Chapter 150, Air Raid on Tehran
Unlike the young soldiers in Kuwait, the Iranian army has strong fighting power and willpower, which is mainly reflected in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
At the end of the seventies, after the revolution in Iran, Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other Iranian leaders intended to establish an armed force independent of the army in order to consolidate the "fruits of victory".
The main reason is that it was the army that overthrew the elected Mossadegh government in the fifties with the support of the CIA, and it was the same army that shot at the marches a decade later. If you rely on this "old army" built by the king, the same tragedy may happen to you.
So the Revolutionary Guards of Iran decided to create a security force on the basis of various paramilitary forces against the regime of the former king, and thus the Revolutionary Guards were born.
It is directly subordinate to the supreme spiritual leader. At the same time, a great purge of the old army was carried out and a political and ideological department was created in the army, and "mullahs" (Iranian clerics) were sent to the army to transform the old army with *** ideology and become the "spiritual" commander of the army personnel.
In Iran, the distinction between the traditional army and the Revolutionary Guards can be divided by blood, the Revolutionary Guards are "new" and the traditional army is "old"; The Revolutionary Guards were established by the leaders of the *** revolution, and the traditional army was established by the former king.
Due to the difference in "blood", from the beginning of the founding of the Republic, the two "armies" have been far and close to the state power, that is to say, the Revolutionary Guards belong to the "lineage" in the usual sense, while the army is "sideline".
To put it simply, one is that grandma hurts, uncle loves, and parents all yearn for it, and the other is that grandma doesn't hurt uncle and doesn't love it, and parents often beat and scold.
Therefore, whether it is in terms of staffing or budgeting, the Revolutionary Guards have always received more "care", which has undoubtedly caused the relationship between the two to have been not harmonious, and the joint command has become a loose coalition with little binding force on the Revolutionary Guards.
During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, the Revolutionary Guards also lived up to expectations and were known for their courage to fight, laying a solid foundation for its post-war rise.
As the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Musayed, he had a natural sense of superiority, and in the face of several defeats of the Prophet Army, he put the blame on the regular army, which had nothing to do with the Revolutionary Guards, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Revolutionary Guards could not be ignored even by the Prophet Army.
But after the war, the regular army will be dissatisfied without analyzing the reasons for the defeat and putting the blame on the regular army, but what is the use of being dissatisfied? They are grandmothers who don't love their uncles, and they don't have a place to reason, anyway, they have enough black pots, and it's not bad this time.
This is the main reason why the 100,000 troops stationed in Ramholmz, including 30,000 Revolutionary Guards, failed to resist the attack of the Prophet's army.
Therefore, they are not ready to resist at all, and the joint command headquarters, the combat orders are not uniform, the regular army is attacked, and they are not ready to flee directly, but when they ask the Revolutionary Guards for help, the Revolutionary Guards do not make much movement, which causes the whole army to retreat.
In this way, the regular army fought and retreated, and the Revolutionary Guards encountered a strong attack, without the help of the regular army, but they were also outnumbered, and were finally defeated, so everyone was driven to Isfahan by the Prophet's army, and before they had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the Prophet's army launched a powerful offensive against Isfahan.
If the Revolutionary Guards had organized the Basij (militia) in time to block the attack, I am afraid that the next day, they would have lost Isfahan and lost this important town connecting the north and the south.
Only then did they slightly block the attack of the Prophet's Army, which was also the most serious defeat of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, 100,000 people retreated, losing face, and in the Iran-Iraq war, they were the only ones who drove the Iraqis, how could they be driven by the Iraqis?
In Isfahan, the contradictions and conflicts between the two armies were also getting bigger and bigger, and as soon as the Prophet's army had stopped a little, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards quarreled with the commander of the regular army, one saying that yesterday you could not stop us if you did not support us, and the other said that you were passive and sluggish, and we lost Ramholmz and the opportunity to counterattack.
The two parties quarreled like this, but fortunately, the Basij recruited by the surrounding provinces arrived one after another, otherwise they might have to be chased and quarreled.
Finally, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, Musayed, spoke, and the regular army took the lead in this defeat and informed the supreme leader, and at the same time the hard-liner new president also removed the commander of the regular army, and the quarrel finally ended, but at the same time the root of the bane was buried deeper and deeper.
By the time Saeed ordered the militias from the surrounding area to gather in Isfahan, the city, along with the retreating army and the Basij, had 300,000 men.
