A crooked crescent moon hangs diagonally in the sky. 【 I want to: super fast update 】Reflecting on the sand around me, it gives people an indescribable sense of desolation.

This is the Sultanate of Muscat (present-day Oman), 75 kilometers north of the port of Salalah in the Kuriamur Islands. From here, you can reach the region of Najd, which is controlled by Ibn Saud. But only if you can reach the Riyadh Oasis by traversing about 600 kilometers of barren sand dunes.

Usually this desert is inaccessible. But today there is a garrison, but strangely. The horrified horse, resting in the sand, could not see any cargo in sight.

A bonfire flickered in the sea breeze, and several men wrapped themselves in robes and chatted around the fire. But the eyes under the face towel looked at the sea from time to time.

Sanjani will open the can, the boxy text on the can he does not recognize, but the beef inside tastes very good, I heard from others, this is a military canned beef from the East.

A frequent visitor to the dunes, travelling between Muscat and Riyadh, he was ostensibly a businessman, but in reality he was in the service of the great Ibn Emir of Saud, helping him to raise funds against the Hashemites and the Ottomans, whose presence had brought him untold wealth. Because he was familiar with the road, he was secretly sent here this time to personally pick up a group of oriental guests.

But what kind of guests will arrive at night?

And it's not a harbor either, it's surrounded by shallow talk and reefs, and it's desolate and palpitating. How did they get here? I heard that the British have blocked this sea, did they come with warships?

Sanjani took the opportunity to eat beef. I glanced at the few people next to me, and I wanted to ask, but I was afraid that I would be in trouble with many mouths and tongues, so I simply closed my mouth.

However, he still admires these people from the East, "who like to call themselves dragon countries." You must know that it is precisely because of their appearance that they have quietly changed the Arab world.

As the owner of one of the best camel caravans in this desert, he is not a fool who only knows how to read scriptures, he knows very well that this seemingly war-cut desert has long been secretly surging, "although the entire Arabian Peninsula from here to the west is still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire", in fact, the Arab sheikhs, including the emir, have long wanted to secede from the Ottomans, but the current war situation is still unclear. Except for Hejaz, who had already announced his membership in the Entente, no one dared to stand up and express his attitude.

Especially after China declared war, and the nearest Brunei, Ecuador and Peru also joined. The Allied power exploded, and the long list of warship wrecks that littered the Pacific was enough to make these little chiefs temporarily lose their attachment to the British. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Now the Emir of Ibn Saud no longer needs to worry about money and weapons, because before the outbreak of the war, the Chinese people brought in tens of thousands of rifles and thousands of boxes of ammunition. And I heard that the princess of the emir has gone to the east to study, and also lived in the palace and fell in love with the emperor, which is equivalent to giving the emir a big backer.

Of course, it's all secret. Because the emperor didn't want the emir to change Najd now, and the emir didn't want to take a stand at this time, but it is said that everyone already had a tacit understanding. After the war, Hua will help defeat the Hejaz Rashid family once and for all and take over the entire peninsula.

Sanjani ate beef "squinting his eyes like a cunning fox, as if he saw a picture of the revival of the Arab world under the leadership of the emir, but before he could begin to fantasize about what position he could get, a series of beeping suddenly sounded from the side.

The sound immediately held his breath, for he had heard it in the telegraph station run by the Chinese in Riyadh.

Sure enough, several people next to him immediately took out something similar to the square box of the telegraph station from their backpacks, and one of them put on headphones, "After listening to the meeting, he kept tapping with his fingers, and when the sound came again, he turned off the radio and stood up."

Sanjani didn't dare to approach the radio, but he came to the man with the binocular, and when he saw him coming, his Chinese partner smiled at him and pointed into the distance.

Swallowing his saliva, Sanjani climbed onto a large rock, and through the moonlight, he saw that a large stream of water suddenly appeared on the sea in the distance, and a moment later, two huge black shadows slowly surfaced like monsters under the sea. He was so scared that he almost didn't get his head up.

On the sparkling sea, several dolphins jumped back and forth around the submarine, which made the captain Zhu Changshan cry and laugh. Fortunately, it is night, and if it were daytime, I am afraid that such an anomaly would have attracted the Entente ships all over the Indian Ocean.

After seeing a flashing red signal from the periscope. Zhu Changshan immediately ordered the hatch to be opened, and as several leather dinghys were inflated, they quickly swelled, "A few nighthawks with backpacks came out of the hatch.

One, two, three——。

If anyone else saw this scene at this time, they would probably be shocked, and more than fifty Nighthawks had actually drilled out of each of the two huge submarines.

Watching the soldiers board the kayaks in batches and row to the shore, Zhu Changshan couldn't help but feel a little proud, he was able to transport so many soldiers, and I am afraid that there are only these two submarines in the world that should be said to be from a failed plan.

This is part of the submarine assault plan that Qin Shou, the commander of the Navy's submarines, has actively promoted, according to which the navy will build more than 20 super-large submarines. Each ship must be able to carry 100 heavily armed light infantry and have a range of at least 2,500 nautical miles.

