Nine Hundred and Seventy Arabic

If you haven't seen hundreds of planes flying towards your target, you can't imagine the desperate spectacle. Human civilization finally has the ability to destroy the glorious past built by each other with devastating power.

The simultaneous roar of hundreds of aircraft engines in the German bomber fleet can be heard clearly even on the ground. The Allied soldiers narrowed their eyes and blocked the sun with their palms, raised their heads and looked up at the sky above them, looking at the locust-like enemy planes passing by, feeling an indescribably bleak feeling in their hearts.

"Boom!" An anti-aircraft gun not far away began to roar. The slender gun pointed high at the sky. The soldiers were trying to move the shells in the ammunition box to the side of the gun. The huge air flow made the camouflage net shake back and forth. . However, the number of Allied anti-aircraft guns is too scarce, so in the face of the German Air Force, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, it seems so powerless to fight back.

Even so, the Luftwaffe did not intend to let go of these planes that kept firing at the sky, and the -17 continued to fly at high altitudes, while the Stuka dive bombers accompanied by medium-range bombers began howling to the sky. The ground accelerated and swooped over.

The vanguard of the blitzkrieg, the Luftwaffe is truly the number one air force in the world. It has very mature tactics both in the fight for air supremacy and in ground attacks. Soon the anti-aircraft artillery positions firing on the ground were suppressed by Stuka bombers.

Thick smoke billowed from the ground, and flames billowed from the antiaircraft artillery positions. The soldiers who were busy rescuing the wounded had no time to care about the destroyed cannons. They just shouted to lift the soldiers lying on the ground away from the dangerous place.

Facing such a huge German air force, the British and American ground forces in the Middle East who lacked anti-aircraft artillery were helpless. They only had some anti-aircraft artillery scrambled from Egypt and other places in their hands, which could not stop the German air force from raging in the sky above their heads.

"Confirm the landmarks! Each squadron confirms the ground marks!" Inside the German army cluster, inside the cabin of the aircraft with roaring engines, the frontline commander of the Luftwaffe looked at the aviation map in his hand while checking the direction of his flight on the compass. His body swayed slightly with the turbulence of the plane. Outside the window, there were bombers next to each other with iron crosses painted on their wings.

"Spread out to confirm %style_txt; your attack target! Squadron 1, your target is the oil transportation terminal numbered Alpha, Squadron 2, your target is the oil pipeline and oil storage tank! Squadron 3, destroy the nearby oil refining equipment!" The commander pressed the switch of the communicator and gave the order to start the attack.

So there was a response voice in his earphones: "Squadron 1 understands! We are leaving the flight formation!" "Squadron 2 understands, we are leaving the formation!" "Squadron 3's route remains unchanged! The target oil refinery plant area!"

In fact, the -217 medium-range bomber cannot reach the Persian Gulf to bomb the oil-producing areas of Saudi Arabia.

However, at that time, the United Kingdom and the United States established an oil pipeline across Saudi Arabia for the convenience of transportation and management, and in order to reduce costs, the oil refinery and oil storage facilities for hoarding oil were built on the coast of the Red Sea, so this was given to the German Air Force An opportunity to take advantage of.

But who would have thought that in just a few years, the German army would have the ability to fight from Europe to Egypt? Therefore, a large number of factories and oil storage tanks were exposed to the attack of the Luftwaffe, which also made Britain and the United States feel extremely painful for a while.

Abdullah Aziz Ibn Saud is the actual ruler of the entire Saudi Arabia region, and he is also His Majesty the King here. The representative of the Saudi leader, who is good at fighting, has already knocked on the door of General Mountbatten's room at this time.

When the representative of Saudi Arabia with a white turban on his head walked into Mountbatten's office, he went straight to the point without any polite dialogue: "Your Excellency, I have received news that you have ordered to ignite a large amount of oil reserves to make the entire Suez Canal east Shore into a sea of ​​flames?"

"Yes, that's right." Mountbatten didn't have time to argue with the Saudi representative, so he nodded and admitted what he had done. After all, Saudi Arabia is the local snake here. Without the support of the Saudis, Mountbatten's Middle East strategy may fail completely. So he told the truth that he didn't play any unnecessary cleverness at all.

After 1925, Saudi Arabia, which was originally pro-British, became pro-German, and King Abdullah Aziz Ibn Saud, who finally won the unification of Saudi Arabia, made his fortune with the support of the Germans. From another perspective, it was also the Germans who first discovered oil fields in the Middle East, turning Saudi Arabia from a poor country into a rich oil power.

