"The most important thing we should do is not to attack, but to defend!" British Admiral Auchinleck said unceremoniously to Mountbatten, "There are more than 400,000 Soviet Russians and Turks in the north of the Chinese army, and more than 500,000 Americans and Turks in the west, and the number is still growing. If the Huaxia people attack south, I'm afraid it will be bad! ”

He sighed as he spoke, the British have always been strong in the navy and weak in the army. Even the small army was concentrated in the homeland and North Africa, and even in western India, where he came before, it was a large army composed of mainly Indians to block the Japanese from continuing to advance westward.

At present, even if the Japanese troops stationed in India have temporarily ceased war with Britain and India under the mediation of the Americans, the Indian side will not be able to transfer many personnel. Besides, the Japanese who were driven crazy didn't know if they would do anything crazy after the Chinese occupation of their homeland, and the British left Slim to lead the army there and continue to squat.

There are also many armies in the Middle East, but in order to maintain the colonies in the Middle East, they are extremely scattered and have been understaffed. Even the Shenyue Kingdom, which was constantly attacking cities in Iraq, couldn't hold it down, let alone dispatch troops to deal with the Huaxia.

It was only in order to prevent the Chinese from further westward expansion into Europe or North Africa that these men were gathered, and Auchinleck, who was familiar with the Middle East operations, was specially dispatched to help Mountbatten.

Auchinleck is considered by some British historians to be one of Britain's two best generals of World War II, along with Slim, who excelled in bush warfare. It's just that his relationship with Churchill is very unharmonious, and the time he led the army against the German ** team coincided with the difficult period before the Americans entered the war, so the fame of later generations was not as loud as Montgomery's, but his ability was not bad at all. Especially the fighting in North Africa and the Middle East.

While Alexander and Montgomery were busy with the war in North Africa and Europe, fearing that Mountbatten, the gold-plated general, would be incompetent, Field Marshal Alan Brooke, who was the chief of the General Staff of the British Empire, thought of Auchinleck.

However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Even though the 50,000 Commonwealth troops they had put together were much stronger than they had been in the difficult times in North Africa, the opponents at this time made Auchinleck uneasy.

"The Chinese have been divided into two lines, and the Chinese army to the south is no more than a hundred thousand, and they still need to deal with the Turks and Americans on the other side of the Euphrates, how many troops can pose a threat to us?" Mountbatten said disapprovingly. "The Chinese army has been blocked by the Indians and the Japanese on the India-Burma border for so long, and I think many of them have a limited level."

The British did not have a direct understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army, but only assessed it on the basis of the Japanese and the Russians, as well as some contacts in Southeast Asia and Australia.

Although the Soviet Russian army fought bravely, it relied on cannon fodder to accumulate achievements, and the British, who had always trusted the policy of elite soldiers, have always despised it. Although the Japanese have many elite veterans, their tactical level and weapon level have been hovering at the third-rate level. None of this is enough to highlight the high level of the Chinese people.

Moreover, many battles of the Chinese army were often fought with more and fewer battles. It's like sweeping the Japanese in Australia. It was a massive flood of people that completely overwhelmed the Japanese. Moreover, the British have always believed that there is a suspicion that the Chinese fishermen are profiting and picking up cheap.

Many of the losses suffered by the Americans in the hands of China were due to other factors, and even the Americans were a little unconvinced, not to mention the British, who looked down on the level of the US Army.

In the contacts between Southeast Asia and Australia, for the British, or at least for Mountbatten, there was nothing that touched the most than the war between the Chinese and the servants on the Indo-Burmese border.

The Chinese servant army suffered a large number of casualties every day, but its progress on Indian soil was extremely slow.

Although the British, who were good at it, were also aware of the conspiracy. This Mountbatten still thought. This is the true level of Huaxia.

Like most British, he also recognized the super combat effectiveness of the Chinese army in some battles against the Soviet Russian and Japanese armies, but he believed that it was only a few, and there were always special circumstances for the tens of millions of troops in China. But the astronomical amount of training expenses consumed by more than 10 million troops is enough to give any country a headache, let alone a poor country like Huaxia.

The British, who have plundered China for hundreds of years, naturally know the wealth of China. I can't believe that the copycat companies and others are living Lei Feng, even if the Chinese people dig up a big gold mine, the weapons they buy are enough to absorb the funds of the Huaxia government, how can they still train tens of thousands of troops?

