The night was dark, the wind was cold, and there was silence on the battlefield. In the open desert, there was not even the sound of insects chirping at night, only the occasional sound of footsteps, which were patrols on duty at night shuttling through the positions. The bottom of the rubbery boots made a 'rustle' sound when they stepped on the gravel ground.

The soldiers were asleep, and the time was less than half past five, but the wake-up number was six in the morning. Day after day, the biological clocks of the warriors have long been fixed, and at this time they are sleeping soundly. The sky was already hazy. You can see the figure clearly from twenty or thirty meters, and you can't go any farther.

The blue sky during the day was now overcast, as if a heavy rain was approaching and dark clouds were covered. The beams of the searchlights had been extinguished, and no other lights could be seen from the position.

In the northwest corner of the position, there was an anti-artillery bunker, and no light could be seen from the outside, but the inside of the bunker was as bright as daylight at the moment, and a few officers on duty were in this anti-artillery bunker.

No one is meticulously doing the work they should do, such as calling the forward bunker on time, such as recording in detail the night guard reports from various positions, or making the night duty records that should have been made, these officers are all sitting on the ammunition box playing cards, although everyone's eyes are red, but the large amount of money on the ammunition box undoubtedly makes up for the fatigue of the night.

No one worries about the enemy on the other side, the confrontation between the two sides in Arish has been more than two months, except for the first half a month, it is peaceful, and the vigilance of the British and French troops is of course still there, but it is a better drop than at the beginning.

Just as a group of officers were 'shouting for a fight', they suddenly heard a loud bang from outside the anti-artillery bunker, followed by another loud bang.

"Shelling!"

In the end, it is a career officer. All the British and French officers in the bunker reacted instantly, and a French lieutenant colonel hurriedly rushed to the outside of the bunker. Observed for a moment, then ran back again. Said to the officers who threw away the cards and grabbed a phone and dialed hard.

"The Arabs have attacked! The Arabs are on the attack! You must jump into battle now! All troops must go into battle at once! ”

In the midst of this short sentence, an overwhelming roar of shells sounded outside the bunker. Another French officer, who had broken out of bunker, came back from the outside in a state of confusion, his eyes full of panic.

"The Arab League is on the offensive, an all-out offensive." How could the artillery bombardment, which was overwhelming and reflecting the entire sky, reach this scale without a full-scale attack?

Except for the officers who nervously made the call, except for the nervous newspaper officers, except for those staff officers, the other officers rushed out of the anti-artillery bunkers in a panic. Rushed to the trenches. At this time they had to guard the trenches, it was their duty.

Looking towards the four directions of the position, I saw a red light flashing in the gloomy distance, but the surroundings were shrouded in orange and red, as if I was in a scorching magma.

From time to time, the artillery shells and rockets that swept through the sky smashed into the position with a sharp roar, and the violent explosion shrouded the entire position in a flash of light, and the deafening explosion continued to make the earth shake.

A short time after the shelling, the positions of the British and French troops on the defensive line were completely enveloped in artillery fire. And the telephone bells of the various command posts on the position also rang non-stop, and the commanders in the rear asked on the phone what was happening on the front line, was it the artillery harassment of the Arab League joint armed forces? Or did the war really begin?

You must know that the Chinese are holding a meeting in Central Asia, shouldn't you be good at this time, hello, everyone? Is it appropriate for the Arab League to fight at this time? Or do the Chinese want to show their muscles before the meeting?

The final question is one for the top of the country to consider. Now all Arish's Anglo-French forces had to deal with was this powerful and difficult attack.

"We need artillery support."

"Reinforcements, the 131 position needs reinforcements......"

"Medic, we need medics. Soldiers need doctors! ”

The artillery support of the artillery units of the British and French troops soon came, and. Their air force units also received orders to wait for a little lighter. It will take off to bomb the artillery positions of the Arab League Joint Armed Forces.

But will the British and French bombers be able to cross the "death line" over the defensive line? China has 600 fighters this time. In this regard, the Arab League is full of confidence.

The skies of the Sinai Peninsula will only be dominated by Chinese Thunder fighters, and in the face of such a reality, unless Britain and France can come up with their jets at the bottom of the box, the Thunder fighters will be able to dominate the current sky.

And the jet planes of the Europeans, although some have been made, are two different things from jet fighters, and experimental jet fighters are even more different from practical jet fighters. China's real hole card is a mature generation of jet fighters, and it is still difficult for China to determine whether the Europeans have gone to jet aircraft or jet fighters. What the CIA can be sure of is that the Europeans have not yet decided on the final version of the practical jet fighter!

