The German High Seas Fleet and the Nanyun Fleet met successfully. After a brief exchange of radio, the two sides changed direction and rushed towards the empty port of Aden. The huge fleet disappeared into the night.

At 2:40 am the next morning, the sea in the northeast of Aden Port.

Under the whistle breeze, two warships suddenly flashed on the slightly undulating sea surface.

The two warships drove about one nautical mile from the coastline, slowing down one after another, and the larger warship was parked directly on the sea surface.

Three motorboats were placed on the water one after another, and more than twenty figures quickly climbed down the warship and boarded the motorboat along the rope ladder.

After catching the box hanging from the warship and put it on the motorboat, the three motorboats immediately launched and drove to the northern coast.

After seeing off the commando, the two warships drove again to the southwest.

The three motorboats arrived at the coast unimpededly, and the commando landed successfully.

Jumped off the motorboat, the commando carried the boxes and marched along the coastal road towards the southwest of the Port of Aden.

More than half an hour later, under the bright moonlight, the outline of a city appeared in front of the commando.

The commando stopped and put down the box.

Release the box lid, open the moisture-proof oil cloth, and a high-power radio station appears in the box.

The radio hand quickly put on his headphones, pulled out the antenna, sat on a stone and began to fiddle with the radio. The rest of the team members scattered around him and pulled up the cordon.

Five or six minutes later, an electric wave flew into Ed Airport in southern central and southern Eritrea. Soon after, the engine suddenly sounded loudly on the airport.

Sixty Ju-52 Junker transport planes flew away from the ground and gathered again in the air. They flew to the southeast in a mighty manner.

An hour and a half later, a faint roar appeared in the sky northwest of Port Aden.

Guided by the commando radio waves, the ju-52 aircraft fleet accurately arrived at the airdrop location.

The commandos looked up and saw a group of "big birds" appearing in the night sky, approaching them quickly.

The fleet quickly arrived at the reserved location, the cabin door opened wide, and a series of agile figures jumped out of the cabin, and hundreds of white parachutes soon appeared in the sky.

After the airdrop was completed, the ju-52 crew turned around and left, and the groups of white umbrella flowers quickly disappeared into the night sky.

More than ten minutes later, a group of figures appeared in the sand on the north side of the commando and quickly ran towards the commando.

After a brief greeting between the two sides, the paratroopers set off again and rushed towards the port of Aden in the southwest. The commando continued to stay in place and used radio waves to guide the subsequent airborne troops.

Until seven o'clock in the morning, all the Second Paratrooper Regiment of the German Seventh Paratrooper Division and the division's engineering battalion were airborne, and the contact between the port and the inland was cut off from the north of the Port of Aden.

The deafening roar had already awakened the remnants of the British army in the port. The German paratroopers had just approached the British outside positions and were fired by British machine guns. The German paratroopers immediately fought back. The sound of guns and cannons immediately broke the tranquility of the Port of Aden.

Mortars - the unique whistling sound of shells, the strafing sound of machine guns from Germany and Britain, and the crisp ping-ping sounds when the rifle fires one after another, endlessly.

The firefight between the two sides did not last long. The German paratroopers retreated voluntarily, widening the distance from the British army, and the sound of gunfire gradually became sparse.

On the sea, the German high seas fleet Admiral Hippel heavy cruiser and the Tirpitz battleship approached the Port of Aden. Behind them was the larger Japanese Navy Navy Fleet.

It drove to about five nautical miles south of Aden Port, two warships crossed the huge hull, and the turret at the head and tail slowly turned, and the huge muzzle pointed toward the direction of Aden Port at the same time.

Under the guidance of the paratroopers, eight 203mm naval guns on Admiral Hippel were the first to fire. The shells flew across the sea, flew over the city, and plunged head to the British position.

After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the British position that was still arrogant and arrogantly shot against the German paratroopers was in a mess.

The machine gun bunker turned into bullet craters, and the continuous trenches were also cut off by huge bullet craters. The wire mesh was broken, and the fracture was twisted into a twist-shaped shape and hung on the ground dejectedly, and the wooden stakes also turned into ignited torches.

The broken steel helmets, gun parts, torn rag strips from the military uniforms and the flesh and blood of British soldiers were mixed together, spreading all over the positions.

Four Aladao seaplanes soon appeared above the British positions. The pilots circled the plane while waving to the German paratroopers on the ground, and then coldly reported the coordinates of the remaining British positions to the combat command room of the warship one by one.

The combat command room immediately reported these coordinates to the turret, Tirpitz's 380mm naval gun and Admiral Hippel's 203mm naval gun immediately cleared the remaining British positions one by one.

Under this asymmetric and brutal blow, the morale of the British army outside the Port of Aden plummeted. When the Type 99 dive bomber from the Japanese aircraft carrier appeared above their heads, the morale of the British army quickly collapsed, and they gave up their positions in a hurry to flee to the port, and brought panic to the British army in the port.

German paratroopers immediately launched a charge and attacked the port of Aden, and street fighting broke out.

In order to improve efficiency, whenever the British resisted the building, the German paratroopers summoned warships and artillery, or the Japanese Type 99 dive bomber, directly bombarded the building into a pile of rubble, and buried the British troops who were stubbornly resisting inside alive.

As the large-caliber naval guns and aviation bombs were raging, smoke and dust in the port of Aden were rolling, and explosions continued. One by one, one after another collapsed, becoming victims of the war.

Endless black smoke and flames filled the sky above the Port of Aden, and one-third of the city soon fell into the control of German paratroopers.

On the sea, on the Akagi aircraft carrier, Nagamo, according to the original plan, ordered the communication room to directly call the British army in the port in clear codes, urging the defenders to surrender.