Even though there is a lot of news about the Huaxia new barracks, as well as relevant intelligence, Mountbatten has always been skeptical about it. Chinese people always show their side that they like to be seen, and the propaganda of Chinese people is always too exaggerated. The level of the real Chinese army. It may be a little stronger than the original Center Party, but it is also limited.

"This westward Chinese army once advanced all the way in Central Asia, but considering that the main energy of the Soviet Russians was to deal with the really powerful German army. It will not create much difficulty for this army at all, then the combat effectiveness of this army is also questionable. "It's not just Mountbatten's idea, it's the idea of a lot of Britons.

It was precisely because they felt that the Chinese army after the division of troops was not a big threat, so that the British decided to reject the Americans' enthusiastic intention to help. Relying on the heritage of the British Commonwealth, France was pulled together to defend the Syrian-Turkish border on the southern front.

The more downcast, the more the British wanted to save face for the British Empire. And the Americans meddle too much in Europe and around the world.

Syria was originally a colony of the French, and after the fall of the French, part of the French chose the Americans, and some chose the British.

Also wary of the Americans reaching too long, the French in Syria chose to cooperate with the British. However, to deal with the Chinese army, the Syrian French army, which received fewer American reinforcements, was not very enthusiastic. However, Mountbatten felt that relying on the Commonwealth army was enough to deal with the Chinese army, and he might even take advantage of the weak strength of the Chinese army to fight a counterattack to show the Americans, the French, and even the world that the old British Empire was still in power.

"The Chinese reinforcements have not yet arrived on a large scale, and the strength of the Chinese army at this time is the weakest. Moreover, the Shenyue Kingdom in the south has recently fought to the death with the Iraqis near Baghdad, and it does not need our special care, and the south can also draw some troops. In this way, our surprise attack may have a good harvest! "Mountbatten, who is playing soy sauce gilding in Southeast Asia and India, has always been unwilling and does not want to let go of this opportunity to earn honor and merit.

"High Command has also agreed to my plan of attack!" Mountbatten interrupted Auchinleck's hesitant reminder and continued.

"Good!" Knowing that Mountbatten's identity and the arrogant British high-level one-sided perception of Huaxia had a good chance of passing this plan, Auchinleck, who also looked down on Huaxia in his heart, finally chose to implement it.

But before he could correct some deviations in the plan in detail, the telecommunications staff officer exclaimed from the command center in Mosul, Iraq: "The Chinese have suddenly launched an attack on us!" ”

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"If you want to ensure the security of the supply lines, the resilient British are a big problem!" Meng Xiang's finger swept across the map of northern Iraq and Syria, "This trouble must be solved first." ”

Now the morale of the Western Route Army, which had just won a victory, was high, and Zhang Zizhong on the southern front even called for a battle to continue to advance westward. Considering that the sub-base had relieved the tension of strategic materials, Meng Xiang did not refuse, but changed the direction of the attack to the south.

"It's not just Turkey and the Americans who have allies, we have too!" Meng Xiang broke the news to everyone, "The Shenyue Kingdom has signed an alliance agreement with us and officially joined the Huameng!" It would be easier for us to strike the British in the south together. ”

In recent years, Shenyue Kingdom has always had a good relationship with Huaxia, and there are more and more Chinese immigrants there, but the environment in which it is located has not announced that it has joined the Huameng with Huaxia as the core like Southeast Asian countries, and has always maintained a neutral situation towards all parties. This is also one of the reasons why Aladdin took advantage of the British inability to take care of it, and expanded aggressively, which did not arouse too much suspicion among the British.

In order to prevent the natives from revolting, the British wished that they were fighting each other. Whoever wins will not be able to pose much threat to the British Empire, which was freed up after the war, and will still have to obey the British as the emperor.

In this way, with the help of a Shenyue country that has not been fully exerted and is acting near Baghdad, even if the Chinese army on the southern front is only about 150,000, it still needs to protect the mountainous areas in the west and north, and it will not affect the dispatch of troops to the south, sweeping away the British, a colonist who is more familiar with the Middle East, and opening a passage to Africa by the way.

As a result, the 60,000 Chinese armored troops took the lead in launching a blitzkrieg attack without waiting for the British harassment and raid plan to begin to be implemented. (To be continued)

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