Chapter 1129 Weird Playing Method (Part 1)

In the arid desert area, a canal lies across the desolate sand embankment. Looking from the sky, it looks like a miraculous scene appeared in a barren land, making people sigh at the great creativity of the industrial age. Without the technology of the industrial age, this canal cannot be built.

This canal is the Suez Canal. It is not a canal that is completely dug by hand. This canal cleverly utilizes several local lakes when planning it. However, even so, the amount of construction of the canal is by no means satisfying the technology of the agricultural era.

The Suez Canal is crucial to the survival of Britain. Without the Suez Canal, Britain's colonial economy will soon fall into trouble and collapse quickly.

In fact, the current British colonial economic system is on the verge of collapse. Since the outbreak of the "Asian Liberation War", the number of British ships passing through the Suez Canal every day has decreased. When the Battle of Cape Had during the Battle of Muscat ended, more British ships began to divert their routes to South Africa and no longer pass through the Suez Canal and the dangerous Red Sea. In the words of the British Canal Company, the Suez Canal is now "hibernating", not only the United Kingdom.

Ships are unwilling to walk the Suez Canal again, and even ships from other countries would rather go a long way because just after the Battle of Cape Had, a minefield appeared on the Mande Strait, the channel between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The British government accused the Chinese government of saying that it was a mine laid by Chinese naval submarines to prevent international maritime shipping. The Chinese government retorted and accused the British government of setting up mines on international waterways and destroying the international maritime transportation order under the guise of "anti-submarine".

No matter which country's naval navies were deployed in the Mande Strait, at least one thing is certain. After the traffic of the Suez Canal was cut off, Britain had actually lost the most convenient maritime access to East Africa, Asia, and Oceania. It could not guarantee the security of East African colonies, nor could it send reinforcements to Asia and Oceania faster. The former made Italy begin to try and prepare to attack the British East African colonies, while the latter made Australia, which was in a tough battle with Japan, completely lost the British navy.

The current battlefield of Australia is already a river of blood. The unscrupulous Japanese Army is advancing steadily from north to south along the east coast of the Australian continent. Dunsville has fallen and Sydney civilians have evacuated to other cities. If strong international support is not available, the fall of Sydney and Canberra may be only a matter of time. Australian soldiers have never encountered such a brutal opponent as the Japanese Army. The massacre of peaceful residents in Dunsville has shocked the whole of Australia.

"For Australia, please stop the war with the Chinese immediately." This is an appeal issued by many Australian newspapers to the British government, or begging. Australian officials and civilians are very worried. If Britain continues to fight against China, China is likely to seek military alliances with Japan, Germany, and Italy, which is very unfavorable to Australia's war cause. The amphibious combat vehicles exported to Japan before the war greatly helped the Japanese army to successfully cross Australia.

The swamps in northeastern Asia are very beneficial to the rapid advancement of the Japanese army, and this is what many Australians are most worried about. The US "Lease Act" can help Australia resist Japan, but what if China also enacts a similar bill to support its "Asian partner"? Now China is neutral in the Japan-Australia War, but it does not mean that China will continue to be neutral in the future. In fact, Japanese newspapers are promoting "Greater East Asia Integration", and it is hard to say what the Chinese are thinking.

From this strategic perspective, the loss of the Suez Canal will have a heavy blow to the British colonial system. Even if the British team still controls the strategic location of the canal area, as long as this international transport waterway cannot pass through the ships normally and play a role, the Suez Canal will actually lose its strategic value.

In order to strengthen Australia's determination to resist Japan and to strengthen the determination of its native people to resist Germany, the British government decided to defend the Suez Canal and Egypt at all costs. For this purpose, Britain not only mobilized a large number of elite troops to the Egyptian defense line, but also concentrated the main force of the Mediterranean fleet at the port of Said at the Mediterranean estuary of the Suez Canal, trying to use its powerful naval power to deter the Chinese army from the land direction.

As a counterattack measure, the Chinese side also made corresponding tactical adjustments. After the end of the Battle of Palestine, the Chinese Army armored troops immediately crossed the southern border of Palestine and advanced deep into the Sinai Peninsula, swept across the desolate and arid desert, and swept along the coastline near the Red Sea of ​​the Sinai Peninsula, quickly advancing to the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula at a speed of at least 90 kilometers a day, with the front of the troops directly aiming at Sharm El Sheikh.

In fact, a vanguard of the Chinese armored forces has now crossed the northwest of Sharm El Sheikh City and appeared on the coast of a bay that is only separated from Africa. The strait is called the Gulf of Suez, which connects the southern end of the Suez Canal and the northern end of the Red Sea. It is hundreds of kilometers away from north to south, and is a narrow bay.

