1890 King of Southeast Asia

On January 6, the scouts of the 14th Division found that there were troops appearing near Birejik. Li Yunfei ordered further investigation.

"The investigators caught two tongues. This is the intelligence obtained through surprise interrogation." The chief of staff of the division handed the intelligence to Li Yunfei with a somewhat ugly face.

"Where is the nearest air force base to us?" Li Yunfei put down the intelligence after reading it, frowned slightly, and clenched his hands tightly.

"Nuseir has built a field airport, which is about 200 kilometers away from us. There are many mountains and no landmarks in the middle, so fighters cannot fly directly." The chief of staff glanced at the map.

When there is no navigation, the aircraft can only fly along a certain landmark to ensure that there is no deviation. This is the Ottoman Empire, and the only landmark is the railway.

The flight distance along the railway is far, and the aircraft flies over, and the combat time is also very short.

"Submit the intelligence, apply for aerial reconnaissance of Ain Tab, and apply for intelligence support from the Intelligence Bureau." Li Yunfei knocked on the table.

"Let the divisional engineering battalion install explosives on the bridge, withdraw troops when necessary, and blow up the bridge."

"Let all units expand the scope of reconnaissance and be alert to the Ottomans' roundabout attacks."

"That's all."

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"Commander, the 14th Division sent an urgent telegram. The invading enemy exceeded our expectations." The theater staff hurried to Zheng Lei's office.

"How many people are they?" Zheng Lei asked as he took the telegram.

Reconnaissance intelligence shows that Ain Tab, a large city that was not selected, has currently assembled about 100,000 Ottoman Empire troops, and the number is still increasing.

After interrogating the prisoners captured by the Chinese Army reconnaissance soldiers, they got the numbers of two army groups, one of which was the 2nd Army that had never appeared on the battlefield, and the other was the 5th Army that was withdrawn from Bulgaria.

This means that the Ottomans' actions are bigger than expected, and much bigger, with at least one and a half armies coming up at once.

"Air Force reconnaissance shows that multiple division-level troops are gathering towards Ain Tab, and there are also considerable military camps inside Ain Tab. It is estimated that the number of people who will eventually gather in Ain Tab is more than 150,000."

"The main position of the 14th Division is on the east bank of the Euphrates River. A division cannot defend a wide position even if it is scattered. With so many enemies, it is very likely that the 14th Division will be directly surrounded."

"Or... withdraw the 202nd Division and send it up! Deploy defense on the northern line of the railway, so that at least the 14th Division can be guaranteed to retreat." The chief of staff thought about it and gritted his teeth.

After reading the telegram, Zheng Lei was a little hesitant for a while.

The 202nd Division belongs to the reserve. Although there are two other divisions in the reserve, he dare not use them easily.

And once it is sent up, how to distribute supplies is also a problem.

According to Zheng Lei's arrangement, before the temporary railway connects the railways in series, Birejik will only have the size of 1 to 2 divisions, because the transportation capacity can only sustain so many people at most.

This is why the front-line airport did not follow the attacking troops, but stayed in Nusel, 200 kilometers away.

Insufficient transportation capacity, even if there is flat land for aircraft to take off and land, it is impossible to deliver enough weapons, fuel, and bombs.

Without these things, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft will be greatly reduced or even lost. Therefore, before the opening of the railway, there will be no airport near Birezhik, at most a landing field for airships to take off and land.

The airship has now retreated to the second line and cannot be used for combat. It can only be used for transportation and reconnaissance.

At this point in the war, almost all the participating countries have anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down aircraft, even low-speed aircraft. These crude first-generation anti-aircraft weapons are extremely inefficient.

However, if the first-generation anti-aircraft machine guns or even anti-aircraft cannons are used to shoot down airships, it is a 1-to-1 accuracy. You only need to replace the anti-aircraft machine guns with armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and a few cheap bullets can scrap an expensive airship.

This means that, except for heavy bombers carrying a small amount of bombs to support the front line, the support of other fighters or light bombers to the front line is quite limited because the stay time is very short.

Fighters can stay for about 1 hour, and light bombers can stay for less than half an hour, otherwise, there will not be enough fuel to return. The main force of ground support is light bombers.

Train capacity is insufficient, and the range of air force fighters is not enough to provide all-weather support. If troops are added at will, the tolerance rate will be gone.

Sending the 2nd and 2nd Division to the north of the railway line can ensure the safety of the 14th Division's retreat route and prevent them from being surrounded.

But it will be difficult to send other troops to support them later, because the supply capacity has been saturated. If you send more people up, there may not be enough food.

The battle situation has lost room for operation.

"Let the 2nd and 2nd Division prepare to depart and stand by at the base."

