Chapter 1459 – Four Nations Enter the War

Fouad II. learned at the Egyptian summer palace that war had broken out, and was inevitably somewhat alarmed, and his hands were so busy that Prince Munam sighed darkly, and then he was met by a scene which greatly perplexed him.

The young king took out a paper, and after a few moments ordered, “I am now going to return at once to Cairo, and before I leave I am going to give an order order to the navy to send out all missile boats, and to announce to the public that Israel and Egypt are in the midst of a war, and that the waters of the belligerent nations are to ask the neutrals to withdraw.”

“By order of my name, Egypt goes into general national mobilization.” Fouad II tucked the document into his arms and issued this royal decree, “Also appeal to the international community that the Suez Canal is at risk of being affected by the war, and hopefully the international community will pressure Israel to respond even if it can buy out a day or even a few hours.”

Over the major bases in northern Egypt, anti-aircraft missiles were sending out huge trailing flames as they sped toward the incoming Israeli air force, but only a small fraction of the air bases reacted, and Israeli eavesdropping on Egyptian radio waves had not ceased since before the outbreak of the war. Prolonged listening led Israel to discover that the Egyptian early warning radar waves were gone every morning at about 7:30 a.m., with a downtime of about twenty minutes.

Was this by chance or was there a pattern? This situation aroused Israel’s interest, at the same time, Israel’s spies were moving around for this purpose, and soon the information reached Israel’s commanding general.

It turns out that this time is the Egyptian air force and naval command department combat duty handover time. This is often when the radar is turned off and the routine handover takes place.

As a longtime imaginary enemy in the eyes of Israel, Egypt’s habit became a loophole in this raid, killing the Israeli air force into Egyptian airspace, opened this time to harvest. The Egyptian Air Force pilots, who had rushed into the air, concentrated forty Mirage 3 fighters and fought with the incoming Israeli Air Force for control of the airspace.

The two air forces in the Egyptian airspace fierce fighting, to a certain extent in the anti-aircraft missiles under the cover of the Egyptian air force to do so, very dangerous, this era of radar is not very able to identify the enemy and me, their own fighters were their own anti-aircraft missiles beat down and is not much of a strange thing.

When the air war is on the rise, the Egyptian major cities of the radio, has begun to play the Egyptian sudden attack on the broadcast of Israel, while playing the King Fouad II’s royal decree, the Kingdom of Egypt declared a national mobilization, the navy deployed missile boats to isolate the warring waters, as well as to express the determination of the war to be protracted.

Soon the Arab states and the rest of the world received news of the outbreak of war in the Middle East, and British Foreign Secretary Patrick beat his chest when confronted with a question in the House of Commons, “We have done everything we could to prevent the outbreak of war, and even expressed the view of the U.S. that the Arab League had gone too far. The British position has been consistent that both sides should resolve the issue in the framework of the United Nations in accordance with the 1948 borders.”

“But we must remind the warring parties of the importance of the Suez Canal to the European economy.” After expressing his call for peace, Foreign Secretary Patrick spoke about the importance of the Suez Canal to European countries, “Egypt and Britain have an alliance, and Britain is in a position to defend European interests should the Suez Canal be threatened.”

Seventy Whitehall, the Cabinet Secretary’s office, Wick was forwarding a few of the latest public responses from the supreme authority, the Kingdom of Egypt, “That’s all for now.”

“A very reasonable response.” Alan Wilson said without any surprise at all, what’s there to be surprised about, what general mobilization, missile boats out to isolate the belligerent waters, using the Suez Canal to gain support, and immediately getting in touch with the Arab League countries ordered by Fouad II, are all to be expected.

It’s like when schoolchildren cheat on a test, they tend to think of passing notes, what’s so surprising about that. And only Egypt has that, because the Suez Canal is really important.

“Hey, air strikes in Syria and Jordan too?” Alan Wilson, who picked up the phone, nodded into the microphone and said, “Got it.”

Putting the phone down, Wick spoke up, “Secretary General, it looks like the Israeli Air Force has taken an overwhelming advantage.”

“We don’t know the losses of several countries yet, and besides, it’s the ground war that’s a matter of life and death.” Alan Wilson replied unperturbed, “I wonder if the Arab countries have the fighting strength of their ancestors.”

“That was centuries ago.” Wick was unimpressed, the glory of the pacifist world was long gone, and it could even be argued that there was no hope for the future as far as the naked eye could see.

“Don’t think so, Wick. Personally, I have great respect for the Pacifist World.” Alan Wilson shook his head, “Don’t think of the present as permanent, this religion is alive and well.”

Of the four billion people in the world today, Christianity has almost a billion and Pacifism over half a billion, which is about the same as the twenty-first century in terms of status, with the two major religions being number one and number two, respectively. Now Christianity has twice the advantage over Pacifism.

But in the twenty-first century, Christians have less than two billion people, and the religion of peace has 1.6 billion or 7 billion people, so it may be like the population of a big country, and it will be overtaken by India at some time.

