In March 1942, Zhong Yi led the 1st Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a total of 250,000 troops, and arrived at the port of Kuwait on a transport ship of the British Navy's Far East Fleet.

According to the plan of the Allied General Command, the Chinese Expeditionary Force should have landed in Yemen.

After arriving in Yemen, he met with the main force of the 7th Army of the US Army and the 8th Army of the British Army, who arrived first. After a short period of mutual adaptation and running-in, he took a boat to the Alamein battlefield from Suez Port.

However, the plan did not change quickly. Before Zhong Yi and the soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force set off from Kolkata, the world situation changed unexpectedly again.

Türkiye, which had been cautious in neutrality before, suddenly changed its position and joined the Axis Alliance.

Türkiye's sudden participation in the war immediately caused a huge chain reaction to the world situation.

The biggest loser was the Soviet Union, because to some extent, the reason why Türkiye joined the Axis Alliance was to retaliate against the Soviet Union.

Türkiye and Russia, the predecessor of the Soviet Union, can be said to be a feud.

Due to religious and territorial disputes, Turkey and Russia have been in love and fight each other for hundreds of years. The final result is that Türkiye lost a big loss in World War I and lost 70% of its territory!

Previously, Turkey strictly adhered to neutrality, and Britain and the Soviet Union cooperated again to subvert Iran's pro-German regime and support a pro-British puppet regime, thus opening up the transportation line from West Asia to Central Asia and then to the hinterland of the Soviet Union. It was precisely through the continuous blood transfusion of this transportation line that the Soviet Union was able to persist until now without falling down.

However, as Türkiye participates in the war, for the Soviet Union, not only will the Transcaucasus oil fields face direct military threats from the Turkish army, but even the lifeline of Central Asia will be fatally threatened.

This was no less than a catastrophe for the Soviet Union. Therefore, on the day Turkey joined the war, the Soviet government issued a request to the Allied General Command, requiring the Allied Headquarters to immediately organize an expedition to Turkey, to protect the last life passage of the Soviet Union and to relieve the threat from the flanks of Eastern Europe.

Türkiye suddenly joined the war, the biggest loser was the Soviet Union, and the biggest winner was of course Germany.

Or rather, the biggest winner was the German army on the African battlefield commanded by Rommel.

Before Türkiye joined the war, although the African Legion commanded by Rommel won a huge tactical victory and pushed the US and British forces into the Alaman region, it was strategically in a desperate situation.

Because it is also very simple, because the German and Italian navies suffered a crushing defeat in the war with the British Royal Navy and had completely lost the control of the Mediterranean.

The loss of sea control in the Mediterranean immediately brought a catastrophe to Rommel's African Legion.

What’s even more terrible is that in this time and space, Rommel commanded no longer has one hundred thousand African legion, but a large legion of up to one million armed personnel, plus 800 tanks and 1,000 aircraft!

And it does not include the Italian Legion's armed personnel and heavy equipment.

To maintain such a huge legion, the materials needed are undoubtedly astronomical.

Previously, the German army had the control of the sea in the Mediterranean. It was not a big problem to maintain such a huge strategic cluster by strong sea transportation. After all, the logistics supply of this legion mainly relies on Italy.

It only takes more than a thousand nautical miles from the port in southern Italy to the port in northern Egypt.

But a month ago, as the main force of the German and Italian Mediterranean joint fleet was severely damaged by the British Royal Navy, the sea control power in the Mediterranean was instantly lost, and the logistics supply of Rommel's Legion immediately became a problem.

When he received the telegram, Rommel actually sent the telegram for half an hour.

In the end, Rommel's adjutant even worried that their commander would not be able to withstand the pressure to take out his pistol and commit suicide.

However, there is an old saying among the ancestors of China that good fortune is hidden, and misfortune is the basis of good fortune. Just when Rommel's African legion was about to end, surprise suddenly came.

Türkiye, who had been cautious in neutrality, suddenly announced his participation in the war!

Now, the situation of Rommel's army immediately became brighter and brighter.

Because Türkiye organized an expeditionary force as soon as it announced its joining the Axis Alliance, it quickly advanced south along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, and advanced to Lebanon in less than three days.

What happened next became unsurprising, as Britain took almost all the colonies of West Asia, the land defense on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean became very empty.

The Turkish army was unstoppable and entered Egypt in less than half a month.

While the Turkish army entered the Sinai Peninsula, the German army also strengthened its attack on the Alaman region.

On the day Zhong Yi and the Chinese Expeditionary Force boarded the ship from Kolkata, the Allies in the Alamein region collapsed. Except for a small number of British troops retreating to Yemen along the east coast of the Red Sea to retreat to Somalia, and a small number of US troops retreating to Somalia along the west coast of the Red Sea, the remaining more than 500,000 Allied troops surrendered.

At this point, the German army not only occupied northern Egypt, but also opened up the land transportation line in West Asia.

This means that the German, Italian and Turkish coalition forces will continue to launch attacks on British colonies such as Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman and even India.

The situation of the Allied forces suddenly became precarious.

It was in this extremely unfavorable situation that the Allied Command temporarily changed its plan and decided to send the Chinese Expeditionary Force led by Zhong Yi to the battlefield in West Asia. Zhong Yi's position also changed from commander-in-chief of the African theater to commander-in-chief of the West Asia theater, and his mission also changed from a desperate protection of North Africa to a desperate protection of the Soviet Union to a desperate protection of the transportation line, and at the same time, he waited for an opportunity to cut off the German supply line.

Under this situation, the Chinese Expeditionary Force changed to land directly from the Kuwait Port.

When the Chinese Expeditionary Force led by Zhong Yi came ashore, Kuwait had turned into a huge military camp.

In the port and the area with dozens of kilometers centered on the port, there are dense tents and simple wooden houses scattered in sight.

In addition to Americans and British people, there were also a large number of servants and soldiers from various British colonies.

The complexion of these minions can even hold a race fair.

However, Zhong Yi clearly felt that the morale of the Allied forces was not high.

Both the US, the British and the vassal armies of various colonies were mostly depressed. Obviously, the defeat of the Battle of Alaman had seriously damaged their confidence and they were afraid.

An Zhenyuan said, "Master, these ghost guys seem to be very depressed."
Chapter completed!