Turkey is located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, guarding strategic routes. As soon as the war began, envoys flocked to the young republic in the hope of swaying the young republic with all sorts of intrigues. But Turkey's strategy is to export resources such as ore to Germany and Britain at the same time, in exchange for weapons and other supplies to defend its country, and to take the opportunity to seek development.

Germany will help Turkey build roads and railways, Britain will help Turkey build airports and ports, and the two countries will compete with each other to provide the best equipment, while Turkey will allow the two powers to fight openly and secretly at home with all kinds of insidious tricks.

Using its own chromite and copper ore, Turkey exchanged for advanced weapons. The infantry, consisting of 50 brigades and 800,000 peasants, was trained in the harsh conditions of the ancient Anatolian plateau, and was comparable to the infantry of any European country. Determined to preserve the country's independence, the Turkish leader Inonu did not want to rely on other countries' armies to defend his homeland, because that would cost his own soldiers the blood of his own soldiers for the interests of others.

Turkey signed a trade peace treaty with the warring parties, in exchange for both sides acknowledging their neutrality, and cargo ships from various countries also called at neutral Turkish ports, which allowed it to develop rapidly in the early stages of the war.

It is undeniable that Turkey, which was able to survive the war and gained great benefits, benefited from the shrewd leader of the country, Inonu.

As Kemal's most important comrade-in-arms of Kemal, the founder of the Turkish Republic, and the chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Army, Inonu had an extremely outstanding performance in the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War. After his death, Kemal was also naturally elected president and life chairman of the ruling Republican People's Party.

However, there is also a country in this world that is younger than the Republic of Turkey, and it has more insight into the world than Inonu!

Whether you adhere to Kemalism or fight for national independence! These Han emperors don't care, and Zhong Yi doesn't plan to turn all countries into monarchy! However, the Bosphoruk (i.e., Istanbul Strait) and the Dardanelles Strait could absolutely not be controlled by the Entente.

His Majesty did not want to fight with the British and American navies in the Mediterranean, when the Soviet Black Sea Fleet suddenly stabbed in the back.

That is, the mustache was completely disappointed with the German Navy, so he swept the Balkans, but he just let Istanbul go. Although Inunno was eye-to-eye with Churchill on the one hand, and secretly sent Qiu Bo with the mustache, Zhong Yi did not have the habit of betting on others, and used the fate of the Royal Navy to bet on Inunu's character? In the habit of His Majesty, it is not that it will not, but it will definitely not!

After the Guards paratroopers captured the banks of the Great Bitter Lake and the Barra Canal, and the Guards Panzer Corps and the Marines also captured the important cities of Cantara and Ismailia in the Canal Zone, respectively, most of the objectives of Operation Thunder had been achieved, and Montgomery's British Eighth Army did not risk reinforcing the Canal Zone, but stuck to the railway line from Dumyat to Cairo. From the perspective of the multinational forces, the Suez Canal has lost its role for the Entente, and now there is not even a small sampan of the Entente in the Indian Ocean, and it has completely become the world of the Allies! As long as you can hold Port Said and prevent the Han Navy from entering the Mediterranean, that's fine! After cutting off all contact with Great Britain proper, the Indian Navy, with the support of the Free Indian Army, first launched an uprising by Bombay sailors, and three days later, the Indian Navy officers and sailors joined the uprising in full force, killing British officers, looting warships, and shouting slogans of Indian independence!

The trend of everything is as His Majesty the Han Emperor said, "Is the matter of India still a matter?" ”

No one ever mentions anything about "non-violent non-cooperation", hunger strike? "You stupid, you're almost full, hit the British!" The South Asian subcontinent, which had been suppressed for hundreds of years, was surging all of a sudden, and large and small uprisings broke out one after another in various places. Viscount Percival Wavell, then Viceroy of India, had to admit that "British rule in India is no longer maintainable!" ”

For Britain, defeating the Allies in the Mediterranean was paramount, otherwise what happened in India would have been of no further importance to Britain. Churchill instructed Wavell to engage with both the Congress Party and the Liberal Government, and to take advantage of the long-standing religious contradictions in the South Asian subcontinent to divide India, and above all to do everything possible to solve the worries of Indian soldiers serving in the British army, and even to allow them to join the British nationality.

Allowing naturalization, I'm afraid this is Churchill's last resort! In reality, it doesn't matter if you lose India, if you lose Indian soldiers on the African battlefield, it will be catastrophic! Fearing a mutiny in the army's three Indian divisions, Montgomery did not even dare to bring the Eighth Army too close to the Canal Zone, and it would be tantamount to self-defeating to start a war with the Han army without settling the problem of loyalty of the Indian divisions.

Montgomery is not coming, and the Allies are happy to clean up the defenders of the Canal Zone without hurrying! Perhaps knowing that they had been abandoned, most of the British and Egyptian soldiers in the canal garrison chose to surrender.

April 1, 1942, coincided with April Fool's Day in the West. The Allied air forces suddenly suspended the bombardment of important Egyptian cities and barracks such as Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Mansura, and Domyat for several days. The soldiers of the multinational force joked: Did the Han pilots take the orders of the command as an April Fool's joke and did not take off?

Until about eight o'clock in the morning, the Allied bombers were still not seen, and the soldiers in the air defense positions began to go to breakfast. But in Shubrahaimai, a satellite city only more than 10 kilometers away from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, the terrible air defense sirens were suddenly raised!

