Chapter 633 The Long Road 3

Persia, Isfahan.

In front of the famous Forty Pillars Palace, Lieutenant General Emond Allenby looked at the reflection of 20 pillars in the clear pool, and a trace of worry and sadness flashed in his brown eyes from time to time.

As the new commander-in-chief of the Front Army in Persia, he actually doesn't like this position, if it weren't for Marshal Kitchinner's letter "Go to Persia or return to Egypt." In his own letter, maybe he is still suffering in the German western meat grinder at this moment.

It may be lucky for anyone to get rid of the suffering Western Front, but it is unfortunate, because it means that you have lost the opportunity to save Europe.

Unlike other officers, in his opinion, the war is basically clear now. Osman, Austria-Hungarian and Bulgaria have not damaged the overall situation. The most important thing is that Germany has actually reached the limit. As long as they continue to put pressure on it, the string will definitely be broken in the end, but the biggest problem is that there is a lack of agreements at present. Time, because the ambitious Li Mo is commanding the army to stare at him.

The United States is obviously disappointing. The world's richest country lacks the background of war. After a series of major defeats, the navy has been a little messy and does not even dare to send more troops to Europe.

In fact, the United States is the key to victory. As long as they can continue to send more than 500,000 troops to Europe, Germany will be crushed. But due to domestic politics and other reasons, President Wilson rejected the later dispatch plan, which led to the temporary failure of the idea of accelerating the solution of Germany.

So Marshal Kitchinner asked himself to come here and defeat Osman as soon as possible. As long as there was no European sick man, even if Li Mo's army landed on the Arabian Peninsula and arrived in Mesopotamia, it was impossible to open up contact with Germany.

He admired Marshal Kitchiner, because if it hadn't been for the Marshal's 3 million troops for Britain before the war, and if he hadn't hidden it from the parliament before the war, secretly ordered 4 million rifles and matching ammunition from the country and the United States, and strictly stipulated that it would be delivered 15 years ago, then now I'm afraid Australia There are no guns or ammunition in these places in India, let alone armed with enough troops.

The marshal knows better than anyone else. In fact, he also knows that Li Mo has not fully exerted his strength. This is not that he does not want to, but that most of the battlefields he faces are too far away.

In fact, Britain should be grateful to the sea. Even if Li Mo's fleet is unparalleled, he also faces constraints such as slow maritime transportation. If it hadn't been for the barrier of the sea, he would have entered Europe long ago. You know, he has armed a total of about 6 million troops so far, but because of the distance and transportation capacity. The quantity was limited, so he had to target the close-range southeast and Australia first, and the wind and snow in the north were blocked, so that the oriental monster could not be fully played.

The whole world will be scared when he thinks of the 500 million people in his hands, which means that as long as he wants to, he can arm tens of millions of troops and fill the United States and Europe like locusts.

Now, there is only one last step left to eliminate Li Mo's black hand in Mesopotamia, that is, a division of the Ottoman Third Army stationed in Dizfule. Unfortunately, he lacks enough mobile power in his hands. The Indian cavalry division stationed here is really unbearable, so he has to wait for a decision. The troops who won the war.

Russian Caucasian Cossack Cavalry!

He likes cavalry, and he is more envious that Russia can have such a good cavalry force. The 30,000 Cossack cavalry secretly arrived from Baku this time will be the last straw to crush the Kuwaiti defense circle of Xinhua University.

But before that, he has something else to do!

"Cole, have the troops departed from Aden to Puerto Salalah? Are the troops going to Safanyer ready? Thinking of this, Allen put away the whip and walked out. Although he was equipped with a car, he still preferred war horses.

Cole is one of the aides brought by Allenby from the Western Front and his best partner over the years, so after hearing the interrogation, he immediately walked side by side and said, "A total of 15,000 people, composed of the Italian North African army and our country's troops in Aden, have arrived in Geda. Colonel Sanguela, please rest assured that he promised three days. Control the only port of Salalah that can dock large ships!

In addition, there are a total of 70,000 troops going to Sevaniye, but we currently don't have enough ships, so we can only be escorted by warships in batches. It is expected that it will take 20 days to establish a defense line in Sevanye.

