"We fought tenaciously, but the enemy was too strong, and we had to retreat Mountbatten was full of helplessness in his report to his superiors.

The British did fight tenaciously, but they only resisted tenaciously for only 12 hours, and then they had to retreat under the joint order of Mountbatten and O'Ginleake.

The Chinese army relies not only on surprise attacks, but also on strong strength.

As soon as the 60,000 Chinese armored troops came up, they rushed out more than 700 rhino and grizzly tanks, and destroyed most of the British more than 260 tanks in half a day. If the front was not for the long, the British tanks would have been distributed relatively scattered, and perhaps they might have been completely dismantled by the Chinese tank troops.

Even so, the British tanks no longer came forward.

It is impossible to fight at all. The British Matilda tanks and Cromwell tanks are OK to deal with the No. 4 tank, but they are purely seeking abuse against the Rhino and Grizzlies. Even the Churchill tanks and Comet tanks equipped cannot defend against 90mm and mm tank guns. Not to mention the Sheldon tanks supported by the Americans.

The British fighter jets in the air have long disappeared.

More than half of the British fighter jets, which had already had only more than 100, were blown up at the airport under the raid of Chinese jet bombers. After the remaining 70 took off, more than 200 jet fighters were immediately hit.

In the past few days, there have been three more empty finger centers in the nearby two-point base. It is not easy for the British opposite to draw more than 100 fighter jets here. In order to completely cut off the German air aid channels, almost all the air forces have been concentrated on the British Isles.

The ability to maintain air supremacy near Türkiye is now mainly based on Americans.

However, the raids of more large-scale fighter jets in China made the Americans across the Euphrates River unable to take care of themselves.

"You hold on!" The Americans only sent such a sentence of encouragement without deadlines, and the following text was gone.

"Persevere? Those idiots, without tanks and fighter planes, will only continue to die. If this continues, we will only die here!" Seeing that the Americans had no hope of support, Okinleck came to Mountbatten and demanded his evacuation.

The British were not Soviets, and their soldiers did not seek to win or lose a war. If the superiors did not issue a retreat order, once the pressure reached a certain level, they would retreat by themselves, which would lead to a large-scale defeat. When the law enforcement teams all went up to fill cannon fodder, it would be too late.

After only 8 hours, Okinlek had already discovered that something was wrong.

Not only is the morale depressed after multiple defense lines were broken, but the possibility of being cut off from the rear might be the biggest threat to uneasy for the army.

Without the cover of tanks and aircraft, the infantry's escape in front of tank troops is a disaster. Of course, attack is also a disaster.

The Chinese army was so powerful that the British expected. In the case of a huge gap in strength, any strategy seemed so pale.

Okinlek decided not to waste his soldiers' lives anymore and immediately proposed to Mountbatten to evacuate in the upcoming night.

He came to help Mountbatten, but he was not the real commander of the army, so he could only propose.

But the real commander Mountbatten hesitated.

Mountbatten's special background requires a victory.

At least don't lose too ugly. At present, you're going to evacuate before a day, not only to shame the British in your allies and the whole world, but also to embarrass him.

A trace of distractions made him hesitate and delayed for more than 3 hours, and these more than 3 hours were enough to happen a lot.

The Chinese Iron Legion attacked like a tide, finally defeating the British's confidence in resistance.

Before Mountbatten's retreat order was issued, the long border between Syria and Iraq had already occurred in many places.

When he heard the shadow of Chinese tank troops found near Mosul, Mountbatten finally issued an order to retreat on the front line.

In order to prepare for the raid and to guard against the Chinese, the main force was transferred to towns such as Amadiye and Kamishli on the border. Mosul in the rear was not even enough troops to maintain public order, and perhaps a regiment of the Chinese could be cleaned up. Mosul, as the command center, still piled up a large amount of supplies. Once lost, the British would probably fall into a passive position in northern Iraq.

"We need to stick to Mosul, and we can rely on Mosul's city defense to block the Chinese tanks!" Mountbatten found himself an excellent reason to withdraw troops.

But his retreat order was always one step late. The Chinese Tank Legion might not be able to fight city defense, but with the support of the Air Force, it was still fine to sweep the British camp on the plain border.

If it weren't for the arrival of night, which provided the British with excellent cover for escape, the 50,000 Commonwealth troops and more than 20,000 Arab natives on the border would probably be completely wiped out.

