"Long Weiyi, Assault ......"

The successive explosions, so that the Iraqis have not yet figured out what is going on, they have already lost more than six tanks.

The opponent, on the other hand, did not hit a single one.

Even if they hit the opponent's turret with an armor-piercing projectile, the armor-piercing shell has even been embedded in the armor of the turret, which has no effect at all, and will not affect the combat performance of the opponent's tank in the slightest.

Iraqis panicked.

They didn't come across anything like that.

This kind of thing is too weird for them. These strange tanks with diamond-shaped turrets are actually not like other tanks of the Iranian army, where the armor-piercing shell hit, but it did not explode! This is completely beyond the understanding of the officers and men of the Iraqi armored forces. Even the commander, who had been laissez-faire, had to pick up his duties again and order his tank battalion to retreat.

When the command vehicle, which was originally left behind, accompanied by the slow-moving Chinese tracked armored vehicle like an old scalper, was left behind by the battalion commander and the mullah, Ansar, who became the commander, actually retreated when he saw that the Iraqis had a clear numerical advantage, and immediately became excited.

Without complaining, or thinking about anything else, or even thinking about how far away the opposing army's artillery was, he directly ordered the tank units that were moving on the battlefield and constantly spitting shells at the Iraqi tanks.

With the results of the battle, when the morale of his side is strong, he has no energy to think about other times, and he must take advantage of the victory to pursue. What poor people can't chase, what rear doesn't keep up, and becomes a lonely army to go deeper, is not in the consideration of the battalion commander.

If it weren't for the fear of being cleaned up, Ansar himself would have jumped on the tank next to him and rushed forward.

The commander's radio came with the commander's orders. The tanks that had been fighting separately pounced on the tanks that were firing at the back of the opposing side. For many, they felt that the Ryonbo tank was the most powerful.

A lot of tanks were cleaned up, but they didn't hurt at all. Of course, there were also a couple of tanks that were unlucky and whose tracks were blown up and climbed the nest. It stopped there and raised its barrel high, used as a fixed battery, and fired shells ferociously at the armored vehicles behind the opposing tank group.

The rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute and the huge recoil made the tank, which weighed nearly forty tons, constantly retreat and move in the opposite direction in which the shells flew out.

34 shells, five of which were armor-piercing, were quickly exhausted by the lying tanks.

For this, the Iraqis again left the wreckage of 4 T72 tanks. There were also several tanks whose tracks were blown off or where they were damaged elsewhere and could not continue to move. The armored vehicles behind them had not yet had time to rush into the battlefield, and when they had just scattered the infantry and were ready to let the infantry fight with the tanks, the tanks in front were rushing frantically towards the back.

For a time, the positions of the Iraqis were in disarray.

Some of the scattered infantry began to rush forward, while others began to withdraw towards the interior of the armored vehicle. The commander was out of control.

The artillery in the rear still has a distance of several tens of kilometers, and it is simply too late to support.

As soon as the tanks were withdrawn, these armored vehicles were in front of the tanks. It can only be a target.

"Boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

After the first shells fell around the armored vehicle, more and more shells fell in this direction.

The tank is still exploding. More than thirty tanks, by now, there are less than twenty left, those weird tanks of the Iranians, getting closer and closer, their speed. Significantly higher than the T72 tank on their side. Many of the infantry who cooperated with the battle carried individual anti-tank rocket launchers, calculated the distance, and waited for the opposing tanks to be closer to them.

What started as a pursuit turned into an encounter. The skirmish quickly turned the blocking forces into a rout, and Iraqi commanders had no idea that this would happen.

Desperately giving orders to his tank units, as well as armored vehicle units, he needs to figure out why Iranian tanks make their tanks explode, and they still explode a lot, and the turrets are flying high.

It's a narrow valley with armored vehicles and infantry working together, and there are no more anti-armor weapons except for a few mortars and bazookas.

The small-caliber guns on armored vehicles were used to clean up the opposing infantry fortifications, not to fight tanks.

