If you hadn't seen hundreds of planes flying toward your target, you couldn't have imagined the sight of despair. Human civilization finally has the ability to destroy the glorious past that each other has built with the power of destruction.

The simultaneous roar of hundreds of aircraft engines in the German bomber group could be heard clearly even on the ground. The Allied soldiers squinted their eyes and shielded themselves from the sunlight with their palms, raised their heads to look up at the sky above them, and looked at the enemy planes passing through like locusts, and their hearts were indescribably bleak.

"Boom!" an anti-aircraft gun not far away began to roar, the slender cannon was pointed high into the sky, and the soldiers were trying to carry the shells from the ammunition box to the side of the artillery, and the huge air currents blew the camouflage net back and forth. However, the number of Allied anti-aircraft guns was too scarce, so in the face of the Luftwaffe, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, it was so powerless to fight back.

Even so, the Luftwaffe did not intend to let go of these planes that were constantly firing at the sky, and the DO-217 continued to fly at high altitude, while the Stuka dive bombers, which accompanied the medium-range bombers, began to howl and accelerate to the ground and dive over.

The Luftwaffe was the world's No. 1 air force worthy of the name, and it had very mature tactical means both in the struggle for air supremacy and in ground attack. Soon the anti-aircraft artillery positions that were firing on the ground were suppressed by the Stuka bombers.

Smoke rose from the ground, flames billowed from the anti-aircraft gun positions, and the soldiers, who were busy rescuing the wounded, had no time to pay attention to the destroyed artillery, but only shouted to carry the soldiers lying on the ground away from the dangerous places.

In the face of such a huge Luftwaffe, the British and American ground forces in the Middle East, which lacked anti-aircraft artillery, were helpless, and they only had some anti-aircraft artillery rushed out from Egypt and other places, which could not stop the Luftwaffe from wreaking havoc in the sky above them.

"Confirm landmarks! Squadrons confirm ground markings!" Inside the German cluster, inside the engine roaring aircraft cabin, the Luftwaffe front-line commander looked at the aviation map in his hand and checked the direction of his flight on the compass. His body swayed slightly with the turbulence of the plane, and outside the window there were bombers painted with iron crosses on their wings.

"Spread out and identify your target!1 Squadron, your target is the Alpha oil terminal, 2 Squadron, your target is the oil pipeline and oil storage tank!3 Squadron, destroy the nearby oil refining equipment!" The commander pressed the switch on the intercom and gave the order to start the attack.

Then an answering voice came from his headphones: "Squadron 1 understands! We are breaking away from the flight formation!" "Squadron 2 understands, we are breaking away from the flight formation!" "The route of Squadron 3 remains the same! The target refinery plant area!"

In fact, the DO-217 medium-range bomber could not reach the Persian Gulf to bomb Saudi Arabia's oil-producing areas, but at that time, Britain and the United States established an oil pipeline across Saudi Arabia in order to facilitate transportation and management, and in order to reduce costs, oil refineries and oil storage facilities for oil hoarding were built on the Red Sea coast, so this gave the Luftwaffe an opportunity.

But who would have thought that in just a few years, the German army would have the ability to fight from Europe to Egypt? Therefore, a large number of factories and oil storage tanks were exposed to the attack of the Luftwaffe, which also made Britain and the United States feel a lot of pain for a while.

Abdullah Aziz ibn Saud is the de facto ruler of the entire Saudi Arabian region, and he is also His Majesty the King here. The representative of the Saudi leader who can fight well has already knocked on the door of General Mountbatten's room at this time.

When the representative of Saudi Arabia, who was wearing a white turban on his head, walked into Mountbatten's office, he went straight to the point without polite dialogue: "Your Excellency, General, I have received news that you have ordered a large amount of oil reserves to be ignited, so that the entire east bank of the Suez Canal will be plunged into a sea of fire?"

"Yes, that's right. Mountbatten didn't have time to argue with the Saudi representatives, so he nodded and admitted what he had done. After all, Saudi Arabia is the head snake here, and without the support of the Saudis, Mountbatten's Middle East strategy may fail completely. So he told the truth and didn't play any unnecessary cleverness at all.

After 1925, the original pro-British Saudi Arabia became pro-German, and the king Abdullah Aziz ibn Saud, who eventually achieved the unification of Saudi Arabia, relied on the support of the Germans to make his fortune. On the other hand, it was the Germans who were the first to discover the oil fields in the Middle East, turning Saudi Arabia from a poor country into a rich oil country.

