Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 194: Alexander

The weather in Alexandria is sunny. Egypt will have such good weather during the winter months. The Nile River brings abundant water and the farmland outside the city is green. The seaplane slowly landed on the sea outside the harbour, dragging a long white trail in the blue waters, and the huge "Viking" then turned the bow and drove through the waves to the port breakwater one kilometer away.

"The plane has arrived, sir." The secretary opened the door of the Lanchester luxury car. Sir Faye stepped out of the car and looked solemnly to tidy up his appearance. The secretary helped Faye pull up the back of his dress, carefully straightened the two medals on his chest, and graciously brushed him off his shoulders. There is no dust.

"Okay, Blair, just wait here with the driver." Fay stopped the secretary who was about to squat down to polish his shoes, and felt that this young man was promising.

"Okay, sir." Blair bowed humbly.

The shape of the Old Port of Alexandria is like a crescent moon, with two breakwaters extending from the tip of the crescent, enclosing the port within the dikes. The breakwater is built with huge stone blocks, and the government will repair it over the years. On the west side, there is a huge castle overlooking the waterway to and from the port.

This castle is the famous Katba Fort, built in the 13th century, when the powerful Mamluk dynasty ruled Egypt.

This castle is famous entirely because of the materials used in its construction. All the stones used in this fortress come from the Alexandria Lighthouse, which is known as the seventh wonder of the world. In fact, Katba Fort is Built on the site of the seventh miracle.

The Egyptian Sultan Katba was keen on art and architecture. During his reign, he built a large number of high-quality buildings in the area controlled by the dynasty. When the Sultan of Catba traveled here, he noticed the lack of coastal defense facilities in Alexandria, so he sent people to build Fort Catba at the entrance and exit of the port. The sultan sent an entire army to the fort, and strictly ordered that the armaments in the fort cannot be misappropriated under any circumstances.

More than four hundred years have passed. The dynasty of that year has turned into a cloud of smoke, but the castle still stands by the sea, guarding the safety of this ancient port.

Fort Battle is still stationed with troops, but because the structure of the fort is too old, it is no longer suitable for modern artillery. As a result, the British army built a series of coastal artillery fortifications around the fort, and set up coastal artillery positions, including the 12-inch cannon. This is the most important home port of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet. It concentrates the essence of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean fleet. Although most of the giant ships were lost in the just-concluded European War, the remaining Royal Mediterranean Fleet is still not to be small. Look at the sea power.

Now in Alexandria Bay, there is a huge warship moored. She is the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet [Warrior] and the fourth ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.

[Warrior] once participated in the magnificent battle of Jutland. At that time, she was a member of Sir Betty’s Fifth Battleship Squadron. She encountered the main force of the German High Seas Fleet head-on. Because of command and communication errors, [Warrior] ] And her sister ship were besieged by the German fleet, but none of them was sunk from beginning to end, showing a very good protective performance.

Historically, this battleship was attacked by the Italian navy’s torpedo "pigs" in the past four years. It immediately sank in the port of Alexandria. Because the sinking location was relatively shallow, although the cabin was filled with seawater, The battleship was still exposed on the water, and the Royal Navy also deliberately published pictures of the battleship "intact" in the media to confuse Italian officials.

But now that history has changed, the [Warrior] will not repeat its original fate, but the luck of her sisters is not so good. Except for the [Malaya] captured by the Germans, everything else is already Sank to the bottom of the sea.

In the final battle of the local fleet, the [Queen Elizabeth] was ambushed by the German battle fleet. Although it desperately broke through, it eventually sank in the shallow sea near Wilem. When the Germans found her, she Most of the bridge is still exposed above the water. After the British Royal Navy inspected [Queen Elizabeth], it was found that the keel of the battleship had been broken and completely lost the value of repair, so after dismantling the useful equipment on the battleship, she sold her to a French shipbreaker the company.

[Warrior] has become the only remaining battleship of the Royal Navy. Thinking about the grandeur of the Royal Navy's battleships in the days of European grandmothers, and then looking at the current British fleet, people can't help but sigh the impermanence of the world. Seeing that he was full of guests and friends from Zhulou, strong soldiers and horses rampaged the world, but in the blink of an eye the walls collapsed and the house was destroyed, and the emperor's hegemony became a spring dream.

