After nightfall, the attacking Arabs finally retreated.

The battle lasted almost twenty hours, and in fact both sides had no strength to fight again, and although the Arabs took advantage of the surprise attack, they did not actually have such a great advantage in terms of troops.

In addition, the reinforcements that disembarked from the ship at noon were the regular army of the African Army, which had just completed its formation. Lin Youde equips the Afrika Army with emergency Thomson submachine guns bought from the United States -- his own factory is busy refitting the German army, and there is no capacity to arm the Afrika Army. Although this thing is heavier than the submachine gun that Lin Youde personally supervised the work on, its power in close combat is undoubted.

The Arabs were swept down in droves, and the soldiers of the old Ottoman Empire had never encountered such a situation with automatic weapons.

Eventually, the Arabs left behind their corpses and retreated in a hurry.

Although this important base guarding the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers was eventually saved, the garrison of the Reclamation Division had been severely damaged. Most of the officers were killed, and the remaining peasant soldiers did not surrender mainly because they had recently heard too many of those who had surrendered being slaughtered by the Arabs.

Obviously, the desert nomads don't know what it means to "attack the heart", and only know how to kill blindly.

**

The Arab offensive along the route from Basra to Baghdad lasted just over three days, but then continued for weeks. The colonial authorities had been conducting defensive operations and adjusting their troop deployments.

At this time, the situation along the Persian Gulf coast was a bit like the guerrilla zone behind enemy lines in North China in another time and space war of resistance against Japan, except that the position was reversed, and the production and construction corps and the African army, mainly composed of Chinese, held a series of strongholds, and from time to time set out to sweep, while the Arabs became the party engaged in guerrilla warfare.

In order to expound his own thinking on guerrilla warfare, a certain librarian wrote a long paper entitled "Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War," in which he expounded in detail the basis of guerrilla warfare -- in this article, guerrilla warfare is not called guerrilla warfare, but mobile warfare, emphasizing pulling the enemy's formation during the movement and suddenly concentrating his forces to launch a war of annihilation to destroy isolated troops that have detached themselves from the enemy's overall formation.

In order to do this, he placed special emphasis on mass support in the area of operations, as well as on the mastery of the terrain by our army. The former can provide intelligence support for mobile warfare, and the masses will take the initiative to inform the troops of the enemy's movements and hide the movements of our troops from the enemy; And the latter is the key to the rapid concentration of troops and a quick decisive battle.

In fact, these principles correspond to the geographical advantages and people in the three elements of war victory summarized by the ancestors.

The Arabs now have a geographical advantage, but this advantage is not great, because this place is a damn desert, the terrain is relatively monotonous, there are no high heights and no valleys, and the advantage of the Arabs is only manifested when they go deep into the desert: they are familiar with the water source and the location of the desert oasis.

On the human side, thanks to the Ottoman Empire and the British, they joined forces to drastically reduce the number of Arabs, and the two provinces of Baghdad and Basra, which originally had a population of about one million, were driven away by the Ottomans and the British, and now the population is less than 500,000, and most of them are gathered in the city of Baghdad.

The Baghdad route to Basra is basically occupied by the Production and Construction Corps, and the total strength of the entire corps has reached about 150,000 after tireless transportation in the past six months.

In the first week of the Arab war, 20,000 Afrika troops had been shipped from Australia, and with a brigade that had already reached the front line, a total of 24,500 regular troops were preparing to fight against the Arabs.

The troops that are being organized in Guangzhou and Australia will still weigh tens of thousands -- soldiers directly recruited from China will continue to be incorporated into the production and construction corps to make up for their losses.

In January 1937, under the direct instruction of Lin Youde, the command system in the Middle East was reorganized, and he made clear the policy of using the production and construction corps to stabilize the rear and the African army to enter the sweep.

In late January 1937, the Afrika Army surrounded Baghdad and began to set up artillery positions on the outskirts of the city in preparation for the siege.

But at this time, what Lin Youde had been worried about happened.

The Arabs appeared on the battlefield in their magical armor, routed the besieging Afrika forces, and helped the Arabs capture the Baghdad airfield that they had been trying to capture at the beginning of the uprising, but had not been able to capture.

**

Potsdam, end of January 1937.

A map of the Persian Gulf has been replaced on the wall of Mr. Lin's office, and the map is dotted with military lands along the line from Basra to Baghdad.

