"Carry the sacrificed soldiers into the car, and you can't leave your comrades behind!"

"Nanxuan, I'll take a company to go first. The second and third companies are left to you to protect the truck fleet so that the Iranian soldiers who are willing to go to war can also follow as soon as possible. Don't forget! After entering the city, go to rescue the ambassador first. Sanbiaozi, you take the lead! ”

"Battalion commander, just look at it! Lao Tzu must beat out their egg yolks! ”

Four tanks, blocking the gate of the training battalion station. The corpse crushed by the tracks next to the tank made the faces of the soldiers who faced death for the first time pale. After Zhao Sanbiao took a few veterans to pick up the scattered SC38 submachine guns, he led his tank platoon to rush towards Tehran City with a loud roar. Shortly after the sneak attack on the station, an explosion was heard in Tehran, five kilometers away, so Li Jin, whose eyes were red-eyed, didn't have time to think about it, and ordered a dozen dead soldiers to be loaded onto a truck, and then turned over and got into the tank.

Due to the lack of ammunition, only one company of 12 capable 31 tanks could be put together, and the remaining 12 were only one armor-piercing shell. However, the machine guns had plenty of ammunition, so they were left to protect the convoy. The tank company rushed towards the Rose Palace in Tehran at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, and because there was no infantry to respond, Li Jin ordered the use of a tight diamond-shaped formation that was easy to echo, and each vehicle was also assigned an additional roof machine gunner, and asked the communicator to turn on the on-board radio and tune it to the internal frequency of the Wehrmacht.

"Rush over! Kill them! Catch the infidels! ”

In front of the Rose Palace, Khomeini, of course, did not know that the supposedly elite Soviet Interior Guard would miss. Looking at the dense corpses of his companions in the square of the palace, he bit and shouted, beckoning his companions to launch a third charge with him. However, this charge was quickly broken down by the fierce palace guards with machine guns, and they were defeated again, and the leaders behind were helpless.

At that moment, a rumbling motor came from the intersection on the left. Khomeini turned his head to look at it, then cheered loudly. Seven Czech AHIV light tanks, controlled by coup soldiers, rushed at them, although they were only 4.2 tons. There are only three 7.92 mm machine guns, but they are already a superweapon for the sectarian guards, which lack heavy weapons, and if it were not for the joint instigation of many imams and imams, I am afraid that this Czech tank equipped with the 1st Guards Division alone could easily crush all the sect soldiers.

Seven Czech ahivs rushed towards the palace in a murderous manner, and when they saw these tanks, the guards soldiers immediately turned pale. It is important to know that in the whole of Tehran, only the Guards Division is armed with Czech 84 AHIV and 76 Chinese Type 25 tanks. The tanks that were supposed to come to escort appeared in the hands of the rebels, doesn't it mean that the two Guards Divisions have defected?

"Report, traitor's tanks are on the offensive."

"Your Majesty. Maku's telegram, the Soviets and Soviets crossed the river to attack them. ”

There was chaos in the Rose Palace, and Reza Khan, who was holding a saber, grabbed the ceremonial officer who came to report, and his face was red and white: "What did you say?" Why did the Soviets attack us? Damn it, these damn GC molecules! ”

"Your Majesty, the traitor's tank is almost at the palace gate. Come, ready to protect His Majesty's retreat. ”

"I'm not going to retreat! Get out of the way and let me go out and have a look. ”

"Your Majesty, there is a battle going on outside."

"Get out of the way!"

The captain of the guard and the ceremonial officer failed to dissuade the thunderous Reza Khan. In the face of this king who has been fighting all his life, he can only grit his teeth and transfer a small team of soldiers to protect him to the palace observation deck to check the battle situation.

By the time Reza Khan arrived at the observation deck, three mutinous AHIV tanks had already rushed to the palace gate. Nine heavy machine guns on the tank repeatedly strafed the Guards positions. Seeing the elite guard soldiers he picked up were slaughtered. This hard-line figure who single-handedly established the Pahlavi dynasty could not help but change his complexion. In fact, when he heard that the rebels had tanks, Reza Khan understood who was playing tricks. Except for the sect that can only stab in the back, who else can incite their own guard division?

