"Our troops are moving towards the Iraqi and Iran-Saudi borders as planned!"

Admiral Hassan Majid, chief of the Iraqi General Staff, bowed respectfully to Saddam Hussein's voice as his voice fell, then stood up and opened the curtain on one side of the wall, and a huge and accurate combat map was presented in front of everyone.

"As of 8 p.m. tonight, the 10th Army, consisting of the 6th Armored Division, the 15th Mechanized Division, and the 36th Infantry Division, has been stationed 30 kilometers west of Basra and is carrying out a week-long large-scale military exercise according to the original plan.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's face did not change in the slightest, he was still cold and silent, and then turned his attention to the head of the Iraqi military intelligence on the other side, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Hassan:

"What is the reaction of the Kuwaiti side?"

"Except for the fact that when the Tenth Army launched the exercise, Kuwait protested through diplomatic channels, and the reason for this is mainly because our build-up operation is relatively secret, coupled with sufficient reasons to guard against Iran, so the actions of the Seventh Army have not attracted much attention from the Kuwaiti side!"

As the head of the Iraqi military intelligence department, Lieutenant General Hassan was able to stand tall in this position, and naturally had his superiority, seeing that Saddam Hussein did not say anything, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and continued:

"After we signed the order for T-72M tanks, the Soviet side did not say much about our troop movements; as for the United States, it hoped that we would use this troop build-up to contain Iran's access to the sea in the Persian Gulf so that it would have no time to separate..........

"Yes!"

Hearing these words, Saddam Hussein nodded with satisfaction, and Lieutenant General Hassan also put a flattering smile on his face without reservation, Saddam Hussein did not pay attention to Hassan, and nodded at the chief of the general staff standing aside, and then Admiral Majid waved the guide stick in his hand to the Iran-Saudi border and continued:

"Ten kilometers closer to Isha, the 32nd Infantry Division, the 45th Infantry Division, the 57th Infantry Division, and the 19th Mechanized Division were assembled, and since most of the officers and men of these divisions were converted from reserves to active duty, supplemented by new recruits, under the cover of formal training, they did not cause much reaction from the Saudis,

In the Nasiriyah area, behind these newly formed standing divisions and the Iraq-Kuwait border cluster, the most elite of our army, the Republican Guard, with six armored divisions and mechanized divisions, with a total of 80,000 troops, formed a strategic reserve to support and plan operations in the relevant direction at any time, as long as the president gives the order, our army will turn into a flood of sky and completely annihilate the enemy..........."

Saddam Hussein nodded, then stretched out his hand to signal Admiral Majid to return to his seat, and then glanced around at everyone present, under his thick black beard, two sinister lips gently opened, and then a cold voice resounded faintly in the huge conference room:

"What do you think of the current situation?"

However, just when the generals and senior officials kept shouting for the use of troops against the Gulf countries, Admiral Salah, commander of the Iraqi Air Force, who was sitting in second place on Saddam's left hand, was as silent as a wooden man, and his brows as thick as a blade wrinkled into a pimple, which seemed incompatible with the surging passions around him.

"General Salah, is there any inconvenience in your air force?"

When the high-ranking Iraqi officials who were taking this opportunity to shout slogans and express their loyalty heard these words, they were like a fire meeting a pouring rain, and they were extinguished in an instant, and their frightened eyes were cast on Admiral Salah, the commander of the Air Force, with a solemn face, and some of them who were better connected even sweated for him.........

You must know that Saddam's brutality is far more famous than his name as president, especially when dealing with opponents, he is even more cold-blooded and ruthless, even if it is his dearest and beloved person, he is not merciless, just a few years ago, Saddam's big celebrity, General Aziz, commander of the Southern Iraqi Military Region,

After being found to have embezzled huge amounts of public funds, betrayed national interests, intended to launch a coup d'état and had an affair with Saddam's youngest daughter, Saddam not only brutally killed Aziz after learning about it, but also personally shot his beloved youngest daughter with a pistol..........

