Chapter 639 Only 72 hours

April 11th, Avas.

Avaz is the northernmost city in Greater Kuwait. It originally belonged to Persia and was occupied by the Ottoman Empire. Later, the Empire obtained it with supplies and loans and merged it into Greater Kuwait.

No one thought it was a good idea before. It was not cost-effective to fly fast in the core area of the enemy thousands of miles away, and the Strait of Hormuz is too dangerous. Even now it is still in the hands of the enemy, but no one can deny that the emperor has made an extremely wise decision, because it is in the south of this small city, Abba Dan, Basra and Kuwait have found a large amount of oil one after another. According to the agreement with the chiefs, Xinhua will account for 70% of the oil interests in Greater Kuwait.

Few people in China know how much oil can be produced here every year, but the sea ths stationed here for nearly a year are very clear that if it hadn't been for the beginning of the war and the sea was closed, the oil produced here every year would be enough for so many domestic ships and cars to drink and surplus.

This is a treasure land, no doubt.

In addition to oil, this is also the estuary of the two river basins of the Mesobotan Plain. To the north, it can enter the Ottoman and Russian Caucasus, to the west to threaten the Suez Canal, and to the east, it affects Persia. The strategic position is very important, so the British should also win this battle as soon as possible.

So for half of the second marines stationed here, this is a major test!

In the early morning, there was a sound of chanting over Avas City, which was set up in the headquarters in the city. The sea haraons looked at the map while wiping their beloved shell guns, but their eyelids kept jumping.

Something is wrong!

The crow barks and the eyelids jump, which is the worst sign. He used to crawl and roll in the bandit's nest for so many years, and he was a superstitious person, so the eyelid jump in the morning made him a little restless.

According to the domestic telegram, the first batch of troops to support can land today and tomorrow, and this time, in addition to the two regiments left by the previous second division, there is also a steppe division. I heard that an armored regiment of the Second Prind Guard was also dispatched.

Because of the relationship between the imperial concubine Luo Niangniang, he knows more than others. The army infantry has an armored regiment, plus a direct armored battalion, with a total of 120 tanks and 60 night cat armored vehicles, while the Second Imperial Guard is a large regiment, with five armored battalions and direct reconnaissance companies, that is, 170 tanks and 8 0 armored vehicles.

In addition to a large number of tank armored vehicles, there are more than 1,000 trucks and military tractors. Others don't know how powerful they are, but they know them. If you work hard, you can move to Kuwait in five days at most, and there is no problem to arrive in Avas within six days.

So the Allied Persian Front will definitely have a big action in the near future.

There are only three breakthrough points. The first is his own Awaz, but there is an Ottoman division with more than 20,000 people in Dizful, north of Avas. Although the combat effectiveness is very poor, it is at least a meat shield. Even if there are 20,000 pigs, the British infantry will kill them for at least one day, which is enough for their own deployment.

The Zohre River and Abadan in the south are two regimental defense areas. A Zohle River alone has left Britain no less than 10,000 people behind. It is not more difficult to go. Is it possible to attack the city of Kuwait directly from Sefanier?

This is possible. It is said that the new Allenby is a powerful angle. It can't be seen that Kuwait's defense is not perfect. The fifth regiment was later mixed with the reading regiment. There is a gap between the combat effectiveness of the first regiment and the second regiment, but there are naval fleets and aircraft in Kuwait, plus the local The Chinese oil workers were also armed. There were 8,000 people in a patchwork, and there was an Ottoman master to the west of Basra. It was not possible to fight it in a day.

What's the problem?

The sea thirre repeatedly glanced at the three defense zones, and gradually his eyes fell on his defensive group of Avas, especially Dids Fuller in the north. Are the British ready to attack there?

"Eunion, what are you looking at?"

Looking up and seeing his instructor, Haiji hurriedly asked, "Lao Shen, I'm looking for you."

"Oh?" Instructor Shen and Haiqizi have also worked together for many years. He knew that the head of the regiment, which is said to have some relationship with Luo Niang's family, usually shouts like a bandit, but he was particularly serious when he encountered something, so he immediately asked, "What did the regimental commander think of?"

