Chapter 1464: Done with Britain

At this moment, only the United States can save Israel, the entire international community, in the face of all the Arab countries of the same accusation, Israel has been unprecedented isolation.

Not long after, was the justice department chasing bite Nixon appeared, about the tape the two sides are still in a stalemate, from Nixon’s face know, Watergate incident development is not let him happy.

Kissinger understands Nixon’s difficulties, but also had to introduce the latest situation, this time the Middle East war is undoubtedly tragic, although Israel in the beginning of the war, hit the Egyptian air force, but also to the Jordanian and Syrian air force on the huge killings.

But in the process also suffered some losses, plus and then the Iraqi air force fighting, the Israeli air force lost more than one-third of the aircraft loss, almost lost half of the war power.

Compared to the Arab coalition, Israel was unable to gain a numerical advantage, even in the air force, and Israel, which took out three hundred Arab coalition fighters, paid for the loss of hundreds of fighters, and of course these pilots were killed, and the latest situation is that the Yemeni Air Force’s Soviet fighters appeared in the airspace over the Sinai Peninsula.

And Morocco and Libya have offered to send their fighters to Egypt so that the Egyptian Air Force will have fighters available again.

It’s important to realize that the Egyptian Air Force was beaten so badly solely because most of the fighters hadn’t even taken off before they had been wiped out by the Israeli Air Force at the airfields, and the Egyptian Air Force had enough pilots.

As for the pilots of the Israeli Air Force, that were really lost in the middle of the air war, once the Egyptian Air Force was replenished to some extent, even if it was only one-third of the original, it would be able to provide air control in the Sinai Peninsula, not to mention that the Yemeni Air Force had already appeared on the battlefield of the Sinai Peninsula, and the two giant air defense towers in the Sinai Peninsula were able to serve as a cover for their own land forces in and of themselves.

Not to mention that the Egyptian air force and anti-aircraft units shot down a number of Israeli invasion planes at the start of the war.

The Syrian Air Force, after attacking Israeli planes at Damascus International Airport, bombed airports, military installations, and troop concentrations in northern Israel, as well as oil depots in seaports. Jordan declared war on Israel immediately after Israeli planes attacked the capital, Amman, and Jordanian forces shelled military positions inside Israel.

The sinking of the Israeli destroyer Eilat has put Israeli waters under blockade, and Kissinger, with a heavy heart, said, “Most European countries have expressed their neutrality and rejected Israel’s request for help, and only the United States, Mr. President, is now able to save Israel.” ”

Nixon heard Kissinger’s words and said in shock, “The situation has deteriorated to such a point? Israel can no longer hold out?”

“Israel is still in the midst of an offensive, but good armies can’t fight with burning sticks can they? The amount of weapons consumed in this war is staggering and greatly exceeded everyone’s expectations.” Kissinger grimaced, “Israel’s weapons stockpile has fallen to a frightening level in the face of the many Arab nations taking turns.”

Kissinger said in a roundabout way that Israel was now in a two-fisted situation, and that only the Sixth Fleet could open up the routes of foreign aid.

The U.S. Sixth Fleet area of jurisdiction is around Europe and Africa in the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean area, so that some vague, in fact, the Sixth Fleet’s main range of activities, and the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean fleet basically overlap, the real responsible for the Atlantic Ocean security, is the U.S. Second Fleet, the Second Fleet is also the U.S. Navy is also the most powerful a fleet.

“Can’t we solve the problem ourselves?” Nixon asked rhetorically and seriously, this Middle East war would be complicated if the US stepped in to help.

Kissinger shook his head heavily, the European countries had already shown that they were going to stay out of it, and it was hard to tell where the war was going to go if the U.S. didn’t step in.

“It’s best if Israel solves the problem on its own.” Nixon thought about it for half a day, but he still did not want to be dragged down by Israel, otherwise the US would be passive in the face of the Arab world.

This makes Kissinger a little disappointed, he is also a Jew, and hopes that the United States can stand firmly behind Israel, Nixon is not saying that the United States does not care about Israel, but just hope that Israel can solve most of the things, and the United States can add to the icing on the cake, and not in turn the United States to solve things for Israel.

At the very least Israel should be winning in one direction so that the US can step in and help. Israel certainly thinks so, including the Israeli Prime Minister, Mrs. Meir, who is thinking of settling Egypt first, settling Egypt as an adversary in dealing with Jordan and Syria respectively, the problem lies in the fact that Egypt is only the air force being settled.

Two giant air defense towers, one in the south and one in the north, accompanied by a scattering of fortified towns, are like a chain that traps Israel’s attacking forces in the middle of it.

Israel must now endure an environment of unstable supply lines to defeat the Egyptian forces in the Sinai in the midst of this quagmire.

