Above the North Sea, a fleet was operating. It was a huge troop transport ship. However, the difference from the last time was that there was no escort of the Betty fleet. The reason was very simple. Although the Scher fleet did not come out, the minesweeping and anti-mine-sweeping war between the two sides at the mouth of the Baltic Sea was over. Although it was certain that Scher's fleet would not come out, because there were still about one thousand remaining mines that had not been swept away, but there was not much time left. If Betty's fleet was in the Mediterranean, the German high seas fleet went on an expedition and forced the British navy to fight to the decisive battle, what would you do? This would be a big loss.

However, the Allies were not careless with the 300,000 army. Under the escort of a large number of destroyers, 27 light patrols and 9 heavy patrols were the largest troops that Britain could temporarily draw. Although they could not participate in the decisive battle of the main battleship, it was necessary to strike supply lines or escort merchant ships. The transfer of these ships may reduce the silence rate of British and American merchant ships in the next month.

However, in the United States, there is a research result that recently informed the UK that a batch of submarine detection equipment will be sent to the UK for field testing. According to the test results of the American laboratory, it is more than twice as powerful as the best listeners, which is very interesting to the British.

You should know that even the best listeners have strong instability in their work and high error rates. If they can use machines to discover problems, even if they are similar to listeners, as long as they maintain a stable state, it will be enough to increase the current anti-submarine level by a higher level, let alone double it.

In principle, double does not mean that the discovery rate is more than double. In many cases, even if it increases slightly, the discovery rate will be greatly improved. If the most troublesome problem is solved, the arms supplied by the United States will also be increased to a higher level, and it may be the same as Germany. It uses a large amount of automatic firepower and artillery to arm the army.

This time, the Allied team increased its troops in the Middle East and concentrated 800,000 troops in the Middle East. This was the limit of the Allied Powers. In 1915, the entire Allied Powers needed a huge force. As for the European mainland, Bordeaux immediately needed reinforcements, and Sweden in Northern Europe needed to open up a battlefield. There was also the Italian battlefield in the Mediterranean. The Allied Powers were a little short of strength, which was also the greatest support, at least, it was necessary to let Mark live in the front line in the Middle East and drag Lan Fang into the Middle East.

It was Lan Fang's first time to participate in the war, and he could not evaluate his strength. However, the battle reports of the war between India and the Indochina Peninsula had already been sent back to Europe. He knew a little about Lan Fang's combat effectiveness. Perhaps it was not as strong as the Bordeaux army, which was the elite of the war for hundreds of battles. However, it was stronger than a weaker chicken like the colonial army. It was a little weaker than 500,000 to 1 million, and it was a little easier to deal with with 300,000.

If the Allies had grasped the actual situation of the current capture of Baghdad army at this time, he would never have sent 300,000, only half of the army. In addition, 300,000 is only 500,000, which could not be resisted at all. It would be sent for free and could not change the status quo. It was still at a disadvantage.

The poor communication caused this consequence. Afterwards, after knowing the outcome of the Middle East, the British chose to work with the Americans to improve radio. In the fourth year of the war, reliable radio was developed in 1917, but unfortunately it was too late.

February of the Indian Ocean was a bit calm. A huge fleet set off from Malacca to the Middle East. This long distance only crossed the northern Indian Ocean. Compared with the turbulent southern Indian Ocean, it was relatively calm. It took 10 days for the fleet to enter the Persian Gulf and encountered no danger in the middle.

Lan Fang brought out all the battleships that could fight for this troop transport ship. Although the battleships were not dispatched, the warships of the Asian Allied Powers were cleaned up and Japan was hit hard again. At this time, it was impossible to threaten Lan Fang's fleet. As for submarines, the Allied Powers submarines were far from ocean-going capabilities. Even in the face of China's mature sonar, even the German main battle sea wolf came over, let alone the Allied Powers.

The Persian Gulf at this time was not as prosperous as later generations, because oil in the Middle East had not been discovered yet. The real prosperity was the Suez Canal on the other side. Before the opening of the Basra New Port in the northwest, it was just a simple fishing port. That is, after the opening of Basra in the northwest, it gradually became important.

