Hussein, of the Hashemite family, in the name of the caliphate, announced a holy war against the Soviet Union in the Great Mosque of Mecca the day after that. Tat Trotsky, the revolutionary prophet in Moscow, also acted-for-tat and, in the name of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Union and the Commander-in-Chief of the International Proletarian Command, issued the supreme instructions to the Middle East Front of the Soviet Red Army to seize Mecca and completely eliminate the exploiting class, feudal lords, and reactionary religious forces on the Arabian Peninsula.

After receiving the order, Ubolevich immediately ordered the Middle East Front to end its rest ahead of schedule, and summoned officers at and above the division level of the Front to gather at the bus where the headquarters of the Front Army was located to discuss the military situation. In the fierce battle that lasted more than half a month, although the Red Army's Middle East Front achieved tremendous results, liberating Iraq and Kuwait, occupying the northern part of the Kingdom of Najd, and eliminating a large number of British troops and Iraqi servant troops, its own losses were not small. More than 30,000 Red Army casualties, Persian Army more than 10,000 casualties, nearly 15,000 missing, and a large number of tanks, planes, armored vehicles and trucks were damaged in the battle and on the march. Compared with the plan of the Soviet Red Army before the war, such losses should be said to be very large, and the reason for this situation is that in addition to being severely damaged by the Chinese expeditionary force in the Kuwait campaign, it is mainly due to the harsh climate and environment in the Middle East. The Red Army soldiers from the harsh cold regions of the north were simply unable to adapt to the scorching heat and dry climate of the Middle East desert, and the Red Army's tanks, armored vehicles, planes, and trucks were already of poor quality. Give Ubolevich and others a headache.

In addition, another problem that bothers the senior generals of the Middle East Front is the logistics of the army. Although the Soviet Union is the third largest industrial country in the world, the output value of heavy industry has even surpassed that of Germany. However, the automobile industry in the Soviet Union was not developed, and the total annual production of various automobiles was less than 50,000 units, less than one-tenth of that of Germany, and not even more than China. Moreover, the quality of Soviet-made cars was extremely poor, and they could not adapt to the climatic conditions in the Middle East, and less than half of the 5,000 GAS trucks assigned to the Middle East Front before the war could be driven now. More than 2,000 trucks with a load of less than 2 tons. Of course, there was no way to support an army of 1.3 million to fight on such a vast battlefield as the Arabian Peninsula. The transportation conditions on the Arabian Peninsula are extremely harsh, there are basically no railways, only a few rather rudimentary roads. Although there were a number of well-equipped ports, ports and sea transportation were out of reach for the Soviet Red Army, which had few ships and navy to use.

So the first obstacle to the liberation of Mecca by the Soviet Red Army was not the hundreds of thousands of rabble under the command of Caliph Hussein. Nor the 100,000 elites of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. It's a slow long distance of up to 1,500 kilometers!

Under normal circumstances, ordinary infantry can drive 25 kilometers a day, and 1,500 kilometers take 60 days to complete. Moreover, this time the Red Army wanted to tongguo in arid desert areas with little rain, not only to carry enough dry food, but also to prepare enough drinking water, if there were not enough vehicles to win camels, horses to carry supplies, the army would not be able to tongguo this barren land.

However, the Red Army's Middle East Front did not have enough vehicles and camels. Therefore, having received an order from Trotsky, Ubolevich did not rush to march in the direction of Mecca. Rather, it was a political campaign in Iraq and Kuwait that cracked down on the upper classes of religion, aristocrats, merchants, and landlords. The slogan of equal division of land and equal distribution of livestock was also raised, but the cattle, sheep and grain of the so-called poor Arab middle peasants and poor middle herders were shared. Often, before they have even a few glances, they are requisitioned by members of the Iraqi and Kuwaiti GCDs who speak Arabic with a Persian accent.