The sea owl didn't talk nonsense. He swept his fingers at Dizfuler and asked, "Lao Shen, didn't you go here a few days ago? How is their defense going?

"Very good." Instructor Shen nodded and said, "The Ottomans moved the one in the Dardanelles and dug a lot of trenches and fortifications. It will take at least three or four days for the British to niblow down."

"The trench? Didn't you pull the barbed wire? Does the British have an Indian cavalry division?

"I was transferred. The Indian cavalry division had all crossed the strait to Sephanire yesterday." Instructor Shen pointed to the map and muttered, "I really don't know what the British are doing. We have perfect barbed wire defense in the south of Greater Kuwait, and it's useless to put the cavalry anywhere, so I guess the British are going to block the bullet eye of our reinforcements with Indian A San."

Instructor Shen smiled. Thinking of the scene of the Indian cavalry fleeing after the armored regiment lined up to kill, he felt comfortable all over. He just wanted to talk a few more words, but when he saw that there was still something wrong with the seafarth's face, he hurriedly asked, "Lion leader, are you worried about something?"

"Hmm." The Hare did not hide it and frowned, "I'm worried about Didsfuler. The scouts said last time that the British had used tanks outside Baghdad. I was wondering if they would move the tanks here and use them to break through."

"Maybe, but the speed of the British little nomad tank is too slow. It can only run 7 kilometers per hour at the fastest, and the speed of passing through the trench is only 3 kilometers per hour, which is not as fast as the infantry running. It takes at least two days and two nights from Disfowler to us, and it can't be used as an assault force at all."

Instructor Shen's words made Haihouzi a little relieved. Just as he was about to think about whether the problem was elsewhere, the communication monitor suddenly jumped in and shouted excitedly, "Song leader, instructor, I have received the signal!"

"Signal? What signal?" If you don't have a head, it makes the sea rilet suddenly stop wiping the gun.

"It's the signal of the fleet. Ten minutes ago, all the task force arrived at the port of Salalah. At present, they have begun to clean up the landing site. A total of 4 battleships, 8 cruisers and 10 destroyers are fiercely shelling the port of Salalah, and more than 100 aircraft!"

"In two hours at most, the first batch of troops can go ashore!"

"It's great, haha." The words of the communication monitor made the two of them laugh at the same time. With such a strong firepower, with more than 10,000 British and Italian forces, they could not stop it at all. As long as the tank landed ashore, it would be a big victory!

The sea threak suddenly patted his thigh. Just as he was about to reach out to grab the cup on the table and calm himself down with cold water, a ripple on the surface of the water in the cup suddenly stunned the corners of his eyes.

The water waves rippled one after another, as if they were awakened by something, and the earth under their feet suddenly shook. The Haiharfish and Instructor Shen, who participated in the northern battle of the Russian War, suddenly changed their faces. This feeling was really too familiar, that's right!

"Ksars!"

The gate was smashed open, and the communication soldiers rushed in anxiously: "The regimental commander, cavalry, Russian Cossack cavalry, tens of thousands of people are rushing towards us!"

The sea bream and the crowd were stunned for a while and suddenly grabbed the barge gun and helmet on the table. When he rushed out of the room and walked to the top floor of the headquarters, his eyes suddenly turned blood red. He only saw tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry wearing cloaks and waving snowy knives and flying guns a few kilometers away from in the north. Straight to the place.

Seeing these cavalry, everyone understood that Dizfuler must have failed. The 20,000 Ottoman infantry with poor combat effectiveness could not stop the elite Cossack cavalry from assault at all, not to mention the number of them!

A moment later, the machine gun on the first defense line in the north of the city rang out. The dense bullets swept through the cavalry array like a hurricane, and the ferocious Cossack cavalry were constantly torn apart by bullets, but compared with the sound of Ula, there were too few machine guns.

"Block them!"

"Avoid facing the cavalry directly with the private house as the sniper point!"

"artillery company, direction 090, rapid fire!"

