Chapter 718: Selling Teammates
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And because of the weapons and ammunition supported by the British, the rebels, who were even stronger than when they were not destroyed, boldly seized the opportunity when Kerim had not yet returned eastward, and decisively attacked the holy city of Jerusalem, fortunately, Krim left more than 10,000 loyal and reliable North African troops there before returning west, which was finally temporarily guaranteed, but under the siege of the rebels' superior forces, the situation was also precarious, and some other Arab army troops who still insisted on fighting were in a similar situation
If he leads his army back east to suppress the rebellion, the German army alone and the troops left behind by him will definitely not be able to defeat the North African Allied forces, which have exceeded 600,000 and are still increasing their troops, and then there is a risk that their base will completely fall, but if they continue to ignore the rebels in West Asia, with their deep roots in the local area, it is very likely that West Asia will be separated from the territory of the Arab League, and even the security of Egypt and even the oil base Libya may be endangered
But just when Kerim was in a dilemma, the Allies themselves encountered a bigger problem and were unable to continue to ensure the logistics of the North African Allied forces, which led to the complete bankruptcy of Montgomery's strategy, and the American and British allies, whose total strength in North Africa reached more than 700,000 at its peak, began to hastily board ships and retreat from this land that left them with painful memories.
Upon learning of this and confirming it, Kerim immediately and decisively concentrated all Liliang and launched a tidal wave of continuous offensive against the Allied defense line, which had previously suffered a loss, and did not stop the offensive even with heavy casualties in the early days. Countless UAE officers and men launched one surprise attack after another against the enemy without regard for their lives, and although the 450,000 North African Allied troops who had not yet had time to withdraw could withstand it for the time being, they were also completely dragged back and could not retreat calmly, and the supplies from the sea were increasingly unable to be supplied, and after losing several positions one after another, the defeat of the Allied forces was inevitable.
At this time, the British continued their glorious tradition of betraying their teammates (they often did this during World War II), and while the American troops were still stubbornly resisting the enemy's attack, Montgomery secretly led some British troops to board the ship and retreat, leaving the larger number of American troops behind. So much so that even Eisenhower, the commander of the U.S. military, was able to evacuate safely thanks to the help of naval combat ships
The British army dismantled the platform in this way. Naturally, the morale of the American army was greatly damaged, and some of the British and Commonwealth troops who did not have time to withdraw were also extremely embarrassed, and the situation of the war became more and more unfavorable. In this case, Rommel's Afrika Korps trimming became a straw that broke the camel's back. The onslaught of their fresh force led to the collapse of the Allied forces in North Africa, which were already difficult to support. According to incomplete statistics after the war. The number of Allied surrenders and prisoners exceeded 200,000. More than 150,000 people were killed in battle, while the Axis side also suffered more than 250,000 casualties (more than 200,000 in the UAE and more than 50,000 in the Afrika Korps). )。 But in the end, a decisive victory was achieved in the first phase of the war in the North African theater
After such a major victory, Kerim did not have time to attend the celebration dinner held by the Germans, so he immediately hurriedly took his most elite and most trusted "Emil Guard" and a part of the Moroccan Corps to the seaport city of Tangier in northern Morocco to board the ship. Kerim did not ask them to participate in this counterinsurgency in West Asia, because in his opinion, as long as he personally went out to deal with the rabble of the rebels, he only needed 3-50,000 troops at most to complete it, and more troops would increase the pressure on logistics, and the series of battles that followed also proved his judgment
For a month and a half, Kerim commanded a total of just over 50,000 troops (30,000 of whom he brought back to West Asia, and more than 20,000 of whom were still resisting and did not surrender to the rebels). The army won 17 battles in a row, killing more than 90,000 rebels and capturing more than 170,000, not counting the herdsmen who were coerced by the rebels.
But even so, the rebellion caused great trauma to the Arab Federation, with millions of civilians in West Asia displaced and more than 150,000 killed or missing, mostly because of their loyalty to the Krim and the Arab regime. The cannibalism between North Africans and West Asians has further exacerbated the already existing estrangement and rift between the two main groups of people in the Arab Federation
Kerim, who learned from the pain, believed that the outbreak of the rebellion was certainly instigated and instigated by the British colonialists, but the root cause was also the demagoguery and incitement of the Wahhabi extremist sects and the embarrassment of the former tribal chiefs such as the old Saudi royal family and other West Asian feudal shili, so he resolutely decided to completely eliminate the two major tumors that seriously endangered the Arab Shijie and even the Islamic Shijie, and at the same time, these two shili were also the biggest obstacles to the industrialization of the Arab Federation, so it was considered to kill two birds with one stone to eliminate them
The purge of the UAE army naturally provoked a revolt by the two great shili and their sympathizers, which in turn further spurred Kerim to intensify the purge, and he was well aware that once the doctrines of monotheism were misread and drilled into the horns, there was little chance of awakening themselves, whether it was the Sufis of the Middle Ages or the Wahhabis of the present day. Rather than spending great energy on persuasion, which is almost impossible to succeed, and even if it is controlled for a while, people will die in the future, it is better to quickly cut through the chaos and directly eliminate all the fanatical believers who believe in extremist sects physically
So Krim immediately ordered a strict ban on Wahhabi throughout the country, and the missionaries were found to kill one by one, and the believers who did not go to the legal mosques allowed by the government to listen to the scriptures, but went to the underground preaching points, were all arrested and sent to build railroads, and if they committed repeat crimes, they were directly executed; As for the former tribal chiefs, as long as they did not resolutely fight against the rebels in the rebellion, they were all regarded as rebels and executed, with the result that in just one year, more than eighty percent of the former tribal elites in all parts of West Asia were killed
Such harsh practices naturally provoked another rebellion in West Asia, but with Kerim himself in charge, each of their rebellions was quickly extinguished without exception, not only failed to destabilize the Klim regime, but facilitated Krim's purge because it was exposed early (to be continued......