Chūn, but you can't always take a purely military route." ”

Lin Zuoda understood what Peng Dhuai meant, and he was worried that the working people of Egypt would once again resolutely stand on the side of the GCD people. Lin Zuo shook his head and said, "Egypt is not an Indian Hindu, nor is it a Hindu, they still support the caliphate very much. However, the number of the Indian Red Army is still worrying, how can tens of millions of people be killed to finish it? ”

There was also a trace of helplessness and regret on Peng Dhuai's face, Lin Zuoda knew that the other party was still unwilling to fight with the Indian GC, which represented the interests of the broadest working people in India. But is it really in the interests of the working people of India that the Indian GCD has sent tens of millions of Indian youths to the battlefields of world war to serve Trotsky as cannon fodder? The second most populous nation in the world will not be extinct after this war, right?

In the morning glow, Peng Dhuai saw this armored corps, who he didn't like very much, but was very favored by Chang Ruiqing, board the OnePlus He-111 passenger plane and fly in the direction of the Indian Ocean

Although Chang Ruiqing and Lin Zuo were mostly not optimistic about the British and American counteroffensive in the Middle East, the caliph also refused to participate in Operation Desert Gale. However, the British and American counteroffensive were unusually determined, after a modification of the desert gale plan and the cancellation of the landing on the Red Sea coast. The final proposal of the Desert Gale Plan was approved by the British and American Military Command on February 5, 1935, and by the Allied High Command in Berlin.

On February 18, the 1 million British and American allies, who had been gearing up for a big fight, officially launched Operation Desert Gale. In Dudley. Under the support of the British Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Pound, the 1st Marine Division, which was part of the U.S. Eighth Army, landed near Haifa, an important Palestinian port, and the next day repelled the Indian defenders of Haifa and captured the port of Haifa, which had been destroyed by Yanzhòng. Subsequently, the main force of the US 2nd Army under the jurisdiction of the US Eighth Army successively disembarked at the port of Haifa, and the entire landing operation lasted for a week, during which it also repelled two waves of counterattacks organized by the Indian Red Army.

After the entire landing operation was completed, Stilwell ordered the 1st Marine Division to stay in Haifa and lead the main force of the US 2nd Army, with the US 2nd Armored Division and the 4th Armored Division as the vanguard, to launch a fierce attack south along the Mediterranean coastline. More than 100,000 attacking troops rushed under the cover of more than 600 tanks, self-propelled guns and hundreds of aircraft, and the Indian Red Army was defeated and retreated, so it could only retreat across the Jordan River and the Arabian Valley floor to Transjordan.

On March 5, the U.S. 2nd Armored Division assaulted Contila in the eastern Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, cutting off land communications between the Sinai Peninsula and Transjordan, and pocketing the defenders of the Indian Middle East Front deployed in the Sinai Peninsula at once.

The first phase of the Desert Gale Project was a complete success, and the prospects for a British and American allied counterattack in the Middle East seemed very good!

A sandstorm blowing from the Sahara Desert plunged Port Sudan into darkness, visibility dropped to less than 10 meters, and a four-wheel-drive military off-road vehicle drove by, the driver pressed the horn as he drove and pedestrians on the street retreated when they heard the sound. The military SUV came to an abrupt halt in front of a heavily guarded building in the Sultan district, and a young officer of the Caliphate, who was extremely handsome, jumped out of the vehicle and hurried into the manor.

"Ah, it's Zhongying, which gust of wind brought you here? Did you send candy to your brothers? "When I entered the building, I bumped into a major of the Chinese National Defense Forces and joked at Ma Zhongying.

Ma Zhongying didn't care about answering, nodded with a smile and hurriedly walked past him, and went up to the second floor, he restrained his steps slightly, straightened his military uniform, and then quickened his pace.

"Zhongying, why are you here? The chief of staff has asked several times. The one who spoke was a soldier with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a beard, and the military uniform on his body was the same as Ma Zhongying's, all of which were yellow-faced and leggings, and he was not wearing a rank collar badge and a cylindrical red sè worship hat on his head.

This person is Ma Buqing, deputy chief of the general staff of the Caliphate, and Ma Zhongying's cousin.

"Brother Ziyun, isn't this Princess Lei An not letting her go, you also know her, the eldest lady is one, there are no rules at all, they are all called Harry's pet." Princess Raan, the youngest daughter of Caliph Hussein, is only 17 years old this year, and Ma Zhongying, who was the commander of the Caliph's Guard, tied the knot two weeks ago.