A burst of shouts immediately plunged the small Avas City into madness and smoke--

120 kilometers north of the port of Salalah, on Haraniye Island, 15 dragon teeth were close to the sea. When the reflection was thrown into the water and swept back, the "fish bone" under the abdomen flashed away.

In the cockpit, Jin Wei licked the corners of his mouth excitedly and looked at several burning black spots on the sea in the distance, which were the squadrons sent by the Indian Grand Fleet, two Nelsons and two Old Duncans that had been ravaged by the Guam class of the second battleship formation.

Because the second battleship formation immediately went south to provide fire support for the landing troops after solving them, these big ships that had not yet sank made him particularly happy. He was very unhappy that he did not get the battleship in the decisive battle, but he was not interested in Longya horizontal bombing to support the land, so he took this task.

The war eagle quickly passed by these big guys who were on fire. The track of the tail of the fish thorn plunged the British sailors who had no power to fight back into despair. Jin Wei liked this feeling. When the dragon wing sign shone in the sky, there was a rumbling explosion on the sea.

Half an hour later, when Jin Wei took everyone back to the port of Salalah, he only saw that the defense line of the British-Italian coalition behind the port had been blown up by four battleships. Compared with the horizontal bombing method used by Longya against the enemy, the power of the battleship in supporting landing was too strong, and a Guam-class shell fell. There are no living people in tens of thousands of square meters, and the accuracy is much higher than that of horizontal bombing.

Fortunately, Longyi will soon be equipped with a special night owl bombing/attack aircraft. After going back this time, he will become the first batch of pilots to modify and test flights. At that time, the mother ship will really have the dual attack capability of land and sea.

While waiting for the landing, Jin Wei saw that the five landing ships had taken the lead in leaning against the seal and the marines to clean up the landing dock. After the bow door opened, tanks and chariots quickly sailed out of the cabin, and the infantry waded into the beach like suffocated cheetahs.

Next to

, a large roller ship also leaned against the hard-won deep-water wharf. This super cargo ship showed super loading and unloading capabilities. After the hatch was opened, thousands of infantry and trucks gushed out of the cabin like locusts and joined the ranks of the deep attack.

Colonel Sangera suddenly fell to the ground in the distance. The oath he had promised General Allenby that he would keep had already been bombarded to pieces by the ship, and finally collapsed in front of the dense Xinhua Army soldiers. When he summoned up his last courage, he was ready to rush to the enemy and finally show the courage of the British [***] people. When he was angry, several tanks that had never been seen before, and the steel body was still painted with a tiger with wings roared, which made him completely desperate.

In the flagship Nanchu, the staff and officers walked with the wind.

After the capture of the port of Salalah and the port of Hadib on Socotra Island, it means that a perfect victory is coming. As long as the second and third transport fleets arrive and a perfect defense circle is established, the task force composed of two fleets will achieve a big victory comparable to the Gulf of Panama!

In the battle center, there was also continuous laughter. Even the cold-faced Lefei smiled and introduced: "The Nelson-class battleship Anson sank, Alexandra forcibly ran ashore, two Duncan-class ships had also sunk, and the remaining cruisers were fleeing to the Strait of Hormuz.

The other ro-ro ship has been close to the deep-water wharf, but the wharf is too short. Only one can be docked at a time. It is expected to take 9 hours for all six ships to be unloaded. The Marines are now cleaning up the other docks and are expected to be completed in three hours. The whole landing operation is expected to be completed by 12 p.m. tonight. Le Fei said.

"Has the group set out yet?" Xie Baozhang held the telescope and asked.

"It has set off. There are a total of 4 hummingbirds, 52 dragon teeth and 12 escort bumblebees. It is expected to arrive in Kuwait in 6 hours. We have sent a telegram to the Second Marine Division and the Kuwait Flying Wing to prepare. If the speed is fast, we can launch an attack at 6 o'clock tonight at the latest, as long as two ships are killed. After the old king's power level, the assault troops can be unimpeded.

