The fleet, loaded with Lan Fang's army, finally docked at the old port of Basra, which was not a qualified military port, but a simple alternative commercial port, and the northwest occupied the new port of Basra, where a large modern port was built, and the old port also benefited.

A few years ago, when the new port did not start to be built, it could only be called a fishing port, and now it has been expanded, but it is still not very large, but there are 4 10,000-ton berths and 7 5,000-ton berths, which were originally used to divert merchant ships when the bearing capacity of the new port reached its limit, and occasionally docked as foreign merchant ships, but now, it is used for the landing of the Lan army.

The whistle roared, all the warships were in a state of preparation, and put up an attack camp, even if it had been determined by Zhou Zhengpeng, on the side of the old port of Basra, there was no longer any Entente strength, Zheng Shusen was still cautious, first of all, just two ships came, almost 3,000 people unloaded a regiment, this is a well-trained regiment, although it is still a native regiment, but the training time is very long, and the combat experience is also there.

After the regiment landed, occupied the vital area on the shore and formed a defensive line, it carried out the landing one after another under the protection of the surrounding warships, and was extremely cautious, and it may take two days to complete the landing at the limit, and it took four days to complete the landing.

Prudence is cautious, but the progress is a little full For this, some young officers, their mentality has changed slightly, and even the following comments are also discussed, but Zheng Shusen doesn't care, his task is very simple, to win the battle in the Middle East. But how to win, how long to take. Basically, it's up to him to decide.

Although he had already arrived in Basra. But the 300,000 army is just a vanguard force, as long as it stands firm, Zheng Shusen is very young, but he has a lot of combat experience, if he leads all the regular army of Lanfang, or the Chinese defense force, he will not hesitate to march to Baghdad, even if the Entente countries hoard all their troops in Baghdad. 300,000 men was enough to kill them, and after defeating Baghdad, they were pressed forward step by step, killing the Allied armies scattered everywhere.

It's a pity that he only has 200,000 Lanfang regular troops on hand, and more than eighty percent of them have not come to the Middle East, and at present, there are only about 40,000 Lanfang regular troops and 160,000 aboriginal troops, which are not enough to deal with the 250,000 Allied troops. Generate overwhelming advantages.

Zheng Shusen is a qualified commander and a nationalist, but he is very clear when he works, and he does not discriminate because of the aboriginal army. From a military point of view, he knew that no matter how well-trained an army was, it could not compare to the experience of actual combat. Although the training of the aboriginal army is strict enough, it is the same as that of the Entente. Compared with the army that walked down in the mountains of corpses and blood in Bordeaux, there is still a certain gap. Before the other party finds out, having more troops can gain enough advantages.

It took 4 days for 300,000 troops to land and complete the defense, and the old port of Basra was deployed, all of which the Allies did not know, and after the two French divisions hurriedly retreated from the new port of Basra, they were reprimanded by Mark, and they simply retreated 30 kilometers, and established a defensive line in the small city outside, they just stuck to the city, and did not care about the affairs of Basra, for fear of angering the Chinese army.

The war situation is changing rapidly, and sometimes, because of that little bit, the entire battle situation is overturned, not to mention more than 300,000 people, let alone 100,000 people coming, if it is suddenly attacked, the French army of the two divisions will not be able to resist, maybe they really think that the danger only comes from the west, and the east is safe.

The imbalance between intelligence and information is evident here, in the age of the cable telegraph, in a well-informed place, it is possible to know all the news that is happening in the whole world in a short time, and to contact the dignitaries of various countries, but in the place where there is no access to the telegraph, it is not.

Baghdad once had a cable telegraph, and with the start of the European war, the two sides were already in a mess, and the Germans certainly could not have allowed the British to control their cable telegraph network, making adjustments and changes, and even using wireless telegraphy in most places.

The Allied troops found the original telegraph line in Baghdad, but it was broken in the middle, and the previous plan could not be achieved, so they had to use the most primitive method, messenger communication.

In the Arabian desert of more than 2.2 million square kilometers, it takes at least 10 days for even messengers on horseback to traverse, and they are cut off from the outside world during this time. In the headquarters of the Entente, it was already known that Lan Fang had sent troops to the Middle East and sent 300,000 reinforcements, but the people in the Middle East Mark did not know, and they could only fight with their own judgment and the previously established strategy.