Didn't you see, many armored vehicles are firing, but there is no effect at all? The opponent's tank seems to have thicker skin than the T72, like an impenetrable steel monster.

"Tank withstand! Let the armored units quickly build defensive positions and prepare the anti-tank rocket launchers! "Iraqi commanders also found out that the opposing tanks were faster than the T72. An order had to be given to organize the defense on the spot.

As the staff officers around him gave his order, a young staff officer suggested to the commander: "Your Excellency, commander, we should call for air support in the rear. The intensity of our tank fire is not enough, the artillery is too far away from here to reach it at all, and even if reinforcements come up, the war on this side is over! ”

The commander thought about it for a while, and he didn't care about being ashamed, and he had to let the Air Force use more powerful bombs against these weird tanks.

Otherwise, all their tanks will be left behind.

"Connect to the command of Basra airbase and ask for reinforcements!" This order was almost spit out through gritted teeth.

The Tikrit Division, with all officers and men from the president's hometown, is an elite unit with the best equipment, the best treatment, and the strongest combat effectiveness. President Saddam Hussein had high hopes for the entire force, and in such a situation, he did not let the Tikrit division stay in the capital to defend the president, but divided the most elite army into three parts, attacking Iran from the north, center, and south to attack Khomeini's bastards and export religious revolution.

On the other side, the Iranian pursuit continues, and the number of T72 tanks of the Iraqis is gradually decreasing.

The infantry, which had been retreating towards the port of Maheshahr in the rear, was withdrawn.

Instead of stepping forward, they took advantage of the hills on both sides of the road to form defensive positions in the rear.

"Your Excellency Commander, I am the commander of the third company of the first battalion of the 128th Regiment of the 9th Division of the National Defense Forces, and I have come to report to you and cooperate with you in the battle!" In the midst of the war ahead, a second lieutenant with a tired face appeared in the command vehicle. Reported to Ansar.

"You are troops retreating from Abbataan?" Ansar asked, frowning.

The retreating troops can be said to be completely routed, and there is no discipline at all.

"Report sir, yes, we are retreating from Abadan after completing the blocking mission, and we have been pursued by the shameless Iraqis along the way! Our troops were scattered and have not been able to organize effective resistance......" replied the second lieutenant loudly.

"Tell me about the other person. There is also the battle situation of Abadan...... "Since the other party is pursuing from Abadan, if there is no replenishment, then there is no need to worry about the reinforcements behind them coming up soon."

Driving tanks to strike a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers from the Ib-Pakistan border in a short time, they were useless for three days.

And the other side is the attacker, and it is simply impossible to be like in the rear.

"The night before yesterday, Abadan had already been lost, we had lost all our heavy equipment, and the Air Force provided very little cover...... At present, the command has asked us to assemble at the port of Maherschahr. Organizing Resistance ......" the second lieutenant succinctly introduced the situation.

"So, the Iraqis have a lot of air force in Basra?" When Ansar heard this, his brow furrowed.

These tanks have fully demonstrated to them their powerful performance, long-distance running, without too many failures, and even the combat performance in front of them shows that the Chinese are not bragging.

More than a dozen T72s were blown up to scrap metal, and except for a few tanks on this side, their tracks were blown off. Outside of emergency repairs, basically no tanks have been destroyed!

"Yes. At least more than 200 aircraft are stationed at Basra Air Base, and in the previous few days of fighting, our air forces on both sides engaged in many aerial dogfights, destroying more than 50 of them, and our side also lost at least 60 aircraft...... "said through a slight gritted teeth.

They were frightened by the bombing of the opposing air force.

"So, there are at least 150 fighters over there?" Ansar suddenly felt a cool air rise from his back.

I saw the second lieutenant nodding. I immediately became nervous.

"All the tanks were back, the armored vehicles were fired three times, the infantry built fortifications on the spot, and the anti-aircraft missiles were erected for me! Call the command of the port of Mahshahr and ask them for air support! "Soon. A barrage of orders was given.

The tanks that were pursuing in front did not follow the orders of their commanders and continued to pursue the Iraqi tanks.

