Chapter 1035: Entering Africa
"It's really changed!" Flipping through the calendar for May, Meng Xiang couldn't help but sigh.
April of the 45th year has passed, but history has changed beyond recognition.
In April in the original history, Roosevelt should have died early. Although he is still sick, he is still the master of the White House.
Meng Xiang didn't believe that it was his fighting spirit that inspired the small universe, but he believed that the war was not over, and the compromise between Roosevelt and the predators had not completely torn their faces.
But no matter who sits in the White House, Meng Xiang doesn't care anymore. The final competition of the war is national strength, and Huaxia, with its base cheater, has surpassed the United States in military strength.
This allowed the Germans to narrowly escape, and at this time they had not yet been besieged by soldiers in the capital Berlin as in the original history. The end of April had passed, Berlin had not been captured, Mussolini had not been executed, and the elder did not commit suicide on the last day of April.
The flag of the Third Reich still flew over Europe, just to see the daily flag raised, and the Germans were somewhat more damaged.
The Chinese army stopped in front of the Black Sea straits.
Under Meng Xiang's deliberate delay, most of the retreating allied forces successfully crossed the strait with the help of Turkey on the other side. The 10,000 British, American, and French troops and 40,000 Turkish troops left behind were annihilated by the Chinese army, and more than 20,000 Turkish cannon fodder were captured.
The allied forces retreating to Ankara did not survive April in the end.
As long as it is not their own territory, the destructive power of the Chinese army will skyrocket. Because of religious and demographic problems, it is difficult for China to swallow the whole of Turkey, and sometimes direct violent deterrence is more effective.
Meng Xiang also unceremoniously discharged 4 base-built Carl heavy mortar cannons, and used those huge shells to directly smash a passage from the ruins to the core area of the city.
After 7 days of continuous shelling, a white flag was raised over Ankara.
As a result, the entire Asian part of Turkey, with the exception of the northern Caucasus and the Allied forces taking advantage of the terrain to defend it, basically fell into the hands of China.
The strategic materials that could supply 500,000 U.S. troops for three months, as well as a large number of allied equipment, all became the victorious goods of China. Relieved the supply transport in the rear. It was even possible to save some supplies that had been looted up and down Turkey. See off the battlefields of the Middle East together.
At this time, most of the Arabian Peninsula also fell into the hands of China.
The Chinese army did not send troops to sensitive areas such as Mecca and Medina, but marched directly at the northern and southern ends.
With the lead of the Shenyue Kingdom, Amman and Yemen at the southern tip are easily won.
Only to the north of the Suez Canal defensive line, the Chinese army met stubborn resistance from the Allies.
The Chinese army lacked sufficient naval support, and if it were not for the support of air fighters, it could have suffered heavy losses under the attack of the British Mediterranean fleet.
But when Huaxia's fighters were continuously drawn from Turkey and other places. After the increasing air power completely overwhelmed the British, and the British warships did not dare to run easily, it was already a matter of time before they crossed the Suez Canal.
But China's first army to enter Africa was not here.
The Germans happily surrendered most of their sphere of influence in North Africa.
After the Chinese army stopped at the gate of Europe, the affairs of Europe could only be resisted by the Germans themselves.
Apparently the Germans somewhat overestimated themselves and underestimated the strength of the Americans.
The 100,000 veterans of the German army, which had been well-trained, have almost withered, and the German army still has more than 5 million in number. However, there are many new recruits, and in order to deal with crises on the front line, there is very little training. In the tempering of actual combat, the American army has grown up with batches of veterans, and with the support of the Americans' industrial heritage, the threat to the Germans has become greater and greater.
When China stopped on the edge of the Black Sea straits, how could other countries not guess what it meant? He concentrated his forces and took the opportunity to pinch the Germans first.
April. The Allies and the Germans fought fiercely in Europe.
After the Germans breathed a sigh of relief. Although they were able to hold out on all fronts, the number of personnel lost exceeded their expectations.
Although the new recruits who have been released from the country are constantly being replenished with the relaxation of age restrictions. But these recruits, who are not even fully trained, are far inferior to the combat effectiveness of those veterans.
As a result, the Germans began to abandon some external regions and concentrate on European interests.
The North African Corps, with a Baghdad treaty, was also in the ranks of the withdrawal, and the remaining main forces were cleanly evacuated.
With the addition of the U.S. military, the Allied superiority in the Mediterranean periphery, including at sea, became more and more obvious, causing the North African Corps to continue to shrink. After Rommel transferred to the mainland, the German-Italian North African Corps, which was constantly suppressed by the Allies, was reduced to less than 100,000 men, and retreated to Libya, even losing most of the territory of Egypt.
