Chapter 403: The Sword Goes to the Sinai Canal
Now the Yaman Empire is under the joint suppression of the Thar Empire and the Nantes Empire on the battlefield of the Western Continent, although the soldiers of the Yaman Empire are more elite, but after all, his population base is small, which is simply not enough to support such a long time of warfare, and after a few years of war, the Yaman Empire has reached its limit.
As for the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, they are not so much belligerent countries as they are the oil bottles of the Yaman Empire, their army is low in combat effectiveness, and their navy is weaker, although they have had sea supremacy in the Mediterranean for a period of time, but they have lost it because of the Saar Empire's fleet entering the Mediterranean, and now their fleet can only be cowered in the harbor and become a fleet of existence.
As for the Istanbul Empire, it was simply a soy sauce player, even the Chinese Empire attracted most of the Cossack Empire's forces, and the Istanbul Empire's response attack was actually defeated by a few Cossack defenders, which really made Fang Xiaoyu cry and laugh.
Now the Boston Empire continues to wait and see, containing the Eastern Ocean Fleet and most of the Marine Corps of the Chinese Empire, and the Cossack direction has restrained most of the land forces of the Chinese Empire, although in the battle between the Eastern Continent and the southern part of the Central Continent, the Chinese Army expelled all the Allied troops, but still did not draw out many troops, and now Fang Xiaoyu has to open a new battlefield to attract the Allied troops and relieve the pressure on the Yaman Empire, otherwise the Yaman Empire is in danger of falling.
Searching back and forth on the map, Fang Xiaoyu asked, "Old Feng, what place do you say is the best way to attract the firepower of the Entente countries and make the most use of our remaining forces now." ”
Feng Shichang replied without thinking: "Naturally, it is the Sinai Canal. ”
"The Sinai Canal?" Fang Xiaoyu found it at the intersection of the Middle Continent and the Southern Subcontinent on the map: "Why here?" ”
Feng Shichang said: "The most important trade area in the Western Continent is the Mediterranean, which is the most developed place in the entire Western Continent in terms of commerce. ”
Feng Shichang paused for a moment, pointed to the Sinai Canal and said: "If you want to control the Mediterranean, you must control the exits on both sides, that is, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Sinai Canal. Therefore, as long as we control the Sinai Canal, we can panic the Entente, not to mention that as long as we control here, our Southern Ocean Fleet can enter the Mediterranean Sea and threaten the Entente with our navy, and we can also use the Sinai Canal Zone as a base to attack the Entente colonies in the southern subcontinent. ”
Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "Okay, this can indeed attract their attention, and you can also get a lot of benefits." I said Lao Feng, you don't suffer at all. ”
Feng Shichang blinked and said, "I haven't learned it from the young master." ”
Liu Junguo, who had not spoken, suddenly said: "Young Master, we are short of troops now, why don't we use the armies of the allies?" ”
"Allies?" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly said, "You mean the armies of several other countries of the ASEAN Alliance?" Fang Xiaoyu has always thought that the combat effectiveness of these allied armies is too poor, so he subconsciously ignored these people, the last time he borrowed the troops of Siam to attack Tamsui Port, it was just as cannon fodder, in fact, Fang Xiaoyu was not optimistic about them.
Liu Junguo said: "Young master, I know that these armies are not strong in combat, but it is better than nothing, not to mention that this is a good opportunity for us to weaken the allies, only if their military strength is weaker can it be easier to control." ”
Feng Shichang also said: "That's right, we have ignored it, especially the Saint Martin Empire, which has an army of more than one million, even if its combat effectiveness is a little worse, it is no problem to be a garrison, and their weapons are not much worse than those of the countries of the Western Continent." ”
Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "This is my negligence, I originally thought that their combat effectiveness was poor, as long as they guarded their own land, it seems that it is more valuable to let their soldiers die in place of our soldiers." Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Feng Shichang and the two of them had a tacit smile on their faces.
Su Zhizhen was quickly transferred from the battlefield of the Central Continent, which had already won the victory, and he was reappointed as the commander of the offensive front against the southern subcontinent.
When he arrived at the place, Su Zhizhen immediately began to study his own strength, and when he got his own strength information, he had a headache, and he did not have many troops in his hands, except for the First Army of the Marine Corps, only the 12th Army, the 13th Army, the 15th Army and the three reserve armies of the Wehrmacht that had just been transferred back to the south, with a total strength of only 400,000 troops.
The Saar Empire has always attached great importance to the Sinai Canal, and now there are 300,000 ground troops stationed there, in addition to nearly 300,000 troops in the Nile colony to the south, and the Allied Mediterranean Combined Fleet from the sea, the strength is completely superior to the Chinese army.
