Chapter 138, Bloody Battle of Ahvaz (II)
For Akram, it is not a shame to learn the tactics of the US military, because it is precisely because they are weak that they need to learn, give up all prejudices, and learn from all countries that are stronger and more advanced than them.
And his plan was not a whim.
Akram was one of the first batch of cadets after the establishment of the Basra Military Academy, and Russian and Chinese instructors served as instructors to explain the tactics and tactics of modern warfare to them.
In the late 20 th century, the US military fought the most wars, and their equipment was also the most advanced, and I am afraid that the US military knows best not the US Department of Defense, but the general staff of other US countries.
When he was studying at the military academy, Akram had an idea that in the future, he would use all the tactics he had learned to the Americans, and he believed that he would have this opportunity, and he had a dream of a strong country like ordinary Basra people for so long in Basra.
Hoping that Iraq can be reunified, hoping that the Prophet can lead them to become strong, based on the basis of all this, the officers of the Prophet's Army have a stronger learning ability than the officers of other countries, even if there is a language barrier, they will try their best, even learn Russian, learn Chinese, in order to maintain a certain communication with the instructors.
However, they also encountered difficulties, compared to Russian, Chinese seems to be more difficult to learn than Russian, and now Akram can only barely communicate with Chinese instructors.
But it doesn't matter, tonight he's going to apply everything he's learned to their former long-time enemies, the Iranians.
But before implementing this plan, he also needs to prepare a lot of things, such as radios, they are not the US military, and each squad will be equipped with radios, but this does not mean Akram, because the main battle tanks and armored vehicles have radios, and all that is needed is to dock the system and conduct unified operations.
The second is the question of the commander, Akram knows that such a plan is extremely risky, and the independence given to the troops is also great, almost every squad is equivalent to an independent chain of command, they will only get an order, capture Ahvaz, and whatever happens on the battlefield, they will handle it independently.
So the commander of each squad became particularly important, but the Prophet gave him the right to reorganize and arrange these squads himself, and the commanders and deputy commanders of all squads would be appointed by him, but just in case, Akram also specially divided into several ranks.
In addition to the commander and deputy commander, the other squad members are all according to the rank of the commander, the commander is dead, the deputy commander is dead, the deputy commander is dead, the commander with the largest military rank, the largest military rank is dead, and the top of the backward military rank, so this operation will never stop until the goal is achieved.
Akram had thought that such a formation would be troublesome and even affect morale, after all, this was the first time that the Prophet Army had tried to command a battle independently in a squad.
However, he was obviously worried in vain, first of all, the morale of the Prophet's army was not as weak as the Badr Brigade or the Republican Guard where he had stayed, whether it was a recruit or a veteran, there was a momentum, which made him see the hope of victory, and secondly, after the training of the Basra Military Academy, many officers would teach their soldiers after they came out.
So this army is not an army that will collapse without a commander, but an army with high morale and strong independence.
Based on these factors, Akram quickly completed the formation of his team, and at three o'clock in the morning, they stopped shelling and began to wait.
These two hours were a long time for the soldiers of the field division, because this was the time when people were most tired, but they all cheered up, because the prophet was on the front line, with them, and whenever they thought of this, their sleepy thoughts disappeared, and even the prophet did not sleep, so what reason did they have to sleep?
At five o'clock in the morning, Canglong sat in the command headquarters, watched the stopwatch finally reach the last point, and then ordered: "Attack!" ”
Ahvaz, the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards, Amer was trapped in the lonely city with his 50,000 remnants, and from time to time there was a sound of vibration over his head, which was the artillery fire of the Prophet's army.
For Amer, this war came too suddenly, the Prophet Army not only invaded their territory, but also hit the capital Avaz by the way, such an astonishing speed, such an astonishing combat effectiveness, so that all the officers in the headquarters put away their contempt for the Prophet Army.
He quickly reported all this, and the above was also shocked, and ordered him to defend Ahvaz, but the navy in the military port had been disabled, and the air force was also beaten to save the navy, and only two fighters were left, and they were still damaged and could not fight, and the air defense force and missile units were defeated on the way here.
The most important artillery group, which is also their most important counterattack force, I don't know why, was actually accurately located and eliminated by the enemy's artillery group.
And the reinforcements will not arrive until at least nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and Amer feels that the time for reinforcements will probably be extended for the optimistic attitude of the bigwigs in the military department, just as he despised the Prophet Army before, and the people in the military department also despise the Prophet Army.
People will always be blindly optimistic, and Amer is no exception, and you will only come to your senses when someone hits you in the face at the door and slaps you.
Amer felt that he would have to hold out at least until tomorrow afternoon, and maybe reinforcements would come, but what he didn't expect was that by three o'clock in the morning, Ahvaz would suddenly calm down.