And Germany was eventually kicked out of the Middle East by the Anglo-American alliance. Germany and Italy's 30% share of Middle East oil was divided up by the greedy Anglo-American, and nothing was left to the Saudi royal family. Therefore, Saudi Arabia is not really interested in Iceland, Britain and the United States.

Because of this, after hearing Mountbatten's answer, the Saudi envoy thought for a while and said: "With this attitude, your country burned oil in Saudi Arabia and caused incalculable losses to the local area. Is it going to declare war on Saudi Arabia?"

Mountbatten smiled, and then made a reasonable analysis according to the pre-prepared rhetoric: "The German army broke through the Suez Canal defense line, and they are about to kill us. If we..."

"This is all about you British and Germans. Our request is very simple. No one can do anything wrong on our land! Do you understand?" The envoy looked at Mountbatten and said coldly: "Saudi Arabia cannot The king's intention is very clear to be the place of war for your countries, if you can't hold this land, then get out of here as soon as possible!"

Obviously, the Saudis are aware of the seriousness of the matter. The United States and the United Kingdom are planning a war of destruction in Saudi Arabia regardless of the cost. An unfair thing, Saudi Arabia, as the leader of the Middle East, is of course unwilling to accept it.

And this reluctance to accept, for Britain and the United States, is just unwilling to accept that's all. Strong countries have never been obliged to manage the life and death of weak countries. This is a glorious tradition of great powers for a hundred years, and it has never changed. So Mountbatten shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly to the Saudi envoy: "For the specific negotiation work, our government will send special personnel to negotiate with your country. I am just a soldier and can only obey orders."

"Then! You will regret it sooner or later!" The special envoy of Saudi Arabia is not an easy person, and he was very confident when he came. As a psychologically pro-German regime, the Saudi government has been secretly flirting with the Germans, and the two sides have maintained almost constant contact. For Saudi Arabia, since the British don't buy it, it has to let the Germans buy it.

Mountbatten sent the Saudi envoy away, and sat back in his chair. He thought for a while, and then called his assistant: "It will be a matter of time before the Saudis fall to Germany. Instead of cooperating with us, it is better To curry favor with the Germans who are destined to occupy here."

He glanced at the pale assistant, smiled and continued: "It seems that we must be prepared for the most special situation. Saudi Arabia has about 20% of the oil wells, and these oil wells must also be equipped with explosives. Prepare to destroy it completely!"

"I understand! Sir! I will arrange the assault troops as soon as possible. If the Germans approach the oil-producing areas, these troops will immediately capture these oil-producing areas and blow up all the facilities inside!" The assistant quickly stood at attention and replied.

Mountbatten nodded, agreeing to the decision. However, he still knows that his decision is not the best choice. Once the whole plan is implemented, Saudi Arabia will undoubtedly eventually fall to Britain's enemy-the Third Reich.

"Let us wait and see what the ending will be like." Mountbatten sighed and closed his eyes. He didn't know what the British Empire would look like a year later, and he didn't know whether his own decision would have any impact on the entire war situation.

"Report!" An officer walked into Mountbatten's office, stood at attention, and put a document on Mountbatten's desk: "General! The frontline troops just called, and the oil storage along the Red Sea controlled by our army Facilities, oil pipelines and crude oil processing equipment were heavily bombed by German aircraft and suffered considerable damage."

"So fast?" Mountbatten was taken aback, then nodded, as if accepting the result: "That's right! That's right! Since it was the Desert Fox that defeated Montgomery, it should be able to figure out our plan... …Order the troops, since Rommel wants to blow up these devices, then we will follow suit! Blow them all up! Don’t want them all!”

Hearing this order, the officer seemed a little uncertain, so he asked in a low voice: "But... General, if we blow up all of them, will the Saudi side break with us? The German ground troops' attack has been temporarily stopped. , don’t be so anxious to blow up these facilities, right?”

Mountbatten struggled for a while, but finally made up his mind. He waved his hand and ordered to the officer: "It's nothing to be sorry about. Instead of letting the Germans worry about it, we have to guard it with fear. Why don't we blow it up first!"

He walked to the map, looked at the coastline of the Red Sea, and then turned around and shouted: "Secretary! Secretary! Contact the US army and tell all troops to retreat towards the desert! We will focus our defense on the Persian Gulf!"