At this time, Basra had changed a lot from before. On the basis of German ports, the northwest carried out a series of transformations of the Basra port. From the original ordinary port, a large number of tower cranes and gantry cranes were added to turn it into a container ship. Compared with ordinary bulk ships, container ships have many huge advantages, such as easy loading and unloading, convenient transportation, and use technology and machines to replace manpower. When the 3b railway was increased by the emergence of the Allies, the port of Basra successfully passed the test. With the premise of using more gantry cranes and containers, its throughput capacity has exceeded 80 million tons, and a large number of raw materials and finished products were transported to Germany.

When Lan Fang's army had just entered the Persian Gulf, Basra actually encountered a little crisis. The concession team, which had lost nearly half of its troops and suffered a huge blow, continued to capture the city along the 3b railway, and almost no decent resistance was encountered. Even the policy of massacre caused the entire ********** to rebound, but the gap in strength made all these rebounds suppressed.

It seemed that the result was getting smoother and smoother, which made the Allied Powers become arrogant. The two divisions of the Allied Powers, even approached Basra, were two French divisions, who were dissatisfied with China. When they attacked Baghdad, the biggest losses were when they attacked the China Building. The China Building, I think I have some contact with China.

Mark and other senior coalition leaders intervened a little late. When they knew, the French army had already entered the sphere of influence of Basra. No matter how angry they were, they were extremely angry. Iraq had not yet completely taken over, but instead touched the Chinese. God knows what the result would be.

The Chinese had already known the actions of the French, and even knew that what they were going to do, treaties or promises, would never be restricted. Especially for the army, they could only show their strength. The fortifications located near the two French military advisors were immediately activated, with at least 300 artillery pieces, which gave direct warnings to the French army. It has to be said that the war of force is right. The French army just wanted to take advantage, but facing the defenders with at least 40,000 people, the perfect fortifications, and even the fortified fortifications, they knew very well that they might not be able to get the advantage if they really fought. Since that is the case, they should just retreat honestly.

Not only did they not occupy the vicinity of Basra, they even gave up the old port. After a little touch, they knew that Basra had almost perfect defense as the Allies expected. In this case, they did not dare to attack. A fortified port city had more than 150,000 troops. Such a fortress could not be captured even if all the Allies came over, let alone their two divisions.

The French army of the two divisions returned in shame. Mark was quite angry at their unauthorized actions. In the Battle of Baghdad, it was hit hard, lost a lot of personnel, and had to provoke China. With the combat effectiveness shown by the Chinese field army, he used Russia as an indigenous person to fight. That was not an ordinary strength. In the battle of the city of trade, he cheated at least one million Russian troops, but they were not able to support it.

The punishments imposed on the two divisions even raised questions about the French commander, but in the end, it was impossible to deprive the French army of rights. It was very simple. This was a coalition. Although the joint command was established, it was to coordinate the relationship between the two sides, not subordinates or other things.

Five days after the French retreat, Lan Fang's troop transport ship arrived near Basra. As Lan Fang's commander this time, Lieutenant General Zheng Shusen was qualified to know the relationship between Lan Fang and China. As a poor man, he had suffered from the pain of the old times, life in the northwest was simply a paradise. Although he is currently Lan Fang's lieutenant general, if the Chinese National Defense Forces are symptomatic, even if it is a regiment, he would be willing to go back.

Looking at the huge, extremely modern and busy port, Zheng Shusen felt a little excited. This is the huge port that countless Chinese people finally built with their hard work and sweat on the basis of poverty and incompleteness. It is also one of the most modern ports in the world at present. I want to visit it more, but unfortunately my destination this time is not here.

A large number of Lan Fang's army did not choose to get off the ship in the bus. This is related to China's current status. Although it is not a secret to Lan Fang and Germany, we must always avoid being justified. In China's view, if it can be delayed until the end of 1915, or even 1916, joining the World War, it is the best way. The northwest can get a lot of cheapness from the middle.

The new port of Basra is not good, but the old port of Basra is OK. Here, it was originally controlled by the Turkish army, but unfortunately it was defeated when France came to attack. The French army attacked Basra, which was simply showing off its muscles, was fled in panic by China. They even gave up the old port of Basra, which had already occupied. Now the old port of Basra and the surrounding 30 kilometers have become a buffer zone. Currently, under the control of the armed forces supported by Lan Fang, it is worth mentioning that Zhou Zhengpeng is also there, and his special forces are also resting here for a while.

Long before arriving in the Persian Gulf, he had already contacted Zhou Zhengpeng and the Chinese Governor to Lanfang. After confirming that it was safe, Zheng Shusen chose the destination of his landing at the old port of Basra. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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