Chapter 935: The Egyptian Crisis

  Chapter 916: Egyptian Crisis

While the Central European battlefield was at a stalemate, the Egyptian battlefield had also reached a critical moment.

Since the Austrian army had put down their political baggage, the canal dangers had turned from a moat into a thoroughfare, and were no longer an obstacle to the Austrian army’s advance.

After a short battle, the problems of the French army were gradually exposed.

There is no way, France’s manpower is limited, it is impossible to put unlimited force into the Egyptian region. Insufficient number of the main force, it can only take the colonial army to make up the numbers.

Although it looks similar, but the combat effectiveness is a world of difference.

Egyptian rebellion has just passed not yet a few years, the French rule is not so solid. Watching the French and Austrians dog-eat-dog, the Egyptian public is really not interested in getting involved.

If not by the gun on the back of the neck, Egyptians are absolutely not willing to go to war as cannon fodder.

Inside the Governor’s Mansion in Cairo, Governor Jacob stared at the map with a grave expression. From one small, brightly colored arrow, it could be seen that the French army’s current strategic situation was very bleak.

If it wasn’t for the French navy’s strength and holding the Egyptian coastline, it would really be surrounded by the enemy right now.

Not surrounded, not far from being surrounded. Encountered the enemy three-sided siege, only by the power of the Egyptian colonial government is certainly not able to hold out.

After half a dozen hours of work, Governor Jacob, who turned around, asked, “When will the domestic reinforcements be able to arrive?”

Can not win naturally can only ask for help from the country, anyway, the whole African battlefield, France is a defeat, Egyptian colonial government followed by asking for help is not a disgrace.

“His Excellency the Governor, the Ministry of War rejected our request for help and ordered us to play the fine tradition of the French army and overcome the difficulties ……”

Without waiting for the middle-aged officer to finish his sentence, Governor Jacob lifted off the papers on the desk in front of him and roared, “Enough, no need to continue.”

“Damn bureaucrats, must have dropped their brains on a woman’s belly, forgetting even the most basic military common sense.

A three-year-old knows what Egypt means to France. Once they let the Austrians take over Egypt, they wash their necks and wait to be slaughtered!

……”

A quick look at a map of Eurasia shows that not only does Egypt have the most important gold canal in the world, it is the last obstacle preventing Austrian Africa from connecting with the mainland.

Once the Egyptian region was allowed to fall into Austrian hands, a colossus far greater than any other empire in history emerged.

By then France would be in danger, and with its powerful human and material resources, Austria would be able to wear out any of its enemies.

It was so obvious that anyone with a modicum of military common sense knew it, and naturally the War Ministry could not be unaware of it.

The problem was that knowing the problem was not the same as being able to solve it. The best way is to send troops to reinforce Egypt, but reinforcement is not a child’s play.

The enemy was Austria, not the indigenous tribes, and a mere reinforcement was meaningless. At the same time, the reinforcement of troops, but also to protect the firepower of the troops, or else it is a thousand miles to send a head.

The more powerful the firepower, the greater the consumption of supplies. France had invested more than two million troops in the Central European battlefield and more than one and a half million troops on the southern front, while also providing logistics for millions of African colonial troops, including Egypt.

Such logistical pressure was already a replica of World War I in the original time and space. Even if the block of France is far more than the original time and space, and can mobilize more manpower and material resources, but the Allied nannies are not in position ah!

The only Britannia ally did not sell their kidneys to aid France like in the original time and space. Now people are still at home leisurely drinking coffee, watching a big play called continental storm clouds.

Of course, taking advantage of the fire to make war money is also an essential operation. From the outbreak of the war until now, the tariffs between Britain and France have increased by fifty-seven percent, and the export of strategic materials has directly doubled.

Do not buy?

No matter!

Out this door, the back is full of my family’s stores.

Look out for yourself. Anyway, there are only a few industrial powers these days, and they do monopoly business.

Until now, the French government has endured a series of problems such as high prices for supplies, substandard quality and delays in transactions.

If the war continued, it would not be the battlefield that could lead to France’s defeat, but finance and logistics.

In order to break the Rhine River defense line as soon as possible, the Paris government has just decided to reinforce the front line, the original plan to put into the Egyptian region of reinforcements, naturally, fizzled out.

Seeing that Governor Jacob was almost done venting, the middle-aged officer added: “His Excellency the Governor, the country has decided to shrink the colonies in the African region. It is prepared to temporarily give up Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and other regions.

After the contraction of the colonies, the troops in these regions will retreat into the Algerian region to hold on. The Ministry of War has said that if we need it, we can draw twenty infantry divisions to reinforce us.”

Governor Jacob was well aware of the situation in Africa, and the so-called temporary abandonment was really just a shroud.

Most of these districts bordered Austrian Africa, and just after the war broke out they were subjected to the heaviest venomous beating by the Austrian army, and the scene was that of wretchedness.

Even if the defense line is not contracted, the fall is only a matter of time. The Paris government could not even care about Egypt, naturally, it is impossible to create a defense line that stretches for tens of thousands of miles for the sake of North Africa.

The colonial empire was crumbling, and for a colonizer like Governor Jacob, it was completely crumbling inside.

Of course, it was barely good news for the Egyptian region. Regardless of how well these reinforcements fought, at least it proved that the country hadn’t given up on them.

Even though this result couldn’t satisfy Governor Jacob, but with no choice, having reinforcements was better than having no reinforcements at all.