According to the plan, submarine forces can be sent from Hawaii to the main countries on the Pacific coast. Then taking advantage of the suddenness of the submarine to send at least 2000 infantry to the enemy's shores, according to which the Navy allocated two large ocean-going submarines of this displacement, up to 3600 tons, were built for experiments.

The result was disappointing, not that it couldn't carry so many soldiers, but that it couldn't fit too many weapons after loading so many soldiers. Coupled with the fact that submarines are naturally inferior in speed, soldiers need to stay in tanks for too long, and their own survivability is also problematic after the Allies began to use depth charges.

Later, there were also officers who proposed to convert the two submarines into underwater carriers. Carry three to four seaplanes. However, due to various difficulties, it was not realized.

At that time, Li Mo also knew about this plan, but he did not interfere, because the navy needs all kinds of ideas, and it is impossible for the navy to make progress if it is lifeless and follows the development of other people's ass, and the price of two experimental boats is nothing in front of the mind" So he chose to watch from the sidelines.

After the plan was aborted, "the navy was reluctant to give up the two submarines, and at this time Li Mo told them that its practical diving to carry soldiers on a large-scale landing could not be done." But it is a powerful tool for small-scale infiltration. So the two submarines, named the Killer Whale class, were finally retained, and after the torpedo compartment was reinstalled, the habitation compartment that could carry 50 people was retained.

Standing on the long and narrow deck, Wenxiu's eyes were burning, originally Nighthawk's plan was to go to Western Siberia, but it was still snowy there at this time. So it came to mind to borrow these two submarines for landing from the Arabian Peninsula. Then go through Mesopotamia into the Caucasus and into Russia.

"Captain Wen, it's time to wait for you." After the intelligence officer who came to meet him saluted, he immediately handed over the traditional Arabic robes, and Wenxiu did not refuse. What to wear is not a question at all for him.

"How many days will it take to get from here to the Caucasus?"

"Stay in the stead for about twenty days." The informant said: "There is no major problem in Najd, but after Greater Kuwait you have to be careful, three days ago the Entente army suddenly intensified its offensive. They made a detour to Hamadan in an attempt to attack Baghdad from there "so far they have been blocked by the Ottoman army, but recently they have been dying like a bloody fight, and the Russians have also begun to gather heavy forces in Baku to prepare for a counterattack on Erzurum, and the situation is not very good." ”

"Oh, what about the 2nd Marine Division?" After Fei got dressed, Wen Xiu and the intelligence officer rode on the ostrich side by side, and said, "Is there a big problem?" ”

"A little"

Speaking of the 2nd Marine Division, the intelligence officer's face was not good. Shaking his head, he said: "The Entente army has been attacking Ahvaz, the casualties of the troops are very large, and yesterday the British Navy also tried to storm Musabar Bay, and the Seventh Fleet desperately resisted and sank three cruisers, but also lost two destroyers itself. At present, they are considering abandoning the Muszabar Bay base and going all out to defend the port of Kuwait. ”

As soon as he heard that the situation in Great Kuwait, which was calm and quiet before departure, had changed so much in a short period of time, Wen Xiu's face couldn't help but change slightly. Hurriedly asked, "Have these situations been reported?" ”

"The newspaper went up, but I heard that the General Staff could not come up with a good solution, because the Strait of Hormuz had been completely cut off by mines" and even Britain's own fleet in the bay could not get out for the time being, and the ability of the Ottoman army was so poor that it would retreat in great strides once it faced the desperate efforts of the Entente. Now north of Ahvaz and Hamadan were occupied by the Entente forces, who had heard that they were preparing to persuade Ibn Saud to enter the war. But it was refused, so the 2nd Marine Division fought hard, and there was no assistance and replenishment at all.

Wenxiu gasped. Leng Qi, he had the idea of leading troops to help the Second Marine Division, but reason told him that he must not stay here, because the task he shouldered this time was too important. If successful, it will completely change the current situation of the war.

And the General Staff and the emperor will definitely not watch the Second Division being surrounded, but the road in front of them is too difficult to walk. It is more than 1,500 kilometers from here to Greater Kuwait by land, and there is no railway along the way. There are no roads, all barren deserts" The large army is very difficult to walk, and even the armored divisions with super motivation are a little difficult.

In the final analysis, China has good equipment, but the uneven infrastructure of various countries cannot afford advanced equipment, if in China, relying on relatively perfect transportation, it is not a problem for armored divisions to run four or five hundred kilometers in a day, but one or two hundred kilometers in this kind of place is enough for a headache!

Moreover, it can be secretly arrived by submarine landing, and once a large force moves, it will absolutely not be able to hide from the Indian Grand Fleet, which is several thousand nautical miles from Gapo here. The pressure on naval escorts is very high.

"Will the 2nd Army Division be able to support the arrival of a large force? What good measures will the emperor's general staff come up with? "Watch as the two killer whale submarines slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. Wen Xiu retracted his gaze, and there was a long journey of more than 3,000 kilometers in front of him.