Chapter 519: Battle of Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia and Iran are attacking from the west and from the north. There are 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia. There are 70,000 people in Iraq. Aziz, the deputy chief of staff of the Shenyue Army, who is Aladdin's brainstorm, pointed to a few points in the circle on the map and said, "I suggest that we first concentrate our forces to the north to face Iraq, and the time it takes for the Saudis to pass through the Dehna Desert can be harassed in the desert, and when they come to us, we have already repelled the Iraqi attack." ”
Aladdin looked at the schematic diagram of the attack of the two armies marked on the map and did not speak, but only thought silently.
The long time of killing made him develop the habit of thinking too much. If you make a decision by instructing Meng Xiang, I am afraid that the enemy's horse's hooves have already stepped on his head. His combat exploits and thinking had made him the first spy to break through the seventh level. In this war, although Meng Xiang attaches great importance to it from afar, some specific situations still need to be arranged by him.
"I don't think that's appropriate, the Saudis are advancing very fast, and they will attack our royal court directly." Yang Bō was already tanned and blackened at this time, coupled with his cheeks wrinkled by the wind and sand, people couldn't imagine that he was the white-faced scholar at the beginning, nor would people think that he was the division chief of staff in the vanguard army He pointed to Hu Fufu, the capital of the Shenyue Empire at this time, and continued: "The country is newly established, if the new capital is lost, I am afraid that the people will be in turmoil. The Iraqis are slow to march and may be waiting for our decisive battle with the Saudis. As long as the 100,000-strong Saudi army defeats us, then the Saudis will have enough time to recover Basra and Kuwait on the journey from Hofuf to Basra. Taken by the prestige of our Shenyue Emperor ** team, they are also hesitating. ”
Because of his status as a member of the Chinese queen's clan and "his own high military level", Yang Bō stood out in less than a year and became another deputy chief of staff next to Aladdin.
Aziz glanced at Yang Bō, although he also felt in his heart that Yang Bō was right about many things, but he didn't like these Chinese people. When Aladdin married the Chinese girl, "he was a little against it. But Aladdin's insistence made him choose to respect Aladdin's will, but now those Chinese people are meddling in too many things.
When the Chinese entered the army, they caused some people to criticize, but because they accounted for a small number of people, under Aladdin's strong decision, the opposition faded. However, the military exploits of the Chinese people made their status continue to rise. One of the Chinese with the highest military achievements has become the brigade commander of the Seventh Brigade. You must know that Aladdin's army has a total of only 7 brigades and 3 independent regiments.
There are also two Chinese who have become regimental officers. Although such a promotion has a clear record of military exploits, which makes them conquer the city, it is what makes Aziz alarmed.
He had advised his king, but Aladdin simply said, "I need a true warrior," and he got the matter to light. This made Aziz feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.
"Then will the Basra we occupy be abandoned in vain?" He was a little unconvinced.
"The north is mainly defended, relying on the city of Basra and the heavy patrol of the Babylon on the sea, where two brigades and one independent regiment can hold for five days, and on the west we can attack with all our strength and crush the Saudi invasion army at the desert front." Yang Bō still hesitated when he said the end, "but he still decisively said the five-day deadline."
He never imagined that one day he would leave home and come to the desert of the Middle East to assist an Arab sheikh in establishing a state.
"We need oil from the Middle East, and Aladdin is our ally. You can trust! When he came, Meng Xiang personally told him, "You must give full support to that Aladdin." Aladdin also has a lot of trust in him. Although he entered the dual nationality of the Shenyue Empire according to Meng Xiang's instructions, he still remembered his mission and remembered his identity as a Chinese.
"May you remember the title of General Fubō!" He silently said in his heart, when the teacher gave himself the word "bō", it was 918, and I am afraid that he also had an indescribable mood in his heart.
"Five days? Five days to defeat the Saudi army? Aziz grabbed Yang's words and asked.
"Five days! Five days is enough! Yang Bō's eyes did not shy away from Huang Aziz was about to say again, Aladdin had already said in a deep voice: "The Saudi army has forced our royal capital to come" Our warriors will never retreat! ”
The meaning is already very clear, he wants to touch Saudi Arabia first, and there is no way to do it, "When Saudi Arabia attacks Hufuf, it must first pass through those oil wells in the sub-base."
Because of the interference of foreign forces, Meng Xiang did not set the capital of the Shenyue Kingdom on the seashore of Bōs Bay, but designated Hu Fufu in the inland area. Not only was it located in the famous Ahsa Oasis at the time, but it was also close to the world's largest oil field in Gahwal. The oil wells in the sub-base are basically erected there, and Meng Xiang is still counting on the oil there to continue to turn into gold coins in the base's account.