“Tell the War Ministry that we are facing the Austrian regular army, not some colonial cannon fodder troops.

If we want to hold off the enemy’s advance, the reinforcements must all be French troops, and the indigenous troops should not be sent over to waste food.”

After the war had broken out, the French government had also sent reinforcements to the colonies once in order to preserve the colonial empire.

Now the backbone of the armed forces in the colonies was the army made up of the troops sent from home as the seed, plus the local French.

Their combat power was a notch higher than that of the indigenous troops, but because of insufficient training and outdated weaponry, they were one or two steps weaker than the local troops, but they could still barely be used.

Not waiting for the middle-aged officer to speak, suddenly remembered the “oooh-ooh-ooh ……” sound, followed by “boom, boom …… The sound of “Boom, Boom ” sounded.

This is Cairo, hundreds of kilometers away from the front line, artillery shells simply can not hit so far.

Suddenly, with the sound of explosions ringing in his ears, Governor Jacob immediately realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: “Pass the order down, let the airship unit immediately rise up to intercept the enemy’s airships, and the air defense unit will be responsible for cooperating with them.”

These days, air defense forces were actually only responsible for dealing with, or rather repelling, low-flying airships. To deal with high flying airships, it was still only airships.

Of course, after the end of the Rhine air war, these experiences were already a thing of the past.

I don’t know whether it was for the sake of secrecy, or because of bureaucratic malfeasance, or because it was not considered necessary, but in any case these military changes of philosophy were not passed on to Governor Jacob in the first place.

With this order, the scene that had originally taken place on the Rhine reappeared over Cairo, only on a much smaller scale.

In a sense, Governor Jacob’s order was also correct. The airship force was finished, and it also reduced the logistical pressure on the Cairo defenders.

After all, from the appearance of airplanes, the airship force without fighter escorts, ascending into the air is a living target.

Staying on the ground and not moving is another waste of resources. You know that the maintenance of airships is also very expensive, the maintenance cost of an airship, are catching up with a destroyer.

France may have the ability to build airplanes, but to get a fighter in a short period of time, that is dreaming.

……

After the sound of “da-da-da-da ……”, a French airship’s airbag was broken and it quickly began to fall.

After casually replenishing a special bomb, to make sure that the enemy is finished, the excited Ensign Wade is only good.

As far as the eye could see, the French airships were falling, exploding, and those that had not yet fallen became targets for their comrades.

The airplanes abused the blimps without any help at all. At this point in time, Ensign Wade was not ready to come over and rob his fellow soldiers of their war heroes.

“It looks like today’s harvest is going to end here. I’m really envious of the guys assigned to the Central European battlefield, I heard that someone set a record of three consecutive kills in the air battle on the Rhine.

We can’t do that here, there’s not enough to go around. Damn Frenchie, still claiming to be the number one power in Europe, doesn’t know to equip a few more ships, there’s simply not enough for everyone to share.”

The young man piloting the airplane on the side couldn’t help himself and teased, “Well, valiant Ensign Weed, I know you’re the bravest warrior.

To abuse the enemy’s airships like this is just too classless, it doesn’t deserve your status at all.

It’s the battles that are evenly matched that can emphasize your bravery, such as going down and capturing the French commander Jacob now, creating another miracle in military history.

Don’t worry, I’ll take your parachute for you, and I don’t mind opening the hatch again as long as you want.”

Annoyed, Ensign Wade snapped, “Shut up, Adolph! There’s nothing funny about that joke, and as I’ve explained many times, things said under the influence of alcohol can’t be taken seriously.”

Without a doubt, this was Ensign Weed’s black history.

Theoretically speaking, it was still possible to fall into the enemy command by suddenly landing down from the sky. If the enemy was brainwashed enough, it might still be possible to capture the enemy’s chief commander-in-chief.

The lucky American pilot who landed in the wrong place in the original time managed to capture an Italian army.

But similar cases have always been miracles in military history. Although there were Italians among the French soldiers below, more of them were still French.

Ensign Wade also had his head in the wine to come up with such a brain-dead plan. Now that he was sober, he naturally wouldn’t go to his death.

Adolf smiled slightly, ”Well, that was my mistake, the jokes will stop for now. Our mission has been accomplished, it’s not a good idea to just stay idle.

Why don’t I slightly lower my flight altitude, and you use your machine gun to do some strafing and see if there are any unexpected gains?”

Austria had been engaged in aircraft development for many years, but the combat experience of the air force was still approximately equal to zero.

The open-minded Franz couldn’t help in this matter. For an army to grow, it needed a lot of experience.

Franz’s knowledge of the air force is very limited, and the source of most of the paragraphs read on the Internet, really want to be used as the air force training maneuvers, it is not much different from suicide.

“You’re not kidding?”

Wade asked incredulously. The facial expression had revealed his inner surprise, as if to say that Adolf’s proposal had refreshed his knowledge.

“Of course!”

Adolf replied affirmatively. After a pause he explained again, “The enemy, who dared to let the airships lift off, proved that the battle that passed by the Rhine River had not been passed on.

Since the enemy has never encountered an airplane, naturally there will be no means against it. To use the same means against us as against the airships is not good enough.

Try it at 500 meters, if there is any danger, I will fly away immediately, anyway, the enemy’s reaction speed is impossible to keep up with us.

In case we get lucky and take out a few big fish, we’ll have earned it.”

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(End of chapter)