"Princess Lei An is still a child, and you are already the leader of the army!" Ma Buqing reprimanded with a straight face: "If it weren't for the caliph calling and saying that he was going to send you over, the chief of staff was going to inspect the armored division・・・・・・ you dared to let the chief of staff wait here, you were not afraid of hitting the muzzle, and even I wouldn't be able to protect you at that time!" ”

Ma Zhongying bowed his hand apologetically to his cousin, and hurriedly walked towards the office of Lin Zuoda, the chief of the general staff of the Caliphate. Now, whether it is them, the Hui warlords from China, or the caliph Hussein, they are all clinging to the thick legs of the Great China Federation. Therefore, Lin Zuoda, the chief of the general staff, is the same in the caliph's army, and the authority of the caliph himself is not as great as his. In the past two days, the British and American counteroffensives have been very smooth, and the good news has been frequent, and the Indian Red Army has been even more vulnerable, losing all the way to Palestine in just over a week, and allowing the US armored forces to break through into the Sinai Peninsula. Now the British army is storming the Suez Canal, and together with the American army, it is only a matter of time before the Indian Red Army on the Sinai Peninsula is flanked, and the canal is seized, and the door of Africa to the Middle East is knocked.

Therefore, caliph Hussein can't sit still, although his caliph has been recognized by Britain and the United States, but people only recognize the caliph as the religious leader of the Sunni m-sling, and do not recognize the caliph as the monarch of the Arab Empire, let alone recognize any Arab empire in the world! Even the kingdom of the Hejaz was not officially recognized by the Anglo-Americans. If the British and American troops were allowed to sweep the Arabian Peninsula, it would be difficult to say whether the caliph would return to his homeland at that time. Do you think that Caliph Hussein can not be in a hurry like an ant on a hot pan?

It was Lin Zuoda, the chief of the general staff, who was sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai platform, not to mention the order to cross the sea and send troops, and he did not even give the order to assemble troops. And the caliph didn't dare to give the order in person, for fear of being rejected by Lin Zuo and losing his prestige, so he had to send his fast son-in-law Ma Zhongying to test it. This morning, he personally called the General Staff to inform Lin Zuoda, but Ma Zhongying overslept because he was pestered by Princess Lei An for half a night, and he encountered a sandstorm as soon as he went out, and he arrived at the General Staff Building in the Port of Sudan area at noon.

"Brother Zijing, Brother Fu Yu, I think it's time to move, the caliph always has to give a little face." Lin Zuoda had already seen Ma Zhongying through the window of the office, he knew Ma Zhongying's intentions, and now it was not only the caliph Hussein who wanted to fight, but the entire caliphate army was eager to fight, and this momentum should not be leaked in the end, otherwise it would be difficult to encourage it again.

The person who was called Brother Zijing by Lin Zuo, whose big name was Xu Xiangqian, graduated from the second phase of the Zhōngyāng Military Academy and the third phase of the Lu University, with the rank of lieutenant general in the Wehrmacht, the head of the Chinese military delegation to the Arab Empire (unofficially recognized only by China) and the chief military adviser to the Caliphate, and Zijing was his sub-name. The brother surnamed Nie, whose name is R Zhen, is a cadre of the former Northwest Revolutionary Military Committee system, and Zhou E came to that line. He once served as the mayor of Vladivostok and the mayor of Boli in the Far Eastern Republic, but lost to Tokuda Koichi of the Co-Eige Association when he ran for the federal councilor of the Vladivostok constituency, so he served as the Chinese ambassador to the Arab Empire under Zhou Elai's arrangement.

"I think it's okay, or send Ma Zhongying to command the first batch of the caliphate's guards to cross the sea." Xu Xiangqian thought about it for a while, and said. "The Guards are the jīng hua of the entire caliphate, and the officers and men have participated in the defense of Mecca, and they are extremely combative, and they are firm in their beliefs, and they are able to withstand great setbacks."

Lin Zuoda nodded: "You're right. He turned back to the two people beside him and said, "But I can't let Ma Zhongying lead the troops alone, he is not Blyukher's opponent・・・・・・ I will personally command the caliph's guards to cross the sea." Brother Zijing, Brother Fu Yu, Port Sudan will be handed over to the two, remember, without my orders, you can't let the Caliphate's army cross the sea under any circumstances, and you must also watch out for the British behind us! ”