But even so, there were less than 10,000 Commonwealth troops who could escape back to Mosul, and most of them ran back empty-handed, infecting the 3,000 British troops defended by Mosul.

"We need reinforcements!" After reporting the situation to our superiors, Mountbatten directly applied for reinforcements. More and more Chinese troops appeared near Mosul. If you want to defend the city, it is not enough to rely on the remaining soldiers and defeated soldiers in the city. Either there are reinforcements or give up Mosul and continue to evacuate.

"We have no army to draw!" Marshal Alexander's head was bulging. In just one day, more than 40,000 Commonwealth troops were wiped out or disappeared. There were no extra troops around him to fill this pit. Besides, even if reinforcements were used, could they resist the attacks of the Chinese? Alexander, who had seen the attack power of the Chinese army, was not sure.

"The Americans and the Turks have launched an offensive to support you, hold on!" He still gave Mountbatten a hope

As soon as the news of the raid on the British team in China spread, the Americans realized that the opportunity for attack had come.

The Americans calculated through China's logistics that the number of Chinese troops was not large.

Through some information on the Huaxia logistics supply line, such as the supply of food and clothing, combined with various reconnaissance and spy intelligence, and even propaganda materials for the 200,000 Chinese troops in China to kill more than 400,000 Turkish troops, the Americans estimated that the number of Chinese troops was about 350,000. This also includes maintaining the logistics supply line and suppressing the occupied areas, and no more than 250,000 people can be used for battlefield combat.

Although they also considered the support and other preparations of counterfeit companies, they never expected that there would be such a large-scale supply of sub-bases, nor did they expect that the real force that China could directly fight had increased to 330,000.

These troops were divided into two routes, north and south, and had to deal with enemies in several aspects at the same time, which made the Americans laugh at the arrogance of the Chinese army.

But cooperation between the Allies and pre-war preparations will take time.

The Americans could only put the offensive plan on the 200,000 US troops and 600,000 Turks to crush the Chinese army on the south route. Although the Chinese reinforcements were also constantly attacking, the Americans were sure that their speed of preparation was faster than that of the Chinese with long and difficult logistics lines. The confrontation with strength was the safest.

But as the Chinese army raided the British, the Americans changed their minds.

Even if the French team in Syria is playing soy sauce, the British and indigenous troops can hold up at least 50,000, or even more Chinese troops, and may be the main force of Chinese. Even if the more than 200,000 Turkish troops on Mount Torros in the southeast can hold up some Chinese troops. So how many people can be left as the southern Chinese troops?

"They have a maximum of 50,000!" This is the most conservative estimate for the Americans to consider that the South Road Army may reach 50,000 troops.

"We cannot let the Chinese defeat us one by one. Notify the Soviets and Turks and attack immediately from the northern route. We attack from the southern route!" The Americans immediately revised their new combat plan and took the opportunity to push the entire battle to a larger scale. Although the Allied parties were not fully prepared, they could always gain an advantage along the way under the pressure.

The commander-in-chief within the Allied forces fighting near Turkey this time has not been finalized, and the relationship with the Turks has not been finally straightened out. The Americans have been busy with their preparations for a while.

Even if the Americans used the fastest world to unite the Turks, Soviets and French troops, it has been more than 12 hours since the Chinese raided the British.

The 200,000 Turkish troops on Mount Torros in the southeast and the more than 400,000 Turkish troops accompanied by them were even worse than the Americans imagined. At least until the Americans launched an attack, even half of them could not get together without sufficient communication.

After receiving the news that the British were in a bad situation, the Americans had to launch it in advance.

They did not expect the British to lose so quickly and so badly, nor did they expect that the Chinese still had 80,000 troops waiting on the other side of the Euphrates River.

These armies may be difficult to break through the Euphrates defense line defended by 100,000 US troops and 400,000 Turks, but they can also take advantage of the Euphrates' geographical advantage to withstand the attacks initiated by the Americans.

It brings together most of the artillery of the Southern Route Army and the Chinese Air Force, which is occupying air superiority, to make the defense here more stable.

At the same time, the 50,000 troops of the Northern China Army were ready to fight the Soviet Union and Turkish coalition, but the dispute between the Soviets and the Turks made the troops they were waiting for delayed.
Chapter completed!