Chapter 207: The Corner of Africa

After the war, the naval battle was highly praised, and many people compared it with the "Jetland Sea Battle".

Obviously, this comparison is not appropriate, because after this, the US Navy did not conceal the port, but there is one thing that is, after this naval battle, the US Navy never posed a substantial threat to the Chinese Navy and no longer had the opportunity to turn the situation around.

At that time, Mu Haoyang definitely wouldn't consider those issues that needed to be considered until the end of the war.

On June 20, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong flew to Astana together to hold a face-to-face meeting with Wei Chenglong, who was deploying a combat operation to attack Volgograd.

No written records were left during this meeting.

At that time, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong made a special trip to Astana, but they didn't want to leave a written record because Mu Haoyang planned to make a big deal with Wei Chenglong.

Since you are doing business, you have to bring "goods" with you.

Mu Haoyang's "cargo" is not the naval fleet, but the naval aviation force.

At that time, the Navy had formed fifteen carrier-based aviation corps, of which eight were prepared for the eight super aircraft carriers that were served in early 2055. According to the navy's consistent tradition, the carrier-based aviation corps was first established so that pilots could be familiar with various tactics before boarding the ship. After the aircraft carrier was in service, the pilots would be allowed to conduct real swords and guns landing training to enable the aircraft carrier to form combat effectiveness as quickly as possible. At that time, these eight carrier-based aviation corps had completed the training, that is, they all had combat capabilities.

Pang Yuelong's "cargo" is the twelve land combat divisions.

These twelve land divisions were prepared to attack the Solomon Islands, but they were not useful. Four of them were sent to the Mariana Islands before and could be drawn in early July. Although in the long run, these twelve land divisions must be sent to Australia, in the short term, especially before other problems are solved, there is basically no place to be used and can only stay in the rear to spend time.

Of course, since it is a business, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong must want to get something from Wei Chenglong.

To be precise, what Mu Haoyang wanted was just a promise from Wei Chenglong that after attacking Moscow by the end of the year, the airlift forces that were bound to the mainland battlefield would be transferred to the Pacific battlefield, so that the Navy and Marines could attack Australia in early 2055.

There is no doubt that this is also a very cost-effective deal for Wei Chenglong.

You should know that on the mainland battlefield, what Wei Chenglong lacks is the aviation and combat troops. If the navy and the Marines are willing to share part of the combat mission, he will be confident that he will lead the army to attack Moscow at the end of the year and fulfill the promise he made in front of Huang Hanlin.

As a result, the three of them reached this secret agreement very happily.

According to Mu Haoyang's promise, eight naval aviation corps will participate in the war in early July, and Pang Yuelong also promised to allow twelve marine divisions to arrive before the end of July. When Wei Chenglong made the promise, he set a prerequisite, that is, to invade Moscow before the end of the year. In other words, only if this condition is met, Wei Chenglong promised to hand over more than half of the transport planes to the Navy and Marine Corps.

It’s not that Wei Chenglong doesn’t believe Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong, but he just thinks that setting this prerequisite will allow Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong to do their best.

Mu Haoyang did not object to this.

However, Pang Yuelong felt that Wei Chenglong's requirements were too high, so he also attached a condition that the army must capture Volgograd before the end of July.

The reason why Pang Yuelong proposed this condition was that he did not want the Marines to participate in the combat operations against Volgograd.

What he didn't expect was that Wei Chenglong agreed immediately.

This time, Wei Chenglong was not proud, but was confident enough to capture Volgograd in the next month because he had been preparing for it for more than three months.

On that day, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong returned to Beijing.

Two days later, Mu Haoyang received good news: the African Legion commanded by Jiang Bowen pulled out the last stronghold of the US military outside Djibouti and surrounded Djibouti.

Although Djibouti has not been captured yet, there is no suspense on the African battlefield.

According to the battle report sent by Jiang Bowen, he tried to capture Djibouti in July. Of course, he was too optimistic because the African army did not occupy Djibouti until the end of September. The main reason was that Mu Haoyang had not increased his troops. The main force was only one land combat division, and the troops of the allies did not have much combat effectiveness. Only two Pakistani army divisions were reliable, while the US troops in Djibouti were more than 100,000.

However, by July, the US military could no longer block the Mande Strait.

Under the fierce artillery fire of the African Legion, most of the US troops in Djibouti could only huddle in fortifications, posing no threat to ships entering and leaving the Red Sea.

As a result, by the end of July, the Chinese Navy opened up the Mande Strait.

Finally, Mu Haoyang decided to open up a new battlefield in August and transferred Jiang Bowen to Egypt, providing him with two armies, allowing him to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Legion in Egypt. By the end of the year, Jiang Bowen replaced Yu Shihui as the commander of the Middle East War Zone, while Yu Shihui was sent by Mu Haoyang to New Delhi to serve as the commander of the South Asian War Zone. There is no doubt that the South Asian War Zone Command is a Qingshui Yamen and there is nothing to do.

