The sun is shining high, the dry air is exposed to the sun, and the temperature rises rapidly. Although it is the twelfth lunar month in the traditional Chinese sense of winter, in the Middle East where the sunshine is strong, the daytime temperature still makes people there feel unbearably hot. It is particularly inconvenient.
Yes, there is day and night here
The temperature difference in the evening is very big. It is still cold and windy at night, and there may even be frost. You must wear thick clothes to keep out the cold. But starting from the morning, as the sun rises in the sky, you have to take off your clothes constantly. By noon, it is usually
Only thin coats were left, causing officers and soldiers to generally have bloated backpacks.
On Highway 37 across the Khuzestan region of Persia, the huge convoys of the 9th Tank Division and the 6th Armored Infantry Division are moving forward.
Major General Zhu Zhen, commander of the 6th Armored Division, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a green military jeep produced by the Karaganda Automobile Plant, looked around at this exotic scenery. He saw that both sides of the road were covered with dense farmland divided into blocks.
Persia's traditional crops of wheat and barley are grown, and there are some pools near the river where rice fields rest in winter.
After traveling to so many places in Persia, Zhu Zhen felt that farming in Khuzestan was the most like China.
Along Route 37, most of the areas are in the plains along the Deez River and the Karon River. Due to the construction of water conservancy facilities and the long-standing farming tradition, it is a famous agricultural area in Persia.
At this time, a motorcycle drove quickly from the front. Zhu Zhen saw Lieutenant Colonel Dai Xu, the communications section chief, sitting in the side truck, and quickly ordered the motorcycle to stop.
The motorcycle stopped next to the jeep, and Dai Xu, who was soaked in sweat, jumped off, saluted Zhu Zhen, and then handed over the message.
Zhu Zhen took the message and signaled the guards to quickly deliver a kettle to Dai Xu, then read it carefully, and after reading it, he said to the political commissar Bai Xiaochuan who was standing next to him:
"According to air force reconnaissance, the enemies in Khairabad in front began to retreat towards the port city in the south yesterday. The army headquarters asked us to speed up the advance and strive to capture the city of Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan, before sunset tomorrow."
"map!"
Bai Xiaochuan raised his hand, and the guard quickly took out the map from his bag. Bai Xiaochuan took it and unfolded it, sliding his fingers across the map, and nodded:
"There are asphalt roads all the way from here to Ahvaz, and the total distance is less than 100 kilometers. Now that the Japanese army has fled without engaging in combat, we can beat the drowned dogs and reach Ahvaz on time!"
"What a pity!" Zhu Zhen said with some regret: "Commander Yang's two armies were blocked on the eastern front. Otherwise, Highway 86 would penetrate directly into Mahshahr Port and Abadan, and the Japanese troops in Khuzestan would be
It's like catching a turtle in a urn, no one can escape, now we can only watch them retreat south, there is nothing we can do!"
"You shouldn't be able to run away, right!?"
Bai Xiaochuan pointed at the map: "Commander, look, our air force has been stationed in Bandar Abbas Port and can harass the enemy's transport fleet entering and exiting the Persian Gulf at any time. Do you still remember the air force bombing by the Zhili Allied Forces in Jiangbei during the Northern Expedition?
The independent division was almost destroyed... We were still small soldiers at that time, but in a blink of an eye we were all division-level cadres!
"Well, I still clearly remember the miserable scene at that time. I think that maybe it was because of the stimulation that the commander worked hard to develop the air force. Now, it is finally our air force's turn to show off its majesty. This will definitely make Xiao
***Enjoy it…”
Bai Xiaochuan and Zhu Zhen were both veterans of the Independent Division. Due to their low educational level, although they fought bravely, their promotion was slower than that of other brothers. If it were not for the massive expansion of the armies last year and the serious shortage of military and political cadres,
It is estimated that they will retire as battalion and regiment level cadres.
However, before being promoted, this group of cadres all entered the National Defense University for more systematic training, focusing especially on professional skills, such as mechanized troops. They all learned the German "Blitzkrieg" and the Soviet Union's "Great Depth" tactics.
, understand air-ground coordination, infantry-tank coordination, and only be assigned to troops to lead battles after passing the unified assessment.
Suddenly, there was a roar of aircraft engines in the sky.
Several people looked up and saw a silver-gray fighter plane passing through the sky. During the Anti-Japanese War in North China, Zhu Zhen once led his troops to station at Baoding Qingyuan Airport. He was familiar with some of the older fighter planes of the Anjia Army. From the model of this fighter plane, he
It can be clearly determined that it is an S3 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force.