As an oil and energy base, Hu Fufu's sub-base defense is slightly weak, and Meng Xiang is afraid of losing, so he also means to hold this side first. Aladdin carried out Meng Xiang's instructions very well.
The wind and sand swept through a bō-wave-like fold in the desert, leaving behind the silence of the bōdng of time, but the long procession of barges broke this tranquility on the sand ridge.
Hamid, the forward commander of the Saudi army, looked at the endless sand dunes in the distance, and said with trepidation: "Thanks to Allah, the sandstorm has finally passed!" ”
When he heard that Aladdin had plans to establish a state, the army that Saudi Arabia had prepared for a long time was ready to set off. After a delay of more than ten days, the arrangements for the army's trip were ready. Regardless of whether Aladdin builds a country or not, the assembled army must directly sweep Aladdin away from future troubles.
Hamid also heard about the Iraqis dragging their feet, and although he was annoyed, he did not stop the Saudi army. Ibn Saud never expected the mediation of the British to work, and he could not sit idly by and watch someone take the fat from his bowl. In the rear, there were also repeated urgings.
At this time, Saudi Arabia was not the rich and oily Middle East financier in later generations, and bought a lot of American products, although a little bit of oil was developed, but most of it fell into the hands of Britain and the United States and other countries. A million dollars is a lot of money for them. It is not easy for Saudi Arabia to mobilize 100,000 troops this time, even if most of the regular army still only have scimitars in their hands.
Their intelligence is also backward, and they only know that Aladdin's army is a little stronger. It was from this kind of information that they did not dare to divide their troops all the way, intending to crush Aladdin with the strength of 100,000 troops.
"There are only a million of them, and this 60,000 elites are probably false, right? I heard that they have an elite regiment and have brought in a lot of sophisticated weapons. But how much money can a small tribe that isn't famous? It would be good for them to have 5,000 guns at this time, and they had sent a signal for peace talks yesterday, which means that they are weak-minded. Hamid said in his heart, there are 100,000 soldiers, not necessarily 100,000 soldiers who can fight. Even the people in charge of logistics were included in the ranks of soldiers, and they were given a knife to fight and kill.
However, in the era of hot weapons, an army should be judged by the number of guns in the army. This time, the Saudi offensive had just over 30,000 guns in the ranks, some of which were old firearms from before World War I.
Aladdin's attack in the Bay of Bōs is not unaware of the Saudi side, but those small tribes in the desert even have a few guns, which is nothing. At that time, the center of gravity of Saudi Arabia was still in the direction of the Red Sea, and there was not much time to pay attention to these tribal disputes, which unconsciously made Aladdin sit big. It wasn't until Aladdin occupied Dammam and other places and defeated the local garrisons that the Saudi dynasty reacted.
However, in the eyes of Khalid and others, they also looked down on Aladdin, who was unknown before.
The wind and sand blew across his cheeks, and Khalid couldn't help but tighten the scarf on his face.
"There is no need for those Iraqis, lest there be disputes over some issues in the future!" Khalid said in his heart, but when arranging the army, there was a division of troops mobilized to the north, if Aladdin was defeated in one fell swoop, he could directly enter and rush to Kuwait, and then stand still.
"Those Iraqis have been fighting the Germans since the French surrendered. They won't be holding back because they're worried about the British who are still in Basra, right? He looked north, but thought of the recent German activity in the Middle East.
From the thirties onwards, the pan-Arabist movement began to rise throughout the Arab world. Although Saudi Arabia and Iraq are in the name of independence, there are still the British emperors on top. But with the gradual decline of British power and the exclusion of Western powers, the call for breaking away from the control of the British Empire grew louder. In Iraq, there has been a faction of pan-Afghan officers, mostly middle- and lower-ranking officers from poor backgrounds.
Although Iraq broke off diplomatic relations with the Germans at the behest of the British, it did not declare war on the Italians and the Germans, which gave the Germans more opportunities. So he began to actively solicit it. Since the fall of France, the Pan-Arabs have gradually gained the upper hand in Congress.
