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Chapter 1888 The situation has changed dramatically

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    In March 1942, Zhong Yi led the 1st and 2nd Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a total of 250,000 people, to arrive at Kuwait Port on a transport ship of the British Navy¡¯s Far East Fleet.

    Originally, according to the plan of the Allied General Headquarters, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was supposed to land in Yemen.

    After arriving in Yemen, they met up with the main forces of the US 7th Army and the British 8th Army, which arrived first. After a short period of mutual adaptation and running-in, they took a boat ashore from Suez Port to join the Alamein battlefield.

    However, the plan did not change quickly. Before Zhong Yi and the soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force set off from Calcutta, the world situation changed unexpectedly again.

    Turkey, which had always maintained neutrality, suddenly changed its position and joined the Axis Alliance.

    Turkey¡¯s sudden entry into the war immediately had a huge chain reaction on the world situation.

    The biggest loser is the Soviet Union, because to some extent, the reason why Turkey joined the Axis Alliance was to retaliate against the Soviet Union.

    Tš¹rkiye and Russia, the predecessor of the Soviet Union, can be said to be feuding.

    Because of religious and territorial disputes, Turkey and Russia have loved and killed each other for hundreds of years. The final result was that Turkey suffered a huge defeat in World War I and lost 70% of its land!

    Before this, Turkey strictly maintained neutrality, and Britain and the Soviet Union cooperated to overthrow the pro-German regime in Iran and foster a pro-British puppet regime. This opened up the connection from West Asia to Central Asia and then to the hinterland of the Soviet Union.  It is precisely because of the continuous blood transfusion of this transportation line that the Soviet Union has been able to persist until now without falling.

    But now that Turkey joins the war, for the Soviet Union, not only the oil fields in the Transcaucasus will face direct military threats from the Turkish army, but even the lifelines running through West Asia and Central Asia will be fatally threatened.

    For the Soviet Union, this was nothing less than a disaster. Therefore, on the day Turkey entered the war, the Soviet government sent a request to the Allied General Headquarters, requesting the Allied Headquarters to immediately organize an expeditionary force to conduct an expedition to Turkey.  Protect the Soviet Union's last life channel, and secondly, eliminate the threat from the Eastern European flanks.

    When Turkey suddenly entered the war, the biggest loser was the Soviet Union, and the biggest winner was of course Germany.

    Or rather, the biggest winner was the German army in the African battlefield commanded by Rommel.

    Before Turkey entered the war, although the Afrika Korps commanded by Rommel had won a huge tactical victory and pinned the US-British coalition forces in the Alamein area, it had fallen into a desperate situation strategically.

    Because it is also very simple, because the German and Italian navies suffered a disastrous defeat in the battle with the British Royal Navy and have completely lost sea control in the Mediterranean.

    The loss of sea control in the Mediterranean immediately brought disaster to Rommel's Afrika Korps.

    What¡¯s even more terrible is that in this time and space, the African Corps commanded by Rommel is no longer one hundred thousand, but a large army with as many as one million armed personnel, plus 800 tanks and 1,000 aircraft!

    And this does not include the armed personnel and heavy equipment of the Italian Legion.

    To maintain such a large legion, the supplies required are undoubtedly astronomical.

    Previously, the Germans had the right to make sea control in the Mediterranean. It was not a big problem to maintain such a huge strategic cluster by relying on strong sea roads. After all, the logistics supply of this legion mainly depends on Italy.

    ¡°The distance from the southern port of Italy to the northern port of Egypt is just over a thousand nautical miles.

    But a month ago, as the main force of the German and Italian Mediterranean combined fleets was severely damaged by the British Royal Navy, sea control in the Mediterranean was instantly lost, and the logistical supplies of Rommel's army immediately became a problem.

    When he received the telegram, Rommel actually stared at it for half an hour.

    In the end, Rommel¡¯s adjutant even worried that their commander would not be able to bear the pressure and took out his pistol and committed suicide.

    However, there is an old saying from China¡¯s ancestors, good fortune lies with misfortune, and misfortune lies with blessing. Just when Rommel¡¯s Afrika Korps was about to run out of resources, a surprise suddenly came.

    Tš¹rkiye, which had previously maintained neutrality, suddenly announced its participation in the war!

    Now, the situation of Rommel's army immediately became clear again.

    Because as soon as Turkey announced that it would join the Axis Alliance, it organized an expeditionary force and quickly advanced south along the east coast of the Mediterranean, advancing to Lebanon in less than three days.

    What happened next became unquestionable. Since Britain had almost emptied all the colonial armies in West Asia, the land defense on the east coast of the Mediterranean became very empty.??

    The Turkish army was unstoppable and entered Egypt in less than half a month.

    At the same time that the Turkish army entered the Sinai Peninsula, the German army also stepped up its attack on the Alamein area.

    On the day Zhong Yi and the Chinese Expeditionary Force boarded the ship from Calcutta, the Allied forces in the Alamein area collapsed. Except for a small number of British troops retreating to Yemen along the east coast of the Red Sea, and a small number of US troops retreating to Somalia along the west coast of the Red Sea, the remaining  More than 500,000 Allied troops surrendered.

    At this point, the German army not only occupied northern Egypt, but also opened up all land transportation lines in West Asia.

    This also means that the German, Italian and Turkish coalition forces will continue to launch attacks on British colonies such as Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman and even India.

    The situation of the Allies suddenly became precarious.

    It was under this extremely unfavorable situation that the Allied Command temporarily changed its plan and decided to send the Chinese Expeditionary Force led by Zhong Yi to the battlefield in West Asia. Zhong Yi's position was also changed from Commander-in-Chief of the African Theater to West Asia.  The commander-in-chief of the theater changed his mission from defending North Africa to defending the lines of communication with the Soviet Union while waiting for opportunities to cut off the German supply lines.

    Under this situation, the Chinese Expeditionary Force decided to land directly at Kuwait Port.

    When the Chinese Expeditionary Force led by Zhong Yi landed, they saw that Kuwait had turned into a huge military camp.

    In the port and the area of ??dozens of kilometers centered on the port, you can see that there are densely packed tents and simple wooden houses dotted here and there.

    In addition to Americans and British people walking through these tent areas, there are also a large number of servants from various British colonies.

    The skin color of these servants can even hold an ethnic expo.

    However, Zhong Yi clearly felt that the morale of the Allied forces was not high.

    Whether it is the American army, the British army or the servant armies in various colonies, most of them are withered heads and brains. Obviously, the defeat in the Battle of El Alamein has seriously damaged their confidence and they are afraid.

    An Zhenyuan said: "Chief, these ghost guys seem to be very depressed."

    "Of course they are depressed after losing the battle." Zhong Yi shook his head and said, "Tell the brothers to ignore them, lest these defeated soldiers take their anger out on us." (Remember the website address: www  .hlnovel.com
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