The tug-of-war between the two sides has been going on, and the casualties are very heavy, but because the Chinese army has the support of naval guns and aircraft, the casualties are far smaller than those of the Saar army, and most of the casualties are the Japanese and San Martin soldiers who rushed to the front, and the Chinese soldiers of the Chinese Empire actually did not suffer many casualties.

"Reinforcements, I need reinforcements, send a report immediately, I need a lot of reinforcements." Major General Möngke had red eyes, he had not slept for a day and a night, and the reserves in his hands had all been filled into the battlefield, but he still could not drive the other side down the Sinai Canal.

Although the casualties of the Chinese coalition army were also very large, but those Japanese soldiers were nailed to the position on the riverbank, not retreating a step, and the follow-up troops were constantly crossing the canal, supplementing the continuous casualties, at this time the senior generals of the Chinese Imperial Army realized how wise it was to send the servant army to the battlefield.

The continuous fierce fighting in the Canal Zone was like a meat grinder, and the number of dead in just one day and one night exceeded 20,000. Compared with this casualty ratio, with the super high pension of the Chinese Empire, the country will go bankrupt in a few months, while the servant army is different, and the imperial government does not need to give money to the number of deaths, at most it is quite good to give these countries a little benefit after the war.

Su Zhizhen sat in the headquarters with his eyes closed, seemingly leisurely, but his mind was not calm. At this time, he was continuing to close his eyes and recuperate, thinking about all aspects of the battle and the comparison of the forces of the two sides. Although China has now gained a certain advantage, he knows in his heart that this is only temporary, the other side is increasing troops, and his own side has no troops to send to him.

Su Zhizhen can only use the 400,000 Chinese army, 200,000 Japanese army and 500,000 St. Martin's army in his hands to fight against more and more Saar army, not only that, but the opponent's air force will also be more and more, and finally will gradually grasp air supremacy with an overwhelming numerical advantage, not to mention that there is also the Mediterranean Fleet eyeing the sidelines, and the current Chinese army is actually in a very dangerous situation.

"Commander Su, I've arrived." As soon as the door of the headquarters opened, Sun Xiaohu, who was dressed in a navy general's uniform, walked in quickly.

Su Zhizhen opened her eyes and smiled: "You're here, sit down." ”

Sun Xiaohu sat down on the side and said with a smile: "Is there anything wrong with Commander Su calling me here?" ”

Su Zhizhen personally poured Sun Xiaohu a glass of water and said, "Yes, I have something I want to discuss with you." The offensive posture of our Chinese coalition forces seems to be beautiful, but the current situation is actually very dangerous, so we need to fight quickly, but the desperate resistance of the other side has seriously delayed our progress in controlling both sides of the Sinai Canal, and if we continue like this, we may be overwhelmed by more and more Saar reinforcements. ”

Sun Xiaohu frowned and said, "I also know this, but what can we do?" ”

"Landing, landing in the rear of the enemy, completely choking their throats, and only by occupying enough areas on the south bank of the Sinai Canal for us to put ourselves in defensive positions will we be able to stop the attack of Saar reinforcements." Su Zhizhen walked to the map hanging on the wall and pointed to the map and said, "I hope you can cover the landing of the Japanese soldiers of the First and Second Marines on Nick Beach, and then attack here directly, Cairo." ”

Sun Xiaohu also walked to the map, looked at it carefully for a while, and said, "No problem, I promise to complete the task." ”

Su Zhizhen said solemnly: "But I hope that you can leave the battleship behind and let them continue to shell the opposite shore, because without the cover of your naval guns, I am afraid that the troops who have landed on the shore will not be able to hold their positions on the south bank of the Sinai Canal." ”

Sun Xiaohu thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll leave the battleship formation behind and use the aircraft carrier formation to cover the landing." ”

Su Zhizhen smiled and nodded: "This landing operation is very important, once it succeeds, we can control most of the Nile region, if it fails, we can only withdraw our troops to the north bank to hold on." ”

Sun Xiaohu nodded: "I will do my best, and I will never let the Saar people take advantage." ”

For this landing operation, Sun Xiaohu ordered the fleet staff to draw up a very detailed battle plan. During the war, the minesweeping detachment of the Imperial Southern Ocean Fleet braved artillery fire to sweep away all the mines laid by the Saar in the Sinai Canal.

Subsequently, in order to contain the Saar Mediterranean fleet, all the submarines of the Southern Ocean Fleet took advantage of the chaos of the Great War to quietly pass through the Sinai Canal and sail towards the Mediterranean Sea.

Nick Beach is located one hundred and thirty kilometers south of the Sinai Canal, on the edge of a desert area, the surrounding area is extremely inhospitable and almost uninhabited, and the Allies who have been stationed here have only one regiment of Saar soldiers, and even this little force has been transferred due to the tight front.