"The Iraqis, with the support of the Germans, announced a ban on the entry of the British ** team into Iraq. Aladdin was just in time for the British to acquiesce to his actions, allowing him to occupy Basra and Kuwait in one fell swoop. This is the British teaching the Iraqis, otherwise the military base in Basra alone would have kept Aladdin's troops in Kuwait. Khalid was still thinking in his heart, "The Iraqis are afraid that the British will take the opportunity to make a move, so they have been hesitating." ”
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but curse those Iraqis, and said to the adjutant next to him: "Speed up!" There's an oasis ahead, and we're about to drink the clear spring water. ”
The lieutenant quickly relayed the news, and a cheer followed, and Khalid smiled slightly, but then a loud roar of the engine froze his smile at the corner of his mouth.
Four planes flew in the sky, making everyone look up in unison.
"What's that?" Some of the Saudi soldiers had never seen an airplane, and many more had not seen many of them, staring blankly at the planes flying overhead.
"Da Da Da!" Without waiting for the knowledgeable person who shouted the name of the plane to explain what an airplane was, the machine guns on the four planes had already explained to everyone that it existed as a murder weapon.
"They even have planes?" At this time, seeing the mark of the Shenyue Kingdom formed by the five stars of January on the fuselage, Khalid's face changed greatly. Although 100,000 troops were gathered, there was not a single anti-aircraft gun with them, and the two divisions that were the vanguard did not even have a single anti-aircraft machine gun. Who would have thought Aladdin still had planes?
The soldiers below panicked for a while, and they all hid behind the ostriches carrying ammunition and supplies, but the machine guns on the plane knocked down more than a dozen ostriches at once, and the fierce gunfire around them made the group start to flee uneasily. Many more soldiers did not know how to dodge the planes in the sky and were directly knocked down by machine guns, and some cried and rolled down the dunes, blood spilled all the way.
"Get down, get down!" Khalid said angrily, they were helpless against the planes in the air, and some of the soldiers' rifle shots in the air were only a futile resistance.
"This account will be settled together!" He hated, and now he can only be shot. He somewhat regretted not following the advice of the staff officers. When I first heard that Aladdin had tanks during the attack on Iraq, some people speculated that they might have planes, but the three planes that he followed without anti-aircraft weapons were just reconnaissance planes.
"Damn, if it hadn't been for the storm just now, our reconnaissance plane would have spotted them earlier!" Khalid was escorted by his lieutenants behind an ostrich, surrounded by the sound of the guards shooting at the sky. There were clever people who mounted machine guns on the ostrich and fired into the sky, but could not turn to keep up with the speed of the plane.
"Those are Bzzzcn-109 aircraft, made in Germany!" A staff officer shouted as he pointed to the planes in the air.
"The planes of the Germans? Is it the Germans who intervene in it? Khalid was suspicious that what the British could know was not necessarily known to the Saudis. Maybe they know something, but they don't care. War has been asymmetrical from the beginning, whether it is weapons or messages.
Khalid stood up and watched the four planes interspersed with attacks on the long line for a while before slowly moving away, and couldn't help but look back at the chaotic team, and a trace of shadow passed in his heart: "What if they send planes again during the decisive battle?" Is it looking for aircraft support from the British? Or ......"
There weren't so many in the world, or when the soldiers had just been scolded by the officers and got up headless like flies searching for their ranks, there was a familiar buzz overhead.
"Airplanes! So many planes, O Allah! Someone shouted wildly.
When twelve more planes flew behind the sand dunes in the distance, everyone saw the sign of the Shenyue Kingdom on the top, and immediately ran in all directions.
"Damn send a telegram back and send our flying team!" Khalid said angrily. Although at this time the Saudis had only a few dozen old aircraft, it was better than nothing.
But as soon as he finished speaking, a louder engine sound could be heard in the distant sand dunes. Khaled's telescope hurriedly looked over to see dozens of soldiers with Leenfield rifles and a tank circling from behind the dunes, the muzzles of the black hole already turning.
"Tank?!" Khalid's telescope almost fell to the ground, and he thought it was his own eyes, but the shells of the tank guns were already blowing in the crowd.
The sand absorbed part of the energy of the 37mm guns on the M3 tank, making the threat of an explosion not as great as imagined, but the explosion seemed to blow up in Khalid's heart. Saudi intelligence learned that eighteen tanks of Aladdin's forces were in Iraq. I didn't expect a new tank to appear.
"We have 37mm anti-tank guns behind us, this one can deal with them!" Khalid was glad that he had brought three anti-tank guns with him, only to fall behind.
But after a dozen tanks appeared in a row in front of him, a little luck in his heart was crushed.
Aladdin's tank team collided with the Saudi ostrich team, and the battle went on without suspense.