After the plane flew over, Zhu Zhencai said: "I heard that due to the typhoon that landed in Karachi, it will rain heavily here tonight. Under such weather conditions, the plane cannot take off. In addition, the plane cannot perform operations at night."
"
Bai Xiaochuan was startled, then nodded: "Yes, planes are still quite restricted now. Unfortunately, this typhoon came at the wrong time, so the little devils took advantage!"
"It's hard to say how much we suffered!"
Zhu Zhen smiled faintly and pointed his finger on the map: "Look, here - the main force of the Japanese army is basically concentrated in northwest Iraq and southern Syria. Most of what we face are Japanese garrison troops and troops from the colonies.
There is little point in annihilating the colonial troops. Once we take over Khuzestan and central and southern Iraq, it will not be too late to slowly seek bad luck for the Japanese!"
Having said this, Zhu Zhen said to Dai Xu who had finished drinking the water: "Record my order: Each regiment speeds up and strives to enter the city of Ahvaz at noon tomorrow!"
"yes!"
Shortly after Dai Xu got on his motorcycle and left, the tanks, armored vehicles, military vehicles and self-propelled artillery on the road all sped up, and the vast mechanized army moved towards the southern region of Khuzestan.
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On January 19, the tropical storm finally subsided, and the South China Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet aircraft carrier formation sailed out of the Karachi military port and headed towards the Khuzestan Strait.
In the eastern region of Khuzestan, the engineering brigade directly under the Yang Jiuxiao Corps carried out mountain blasting at 3 pm on the 17th. Nearly 50,000 tons of explosives were detonated at the same time, flattening a hill more than 500 meters high by more than 100 meters.
, as the canyon was blown open
A huge gap, the barrier lake hanging in the mountains hundreds of meters high found another outlet. A steady stream of lake water entered the old river channel, surging westward. In the Gachisaran area, it was connected with the road built by the Japanese army.
The wall of fire collided fiercely.
The flood water continued to dilute the concentration of burning oil along the bottom of the trench. A strange scene appeared on the turbulent river - a large number of burning oil blocks rushed along the river to the downstream area, forming a river of fire.
.Slowly diluted and accumulated, coupled with heavy rain on the night of the 17th, the fire in the trench was finally extinguished.
At this point, Yang Jiuxiao's two armies finally broke into Khuzestan as they wished, and followed Highway 86 toward Abadan in the south of Khuzestan.
At the same time, the 9th Tank Division and the 6th Armored Infantry Division captured Ahvaz in the rain at noon on the 18th, taking this city, the most important industrial center in the Khuzestan region, under their control.
Looking back at the war in Iraq, on the morning of the 18th, the 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions and the 1st Armored Infantry Division appeared under the city of Baghdad.
Unfortunately, as early as the first two days, the Japanese troops in Baghdad and surrounding areas were promptly notified and retreated along the railway line to the Syrian border in the northwest.
Before the Japanese army withdrew, they completely destroyed Baghdad, a city known as the "gift from God." Tens of thousands of tons of explosives blew this ancient city with thousands of years of history into ruins. In order to prevent the Japanese army from destroying themselves,
In their homes, a large number of Baghdad citizens were brutally massacred. The whole city was littered with corpses, and it was too horrible to watch.
Under this circumstance, the Anjia army did not enter the city, but settled in Mujari Mountain in the southwest of the city and in towns such as Fallujah and Ramadi in the west to block the road of the Japanese army going south.
In Samawah in southern Iraq, the heavy rainfall from the Persian Gulf did not penetrate deep into the interior of the Middle East, so the climate here is still hot and dry.
After nine o'clock in the morning, a sandstorm suddenly attacked a unit of the 6th Tank Division that was heading south. By noon, the storm gradually subsided, and the fine grains of sand falling from the sky penetrated into almost everything, blocking the tanks.
, the filters of the engines of armored vehicles, military vehicles and motorcycles were filled with people's eyes and noses, and the windshields of the vehicles were covered like heavy rain. The soldiers spent more than two hours cleaning them before they could finally get on the road.
Xiao Zonghua, the commander of the 3rd Tank Division, stood on the open top of the armored command vehicle and kept observing the surrounding environment with a telescope. Because the road was flooded by the sandstorm, Xiao Zonghua was not sure which direction to march in, so he had to take out the compass from his arms.
