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    The transport plane in desert camouflage landed steadily at the Dushan Air Force Base in Ahvaz, Iran.  .This base that was destroyed during the landing in the Persian Gulf was not only restored to its original appearance, but also expanded a lot with the help of China.  In order to achieve the grand strategic goal of controlling the Persian Gulf after the war and realizing the civilian settlement, China and Iran, following Saudi Arabia, signed an oil settlement agreement last year and officially used this place as a joint military base shared by the two countries.  In addition, quasi-countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have signed similar agreements with Yanjing. In addition to Oman, which guards the Holm Sub-Strait, which is still in British hands, the entire Persian Gulf region is dotted with Chinese bases.  This new method of not colonizing but only leasing military bases has extended from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific, South China Sea, Red Sea and Central Asia.

    After Bai Chongxi got off the plane, the officers who had been waiting at the airport came forward to greet him.  "Commander-in-Chief, you've had a hard journey. How are you at home?" Chief of Staff Li Mingrui stepped forward and asked with concern.  Not long ago, Bai Chongxi had something going on at home, so he took the opportunity to take a break when he returned to China to report on his work.  "Thank you Mingrui and everyone for your concern. Everything is fine." After thanking everyone, Bai Chongxi got in the car and drove to the headquarters. On the way, he asked about the recent situation.

    "Du Yuming captured the northern province of Golestan a few days ago and captured the port of Tolkaliman. As planned, he has started building a dock and preparing to assemble gunboats there. I have also ordered the 34th Army to prepare for the attack on Qom and strive for  Take Qom next month and encircle Tehran. The progress in East Africa is also good. Zhu Jiande's leading troops have crossed the Shabelle River and are less than 200 kilometers away from Mogadishu. The current situation is that Egypt and Turkey are very  Trouble, the forward army led by Guderian has approached the outskirts of Madrid, and a large-scale fierce battle broke out yesterday. Let Rommel turn eastward for the second time, and take advantage of the opportunity when Britain and the United States are trapped in Spain and North Africa to capture Egypt. Wavell has already  Most of the troops in the Middle East have been transferred to Egypt to prepare to fight him. The situation in Turkey has also changed suddenly recently. After Greece's successive defeats, the voices supporting Germany have gained the upper hand. Yesterday, the Turkish government officially recalled us and banned our country and British and American transport planes from continuing to transit.  , to support Greece and Yugoslavia.¡±

    ¡°So, the Battle of Madrid has already broken out?¡±

    "Well, it should be said that it has already started, so recently the UK and the US have focused all their attention on Spain and Egypt, and they have to agree to Turkey's suspension of cross-border flights."

    Bai Chongxi was not surprised after hearing this. Turkey's swing had been expected.  So I asked: ¡°What do you say about Crete?¡±

    Crete¡¯s geographical location is very critical. It can not only support Greece, deter Romania¡¯s Ploiesti oil field, but also guard the Bosporus.  Yang Qiu has always hoped to deploy naval and air forces on the island to prevent another historical failure.  You must know that the world war is different. Regardless of whether the Soviet Union and Germany will finally join forces, at least Yang Qiu must control an Aegean Sea channel to prevent Turkey from being involved in the war and the Soviet army and the Black Sea Fleet entering the Mediterranean and landing in Egypt.  But Li Mingrui still shook his head: "The Greek Provisional Government has retreated to the island, and they welcome us to station. But the British are still very stubborn and insist on linking the entry to the island with sending troops, asking us to provide at least 4 troops to Greece.  Infantry Division.¡±

    "That's a nice thought." Bai Chongxi snorted coldly.  The troops include a total of 5 armies of the Persian Gulf Army, plus the controlled Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Muslim League, the total strength is close to one million.  Excluding the troops transferred to India and East Africa, it is not a big problem to transfer four infantry divisions.  But firstly, Yang Qiu did not want to get involved in the ground war in Europe, and secondly, logistics was always a hassle.  You know, the Persian Gulf Army has been making small fuss this year, all because of poor logistics.  As long as the navy fails to recapture the Strait of Malacca for a day, he will never let go.  So he waved his hand and said: "You can ask someone to contact us about this matter. In short, sending the army will definitely not work."

