Chapter two hundred and twelve
Cao Chong, the governor of the Western Asia of the Empire, was planning the materials in his hand to see how to fight the battle in front of him.
The Empire was naturally prepared for this attack by the Germans. In the West Asia area, the terrain was flat and suitable for large corps to fight, which was easy to attack but not to defend. Therefore, the main corps of the Empire were not directly arranged in the border area, which allowed the German armored corps to march straight in.
Now that the enemy has come in, I will naturally not be polite. Mobile warfare is the empire's best trick. However, once these two families take action, they are destined to be a small-scale battle. This is a war that is fascinating. As Cao Chong, he also needs to measure the situation in many aspects.
The situation in the Caucasus Governor's District needs to be considered. Now the Governor there has been replaced by Deng Ai, the old friend of Cao Chong. They are actually on the same battlefield as the West Asia region, and they are all facing allies, except that one is northern Turkey and the other is eastern Turkey. When fighting with the Allies, the close cooperation between these two families is very important.
In Cao Chong's hands, a week ago, the ten divisions reinforced from the Persian Kingdom had arrived in Kuwait, including two armored divisions equipped with imperial tanks. Cao Chong himself had the 17th Army adapted from the 17th Airborne Army, which was completely mechanized. In addition, the camel cavalry trained locally in the past two years, among the nearly 500,000 troops in the West Asian Governor's current state, 400,000 of them have certain maneuverability.
Moreover, in a month, at least 300,000 reinforcements will arrive. According to Cao Chong's requirements, at least half of the mechanized troops will be used. In mobile warfare, Cao Chong is full of bargaining chips. He just doesn't know what the arrangement of the Germans on the opposite side is.
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Germany invested three armies in West Asia, the Second, Third and Nineteenth armies. Among them, the Second and Third armies were both meritorious troops who had made great contributions in the battle to capture Paris. With the rapid mechanization of the German team in recent years, they gradually completed all reorganization and achieved all motorization.
As for the 19th Army, it was a force that gradually began to emerge during the African War. The core armored division, the commander of the 239th Armored Division, was the youngest division-level officer in Germany's history. By defeating Montgomery of the English Armored Knights, almost captured him alive and quickly achieved success.
At this moment, in the command of the 19th German Army, the call continued. General Von Ball, as the commander, was having a headache for the young and unruly guy under his command. This guy had just captured Damascus and continued to go south overnight, heading south towards Jerusalem. He had to call the guy quickly to stop the guy's attack.
"I said Erwin, who told you to go south by your own initiative? The order I gave you is to capture Damascus. Since the task has been completed, you should stop and wait for the next order. You should know that when you attack now, every step you have to move forward into the enemy's siege..."
"No, no, General, please believe me, go south this way. There will definitely be no main force of the Chinese, and there will be no traps of the Chinese that you are worried about. The Chinese are brewing a counterattack against the second and third armies of our army. This is the time when our army fights a time difference and strives to expand the results of our partial division.
Oh, General, can you imagine? The holy city of Jerusalem is right in front of us, and we can personally drive a tank from the hands of the pagans of yellow races to restore the holy city. Do you think I can let go of this glory? Moreover, we go south, and there are also benefits of going south. It is important to open up the defense line with Suez and connect our army with the African Legion. Isn’t this one of our main purposes for entering West Asia?”
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"Oh, damn it! Go to your Jerusalem! Come back. I order you to come back. I will send you to the military court within three days. Even the great William personally protects you!" With a snap, Von Ball hung up the phone and began to sulk. No matter whoever has a strong sense of armored soldiers, it will be a headache. Just like, like the once glorious Guderian, now he has been beaten back to the Royal Military Academy in Berlin to teach. All this is because no army commander will like this sharp blade that always wants to jump out of his control!
On February 6, the German Second Army and the Third Army traveled more than 200 kilometers, one left and one right, forming two huge clamp-shaped arrows, attacking Baghdad, the political and military center of the Imperial West Asian Governor's District.
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"Two main armies, that is, four armored divisions, more than 1,500 tanks, and more than 2,000 artillery pieces..."
Cao Chong was calculating the enemy he was facing.
According to the current German army organization, a mechanized army usually has one or two armored divisions as the main force for breakthroughs. There will be two main forces such as the Second and Third Army that are responsible for the main breakthrough tasks, and the others will be equipped with two heavy artillery divisions and four to six motorized infantry divisions. Such troops are indeed terrifying. When two attack at the same time, Baghdad is indeed under great pressure.
