Chapter 120: The Meat Grinder

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At the southern command of the Israeli army, Howlson walked around the headquarters irritably like an angry northwest wolf. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There was chaos in the headquarters, and countless people were running.

"How's the situation, tell me quickly!" Howson pulled his chief of staff past him and asked aloud.

His red eyes frightened the chief of staff, and he hurriedly said: "The 27th Infantry Division has arrived at a distance of fifteen kilometers from Eilat, and there are still twenty minutes to feel Eilat, but they are being bombarded by fighters from Abyeji's side, and the speed of the march is greatly affected, but a brigade of their vanguard has already arrived at Eilat and is engaged in defensive battles. ”

Howson breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "Where did the 209th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the 117th Airborne Brigade go?" ”

The arrival of the 27th Infantry Division will greatly relieve the pressure on Eilat's defenses, and should be able to solve the immediate need.

However, Howson believed that one 27th Infantry Division was not enough, and more troops were needed, but although from the beginning of the declaration of war, the troops stationed throughout the country began to move urgently, but the time was too tight, and many troops were still on the way, and there was no time to reach Eilat.

Eilat cannot afford to be missed, and the meaning of the Ministry of Defense is to defend Eilat at all costs and keep the enemy out of the country.

The chief of staff hurriedly reported the itinerary of the 209 Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and it was clear that the situation was not optimistic.

Now Halsen only hoped that the 27th Infantry Division would be able to resist for a while longer.

……

In the Red Sea Fleet, Mutafa's expression was like a cannibal, making everyone who walked in front of him feel a chill.

The stubbornness of the Israeli resistance exceeded Mutafa's expectations.

From 10 o'clock when they entered the city to fight, and now at 12 o'clock at noon, the casualties of the landing marines have approached 2,000, and this is not counting the casualties of the first stage of landing, and if we count the casualties of the first stage, in just one morning, the casualties of the marines in the landing operation have already exceeded 3,000.

This is definitely a staggering number, and there has never been such a huge number of casualties in the many wars that Abyeh has had.

So Mutafa was a little unbearable, but what could he do, could he let the troops withdraw and carry out another bombardment, in that case it would be equivalent to returning.

Mutafa had to send more soldiers to the front line again and again, to the meat grinder of Eilat.

Abye's Marine Corps casualties have already exceeded 3,000, so what about the Israeli army, the casualties will only be worse.

The first 16,000 troops who rushed to Eilat were all reimbursed, and the number of casualties continued to rise wildly due to the subsequent arrivals.

Eilat is a small port city, and as mentioned above, it is like a fishing port village, and the entire urban area is less than ten square kilometers.

In such a narrow space, tens of thousands of troops, there is almost no buffer zone, both sides are at a very close distance, engaged in encounters, charges, often a street intersection, a building, have to fight repeatedly, dead and wounded.

Abyeh is doing better, and for the time being, he still has air supremacy, and the Marines can call for air strikes at any time to launch guided missiles for targeted bombing.

As for the Israeli army, they have not regained air supremacy after several efforts, and they do not dare to unscrupulously bombard the city, so they can only fill this huge gap with human lives.

In just two hours, aside from the more than 10,000 Israeli casualties in the first stage, the new casualties have reached nearly 10,000.

"Drop shè adhesive bombs, quick!"

In front of a small two-story building, dozens of Marines gathered together, and the squadron leader shouted loudly.

"I'm coming!"

A soldier quickly got up, several consecutive dodges, jumped behind a pile of building ruins, replaced with adhesive grenades, just got up, and before he could pull the trigger, countless bullets of fire had already engulfed him, and his upper body burst into countless blood holes, and he fell down.

As the strongest military country in the Middle East, the weapons and equipment of the ground forces of the Israeli army are by no means comparable to those of the former North Soviet Union and the general troops of the rebel army.

"Damn, quick, contact the command, call the unmanned bomber." The squadron leader's angry eyes were red, and he slapped the communications soldier next to him and shouted loudly.

The signal soldier quickly contacted the command headquarters, turned out the drone cāo control terminal on his back, entered the authorization code, and immediately grasped the control of the unmanned bomber, and an aerial infrared image of Eilat also appeared on the screen.

Quickly enter the coordinates, and a group of people quickly find cover to deal with the next bombardment.

At an altitude of thousands of meters in Eilat, more than a dozen unmanned bombers named Nighthawk were circling, and in the north of Eilat, the tongues of fire of more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns barely stopped, and from time to time a drone could not dodge and was destroyed and fell.

One of the drones received the command, reversed course and flew towards the target point.

After arriving at the target point, according to the communicator's guidance, a mounted laser-guided missile has been fired.

Twenty seconds later, the two-story building in front of the marines suddenly turned into rubble, and dozens of Israeli soldiers were directly buried in the rubble.

……

"The 27th Infantry Division has been crippled, the front is already a little untenable, damn it, the 209th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, where is it, let them speed up the march." Halson angrily slapped the table.

After a pause, Holsen suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Quick, urgently mobilize the citizens of Timna, take the 116th self-propelled artillery brigade, find a way to solve the weapon problem for them, and let them rush to Eilat urgently to help defend." ”

The chief of staff was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Commander, is this necessary?" ”

Holson shouted angrily: "What is not necessary, what nonsense, hurry up!" ”

The chief of staff shuddered and quickly went to make arrangements.

The sè column is a real national soldier, with 190,000 active troops and nearly 600,000 emergency mobilization, and this is only a slightly regular army.

