Cao Chong, the governor of Western Asia in the empire, was thinking about how to fight the battle in front of him based on the materials in his hand.
The empire was naturally prepared for this German attack. In this area of ??West Asia, the terrain is flat and suitable for mobile warfare of large corps. It is easy to attack but not easy to defend. Therefore, the main corps of the empire are not directly deployed in the border areas. This is why The German armored regiments marched straight in.
Now that the enemy has entered, they will no longer be polite. Mobile warfare is the empire's best trick, but once these two families take action, it is destined to not be a small-scale battle. This is a war that will destroy the country and the city. As Cao Chong, he also has to weigh various aspects of the situation.
The situation in the Caucasus Governor-General's Region needs to be considered. Now the governor there has been replaced by Deng Ai, Cao Chong's old buddy. Compared with the West Asia region, they are actually a battlefield. They are facing all allies, but one is northern Turkey and the other is eastern Turkey. When fighting against the Allies, close cooperation between the two families is very important.
In Cao Chong's hands, ten divisions reinforced from the Kingdom of Persia arrived in Kuwait a week ago. Among them were two armored divisions equipped with imperial standard tanks. Cao Chong himself had the adapted version of the 17th Airborne Army. The Seventeenth Group Army that came was completely mechanized. Coupled with the camel cavalry trained locally in the past two years, of the nearly 500,000 troops in the West Asian Governor-General, 400,000 of them have certain mobility capabilities.
¡°And a month later, at least 300,000 reinforcements will arrive, of which at least half will be mechanized troops according to Cao Chong¡¯s requirements. In a mobile battle, Cao Chong has plenty of leverage. I just don¡¯t know what¡¯s wrong with the German arrangement on the other side.
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The forces that Germany invested in West Asia were three armies, the Second, Third and Nineteenth Armies. Among them, the Second and Third Armies were both meritorious troops that made great contributions in the battle to capture Paris. With the German army in recent years, The rapid mechanization of the * troops gradually completed the entire reorganization. Completely motorized.
As for the 19th Army, it was a force that gradually began to emerge during the African War. Among them, the core armored division. The commander of the 239th Armored Division was the youngest division-level officer in German history. He single-handedly defeated Montgomery of the English Armored Knights and almost captured him alive, Erwin Rommel, who quickly became famous.
At this moment, in the headquarters of the German Nineteenth Army, the phone calls continued. As the commander, General von Bauer was having a headache for this young and rebellious guy under his command. This guy. Having just captured Damascus, they continued southward overnight toward Jerusalem. He had to call this guy quickly to stop his attack.
"I'm talking to Erwin, who asked you to go south on your own? The order I gave you was to capture Damascus. Since you have completed the task, you should stop where you are and wait for the next order. You know, if you attack now, every time It is possible to advance towards the enemy's siege with every step"
"No, no, no, General, please believe me, this way south. There will definitely be no Chinese main force, and there can be no Chinese traps that you are worried about. The Chinese are planning to attack the Second and Third Group Armies, the main forces of our army. counterattack, this is the time for our army to make a time difference and desperately expand the results of our partial division.
¡°Oh, General, can you imagine? The holy city of Jerusalem is right in front of us. We can personally drive tanks to recover the holy city from the hands of the yellow pagans. Do you think I can let go of this honor? Moreover, we also have the advantage of going south. It is important to open up the defense line with Suez and connect our army with the forces of the Afrika Korps. Isn't this one of the main purposes of our march into West Asia? "
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"Oh, damn! Go to Jerusalem! Come back. I order you to come back. I will send you to a military court within three days, even if the great William personally protects you!" There was a snap, Von Bauer hung up the phone. Start sulking. Anyone who encounters such an overly assertive armored commander will have a headache, just like the once glorious Guderian, but now he is sent back to the Royal Military Academy in Berlin to teach. All this is because no group army commander would like this kind of sharp blade that is always thinking about jumping out of his control!
On February 6, the German Second Army and the Third Army traveled more than 200 kilometers back and forth, one to the left and one to the right, forming two huge pincer-shaped arrows, attacking towards Baghdad, the political and military center of the Empire's West Asian Governor-General.
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"Two main armies, that is to say four armored divisions, more than 1,500 tanks, and more than 2,000 artillery pieces"
Cao Chong is calculating the enemies he will face.
According to the current organization of the German group army, a mechanized group army generally has one or two armored divisions as the main force for breakthrough. Two of the main force units such as the Second and Third Army will be responsible for the main breakthrough task, and the others It will also be equipped with two heavy artillery divisions and four to six motorized infantry divisions. The strength of such a force is indeed terrifying. The two attacks came at the same time, and Baghdad was indeed under great pressure.