Now there is only one coast garrison force of 3,000 people composed of locals stationed near Nick Beach, but it is more suitable to be a guard team than a coast guard, these people are not trained, and the weapons they are all old single-shot rifles eliminated by the Saar army, except for some reinforced concrete shore fortifications and shore defense cannons that have been built before, they are no different from the militia.

Early that morning, Kabu walked up to the sentry post and stretched, yawning profusely. He rubbed his sleepy eyes, habitually looked into the distance, and suddenly his eyes froze, where the sky and the sea intersected, a group of dark shadows were approaching.

He rubbed his eyes again, and looked closely, and sure enough, it was a group of black shadows, approaching at a very fast speed, and soon a group of iron birds that he had never seen before were in the air, and before he could scream, a huge bomb was dropped, and a huge blast wave sent debris flying from the nearby coastal fortifications.

The first batch to take to the air were carrier-based aircraft from the three aircraft carriers attached to the Southern Ocean Fleet.

The Chinese Navy currently has five aircraft carriers of two classes, of which the "Eagle's Nest" is the first experimental seaplane aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, but because the performance of the aircraft is getting better and better, it is a little dangerous for this small aircraft carrier to take off from the new type of aircraft, but fortunately, this aircraft carrier has been positioned as a seaplane carrier, and now it is specially equipped with Exocet water reconnaissance aircraft, which can carry a total of 21 aircraft.

The other two are the latest launches of the 'County Guard' class aircraft carriers, this class of aircraft carriers are named after the new county guards of the Chinese Empire, these more than 40,000 tons of big guys can carry a hundred aircraft, two of which were assigned to the Eastern Ocean Fleet, and the "Zheng Ming" and "Wu Yuntong" were assigned to the Southern Ocean Fleet, this time Sun Xiaohu sent all the aircraft carriers.

The Navy's carrier-based aircraft have always been the focus of Fang Xiaoyu's research, so the aircraft carried on these aircraft carriers are more advanced than those of the Army.

In addition to the Exocet water reconnaissance aircraft, there are two types of carrier-based aircraft, one is the Sailfish fighter and the other is the Swordfish attack aircraft.

The Sailfish fighter uses a 610-horsepower nine-cylinder air-cooled engine, all-metal skin, and uses the latest three-bladed fixed-pitch propeller instead of the previous two-bladed propeller, and the aircraft adopts a lower single-wing design, with a speed of 432 kilometers per hour, a maximum ceiling of 9,830 meters, a cruising range of 1,200 kilometers, and is equipped with two 12.7 mm machine guns and a crew member.

In order to increase the take-off weight, the Swordfish attack aircraft uses the old-fashioned biplane shape, in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft, it also abandons the heavy wood and uses duralumin alloy as the skin, the aircraft is equipped with a 700-horsepower nine-cylinder air-cooled engine, the maximum speed is 222 kilometers per hour, the ceiling is 3,260 meters, the maximum range is 1,658 kilometers, and the double ride.

The Swordfish is equipped with a 7mm self-defense machine gun in the rear of the aircraft, and the attack aircraft can carry 400 mm torpedoes or 500 kg bombs, and at this time they are carrying two 250 kg bombs.

At this time, the attack on Nickelodeon Beach was a huge group of planes that had taken off from these three aircraft carriers, with a total of 15 Exocet reconnaissance planes, 20 Sailfish fighters, and 58 Swordfish attack planes.

The intensive bombardment of aircraft panicked the native garrison, which already had little combat experience, and they did not have any air defense experience. When the bombs exploded intensively, most of them actually chose to flee in all directions, and countless soldiers were killed by shrapnel. Others hid in their fortifications and shivered, their brains completely blank by the never-before-seen Grim Reaper.

Soon a huge fleet appeared on the horizon, and the heavy cruisers of the 'Wanghai' class slowly raised their guns and began to shell the fortifications on the shore for the first time, while a large number of transports quickly approached the beach. Several of the Navy's purpose-built amphibious landing ships opened their rear hatches, and a large number of Weasel 1 vehicles slid down the ramp into the shallow water, and these specially built amphibious light combat vehicles for the Marine Corps could sail short distances in the water, and they slowly drove towards the shore at a slow pace.

The first to land was still a large number of Japanese soldiers in assault boats, who were armed with rifles and shouted slogans to charge the fortress of the indigenous garrison, and the charge of the Japanese soldiers attracted most of the garrison's attention. Under their cover, the Marines landed safely on the beach in the Weasel 1.

After going ashore, the infantry of the Marine Corps raised their weapons and fired wildly at the guns of the cement fortifications, so that the garrison could not raise its head, and the engineer troops used the bazookas and explosives bags in their hands to solve these fortifications one by one, and the native garrison was not strong in the first place, and under such a fierce attack, they quickly surrendered.

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