The sun just rose, and the city of Cairo, located at the mouth of the Nile River, was shrouded in a faint blue mist. This city, which had become a large military camp, was awakening from the clear light.
Wang Cunli raised the fighter jet to a height of 500 meters and prepared for the attack. The Alvesu military airport in the west of Cairo was presented to him. The British army's most important air force base was still as usual, at the airport
Some ground staff are conducting routine preparations.
Rows of yellow grass-colored English** were neatly arranged at the end of the runway with planes, flashing light in the sun. There were some faint white clouds floating above the airport, looking peaceful, and it was an excellent time to attack.
"The enemy seems to have discovered us. The 3rd Fighter Squadron arrives first and attacks immediately!" The order from the attack commander-in-chief Liu Yuntian came from the headphones, and some busy pilots at the airport were running towards the plane.
Wang Cunli pushed the joystick forward, and the fighter dived towards the airport, aimed the bombs mounted under the fuselage at the runway and threw them down, then pulled up the fuselage. He circled over the fighter planes repeatedly, towards the runway parked on the runway.
The British planes on board were firing desperately. The bombs and artillery fell over the airport. Before the British could react, the gunpowder was already filled with smoke and fires soaring into the sky.
The destroyed plane ignited a fire, and some people could be seen running towards the shelter in a hurry. The air defense forces around the airport began to fire, and balls of white smoke exploded in the air.
After half an hour of bombing and attack, the Chinese left, and the ground crews at the British airport ran out, trying to rescue some less damaged planes and repair runways.
But not long after, the second Chinese attack formation arrived over the airport again. The focus of this attack changed from the plane on the runway to the airport facilities. The radar station and radio station established by the British army were destroyed, and two large oil depots were
An explosion occurred, and thick smoke soared into the sky, covering most of the city.
The battle of Egypt began.
The Republican Army first dispatched 1,300 aircraft to conduct all-round attacks on 12 large airports in Egypt. The first two waves of attacks** destroyed and injured 568 British aircraft, including shooting down in air combat.
43 British fighter jets.
Within two hours of the war, the British troops stationed in Egypt lost most of their combat aircraft.
While conducting an air strike, five armored divisions of the Republican Army began to cross the Suez Canal on the north and south sides of Lake Timsa. At this time, in the Sinai Peninsula, which was full of deserts, the Republican Army had already concentrated the forces of three armies.
Three hours later, the 77th Armored Division broke through the British defense line on the front line of Fedan. The British General Command stationed in Egypt organized a counterattack with all its might, intending to repel the Republican army back to the other side of the Suez River. However, the British counterattack did not
What effect did it have? More and more Republican tanks crossed the canal and launched attacks on the British army.
After persisting for more than ten hours, at night, the British defense line collapsed.
The 120,000 British troops defending the Suez Canal area took advantage of the darkness and abandoned their positions and fled desperately towards Alexandria.
"Why don't Italians send fleets to stop the British from escaping?" In the Port of Suez, General Zhang Tingfu was furious. Within two days, the British retreated 150,000 people from Alexander and Seed to Tunisia.
The troops landed early, and the British troops in North Africa reached 400,000.
The British used the swamps in the lower Nile River to resist tenaciously. The Republican army made difficult progress, and tens of thousands of British troops evacuated from this area every day.
"The Italians used the excuse that they could not fight against the British escort fleet. On the other hand, they were afraid that the British would break through land from land to Libya after losing their retreat at sea." Fang Minghao said, "They have lost Tobrook."
And Benghazi, afraid of losing Tripoli."
"You mean the Italians were deliberately letting the British go?" General Zhang Tingfu was going crazy.
"There is this meaning. They are afraid that the British will fight them to the death. On the other hand, Admiral Cunningham is indeed stronger than the Italians. The British have transferred most of their Royal Navy to the Mediterranean.
.” Fang Minghao said: "All Europeans were very upset when they saw the British Navy, but they didn't take it seriously as we did."
"My grandma, the more people are let go today, the more troubles you will encounter in the future." Zhang Tingfu was angry and turned around and issued an order to the combat staff, "Order all troops to attack with all their strength,
Alexander must be taken down within three days!”
At night, Alexandria was breeze, but the British commander of the North African Army in Egypt was not interested in the night view of the port in front of him. On the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Queen Elizabeth, this person was very popular.
The tormented British Army General looked at the retreating British army nervously boarding the ship at the port with expressionless face.
After completing the retreat mission, London will send a new commander to replace him. His military career is about to end. The only memories left to the British general by the war is failure, from Southeast Asia to India, and from the Middle East to North Africa.
, He was defeated again and again by the same enemy, making him extremely unwilling to accept it.
"History will give you a fair evaluation, general, at least your retreat in advance under pressure has preserved hope for victory for the British Empire." Admiral Cunningham already knew the appointment of London, he saw
Wavell was a little depressed on her face and persuaded her on the side that the failure of the war cannot be blamed on Wavell. The British army, both soldiers and equipment, were too far from the Chinese, and failure was inevitable.
On the contrary, the general was extremely visionary and withstood the huge pressure from Churchill. Nearly 300,000 North African British troops moved to Morocco. In addition to the retreat in the past five days, nearly 200,000 British troops successfully
Withdraw from North Africa.
The more than 100,000 troops that were defending the periphery were forced to give up. The commander of the front line, Brigadier Doolier, had received an order that he would surrender to the Chinese after the last batch of troops evacuated from the port tonight.
"The Americans have joined in, and I believe we will be able to counterattack soon!" said Admiral Wavell, "at least we don't have to run away."
"The first batch of replenished equipment has been shipped to Ceuta and the troops will be replenished soon," said Admiral Cunningham. "But we are expected to be on the defensive position within two years. The Americans will give priority to South Africa and Australia.
safety.”
"We have lost the entire Asia. If we cannot completely defeat the Chinese, we will be excluded from Asian affairs forever." Weiville sighed. He participated in the entire process of the British Empire losing Asia. Now, everything is about to end.
Finally someone came to worry about how to deal with the Chinese all day long...