He thought for a while, and finally handed over the defense task to Xiong Kewu, commander of the Fifth Army, and let him serve as the Baghdad security commander, leading eight infantry divisions of the Fifth Army and Persian officers to be responsible for guarding the city. And he will personally lead mobile forces to attack to encircle and annihilate the German Third Army on the northern flank.
So not long after, the troops in Baghdad rushed out. The 17th Army's heavy armored division equipped with heavy tanks Tiger tanks, and the light armored division equipped with improved Bactrian tanks, as well as Jaguar tank destroyers, heavy armored divisions. The self-propelled artillery divisions of the hammer self-propelled artillery were dispatched collectively.
The fighter jets in the sky cleared the way, and a torrent of armored vehicles on the ground spurted out, heading north. Cao Chong himself, touching the equipment in his hands among the advancing troops, sighed:
"It's been a really long time, a full ten years, and I haven't personally put on the armor and fought on the battlefield. Speaking of which, the armors have been constantly updated over the years. Even though he often takes time to practice, as the commander of the army, he is busy with affairs. I don¡¯t know how much skill I still have from the past!¡±
What Cao Chong held in his hands was the most powerful general's armor specially customized by the empire.
Cao Chong himself is also a general with good martial arts.
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Caucasus, Volgograd, Caucasus Governor-General of the Chinese Empire.
Deng Ai just received a message from Cao Chong from West Asia.
"You want me to put pressure on Tš¹rkiye? Cut off the German army's retreat in West Asia?"
Deng Ai was also surprised by Cao Chong's bold idea.
This is not unfeasible. In fact, from the Caucasus Mountains to the south, Turkey is completely flat. Even the warplanes of the Caucasus Governor-General can directly bomb any part of Turkey by taking off from the northern foot of the Caucasus. This means that the airborne division of the Caucasus Governor-General may take off directly from now on and land anywhere in Turkey.
But, this is too brave.
You must know that Turkey has mobilized an army of 1.6 million, of which one million have been assigned to various battlefields by the Allies as auxiliary troops. However, there are still 600,000 local troops. Although these troops are all They are a ragtag among ragtags, with extremely low combat effectiveness, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people, and they can still squeeze a mere airborne division to death if they are squeezed together.
As for West Asia, there are now more than one million Germans attacking the West Asia region, and more than 200,000 of them are deployed on the back roads to guard against the sudden southward movement of the Caucasus. This threshold seems simple, but it is not that easy to cross. of.
He knew that the situation in the West Asian Viceroyalty was a bit urgent, but since the war in West Asia began, the allied military forces around the Caucasus Viceroyalty also began to put pressure on it, deploying more than 300,000 Romanians and 100,000 Austro-Hungarians in Ukraine. The imperial people, the former Russia in the north, the more than one million Allied forces in the Belarusian region of Germany, and the Kazan Republic that was independent from Russia are also peeking at the Ural Mountain defense line. These are what Deng Ai has to face. Pressure, in this case, it is obviously unrealistic for him to use too many main players!
¡°In short, harassing Tš¹rkiye requires some skill!
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"Haha! Disguise! What's the use of such a disguise? Even a fool knows that when the Allies and the Empire are at war, it is impossible for such a huge fleet to pass through the Red Sea. How can such a huge fleet appear here? There is only one possibility for a huge fleet, and that is the fleet!
Only a fleet can have such a huge ship and a fleet of this size! This kind of sneak attack could not have been avoided even if the imperial intelligence department did not notify us specifically, and we would not be able to avoid aerial reconnaissance when we are not here. "
"That's because the British are stupid and think that everyone is as stupid as them. How could he know that the empire has already implemented all-weather surveillance of these special waterways?
"However, it is strange to say. Unexpectedly, the British dared to sail their warships across the Indian Ocean. We must say that our previous task force's attack on them was terrible enough? They withdrew from the Indian Ocean in despair, and now they want to come back again, and they are still colluding with the Germans. This piece of shit British fruitHowever, remember to eat but not to fight! "
This statement made the wingman pilot next to him laugh.
"Who said that, remember to eat and not to fight? They clearly remembered it. Look over there, the British are making a comeback this time, but they have an aircraft carrier! Apart from the Empire, they are the first company in the world to have their own aircraft carrier technology The British Empire, tsk tsk! It is indeed a veteran naval power!"
The two pilots of the reconnaissance plane became happier and happier as they talked, laughing loudly in this cold and lonely world isolated from the entire surface of the earth in this cold high altitude. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (.Vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.)