Chapter 408: Race against time

Wei Zihui discussed with several comrades-in-arms and quickly decided on a plan of action. The two comrades quickly moved to another time, firing out of the wall with machine guns and submachine guns, attracting the Sahr fire. Their attack caused the Sahr's machine guns to turn their guns around and shoot wildly at the wall, taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Zihui picked up a bazooka and poked half of his body out of the wall.

The Sahr machine gunners quickly spotted him, but before the Sahr could turn the muzzle, a fire dragon burst out of the bazooka in Wei Zihui's hand. Wei Zihui immediately dodged and hid back in the corner, and then a violent explosion sounded, and the dust on the shaking wall fell one after another, dropping Wei Zihui's head and body.

Coughing desperately, Wei Zihui rubbed his eyes and poked his head out again, and found that the barricade fortifications had been blown up and damaged, the machine gunners had long since disappeared, and the machine guns had also been blown up and twisted into twists, and they were thrown aside indiscriminately. Seeing that the danger had been lifted, Wei Zihui waved his hand and rushed over with a few soldiers.

Perhaps a violent explosion was heard, and several Thar soldiers rushed towards the place from another street, and the two sides met on the corner. Turning the corner, when the two sides saw each other, they were already only five or six meters apart, and when they saw the enemy, both sides raised their guns and tried to kill the enemy as quickly as possible.

Wei Zihui picked up the gun first, and when he saw that he had taken a slight aim, he pulled the trigger in his hand. The smoothbore rifle that looked to be of a rather large caliber spewed out a burst of flames, and then white smoke rose up, and to the consternation of the soldiers, four or five Thar soldiers on the opposite side were beaten to the ground with blood all over their bodies, and they could not survive. The smoothbore rifle was so powerful that both the comrades and the Saar people were stunned.

The most feared thing about hand-to-hand combat is distraction, the Saar people have not yet woken up from the shock, Wei Zihui pulled the pump again, and a bullet on the top quickly opened fire again, shooting the remaining two Saar people to the ground.

"Hey, platoon commander, this new guy is really good." Several soldiers looked at Wei Zihui enviously, this pump-action shotgun had just been equipped with troops, everyone saw this short gun body, and the extremely short range of the weapon was not used, only Wei Zihui chose him as a short-range weapon.

Wei Zihui smiled and picked up the pump-action shotgun and said: "I still have a vision, this thing melee combat is domineering, and a bullet will sweep down a large area." ”

As the group continued to advance, a burst of bullets burst out from the roof of a house, knocking down three unprepared fighters. The other fighters quickly looked for concealment, and one of the fighters saw his comrade fall to the ground so anxious that his eyes were on fire, he calculated the angle, took a few steps back, and pointed a weapon of a thick caliber in his hand at the sky.

The weapon was fired without much sound, just a soft tom, and a grenade flew upwards in a curved trajectory. The grenade lost its kinetic energy when it rose to about ten meters, and the direction of its fall was aimed at the roof position of the Saar people, who were still firing vigorously.

There was a bang, the sandbags on the roof position were blown to pieces, and the two Sahr machine gunners, who were still firing vigorously, were pushed out of the roof by the air wave and fell to the street in an instant, their bodies had been blown to black, and the soldier was also using the latest grenade launcher for street fighting.

In the face of the increasingly advanced and diverse new weapons of the Chinese Empire, the Saar defenders were exhausted and suffered heavy casualties. Major General Meng Ge did not expect that street fighting should have been the best tactic to offset the superiority of weapons, and it was also very beneficial to the defending side, but as soon as he fought with the Chinese army, he found that his side had no advantage at all in street fighting, and the casualty rate was much higher than that of the other party.

The Sahr army did not have many troops in Cairo, and under the attack of the superior forces of the Chinese army and advanced weapons and tactics, they could not support it after only one day. Seeing that the momentum was not good, Major General Möngke took his headquarters and part of the remnants of the army out of the north gate and retreated in the direction of the Sinai Canal.

Cairo is the only large city in the entire Nile region, where more than ninety percent of the region's supplies are placed, and Major General Möngke retreated in a hurry and did not have time to destroy these supplies, so these supplies fell into the hands of the Chinese army.

Having lost a large amount of logistical supplies, the ammunition supply of the Sahr army began to be in short supply, and the morale of the front-line army, which was barely supported, Su Zhizhen seized this opportunity and threw all reserves into breaking through the defense line along the river in one fell swoop.

The Sahr army retreated completely, while Su Zhizhen advanced rapidly with his mobile mechanized troops, and soon occupied the El Alamein area, the main communication route to the Alexandra region, 190,000 of the Sahr army were killed or missing, 270,000 were captured, and less than 200,000 Sahr troops fled back to the Alexandra region.

The situation on the side of the occupied Allied countries in the Nile region became extremely serious, not only the back roads and logistical supplies of the Sinai Canal defense line were cut off, but also the Chinese army gained a foothold on the southern subcontinent, and the Allied governments were extremely angry and frightened.