The air force in the port of Maheshahr did not agree to provide communist support, and Iraqi planes continued to bomb important facilities in the port of Maheshahr. If it was the battalion commander Khojaty, or the Mullah Hazali, the order would have been carried out, if not to make the soldiers retreat soon.

The position of deputy battalion commander is too embarrassing.

Moreover, Ansar was an officer who was transferred from the old army to the Revolutionary Guards!

"When you retreated, did the air defense units move with you?" Ansar knew that now he had to save himself.

After the Iraqi air force arrived here, these tanks could not withstand the heavy aerial bombs at all. He had also heard that these tanks originally had anti-aircraft missiles on them, but because of the price, they were not negotiated, and the anti-aircraft missiles were not installed. Only the interface for the installation of anti-aircraft missiles and anti-armor missile modules was left behind.

The only hope is the ten man-portable MANPADS from China that they have replenished at the Shahr base in Iran.

Hopefully, China's anti-aircraft missiles will be as good as these tanks, and Ansar will be content with two missiles to take out an Iraqi fighter jet.

The high-level dual-purpose 12.7mm machine gun on the tank was simply not effective against jet fighters. They are mainly ground troops, there are no anti-aircraft missiles on the tanks, and the armored forces are only used for tank operations, not for air defense.

Under Ansar's orders, the armored vehicles, which had been continuing to advance, moved towards the hills on both sides.

The infantry inside the armored car also began to rush towards the top of the hill with sapper shovels and some slender silver-white missiles.

The missiles these soldiers carried were slender and thicker than an adult's arm, with a long section painted red on the tip of the sharp part, a flap in the middle, and a tail fin.

The Chinese-made shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, Houyi-2, has a range of 6,300 meters, an altitude of 2,800 meters, infrared guidance, and an advanced chip installed in the warhead to control the flight attitude and compare the target of the strike, which has increased the range by about one kilometer and the launch height by about 500 meters compared with the Houyi-1 air defense missile, and the weight has also increased by several kilograms to 21.2 kilograms. In the guidance part, a large number of rare earth elements are added.

The cost of each piece, 430,000 RMB!

Compared with the Houyi-2 that was originally shown to Canon on the Sino-Vietnamese border battlefield, this missile has reduced its range, increased its firing height, and increased its weight. This missile is not an anti-aircraft missile of the Houyi-2 type. The Houyi-2 type, itself an anti-aircraft missile against helicopters. And what the Ansar troops got was only the ground anti-aircraft missiles designed by Qin Yuan for fighters provided by Liu Yijiu for promotion. Of course, Liu Yijiu also provided a lot of suggestions for this missile, and even the guidance part was made by him and Huang Qingyu.

It has not been tested in actual combat in China, and no target shooting experiments have been carried out. For the poor Chinese Air Force, target aircraft are very expensive. The Iranians purchased a lot of equipment, just promoted new products, and gave them away!

Even the shoulder-mounted type doesn't count.

The real Houyi-2 has a range of 8200 meters, an altitude of 1300 meters, solid fuel, and a total weight of 12.73 kg. There is a lot of difference between the two.

These missiles, the Iranian Ministry of Defense itself is not willing to accept, there is no battlefield performance at all, and there is no more experimental data, in the end, Liu Yijiu waved his hand, priority use, the performance is not good, we don't want money!

In the whole of China, only ten pieces were produced.

Iran as a whole, too, received only ten.

And no one thought that these ten missiles, which should have been very useful, should be equipped in the Iranian air defense forces. As a result, it was waved by Iran's Shahr's logistics deployment department and equipped with the 1st Armored Division of the Revolutionary Guards personally formed by Khomeini.

"Will these missiles work? Your Excellency, I don't think these missiles are as useful as anti-aircraft machine guns! You can't aim at all! After seeing the three small black dots in the distant sky, the captain couldn't help but ask with some concern as he watched the soldiers apparently endure the heavy amount of so-called anti-aircraft missiles.

If it is useless, the battlefield in front, and even behind them, will be bombed by the opponent's fighter jets as targets. (To be continued......)