This is almost twice as much as the Prophet's army, which has only 70,000 regular troops, most of whom are recruits selected from the militia, while the rest are militiamen.
His reasoning was that the Prophet's missile brigade followed the Prophet's army into Isfahan's perimeter, which meant that it would be difficult for the air defense force and air force to bargain in the face of the powerful Prophet's air defense system, while the opponent's artillery group and armored forces were obviously longer and more advanced than the range they were equipped with.
According to Said's vision, as long as the Prophet's army was introduced into the city of Isfahan, he could use the absolute superiority in numbers and the advantage of the terrain to completely annihilate the Prophet's army in the city, and fight guerrilla warfare, street fighting, and attrition with them.
In fact, Musayed is right to think so, because Isfahan is an important transportation hub, connecting the north and the south, once lost, the whole country will definitely be shaken, and they will not be able to bear it at that time, so Musayed is a commander who does not like to take risks, but he is facing a very adventurous, and completely incomprehensible black general.
With the cooperation of Black Impermanence and Akram, they attacked the city, except for the first few days, they launched some artillery bombardment and bombardment, and almost never carried out a decent attack, in fact, the blitzkrieg has one of the biggest shortcomings, that is, the logistics supply, and now they are waiting for the logistics supply here, and they are attacking.
They were even ready for the Iranian army to counterattack, but they didn't expect the Iranians to be so weak, and they were stubbornly guarding the city and waiting for their attack.
A week later, their supplies finally arrived, which was enough to support them in another war, and they were not inferior to the opposing troops in terms of morale or equipment.
However, in Isfahan, someone discovered that something was wrong with the Prophet's army, and this person was Ali Daei, who was in charge of logistics and supplies, and although he was unwilling to fight the Prophet's army, when it came to this one, there would be no reconciliation, and there had to be a loser.
But looking at the whole situation, although the Prophet army has been on the offensive, there has not been much movement for a week, which is very unusual, at that time he and Musayd put forward his own proposal, let some of the Basij and regular army spare the rear of the Prophet's army, and then launch a full-scale siege and annihilation.
If this plan is implemented, it will create a two-sided situation for the Prophet army, and their lone army will be deep and the logistics will be stretched for hundreds of kilometers, as long as their supply line is interrupted, this Prophet army will be wiped out sooner or later, so that they can achieve a great victory.
Musayd was not without consideration, but compared to the importance of Isfahan, he rejected this suggestion, he felt that it was very disadvantageous for them to disperse their forces now, and if Isfahan was lost, who would be responsible?
Well, now Ali Daei understands why there is a saying in China, called a thousand troops are easy to get, and a general is hard to find, and a good general's insight on the battlefield often determines the outcome of a war, and he will also seize all the fighters and make a gamble, in fact, war is gambling.
It is not only by luck, but also by skill, luck is in the sky, and skill is in people, if the commander of this war is replaced by Simon, I am afraid it will be different, even if the black impermanence is difficult to understand, it will inevitably be besieged, even if it can escape back, it may also suffer heavy losses, resulting in a situation where it is unable to fight again.
But Musayd is not Simon, and there is another person who is there to help, and that is Akram.
After receiving supplies, everyone thought that they would storm Isfahan, and if they took the city and destroyed everything here, Iran would be completely subjugated by the huge losses.
Even Musayed thought that the other party, a black general who could fight a tough battle, would attack strongly, because there was a bloody battle of Ahvaz in front of him, but Musayed was disappointed.
He was even terrified.
A message reached his high command that Tehran had been attacked by an air raid, and that there had been the fiercest air battle in Iranian history in Tehran, and that the warplanes of the Prophet's Army had suddenly appeared over Tehran, and the most terrifying thing was the four bombers.
Although the fighters at Tehran's No. 1 Air Base were desperately fighting to the death, they were powerless in the face of the Prophet's fleet of planes, which had made 80 sorties.
The air battle cost Tehran's No. 1 Air Base a heavy loss and was almost completely annihilated, and the Prophet's air raid also paid a price, with more than two dozen fighters destroyed over Tehran.
This is an air battle that shook Iran, and even the entire Middle East, and shook the whole world, because of the number of planes of the Prophet Army, and the appearance of bombers, and finally I have to say that the training speed of the Prophet Army Air Force, as well as their excellent performance.
But this is not the main reason for the earthquake, the decision to run 350 kilometers and attack Tehran is the main reason for the shaking of the world.