"We fought stubbornly, but the enemy was too strong, and we had to retreat!" Mountbatten was full of helplessness in his report to his superiors.

The British fought stubbornly, but they only resisted for only 12 hours before they had to retreat under the joint orders of Mountbatten and Auchinleck.

The Chinese army relied not only on surprise attacks, but also on strong strength.

As soon as the 60,000 Chinese armored troops came up, they pounced on more than 700 Rhino and Grizzly tanks, and destroyed most of the more than 260 tanks brought in by the British in half a short time. If it weren't for the long stretching of the front, the British tanks were also scattered, and maybe they would have been completely cleaned up by the Chinese tank forces.

Even then, British tanks no longer moved forward.

There is no way to fight at all, the Matilda tank and Cromwell tank entered by the British are okay against the No. 4 tank, but against the rhinoceros and grizzly bears, it is purely to find abuse. Even the equipped Chugur and Comet tanks could not protect against 90-mm and 100-mm tank guns. Not to mention the Sheldon tanks that the United States came to support.

The British fighters in the sky have long since disappeared.

More than half of the British fighters, which had only more than 100 planes, were blown up on the airfield under the surprise attack of the Huaxia jet bombers. After the remaining 70 or so took off, more than 200 jet fighters were immediately hit.

In these few years, there are 3 more empty finger centers in the 2 sub-bases nearby. As for the British on the other side, it is not easy to transfer more than 100 fighters here. In order to completely cut off the air aid channel for Germany, almost all air power was concentrated on the British Isles.

It is now mainly dependent on the United States to maintain air supremacy near Turkey.

But the surprise attack of a larger Chinese fleet of warplanes left the United States on the other side of the Euphrates River overwhelmed.

"Hold on!" The United States only sent such an indefinite word of encouragement, and there was no follow-up.

"Persistence? Those idiots, without tanks and fighters, we white spoon infantry will only continue to die. If we continue like this, we'll all die here! Seeing that there was no hope for American support, Auchinleck approached Mountbatten and asked to evacuate.

Britain did not enter the Soviet Union, and their white spoon soldiers did not have the consciousness of fighting for the victory or defeat of a war, if the superiors did not give the order to retreat, once the pressure reached a certain level, they would retreat themselves, which would lead to a large-scale rout. By the time the law enforcement team went up to fill the cannon fodder, it was too late.

Only eight hours later, Auchinleck had already noticed that something was wrong.

Not only is the demoralization caused by the breaching of many defensive lines, but the possibility of being cut off is the biggest threat to the army.

Without the cover of tanks and aircraft, the rout of the infantry in front of the tank units was a disaster. Of course, the offense was also a disaster.

The strength of the Chinese army was beyond the expectations of the British. In the case of a large difference in strength, any strategy seems so pale.

Determined not to waste any more soldiers' lives, Auchinleck immediately proposed to Mountbatten to evacuate at the dawn of the night.

He had come to help Mountbatten, but he was not the real commander of the army, and he could only propose.

But the real commander, Mountbatten, hesitated.

Mountbatten's special background requires a victory. At the very least, don't lose too ugly. And now, to evacuate before the end of the day is not only to disgrace Britain in the face of his allies and the world, but also to disgrace him.

A trace of distraction made him hesitate for more than 3 hours, and more than 3 hours were enough for a lot of things to happen.

The Chinese Iron Corps attacked like a tidal wave, finally crushing the confidence of the British to enter the resistance.

Before Mountbatten's retreat order was issued, there were already many routs along the long border between Syria and Iraq.

When he heard the shadow of the Chinese tank units found near Mosul, Mountbatten finally gave the order to retreat from the front.

In order to prepare for the surprise attack, and also to prevent the invasion of China, the main forces were transferred to the border towns of Amadiyah and Qamishli, and Mosul in the rear did not even have enough troops to maintain law and order. As the general headquarters, Mosul still has a large amount of supplies, and once it is lost, I am afraid that the British will fall into passivity in northern Iraq.

"We need to hold on to Mosul, we can rely on the defense of the city of Mosul to block the tanks from China!" Mountbatten gave himself an excellent reason to withdraw.

But his retreat order was always one step late, and the Huaxia Tank Corps may not be able to fight a defensive battle in the city, but with the support of the air force, it was still no problem to sweep the British camp on the border all the way to Pingchuan.

If it weren't for the darkness of night, which provided an excellent cover for the British to escape, the 50,000 British Commonwealth troops and more than 20,000 Arab indigenous troops on the border would probably have been wiped out.