However, like the reactionaries in other parts of the world, the recalcitrant reactionary forces in Iraq and Kuwait refused to leave the stage of history, and at the call of the Caliph Hussein in Mecca, all kinds of terrorist activities against the Soviet Red Army, the Persian People's Army, and the GCD authorities in Iraq and Kuwait soon intensified. The Soviet Middle East Front, of course, was not to be outdone, and a large-scale anti-terrorist crackdown was immediately launched......

In this way, the two river basins, which once gave birth to the splendid civilization of ancient times, have become slaughterhouses where jihadists and revolutionaries kill each other, and the situation in the entire Middle East has gradually slipped into an unimaginable abyss.

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While the Soviet Red Army was busy helping the people of Iraq and Kuwait free themselves from the oppression of feudal religious forces, Lin Zuoda was already on a plane from the port of Jeddah to Nanjing.

Because of his good performance in the Kuwait campaign in July, he has now been promoted to the head of the training department of the Chinese Expeditionary Force Command, with the rank of major general. The purpose of his return to Nanjing this time was to personally submit to Chang Ruiqing the newly drafted "Mecca Battle Plan."

He was accompanied by several young staff officers of the expeditionary force and the Caliphate (formerly the Hejaz Army), most of whom had studied at the Central Military Academy and the Army University in Nanjing, and spoke Chinese, while Lin Zuoda, who had lived in the Middle East for several years, could also understand Arabic.

The cabin of the Chinese-made Ju.52 is now full of noisy discussions, and listening to what they are talking about, we know that these young junior staff officers do not know the true intentions of the Nanjing side.

"In my opinion, the battle of Mecca is the perfect time to reverse the decline of our world!"

Behind Lin Zuoda, several officers with long beards and wearing the uniforms of the Caliphate Army discussed the latest battle situation while eating a halal-flavored lunch served on the plane: "Now that the caliph has declared jihad, the whole world of Muslin is boiling, Iraq and Kuwait are full of jihadists who resist the rule of the infidels, and the time for the Soviet Red Army to move south has to be postponed again and again. Mecca and Medina welcome thousands of warriors every day, and if the battle does not break out by the end of September, our caliphate will exceed 250,000! At that time, our caliphate army alone will be enough to defeat the Soviet Red Army and regain Baghdad. ”

"But it was not so optimistic, the Red Army sent by the pagan Trotsky had 1 million men. Even the British Empire is no rival, how can our 250,000 men beat them all away? I don't think the first battle in Mecca will be a big one, and it would be nice if China's permanent premier could send us more reinforcements. ”

"But the Chinese army is also an infidel army. How can our holy city of Minsling be defended by the infidels? It is enough for Mecca and Medina to have our caliphate! With the blessing of Allah, the Merciful, our caliphate army will definitely exert a hundredfold and thousandfold bravery, how can it not even defend two holy cities? ”

"That's right! With Allah's blessing, we are invincible! Before this Soviet invasion of the Arabian Peninsula, we did not have a caliphate, and we were also enslaved by the English infidels, and now the British have retreated. The caliph has also been born, which is clearly Allah's saving m's in the midst of suffering! So the final victory must belong to Mismling, and glory must belong to Allah! ”

"Praise be to Allah! Allah is great! ”

"Allah is great! Long live the Caliphate! ”

He who said these things. Of course, they were all staff officers of the caliphate, some of them were from China, and some were sons of famous Arab families. Most of them are extremely devout Sunni Yaslan, and a theocratic Yaslan regime with Muhammad's descendants as caliphate has always been a dream for them. Now the dream has come true. It seems that the Slav religion will be able to take advantage of this world war to flourish. And how can they not get excited?

However, the staff officers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, who sat in front of Lin Zuoda, were not so optimistic.

"The Soviet-Persian coalition has 1.3 million men! We and the caliphate combined are no more than 350,000, which is almost a fraction of the other side. This battle is really difficult to fight, and it can even be said that as long as Trotsky's determination is strong enough, it is only a matter of time before Mecca is taken, and even the port of Jeddah will be difficult to keep, and it will be difficult to retreat the whole army to Africa! ”

"You guy, why are you talking about frustration?"