Then I looked at the map a few times to roughly confirm the direction.
Due to dryness and lack of water, the Anjia Army veteran's cheeks were covered with stubble, and his face was blistered by the harsh sun, making him look extremely haggard.
Three days ago, after capturing the city of Kut, the 3rd Tank Division and the 2nd Armored Infantry Division parted ways. Xiaozonghua led his troops to the west to capture Numaniyah, and then turned to the southwest, successively occupying Diwaniyah, Rumaisai and
The city of Semavo.
When I was camping in Samawa last night, I received an emergency report from the air force that a group of Japanese troops were operating in the southern desert area. So Xiaozonghua ordered the main force of the tank division to continue marching eastward and meet up with friendly forces in Basra, while he himself
Lead a tank regiment and armored infantry regiment to pursue the Japanese army southward.
In the carriage, Colonel Li Qiang, the talkative chief of operations, was also looking at another map. After a long time, he found nothing and asked feebly: "Commander, on my map, there is a well marked in this area...
....Have you noticed?"
"I'm confused too!"
Xiao Zonghua lowered his head and licked his lips: "The damn sandstorm has blown away all the roads. Now we are in trouble!"
"Buzz-"
The sound of the plane's motor attracted Xiao Zonghua's attention. He saw an S3 reconnaissance plane with the Flying Fox logo circling several times over the desert from high to low. Xiao Zonghua saw the plane almost twenty meters above his head.
Flying over a high place, a piece of wind and sand was swept up. I couldn't help but wonder: "What's the trick in flying so low?"
The S3 reconnaissance machine almost wiped the top of the team and passed over again, and then a piece of paper floated to the sand.
Some soldiers picked up in the past and gave it to Xiaosong.
Takashi Xiaozong was carefully read and found that "there is an ancient Turkish fortress seven kilometers in the southeast, and the well is built in the fortress, but now a Japanese army has retreated there."
"There is water!"
Xiaozong cheered, and then took the compass to compare with the map again.
As soon as Li Qiang heard the "water", he quickly stood up, got to the teacher, read the note, and then determined the position of the well in the map. He quickly said: "This Japanese army may be the enemy we chase.
Whenever the enemy is looking for water, get two birds with one stone! "
Xiaosong nodded and quickly issued an order to instruct the troops to set off to the southeast. Soon, tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and motorcycles, raised the sky, and rolled forward.
The climatic conditions in the desert are bad, and it is not suitable for biological growth.
In the desert, tanks are the best weapons, and trucks are the best transportation tools. Fighting in the desert area. A tank is almost in the infantry of the camp.
Line, a motorcycle is equal to a class.
For infantry, walking in the desert is boundless. The whole person seems to be incorporated into the earth and feels that he is small and helpless. After a long time, he will suffer from serious psychological diseases because of loneliness.
For the infantry, the desert is tantamount to nightmares. It is difficult to fight in the flying sand without the end. Digging bunkers on the hard sand and soil. Due to the limited weight of the weight, only two or three pots of water can be carried after finding the water source.
Fighting on the barren ground at the end, he slept in the sand tiredly at night and was attacked by scorpion, spider, poisonous snake and ants. If you have a bad luck, you will be ordered to go to Huangquan in a few minutes.
For the mechanized troops, the desert is not invincible. Tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, etc. can easily drive out of dozens of kilometers. As long as the pavement is strong and the gasoline is sufficient, it will be able to cross any region.
However, everything is not perfect, and the tank hands are also distressed. When the cabin is put down, the hustle and bustle of the tank is full of fuel, the smell of fuel and sweat, and the heat is almost suffocating.
Under the hot sunlight, the metal is hot, and the heat of the engine and guns, the temperature often rises to the point where people are unbearable.
Generally speaking, fighting in the tropical desert, the tanks must have to be naked, *** put on shorts, and expose the skin as much as possible, otherwise it is very easy to heatstroke.
The book belongs to the authenticity, the leopard tank and armored tank, the military truck rushed across the sand like a tide, the crawler and wheels stirred a strong sandy mist, and the noise in the cockpit was deafening.
As the driver lowered or lifts the operating rod, the big -horsepower diesel engine sometimes growled, sometimes like a thousand horses.
At this time, the Japanese army in the Fortress also found that this sudden army appeared, and it sent the tank forces to fight.
In the command vehicle behind the team, Xiaosongxuan observed carefully through the inscription mirror and found that it was not a familiar *** ninth -five light war vehicle and a *** -type mid -type tank.