But even so, less than 10,000 Commonwealth troops were able to escape back to Mosul, and most of them ran back wounded and empty-handed, infecting the 3,000 British troops defending Mosul with the feeling of defeat.

"We need reinforcements!" After Mountbatten reported the situation to his superiors, he directly applied for reinforcements. More and more Chinese troops appeared near Mosul, and if they wanted to defend the city, it would not be enough to rely on this remnant defeat in the city. Either there are reinforcements, or Mosul is abandoned and the evacuation continues.

"We don't have any more troops to draw from!" Marshal Alexander's head swelled, in just one moment, more than 40,000 Commonwealth troops were annihilated or missing, and there were simply extra troops around to fill this hole, and even if he went to reinforcements, could he resist the attack of Huaxia? Alexander, who had already seen the attack power of the Chinese army, had no bottom in his heart.

"The United States and Turkey have launched an attack to support you, hold on!" He still gave Mountbatten a hope.

As soon as the news of the raid on the British ** team in China spread, the United States realized that the opportunity to attack had arrived.

The United States has calculated through China's logistics that the number of Chinese troops is not much.

Through some intelligence on China's logistical supply line, such as the supply of food and clothing, combined with reconnaissance and espionage intelligence from all sides, and even propaganda materials on the 200,000 Chinese troops in China who annihilated more than 400,000 Turkish troops, the United States estimated that the number of Chinese troops was about 350,000. This also includes the maintenance of logistical supply lines and the induction of troops in occupied areas, and the number of troops that can be used for battlefield operations will not exceed 250,000.

Although they also took into account the support and other preparations of the cottage company, they definitely could not have imagined such a large-scale supply of sub-bases, nor did they expect that the real strength of Huaxia that could directly fight had increased to 330,000.

These forces were also divided into two routes, north and south, and they had to deal with several enemy invasions at the same time, which made the United States laugh at the arrogance of the Chinese army.

But inter-Coalition cooperation and pre-war preparations took time.

The United States could only put its offensive plan on the fact that 200,000 American troops would join with 600,000 Turks to crush the Chinese army on the southern route. Although reinforcements from Huaxia were also coming in, the Americans were sure that they would be ready faster than Huaxia, which had a long and difficult logistical line. The confrontation with strength is the safest.

But with the surprise attack of the Chinese army on the British, the United States changed its mind.

Even if the Syrian French ** team is playing soy sauce, the British plus the indigenous army can hold back at least 50,000 or even more Chinese troops, and it may be the main force of the Chinese army. The more than 200,000 Turkish troops on the Taurus Hill in the southeast were able to hold back part of the Chinese army, even if they were no longer incompetent. So how much can the Huaxia army be left as the South Road?

"They get 50,000 at most!" This is the most conservative estimate of the U.S. considering that the Southern Route army could reach 150,000 troops.

"We can't let Huaxia break us. Inform the Soviet Union of the Russian invasion and the entry of Turkey, and immediately attack from the northern route. We attack from the south! "The United States immediately revised the new battle plan and took the opportunity to push the entire campaign to a larger scale. Although the Allied forces were not fully prepared, they were always able to gain an advantage along the way under strong pressure.

This time, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces fighting near Turkey has not yet been finalized, and relations with Turkey have not yet been finalized, and preparations for the United States to enter the line have been busy for some time. Even if the United States has entered the world, which is the fastest in the world, and has joined forces with Turkey, Soviet Russia, and France, it has been more than 12 hours since China attacked Britain.

The 200,000 Turkish troops on the Taurus Hill in the southeast and the more than 400,000 Turkish troops accompanying them were even more than the United States had imagined, at least until the American offensive was launched, and in the absence of sufficient communication links, even half of them could not be brought together.

After receiving the news that Britain was in a bad situation, the United States had no choice but to launch it ahead of schedule.

They did not expect that the British would be defeated so quickly and so badly, and they did not expect that there were still 80,000 troops waiting on the other side of the Euphrates River in China.

It may be difficult for these troops to break through the 100,000 U.S. and 400,000 Turkish defenses on the Euphrates, but they can also take advantage of the Euphrates to withstand an American attack.

It brought together most of the artillery of the Southern Route Army, as well as the Huaxia Air Force, which was gaining air superiority, to make the defense here more solid.

At the same time, the 150,000 troops of the North China Route Army were ready to meet the Soviet-Russian and Turkish coalition forces, but because of the conflict between the Soviet-Russian invasion and the Turkish invasion, the army they were waiting for was delayed. (To be continued)

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