Xie Baozhang put down the telescope and breathed a little relief. This was a relay method figured out by the navy. Let the HNA aircraft carry a secondary fuel tank to Kuwait in advance, and then kill the British fleet in the Persian Gulf after refueling in Kuwait, so as to save those heavy artillery from threatening the assault forces, but because it could not carry torpedoes, only It is not reassuring to rely on the 125 kilograms of bombs stored in the Kuwait base.

But this is also the last resort. Each dragon tooth can carry two 125 bombs. At worst, it will be dispatched a few more times. As long as the British fleet is expelled from the coast of Severiye and the Arabian Peninsula to Persia, the subsequent infantry can take a train from Riyadh to the front line of Severiye.

The truck starts from here. Even if there is a desert barrier, one day and one night is enough, and then the railway train only takes 23 hours. If the tank is not slow, it can even take up to 60 hours to send the army to Séfanier.

The biggest problem now is Riyadh, and protecting the railway line is the top priority!

"The seals have set off. They will arrive in Riyadh tomorrow afternoon. In addition, the General Staff has just sent a message. Ibn Saud finally opened his mouth and is willing to send cavalry to help us ensure the safety of the railway line, but will not intervene in other wars."

"This old fox!"

When Xie Baozhang scolded secretly, Zhu Houbin smiled and said, "Ha ha, if I had known to bring some army storms, their bombing power and range were stronger than our dragon's. After killing the British fleet, we can use planes to patrol the railway line. It's okay."

"Report, the 2nd Marine Division sent an emergency telegram, and they were attacked!" Zhu Houbin smiled and before he finished speaking, a burst of rapid footsteps interrupted the relaxed atmosphere in the bridge.

"Half an hour ago, the Avas defense area was suddenly attacked by tens of thousands of Russian Cossack cavalry. The regiment stationed there suffered heavy losses. At present, the commander of the Hari has established a defense line in the city. Now the British infantry has taken over the attack, and the Russian cavalry is rapidly moving south to Abadan!"

"What!"

Xie Baozhang jumped up and quickly walked to the map. The air in the bridge suddenly became solemn. Seeing that the landing had begun, he did not expect that there was a big problem suddenly occurred in Greater Kuwait at this time.

Even the naval staff know that after the loss of Avas, the Persian front of the Allies can point directly at Abadan, and there is no danger in that area. If the Basra Bridge is captured by the other side, it will be too late for the armored troops to arrive in Kuwait now!

"Russian Cossack cavalry! Damn, Russia itself is too busy to take care of itself, and Nicholas II dares to stretch out his claws.

"These bitches!"

"Chief of Staff, why don't we arrange some more planes to go there?"

"No way." Zhu Houbin's suggestion was immediately stopped by Xie Baozhang: "The wave of planes just now has emptied a mother ship, and more than a dozen cruisers of the Indian Grand Fleet are chasing after them (at this time, I don't know that Campbell has withdrawn the cruiser), and there are a large number of small British warships and submarines in this area, which are not enough for battleships alone."

"What should I do?"

Just as everyone was anxious to figure out what to do, a voice suddenly came out of the corner.

"Your officer, the flying tiger group requests to attack in advance!"

"In advance?" Everyone looked at the short and small Ulan and looked at his resolute face. They couldn't help admiring the major's determination, but at present, the transport ship has just begun to unload, and they are afraid of relying on an armored regiment alone.

"Sar, the Flying Tiger Regiment has all landed. As long as the oil and transport team can be unloaded first, I can guarantee that it will arrive in Kuwait within three days!"

Looking at Ulan, the head of the Flying Tiger Regiment, who saluted with his head high, and looking at the winged black tiger on his arm, Xie Baozhang pondered for a moment and then suddenly gritted his teeth: "Order Li Tianhe to guard the Basra Bridge at all costs."

"After the arrival of the aviation brigade, it temporarily gave up attacking the British fleet and bombed the periphery of the Allied Avas and the Cossack cavalry."

"Immediate the dock immediately, unload the fuel and supplies, and inform all the infantry on the front line to get ready and attack with the Flying Tigers!" Xie Baozhang waved his arm fiercely: "Tell everyone that we only have 72 hours!"

(to be continued)