It's been five months since Colonel Lawrence came to the desert of the Persian Gulf.

He began to regret taking on this ghost errand a little.

and the squadron he met in the Ming Dynasty, although the will to fight was resolute - and this will became more and more resolute as the war progressed - but this could not change the shortcomings of the Chinese soldiers in terms of training procedures and so on. Lawrence had come into contact with the captured soldiers of the New Ming Army, many of whom were illiterate, and although it was evident that they had received a certain amount of training in infantry tactics, they could not calculate coordinates at all, so they could not call for artillery support, and many of them could not read the map, so the officers could only spin around the battlefield after they were killed, and they had the will to continue fighting but could not use it.

Therefore, the new Ming army is an army that can use the usual combat ability if there are still officers who survive, and once no officers survive, the remaining soldiers can only carry out simple tactical tasks such as holding their positions and "advancing to a place where there are gunshots".

In addition, the common problem of the new Ming army is that the marksmanship is generally not good, and there is no way to take the US army after a certain combat distance.

Of course, not all of the new Ming troops are like this, Lawrence also encountered very elite troops in the Ming, and those troops were terrible.

But now, the Arab guerrillas under the guidance of Lawrence are facing the Chinese army, and it is difficult to say how the marksmanship is, because the firepower is so fierce, I don't know whether it was hit by accurate shooting or swept to death casually, but from the perspective of the tactical literacy and fighting will of the grassroots soldiers, it can be regarded as an elite division in any country.

In terms of weapons, although the Arab guerrillas have the support of the United States, all of which are American weapons, the enemy uses a large number of mechanized troops because they take oil on the spot, and the Arabs can only transport oil from other places.

In the face of the completely German-style infantry division of the African Army (the German called the armored chasseur division, but the African army did not use this name, after all, the Chinese have no concept of chasers), the Arabs even if they have weapons provided by the Americans, they are a little weak.

Fortunately, the transportation capacity of the African army is still relatively poor, and it cannot drive straight into the desert area for sweeping, and can only stick to the west coast of the Persian Gulf and the two river basins. But Lawrence was well aware that with enough trucks and more catalpa oil mills in operation, the days of the Arabs were over.

Lawrence was given the order to create as much tactical advantage as possible and create conditions for the Americans to establish a territorial confinement in the Arab states of the Middle East. But in this situation, it was not easy to create a tactical advantage, and Lawrence tried his best to force the Afrika Army to retreat from a few strongholds deeper into the Arabian desert.

In another time and space, if you look at the map of the Middle East, you will see that the dividing line between countries is very individual, often with very straight lines and very geometric turns, the most obvious being the border between Jordan and Iraq that is reminiscent of battlements.

In fact, in the first decades of the 2O century, there were only two areas in the Middle East that could be counted as states, one was Egypt and the other was Iran, and the vast land between the two countries was theoretically the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but after World War I, the Ottoman land collapsed, and this vast territory actually became a "terra nullius" for the great powers, so the victorious countries began to divide the cake in the Middle East, completely ignoring the distribution of ethnic groups, and directly drawing spheres of influence on the map, and finally forming the strange national border division in the Middle East.

The British and French, who helped the Arabs fight the Ottoman rulers during World War I, turned into colonizers who oppressed the Arabs.

It was only in 1932 that Saudi Arabia completed the reunification of the country after Britain and France, and gained partial sovereignty from the British.

But in this time and space, Saudi Arabia does not exist zài - because Osman died too late. However, the Ottomans were still the victors of the First World War, so the Middle East has not yet been drawn.

Now, the Americans are planning to draw a good picture of the sphere of influence in the Middle East with Lin Youde - they wanted to do this in the final stage of the war, but Lin Youde has been talking about him left and right, and in the final peace negotiations, only the dividing line between Egypt and Israel has been finalized, and the boundaries of the other parts are naturally to be determined. However, Lin Youde and the Americans had an agreement, and the United Nations began to discuss the issue of drawing the line immediately after the establishment of the United Nations, and the establishment of the United Nations had already been finalized at the time of the peace negotiations on January 1, 195o, before which the first United Nations General Assembly would be convened to determine the matters related to the establishment of the United Nations.

In other words, before that, who has more land constitutes a fait accompli, and then the drawing meeting will have an advantage.

The Americans know perfectly well that the African armies in the Middle East, as well as the Israeli armies, will aggressively attack the Arab world before the issue of the borders is officially discussed.

Lawrence's task was to support the Arabs against the inevitable onslaught of the Afrika Army, and if possible, it would be better to take back a few of the oil wells.

Of course, Lin Youde will not allow this to happen, and the Chinese country that will be established in the Persian Gulf in the future must include most of the oil-producing areas on the west coast of the entire Persian Gulf, which is the basis for Lin Youde to establish a foreign exchange and payment system similar to the Bretton Woods system.