"It's too slow!"

Allenby shook his head: "Cole, I hope you can remember that the Chinese will come faster than you think. We must build a strong enough defense line in Safanyer to stop their troops from landing on the peninsula."

"But" Cole hesitated for a moment and asked boldly, "General, do you really think Xinhua will transport troops across the Indian Ocean now? As far as I know, most of their transportation force is currently concentrated in the southwest Pacific, and they are not large-scale before defeating General Campbell.

"Cole, don't underestimate Li Mo's determination. He is a bold man. Although I also know that he can't send a large army for the time being, tens of thousands of yuan can still be done."

"Tens of thousands of people? What's the use of that?" Cole just wanted to laugh, but a sharp look scared him and nodded quickly: "General, I will speed up."

"Oh, that's right." Cole thought for a moment and said, "Ibn Shat has protested to us and asked us not to bring the war into the Arabian Peninsula, he said."

Allenby raised his whip and said coldly, "He still said that I don't care. Go and tell him that you can either go to war with us or watch on the side!" In addition, send someone to contact the Russian Caucasian Army Group to urge that these idiots have the best cavalry in the world, but at the same time have the slowest efficiency!"

"Yes, General."

After Cole left, Allenby's eyes swept to the east again. He was sure that Li Mo's first troops must have boarded the ship. With this man's eyes, he would definitely know that if he lost Kuwait, if he occupied Mesopotamia by himself, and even forced Osman to leave the war, all his dreams would be abrupt. Stop it!

So.

Allen's eyes were cold, and he needed to give him a head-on blow here to make him understand that he should not intervene in the European war--

"Quick, fast!"

Zhao Sheng stood in front of the huge roll-on wheel cabin door, almost shouting bubbles. An M3 cheetah tank, a wildcat armored vehicle, and the latest "wild wolf" track car lined up and got into the huge cabin.

Next to

, the other five roller wheels of the same model are also extremely busy. This super-large transport ship equipped with steam turbines and oil-fired boilers is currently the most efficient ocean-going ship in Xinhua. It has three decks and can transport one armored regiment at a time, or 460 trucks can also carry 4,000 fully armed soldiers and transport them to 6,000 nautical miles away at a full speed of 16 knots, and the wide hatch makes loading and unloading extremely convenient.

Unfortunately, there are only 20 such ships at present, and the cost is not cheap. After the beginning of the war, they have all been temporarily requisitioned by the navy. At present, most of them are used on Australian routes. It is said that these six ships were temporarily transferred from Taiwan.

This time, together with 10 large naval rapid troop carriers, they will transport the 6th infantry division and the 2nd Marine Division to the Arabian Peninsula 3,000 nautical miles away.

As trucks full of oil barrels and supplies continued to drive into the cabin, the dripation line began to sink little by little. Zhao Sheng was finally a little relieved. After checking the list, he found that there was another important thing that had not arrived.

Dry food!

Zhao Sheng's sixth infantry division turned out to be an infantry division. After entering the army with a large number of tanks, trucks and other equipment after the start of the war, the number of domestic infantry divisions has increased from 4 before the start of the war to seven. The whole division has more than 20,000 people, plus two marine regiments, a total of about 35,000 people.

So many soldiers, and the expected half-month maneuver, the amount of food needed is very large. Although the canned grain and other things stored in the base have been transferred, those are all dry goods. The disadvantage of the roller wheel is that there is not a large enough kitchen, so enough dry food must be prepared during the way to transporting troops, so the base Thousands of people were specially arranged to make steamed buns overnight. I heard that each soldier should be guaranteed to eat it for at least five days.

Zhao Sheng is already anxious. There is still half an hour before departure, if there is dry food.

"Master, dry food, dry food is coming!" In the most urgent time, trucks rushed to the dock. Before Zhao Sheng could stop, he smelled the steamed buns.

"Master Zhao, we didn't make a mistake, did we?" The person in charge of the sweaty logistics rushed to him and didn't notice that he was still wearing an apron and his face was white and black.

