Chapter 640 The Role of Germany

"Airplane, our plane is coming!"

An excited shout broke the anxiety and bust of the second division base of the Kuwaiti Marine Corps. Everyone saw that two naval Hornet fighters had appeared at the end of the runway. Behind them, more war eagles began to descend one after another.

"Oil, pull the gasoline over!"

"Three groups, get the bomb!"

"Quick, run, run!"

As all the fighters landed, the whole base was busy in an hour. Several trucks with oil barrels shuttled back and forth, and the ammunition depots of the base were all opened. The soldiers who had been preparing for a long time pushed the bombs and ran.

After Xiao Sheng jumped off the fighter plane and told his air comrades-in-arms to unload the secondary fuel tank and not to break it, he walked to Li Tianhe, the commander of the Second Marine Division, and the captain of the Flying Wing stationed here.

"Report, Major Xiao Sheng of the Second Naval Air Wing came to report."

"Great!" After Li Tianhe returned the salute, he gave Xiao Sheng a hug. The Second Air Wing came in time. Without these planes, I'm afraid he couldn't guarantee that Kuwait would stay for three days.

"Master Li, now."

The Kuwait Base of the Xinhua Empire is located 15 kilometers outside the city. It is a large military base with an airport and warehouse, covering an area of nearly 30 square kilometers. Recently, after repeated attacks by the British Navy, the Seventh Fleet Command Center has also been temporarily moved here to avoid being attacked by naval guns...

After the three people walked into the empty hangar of the base, Xiao Sheng was suddenly stunned before he finished his words. The hangar, which should have been full of falcons, was full of scattered parts, and oil stains almost the entire hangar. The falcon, which was covered with scars on the wings of the three wings, stopped alone in the corner, and the engine was even dismantled. Come down, it makes people feel sad.

"Ha ha, the war is too dense. Dozens of planes now have 11 left. Now they are going to support Avas, and the rest are also depleted due to failure. These three." Although the captain of the Kuwaiti wing of the Air Force is laughing, his words are full of helplessness. It has been almost a year since the war started, especially after the Battle of Mesopotamia. Dozens of falcons need to defend hundreds of kilometers of defense and support the fleet. On average, they have to be dispatched three times a day, and the intensity is even higher than the North African eagles of that year. And as all countries have strengthened their air-to-air firepower, it is admirable to be able to persist until now.

"Captain Yang, don't worry, leave these troubles to us now."

"Ha ha." Captain Yang patted Xiao Sheng on the shoulder with a smile, looked at the dragon teeth parked outside with envy, and said with a smile, "You talk to the teacher. I'll urge these rabbits."

Xiao Sheng can see the envy in the eyes of the old pilot in his thirties. If it were not a rule, he would even want to give him Longya for a lap. Fortunately, the second transport fleet has set off. In half a month at most, the airstrip of the port of Salalah can be repaired. At that time, the air force will add at least 50 here. With 0 new aircraft, they can also recover.

"Come on, ignore him, just this temper." After Li Tianhe handed Xiao Sheng a glass of water, he turned to the topic and said, "Major, can you tell me the speed of your bombers?"

"The speed is 230 kilometers when hanging on more than 500 kilograms of explosives. If it is hung on 250 kilograms, it can reach 260 kilometers." Xiao Sheng looked at his watch and continued, "It's 3 o'clock. If we can fill up the gas and hang the bomb in an hour, we can also carry out a task to support Avas."

"That's good, that's good." Li Tianhe said hello twice in a row.

For him, the most important thing now is Awas. Because he had ordered the second regiment to give up his position and shrink to Abadan with all his strength to ensure the safety of the east gate on Kuwait's land. In addition, he really can't draw troops on hand, Xiao Sheng's arrival was really helpful.

Standing in front of the map, Xiao Sheng could feel how big the burden on the division commander was. Avas had been surrounded by nearly 50,000 British troops, and thousands of soldiers were compressed in the small city. Because of the need to ensure the safety of Kuwait and Basra and prevent the Cossack cavalry from assault, he almost voluntarily gave up the rescue regiment.

Although the Flying Tiger Regiment and an infantry regiment of the Marine Division have set out now, it will take three days to reach Kuwait no matter how fast it is, and it will take almost a day to get to Avas, 300 kilometers away from here, that is to say, a regiment needs to hold on for at least four days!

Facing more than ten times the enemy, 4 days!

Even if Xiao Sheng took a breath of cold air, now he only hopes to install oil and bombs as soon as possible, and then go to support there. If it hadn't been for the accidental injury because of the night bombing, and the radio navigation was not as perfect as in China, he even wanted to carry out a few more missions.