The Germans, who were unable to take care of it, also wanted to get rid of this chicken rib, and specially notified Huaxia and urged the Huaxia army to come and take over the Syrian defense line as soon as possible.
Meng Xiang naturally saw one aspect of it being used by the Germans, but the early arrival of the Syrian region also facilitated further action.
With the increasing entry of the American fleet into the Mediterranean, sea transportation became more and more unsafe, and even the evacuation of the Germans was a big problem.
At this time, Huaxia and Germany and Italy united, relying on the escort of the German fleet and submarines and a large number of Huaxia fighters, to complete the handover.
40,000 German troops and 20,000 Italian troops withdrew, and 30,000 Chinese troops set foot on African soil for the first time on German troop carriers.
The roar of the Chinese fighter group in the Mediterranean, which was constantly flying from Turkey and the Middle East, did not give many opportunities for the Allied forces to sneak attack the main forces of the air that were fighting against Europe and the Germans.
In addition to sinking two troop carriers and killing and wounding more than 1,000 German and Italian troops, the Chinese army only suffered more than 80 casualties during the journey.
However, the Allies launched a large-scale offensive on land, trying to take advantage of the chaos to control the situation in Libya.
The more than 30,000 Italian troops left behind were vulnerable, and if it weren't for the Germans leaving behind more than 6,000 German troops, and the airborne troops in China had landed in some fortresses in time, perhaps China would only have received a few port cities along the coast.
Even so, more than 10,000 airborne troops, dragging 30,000 reluctant Italian troops, could hardly resist the attack of 160,000 Allied troops from both sides. The small half of Libya was occupied by the Allies and even continued to advance.
If it weren't for the support of the Libyan sub-base, even if the 30,000 Chinese troops who arrived at the port were thrown in, they would not be able to bargain much.
A local climate has greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army. There are also those unfamiliar surrounding geography, even if there are 6,000 German troops to help hand over, it is difficult to understand it for a while.
The Libyan battlefield has never been passive for the Chinese army.
But all this improved significantly when the Chinese army broke through the defense line of the Suez Canal at the end of April.
At the end of April, the 200,000 Chinese army broke the Suez defense line defended by 120,000 Allied troops, officially crossed the Suez Canal, set foot on African soil, and forced towards the Nile.
As a last resort, 70,000 Allied troops on the border between Libya and Egypt had to withdraw to help defend the eastern front.
The Libyan Chinese army, which has gradually adapted to the environment, now only focuses on the western direction, and the output of the sub-bases has made the strength of this army increase rapidly, and it has suddenly become much easier, withstanding the fierce attack of the allies, and gaining a firm foothold in Libya first.
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"The Germans are not authentic!" After receiving a report of more than 7,000 casualties on the battlefield in Libya, Meng Xiang said angrily.
Although the supplies and other materials have been prepared for a long time, and even many troops have done adaptive training in the deserts of the Middle East and other regions, after all, the geographical environment of Libya is still somewhat unfamiliar, and it is inevitable that the preparation for the large-scale attack by the Allied forces will be insufficient. If the Germans were not in a hurry to throw off their burdens and have a smoother transition, there would have been fewer casualties in the Chinese.
"Since they are in such a hurry, I am not polite to those things that have fallen." Meng Xiang muttered to himself.
In the previous life, the Germans, however, had left behind a legend of Rommel's treasure after their evacuation and surrender.
Although it is difficult to say whether it is true or false, in this life, Meng Xiang has paid attention to it.
The Germans looted a lot of the wealth left over from North Africa for thousands of years, some of which was shipped back to Germany, and even if Rommel returned home, he would not be able to move all the wealth back to Germany.
Germany now needs more strategic resources, and the wealth accumulated in its hands is of little use.
They plundered the wealth of all of Europe, and after the Allies blocked the trade routes, they did not spend it only to Huaxia and the Shadow Company, let alone take great risks to transport the wealth of Africa.
Even after the final evacuation, the Germans still did not intend to bring back all the remaining wealth, and chose to hide the treasure in place.
When the time of the evacuation of Egypt, the wealth that had not had time to evacuate was buried in Egypt.
The looted wealth of Algeria and Morocco, and the vast wealth of Libya, which did not have time to be transported, were disposed of in Libya.
And under Meng Xiang's special attention, the African treasure of the Germans is no longer a secret to Meng Xiang.
Even if the Germans don't make a small move, Meng Xiang will still treat him unceremoniously, and he is even more at ease at this time. (To be continued.) )
PS: Kavin, it's awkwardly written.