Surrounding the city of El Arish, Israel has developed a strategy to block this supply base, which is simply a siege, and if Alan Wilson had known it, he would have been able to immediately associate the advantage with me.

After Nixon’s attitude that Israel still had to fight for victory on its own, Israel had to prove itself in the Sinai Peninsula, and the doomed and fierce Battle of Sinai broke out.

Egypt has 150,000 troops in the Sinai Peninsula, these troops certainly can not hide in the fortress waiting to be plucked out by Israel, at least two armored divisions of the consumption is quite alarming, Arish, the base of the supply to the Egyptian defenders of the long term obstruction is not conducive to the defense of the two sides around Arish, the two sides started a big battle.

Sinai Peninsula since ancient times is a place of war, nineteen forty-eight, the Egyptian army is from here into Palestine, wherever they go, the people wholeheartedly welcome, can be said to occupy all the time, the kind of vibrant, everything competing for the realm, is still in front of us.

While Egypt and Israel were sending a large number of tanks for the decisive battle, the appearance of the Yemeni air force cast a cloud over the great battle. The Israeli air force exploded with superb efficiency, racing to the three fronts of the battlefield, but after all, it had already dealt with several opponents one after the other, and was pushing its limits, both in terms of weapons and personnel.

The Yemeni Air Force covered the Egyptian armor, which forced the IAF to once again approach the battlefield to fight a new opponent, and on the ground, for the first time since the war, there was a showdown between American and British weapons.

Having ceded the procurement of the Egyptian air force to France, Britain undoubtedly underwrote the ground weapons of the Egyptian army.

If Egypt suffered excessive losses of Chieftain and Centurion tanks, the reason was, of course, that the French-armed Egyptian air force was not fighting well enough to provide cover for the British tanks.

Both countries knew that this was the decisive battle, and with Egypt committing all the Chieftain and Centurion tanks at hand, and Israel committing the same number of Patton tanks, the two sides fought it out on the ground. The chaos in the sky was no less than on the ground, and the intensity of the fight between Yemen’s Soviet fighters and Israel’s Ghost fighters was equally remarkable.

The earth trembled with fire and light, and all the main guns of the tanks of both armies roared in unison, their muzzles spewed out angry flames, and a dragon of fire shot up into the sky. Hundreds of tanks wanted to rush to the opposite side, like a herd of wild bulls running wild on the grassland, raising smoke and dust in the sky, and making a deafening roar, piling up the sky and pressing towards the enemy troops on the opposite side.

The tank guns of the rows of Chieftain tanks equipped by Egypt in the first line began to fire ferociously. A line of fire across, a piece of smoke and dust rose, the American Patton tanks are not shy, constantly martyred ammunition such as holiday fireworks from the tanks of the various exits to the surrounding splash, the turret out of the smoke, burning fire, the tanks into a pile of rubble.

It was a test for both sides, and the falling fighters and destroyed tanks on the ground signaled just how grueling the battle had been.

“Although the annihilation of the two Egyptian armored divisions and the loss of the attacking forces has dimmed our hopes of capturing the entire Sinai Peninsula.” Chief of General Staff Elazar met with Prime Minister Mrs. Meir and gave Mrs. Meir a mixed bag of problems, joy that Egypt was left with only infantry units in the Sinai, and sadness that the Israeli offensive forces had also lost the ability to pull out strongholds.

Israel is not going to have the manpower to attack fortified strongholds one by one, not to mention the fact that the Israeli offensive forces have lost just as much of their heavy weapons.

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was also in a heavy mood, knowing what it meant that the battle for the Sinai Peninsula had reached a stalemate.

“Announce to the citizens that Egypt in the Sinai has lost the battle.” Mrs. Meir appeared briefly disoriented, but immediately regained her composure as Israel once again sent a message to the United States for help.

The plan to defeat Egypt quickly failed, although Egypt had been badly beaten and was incapable of attacking Israel. But as the war with Egypt continued at the same intensity, it was followed by Jordan and Syria.

Facing a longing Kissinger, Nixon fell into a long silence, “Send everything you can fly now to Israel, order the Sixth Fleet to escort the flights, and break through Israel’s blockaded waters.”

“Thank you, President.” Kissinger was filled with emotion and then immediately went to relay Nixon’s order that the willingness of the United States to come to Israel’s rescue was of great importance to Israel’s survival.

“Wait a minute, inform London that no American air-to-air missiles can be sold to Arab countries.” Nixon suddenly seemed to remember something, “Tell the London side that the fruits of some exchanges of military technology must be sold only with Washington’s consent, and it is obviously not appropriate for the Arab countries, which are now in the middle of one of the warring parties.”

At the critical moment, the current U.S. President or did not forget his old father, must be leveled part of the Arab countries backing before, not leveled the Soviet Union is not leveled the United Kingdom?