He thought about it and finally handed over the defense mission to Xiong Kewu, the commander of the Fifth Army, and allowed him to serve as the commander of the Baghdad security, leading the Fifth Army and the eight infantry divisions of Persian officers to defend the city. He would personally lead the mobile forces to attack and encircle and annihilate the German Third Army on the northern wing.
So soon, a torrent of troops in Baghdad came out in full swing. The heavy armored division of the 17th Army equipped with heavy tanks, Tiger tanks, light armored divisions equipped with improved Bactrian camel tanks, as well as cheetah tank destroyers, and heavy hammer self-propelled artillery were all dispatched collectively.
The sky fighter jets opened the way, and the torrent of armored vehicles on the ground gushed out, heading north. Cao Chong himself, also touched the equipment in his hand in the marching troops and sighed:
"It's been a long time, and I have not put on armor in person and traveled across the battlefield. Speaking of which, armor has been changing over the years. Even though he often takes time to practice, as the commander of the army, he is busy with his affairs, and I don't know how much skill he has in the past!"
What Cao Chong had in his hands was the most stylish Feng Armor tailored by the Empire for him.
Cao Chong himself is also a general Fengjia warrior with great force.
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Caucasus, Volgograd, the Caucasus Governor of the Chinese Empire.
Deng Ai just received news from Cao Chong from Xiya.
"I hope I put pressure on Türkiye? Cut off the German troops' retreat in West Asia?"
Deng Ai was also surprised by Cao Chong's bold idea.
This is not impossible. In fact, going south from the Caucasus Mountains, it is a flat land against Turkey, or even the fighter jets from the Caucasus Governor's District, take off from the northern foot of the Caucasus, and can directly bomb any part of the Turkish territory. This means that the airborne division of the Caucasus Governor's District may take off directly and land at any location in Turkey.
But this is too brave.
You should know that no matter how Turkey does, it mobilized an army of 1.6 million, of which one million were all allocated to various battlefields as auxiliary troops by the Allies, but there are still 600,000 local troops. Although these troops are all miscellaneous cards and their combat effectiveness is extremely low, they are hundreds of thousands of people. Crushing together can still squeeze a mere airborne division to death.
In West Asia, more than one million Germans are attacking the West Asia region, and more than 200,000 of them are deployed in the back path. The one who is guarding against the Caucasus suddenly heads south. This threshold seems simple, but it is not so easy to pass.
He knew that the situation of the Governor of the West Asian region was a bit urgent, but since the war in West Asia began, the Allies around the Governor of the Caucasus also began to put pressure on it. The more than 300,000 Romanians and 100,000 Austro-Hungarians were arranged in Ukraine, the former Russia to the north, the current coalition forces of the various countries of Germany and Belarus, and the Kazan Republic, which was independent from Russia, were also peeking at the Ural Mountain defense line. These were the pressures that Deng Ai had to face. In this case, it was obvious that it was unrealistic to let him dispatch too many main forces!
In short, this is a trick to harass Türkiye!
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Over the Gulf of Aden at the mouth of the Red Sea, at a height of more than 10,000 meters, two reconnaissance aircraft of the Empire were taking photos of the warships on the sea below!
"Haha! And pretend! What's the use of such a disguise? Even a fool knows that when the Allies and the Empire are going to war, it is impossible for such a huge fleet to pass by the Red Sea. The only possibility of such a huge fleet appearing here is the fleet!
Only a fleet can have such a huge ship and a fleet of this size! This kind of sneak attack is that if the Imperial Intelligence Department does not specifically inform us, it will not be able to escape the air reconnaissance where we are not here."
"That's why the British themselves were stupid, and they thought everyone was as stupid as they were. How could he know that the Empire had long been able to cover the surveillance of these special waterways 24/7?
However, it is strange to say. I didn't expect that the British would dare to drive their warships across the Indian Ocean. If we say that the special fleet had hit them with a blow to them before, it was enough to be miserable? At the time, I retreated from the Indian Ocean in shame, but now I want to make a comeback, and I still collude with the Germans. The British who dot shit really remember to eat or beat them!"
This made the wingman pilot next to him laugh,
"Who said, remember to eat or beat? They clearly remember it. Look over there, the British made a comeback this time, but they have aircraft carriers! Apart from the empire, the first British Empire in the world with its own aircraft carrier technology, tsk! It's indeed a veteran naval power!"
Chapter completed!