Now even the messenger's communication is about to be cut off, the yellow sand rolling Arabian Desert, which is a desert larger than the Taklamakan Desert in China, occupies almost most of the entire Arabian Peninsula, the Taklamakan is called the forbidden land of mankind, the cycle of death, not to mention here, most of the places are impassable, only a limited number of places, through oases and some fixed roads.

Next to an oasis, under the thick yellow sand, no different from usual, under a cluster of desert-specific vegetation, in a small hole, stretched out a telescope, this vegetation is not much in the desert, but near the oasis, it can be seen everywhere, as a cover is enough.

Underneath the vegetation is actually an elaborate bunker, in the middle of the yellow sand, a simple single bunker is constructed, covered with camouflage nets and yellow sand, where a group of 2 people can lurk for 8-10 hours.

At this time, through a special telescope, Wang Yuanheng was observed, who was the observer of the two-person sniper team, responsible for observing the surrounding movements, and finding the target, next to him, a younger name named Xu Zhi'an, a Nanyang Chinese, joined the Lan Army a few years ago, with the help of outstanding talent, became a special forces soldier, he and his team, has been lurking next to this oasis for 12 days, on his gun, turned into 7 horizontal bars, in the past 12 days, 7 people died under his gun.

The desert has an unobstructed view, it seems that there are no roads, there are roads everywhere, but if you really have to be careful and serious, there are really not many roads that can be passed in the desert.

The reason is very simple, the desert is an extreme climatic condition, if you want to pass in the desert, water is necessary, without water, people can not live, this is the common sense that everyone knows, the desert is bigger than the Taklamakan Desert, if you want to travel through it, water is indispensable, so in the huge desert, the oasis has become the only way.

After Lan Fang sent troops, how to let the Allied troops in the Middle East know the movements of the Lan Fang army at the latest time, which is particularly important for the next strategy, if it is replaced by other armies, even if it is the German army, there is no way to completely cut off communications, and in the absence of cable telegraphs, information can also be transmitted through primitive methods.

In this case, the presence of the correspondent is particularly important, in an area of millions of square kilometers, in such a huge desert, to find the scattered soldiers, it is almost an impossible task, even if there is a clear route from the Suez Canal to Basra, but it is not easy to meet them, with the help of the oasis can greatly help them.

Before Lan Fang landed, Zhou Zhengpeng had sent 100 blocking teams, each with five people, three snipers and two observers, to monitor the core area from the Suez Canal to Baghdad, and killed more than 200 suspicious messengers in the past 12 days.

The sound of horses' hooves came again, and a messenger dressed in the uniform of the Entente came quickly, and when he arrived near the oasis, he seemed to be relieved and reduced his speed, he didn't know that at this time, more than 500 meters away, a sniper rifle was aimed at him.

Just as he was about to dismount, the gunfire suddenly rang out, and the special bullet, the gunfire arrived almost at the same time as the bullet, hitting the head, and the head was like a broken water bottle, which was beaten into a leaky gourd, and then fell silently.

Xu Zhi'an looked at his shot with satisfaction, and drew another one on the handle of the gun, the eighth, and the observer saw that there were no people within more than ten kilometers around, and let out two bird calls.

At the other end of the oasis, two men suddenly appeared, and they quickly came to the place where the messenger's body was, and began to dispose of it, and the body was buried on the spot, and the horse was driven a few kilometers away, and when all traces were cleaned, they returned. They've done this kind of thing many times, and they're very familiar with it.

Any blockade cannot be carried out for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that Baghdad is too far away from the Suez Canal, they would have found that a large number of messengers have been killed, but for almost half a month, there is no news from Baghdad, which still worries the Entente, finally, after a wave of logistical supplies in place, the Suez Canal finally feels that something is wrong, and in the original somewhat insufficient troops, almost 20,000 people were transferred to form a transport convoy, Responsible for replenishing Baghdad.

A special forces of several hundred people has no problem dealing with the heralds of the squad, but for a large convoy, there are some problems, and they immediately asked the headquarters for help after discovering the movement of the convoy. (To be continued.) )

PS: The first chapter arrived, and the other chapter was delivered before half past eight