Battle of the Third Reich

British gentlemen will fight to the end only in two situations, one is about honor and the other is about business. Lobster soldiers don't have any honor at all. Their life is completely a business. The soldiers are for a few pennies per week, and the generals are to recover the investment before the troop. Regardless of whether it is the Opium War or the Boer War, any connection with business will make London's parliament as excited as blood of blood.

Before the "Exploration Report" provided by Germany, the British cabinet's attitude towards the Middle East issue was very ambiguous. Although the Saudi government has been dissatisfied with the "forgetfulness", politicians are also worried that a rash war may cause chains in neighboring countries. reaction.

Saudi Arabia has controlled Mecca and Medina. Every year, Muslims in neighboring countries go to the Holy Land for pilgrimage. Ibn Saudi Arabia has a considerable influence in the Muslim world.

The surrounding Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean coast and the southern part of the peninsula are all traditional British influence. Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, etc., are now either British protectors or autonomous colonies. These areas may have various mineral resources, or occupy important coastlines and ports. An indispensable link in the Empire's global strategy. Although the British Empire had declined at this time, the foundations laid by the ancestors were not to be thrown away.

However, when the Germans put a detailed "resource survey report" on the meeting table of the British cabinet, the ideas of British politicians immediately changed because the nature of the problem was different. I talked about national strategic issues before. And here is a big business worth tens of billions of pounds.

The well-known Lords of the House of Lords were full of words beginning with h and f. They had never dreamed of it. Just beneath that barren desert, there was so much oil. Faced with up to twelve-digit reserves, even Prime Minister Chamberlain couldn't sit still. He even repeatedly asked the German ambassador to verify whether the data in this report is a problem. Will it be a careless diplomatic secretary? A few more zeros.

After receiving an affirmative answer from Germany, the House of Lords passed the Chamberlain cabinet proposal with an overwhelming vote that night, and the British Empire entered into a war with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from now on.

Immediately, London gathered two fully-equipped infantry regiments and a light armored battalion from the British troops stationed in Egypt and Sudan, and directly joined the first phase of the German offensive. London also plans to draw out an armored brigade and twelve infantry battalions from the local garrison troops as follow-up support forces. These reinforcements are expected to embark in Portsmouth next week and land on the Arabian Peninsula early next year.

The timetable set by Xu Jun is very clear. Large-scale military operations must be ended before the end of the year, and then a security battle of at most one to two months will be carried out. The rest of the garbage will be left to the British to play.

The situation in this country is different from that in China. Most of the country's territory is desert and mountains that are difficult for humans to survive. The domestic population is extremely limited, and it has also split into independent tribes. The accumulated conflicts between the tribes are still very deep. If there was no royal family to mediate from these years, the chiefs who held heavy soldiers had already started a civil war.

The geographical and climatic environment of the Arabian Peninsula is not as complicated as Afghanistan and Iran, and the local nomadic weapons are behind the tactical rigidity. In the face of modern investigation methods, it is impossible to carry out any guerrilla warfare.

Don’t look at the Middle East in the 1940s with the eyes of the Gulf War. These nomads are armed with single-shot rifles, Arab horses and camels, palm date lamb, and drink Yogurt and spring water.

At that time, the city of the Arabian Peninsula was not as big as a village in the future. Only the city center had some mud bricks and rammed earth buildings. The surrounding area was a series of tents. This place let alone artillery bombardment, a white phosphorus grenade You can burn the whole city.

What's more important is that the enemies they are facing are not subject to so many international laws and regulations in future generations. At this time, the United Nations has nothing to do with it, let alone mention any human rights conventions. Europeans are now pursuing a single-minded all-out war, and there has never been any compassion for civilians in enemy countries.

The Germans fully implemented the idea of ​​total warfare. Whether in the jungles of Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Lithuania, or Ukraine, or in the SS or IDF, countless brave rebels used their lives to prove the Nazi Germans. Sin and cruelty.

The African legion that has obtained permission to kill the head of state has shown considerable patience in the war. This is directly related to the commander's personal character. Küchler is not a cruel general.

Of course, this does not mean that the locals can freely provoke the dignity of the National Defense Forces. The number of villages and Bedouin tribes completely destroyed along the way by the African Army has exceeded 30.

The atmosphere of war is not felt in the city of Cairo. This ancient city has its own rhythm. The main roads of the city are filled with various stalls, and the crowd of people rushes in the narrow aisles between the stalls.

Afternoon sunlight directly hit the dusty streets, with a dry metallic smell in the air. Xu Jun stood in front of the hotel arranged for Randolph in the Cairo Embassy, ​​and looked up at the black eagle flag hanging downstairs. Xu Jun feels that Randolph really has some taste. Seeing that he decorated this place, he can directly take it to the scene of "Return to the German Headquarters".

Randolph was not prepared to stay too long on the front line this time. He still had the mission given by the head of state, so he did not take away all his entourage. A class of guard flag soldiers and torture experts of the General Security Bureau stayed. The criminal network case has not been closed yet, and it is still being digged.

In order to report the disappearance of Randolph to the ambassador, Captain Dieterets, with several remaining Grey Sword players, flew back from the Yanbu Port base and now lives in this hotel.

In addition, there are the two French ladies who did not meet relatives, because the police have not found the missing French archaeological team, plus they promised Horn and Krieger to wait for them to return, so they still live in the hotel and did not leave. Besides, it is difficult to find a safer place in Cairo, after all, no hotel will have a machine gun at the door.

Xu Jun made a secret visit this time. Although the Cairo Embassy was notified, he did not pass on the news to the people in the hotel. It is completely understandable that the whereabouts of the heads of state are state secrets, and how could these insignificant little ones be known.

As a result, when Xu Jun and his party appeared at the entrance of the hotel, the guards of the guard flag team could hardly believe their eyes.

"Hi! Reinhardt!" After confirming that he was free of nervous disorders, the SS members almost raised their right hands reflexively.

Sergeant Claire of the torture group was walking out of the hotel with a cigarette in his mouth. He was shocked by the cry of the sentry. The SS sergeant quickly looked to the door, but when he saw the face of the person At this moment, this burly-looking man with a height of more than one meter nine rolled his eyes immediately and collapsed on the stairs.

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