The four AHIV tanks in the back also rushed up, when the palace gate was swept by machine guns and collapsed. The guards were so frightened that they immediately dragged him inside. But at this moment, the AHIV tank that rushed to the front turned into a ball of fire. "Who is it?" Reza Khan and the guards were stunned, who else would come to save them at this time? "It must be Konoe II who is loyal to His Majesty. It's Chinese! Your Majesty, look over there! "The captain of the guard, who had intended to say that it was the commander of the 2nd Guards Division, was only halfway up when he jumped up and handed the telescope to Reza Khan.

Looking in the direction of his finger, two Type 31 tanks came out from the left. Without waiting for the coup soldiers to react, there was another loud bang, and the second AHIV tank was also broken into parts. "It's a Chinese tank! It's them, it's definitely them! Ha ha. Reza Khan laughed. Because he was familiar with the appearance of the Type 31 tank, he had personally piloted this tank when the training battalion came.

After destroying two AHIV tanks in succession, the palace guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the machine guns were aimed at the remaining five and swept over.

"Chinese tanks? He, where did they come from? And what about the Soviets? When Khomeini saw the tanks of the training battalion, he thought he was dazzled. Didn't the Imam say that the Soviets would solve them?

Seeing the Type 31 tanks that were rumored to have crushed the Soviets in Afghanistan rushing towards him, the remaining five AHIVs had no intention of attacking the palace again, and they turned around and fled in fright. finally had a gas target, how could Zhao Sanbiao let the prey escape. "Fire!" Faced with an AHIV that could not hurt himself, four Type 31 tanks rushed all the way to 400 meters before Zhao Sanbiao gave the order to open fire.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Of the four steel-core armor-piercing shells, except for one that was deflected by a sharp turn of the target, the remaining three hit the target. The worst one that was targeted by Zhao Sanbiao was the one that directly penetrated the gasoline engine and turned the tank into a sea of fire. Seeing that the Type 31 tank was so powerful, the remaining two ahivs panicked even more, and immediately rushed out of the alley next to it, hoping to use the street to get rid of each other. But they didn't expect that four thick cannon barrels appeared in front of the turn as soon as they turned.

When the burst fireball erupted from the muzzle, the last two ahivs were also turned into scrap metal.

After easily destroying the seven AHIVs that posed the greatest threat, Li Jin immediately asked Zhao Sanbiao to deal with the infantry, and then let the second platoon disperse to meet Ran Nanxuan, and he led the third platoon into the palace.

Zhao Sanbiao came out, which can be regarded as a pit for the lack of protection sect soldiers. These soldiers, who had never learned to deal with tanks at all, were no different from a flock of bleating sheep on the steppe in front of four 31 tanks. Before Khomeini could wake up from the shock of his tank being quickly destroyed, the high-explosive shells were already exploding around him. Before being swept away by a shockwave and hitting a wall. A rain of bullets heavier than the AHIV tank pierced through his body.

"Your Majesty, you must leave with us immediately." Of course, Li Jin didn't pay attention to a killed soldier in the corner, he had already received an urgent telegram from Hufufu through the car radio on the road just now, so after seeing Reza Khan, he asked him to leave with the armored battalion in jerky English without any politeness.

"Can't afford to lose time! We have received definite information that the Soviets have sent five divisions to your borders from Maku, the Caspian coast and Herat! By noon tomorrow at the latest, Soviet troops landing from the Caspian Sea will be able to get here! And there are still many betrayed soldiers here, and we are short of ammunition, so we cannot guarantee that we will hold out until reinforcements arrive. ”

The news brought by Li Jin exploded in the Rose Palace like thunder. Although it had just been learned that the Soviet army had entered Maku, Reza Khan still did not believe it. It wasn't until Li Jin said it that he realized that this was no longer just a coup d'état. Fortunately, he was not a hesitant person, he knew very well that there was a big gap between his troops and the Soviet Red Army, if one or two divisions still had the confidence to fight, but five divisions "What are you still doing in a daze?" Fall back! Contact General Hussein to get Ahvaz's troops ready. ”

