Chapter 602: The Air Bridge

Denikin's surrender did not have any substantial impact on the situation in the Middle East, in the final analysis, he was just an outcast, the Russians were not prepared for him to be able to block the two Chinese armies, and of course the surrender of the Russian heroes still dealt a certain blow to the morale of the Entente. After the capture of Baghdad, the 15th Army could only attack Tabriz in the north, and then either continue north to attack Baku, or go east and besiege Tehran with the 10th Army, but neither option could achieve the current predicament of Sakarya.

However, there is good news for the Allies, such as the Spanish finally recaptured their coveted Gibraltar, and the Colombians finally annihilated the British and Russian invaders on their own soil, and Bolivia and Peru announced that they would join the Allies to declare war on Chile, and the Argentines partnered with the three to pose a posture of preparing to divide Chile, and the Chinese and Australian Fronts captured Rockhampton, and two armies landed on the North Island of New Zealand. But these victories had no meaning for the main battlefield, and the Allied armies in Europe were still struggling to support themselves.

Especially on the Ottoman battlefield, it can be described as imminent, and even in China there are calls to accept the negotiation conditions of the Entente to end the war, after all, no matter how you look at it now, the European legions are facing the danger of total annihilation, that is a full four armies, although it is nothing compared to the millions of casualties of the European powers, but if it is really annihilated, it is still a terrible thing.

"Joke, how is this possible, it's a big deal for them to retreat to the mountains of Macedonia, and if it doesn't work, they will continue to retreat south to Greece, not to mention that it is impossible to reach this point at all, isn't it a matter of transportation? If all the domestic transport planes are driven over, the airship capacity is not enough, and the transport planes will be added, and there is no shortage of fuel in that place anyway. Emperor Yang said casually.

"There was also a shortage of oil, and the Russians set fire to the oil wells in the two oil fields of Masjid Suleiman and Kirkuk. Oil refineries in Baghdad and Basra were also destroyed, and now only Kuwaiti oil refineries remain, but there is no crude oil to be refined. Li Yuncong said with a sad face.

"Uh, this behavior is outrageous!" Emperor Yang said angrily.

Of course, this is only a small problem, it is nothing more than to transport oil from the country to that side, although the supply of these two giant oil fields has been lost, but fortunately, at this time the two oil fields in Minas and Sarawak have also begun to put into production, and the supply of crude oil has never been a problem for China, and the North American pipeline has been providing cheap and high-quality crude oil for this huge empire day and night.

At present, the European battlefield can only do this, and all domestic transport planes and Hongyan passenger planes and cargo planes belonging to civilian use are also put together. At least 1,500 transport planes can be concentrated to take off from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, which is still in the hands of the Ottomans, and fly to Istanbul with one ton of cargo, and 1,500 planes can transport 1,500 tons of supplies at a time. The total number of airships is currently 300, and the number of materials transported at one time is about the same, and there are also some bombers that can carry out transportation tasks, which can transport 50,000 tons of materials a month under normal circumstances, although it is not much, but it can barely support the operation, of course, the transportation of grain to Germany and Austria-Hungary will definitely have to stop.

Stop, stop. They will understand, if you eat less, you can't die, if the front line is not well supplied, it will be fatal, of course, even if someone starves to death, William and Joseph need to worry about it. In fact, Wilhelm did not have a big deal with him, it was nothing more than a little more ruthless looting from the occupied territories of Poland and Belgium, as long as he ensured that the Germans did not starve to death. People in these countries don't need to care too much if they starve to death.

"The production of airships and transport aircraft must be accelerated, fighters can be slowed down, anyway, now our air superiority is so strong that it is wasted. Including the new fighter planes, all factories switched to the production of transport planes and bombers, including new transport planes and bombers, especially the latter, and sent all the fifty liberators that had just been produced to the Middle East, so that they could not drop bombs and directly transport supplies. Emperor Yang said very heroically.

His Liberator bomber has just been finalized, these fifty are the first batch of production models, this four-engine large bomber is no different from the original, the carrying capacity is not less than that of a large airship, as for the Hercules transport aircraft, this one because the project started a little later, at least another half a year before it can really be put into production.

Regardless of military or civilian, those various types of Hongyan planes began to fly to the Middle East in a steady stream, but because of the long distance, they had to go through many refueling, fortunately, the route is China's territory, this is a small problem, Hanoi, Yangon, Colombo, Mumbai, Muscat, Kuwait, just like this, flew over one stop at a time, and finally landed in Aleppo, Beirut, Damascus and even Jerusalem military airports, It then takes off again loaded with all kinds of weapons and ammunition and is transported to airports around Istanbul.

