"According to the experience of the Great Patriotic War, the advanced performance of the tank is only one of many factors that determine victory or defeat, and it is not the whole story"

At this moment, this high-achieving student of the Frunze Military Academy, a Soviet young general who has mastered the essence of the theory of large-depth operations, stood on a slightly raised sand dune, and from time to time looked at the Iraqi sappers who were erecting a pontoon bridge over the Shatt al-Arab several kilometers away with the artillery mirror added in front of him.

A few kilometers behind him, nearly 200 Soviet-made 122mm and 152mm guns poured bloodthirsty tongues of fire on Iraqi artillery positions, raining down shells on the defensive positions of the central Iranian cluster on the other side of the river, and the raging flames covered all the glow that had just risen

At the same time, with the help of the glimmer of the morning light, Iraqi air forces took off from various front-line airfields, escorted by more than 20 MiG-23 and MiG-21 fighters, and 12 Su-24 fighter-bombers, known as "bomb-carrying trucks," carried out uninterrupted and fierce bombardment of command centers, communication hubs, front-line airfields, troop assembly points, and key logistics supply bases in the central Iranian cluster defense line.

The front-line support force composed of 24 Su-25 attack planes carried out fierce assaults on the shallow and deep depths of the Iranian defense line on the other side of the Shatt al-Arab, artillery positions, and reserve assembly points

The sea of fire enveloped the vast theater of war, and many soldiers did not understand what was really happening. The lives were lost by the heavy Iraqi artillery fire, and the command of the Central Cluster, which had been hit so hard, was even more in chaos. The commander returned to Tehran the day before the Iraqi attack to attend a special military meeting convened by the Supreme Leader.

The chief of staff, who was in charge of the entire army, was seriously injured in the first wave of Iraqi air strikes, and the communication center was destroyed, and the Central Cluster Command, as a theater command organization, has lost its proper function, which has further contributed to the despair and collapse of Iranian front-line soldiers. In less than half an hour since the attack was launched, the fortified defense line of the central Iranian cluster was on the verge of collapse

And the director this time on a large scale. The multi-layered, three-dimensional assault offensive battle was none other than the Iraqi Republican Guard adviser who watched the development of the war situation with artillery mirrors on the sand dunes. Major General of the Soviet Union. Andrei Petrov, as a capable general under the head of the Soviet Military Intelligence Agency, General Ivashutin, began to engage with the Iraqi authorities as early as 1981, but at that time the Soviet policy of détente towards Iran was hampered by the two sides did not make substantial progress.

However, at the end of 1981, Iran launched a series of large-scale offensives against Iraq and won the victory. Coupled with Iran's rejection of the harsh conditions put forward by the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union quickly adjusted its Iran-Iraq policy. At this time, the Frenchman Sarkozy Sr., nicknamed "Daddy", as the coordinator of the United States in Iran, approached General Iva Shutin, hoping to coordinate his position and fully support Iraq's defeat of Iran.

Of course, the elder Sarkozy was mixed with a lot of personal grievances, but on the whole, it was in line with the basic interests of the Soviet Union, especially the old Sarkozy stood in the foreground, which happened to provide cover for the Soviet Union's large-scale equipment and training of Iraq's newly formed elite troops, the Republican Guard.

Major General Petrov, with his outstanding talent and super ability, in less than eight months, built the Republican Guard into a powerful army second to none in the Middle East, at this moment, consisting of one armored division, two mechanized divisions, equipped with 300 T-72 tanks, 400 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as a large number of artillery, anti-tank missiles, A huge cluster of attack aircraft with other technical weapons is already on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab, and as long as the sappers have erected the pontoon bridge, they can launch it with impunity and completely drown Iran in the torrent of armor

Petrov was so satisfied with his director's offensive operation that he was unable to control himself, and his snow-white face always had a smug smile, because he knew that this offensive, codenamed "Left Hook", would soon become a ferocious fist of the Iraqi Republican Guard under his command, smashing through the defense line of the central Iranian cluster.

and then turned into a ferocious left hook, breaking the backbone of Iran's most powerful southern cluster, but the so-called masterpiece he thinks is not likely to be recognized by everyone, such as the defeated generals who have just arrived at the front, the Frenchman Hollande is one of them, of course, Major General Petrov doesn't care about this, but as a kind of show-off, he tells Hollande:

"Take the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 as an example, the armored forces of Nazi Germany at that time far surpassed our Soviet armored forces in terms of technical state and technical and tactical performance.