The German Navy was also doing the same thing to persuade surrender on the battleship Tirpitz.

Under the double attack of heavy firepower and psychological offensive, the single and lonely port defenders finally couldn't bear it.

After Colonel Hyde, the commander of the port defender, sent his final farewell telegram to General Wewell, a white flag was raised on the roof of his command.

At 11:20 noon on May 24, the German paratroopers vanguard entered Colonel Hyde's headquarters. Port Aden announced a change of ownership.

In the Nagashima fleet, the Hiei battleship and several light ships, damaged in the battle with the Indian Ocean fleet, entered the Port of Aden to rest.

The main force of the fleet followed Tirpitz and Admiral Hippel and turned the bow and drove eastward. He chased the main force of the German high seas fleet and advanced towards the Persian Gulf.

Almost at the same time, on the southeastern coast of the Red Sea, in the port of Hodeida, the western port city of Yemen, there were also wars.

With the support of fleet gunfire, the main force of the Italian San Marco Marine Corps successfully landed in the wilderness of the north shore of the port.

After reassembling the entire team, the attack on Hodeida Port immediately began.

On the sea, the fleet led by the battleships of Venetto and Litorio turned the guns and bombed countless large-caliber and super-caliber shells into the port.

In the sky, the bomber group from Eritrea was not willing to fall behind, turning all British positions exposed outside the port of Hodeida into mottled bomb craters.

When the St. Mark's Marine Corps arrived at the Port of Hodeida on foot, the British outer positions were almost gone.

Faced with attacks from the sea, land and sky, the British army in Hodeida Port performed no better than the British army in Aden Port.

Less than half an hour after the surrender of Aden Port, the British defenders of two battalions in Hodeida Port gave up resistance and surrendered to the Italian army.

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The Port of Muscat, the capital of Oman, is located at the critical moment of the Persian Gulf leading to the Indian Ocean. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and borders the Arabian Sea on the southeast. It is adjacent to the Gulf of Oman in the northeast and is surrounded by mountains and waters. It has beautiful scenery and a very important strategic position.

Since Iraq moved to Oman, General Weiwei chose this place as the location of the new command of the British Army in the Middle East without hesitation.

However, the peace of the past has long been lost in Muscat Port.

Several main streets in the port were filled with British soldiers in a hurry, as well as some Indian soldiers wearing red or green turbans.

The streets they walk on are different, but the destinations are highly unified, which is the Port Muscat Pier that can be used to escape.

In the north of Port Muscat, in a three-story mansion in the southwest corner of the dock, the staff of the Middle East Legion Command were in chaos.

Stacks of important documents were thrown into the brazier and turned into ashes in the flames.

The black smoke floated around the house with paper ash, and the choking smell was everywhere.

Whether it was the officers or soldiers, they were all carried their own luggage.

Public items, such as typewriters, telephones and other valuable facilities, have long been disassembled and packed, and then thrown into trucks to the dock.

Weiville walked down the stairs with heavy steps and walked by the panicked crowd in the first-floor lobby. His adjutant and orderly followed him in agile manner, hoping that he could walk faster.

Wavell had just walked to the main entrance and a captain stopped him.

"This is a telegram sent by Colonel Wood, Port Hodeida. He and his subordinates were attacked by the Italians' absolute superior firepower. They could not support them and were about to surrender to the Italians."

Weiville swept the telegram with his remaining right eye, then pinched the telegram into a ball of paper and threw it on the ground.

"Order the radio to pack and follow me to the dock," said Weiville.

The captain and officer were ashamed of amnesty and went to execute the order.

Looking at the captain officer who was almost leaping away, Wavell felt mixed emotions.

The British Empire was defeated again, and it was defeated so quickly and so miserable.

From the morning of May 22, bad news came one after another.

First, the Indian Ocean fleet was raided by the Japanese Navy, and then the reconnaissance plane discovered that the German-Italy united fleet was heading south in large numbers. Then there was the biggest bad news, and Japan declared war on Britain.

Yesterday, the Indian Ocean Fleet was wiped out. Today, in one morning, the Port of Aden and Hodeida were successively lost.

Without the protection of the Indian Ocean Fleet, the British Middle East led by him became mice trapped in the bellows, and the Germans would ravage them as much as they wanted.

Fortunately, the tragic reality woke up the Prime Minister, and his withdrawal report was approved shortly after he arrived in London.

If your judgment is correct, the Axis navy is definitely advancing towards Port Muscat at this moment, and it will be able to arrive in at most two days, and then cut off the sea access of the British army in the Middle East.

Wavell got into the car and remembered the orders given to him by London. He had to use these two days to withdraw as many troops as possible and return to India.

He couldn't help but sneer, what would happen if he could withdraw all his troops to India?

The German and Italian fleets and the Japanese squadron advanced eastward from the Gulf of Aden.

The main force of the Japanese joint fleet advanced westward from the Strait of Malacca, which would form a huge clamp-shaped offensive, surrounding the entire territory of India. At that time, where can his troops run?

What is the Prime Minister's mind? Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge can see that Britain has lost this war.

The longer the war lasts, the heavier the losses of Britain.

Some of the lower-level soldiers and officers have begun to tease Churchill, saying that Churchill was a spy who invaded Britain by the Germans, with the purpose of working with the Germans and losing all the colonies that Britain had conquered for hundreds of years.

Why didn't the idiot Churchill accept the peace talks from the Germans? Why did he accept the sow discord from the Americans and fight this war unlimitedly?

Why didn’t those trash parliamentarians directly knock Churchill off the throne? Why did they let him continue to harm the UK?
To be continued...