Air Force Commander Admiral Salah is not unaware of the dangers, although he is related to Saddam, but at best he is only a distant relative who cannot be beaten by eight poles, and compared with the dead little daughter, it is simply not on the same level, so if one is not good, the loss of official position is small, and the loss of life is true. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, Admiral Salah has no intention of backing down, because he knows that the reason why Saddam Hussein gave up many cronies and finally chose him, an "outsider", to serve as the commander of Iraq's air force, is to value him as a calm person, down-to-earth in his work, conscientious and without ambition, if he behaves like others, the position of the bottom of the ass is estimated to have been impossible to do, because of this, in the face of Saddam's cold gaze, Admiral Salah not only did not panic, but said slowly as usual:

"My dear Mr. President, our army force is indeed very powerful, but the air force under my control is full of loopholes, you must know that once we act, we must be prepared for the worst, and this air strike against us is the most likely means of retaliation by the enemy, but now we are not fully prepared in this regard!"

"How is this possible? You must know that after the air offensive and defensive war in Tehran, we spent a huge amount of money to build a modern air defense combat system, and in order to repeat the mistake of the Soviet-style system with slow response speed and poor combat capability, we are looking for the French who have made great achievements in this field.

With their help, the most modern integrated strategic air defense system in the entire Middle East region has been built. Under the control of the Kari computer, located underground of the Baghdad Air Defense Command Command, four regional air defense combat centers, 16 interception guidance centers, and more than 70 air defense command and reporting centers throughout Iraq can guide all air defense units, air bases, and ground-to-air missile positions, and complete information collection, analysis, and transmission, ground guidance of interceptors, and control of ground-to-air missile systems.

It can be said unceremoniously that this system is already at the world's first-class level, and if the next moment breaks out again in an air and air offensive and defensive campaign of the same high intensity as the air battle in Tehran, our air defense command and control system will definitely give the invading enemy a lesson that will never be forgotten............

Before the people present could react, General Majid, who was the chief of the General Staff, retorted without hesitation, and after these words, the people around him all nodded their heads frequently in agreement, and the air offensive and defensive battle in Tehran that year dealt a great deal of damage to Iraq.

After the war, Iraq fell into deep reflection from top to bottom, and finally learned from the pain, and finally chose to abandon the inefficient Soviet-style air defense command system and choose the French system with a better degree of automation and faster response, so as to create a set of air defense automatic combat command system that is proud of the Middle East, and it is precisely because of this that General Majid has such confidence to refute the air force commander.

It's just that Admiral Salah was very helpless about this rebuttal, a wry smile appeared on his calm face, and he shook his head: "The Chief of the General Staff is right, our air defense combat system has indeed been improved unprecedentedly with the help of France, and there is reason to believe that this modern combat system is enough to make us proud of the Middle East."

However, have you ever thought about it, our command system has been improved, and what are the air defense weapons that can support this system, that is, the air defense weapons we are equipped with? If you count them carefully, they are still old-fashioned Soviet-made air defense missiles, and the old-fashioned SAM-2 and SAM-3 are not to mention, even if they are used in field air defense, the performance of the SAM-9 is outdated.

What's more, after the total loss of Sam-6 due to Iran's counterattack, we have a huge hole in the vast medium-altitude airspace between the air defense of the key area and the field air defense, so we must make up for these shortcomings before the operation, otherwise if something happens, the enemy will seize this hole and carry out a strong surprise attack on us, and then it will be another Tehran air offensive and defensive battle-style failure!"

As soon as Admiral Salah's voice fell, the audience was suddenly silent, there was no way that the fiasco in Tehran's air offensive and defensive battle had already become an indelible shadow in the hearts of all senior Iraqi officials, even the invincible Saddam Hussein could not ignore the shock caused by this tragic air battle, so after a long silence, Saddam Hussein silently closed his eyes, and in an extremely unwilling voice, he indifferently ordered:

"Order the whole army to rest on the spot, order the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue negotiations with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and the Air Force to seize the time to purchase new air defense systems, and when everything is ready, move south............"

"Yes!"

As soon as Saddam's voice fell, all the senior Iraqi officials present stood up instantly, and at this moment an adjutant quietly walked in and handed over a telegram he had just received to Saddam, Saddam Hussein glanced twice, and a bright smile suddenly bloomed on his face, and then handed the telegram to Air Force Commander General Salah:

"Look at it, Chinese've already delivered what you need, I think you'd be interested.........." (To be continued.) )