    Li Mingrui nodded and said: "Don't worry, Commander, I know this well. But what about Pahlavi and Mossadegh? They have come here to urge them several times, hoping to take back Tehran as soon as possible. By the way, Mossadegh  He also said that someone from Iraq had already contacted him."

    "oh?"

    "After Germany attacked Greece, it promised a lot of benefits to Iraqi Prime Minister Rashid and the Golden Phalanx group, but the British army and we are here and they don't dare to make any mistakes. But recently they have got involved with the Soviets. According to  Mossadegh said that he has received definite information that Soviet Foreign Minister Motolov secretly contacted representatives of the "Four Colonels" in Mosul. The specific content is not yet known. However, he is certain that there were representatives of the Kurdish guerrillas at the meeting!  Zhang Zhidan also discovered that many Soviet Muslim soldiers secretly joined the Kurdish guerrillas, numbering in the thousands. The Soviet Union also provided a lot of military assistance, including more than 200 tanks alone, all of which were T26 and T37/76 types. Now  Britain is eager to protect Egypt and has transferred all the troops here in the Middle East to the east of Suez. If I think Stalin will definitely use this opportunity to contain us from the flanks. Once Iraq is overpowering, Germany and the Soviet Union will definitely join forcesIf we don't invest, we will be under great pressure.  "

    Germany¡¯s infiltration into the Middle East is not a secret and has many supporters. Among them, the alliance of four school-level officers of the Sharif faction formed within the Iraqi army, also known as the "Four Colonels" or the "Golden Phalanx" group, is the most famous.  After the Battle of the Persian Gulf, the Soviet Union also accelerated its penetration here. The most famous ones were the Kurdish guerrillas.  However, because the Kurds have not been welcomed for a long time, there is basically no contact between the Golden Phalanx and the Kurdish guerrillas.  As for Stalin's secret arrangements for domestic Muslim soldiers to join the Kurdish armed forces, this had already been discovered by the Ministry of Intelligence.  But Li Mingrui's words made Bai Chongxi alert. If Sud persuaded him, would it lead to a temporary alliance between the Kurds and the Golden Phalanx?  He is not afraid of the two camps joining forces. The Kurdish guerrillas and the Iraqi army combined are not as good as his own army. But will Sud send troops directly?  Especially Germany!  You know, they have already occupied Yugoslavia. As long as the Soviet Union acquiesces, they can easily force Turkey to surrender and then cross the Black Sea into the Middle East.

    Seeing him deep in thought, Li Mingrui said, "I have ordered people to send this news back to China. I believe the staff and the president already know about it."

    "Well done." Bai Chongxi did not dare to neglect and said: "Although the president has never said whether to take care of Iraq, Turkey is a key link. If Greece is occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union occupies Iraq, Turkey will be surrounded, so we  We still have to prepare. Now the president is accelerating to clean up Japan, and major events in the north are about to start. We can't hold back at this time." The officers nodded one after another.  These six months are a critical moment for the Sino-Japanese decisive victory and the northern referendum. The former is related to whether the troubles of the two-front war can be resolved in advance, and the latter is not to mention China's largest "expansion of territory" since the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is of great significance.  Unparalleled.  They, the foreign troops, have all received orders to ensure that they hold on for the past six months.

    Bai Chongxi stretched out. A bumpy day made him a little sleepy. After discussing the plan, he was about to take a rest when the staff officer walked in: "Commander, the King of Iran invites you to a banquet tonight."

    "Haha, I'm really watching closely." Bai Chongxi raised the corner of his mouth with a wry smile and waved his hand: "I know, tell King Pahlavi that I will attend on time."