"What's the frustration? That's the truth! What combat effectiveness did those caliphates have? It's just a rabble! How can the 100,000 people of our expeditionary force beat the 1 million Red Army? ”

"What about the 1 million Red Army? They could not all be concentrated in the ports of Mecca and Jeddah. They have 1500 km of logistics behind them! There are still 300,000 British troops in Transjordan, and they can be held with them some. ”

"The British? Hehe. Don't have any more illusions about those Brits! Last time in Iraq, they almost ran away without a fight! This time I don't believe they are really determined to defend Transjordan, and they may have quietly retreated east of Suez by now! ”

This young staff officer of the Chinese Expeditionary Force really didn't guess wrong! Lin Zuoda had already obtained confidential information from the country, and the British army did show signs of abandoning Transjordan. On the road from Amman to Suez, the convoy of British troops heading southwest was almost endless! However, in his opinion, even if the British army did not retreat to the west of Suez, it would not be able to contain much of the Soviet Red Army, and their strategy in the Middle East was to defend and retreat. But what is China's strategy in the Middle East?

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After more than a dozen consecutive hours of flight, Lin Zuoda returned to Nanjing, where he had not seen him for a long time, and once again walked into the Ministry of National Defense building in Tangshan.

After entering the majestic appearance of the Ministry of National Defense, Lin Zuoda obviously felt that the atmosphere here was very different from the last time he came, the security at the gate was obviously much tighter, and a military police second lieutenant took his pass to look left and right, and finally made another phone call before letting him in. In the hall of the Ministry of National Defense, there are many figures who come and go in a hurry, all of them are staff officers wearing thin summer uniforms of the Wehrmacht, among which the lowest rank is captain, and the highest is Wang Junhao, the general staff of the field marshal.

"Lin Yangchun, you come with me." Wang Junhao also saw Lin Zuoda, beckoned to him, and took him to Chang Ruiqing's Office of the Minister of Defense.

After entering, I found that not only Chang Ruiqing and Zhao Zhenzai, commander-in-chief of the army, but also Bai Chongxi, who had just been transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Front, and Wu Shi, commander-in-chief of the Northern Front, were also there. Seeing that all the four active marshals of the National Defense Force had arrived, Lin Zuoda couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"Yangchun, sit down, don't be nervous. Heart, tea. ”

Chang Ruiqing instructed Chen Xinrui, who had replaced Tian Yuchen as the adjutant not long ago, to serve Lin Zuo tea, and said with a smile: "Yangchun, the plan that I rejected last time was also your handiwork, right?" Hehe, the plan is good, but it doesn't fit into our overall strategy. ”

As the chief of training of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Lin Zuoda's thinking was naturally based on holding Mecca. The tactic he proposed in his previous plan was to concentrate his forces and take the initiative to break through the enemy's way. There are two routes from Iraq and Kuwait to Mecca, one is Kuwait Haf Aba, Timburai Burai Madinah Mecca, the whole journey is 1,500 kilometers long; The second is to go to Kuwait, Daman, Riyadh, Taif Mecca. The whole journey is nearly 2,000 kilometers. Due to the limited size of the oases along these two routes, it was impossible to supply the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Soviet Red Army could not march with too much drinking water. Therefore, they must be divided into two lines, and the size of each road will not exceed 200,000. This gave the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Caliphate a chance to break them individually!

To be honest, Lin Zuoda's plan is still very feasible, and if he is lucky, he may really be able to annihilate the enemy all the way. Crush the Soviet army's plot to capture Mecca. However, Chang Ruiqing's strategy does not have a plan for the Mslin world to take advantage of this world war to carry forward! In his vision of the post-war world, Slavism should lose its secular power forever, like Catholicism and Buddhism. Become a pure religion.

Now, although Lin Zuoda did not fully understand Chang Ruiqing's intentions, he also knew that the prime minister wanted to block the Middle East from the front and consume each other with the Red Army. So he took out a hundred-page new plan from his briefcase and placed it on Chang Ruiqing's desk.