This Chinese armored force is code-named "Tin Pi", with six medium tanks, nine semi-track armored vehicles, and some wheeled air defense armored vehicles. It is just a heavy reconnaissance unit. The commander is a captain company commander and the staff officer is an army lieutenant.

The company commander is Ji Liangcai. He comes from a military family. His father is Lieutenant General Ji Yulin. Ji Liangcai is Ji Yulin's youngest son. He just graduated from the Armored Forces Command Academy two years ago and started as a platoon leader with the rank of warrant officer. In this war against Britain, Ji Liangcai participated in the Battle of Myanmar, the Battle of India, the Battle of Muscat, and the Battle of Iraq. He had brave combat and excellent results. Therefore, he was promoted to the position of company commander by the superior line of fire, and his rank was also promoted from warrant officer to captain.

As an armored soldier commander, Ji Liangcai's combat style is to assault bravely. Therefore, when the regiment commander needed a reconnaissance unit to go forward to the main force to perform reconnaissance mission, Ji Liangcai snatched the mission without hesitation, and then led an armored company to bypass the city of Sharm El Sheikh, which was still stationed by British troops, and came to the east coast of the narrow Bay of Suez, looking at the African continent.

In fact, the African continent cannot be seen from the shore. Although the Bay of Suez is narrow and long, it is at least several dozen kilometers wide. Standing on the ground, you can't see the other side. What's more, this is the estuary between the Bay of Suez and the Red Sea, and the width is larger. Looking at the west coast from the east coast, Ji Liangcai can only imagine the vastness of the African continent.

Although there is no sight of the African continent, Ji Liangcai has seen another thing on the sea of ​​the Bay of Suez, which is a destroyer, a destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Although Ji Liangcai is not a navy and cannot recognize the specific model of the British destroyer, according to the analysis of the accompanying staff, the destroyer is likely to be the latest K-class destroyer of the British Navy.

Now, Ji Liangcai and his staff were lying on the east side of a sand dune on the seaside on the east coast of Suez Bay, looking at the destroyer parked on the sea only a few dozen meters away from the east coast. The K-class destroyer had gotten anchored and there was no smoke from the chimney. It was obvious that the British Navy destroyer would not anchor and drive away in a short time. Moreover, from the obvious dent caused by the blast at the stern of the ship, the British destroyer was likely injured and was being repaired urgently here.

It is unlikely that the destroyer would have injured the destroyer because the mines and torpedoes are too powerful, and the destroyer would not be able to be only slightly injured under such an attack. Ji Liangcai guessed that the weapon that caused the destroyer to be slightly injured was probably an aviation bomb dropped by a Chinese Air Force bomber. It was detonated at close range and relied on shock waves to damage the destroyer's stern hull. Although the bomb did not hit the hull directly, it was enough for the light warship to take it away.

Perhaps it was because they thought that this sea area was safe, so British destroyers would stop at the shore for repairs so carelessly. However, the British sailors and captains did not know that on the shore of the bay less than 500 meters away from them, there were two pairs of vigilant eyes watching their every move.

"Company Commander, will we fight?" The staff officer asked Ji Liangcai.

Ji Liangcai immediately gave his decision without any hesitation.

"Why don't you fight the prey that comes to your door? If we don't fight, wouldn't we be sorry for our tanks?"

"That's a destroyer. I guess the main gun of that warship is at least 100 mm or more, and our tank gun has a caliber of only 75 mm. It's not a heavyweight opponent." The staff reminded him.

"It's not a boxing competition, what kind of heavyweight is not heavyweight? The British ship is now injured and is anchored on the shore, so far and near, and the chimney has not set fire. In this case, once it starts to fight, the British ship will not be able to escape for a moment. That's the target, and it's a fool if you don't shoot. Besides, we hide behind the dunes, and the British cannot see our tanks. And from the angle of the naval gun, we can find a dead end to shoot, so that the British ship cannot fire the gun and fight back."

Ji Liangcai was confidently determined to fight, and at the same time began to estimate the distance between the destroyer and the sand dune. Since the dune was higher than the coast and the flat ground behind, Ji Liangcai had decided to use the "cross-fire" method to shell the British Navy destroyer, that is, to park the tank far behind the dune, then lift the tank gun up, and under the command of the shooting guide on the dune, use the low-stretched ballistic of the tank gun to promote firepower, so that the shells can pass through the top of the dune and fly to the berth of the British destroyer. This kind of shooting method is indirect aiming and shooting the British destroyer. However, mutual shelling between warships is often seen, but the distance between warships is very far, and using tanks to shell warships is probably no precedent in the history of world wars.
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