That is, in the case of equal strength between the two sides, whoever has more tanks and armored vehicles will eventually win the war, at the moment, Iran's armored forces have been exhausted in the offensive, as for the elite Iranian armored battalion you mentioned, it is only 36 tanks, and we have 300 tanks, in the face of an absolute advantage of 10 to 1, even if God descends, it will be ruthlessly crushed into powder!"

"General Petrov, I'm just kindly reminding you, but the performance of the new tank developed by China is indeed very advanced, of course, with General Petrov's talent, it should also be able to cope with it, so you don't have to mind, after all, I am just observing with the army this time!"

Hollande couldn't feel the ridicule and ridicule on Petrov's expression, but he also had nothing to say, after all, he was a defeated general who suffered a big loss, and his confidence to speak was very insufficient, if it weren't for the strict order of the old Sarkozy's approximate threat, Hollande would never have rushed over with the last six M60T tanks. Since he is here to do "advertising", then he will be a good "model" in his own right, so. chose to settle the matter.

However, as the saying goes, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, not to mention what Hollande, who is not good at words, said what he said, when he heard Petrov's ears, he had a different interpretation, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly upward, and snorted coldly:

"Hmph~~, is it? What kind of tank could scare Colonel Hollande, who has noble French blood flowing like this? Oh no. I'm sorry I said it wrong, not scared, but a sexual retreat, anyway.

Without your command, the armored battle group retreated all the way to Arabia and the Side. There can be no Iranian counterattack, and of course there will be no current 'left hook' battle plan, so, in the final analysis, the success of this operation is still due to Colonel Hollande's strategic retreat!"

Major General Petrov's words can be described as extremely sarcastic, coupled with that cold and contemptuous smile. It made Hollande's heart angry, and even the muscles on his face kept beating. The lips trembled even more:

"For God's sake, I don't want this operation to fail, but I still want to see the useless new Chinese tank that you ridicule crush you into a meatloaf."

"Thank you for the curse, but I think it's a fantasy, of course it is indeed possible to crush the other party into a meatloaf, after all, even if God himself comes, it will not be able to save the Iranians, don't you say?

"You"

Hollande still wanted to curse twice, but Petrov no longer gave him any chance, and directly threw him aside as a stinky ****, and left quickly around him in extreme ignorance, which made Hollande even more angry, but he had no way to take Petrov, so he could only glance at the high-spirited Petrov viciously, and turned his head towards his "advertising" troops

At this moment, Major General Petrov did not care about Hollande's attitude, because he now had more important things to do, that is, to completely swing this "left hook":

"How's the sapper doing?"

"Report to the chief, I just received a report from the engineer commander that the No. 1 and No. 3 pontoon bridges have been erected, and the No. 2 pontoon bridge is a little slower due to the attack of the Iranian defenders, but it is about to be completed!"

"How about the infantry assault group on the other side?"

"Sir, we already control 6 small bridgeheads, enough to cooperate with a large army!"

"Very good!" After listening to a series of battle reports, Petrov nodded with satisfaction, and then raised his arm, the hands of the watch had just crossed 5:15, Petrov's eyes were fixed, he quickly lowered his arm and grabbed the telephone receiver in front of him, and said loudly in an extremely firm tone:

"All of them, start the general attack!"

With Petrov's order, the Iraqi artillery positions that had been fired sporadically suddenly stopped, and then more than 100 122mm and 152mm howitzers and cannons let out an earth-shattering roar in unison.

The extremely powerful "hail" type 122mm rocket launchers, like a huge wave washing, wantonly and indiscriminately bombarded Iran's positions, Iraq's body-barreled artillery and multiple rocket launchers formed a double-layer barrage of arrowheads, like two never-ending curtains of water, completely sweeping away Iran's positions!

At the same time, with the "Hammurabi" armored division as the core, the "Baghdad" mechanized infantry division as the left flank, and the "Adnan" mechanized infantry division as the right flank, the armored cluster of the Republican Guard turned into an invincible iron fist, instantly crossed the Shatt al-Arab River, and smashed the opposite Iranian position with a roar of death

The southern cluster of Iran is doomed at this moment, and even the whole of Iran will be plunged into an abyss of incomparable horror (to be continued). )

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