Mesopotamia, the Communist Chinese Republic, on the southern border.

Although the United Nations has drawn a border between the Chinese Republic of America and Saudi Arabia, this border is of little significance at the moment, because except for a few Republican Guard strongholds on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the rest of the border is a large desert Gobi, uninhabited, and there are no landmarks that can identify the national border.

The Government of the Republic had intended to build the landmarks along the way, but the construction of the landmarks was the least of the many trivialities of the newly formed Republic - for if the landmarks were not defended, they would be no different from not being built. But now the Republic does not have so many troops to defend the entire border for the time being.

So this border is the same as if it did not exist, and the Arabs are still crossing the border at will and driving into the hinterland of the republic.

To this end, in addition to increasing aircraft patrols, the Republic has also dispatched WWW.UUXS.CC the Desert Patrol Unit. The patrols were armed with large eight-wheeled armored vehicles that had been used by the Republican army to patrol the vast Arabian desert against Arab cavalry and camel caravans.

Tanks powered by aircraft are of course more organic than horses and camels, and in the desert where there is no surface shelter, the advantages of protection and vitality of armored vehicles are vividly demonstrated.

A typical Republican Guard's Desert Patrol will consist of a core battle group consisting of tanks and baggage teams, plus several squads using eight-wheeled armored vehicles. Such a patrol can control a strip-shaped area with a width of more than 30 kilometers when deployed, and if any vehicle in the search array is attacked, the vehicles on both sides can rush to support it within a few minutes, and then within 20 minutes the entire force will gather and outflank the discovered Arab guerrillas.

If the Arabs had delayed a little longer, attack jets carrying incendiary bombs and wide-area heavy fragmentation shells would have arrived.

The attack aircraft equipped by the African Army Air Force is a new product specially designed for low-altitude and low-speed missions, which can fly at a speed of 600 to 700 kilometers per hour at medium altitude and hover at a low speed of about 200 kilometers at low altitude in order to achieve precise direct fire support.

In addition to the bombs under the wing pylons, this attack aircraft is also frantically equipped with a 30-mm Vulcan cannon and a large drum with 1,000 rounds. In order to keep the Vulcan cannon steady when it is pouring fire at a rate of 6,000 rounds per minute, so as not to shake too much and affect aiming, it has a strange nose with a protruding jaw to install the Vulcan cannon's stable device, and this stable device can also make slight adjustments to the muzzle of the Vulcan cannon, so as to further increase the attack accuracy.

Of course, it is impossible for the pilot to take care of shooting, so it adopts a two-seat structure, and the weapon operator equipped in the front cockpit is specially responsible for the fine-tuning of the Vulcan cannon and the aiming of other weapons - this idea of two-person division of labor is the first time in this time and space, no need to ask, it must have been proposed by Lin Youde.

The Vulcan cannon in the nose and the addition of a weapons operator made the head of the fuselage particularly large and impressively heavy, so the jet engine was moved backwards to trim the fuselage and mounted on a reinforced transom in the tail section. At the same time, in order to avoid the engine being injured by ground fire, the engine was placed above the tail fin, and the wing was used to increase the defense against ground attacks.

Lin Youde named this new ground attack aircraft Banshee, and the German equipment number JU277.

While equipping the German army, Lin Youde sold the aircraft to the American and Chinese republics in the name of "combat tests", which, of course, paid for this with oil, not cash.

As soon as the banshees arrived at the front line, they immediately killed the Saudi guerrillas.

In the Banshee's first actual battle, Han Decai, the original ace pilot of the African Army, piloted the attack, and the two-plane formation completely wiped out hundreds of Saudi troops.

The German journalist followed the Republican Guard, who arrived at the scene later, and after witnessing the tragic scene, he wrote: "The bodies of hundreds of people lay in a radius of several kilometers, and you can imagine how hard they tried to escape from the slaughter from the sky, but the Angel of Death did not show the slightest mercy, and they were killed." ”

So the code name "Banshee" became "Banshee" in the community, and the Saudi guerrillas called this terrible weapon Iplis, which is the so-called devil.

In order to cope with this new weapon, Saudi Arabia had to buy vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns from the Americans - theoretically holding air supremacy itself is the most effective means of limiting the activities of such aircraft, but Saudi Arabia in this time and space is not as rich as in another time and space. To put it bluntly, big dogs are nothing without oil, they can only afford anti-aircraft artillery.

In short, in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, the future forms of warfare are the tip of the iceberg: the integration of air and ground, the emphasis on communication and command and processing capabilities, and the maneuvering of operations over a vast area with a moderately sized hybrid strike force.