"Prime Minister, this is the new proposal. Codenamed Xingyue No. 3 scheme. ”

"Okay. Let's talk about the general method. Chang Ruiqing nodded at Adjutant General Chen Xinrui, who immediately walked to the wall and opened a large combat map.

"Yes!" Lin Zuoda hurriedly got up and stood upright, gave Chang Ruiqing and the other four marshals present a military salute, and then walked to the map, and pointed his finger at Mecca and Medina respectively: "Prime Minister, Chief of General Staff, Commander-in-Chief Bai." Commander-in-Chief Zhao, Commander-in-Chief Wu. The new battle plan will abandon the tactic of breaking the enemy all the way. Instead, the method of clearing the field with strong walls and dividing troops to hold on to them was adopted. On the one hand, all the oases along the road from Kuwait to Mecca and Medina were completely burned, all wells were filled, all tribes were relocated, and roads were destroyed as much as possible. At the same time, small groups of M'sling militia were organized to harass the Soviet Red Army along the way, delaying their advance.

On the other hand, the caliphate's army, with a total strength of about 250,000 troops, was reorganized into 12 divisions and two army groups, which were deployed in Medina and Mecca respectively to build fortifications and prepare for death. The Chinese Expeditionary Force, on the other hand, defended the port of Jeddah as a mobile force and was ready to rescue Medina and Mecca. ”

"How is the combat effectiveness of the Caliphate? How long can you last in Medina and Mecca? Will the peach die? ”

As soon as Chang Ruiqing asked, Lin Zuoda smiled and said: "Of course, the caliphate army is a rabble, equipped with weapons that we have eliminated, and it also lacks the necessary training, and most of the officers and soldiers will not be able to build fortifications and use weapons correctly. However, the morale of the Caliphate's army was very high, and if they were used to defend the Holy City, it was believed that most of them would fight to the death. Moreover, the Arabian Peninsula and even the Msrin of North Africa are now inspired by the caliph to come to the Arabian Peninsula in a steady stream to prepare for the defense of the holy city, and some of them even bring their own weapons and dry food. ”

Chang Ruiqing, Wu Shi, Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen all nodded after listening, but they didn't ask, only Bai Chongxi smiled: "Bring your own weapons and dry food, it's really pious, there are many such people in our northwest, as soon as the caliph announced the anti-Soviet jihad, there were many Hui youths in the northwest who lined up in front of various recruitment points, asking to join the Wehrmacht and go to the Middle East to defend Mecca and Medina." ”

Hearing this news, Lin Zuoda's brows tightened slightly, as if he had thought of something. An Arab who had never been to China before, and who had no appeal in China before, was able to call on the Mlin of northwest China overnight with a sign of the Caliphate! This...... I'm afraid it's not good news, right? No wonder the Prime Minister is bent on putting the Caliphate's army at the front!

"The idea is good, they should be given this chance." Chang Ruiqing nodded with a smile, and said to Lin Zuo again: "The Hui troops we sent to the Middle East are all okay now?" Does the caliph still reuse them? ”

"Of course it's reused, but it's ......" Lin Zuoda stopped talking a little, and after looking at Bai Chongxi, he didn't say any more.

Of course, Chang Ruiqing knew what he didn't say, and the "Hui Army" sent to the Middle East included the National Intelligence Agency as a hidden agent, and a detailed report was sent over every month. It is true that the caliph and the Hashemite family did not discriminate against those who came from China, not only did Hussein not discriminate, but Hussein also married his daughter to Ma Qi's three sons and gave them the greatest trust. But...... The warlords of the Ma family, who are wolf-hearted in China, are also loyal to this Hussein caliph, and it seems that they have surpassed their loyalty to Nanjing!

However, Chang Ruiqing didn't seem to take Ma Jiajun's "betrayal" to heart at all, and just smiled and said: "The Holy City was originally owned by M's Lynn, and it wouldn't hurt us if they wanted to defend it." Yangchun, I mean, the longer the Battle of the Holy City is fought, the better! ”