"Apply to the country, the navy still has a large airship transport brigade on standby. If we set off now, we can arrive in 3 days."

"Add an airship transport brigade, concentrate 32 airships to transport supplies to the front line, plus 6 places to transport, basically guarantee the operation of 1 army and 1 field airport."

Zheng Lei decided to wait 3 days, or 2 days, and let the 2nd and 2nd Division depart after 2 days. When the 2nd and 2nd Division arrives, the airship should also be full of supplies and set off to the front line.

In this way, the logistics gap can be filled, the 2nd and 2nd Division does not have to stick to defense, and can carry out mobile operations, and the 14th Division does not have to save money to face the attack of a large number of enemy forces.

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Chang'an, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lin Anmin just listened to Huaxia's strategic plan under Huaxia, and also knew Zheng Lei's help and returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Minister." After the secretary opened the door, it was blocked at the door and did not let it open.

Lin Anmin knew that something had happened again and signaled the secretary on the car and said.

After the secretary got on the car, the driver drove forward lightly.

"This afternoon, the British, France, Russia, Italy, and Brazil ambassadors and the heads of the Serbia Special Embassy came together. You met at the joint headquarters and we could not inform you." The secretary took out a major folding. Folded paper.

After the New Year's Day, Brazil announced the joining the contract and declared war on Germany. At the first time, he sent two small battleships ordered from Huaxia to cooperate with the Royal Navy.

The navy cooperative combat was not able to complete one day or two days, but the Brazilian Navy was sail directly after declaration, which shows that Brazil has been prepared for a long time.

Starting with two Monas Gelas -class Battleships, one operation is a ocean -haired ship fleet with a number of 3 or ten ships, full of various types of goods, but none is not a tight goods in the war. Essence

"We investigated the recent major events and wanted to know the reason for them. In the end, we screened two goals they most likely to achieve."

"The first is to increase troops in Europe. Versailles and Soma are in the battle. The number of comprehensive casualties in Britain and France has exceeded two million. Even if only one -fourth of 4 minutes died, 50,000 people were dead."

"The most terrible thing is that these two battles are far from the end. From the perspective of the casualties, the German's offensive strength and defense ability did not significantly decrease last month. Power is attenuation. "

"The British have been transferred from India to 20 million people, and all the colonial army in the Persian region has been transferred to Europe. France has caught millions of people from Africa to fill the vacancies of domestic positions, or capture the line to fill the line "" "

"Before and after the New Year's Day, the Russians' pressure in the direction of the Caucasian decreased, but they launched an attack on the East Line of the Austro -Hungarian Empire, but they failed, but they could lose 20 to 30,000 people. "Tightly nervous" "

"The Italian's offense in the direction of the Alps has no results. 30,000 people played against 30,000 people, but they lost tens of thousands of people."

The secretary took out various arguments.

Lin Anmin nodded slightly after hearing, but his eyes gradually became deeper.

"What about the second possibility?" Lin Anmin closed his eyes and asked blandly.

"In terms of supplies, Russia from New Year's Day to this day, several protests have erupted due to lack of supplies.

"The reason why the British and the French have failed to launch the Germans on the West Line is also regarded by Britain and France as insufficient supplies."

"After we joined the war, the mood transported to Europe was reduced in a stage. At the end of this year, affected by a large amount of materials transported to the north and the threat of the submarine, our supplies decreased while increasing the price."

"Although Brazil provides 1 part of materials, according to the agreement, the weapons and warships of the cooperation country are provided by us, and Brazil's industrial manufacturing capacity is not strong, and this material gap cannot be supplemented."

"We think this may also be the reason why the 6 kingdoms came from."

The secretary took a piece of paper to Lin Anmin.

This is the conclusion that some military personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly discussed after the emergency discussion of the Ministry of National Defense, and each conclusion considers the interests of 6 countries.

"This kind of thing, they only need to send a diplomatic letter, it is necessary to find one or two people to come and private negotiations."

"Such a big fan is not in line with diplomatic practice, it is more like persecution, it is not normal."

Lin Anmin frowned and shook his head. He also thought about these two possibilities, but they were eliminated because it was not necessary.

"Minister, they have sent us a letter of letters." The secretary coughed 1 time and said inadvertently watching it out of the window.

"Did you send it? Who stopped it?" Lin Anmin's eyes stared 1, he didn't see it!

"In early February, Britain and France urged the fleet's operations and material transportation to send 78 official letters. You said that this kind of public letter will let the secretariat respond on your own." The secretary whispered.

"Oh! I remember, alas!" Lin Anmin patted his head.

"Don't blame you, now we don't have extra supplies for them. At least next month, we must restore the original material supply scale."

"Okay, go back." Lin Anmin shook his head.

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