After grabbing the list and reading it, Zhao Sheng was finally relieved. While calling the soldiers to speed up the move on the ship, he saluted and said, "Thank you. I won this time. I'm the first to ask you for your work."

"Ha ha, I don't dare to do it, I don't dare to do it."

Just as the two were handing over and saying goodbye, a loud whistle suddenly sounded in the bay. Zhao Sheng looked at his watch and found that the time had not yet. He couldn't help but be a little surprised. He hurried to the open space and saw everyone beckoning to a low-altitude plane.

Seeing the colorful phoenix on the body, Zhao Sheng quickly stood up and saluted, so that the person in charge of the base whispered, "Master Zhao, is this?"

"It's the emperor, this is the Royal One of the Air Force!" Zhao Sheng said loudly with excitement.

"Hang!" The old major in charge of logistics also hurriedly saluted, and his eyes were even more crystal clear. He wiped his tears excitedly and said, "Your Majesty, it's the emperor who came to see you off!"

Ten minutes later, the whistle sounded again, and a fleet of 16 large ships quickly drilled out of Subic Bay and headed south under the protection of 8 Yangtze River-class light cruisers, 20 destroyers and 2 supply ships.

Looking at the departure fleet, Li Mo on Royal One slowly withdrew his eyes and asked Chen Ping, who was sitting opposite, "Are there any new changes?"

"Yes."

Chen Ping nodded, took out the information he had just received before boarding, and said, "The port of Salalah was taken over by a force from Aden and Italian North Africa yesterday, with a total of about 15,000 people. Now we are most worried that they will destroy the only deep-water dock there, so I have ordered the seals to advance. Let's go. We must make sure that the fleet protects it before it arrives!

In addition, the first 3,000 troops of the Allied Persian Front have crossed the Persian Gulf and arrived in Safanyer, stuck the railway line from Riyadh to Kuwait. However, they did not immediately attack Kuwait, but built fortifications here. Two King Power-class battleships have also arrived here, from the gun range. Let's see, the whole railway line can be covered!

I guess this Allenby should know that we will definitely force reinforcements, and that we can only go to the better-conditioned port of Salalah, and he will use this railway, and he may have contacted Campbell's Indian Grand Fleet, set up a set-in, and waited for us to get in by ourselves.

Now I have ordered all 17 submarines in the Sea of Aden and the Indian Ocean to enter the Arabian Sea and unfold along Mumbai and the port of Salalah to prevent a sneak attack by Campbell. The task force is also ready for a decisive battle.

"Then now it depends on whether his trap is powerful or our spear is sharper!" Li Mo took a deep breath and was no stranger to the famous British general nicknamed the Bloody Bull. In fact, there were few land generals he could remember in World War I, but this Allenby was really not simple. He was rated as the best British general in World War I by later military experts, because he was in Damascus and Jerusalem in history. Using World War I equipment, he played a classic interspersed battle that was only available in World War II, which laid the foundation for him to become a British marshal. He was a real famous general!

Taking back his eyes from the map, Li Mo understood that this was a race against time, and it was also the first long-distance battle of the Army. As long as he thought of the distance of more than 1,500 kilometers from the port of Salalah to Kuwait, it was enough to make everyone's scalp numb, although the theoretical propulsion speed of the jigator reached every small It's 30 kilometers, but it's based on the improvement of the road.

According to the plan of the General Staff, after taking the port of Salalah, the army will take tanks and trucks as the guide, cross the desert to the oasis of Riyadh, and then protect the infantry from there by train to Kuwait, but now Allenby has set up a defense line in the most critical Safanyer and transferred two King Power-class battleships. Come here, obviously, I'm going to do something hard for myself here!

Seeing that Li Mo did not continue to speak, Chen Ping looked at his watch and said, "Singapore's task force is making final preparations. I guess we can get there to see them off before they leave."

Li Mo nodded and glanced at the white clouds outside the window, as if he saw the face of the famous British general in the photo, and sneered from the bottom of his heart.

"Famous general! Humph, that's for slap in the face!"

(to be continued)