Because of this, the German Army, which stubbornly adhered to tradition, began to abolish the army divisions formed during the Great War and instead formed various brigade-level mixed battle groups.

The Americans were quick to understand this - after all, their participation in the war in the Arabian desert was much higher than that of the German army, and they had made a great deal of observation and evaluation of the way the African Army, which is now the Republican Guard, was fighting, and therefore was faster than the Germans in reorganizing the army.

It is precisely because the Americans know everything about what is happening in the Arabian desert that they know very well that if the United States of America does not send troops directly, the possibility of defeating the Chinese Republic of Mesopotamia by relying on the tribal forces led by the Saudi royal family is almost zero.

However, it is impossible for the United States to allow Lin Youde to comfortably occupy the oil-producing areas in the Gulf.

This is true for both Democrats and Republicans.

Moreover, the hawks in the United States have long wanted to find a place to take revenge on Lin Youde and avenge the Cuban coup.

By the second half of 1952, tensions began on the Arabian Peninsula.

**

Empire State Building, New York.

Lin Guokai especially likes the view of his new office, looking out the window, he has a feeling that he is in the clouds, and he is in control of the fate of the world.

When he is fine, he likes to hold a martini and look out the window in a daze.

He was doing it now, but soon his good time was interrupted.

After a brief beep, the secretary's voice came over the intercom on his desk: "President, Charles? Mr. Johnson has arrived. ”

"Let him in, I'm waiting for him." As he spoke, Lin Guokai turned his swivel chair and re-faced his desk, and at this moment, the secretary opened the door, and Charles Johnson, chairman of the DuPont Group and secretary of defense, strode into the huge office and sat down on the sofa used by the guests.

After a short greeting, Lin Guokai went straight to the topic: "Mr. Charles, ...... now"

"Mr. Lin Guokai, you know, I don't care if you are still serving Lin Youde." Johnson interrupted Lin Guokai's words, "In my opinion, as long as it is profitable, we can work with anyone, so it doesn't matter who you are talking to, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter who Vale is actually allegiance to." It's the benefits that matter. Mr. Lin Guokai, I know what you want to say when you see me this time, but unfortunately, Mr. Lin Youde's appetite is too great, and the United States cannot tolerate so much oil being accused of being in the hands of others. We have to find ways to secure our future oil supply chains. ”

"As far as I know, the Republic of Mesopotamia is now exporting crude oil to the United States normally." Lin Guokai deliberately omitted the word "Chinese" in order to downplay the legitimacy of this republic in some respects.

"Output alone is not enough, Mr. Lin Guokai, you know what I mean. And that brother of yours has gone too far, he has to annex even the southern part of the Persian Gulf, which originally belonged to the British, and the Republican Guard is already about to arrive in Abu Dhabi. ”

"But there's no oil field there." Lin Guokai spread his hands, "And after the British power withdrew from there, that area fell into war, and several Arab tribes wanted to become regional bosses." The Republican Guard was only deployed under Abu Dhabi for the purpose of carrying out a humanitarian mission to protect civilians. ”

Johnson stared at Lin Guokai with a "Nima, do you think I will believe it" expression on his face.

Lin Guokai spread his hands and said with a smile: "It seems that this argument does not make sense here in Mr. Minister of Defense." ”

"Of course it doesn't make sense, I don't know where Lin Youde is sacred, but his actions over the years have shown one thing, if he wants a piece of land, there must be some precious resources in that land. Of course, iron ore is not a precious resource, but that reserve directly caused the value of the iron ore mining concession in his hand to skyrocket. Johnson shook his head, "It's terrifying to think that such a large iron ore has been found in Australia, which has been asserted by an international expert group to be an iron-poor country." My staff always said that Lin Youde might have some undisclosed information sources, but I knew it wasn't that simple, and that guy -- that guy gave me the feeling that he knew what was going to happen in the future. ”

"I didn't even know that Mr. Johnson, you were actually a disciple of Mr. Lin."

"Am I like? I'm just elaborating on my thoughts. However, whether he was a prophet or something, the United States could not tolerate him continuing to embezzle the oil resources of the Persian Gulf, whether it had been discovered or not. Forget the two river basins that he has already occupied, and he must spit out the oil elsewhere, or the United States may take the most direct action. ”

"Are the United States going to war with Germany again?"

"Of course not, the world longs for peace, and we will not go against this trend." As he spoke, Wilson grinned at Lin Guokai.

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