Although Aladdin's tank team plus only more than thirty vehicles were outflanked from both sides, it was already invincible for the Saudis, who could only cut with scimitars and rifles. The millimeter machine gun on the top of the M3 tank sprayed bullets everywhere, like a flaming hedgehog. To the chains of the Reaper, the reaper's fragile spirit.
The news of this time and space is sluggish, and few Saudis know about the new methods of dealing with tanks, their flesh and blood can't stop the crushing of tanks, and those corpses that have been crushed into the sand spew out streams of blood at most, but they can't mix with the sand grains into a quagmire and trap the tank's tracks. The steel beetles that had come to a limp and stopped were all crushed by the heat and wind and sand of the desert. But their machine guns were still roaring, and the soldiers of Aladdin beside them were guarding the steel fortress.
"Shoot or kill!" This phrase is common throughout the world, and laying down arms and surrendering has become the only option for the Saudis. When the scimitar slashed at the tank and left only some sparks, the Saudi soldiers collapsed and fled in all directions when they faced these big iron monsters that bullets could not penetrate. The positions of the heavy machine guns they hastily erected were either run over by the M3 tanks or directly bombarded into parts by the 37mm tank guns. After the threat to the infantry was lifted, thousands of soldiers from the Shenyue Kingdom continued to pour out from the front and left and right sides, and the bullets fired from the Li Enfield rifles in their hands continued to take away the spirits attached to the backs of the fleeing ones one by one.
Fortunately, Aladdin's soldiers did not kill them all, but only used the chain of machine gun fire to form a cage to force them to surrender.
In later generations, Saudi Arabia and Huaxia did not have much enmity, but if Meng Xiang did not want others to jam Huaxia's oil, there would definitely be war in the Middle East. There is no need for indiscriminate killing on the battlefield. Besides, the Saudis had no heart to resist, and in less than two hours, from the appearance of the planes to the crushing of the tanks, the two divisions of the Saudi vanguard completely collapsed in a wave of rout.
The news quickly spread to Meng Xiang, who was waiting, and Meng Xiang, who heard this, couldn't help but feel relieved
"This is a war without suspense!" Afterwards, the Englishman's Richards envoy sighed again and again. But before the war, there were few people who thought of this concubine.
Even Meng Xiang was a little apprehensive in his heart, in addition to placing nearly a thousand clone soldiers, he did not hesitate to produce more than 100 tanks and 80 aircraft. More than two dozen No. 4 tanks, plus more than 20 BT-7 tanks and more than 40 M3 tanks, made up the largest tank force of the tribes around Bōs Bay. Plus 50 Bzzzcn-109B aircraft and twenty Black Death, as well as ten Stuka. , he was a little relieved.
But there is really no suspense about war. Tanks and planes were not something rifles and scimitars could withstand in the open area of the desert, and before Aladdin's trump card was thrown out, the Saudi army collapsed.
The defeat at the front stopped the Saudi team, and they gathered 100,000 troops and defeated more than 30,000 people in a blink of an eye. Ilsaud was taken by surprise. Immediately an order was given to stop the advance and defend in place. If something goes wrong with this 100,000-strong army, then Saudi Arabia will lose not only the eastern region, but also places like Hejaz and Riyadh. At this time, he had to consider the olive branch that Aladdin extended at the beginning.
"Our army sacrificed 374 people, killed 178, and captured 78 The report was also quickly sent to Yang Bō's hands, as the military commander-in-chief this time, he defeated the Saudi 30,000 strikers with only 10,000 men, and Yang Bō, who won the battle, felt that the eyes of the Arabs around him had changed, more respect and fear, less disdain and rejection in the past.
"This is the right time to take the opportunity to pursue and crush all the troops behind them. Let me, O my king, go and conquer Riyadh for you. Aziz was still a little unconvinced by Yang Bō, and took the initiative to go to Aladdin to ask for orders to pursue. Because of his gambling with Yang Bō, Yang Bō served as the commander-in-chief this time and won the supreme honor, which also made him unbearable.
"Yang Yuan, what is your opinion?" Aladdin sniffed at Yang Bō, who assumed the pseudonym Yang Yuan.
"It is not good for us to get into a fight to the death with the Saudis, and in addition to the Iraqis in the north, the British are also uncertain! They still have garrisons in Basra and other places! Yang Bō cautiously worded that there were some things that should not be said by him.
"Well, our knives are meant to cut the yoke that the British and other Western powers have given us, not to our Arab brothers!" Aladdin glanced at Aziz and the others, who had just consulted Yang Bō because he had consulted Yang Bō, and said softly