"I finally smell this familiar smell again!" As soon as Rommel stepped off the plane, the air between his noses was quickly added to the sea breeze of the Mediterranean Sea and the heat wave of the Sahara Desert.

"Sir!" Zhao Yi, who was standing in front of the ladder, gave a standard Chinese military salute and said excitedly, "Welcome back to Egypt!" ”

"Egypt! Cairo! Rommel raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and in the heat wave, the shape of the pyramid was faintly visible, and he couldn't help but murmur in his mouth.

However, he retracted his gaze in an instant and looked at the young Chinese officer in front of him who had fought together in North Africa for more than two years.

"Zhao, you're also a general?" Rommel exclaimed.

"Just promoted! You know, there's been a lot of fighting lately! Zhao Yi said disapprovingly.

Rommel was silent for a moment.

Recently, Huaxia has not only fought too much, but also fought too violently, and the sparks have been sputtered to Europe.

On June 7, the Chinese army crossed the Nile and completely occupied all of Cairo.

The photo of the Chinese military flag flying over the pyramid appeared on the headlines of major newspapers around the world on the 9th.

"China and Egypt are both ancient civilizations with a long history. But now the Oriental lion was already roaring, and the reclining lion in Egypt was still asleep in front of the ancient pharaoh's tomb, and even if Napoleon knocked out its nose, it would not be able to wake it! Unlike the relatively radical newspapers in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, the French newspapers were relatively neutral, and the oldest newspaper in France, Le Figaro, did not denounce or praise China in its entirety, but compared it with those ancient civilizations.

"Le Figaro", which is good at large-scale commentary, not only listed Egypt, but also mentioned a few sentences about the ancient countries of Asia and Africa in Fang Long's works, and also quoted the four ancient civilizations proposed by Liang Qichao at the earliest:

"In that year when the door was knocked open by the World Alliance, some Chinese scholars proposed the four ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, there are no Greece or Rome, but perhaps it is a blessing. That may be the list of Chinese conquests, at least until now, Egypt has been under the feet of the Chinese, Asia Minor has long been conquered by the Chinese, and the war between India and China has been going on on Indian soil. Even the Indian Ocean is about to become a swimming pool for Chinese people. How long can an embattled India last?

Different civilizations have led humanity in different directions to explore the path to the gods. And now that they are about to unify under a certain powerful civilization and go in one direction, is this the luck or misfortune of the human beings on earth? What is the ultimate path of human civilization? Is it unified or decentralized? ”

The article, contributed by an American scholar named Will Durant, did not attract much attention in a political mainstream.

The leitmotif of this world is still war and conquest.

The Germans wanted to unify Europe, the Americans wanted to unify the Americas, the Chinese wanted to unify Asia, and all the great powers wanted to conquer the whole earth. The only means of unifying civilizations is war.

In the survival jungle. Minions are more effective.

Under the countdown to the end of World War II in the original history, Meng Xiang also did not have the patience and time to bargain with others, and the enemy he encountered could only use the armored army to push him down all the way.

The T-55 tank group swept across the banks of the Nile, constantly bullying Sherman and Shaffy.

Even if Pershing jumped out, if he wanted to fight it alone, there would immediately be rhinos and grizzly bears going up together to beat him. There is no use for the slow E-100.

It was only in Alexandria that the steel armor of China finally met with resistance.

The new tank of the Americans has finally appeared.

Before the Americans' Super Pershing tank could get out of the lab, it was canceled under the threat of tanks such as the Rhino and Grizzly Bear, and continued to improve its capabilities.

Under the threat of an increasingly unfavorable situation, the Americans and the British joined hands, so that the Super Pershing was finally equipped with a more powerful engine and a more powerful 90mm tank gun. So that the Super Pershing tank finally came off the production line. Finally in service.

Although there is no talk of main battle tanks yet, the Americans have already seen the arrangement of the Chinese armored forces. Those main forces of tanks of more than thirty tons are obviously not something that Sherman and Xia Fei can withstand. This time they chose the 2nd Tank Division, a heavy armored division, to test the combat power of all-heavy tanks.

Sensing the threat of China in North Africa, the main force of the US 2nd Armored Division rushed to Egypt to save the field before it could be fully familiarized.

It's just that they didn't expect the Huaxia troops to attack so quickly, and they crossed the Nile moat early.

The U.S. 2nd Armored Division could only retreat to Alexandria and wait for new equipment to arrive.

