Romanian Eagle

"Enemy plane, nine o'clock."

Following Sergeant Deka's shout, the soldiers turned their anti-aircraft guns on an enemy plane that was trying to sneak up on something.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The two chains of fire quickly approached the reckless plane, only to see a chain of fire passing through the plane, causing a thick plume of smoke to rise from one of its wings, which frightened the plane to make various maneuvers quickly.

This naturally attracted the squad leader, Sergeant Deca, to shout with the firing baton held high. "Keep attacking, don't let this plane run away."

However, the next result disappointed him a bit. The continuous shooting did not hit the plane but let it slip away. Such a result naturally cannot satisfy them, but this is also the norm. Their 20mm anti-aircraft guns are easy to hit, and it takes luck to shoot them down.

"Crack."

The sudden sound of gunshots hanging in the air caught the attention of everyone on the gun emplacement. The tense anti-air operations had exhausted the ammunition on the position, and at this time Sergeant Deka, who was in command of the shooting, couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Salsay, hurry up and bring the ammunition."

After urging Salsai, who was sweating profusely, he immediately pointed to the others on the gun emplacement. "Don't look at it, hurry up and move some ammunition. When will he be moved alone?"

And the gunner, loader and others on the parking position immediately went to help with the ammunition. For the 20mm anti-aircraft gun they operate, the ammunition consumption is very high.

With the help of a few people, the 20mm anti-aircraft gun began to roar again.

However, the air raids continued, and a lot of air defense firepower was lost in the air raids. At present, Beirut is already facing insufficient air defense firepower, which has also caused huge losses to its military facilities, as well as the loss of fortifications and weapons and equipment.

Squads like Sarsai's can still be guaranteed to be fully loaded, which is relatively rare in the air defense unit.

The air strikes these days not only caused a lot of losses to the French army, but also caused the Beirut people to flee a lot with their children and daughters. The battle is about to hit the door, and this is willing to continue to stay here.

It's just that the people can flee, and the army naturally cannot leave but is increasing.

Lieutenant General Mendelek, the chief of Beirut's city defense, has been too busy these days.

"What did General Sinley of Damascus say?"

In the underground headquarters,

While looking at the city defense map, he asked the chief of staff beside him. In front of him, there are constantly staff officers, who are updating the map according to the latest situation, and the latest situation of the defenders has been indicated by various small flags on it.

"General Sinlai sent a telegram. At present, he has only been able to draw out an air defense battalion to support us, and he can only focus on small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns."

Hearing the chief of staff's words, Mendelek was a little dissatisfied. "Could it be that you didn't tell him about our situation, this amount of troops is not enough for a day's wear and tear."

"It has already been said, but General Sinlai called back that the Damascus air defense force had been emptied, and he could no longer be drawn."

At present, France's air defense weapons and troops in the Middle East have basically been transferred to Beirut and Latakia, and only Damascus has been assigned some because of its importance. And now Damascus' air defense force has been exhausted, and the French army's air defense force in the Middle East has been exhausted.

"Appeal to Paris to inform them of our current situation."

Mendelek stopped here. "Paris alone is not enough. At present, the army in North Africa has just suffered a major defeat, and the focus of Paris' support will also be on Tunisia. Now we can only think of other ways to send a report to Cairo, asking for their support, whether it is personnel, Weapons, supplies or whatever, we want them all."

Now Mendelec wants everything, but he also knows that talking to Paris doesn't necessarily help. Because of the current defeat in North Africa, even if France wants to reinforce, it will give priority to Tunisia. Moreover, the control of the sea in the Eastern Mediterranean has been lost, and the material personnel need to travel around Africa to be transported, and the distance is too long.

In addition, he wanted reinforcements in a month or two. He couldn't wait, so he could only ask for the British Middle East Command in Cairo.

However, although he pulled his face down, the chief of staff was a little hesitant. "If you speak like this, can Admiral Wavell give it to us? After all, we belong to different countries, and it would be very difficult to ask for help from Cairo directly across Paris."

The chief of staff's words made Mendelek think twice. "Then send a report to Kammelin and tell them that we need reinforcements. If the country cannot give us reinforcements, then allow us to ask for help from friendly forces."

Mendelek, who fully listened to the advice of the chief of staff, immediately added one.

"Okay, I'll send someone a report."

With the departure of the chief of staff, Mendelek looked at the tragic image of being hit by air strikes outside, and he already had a rough idea of ​​the landing site in Romania. If it is not expected, then the next Romanians will definitely land around Beirut. Now that the troops in his hand are good enough to deal with air strikes, it will be difficult to do it if they land.

In the face of Mendelec's request, Paris responded quickly, and in the afternoon there was a call back, allowing it to ask for help from the British army. At the same time, Paris also raised the issue of the joint command of the two countries to London.

The joint command of the two countries, which Churchill had been unable to obtain before, was also given up by Paris without hesitation when the situation became critical.

It's just that this decision made Churchill angry enough, but considering the special relationship between the Anglo-French alliance, he could only recognize it with his nose.

In a telegram sent to Admiral Wavell, the commander of the Middle East Army, London requested that it give Beirut support as appropriate, on the condition of guaranteeing Egypt.

Admiral Wavell faced London's order, and after much deliberation decided that the 10th Army, formed by troops stationed in Iraq and Persia, would send some troops to support the French Middle East. The troops it sent were mainly composed of the 27th and 34th Divisions formed in India, as well as the 6th Sikh Brigade and the 3rd Highland Artillery Regiment.

Although Wavell gave reinforcements, these troops, in addition to the 27th Division currently stationed in the Sinai Peninsula, can be quickly supported. The 6th Sikh Brigade was still in Iraq, and the 34th Division and the 3rd Highland Artillery Regiment were still on ships in the Red Sea.

Because of the containment of the Italian army in East Africa, the British army is currently relatively scattered.

One more thing, as a nail in East Africa, the British and French Somali forces (Djibouti and Somaliland) are being attacked by the Italian army in East Africa. Under the attack of 30,000 Italian troops, 4,000 British and French defenders abandoned their colonies in Somalia and withdrew.

Because Wavell is unwilling to consume too much of its own troops and materials, the British Navy is unwilling to use too much troops and materials for this dead place when the British navy has the control of the sea in the Red Sea and can guarantee the transportation line. Therefore, its 4,000 defenders were evacuated, which was also one of the few victories achieved by the Italian army in East Africa.

It's just that there is not much time left for them. In the port of Limassol on the island of Cyprus, a large number of troops are boarding the ship. They are the Romanian 9th Army that is about to launch the landing operation. The corps consisted of the 8th, 27th, and 39th Infantry Divisions and the 2nd Marine Division (supplemented by the 1st Marine Division's lost troops), commanded by Lieutenant General Fergus.

Outside the port, a large number of warships to protect them have been prepared outside the port, and several of the mighty battleships are particularly conspicuous.

"Lieutenant General Fergus, it's up to you to land first this time."

As the commander of the army group, Hoffman took the chief of staff to see him off in person.

"Please rest assured, the 9th Army will definitely complete the task."

Lieutenant General Fergus, who had fought in the First World War, replied.

The behavior of Romania's gathering of military ships could not be concealed from the British and French intelligence services. The island has a population of more than 300,000, and the hidden spies in it are naturally impossible to be cleaned up by the Romanian army, which was occupied soon.

In the evening of the same day, Admiral Wavell, who was far away in Cairo, received the news. "Immediately order all coastlines to be vigilant, maneuver reinforcements, and prepare to attack immediately."

Although Britain and France paid enough attention, a sudden riot caught them off guard.

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