"The British Navy is strengthening the strength of the Mediterranean Fleet, and they will hold the Black Sea Strait." Standing on the transport boat, Weierle pointed to the warship anchored in the harbor.

"What are you doing over there?" the empire head asked, pointing to a group of work boats that were close together.

"I don't know, my Führer may be dredging the channel." Weierle replied, shrugging his shoulders.

The German Army troops stationed in Alexandria have now sealed off the entire port area. Snipers and machine guns are deployed at all commanding heights. German soldiers with live ammunition stand guard at every lane and road.

Mobile air defense positions are set up on the two sections of the breakwater, and the antennas on the new mobile radar vehicle are constantly rotating, closely monitoring the air activities within a hundred kilometers of the surrounding area. An entire BF109 fighter squadron was in charge of the airborne alert. The Messerschmitt twin-aircraft formation whizzed across the sky. The superiors gave these pilots the order to shoot down any suspicious targets that dared to approach the Führer’s plane, even if the fuselage was brushed with iron. Cross machine emblem.

Lieutenant Admiral Cunningham is debriefing at the Admiralty in London at this time. It is believed that he is likely to take over the post of commander of the local fleet. Now the commander of the Royal Navy Mediterranean Squadron was transferred from London last month Rear Admiral Henry Harwood, the deputy commander of the fleet, was the cruiser under his command and intercepted the German pocket battleship [Earl of Spey] and forced the enemy to sink in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Because of this "brilliant" record, Harwood was promoted to Rear Admiral and received the knighthood, and was transferred to the Royal Navy Department and became the Chief Assistant to the Chief of Naval Staff until the Battle of Dunkirk. Major General Sir Li has always been optimistic, as the seed for the next generation of leadership of the Royal Navy to be cultivated.

At that time, no one thought that the battle situation would deteriorate drastically in just a few months. As the Royal Navy was hit hard in Dunkirk, all the spearheads were directed at the Admiralty. As the chief assistant to the chief of staff, ha Wood became a perfect scapegoat.

Major Admiral Harwood was transferred out of the General Staff, and then he was thrown into a transportation management office under the Admiralty Department to lie idle. If you think this is the end, then you guessed it wrong, because this Rear Admiral’s mold The shipment is not over yet.

Then his office participated in the formulation of the "Continuation Operation" plan. As a result, the transport fleet full of treasury treasures was ambushed by the German fleet and annihilated in the Faroe Islands.

Maybe the above felt that since Sir Harwood had already carried a pot on his back, it didn’t matter if he folded another one, so the major general once again assumed the responsibility that he couldn’t fight him, and was eventually demoted to the Naval Coastal Defense Command in Kent. , Took the landing team to guard the beach... As a result, a month later, the German army landed in Kent.

Harwood had only four Marines recruits. In front of the elites of the German Army, they could not even splash a splash of water. The rookies were almost wiped out as soon as they met. The Germans didn’t even figure out how to deal with them. Which unit is fighting?

Major Admiral Harwood took the remnants all the way in, and he managed to escape back to London~IndoMTL.com~ This time the Admiralty didn’t need to find someone to carry on, because with the king’s surrender order, the entire royal The navy became captives of the enemy.

It may be because if you are unlucky to the extreme, you will be very happy. After the war, the major general suddenly turned around.

During the personnel adjustment process of the Admiralty, the person in charge stated that the generals who were more senior than the jazz were either killed or had a bad debt. This major admiral became the most reliable leader on the advancement ladder of the Navy. The former general. Just as the Admiralty was preparing to find a fleet commander to replace Cunningham, Harwood became the most suitable candidate. Now only waiting for Cunningham to officially step down, the major general can immediately become regular and add a ring of gold on the cuff. .

When the young German head of state stepped off the transport boat, he was waiting for Colonel Rudolf Roux, the commander of the German garrison on the pier, with his command team, greeted him with excitement.

"Welcome to Alexandria, my head of state! Hi! Heinhardt!" As the commander raised his arm, the arms lined up on the dock for an instant, neatly "Victory" and "Hi! Reinha" Special!" The sound alternately echoed over this ancient harbor.

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