British gentlemen will fight to the end only in two situations, one is about honor and the other is about business. Lobster soldiers have no honor at all. Their life is completely a business. For the few pennies a week, the generals are trying to recover their investment before sending troops. Whether it is the Opium War or the Boer War, whenever they have a relationship with business, the London Parliament will be as excited as if they are injected with chicken blood.

Before receiving the "exploration report" provided by Germany, the British cabinet's attitude towards the Middle East issue was very ambiguous. Although it had long been dissatisfied with the "ungrateful" Saudi government, politicians were also worried that rashly launching a war might trigger a chain reaction in neighboring countries.

Saudi Arabia has controlled Mecca and Medina. Every year, Muslims from neighboring countries go to the holy land to make pilgrimage. Ibn Saudi Arabia has considerable influence in the Muslim world.

The surrounding Persian Gulf, Mediterranean coast and southern peninsula are all British traditional spheres of influence. Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, etc. are now neither British protectors or autonomous colonies. These areas either have various mineral resources or occupy important coastlines and ports, which were indispensable links in the global strategy of the Empire that year. Although the British Empire had declined at this time, the foundation laid by the ancestors could not be thrown away just by throwing it away.

However, when the Germans put a detailed "resource survey report" on the conference table of the British cabinet, the British politicians' ideas immediately changed because the nature of the problems was different. They talked about national strategic issues before, but here they talked about a big business worth tens of billions of pounds.

The men in the House of Lords who were informed were full of words starting with h and f. They never dreamed that there was so much oil hidden under the deserted desert. Faced with the reserves of up to twelve digits, even Prime Minister Chamberlain could not sit still. He even repeatedly asked the German ambassador to verify whether the data in this report was problematic, and whether a careless diplomatic secretary had scored a few more zeros.

After receiving a positive answer from Germany, the House of Lords passed the proposal of Chamberlain's cabinet with an overwhelming unanimous vote that night, and the British Empire entered a state of war with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from now on.

Then, London gathered two full infantry regiments and a light armored battalion from the British troops stationed in Egypt and Sudan, and directly joined the German army's first phase of offensive operation. London also planned to withdraw an armored brigade and twelve infantry battalions from the local garrison troops as a follow-up support force. These reinforcements are expected to board the ship at Portsmouth next week and will be able to land on the Arabian Peninsula at the beginning of next year.

Xu Jun set a clear schedule. Large-scale military operations must be ended before the end of the year, and then a maximum of one to two months of public security war will be carried out. The remaining garbage time will be left to the British to play.

The situation in this country is different from China. Most of the land is deserts and mountains that humans cannot survive. The domestic population is extremely limited and it has been divided into independent tribes. The accumulated contradictions between tribes are still very deep. If there were no royal family to mediate in recent years, these chiefs with heavy troops would have long begun to fight civil wars.

The geography and climate environment of the Arabian Peninsula are not as complex as Afghanistan and Iran, and the local nomadic weapons are backward and rigid in tactics. It is impossible to carry out any guerrilla warfare in the face of modern reconnaissance methods.

Don't look at the Middle East in the 1940s from the perspective of the Gulf War. These nomads were holding single-shot rifles, riding Arabian horses and camels, eating dates and lamb, drinking yogurt and spring water.

At that time, the size of the city on the Arabian Peninsula was not as large as that of a village in the future. Only the city center had some mud bricks and rammed earth buildings, and the surrounding areas were tents one after another. Not to mention bombardment by artillery, a white phosphorus grenade could burn the entire city completely.

More importantly, the enemies they are facing now are not bound by so many international laws and regulations in later generations. At this time, the United Nations is still invisible, let alone a human rights convention. Europeans are pursuing a whole-hearted war at this time, and there is never any mercy towards the civilians of the enemy country.

The Germans fully implemented the idea of ​​total war. In history, whether in Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Lithuania, or Ukrainian jungles, whether it was the SS or the National Wehrmacht, countless brave rebels used their lives to prove the crime and cruelty of the Nazi German army.

The African Legion, which had obtained permission to kill the head of state, showed considerable patience in the war, which was directly related to the commander's personal character. Qusiral was not a cruel and easy-to-kill general.

Of course, this does not mean that the locals can provoke the dignity of the National Defense Forces at will. The number of villages and Bedouin tribes that the African Legion completely destroyed along the way has exceeded thirty.

The city of Cairo cannot feel the atmosphere of war. This ancient city has its own rhythm. The main roads of the city are filled with various stalls, and the bustling crowds are surging in the narrow aisle between the stalls.

The afternoon sun shone directly on the dusty streets, with a dry metal smell in the air. Xu Jun stood in front of the hotel arranged by the Cairo Embassy for Randolph, looking up at the black hawk flag curtain hanging upstairs. Xu Jun felt that Randolph really had some taste, and he could use it directly to "Return to the German Headquarters" as a scene.

Randolph was not prepared to stay on the front line for too long this time. He still had the mission given by the head of state, so he did not take away all the members. A squad of guard flag soldiers and torture experts from the General Security Bureau stayed. The case on the criminal network has not been closed and is still digging further.

In order to report to the ambassador about Randolph's disappearance, Captain Dietretz flew back from the Yanbu Port base with the remaining Grey Swordsmen, and now lives in this hotel.

There were also the two French ladies who were not seen in search of relatives. Because the police had not found the missing French archaeological team, and they agreed to wait for them to return, they still lived in the hotel and did not leave. Besides, it was difficult to find a safer place in Cairo. After all, no hotel would have a machine gun at the door.

Xu Jun was on a secret visit this time. Although the Cairo Embassy received a notice, it did not pass the news to the people in the hotel. It is completely understandable that the whereabouts of the head of state are state secrets, so how could these irrelevant little people know?

As a result, when Xu Jun and his group appeared at the entrance of the hotel, the soldiers of the guard flag guarding team could hardly believe their eyes.

"Hi! Reinhart!" After confirming that he was not mentally confused, the SS member raised his right hand almost conditionedly.

Sergeant Claire of the torture team was walking out of the hotel with a cigarette in his mouth. He was suddenly startled by the shouts of the sentry. SS SS looked at the door quickly, but when he saw the face of the visitor clearly, the burly man over 1.9 meters tall immediately turned his eyes excitedly and fainted on the stairs.

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