At that time, his first thought was that the Prophet's army was preparing to attack at night, so he immediately ordered the whole army to be on alert, and prepared to fight to the death, and must not lose Ahvaz.
But what he didn't expect was that the end of the shelling did not mean the offensive, and the Prophet Army stopped the shelling, also stopped the bombing, and did not attack.
He immediately convened the staff to discuss, and in the end everyone came to the same conclusion, there was a problem with the logistical support of the Prophet Army, the shelling had been so long, the ammunition supply could not be replenished, and the Prophet Army marched all the way over, they were also people, and they would be tired, of course, they would temporarily stop the attack.
But if they carefully look through the archives and look for the war that the Prophet Army fought against the Baath Party, they will find a problem, this army can hold out for at least three days and three nights without sleeping, and it is still on the march, and now the Prophet Army is equipped with personnel carriers and tanks, such a short marching distance, are they really tired?
Amer agreed, but he ordered the entire army to be put on maximum alert before reinforcements arrived.
At four o'clock in the morning, Amer did not receive the news that the Prophet army was preparing to attack, and by five o'clock, it was already dark, and he thought that the Prophet army might not attack.
A "boom" explosion woke up Amell, who was lying on the table and taking a nap, he was so tired that he accidentally fell asleep when he was tired, and now he woke up.
The entire staff department also woke up from their sleep, and their first reaction was, what's going on? But soon they remembered that they were still at war, and three words came to their minds, the Prophet Army attacked.
When he came back to his senses, Amer found that he had been fooled and even fell asleep, so wouldn't the troops on the front line? When he looked at the time and saw that it was exactly five o'clock, he finally understood the intention of the other side, which was an all-out attack, not just a shock from the shelling.
He immediately called the front line and asked them to report the battle, but he received the shocking news that the headquarters of the front line had been destroyed, and now that the Prophet army had advanced to the city, to his surprise, the Prophet army was not fighting in large groups as it was yesterday, but was divided into many small units and attacking from all directions.
Ahvaz didn't have walls, so he put his army in a house and prepared to fight a real street battle with the Prophets, who must have had a headache because they had to worry about which window to shoot from time to time, and which holes to worry about from time to time, or the machine guns erected on the rooftops.
But this time Amer miscalculated, the Prophet Army seemed to have known about these situations for a long time, so they did not attack in large groups, but under the absolute superiority of the air force and artillery groups, they adopted targeted killing.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps guarding Ahvaz found that as soon as they had encountered American troops, as soon as they fired, several shells fell on their heads, either killing them or blowing up buildings and burying them.
Even if it is not killed and buried, it will be re-shot by the Prophet Army squad that is about to attack.
In the early days of the Ahvaz offensive and defensive war, the Revolutionary Guards and the regular troops were completely blinded in the face of this kind of targeted strike, and they had all seen the video of the US military attacking Iraq and knew about this surgical blow, so at a certain moment they thought that the US army had entered the war.
But if you look closely, you find that it is not, because their skin color is completely different, and most importantly, these prophetic troops have an advantage that the American army does not have, they are not afraid of death, and the American army is afraid of death.
So, what they have, the other party also has, and the other party they don't have still have, how can this battle be fought?
After Amer got the information, he was not surprised that this kind of air-ground integration and independent unit operation appeared in the army of any Western country, but he was so surprised that it appeared in the army of the Prophet, and any tactics he knew were useless to this army.
Why? The predecessor of the Prophet Army was the Badr Brigade, and their experience in street warfare, guerrilla warfare, and urban warfare was much richer than that of the Iranian army, and now the Prophet Army combines the advantages of the US military and has the advantages of the Iranian army.
But Amer still ordered: "Hold on to the end, even if only the last man remains." ”
The Revolutionary Guards, who received this order, began a fierce counterattack, and the attack of the Prophet Army was not interrupted, because they did not lack the courage to fight any enemy, the Revolutionary Guards could be fearless of death, they could also be fearless of death, not to mention that their supreme leader was behind them.
Although the Revolutionary Guards were not afraid of death, they had a sense of powerlessness in the face of the well-equipped Prophet Army, supported by air and artillery groups, and were equally fearless in death, and no matter how many of them were there, they could only ram into the muzzles of others.
No matter how valiantly they fought, the enemy would not take a step back, but remained firmly where they were, encroaching on their positions step by step, and moving towards the center of the city.
From five o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the morning, for three hours, the whole of Ahvaz was in smoke, and the Prophet's army had advanced to the center of the city, and finally only a few kilometers of the radius remained uncaptured.
But the Prophet stopped attacking, which no one could have imagined.
But the fact that the attack stopped did not mean that Amer had a respite, because he found an enemy more terrible than the Prophet's army, and was coming at him