If there is no colonial era to open the map, the world is still the continuation of the agricultural era of step-by-step development, open the fifteenth century of the old world map, can easily see, half of the world are pacifist countries is definitely not any exaggeration.

Eurasia plus North Africa, half of the land was flying the crescent moon flag. Europe and East Asia were the only remaining resistance forces, as if the map was a cutthroat regime, and people were the orthodox dynasties.

The religion of peace, as a very late religion, is arguably the strongest of the ancient religions in every respect, and without the colonial era, Europe and East Asia could have held out a few times, and can’t be expected to do so every time.

Now can be high-pressure to maintain the division of these countries, there is no guarantee that an inattentive people will be merged, even if you take out the Saudi Arabia to promote the pacifist pie, originated in Egypt, the Arab nationalism has become a thing, Europe can not stand.

Alan Wilson clearly know the Egyptian air force shift loophole, but did not tell Egypt, on the one hand, is to draw the strength of both sides, on the one hand, because the United Kingdom is mainly armed with the Iraqi air force, the Egyptian air force is armed by France.

It was actually quite simple to close the loophole, alternating radar stops would have prevented Israel from catching the loophole.

It is also not known what kind of exchange ratio the French Mirage fighters can achieve, Allen Wilson’s heart has flown to the Sinai Peninsula, which is the Egyptian Army’s key defense.

There are more than half of the army placed there, the strength of more than one hundred and fifty thousand, at this time the Egyptian defenders have received the news of Israel’s sneak attack on Egypt, the troops have been assembled, and the garrison has been in accordance with the operational instructions, into the major towns, as for the core of the giant air defense tower, but also the core of the fortification of the town.

And the task of the Sinai defenders was to wait for the appearance of the Israeli Army behind the towns that were centered on these air defense towers.

At this time the first batch of air raids of the Israeli air force has returned home, two hours later the second batch of air raids began, Israel one hundred and sixty fighter planes come back, the target is the Egyptian air force remaining four air bases and radar stations, Israel and Egyptian air forces are in the midst of a fierce battle, the Egyptian all carry out the news of the nationwide mobilization has been spread throughout the Arab world.

Four hours after the Israeli raid on Egypt, Hafez al-Assad announced a national mobilization in the Syrian capital Damascus, and the Syrian army entered a state of war, increasing its troops in the direction of the Golan Heights.

But Hafez al-Assad’s response, or not directly in the face of Israel has the largest border of Jordan fast, the Jordanian king, although not mobilized, the Jordanian army has entered a state of war, the Jordanian army in the West Bank in the north and south of the West Bank, two major sections set up defensive positions.

The northern defense sector is based mainly on the Jordan River cities of Nablus, Tumkalm and Jenin, while the southern defense sector is arranged along the hilly ridges from Ramallah southward to the line of Jerusalem and Hebron. The Jordanian army deployed eight infantry brigades and two armored brigades in the above positions.

Jordan’s King Hussein Ibn Talal, then called for help from his own Iraq, which was controlled by the same family, and King Faisal II of the Hashemite dynasty of Iraq declared a few hours later that “Iraqi troops will enter Jordanian territory to defend Jordan’s security.”

The Kingdom of Iraq officially entered the middle of this war, and soon the Iraqi Air Force was on the move, sending the American men in the mouths of supreme authority to support the Jordanian Air Force, which was resisting the Israeli Air Force.

Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq entered the war one after another, shocking the whole world, at the same time, the member states of the Arab League, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and other countries have issued statements in support of Egypt’s resistance to Israel’s despicable act of undeclared war.

The air force of the Kingdom of Iraq has also arrived at the battlefield, fighting the Israeli air force in the skies over Gaza and Jordan, providing air power cover for the Jordanian army under attack.

At this time in Britain, the Foreign Office has again become the busiest place, from the air attack on Egypt, to the successive bombing of Jordan and Syria, to the national mobilization of all of Egypt, followed by Syria, the raid on the Sinai Peninsula, the fighting in Gaza, and the latest Iraqi Air Force’s participation in the war, the British Foreign Office is in the midst of a busy time.

“The Iraqi Air Force fighters, we sold them, didn’t we.” Defense Secretary Denis Healey inquired as he bumped into Alan Wilson.

“That’s right, honorable minister.” Alan Wilson replied with a smile, “We don’t have that fighter in service on our soil, Malaya does have four squadrons.”

“I wonder how our fighters are doing, there are rumors that the Egyptian Air Force lost three quarters of them.” Dennis Healy muttered worriedly.

“I don’t see a problem, I remember some of the parameters, even if they don’t match the MiG 25, they’re close.” Alan Wilson said it was fine, the MiG 25 flew faster than the Israeli Rattlesnake missiles, and the Iraqi Air Force’s American Men, which were about the same speed as the Israeli Air Force’s air-to-air missiles, were just as good at Mach 2.4.