After the capture of Giza by the Chinese army, the Americans' 300 Super Pershing tanks were fully equipped.

At this time, the Super Pershing tank was not exactly what it used to be, and many of its performances were somewhat similar to the M48 Patton tank.

This is already about the same as the performance of the T-54/55 tank, and the performance of the Type 59 medium tank, which has become the main force of the Chinese tank.

The Huaxia armored force, which has always been destroying and sweeping away the opponent, encountered a reef this time.

The Chinese army on the front line only knew that the Americans had brought in Super Pershing, but the performance analysis of Super Pershing only used the original one, and somewhat underestimated this new Super Pershing, and also underestimated the combat capability of the Second Armored Division.

Under Patton's tutelage, the combat style of the Second Armored Division was obviously not as good as those young master soldiers who couldn't help fighting. During the assault on Alexandria, he was caught by surprise by the 2nd Panzer Division.

If it weren't for the tenacious spirit that the Huaxia armored forces had already honed after a hundred battles, and the command system with well-informed battlefield intelligence to respond quickly, I am afraid that the Huaxia armored forces would really usher in a defeat.

It was in this battle that Zhao Yi won a crucial point for him to step into the position of general.

Under his rapid reaction command, he sent 8 Black Hawk helicopters to quickly support and directly attack the headquarters of the 2nd Armored Division, although the decapitation was not successful, but it disrupted the front-line command of the US army, and gave full play to the tactical advantages of some helicopters to fight tanks, helping the prominent too far forward Chinese armored forward troops to gain a firm foothold, and won a key draw for the Chinese North African Corps.

But the tragic loss of nearly 100 tanks in one battle still shook the somewhat proud Huaxia Armored Corps, and also shook Meng Xiang.

At least in Meng Xiang's education, as well as in the various performances of the Americans before, the praise of American GIs for their combat bravery seems to have stayed only in Hollywood movies.

The performance of the 2nd Armored Division was surprising this time, and it seemed to mean that more and more American GIs had become real veterans after more war.

And judging from the change of their weapons this Super Pershing, the distance between them and Huaxia will be shortened more and more, and they will become more and more threatening to the current Huaxia army.

"We should not rely only on the advantages of weapons, but also on the advantages of people!" Although the base upgrade will quickly widen this gap, Meng Xiang does not want the Huaxia army to become too attached to external conditions.

In the past, the tank troops of Huaxia relied on the absolute superiority of weapons, and often overwhelmed people with force, and the wild style of play was very mainstream. After this battle, he became more interested in tactics and strategy.

Soldiers are not only bloody, war also has the art of violence.

The large number of war strategies left by our ancestors in China have given us a higher starting point.

The Chinese North African Corps, which had taken it seriously, quickly adjusted its tactics and fought two more battles with the US Second Armored Division in a row.

At the insistence of most of the armored generals, the first battle relied on the main force of the Type 59 tank, the coercion of the Rhino and the Grizzly Bear, and the E-100 tank, and fought a duel with the tank troops of the Second Armored Division in a dignified manner, and won back the honor and confidence with an absolute victory.

The 2nd Panzer Division regained its strength after the Americans rushed to reinforce another 200 Super Pershings and the European Third Army sent a crack army.

Obviously, the Americans saw the doorway and planned to rely on the 2nd Panzer Division to break the undefeated golden body of the Chinese tank forces.

But in the second battle, from the time the rockets of the Black Hawk helicopters rained down, the 2nd Panzer Division was defeated in a much faster time.

Zhao Yi stepped into the ranks of Huaxia generals by virtue of the helicopter command of this battle.

This time, the Chinese North African Corps did not have the mind to improve its educational thinking with the help of the US Second Armored Division, and directly relied on a sea of more than 2,300 tanks to drown more than 1,200 tanks and tanks of all sizes arranged by the Americans around Alexandria.

After the Allied air power in the vicinity was suppressed, the British and American ships had to leave the nearby port under the threat of more and more fighters of the Huaxia Air Force, and could no longer help the Allied defense.

On June 20, Alexandria was occupied by the Chinese.

In the following week, the Chinese army from Libya and the Egyptian troops attacked Salum and other places, swept away the allied forces in the western part of Egypt, and at the end of June, completely linked Libya with Egypt and Asia, and directly drove the chariot into Tunisia and Algeria.

At this time, the Germans came and sought to cooperate with China to fight back against Algeria and Morocco and completely close the door to the Mediterranean.

There were even more secret terms of cooperation, so Rommel himself came. (To be continued.) )