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    News of the gradual changes in the Middle East has not yet reached the battlefield on the peninsula.  Facing the long-awaited onslaught of the Chinese and North Korean coalition forces, Seishiro Itagaki and the Japanese Korean army were under increasing pressure.  Especially the Zhuo Fan cluster has become a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the peninsula!  When Itagaki transferred two divisions from Wonsan in an attempt to block the 104th Division and the 177th Division, the 37th Division and 72nd Division led by Zhao Dengyu captured Sui'an and Xinping respectively, southeast of Pyongyang and located in the middle of the Afeihuling Mountains.  After receiving the news, Zhuo Fan immediately contacted the headquarters. With the support of Liu Mingzhao and the headquarters, he used a large number of tactical transport aircraft to completely transport the 147th and 166th Infantry Divisions to the two places within three days. Then he strictly ordered Zhao Dengyu to  Putting the armored troops behind, using the 147th Infantry Division as an arrow, they went south to attack Ruixing at starry night and cut off the railway from Pyongyang to Seoul.

    On May 26, the 104th Division and the 177th Division, which were feinting to Yuanshan, also suddenly retreated to Yangde. After resting for a night, they turned around again and advanced to Xianyanli in the south, forming a southward arrow no more than 40 kilometers away from Zhao Dengyu's troops.

    On May 30, Zhuo Fan took action again. With the support of a mechanized infantry regiment of the 37th Armored Division moving south from Sui'an, he airdropped the Second Airborne Division to Ruixing between Pyongyang and Kaesong.  Fifteen thousand airborne troops captured Ruixing City without bloodshed, which not only opened the passage from Sui'an to Kaesong, but also blocked the evacuation passage from Pyongyang to Seoul.  In order to take advantage of this large gap, the next morning, the main force of the 37th Armored Division and the supporting 147th Infantry Division also quickly moved southward, advancing towards Kaicheng through the Ruixing Army.  On the same day, under the protection of the naval cruiser formation, the three infantry divisions coming from Dalian avoided the heavily defended Datong River Estuary and Incheon and chose to land at Haeju, north of Yeonpyeong Island.  Subsequently, with the support of the navy and air forces, they cooperated with the 37th Division and the 147th Division to launch a general attack on Kaesong.  After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, by the afternoon of June 2, the Japanese 104th Division had lost nearly 20,000 men and had to abandon Kaicheng and retreat to Seoul.

    In just ten days in Anju, Sunchon, Pyongyang, and Nampo, Banhwan and the Japanese army, with Pyongyang as the core, tried to fight decisively along the railway line in Pyongyang North Road and Hwanghae South Road, all of which came to nothing.  Under Zhuo Fan's command, the entire Eighth Division and various garrison brigades, totaling 300,000 Japanese troops, were left behind by him, and their frontline was directed towards Seoul, which was less than 60 kilometers away from Kaicheng!  With the liberation of Kaesong, three encirclement circles were rapidly formed on the Korean Peninsula.  The first is the northern mountainous area, the second is the North Yellow Sea Road centered on Pyongyang, and the third is Seoul, and there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in each encirclement.

    Zhuo Fan's quick insertion gave Yang Qiu an opportunity to resolve the Peninsula Battle early, but it also made Stalin realize that he must take action immediately.

    June 3, the day after the Battle of Castile (Battle of Madrid) broke out, Stalin¡¯s long-planned spring and summer counterattack of 1941The formula begins.  With a total of 250 divisions and 3.7 million Soviet troops, under the cover of more than 10,000 tanks, 50,000 artillery pieces, and 3,000 aircraft, they simultaneously launched counterattacks from Chelyabinsk, Trans-Urals, and Aktobe.

    At the same time as the dawn of victory in the war against Japan appeared, Yang Qiu faced the biggest challenge in this war.

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    PS: Mrs. Ma will go on a business trip to Sao Paulo after the new year. Before leaving, she said she wanted to give me a surprise.  Then, while on a business trip, I passed the

    Hang out with me and talk about the second child.  I thought she just had an idea, but I didn¡¯t expect that when I was picking up the plane yesterday, Ma¡¯s wife suddenly made a surprise attack and told me that the second baby hippopotamus was confirmed to be in her belly.

    In the end, we left the airport and went to the hospital, and then left the hospital and went to my mother¡¯s house. It was a happy and busy weekend.
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