There was a restlessness outside. He turned his head and saw only ten double-winged falcons appearing in the sky. It seemed that he was particularly excited about the appearance of dozens of new fighters on the base. Several pilots also played a few times before landing.

An hour later, the heavily armed Second Air Wing had become murderous. Looking at these new fighters, Captain Yang clenched his fists and shouted, "Fight them well!"

At 4 p.m. on the 11th, all the 52 dragon teeth and 12 bumblebees that had just arrived were dispatched and rushed to the struggling Avas--

Berlin.

In the German general staff, the phone calls came one after another, and the communications officers and staff were busy. The dilemma on the Western Front for more than a year has almost exhausted each of their energy. Although Paris was hit, although the key revolving door in Schrifin's plan still turned, it has been almost war since the Battle of Saint-Miel began. The invincible German army seemed to have hit an iron wall, not only losing Saint-Miel, but also the little Chief of Staff of Moucci. Now even Verdun has become crumbling, and even the crown prince personally led the army.

For Germany, this is a disappointing three months!

230,000 elite army soldiers lost their lives there. Although the opponent's loss was nearly twice as much as his own, the rich human and material resources of the Allies began to play a role.

In fact, everyone here knows that this failure is not because of the incompetence of soldiers and generals, but because Germany has begun to fall behind in terms of consumption. For more than a year, especially after the accession of the United States, the number of cannons and machine guns made by the Ally is more than twice that of Germany, and the number of tanks has been opened from scratch to now. At the beginning, it gained the upper hand. Even the fighters and all the means of production provided by Xinhua before the war began to be a little difficult because of the efforts of Britain, the United States and France.

There are two keys to this problem. First, due to the delay in lifting the threat of Russia on the eastern front, Germany, facing millions of enemy troops, has drained its last energy and had to arm a large number of workers and push them to the front line, resulting in the domestic The production capacity of the factory is seriously insufficient.

The other is well-known. Whether it is resources or colonies, Britain and France, and even Italy are far better than Germany, especially the balance after the United States joins. Although Xinhua also joined the alliance and sent 31 fleets to surprise New York, after all, they can't exist in the Atlantic Ocean for a long time. Although the United States However, the navy was defaced and did not dare to send the army to Europe, but the manufacturing capacity is still there. Now there are more than 300 merchant ships on both sides of the Atlantic every day, all of which are materials from the United States to support the Allied countries. On the other hand, in Germany, some important resources are currently in a comprehensive shortage, and even food is needed to support Austria-Hungary. Become nervous.

The first problem has begun to be alleviated. A large number of workers began to put down their guns and return to the factory, but the second one put the General Staff in a dilemma because Germany needed a strong foreign aid.

That's Xinhua!

Because of the barrier of the Indian Ocean, especially after the Suez Canal was cut off, the only channel at present is the Baghdad Railway. But the problem is that the railway is about to be repaired, but the Strait of Hormuz was completely blocked by at least 3,000 mines.

Just as Germany and Xinhua will fight separately this year, a recent news suddenly exploded. Xinhua made every effort to attack the Indian Ocean. The first batch of troops supporting Greater Kuwait had set out, and there was news yesterday that their fleet had sunk two British ships in the Eighth Strait west of Cape Comorin in India. The national battleship forced Campbell's Indian fleet to withdraw to Mumbai.

In this way, their transport fleet can go straight to the port of Salalah!

But no one expected that at this time, Allenby of the new Allied Persian Front also took action at the right time. He led 50,000 infantry to converge into a torrent with 30,000 secretly arrived Russian and Caucasian Cossack cavalry as an arrow. Within an hour, he broke through the Diszfule Line of the Ottoman Army. Now He also surrounded Avas, and even the cavalry front has pointed directly to the periphery of Abadan!

In addition, he also mobilized more than 60% of the troops of the front army, surrounded the Greater Kuwait, and cut off the support route of Xinhua's landing troops from the port of Salalah!

Is the hope that has just appeared to be completely broken again?

When the staff were worried and whispered about the war situation in Mesopotamia, a series of greetings suddenly came from the outside.

"General."

"Hello, General."

The staff officers looked quietly and saw the cold face of the Deputy Chief of General Staff of Xinhua. He walked into the General Staff with several assistants and hurried to the meeting room.

"General Wang, I know the importance of Mesopotamia, but with all due respect, Germany is not capable of supporting there, and."