As soon as Reza Khan gave the order, the guards and court personnel loaded the valuables onto the trucks. Li Jin also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and was about to smoke a cigarette to suppress his spirit. Ran Nanxuan's shouting came from outside: "Battalion commander, battalion commander!" Okay, no, let's go! The 2nd Guards Division was disarmed, and more than forty 25 vehicles were coming. ”

Forty or so 25?! Li Jin was taken aback. The cigarette between my fingers almost fell off. He was all too familiar with the Type 25 tank sold to Iran, and although the 40-mm gun on it could not penetrate the front of the 31 tank, even the export version, the side and rear engines could not block it. If there are many of them, it will be enough to kill the training battalion that lacks ammunition. So he immediately grabbed Ran Nanxuan and asked if it was true or not.

"Their division commander is a student of Commander Bai Chongxi. It was he who called and told the ambassador to evacuate. Ran Nanxuan immediately explained. It turned out that the 2nd Guards Division of Iran was the same as the 1st Guards Division, and as soon as the fighting started here, the coup soldiers over there grabbed the power of the troops, and the entire division was disarmed without being able to prevent it. Fortunately, the division commander was more clever and hid in the toilet without being discovered, and immediately called the palace after seeing the coup soldiers depart, but because the telephone line was not available, he only needed to call the Chinese ambassador and hope to help him convey the news.

"Two, three, protect ambassadors and kings! Sanbiao, open the way! I'm broken! ”

"Company commander, let me break the back."

"Less nonsense! Head south! It was necessary to arrive at Hamadan by ten o'clock, where the Air Force transport was waiting. Walk! That's an order! "The 2nd Guards Division is stationed ten kilometers north of Tehran, and if the information is correct, it will arrive soon! Therefore, Li Jin did not hesitate to push Ran Nanxuan and the officer away, and personally led the two platoons.

At the same time as they rushed out of the city, forty-three Type 25 tanks entered the city from the north, and thousands of coup soldiers followed the tanks and rushed to the Rose Palace.

London, 10 Downing Street.

It was dinner time in England, but the dignitaries and generals sitting around the conference room had no appetite. The successive defeats in Southeast Asia, the revolt of Jawaharlal Nehru in India, the chaos in the Persian Gulf, the tension in Europe, and so on, are like a dark cloud that hangs over London all year round, and it is breathless.

Mrs. Catherine pushed the door open slightly, asking if she needed to prepare dinner, but was interrupted by a frowning Prime Minister Chamberlain, who waved her hand, and had to close the door and wait for the return.

"Edward, hasn't there been any news from Xu Gesen yet? Why exactly? Are they willing to watch Japan's long-term domination of the South China Sea? "As a result of the ferocity of the Japanese offensive, most of Burma had already fallen, and the British began to fear that after the complete defeat of Burma, the Japanese army would sweep through India along Bengal, which was a real disaster! So now is the most urgent need for allies who can step up. But the problem is that Yang Qiu, who originally thought that he would jump out immediately, did not move, but instead increased his troops to the northwest. This made Chamberlain very puzzled, you know, he had already made the conditions for the autonomy of Singapore and West Borneo.

Listening to the Prime Minister's somewhat angry words, Lord Halifax, who had just taken over as Foreign Secretary, rolled his eyes and sneered in his heart. You didn't make this up yet? If you hadn't betrayed the Czechs, how could the credit of the empire be bankrupt? As a result, the British Empire could not find any allies willing to stand up and help, except for France, which was very different. Of course. Chamberlain cannot be blamed for this alone, the current situation is just a general manifestation of a series of stupid diplomacy of the British government after the European war! If it were not for the devouring of the colonies at the Versailles Peace Conference, the handing over of New Guinea, Rabaul and the Micronesian Islands to Japan after the war, despite the opposition of Australia and China, making things difficult for Saudi Arabia and China's oil security, sending the United States back to North America, and rejecting India's autonomy in violation of its promises.

These treacherous acts undoubtedly angered those countries that had followed Britain in the southern and northern wars, so when Japan declared war, except for the Netherlands, which had vital interests. Even China, which is close at hand, has not talked about the alliance, but has gone to France to sign a mutual assistance agreement in the South China Sea.

But can Yang Qiu really sit back and watch Japan's expansion?