Germany was eventually kicked out of the Middle East by Britain and the United States, and Germany and Italy's three-thirds of the Middle East oil share was divided between the greedy Britain and the United States, and nothing was left to the Saudi royal family. So Saudi Arabia is not very cold to Iceland, England and the United States.

Because of this, after hearing Mountbatten's answer, the Saudi envoy thought for a while and said: "With this attitude, your country burns oil in Saudi Arabia, causing immeasurable losses to the local area, is it to declare war on Saudi Arabia?"

Mountbatten smiled for a moment, and then according to the prepared rhetoric, he analyzed it reasonably: "The German army broke through the Suez Canal defense line, and it seems that it will kill us, if we ......"

"This is all a matter for you British and Germans, our request is very simple, no one can do anything wrong on our land! understand?" The envoy looked at Mountbatten and said coldly: "Saudi Arabia cannot be the place of war for your countries, the king's intention is very clear, if you can't hold this land, then get out of here quickly!"

Obviously, the Saudis are aware of the seriousness of the situation, and the United States and Britain are planning a war of destruction in Saudi Arabia at any cost, and after the battle, no matter who wins or loses, the final result will have to be paid by the Saudis themselves -- this is obviously an unfair thing, and the Saudis, as the head of the Middle East, are certainly unwilling to accept it.

And this unwillingness to accept is just an unwillingness to accept it for Britain and the United States. A strong country has never been obliged to take care of the life or death of a weak country, and this is a glorious tradition of the great powers over the past 100 years, and it has never changed. So Mountbatten shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly to the Saudi envoy: "For specific negotiation work, our government will send a special person to negotiate with your country, and I am just a soldier and can only obey orders." ”

"Well, you'll regret it sooner or later!" The Saudi envoy was not an idle person, and he was still very confident when he came. As a psychologically pro-German regime, the Saudi government has been secretly eye-to-head with the Germans, and the two sides have maintained almost uninterrupted contact. For the Saudis, since the British don't buy it, they have to let the Germans buy it.

Mountbatten sent off the Saudi envoy and sat back in his chair, he thought for a moment, and then called his assistant: "It is only a matter of time before the Saudis turn to Germany, and instead of cooperating with our side, it is better to curry favor with the Germans who are destined to occupy here." ”

He glanced at his pale assistant and continued with a smile: "It seems that we must be prepared for the most extraordinary situation to happen. Saudi Arabia has about 20% of the oil wells in its hands, and these oil wells must also be equipped with explosives and be ready to destroy them completely!"

"I see, sir, I will arrange the assault forces as soon as possible, and if the Germans approach the oil-producing areas, they will immediately capture them and blow up all the facilities inside!" replied the assistant.

Mountbatten nodded, agreeing to the decision. However, he still knew that his decision was not the best choice, and once the whole plan was implemented, then the Saudis would undoubtedly end up falling to Britain's enemy, the Third Reich.

"Let's wait and see what the outcome will look like. Mountbatten sighed, then closed his eyes. He didn't know what the British Empire would look like in one year, and he didn't know what impact his decision would have on the entire war.

"Report!" An officer walked into Mountbatten's office, stood upright, and put a document on Mountbatten's desk: "General! The front-line troops have just called that the oil storage facilities, oil pipelines, and crude oil processing equipment on the Red Sea coast controlled by our army have been intensively bombed by German planes, and the losses suffered are quite serious. ”

"So fast?" Mountbatten was stunned for a moment, then nodded, as if accepting the result, "Yes! Yes, since it was the Desert Fox who defeated Montgomery, it should be able to deduce our plan...... Order the troops, since Rommel wants to blow up this equipment, then we will also blow it up! Blow it all up!

When the officer heard the order, he seemed a little uncertain, so he whispered, "But...... General, if we blow them up, will we let the Saudis break with us? The offensive of the German ground forces has been temporarily stopped, so there is no need to blow up these facilities in such a hurry, right?"

Mountbatten struggled for a while, but finally made up his mind. He waved his hand and ordered the officer: "There is no pity, instead of letting the Germans worry about it, we have to guard it with fear, it is better to blow it up first!"

He walked to the map, looked at the Red Sea coastline, and then turned and shouted: "Secretary! Secretary! Contact the American army and let all the troops retreat in the direction of the desert! We will focus our defense on the Persian Gulf region!"