So although Lin Youde's company is now full of orders, the African Army still has a sufficient number of German weapons.

And there are many new weapons that the Germans have just been equipped with.

Not long ago, Lawrence, while personally leading a reconnaissance team, saw new weapons he had never seen before marching with the rest of the African Army.

It looked like a self-propelled gun, but the hull was significantly longer than a normal self-propelled gun.

Lawrence did not know that the enemy was firing the cannon in. [,！ What was the desert intended to do, according to Lawrence's understanding, artillery was either used to fortify or defend against the attack of large armies, and such a target as the guerrillas organized by Lawrence to help the Arabs did not use such a thing as artillery at all.

The Arab guerrillas were based at a great distance, and now they were staying in a small oasis that was a makeshift camp, and there were many such camps in the desert, but whenever they could find a ground object that could be used as a landmark, the Arabs would store some supplies underneath in case they needed it.

The Arab guerrillas under Lawrence never stayed in the same makeshift camp for three nights.

And by this time they had only been at the camp for one night.

"We're attacking tonight, targeting the enemy's forward outpost fifty kilometers southwest of us." Lawrence said to the map he had cut out of the sand with tree branches.

At this time, the lookout post suddenly became bigger: "Plane!"

"Big and small?" Lawrence asked aloud in English, and his translator immediately translated the question.

"Little sir." After a grunt at the Arabian lookout, the interpreter said.

At this time, the lookout post shouted and rolled down from the small mound he was watching, and Lawrence knew that the enemy plane was drafted.

He watched the Arabs scatter and hide, but he was very calm - if he was lying on the ground, he might still be strafed by the plane, and the correct thing to do was to see the trajectory of the plane clearly and avoid the strafing area of the plane as much as possible.

He looked up at the enemy planes that were coming down, and they pounced and rolled in the right direction.

Lawrence dodged the strafing of the enemy plane without any suspense.

"Count the casualties." He ordered, "This place has been spotted by enemy planes, and we will be out in twenty minutes. Watch out for lookouts, enemy planes may come back. See clearly."

But the enemy plane did not return .

Lawrence watched as the partisans loaded the munitions and supplies stored in the caves into large canvas bags hanging on either side of the horses, and calculated the timing of the arrival of the enemy air raids.

Just then, he heard the sound of cannonballs breaking through the sky.

"I see?" Lawrence muttered quietly, he must have been in his head for a while before the plane came down, and the damn lookout must have been distracted, but Lawrence wondered why the plane was going to be drafted and startled, was it because he was afraid that he would hide in the hole to avoid the shelling-it seemed to make sense.

"Don't be afraid ......"

As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, the first shot fell.

Lawrence, who had experienced the war, was not in a hurry, he knew that with the few cannons he saw yesterday, he could not hit a high density of fire, and his men had plenty of time to dodge.

"Don't panic! Find good cover and then hide, the crater from the first wave of enemy bombs will be good......"

Lawrence is starting to feel that something is wrong.

There's a lot of cannonballs whirring in the sky......

The next moment, a dense rain of bullets fell.

This is a 155-caliber heavy artillery shell, in another time and space in World War II, the Tiger Hunter's high-explosive grenade can lift the US military's Willis jeep directly to the roof of the roadside, and the unlucky jeep was also photographed by a photojournalist. Since then, together with the Japanese small tank that was carried on the shoulders of the US M4 Sherman, it has become the star of small vehicles in World War II.

Although the Willis Jeep is not heavy, and the empty car is only half a ton, it also shows how powerful the high-explosive shell fired by the 128mm gun is. The caliber and power of the artillery never increase linearly, the explosion power of the 155mm howitzer is even more terrifying, and the shock wave formed by the eight-kilogram TNT charge is enough to pose a fatal threat to soft targets within a radius of forty or fifty meters - this is the charge standard of the US military, and the German army likes to fill TNT into it because of Lin Youde's personal preference, so the power is even more frenzied.

Basically, a 155 pomegranate falls in the circle of kick-off in the middle of a football field, and the strikers and center forwards of both teams on the field are basically dead, and the defenders and goalkeepers depend on luck.

Now, Lawrence is being smashed in the face by such shells.

The Arab guerrillas, whom he had been training for so long, "had real combat experience," fell apart in an instant, scattered and fled, and then disappeared into the smoke and flash of the explosion. Lawrence knew that even if he could have half of the men left after the bombardment, he would never be able to unite them into an arm.

In fact, Lawrence was skeptical that anyone would survive.

He even suspected that he would not be able to survive himself-

At this moment, the shockwave that came from behind him blew him up like a leaf.

Then Lawrence lost consciousness.

(I watched the girl blow the trumpet 11 words, Kyoto's sugar is good, I'll update a chapter to calm down first)