China's victory in the Horn of Africa has had an unaffordable impact on the United States' overall strategy.

You should know that when Djibouti cannot defend, the United States must increase troops to the Middle East and consolidate the Sinai Peninsula, otherwise the US-Israeli coalition will be besieged.

From a military perspective, the US-Israeli coalition forces have to concentrate their forces to kill Syria.

The reason is very simple. If Syria is not resolved before China sends troops to Egypt, it will be a foregone conclusion that the US-Israeli coalition forces lose the Middle East War. Only by killing Syria first can the main force be sent to the Sinai Peninsula, withstand the attack of the Chinese and Egyptian Legions, and ensure that they are not defeated.

The problem is, it is not easy to defeat Syria.

You should know that at that time, China's troops on the battlefield in the Middle East had reached eight armies. In addition to the three armies deployed in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the other five armies were all in Syria. The Syrian Defense Forces had exceeded 3 million, while the forces of Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia reached 4.5 million. By July, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia will gradually send 800,000 combat troops to the Middle East. In other words, in another month, the total strength of the Middle East Legion will be close to 9 million.

At that time, the total strength of the US-Israeli coalition was only 3.5 million.

To be precise, it should be the Western Alliance Group coalition, with six Canadian masters, eight Mexican divisions and two Australian and New Zealand divisions in the US-Israeli coalition.

Although the average combat effectiveness of the US-Israeli coalition is higher than that of the China-Arab coalition, the gap in military strength is too big.

More importantly, the six Chinese Army armies have about 300,000 troops, while the US military only has 12 divisions on the Middle East battlefield, with a total strength of less than 200,000. Only by considering the Canadian masters with comparable combat effectiveness and the Australian-New Zealand Division can the Chinese army be even.

It is obvious that the US-Israeli coalition is simply unable to launch an attack.

In this way, only by increasing troops to the Middle East can the US-Israeli coalition seize the initiative and have the hope of defeating Syria as soon as possible.

To this end, in July, the United States sent eight additional divisions to the Middle East.

During the same period, Canada sent two more divisions, Mexico sent four more divisions, New Zealand sent one more division, and the Israel Defense Forces also formed ten foreign brigades.

At that time, nearly 500,000 foreign Jews had rushed to Israel, of which 200,000 joined the Israeli army and formed a foreign legion.

The most direct impact of the US military's increase in troops to the Middle East is to reduce the troops sent to Russia.

The direct result was that when Wei Chenglong commanded the Chinese Army to siege Volgograd for the second time, there were only 36 US divisions participating in the war, rather than the forty-four divisions that Russia hoped to obtain. Although Brushilov filled the vacancy of the US military with the newly compiled twenty Russian divisions, by July 29, Brushilov had to admit that Volgograd had been occupied by the Chinese army.

In a sense, it was Jiang Bowen's victory in the Horn of Africa that helped Wei Chenglong occupy Volgograd at the end of July and ended the battle that lasted for more than half a year.

In fact, the victory in the Horn of Africa also had a longer-term impact.

At that time, the losses suffered by the Russian army in Volgograd were far exceeding expectations. As a result, in August, when Wei Chenglong was preparing to march towards Moscow, Brushilov did not even have a fully equipped armored division. Moreover, the combat capabilities of the Moscow Front were reduced by 60% compared with those before the Battle of Volgograd, and the combat effectiveness of the other fronts guarding Moscow also decreased by more than 40%. This resulted in direct

The result was that Brushilov submitted his resignation to the Russian President on August 8, or resigned voluntarily. The Russian President appointed Nozhrov to command the Russian army as the commander-in-chief of the US-Russian coalition, rather than appointing another chief of staff. It was not until the end of October that the Chinese army came to Moscow that the Russian President appointed Marshal Julianov as chief of staff of the Russian army, fully responsible for Moscow's defensive operations. Nozhrov returned to the United States.

It can be seen that the main reason for Brushilov's resignation was the fall of Volgograd, and the reason for Volgograd's fall was the failure of the United States to send more troops in time. Obviously, without the victory of the Horn of Africa, a large number of US troops would have arrived in Russia, and Volgograd would not have fallen by the end of July. From a time point of view, as long as the US-Russian coalition forces persisted in Volgograd for one month, the Chinese army would not have been able to invade Moscow by the end of the year, because the upcoming cold winter would have blocked the Chinese army more than 300 kilometers away from Moscow.

Of course, the development of the situation on the mainland battlefield has in turn affected the Middle East battlefield.

You should know that it was in Volgograd that Wei Chenglong sent two armies to Egypt in August under the command of Jiang Bowen. It was the establishment of the Chinese Egyptian army that forced the United States to continue to increase its troops to the Middle East and launched a strategic offensive aimed at eliminating Syria at the end of October. At the most critical moment, it was China's reinforcements, which saved Syria by the end of the year and changed the overall situation on the Middle East battlefield.

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