Lin Youde stood in front of the map, stared at the map, and whispered: "Originally, I wanted to take Baghdad and end the battle before the British magic armor was transported, but I still couldn't catch it in time." ”

Originally, Lin Youde was going to play yin, and after grasping the information that the British were transporting magic armor, he used a submarine to sink the freighter at sea, but the British transferred some armor from the troops stationed on the Iranian plateau to the Arabs, Lin Youde could only stare dryly after getting the information, and then issued an order to retreat. I didn't expect the enemy's speed of action to be so fast, and before the troops could be withdrawn, Zhan Ji went to the front line.

"I suspect that the British are driving it inside the magic armor." Viola frowned, "The battle queen who has never used magic armor will have to train for three months before she can go to battle, so if something happens in that place called Wei in Turkey, it is estimated that it will be donated to the artillery of the chariot and the iron fist of the infantry." ”

"Velikoy, it's also a famous example of the first time that a pure conventional armed force had a draw with a war queen, how much do you have to remember the name correctly?" Lin Youde was busy complaining, wife.

Viola shrugged: "Anyway, I don't care about the military now, so this kind of thing is casual." ”

At this time, Sissi said: "I also think that it should be British, but we have no evidence......"

Lin Youde sighed, he glanced at the sofa, a year ago like this the fox always lay on the sofa and ate leisurely, and now the fox is busy controlling her subordinates to do information.

"I'll leave the evidence to the fox, but I think no matter what we come up with, the British will not admit it."

After Lin Youde finished speaking, the two girls in the room nodded in unison.

And if the British don't admit it, Lin Youde can't do anything about them, and now he can't attack the British, right?

Diplomacy, in fact, is the same principle as what we usually call "coming out and mixing", after leaving the cruel words, there must be action, just leaving the cruel words without doing it, and soon people will treat you as a soft-footed shrimp, and will no longer pay attention to your cruel words. Therefore, in diplomatic occasions, when you say protest, you really just verbally protest, and when you say that you condemn, you really want to kill your whole family, and you have to do that.

Therefore, Lin Youde is in this world, and he does not condemn people lightly, and after opening his mouth to denounce twice, it is accompanied by military action.

He decided to keep the tradition going.

At this time, Sissi said: "I have had some exchanges with Isabella's majesty, and I feel that she is not this kind of person who likes to play tricks." ”

"In the British environment, it's impossible not to play tricks." Lin Youde shook his head, "Even Her Majesty the Queen can't go against the will of the British upper class as a whole, it's that simple." It's like Viola, she was just going with the flow before she met me......"

"Hey!" Viola glared at Lin Youde unhappily, "I was planning to do something new, with or without you, I will definitely become president." ”

Lin Youde shrugged.

He turned his gaze to the map again: "Judging from the current situation, we still have at least a month to deal with it, because it is unlikely that the British warriors will always fight, after all, they still have to take care of the Iranian plateau." The Persians and Kurds on the Iranian plateau are all under the guise of Iranian oil fields, and the British, unlike us, can enrich the colonies with a large number of immigrants and turn the local natives into minorities. They need the power of the warrior to maintain their position on the Iranian plateau. ”

"A month." Viola sighed as she spoke.

Sissi also looked embarrassed.

As early as December last year, Lin Youde's family began to discuss the countermeasures after the British provided the magic armor to the Arabs, and it turned out that after considering it, there was only one way to send the German girls from Germany to the desert.

To be honest, there are a lot of problems in doing this, after all, the war queen is a regular army of Germany, openly appearing in the desert and waging war against the Arabs or something, it is too naked, and the British at least put on a fig leaf of "selling old models that are about to be decommissioned".

The option of transferring the war queen from other countries is completely unfeasible, because all countries see the war queen as a strategic resource, and they will only use it for their own benefit, like the British, and do not think about "lending" it to others.

The room was cold, and silence enveloped the office, making the sound of the gears of the corner clock particularly clear.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." After Lin Youde finished speaking, Hybert pushed the door in.

"Mr. Lin, the representative of the German Jewish Chamber of Commerce asks for a meeting."

"Let them make an appointment first." Lin Youde is a very big name.

"They say that if you want them to make an appointment first, tell them that they have some Jewish girls of warlord blood."

Lin Youde raised his eyebrows, he first looked at Viola, who shrugged: "It stands to reason that all girls will be screened by the bloodline of Zhan Ji when they are of the right age, and after confirming that they are Zhan Ji, they will be charged by the state." But you see, since I can be hidden as a god, it's not strange to hide some warlord girls, right? ”

(The author said that he wanted to play heroes and win 2 games in a row and then update it, but he lost for six or seven hours in a row, and knelt down for his foreigner pig teammates)