And there is also the problem of fuel required for jet aircraft, that is, aviation kerosene, which requires high-quality light crude oil to produce, and it also requires N many tests and high-tech processes. For Europeans, even if it is difficult to replenish crude oil, there is no problem in deducting a part of it to produce jet fuel. The only thing that can stop Europeans is technology and technology.

The British began working on jets in the 30s, and one of the first jets took off successfully in 1935. Britain, Germany and France all have a deep foundation in this regard. But what kind of society is European society? This is a capitalist-ist society. And what is a capitalist-ist society? That's profit first.

Britain, France, and Germany all have profound technological accumulation and a large number of scientists who are rich in knowledge and research spirit, but the aircraft manufacturers are unwilling to develop in this direction, they have invested too much money in piston aircraft, and these big capitalists who control the aircraft manufacturing industry will not cross the new threshold before the profits are completely absorbed and saturated, that is, before the profits are completely harvested.

The first to propose the theory of jet propulsion in Europe were Captain Makeni of France and Henri Conda of Romania. Conda also trial-built the first jet aircraft around 1918 and built a prototype. At the end of the 20s, Frank Whittle, then an instructor in the British Air Force, came up with the idea of a jet engine and patented it in 1930, but aircraft manufacturers were not interested.

It was not until 1935, when several major powers such as Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Italy silently entered a period of military preparation, that things took a turn for the better, and Whittle was able to establish the "Power Jet Co., Ltd." with the support of some air force figures and bankers. In June 1935, Whittle began designing and building a real jet engine. Together with his colleagues, he worked from scratch, component by part, and in 1937 he finally built Europe's first turbojet engine.

Almost at the same time as Whittle, Germany's von Ochen also made progress in the development of the turbojet engine, and in September 1937 his turbojet engine was successfully operated for the first time. Britain, Germany, France, the United States and other countries joined forces again, and in July 1938, the He178 aircraft equipped with the Hes3B turbojet engine developed by von Ochen made its first successful test flight, becoming the first real jet aircraft in European history.

But it was too late. The war soon began, and there was not enough time for Europe to develop its own jet fighter.

After the start of the war, Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Italy and other countries can still rely on faster and higher piston fighters, 550 kilometers to 650 kilometers per hour, 8,000 meters to 10,000 meters of altitude climbing limit, Europeans fighters compared with 20 years ago has undergone earth-shaking changes, can be compared with the Chinese's 750 kilometers per hour and 12,000 meters of altitude line, still a level weaker.

When 600 authentic Chinese fighters appeared in the skies of the Sinai Peninsula, the Europeans would not have been able to gain air supremacy unless they immediately developed jet fighters and brought them down to the battlefield. In the air forces of Britain and France, once any fighter or bomber is far away from the range of fire of its own anti-aircraft guns, it will be the 'dish' of the Thunder fighter.

Hung up in a fit of rage, Major General Arsino ordered all his reserves to prepare to enter the position. The artillery fire of the Arab League was too fierce, and the follow-up troops could not come up at all, and the holes in the front line had to be filled with the reserves in his hands. As commander of the first line of defense, major general of the French Foreign Legion, Arsino had an elite division of the Foreign Legion and a French division of Gallic roosters, followed by a division and a brigade of the British.

He was well aware of the consequences of ordering the reserves to enter the position at this time, but in 1940, this barrage Xu Jin had long since become an era of universal artillery skills, and who the would dare not take precautions seriously?

At this time, instead of worrying about the casualties of the soldiers, it is better to believe in the reliability of the fortifications.

Assino now has to wait for the onslaught of the combined armed forces of the Arab League.

The artillery fire was so fierce that the troops of the Arab League would kill them at any time, and Major General Arsino also insisted that under such a baptism of artillery fire, the miscellaneous things arranged in front of his own position could not be of any use.

The Arab League has a large number of tanks, and compared to the armored forces on the battlefield in Egypt, the Arab League coalition forces opposite Arish are not weaker at all. Among these armors, either produced by the Arab League itself or bought from China, the Arab League is also a member of the World Trade Organization anyway, and the weapons and equipment in its member countries are highly circulating, such as the Macedonian National Guard, which is equipped with a large number of tanks of Russian origin.

So don't look at the rumbling of artillery now, letting the reserve troops enter the position is equivalent to letting the soldiers go to death, maybe the next moment the artillery landing point will move back, and the rolling steel torrents will inexorably wash away.

Asino was sure that his line of defense would eventually fall, and all he wanted was to hold on for as much time as possible. A narrow line of defense could not stop the advance of the Arab League forces, but he only needed to hold out for one day, no, only half a day, and he was a hero! (To be continued.) )