Cairo is only about 100 kilometers away from the Canal Zone, and bombers taking off from Fenara on the west bank of the Great Bitter Lake only need ten minutes to fly over Cairo, and the British air defense radar has no time to react!

The air defense soldiers, who had not finished eating, had to run back to the anti-aircraft machine gun position, but before they could run to the position, they found that God really favored them! If it weren't for the fact that they left the position because of eating, they must be howling in that sea of fire now!

In this air raid, the bomber pilots were tasked not with sabotage, but with destruction. Completely destroy Shubra Haimai, destroy the largest airport and satellite city outside Cairo to deter the defenders of Cairo!

Those who are familiar with the senior commanders of the Han army will surely feel some changes in the bombing campaign, which is different from usual!

Jiang Yunzhi is here!

His Majesty is a little dissatisfied with the procrastination of Operation "Thunder"! The commander-in-chief of the operation, General Chiang, personally came to supervise the battle, and as soon as he arrived in Africa, Chiang did two things, the first was to move the general headquarters forward to the southeastern Egyptian city of Gulghada, which is less than 400 kilometers away from the Egyptian front line. Regarding the establishment of a general command within the bombing range of the Allied Air Force, General Jiang only said: "Lao Jiu, I believe that the Royal Air Force has the ability to protect me!" ”

The second thing is to revise the previous solid canal defense line and wait for the plane to capture Port Said! Regarding this, General Jiang only said one sentence: "Lao Jiu, if you take half a year to defeat Egypt, then the navy might as well make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope!" ”

Yun Jiu's face was flushed with words, and he also understood why His Majesty sent Chief Jiang, who easily did not leave Chang'an, to personally supervise the formation!

The "April Fool's Day Operation" was a campaign operation personally deployed by Jiang Yunzhi after he was stationed at the Gulghagai General Headquarters. This operation is completely Jiang Heimian's consistent command style of "only seeking results, not asking about the passage", which is murderous and ruthless! Cruel to your enemies and cruel to your own people!

The 3,000-ton incendiary bombs destroyed Shubra Haimai and frightened the defenders of Cairo, the most important thing was to kill chickens and show monkeys, so that the 30,000 Indian soldiers in Cairo's 80,000 British troops who were already fluctuating lost their confidence in fighting.

The sky-high fire was covered with smoke like dark clouds, and the hellish scene made the defenders of Cairo more than ten kilometers away feel the same way! Islamic soldiers are calling out to their Allah, and Christians are quickly drawing crosses in silence to pray God bless.

But that's not enough, the devil's game has just begun! The Luftwaffe made a sudden sortie on the islands of Crete and Cyprus and continued the bombardment of Alexandria and Domyat. The April Fool's joke lasted only one short morning and continued to restore the blood and ruthlessness of war.

At nine o'clock, the alarm of Port Said was also sounded, the 9th Guards Airborne Army, which had not been dispatched, and two paratroop divisions suddenly landed in Port Said, the 26th Guards Division attacked the Engravel airfield within forty minutes, and the 27th Guards Division responsible for blocking the attack set up a temporary position at the Tamsui Supply Plant to block the reinforced British garrison three kilometers away from the airport!

At 11 a.m., RAF air cavalry transport aircraft began landing at Crypto airfield. The fighters of the 4th Guards Mechanized Infantry Corps began to reinforce the defensive positions of the water supply plant. However, the British 25-pounder howitzer regiment then shelled the aircraft factory, destroying the runway, destroying two empty cavalry transports and halting reinforcements from the air. The paratroopers could only rely on their own strength with a small number of reinforcements and hold their ground!

Due to the requirement to increase the suddenness and rapidity of this airborne landing, the airborne heavy firepower of the paratroopers did not simultaneously airborne with the troops! The 27th Division, which lacked heavy firepower, was extremely hard to defend at the water supply plant! The British army's 25-pounder howitzer artillery bombarded the water plant unscrupulously, and at this time, the "Beidou" system once again played a key role!

Commander Xiao Guoxing, who had obtained the coordinates, quickly dispatched 24 G-40B Brute Dragon attack planes to the former enemy command in Suez, and under the command of a Fengshenlong early warning plane, accurately attacked the British artillery position.

The loss of artillery meant that the British lost the last chance to counterattack. The rumbling engine of the 3rd Guards Panzer Corps from the small town of Lashus on the banks of the canal has resounded outside Port Said!

Two meters above the tank cluster, the 25th Division of the 9th Army, one of the three army aviation divisions of the Guards Corps, and nearly 300 WZ-40 Haidongqing and the 3rd Army jointly launched an air-ground coordinated operation, which turned the Port Said bunker group painstakingly operated by the British Army into a tofu scum project. Due to the Istanbul Proclamation, the British, who proclaimed themselves gentlemen, did not build any fortifications along the canal line, and the few bunkers they secretly built were equivalent to nothing in such a war!

The Han Royal Guards Regiment attacked Port Said, the last line of defense of the Suez Canal, at the cost of six Tiger tanks and two Haidongqing, and suffered 32 casualties, tearing off the mysterious veil of the Mediterranean Sea where romance and blood coexist!

All this ...... It was less than forty-eight hours before Jiang Yunzhi arrived in Egypt!