The governments of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire held urgent consultations, and they decided to form a coalition to attack the Chinese Imperial Army in the Nile region from the Tunis region, while the naval fleets of the two countries were massing in the Mediterranean region, and there was a great deal of driving the Chinese coalition forces back to the Middle Continent.

Some of the Entente's forces were drawn to the southern subcontinent, and the pressure on the Allies on the Western Continent battlefield was greatly reduced. Fang Xiaoyu's previous intention to attack the Sinai Canal in order to attract the opponent's forces had been realized, and he was not in a hurry to attack.

Su Zhizhen also knew that his troops were limited, and a large number of troops needed to be dispersed to various places to consolidate the place, and it was difficult to expand the results of the battle, so it was better to rely on the dangerous terrain of the El Alamein region to block the Allied coalition forces, so as to attract these troops and prevent them from being thrown into the battlefield on the Western Continent again.

The El Alamein region has a dangerous terrain, the front is only more than 30 kilometers wide, its south is an endless desert of death, and the north is the rough Mediterranean Sea, although the front is relatively narrow and conducive to defense, but the flanks are vulnerable to attacks from the sea, so Su Zhizhen decided to let the Southern Ocean Fleet through the Sinai Canal and enter the Mediterranean Sea to fight, and the home port was temporarily placed in Istanbul, the capital of the allied Iranian Empire.

The strength of the Entente's joint Mediterranean Fleet is not small, with a total of six Chinese ships, 16 former Chinese ships, 21 cruisers, and 58 destroyers, which is absolutely very large, while the total strength of the South Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy is only three aircraft carriers, four Chinese ships, four cruisers, and eight destroyers, and the difference in scale is very large.

Even if you add the navies of the Habsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the total tonnage is only half of the others, not to mention that the navies of the two allied countries are far apart, and there are Entente fleets in the middle to intercept them, and the two sides cannot turn at all, and now they can only rely on shore-based aviation for defensive operations, which makes Sun Xiaohu very annoyed, and he began to plan a plan to eliminate the Entente Mediterranean fleet.

Just when Su Zhizhen led the troops of the Southern Continent Theater to win a complete victory, the defense of Rokelin City had reached the most difficult juncture. Due to the onset of winter, it has been cloudy and often snowy for several days, which makes it impossible for the air force of the Chinese army to take to the skies to fight.

A few months earlier, the Cossack army had also imitated the Chinese Empire's introduction of a telephone system in the army, with which Marshal Kolchak could quickly understand the situation at the front, although there was no radio, so that these telephone systems could only support small-scale campaign-scale communications, but it was much more convenient than before relying on heralds alone.

After discovering that the weather was gloomy at the front, Marshal Kolchak immediately seized this fighter and sent the order for an all-out attack through the telephone system. The Cossack army took advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese Imperial Army to lose air cover, concentrated its forces to attack Rochlin City again, Cai Tingyuan's troops had to gradually shrink the front in the face of the opponent's attack at any cost, and relied on the numerous barricades in the city to slow down the opponent's attack, but the defenders of Rochlin City were too few, and after a long time, the Wehrmacht also broke through the defensive line.

At the same time, the Cossack army also launched a large-scale offensive along the Ilis River, relying on its superior heavy artillery and the number of men to cross the river, and the Imperial Chinese Army was under-armed, and there was a situation where all defensive lines could be breached, and the situation in Rochlin City was particularly critical.

"Commander, your phone number is the chief of the General Staff." The staff officer handed the telephone to Cai Tingyuan, and a few weeks ago the telephone soldiers finally succeeded in laying a cable at the bottom of the river, so that the two sides of the river could be connected to the telephone.

Cai Tingyuan took the phone and said, "Chief of the General Staff, is there something wrong?" ”

Thoble said, "Give me a detailed report on your situation there." ”

Cai Tingyuan said: "Our various troops have suffered heavy casualties, and now the total strength of the defenders in the city does not exceed 10,000, and the Cossack army has occupied three-quarters of the city, but we are still holding on." ”

Tobul muttered, "What do you lack now?" ”

Cai Tingyuan said: "We need reinforcements and weapons and ammunition, and we are already very short of ammunition. ”

Thoble said, "You have to hold on, and I will send you reinforcements immediately." ”

Cai Tingyuan said: "Thank you, Chief of the General Staff. Hearing that he could get reinforcements, his heart couldn't help but feel relieved, and he could hold on for a while longer.

Thobul put down the phone and asked the staff officer beside him, "How many reserves do we have?" ”

The staff officer said: "Now the entire defense line along the river is very tight, our losses are very large, and at present, there are only three corps left in the reserve army: the 102nd Army, the 118th Army, and the 119th Army." ”

Thor thought for a moment and ordered: "Let the 118th Army and the 119th Army bring enough equipment and ammunition and immediately cross the river to support Rochlin City." ”