"No." In the face of Fa Jinhan, the new chief of staff of the German army who shook his head, Wang Shizhen immediately said, "We don't want your army to attack Mesopotamia, but we hope you can immediately urge the Ottoman army and ask them to support Avas immediately. We can't delay any longer!"

Wang Shizhen said that he was also a little helpless. For the current Ottomans, Germany's influence must exceed that of Xinhua, so the general and the emperor let themselves come to Germany for help, hoping that they could put pressure on Osman and immediately send troops to rescue Avas. The yard should also contain Allenby's main infantry and buy time for the assault troops that have already set out.

However, he also knew that as long as he spent this period, this problem would no longer be a problem, because the emperor had decided to add 15 infantry divisions to Greater Kuwait in the next three months, leaving India and Bangladesh, bringing the total strength here to 350,000, and a total of 500 aircraft will be supported. And prepare to open up the Strait of Hormuz and completely change the weak situation of Xinhua forces in this region. At that time, I'm afraid Osman will know how to choose!

"General Wang, I can understand your mood at this moment, but the troops that Osman can be transferred are currently defending in Baghdad. Russia is already attacking Armenia and Erzurum, and the British also began to attack Jerusalem yesterday. I'm afraid now." Fa Jinhan's eyes twitched. In fact, he didn't like Xinhua to insert his hand into Osman, but because everyone is now an ally, and Germany must rely on Xinhua as a foreign aid, so he must maintain a good alliance.

Wang Shizhen didn't know Fa Jinhan's idea. If it was Little Maoch or someone else, he was sure that the telegram had been sent to Eastampbull at this moment, but this person was actually not friendly to Xinhua.

But now is not the time to discuss this issue. The emperor and the general counselor have given a dead order to ensure that Avas is not occupied, so he didn't care about politeness and said directly, "General Fajinhan, I only have one piece of news to tell you."

Wang Shizhen glanced around, including Tirpitz and Hindenburg, and said, "We have occupied Socotra Island!"

"What!"

Tirpitz and Hindenburg suddenly stood up, and all the other senior officers opened their mouths wide, and even doubted whether there was something wrong with their ears and occupied Socotra Island? Didn't you attack the port of Salalah?

They did not know that Xinhua rescued Kuwait, but they did not expect to take the opportunity to seize Socotra Island. When the British were ready to help, Li Mo actually cut off the Red Sea and the Suez Canal in one fell swoop, which not only completely isolated India from Britain, but also gave Britain a loud slap in the backhand!

For Germany, it is like a pie suddenly falling from the sky. If India's manpower and resources are lost, Britain's strength will drop by at least 30%! So this great sense of joy immediately enveloped everyone.

With Socotra Island and the port of Salalah, as long as Xinhua continues to take the under-defended Maldives Islands, it means that they have established from the Suda Strait to the Maldives Islands, from where they cross the Indian Ocean to Socotra Island along the Italian East African coast, and then along the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Salalah. And all the way north by detour Muscat into the Strait of Hormuz into Kuwait.

Although the distance between the Andaman Islands and the Eighth Strait is 1,100 nautical miles away from Malacca, it avoids the main active areas of the Allied Indian Grand Fleet, and Xinhua has an absolute advantage in aircraft, which means that they don't even need a navy to station, as long as it is in the Maldives, Socotra Island. If you arrange a considerable number of planes with the port of Salalah, you can use them to escort them.

Germany has gritted its teeth until now, and domestic materials are beginning to be in short supply. If it can't be replenished, no one knows how long it will last, but now they suddenly see hope. Xinhua said that it can provide more advanced after opening the Baghdad Railway. Compared with planes and tanks, food, rubber and oil are the most urgently needed by Germany!

The prospect is good. If everything goes well, the first batch of supplies can arrive through the Baghdad Railway in three months, but the question now is whether to support the crumbling Kuwait as soon as possible. The span of 1,500 kilometers is a long distance.

If the fast Cossack cavalry and Allenby's main force cannot be curbed as soon as possible, then Kuwait will definitely be lost. In this way, the 40,000 troops supported by Xinhua without any cover and follow-up supplies, even if they can escape the disaster, they will have to return to the port of Salalah to standby because of the lack of base support. Once In this deadlock, the Ally will definitely send more troops through Egypt, so that it will take at least half a year to redeploy and open the route.

Get a half-year buffer. Maybe Allenby and Russia can work together to force Osman to withdraw from the war!

"Come on, send a telegram to the Ottoman Chief of Staff, His Excellency Enver Pasha!"

(to be continued)