That's a no! It's just that because the current British Empire has no credit, people simply don't talk about friendship and wait for Britain to offer first. So Lord Halifax coughed lightly twice and said, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, Ambassador Xu Gesen is still very conscientious, and he has asked the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister privately. According to him, China could not accept a war with unclear leadership, and even more so with the expansion of the USSR to the northwest. So in addition to the autonomy of Singapore and West Borneo, they hope to bring Eastern Siberia into autonomy in order to solve the northern threat. They also want. ”

"God! Are they crazy? "Chamberlain and several generals almost jumped, as did Singapore and West Borneo. Unexpectedly, Yang Qiu actually directly hit the entire East Siberia!

Right! You promised not to colonize, but you didn't say you wouldn't expand your territory! So who doesn't know the meaning of this autonomy? Singapore and West Borneo are located overseas, and there is still a chance to maneuver after agreeing, as long as they are not incorporated into China. But in Eastern Siberia, with the exception of Japan, which has a small territory off the coast of Okhotsk. In the entire boreal zone of Eastern Siberia, even the Soviets could not penetrate the needle, and there were only more than 100 civilian policemen. Now the local Chinese enterprises and population far exceed the aborigines several times or even more than ten times, and the territory is bordered. When the time comes, the Kuomintang will incite and hold a referendum on whether to join China, and who will stop it?

"I think yes, the Soviet Union is our long-term enemy, and creating contradictions for China and Germany to deal with the GC Party is the best way."

"But in this way, Yang Qiu's energy will be more invested in the north, how can he fight in the south?"

"No, I don't think the USSR should be weakened, the Germans are dangerous after all."

"Maybe we can negotiate with China and get to Kamchatka."

“。”

The conference room exploded, because no one expected China to make demands on Eastern Siberia. Although they actually controlled it, the tundra zone still nominally belonged to the Soviets. If Britain stood up in support, it would probably offend the Soviet Union to death, and it would not be in line with Britain's foreign policy of maintaining a balance on the continent.

Lord Halifax was even more depressed, he hadn't finished talking yet! So he coughed twice: "They said that alliance operations need unified command and coordination, and if there were no two of them, they would not have intervened in a chaotic war." So, in the event of an alliance, it would be necessary to hand over to them the command of the theater of operations in the South-West Pacific and the command of the Persian Gulf, and as for India, there was no demand. ”

"This is blackmail!" The aging Admiralty, Lord Stanup, slapped the table fiercely: "The Royal Navy must not lose control of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf!" I suggest waiting, Japan can no longer sit still and sooner or later it will enter the Philippines. As soon as they attack, the protection agreement signed between the Philippine government and the U.S. government will automatically take effect, and we can use this to attract U.S. troops. ”

Lord Halifax looked at the old marshal with pitiful eyes, and a wry smile broke out in his heart. United States? Roosevelt couldn't even break through domestic isolationism, and would sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers for a rotten island nation? Seeing that Sino-Japanese relations are becoming more and more tense, it is too late for the United States to hide, if it takes the initiative to intervene now, in case Yang Qiu's head is broken and suddenly allies with Japan, Roosevelt will not cry to death!

Lord Halifax held back the corners of his mouth to prevent himself from laughing, and the other generals and officials also looked away, and even Chamberlain wanted to cry without tears. It's better to let Churchill's big fat man do it.

After holding the teacup to hide his embarrassment, he was about to continue asking when the door was knocked on again. "Ma'am, please." Seeing Mrs. Catherine, who opened the door, Chamberlain thought that dinner was arranged again, so he waved his hand politely. But before he could finish speaking, General Hugh Sinclair of MI6 had already rushed in.

"Prime Minister, something very bad! I think my prophecy may have come true! This is a telegram from General Wavell, just now, there was a coup d'état in Tehran! The Rose Palace has been taken over by the rebels! Also, the army of the Soviets has already begun to attack Tabriz, and the Caspian flotilla has already landed from the north! It is said that the nearest striker is already less than 70 kilometers away from Tehran. ”

"Bang."

Chamberlain's hand slipped, and the cloisonné tea set that had been used for thirty years fell to the ground...... (To be continued.) )