Men, women, old people and children, every one of the people is the most fearless soldier.

……

Eilat, under the black oppressive sky, the small city is like a meat grinder, devouring one life after another, the sound of gunfire and artillery fire, almost never stopped.

From 10 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the war came to an end and slowly came to an end.

A colonel officer of the Marine Corps looked unwillingly at Eilat behind him, who was almost in ruins, still under the control of Eilat Column.

After a day of fierce fighting, the second phase of the battle, Abye had failed.

The Red Sea Fleet, after shouting for a day, Mutafa, whose voice was already hoarse, sat tiredly, and the soldier next to him brought him a cup of coffee, but he didn't have the strength to drink it.

Mutafa is too tired, not only from the tiredness of the body, but also from the tiredness of the god jing, and whoever has tensed his nerves for a day will be exhausted to death.

The first day of fighting was over, but the results were not satisfactory.

It is true that on the first day, more than 130 Israeli fighters were shot down, hundreds of self-propelled artillery pieces, anti-aircraft guns, and other equipment of the Israeli army were destroyed, causing nearly 30,000 Israeli casualties.

No matter how brilliant the results are, they can't hide the fact that Eilat has not been conquered so far.

Not to mention, Abye has also paid a staggering price, with more than 50 fighter jets and bomber drones shot down, and several frigates have also been attacked by Israeli fighter jets, and one has been severely damaged.

And the marines, after a day of brutal fighting, suffered more than 5,000 casualties.

It can be said that if Mutafa didn't want to fight, the battle situation always gave him the illusion that as long as he worked a little harder and sent more soldiers, he could conquer Eilat.

But in fact, the Israeli army continued to receive reinforcements, regardless of casualties and at all costs, and finally even ordinary people were sent into battle to slow down the pace of Abyeha's offensive.

Therefore, in Mutafa's view, Eilat's name as a meat grinder is worthy of its name.

At dusk, the smoke of war gathered in the sky has not yet dissipated, but on the horizon in the distance, the sunset is full of picturesque scenery.

In this rare silence, Jing's exhausted soldiers on both sides enjoyed this rare tranquility together.

……

Kaduli, after the meeting with the chairman of the African Union, Yang Tian dragged his tired body back to the office.

Before he had time to eat, the latest battle report on the Eilat landing battle had been delivered to Yang Tian.

Hurriedly reading the battle report, the TV set on the side was also urgently broadcasting the latest news of this beach-rushing landing battle.

But there is no doubt that the report of the Ministry of National Defense in Yang Tian's hand is more detailed and true.

"Bastard, what a Mutafa, believe it or not, I removed him!" After only a few glances, Yang Tian stood up angrily and slammed the report document on the face of the officer of the Ministry of Defense who sent it.

Only then did Yang Tian understand why it was not Saleh or Saeed who came to deliver the report, but a Ministry of Defense official who Yang Tian had no impression at all.

The Ministry of Defense official who delivered the report was so frightened that the secret service agents who heard the noise outside, as well as Yang Tian's secretary, also rushed into the office, looking at Yang Tian, who was in a mess and full of anger, he was also so frightened that he didn't dare to come out.

Zhou Kai, who was holding the documents, walked into the office, glanced at the situation in the office suspiciously, frowned, waved his hand to a few people, and signaled to go out, before he stepped forward and picked up the reports scattered on the ground.

After a few glances, Zhou Kai also changed for a while, and exclaimed: "My God, the casualty number is so big, it's just one day." ”

Yang Tian snorted lightly, then sat back, glared at Zhou Kai angrily, and said, "What do you think, hum, I scolded them lightly!" ”

Zhou Kai didn't speak anymore, this huge casualty figure was completely beyond his imagination.

Not to mention, the economic losses caused by this huge casualty.

Back then, during the Iraq War, the US military spent more than $200 million a day, but today, countless missiles, shells, and bombs have been fired, and dozens of fighter planes have been shot down.

Not to mention the dead and wounded of more than 5,000 soldiers.

Zhou Kai estimated that the cost of the war on this day would exceed two billion US dollars.

"My God, if you fight like this every day, even the United States can't afford to toss." calculated an account in his heart, and Zhou Kai was also scared and trembled.

But on the other hand, Abye has lost a lot of money, and if more than 130 fighters were shot down and nearly 30,000 casualties were killed, the loss was probably several times or even ten times that of Abyeh.

"It's a hard nut to go, and my pre-war predictions were too optimistic." Yang Tian rubbed his temples with a headache.

The little one Eilat, who has paid the price of such a loss, has not yet conquered it, is it because Abye is too weak in combat, of course not, according to the scale of the attack, when dealing with the North Soviet State, I am afraid that Kamal will be driven into the Red Sea in one day to feed the sharks.

It can be sè lie, the strength of the resistance is absolutely beyond Yang Tian's expectations, looking at the report, when the reinforcements of the sè column have not yet arrived, even ordinary citizens have been sent to the front line.

What a crazy nation this is, Yang Tian is a little scary when he thinks about it.

"Okay, let's not say it's useless." Zhou Kai waved his hand.

The war has already started, is it because of the big losses in the war, so we won't continue to fight?

"What should I do tomorrow, do you want to continue to fight like this, do you want to think of other ways, I heard that the Arab League intends to cooperate with us." Zhou Kai asked.

Yang Tian still shook his head, at this time, he also calmed down, gritted his teeth and said: "Even if you brace hard, you have to fight it, and you won't allow others to interfere." (To be continued.) )