After thinking about it carefully, Su Zhizhen asked Fang Xiaoyu to give him a part of the air force, and Fang Xiaoyu immediately agreed, and four fighter wings and five bomber wings were transferred from the northern battlefield and equipped for the Sinai Canal battlefield. At the same time, Fang Xiaoyu specially established the Southern Subcontinent Theater, with Su Zhizhen as the commander, in addition to commanding the army and air force, he could also control the Southern Ocean Fleet. To Su Zhizhen's surprise, Fang Xiaoyu sent him reinforcements again.
Under Fang Xiaoyu's edict to send the allied forces to the war, those junior allies did not dare to slack off. The Ezo Kingdom sent 100,000 troops, the St. Martin Empire even had 500,000 troops to participate in the war, and even the Ohu Kingdom, which had a small number of citizens, sent 10,000 reinforcements.
Fang Xiaoyu did not transfer all these troops to Su Zhizhen, and he sent reinforcements from Ezo and Ohu to the Chhansi Kingdom to strengthen its defenses, while the troops of the St. Martin Empire marched to the Sinai Canal Zone to participate in the upcoming war.
In addition, Su Zhizhen was surprised to find a small army, they were of the Wa tribe. After the destruction of the Japanese state, the remaining seven or eight million Japanese people were sent to live on Sakhalin Island, where the weather was bitter and the living conditions were harsh, and these Japanese people suffered terribly.
This time, Fang Xiaoyu ordered them to send young and middle-aged people to form a servant army to participate in the war, and promised to improve their living conditions. In order for their relatives to live a better life, 200,000 Japanese youths formed a servant army and were transferred to the battlefield.
Looking at these short soldiers, Su Zhizhen smiled bitterly, facing the people who came to hand over to him, Wang Xiucheng, the new head of the Organization Department of the Servant Army, said with a wry smile: "Brother, who are you bringing here, the Japanese people fought with us a few years ago, will they help us now?" You're afraid they didn't let them mess with me. ”
Wang Xiucheng, the former deputy commander of the National Defense Forces, grinned and said: "How is it possible, I specially transferred this batch of elites to you, brother." These soldiers are veterans with actual combat experience and should be very useful on the battlefield. Their relatives are all in our hands, brother, are you still afraid that they will turn the sky upside down, even if you put them in the most dangerous place, I promise that nothing will happen. Since Wang Xiucheng said so, Su Zhizhen had no choice but to accept it.
On November 10, 906, although the Cossack battlefield was already snowing, and the Sinai Canal zone near the equator was still in the summer heat, on the banks of the Sinai Canal, Saar soldiers were watching the natives digging trenches.
The Sahr had already realized that something was wrong, so the garrison began to dig trenches intensively, but the proximity to the sea and the low-lying terrain made the trench digging very slow, and the water would come out when the ground was dug down more than a meter deep, so the native laborers had to dig and drain the water, and the progress of the project was very slow.
"Jason, how's it going?" A Thar officer with the rank of colonel approached from a distance.
The captain named Jason said: "Captain Victor, you are here just in time, look at these projects, digging trenches here is really terrible, the groundwater level here is too high, it is impossible to dig deeply, you can only use earth to pile up the dam, barely make a bunker, but such trenches are much worse off against artillery bombardment." ”
After speaking, Captain Jason lit a cigarette and said, "Regiment commander, do you think the Chinese army will really fight?" ”
Colonel Victor said with an anxious face, "I think it will, although I don't know when it will come, but it should be soon." ”
Colonel Victor turned his head and saw Captain Jason's eyes looking straight into the distance, and he smiled, "What are you looking at?" ”
Captain Jason's face changed color, and he stammered: "Here, they are here, it's a plane of the Chinese army." ”
Colonel Victor turned around and was shocked, and immediately shouted: "Everyone hurry into the trenches to hide, the enemy plane is coming." After saying that, he took Captain Jason and jumped into the trench together, and he didn't care about the mud at the bottom of the trench that had not been drained, and went straight down.
Colonel Victor's agility saved him, and he had just fallen into the trench when a bomb was dropped where he had just stood, and the bomb blew up a huge crater in the ground, burying Colonel Victor in the trench in a cloud of earth. He quickly crawled out of the mud, ignoring the mud on his face, and shouted: "All the troops are in place, and the enemy's infantry will soon come up." ”
After the bombing of the planes, a faint black line appeared on the horizon, and the black line gradually became clear, and at the front was a large number of energetic Japanese servants armed with Type 91 rifles, and the Marine Corps Weasel 1 tank lined up in an offensive formation, followed by a truck full of soldiers. At the back of the battle were the dark-skinned warriors of the St. Martin Empire with Type 91 rifles.
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