Wolf -style tank ... "
Li Qiang quickly went to the periscope and took a closer look: "It is indeed a Wolf tank, and it is also painted with a plaster mark. What is going on?"
Xiao Zonghua thought for a while and suddenly said: "It must have been captured from the British... We sold so many tanks to the British. The Japanese army fought in Malaya, India and the Middle East and captured a lot...
.... Fortunately, the Wolf's armor and artillery fire are relatively weak, so it is no match for the Leopard!"
As he spoke, thick smoke erupted from the muzzles of one Panther tank after another, and the Japanese tanks that went into battle were quickly enveloped in smoke and dust and burned one after another.
The battlefield is full of tanks and armored vehicles, the desert is filled with smoke, and the sun appears and disappears.
The tanks were like battleships, dodging enemy artillery fire while ejecting flames in order to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy. The tank melee lasted for half an hour. One of the tanks of the Anjia Army became a wreck, and three other tanks suffered varying degrees of damage.
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Yes, the thirty-six tanks of the Japanese army either became burning torches or reduced to parts, the cannons became twisted scrap metal, the rubber on the wheels disappeared, leaving only clusters of black gelatin on the sand.
The thing was burning, emitting a pungent stench.
The subsequent attack became simple. A large number of Anjia Army tanks covered the armored infantry, and quickly rushed into the enemy's fortress, shooting at all moving targets.
By evening, more than 2,000 Japanese troops were finally eliminated.
Afterwards, the prisoners were interrogated and learned that an independent Japanese infantry regiment stationed in Samavo and surrounding areas received the order to evacuate too late. It was unable to evacuate to the southern port to board the ship in the early morning of the 19th, so it simply retreated into the desert and took advantage of the advance notice.
The stored supplies were quietly hidden. When the time was right in the future, they suddenly rushed out of the desert to coordinate the offensive of friendly forces.
This Turkish-style fortress is very spacious. The warehouse stores a large amount of food supplies burned, killed and looted by the Japanese army, as well as many gold and silver jewelry. Some jewelry has traces of blood on it, which shows the tyranny and cruelty of the Japanese.
There is an underground river under the fortress with sufficient water, so I don't know who dug five wells here at once for the use of people coming and going.
After receiving the notification that all the Japanese troops had been wiped out, Xiaozonghua and Li Qiang, who were already thirsty, rushed to the water room. They saw many soldiers filling iron buckets with water and going to the nearby bathroom to take a comfortable cold shower.
More soldiers were untying the aluminum cylinders and greedily scooping water from the wooden barrels placed beside the well.
"It's indeed water!"
Xiao Zonghua licked his dry lips, looked at the surrounding environment, and sighed: "The Japanese are really good at finding places. If it weren't for our air force reconnaissance, no one would have thought of the desert fifty or sixty kilometers away from the main highway.
There is such a place with abundant water in the area. According to the reserve status of the Japanese army, it will definitely be no problem to stay in the desert for three to five months. Then when we are not paying attention, we will come out to cause trouble, and then we will be in big trouble!"
"Yes! We are so lucky!"
As Li Qiang spoke, he climbed to the edge of the well and looked down. He saw that it was dark inside and could not see anything, but he could clearly smell the moist breath, and at the same time, a cold feeling hit his face.
Li Qiang was so happy that he threw the empty barrel into the well. It took him a long time to hear the echo. He quickly pulled the rope and felt the sound of the bucket stirring the water. Suddenly he felt that this was the most beautiful music in the world.
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When a bucket of water came up, Li Qiangshi showed the police officer to take the kettle, poured a pot, and handed it to Xiaosong's hand.
Xiao Zongzheng was not polite, and took the mouthful of the beautiful land and drank it. It was not until a pot of water to drink light.
At this time, Li Qiang had drank with water for a while, but he had no kettle to drink, and quickly filled the kettle, and then drank his mouth to his mouth.
... ...
Mumbai, St. George Fort.
An Yi is in the concert hall, while prefining Indian coffee and leaf power, Nalan Piaoxue discusses the issue of newly -received military -civilian production in Western India.
At this time, Shen Fengdao walked in and made a low language in Anyi's ear.
An Yi was taken aback and stood up and said, "Immediately after the power, I would rush back to Beijing immediately, arranged the matter in person. Order the section, immediately instructed the submarine fleet to send the capable force to go to the sea near Luzon. Listen to my order! "