"Madamn, I accidentally got out of the Berlin airlift." Emperor Yang said quite proudly, of course, he just said that the United States and Britain could airlift up to 12,000 tons of supplies to Berlin a day, and it would be good if he could transport one-third to Istanbul, and it would be impossible to maintain this level all the time like others, but this kind of terrifying air transport capability still frightened the Entente.

Neither the British nor the Russians, nor even the Germans could have imagined that Emperor Yang would solve the trouble he was facing in such a way, that the huge industrial strength had bulldozed the obstacles blocking the advance in the simplest and crude way, and that the stratagems of the generals and the bravery of the soldiers were so pale in the face of technology and strength.

Of course, it is impossible for the Entente to be intimidated by the group of transport planes that cover the sky, after all, this thing is not a train, even if the number is more than the consumption of millions of troops on the front line, it is only a full number, and it is impossible to really fully meet the needs, and Yang Feng's transportation chain still has huge loopholes.

At the Aleppo military airport, the Muslims around who admired the spectacular scene of the planes taking off and landing looked at the sky like they were stupid, looking at the never-before-seen giant beasts in the air, and the four-shot Liberator heavy bombers were tantamount to miracles in the eyes of these guys, and when they pressed from the sky with a wingspan of more than 30 meters, many people directly lay on the ground like worshipping gods, and the strong air flow even scraped off countless bandanas, looking like countless overturned fast food boxes.

At the same time, in a small building not far from the airport, a man was looking at these behemoths with the same gaze, and then sat down at the table next to him, and began to tap the buttons of the transmitter with trembling fingers.

Sidney. Mr. Reilly, said to be a Confederate archaeologist, had been in the city for a year, but a sudden war interrupted his work and forced him to stay in the city, as his neighbors and local Ottoman officials knew, of course, whether the esteemed scholar or a senior MI5 spy.

Of course, Mr. Spy, who was sending a report to the British battleship at sea, also did not know that at the time of his report, a box truck with an antenna on the roof had been parked under the building where he lived, and in addition to two military vehicles full of soldiers, the radio reconnaissance detachment of the Chinese garrison that had just arrived in Aleppo had been monitoring the city, and such a self-proclaimed hidden operation was as conspicuous as a searchlight in the dark in the eyes of these people.

Tao Chengzhang, a lieutenant of the special service battalion of the 71st Army of the Chinese Army, looked at the small building in front of him with a cold gaze, two soldiers stepped forward and pushed the door hard, it was obvious that it was locked inside, he made a smashing gesture with his fist, and one of the soldiers immediately took out the plastic zha medicine. At the same time, Lieutenant Tao glanced at the grenadier in the car, and then pointed to the window where Reilly was, and the grenadier very quickly took out two grenades with special signs and stuffed them into the launcher drum on the car, and then aimed at the window, and the other four soldiers also quickly dispersed, two to the door, but two occupied both sides of the small building, and the submachine gun in his hand was aimed at the window.

"Fire!" Lieutenant Tao shouted at the grenadier, and a grenade immediately shot out and directly hit the glass, and Reilly, who was sending the report, was stunned by the sound of the glass breaking, and immediately realized that it was not good, and just about to get up to get the gun, there was a sudden flash of fire in front of him, and then the pungent smoke choked his mouth, and at the same time a huge explosion sounded at the door downstairs, he coughed violently while groping to find the code book, but unfortunately the poisonous smoke was too ruthless, although he had covered his mouth and nose with something, but he was still choked with tears and couldn't see anything clearly in front of him.

As he fumbled, there was a loud bang at the door, followed by the sound of stray footsteps. Reilly subconsciously raised his pistol, and before he could see the person who came in, he felt a pain in his head, and then he didn't know anything.

"Drag it away, it's all good stuff!" Lieutenant Tao looked at the transmitter and codebook in front of him, smiled and kicked Reilly, who was knocked unconscious, and said.

Half an hour later, when the spy woke up, he already found himself in a small black room, in front of several smiling Chinese, as a professional spy, he naturally knew what he would face next, but the elite of MI5 would not care about this, he looked at his opponent with a slight sneer.

Then I saw a Chinese smiling and picking up a syringe from the table next to him. (To be continued......)