Chapter 139, Rout
The greatest enemy of this threat to Amer did not come from the Prophet's Army, nor from other countries, but from within.
After more than three hours of fighting, the 10,000 people of the Revolutionary Guards were basically killed, and what remained was a group of regular troops with poor combat effectiveness, no way, the Revolutionary Guards were only 120,000 in the whole country, and the others were all regular troops, and the combat effectiveness and loyalty of the Revolutionary Guards were unquestionable, but the number was too small.
The number of regular troops is huge, but the combat effectiveness is very low, and the most important thing is that they are not strong-willed, if there are soldiers of the Revolutionary Guards to lead, they can exert strong combat effectiveness, but after three hours of fighting, even the Revolutionary Guards are disabled, what hope can they have?
When the spirit is highly tense, of course, the regular troops will not relax, because they are facing the aggressive prophet army, they think that if they don't fight, there will be no way to retreat, and they will die anyway, so let's fight with the prophet army, more than 20,000 people are crowded for several kilometers, giving people the feeling that it is very small.
However, at the critical moment, the Prophet army suddenly stopped attacking, and not only the ground forces stopped, but also the artillery groups and aircraft stopped bombing.
The soldiers of these regular troops thought to themselves, wow, the attack has stopped, could it be that the Prophet Army has run out of ammunition, they don't have to die?
Nima is not forced, who wants to die, since they don't have to die, but they must all want to live, war is the test of the truth of everything, this sentence is appropriate for Iran's regular troops, so they began to discuss and rush out, anyway, the prophet army did not surround them.
When the first person fled, a second person fled, and when the second man fled, a third man fled, and then a whole army was defeated.
But did they really escape? The answer is no, leaving the cover of the city, can you run past the armored forces of the Prophet's army on two feet?
The fate of these troops, Amer is out of his control, because the Prophet's army has occupied his headquarters, although it is located underground, he has to face a choice, whether to shoot himself himself, or surrender, or continue to think about it, and then the Prophet's army and others are impatient, drop a few bombs down, and directly bury him.
In the end, Amer chose to surrender, and it was immediately surrendered, without any delay, after all, they did not reach the point of extinction, in his judgment, the Prophet Army did not have the ability to continue to attack other provinces, although the Prophet Army had strong combat effectiveness, but their numbers were too small, if they were laying out the battlefield a little, not only their logistics could not keep up, but they also did not have the ability to occupy.
You can't be like the Mongols, who slaughtered a city in one place to maintain stability in their rear, right?
In modern times, I am afraid that this will cause public outrage all over the world, and slaughter is a taboo, and Amer does not think that the prophet would do so irrationally.
As he expected, after the Prophet army occupied Ahvaz, they did not massacre or do anything excessive, but on the contrary, the Prophet army captured all the fleeing troops and gathered them in the city to save them.
Yes, it is to save people, this may be an incredible order, but after Canglong captured Avash, he issued three orders in a row, not to disturb the people, not to slaughter prisoners, the above two violated any of the one, and the military law dealt with, while the military law of the Prophet Army only had one, shooting.
The third order is to save people, except for the troops who maintain order, most of the troops are engaged in the rescue work, there are three million people in the city, and there may be accidental injuries in the war, but after the war, Canglong must do his job and rescue all the people who may be injured by mistake in the war.
Amer almost couldn't believe it, but at this time he finally understood that he had lost unjustly, and such a sane commander was the most terrible person.
Immediately after the capture of Ahvaz, Canglong sent 20,000 militia troops from Sadaigan to maintain order, while allowing two battalions of the air defense brigade to enter Ahvaz.
After doing all this, Canglong set his sights on Dizful, a city as important as Ahvaz, where the fourth Iranian air base was disabled, and the strategic location of this place is also extremely important, 120 kilometers from the capital Ahvaz, which can be said to be the northern gateway of Khuzestan Province.
Once this place is occupied by the Iranian army in advance, then Canglong and they will face a possible air threat, so Canglong almost non-stop, divided his troops and headed towards Dizful.
At the same time, we will step up the mobilization of militia units from within the country to replenish the missing troops, but there is no way for them to fight too fast and the battle line is too far.
In one night, the province was brought down to make the supply of troops a big problem, and the total number of the Prophet Army was only more than 30,000 people, but fortunately, the province of Huzestan was about the same size as Basra, which was equivalent to a relatively large city in China.
It was not very difficult to defend, but in the same way, Canglong could not put all his troops in Khuzestan Province, but immediately mobilized 10,000 men and returned to Basra, so that the militia troops and 10,000 prophetic troops could defend Ahvaz, and the returning troops were used to prevent possible crises.
But Canglong knew that the size of the Prophet's army was still too small, and when they marched into other provinces of Iraq in the future, they would inevitably face the problem of a shortage of troops, so they had to expand their scale after the war.
In Ahvaz's interim headquarters, Canglong was receiving Ahvaz's Iranian officials, who had in his hands a map of the oil fields in Khuzestan province, and he did not order them to be burned, but instead sent some troops to protect them.
The main oil fields in Khuzestan province are located around Ahvaz and in the direction of Basra, which means that as long as they hold Ahvaz, they can take the equipment that has not been cleared by the Iranian army and extract oil.
Some people will say that Basra already has so much oil, so why go all the way to get oil from Khuzestan province? It's simple, if you're rich, do you want to be richer?
To Canglong's surprise, because the Persian Gulf has not been calm recently, a lot of oil in Khuzestan Province has been extracted, but it has not been shipped out, so after Canglong occupied here, he received a big gift, nearly 500,000 barrels of ready-made crude oil.
You must know that this is all money, 500,000 barrels can be sold for nearly 40 million US dollars, he needs money to fight, and he also needs money to occupy this place, and now he wants to get it back, before the Iranians counterattack or negotiate, he will definitely not lose money.
After he captured Ahvaz, the people here hated them at first, but with a series of measures, the people who resisted disappeared, and the officials also pacified the local people, plus a bloody battle, they all saw the strength of the Prophet's army, so the resistance was relatively small.
The management conditions implemented by Canglong are also very simple, high treatment and high risk.
I can occupy this place, and after the war, I can save people, distribute supplies to you, and maintain order here, so that the army does not disturb the people, but if you do anything irrational against the army, then I am sorry, I can only drag you into a corner and execute you.
Under the double standard, there are fewer and fewer rebels, of course, this is also based on another condition, the occupation army is not the army of Western countries, but the prophetic army with the same culture and the same nationality as them, during the Iran-Iraq war, they understood a truth, fighting a war is the business of the army, as long as it is not a foreign invasion, they can tolerate the occupation of people of the same nationality and color.
They think in their bones that sooner or later, the occupation will end, and they will return to the arms of Iran, just like the Iran-Iraq war, where the two sides fight back and forth, you occupy a few of my territories, I occupy a few of your territories, and finally the war ends, and everything returns to its original state, as if it didn't happen.
Canglong has nothing to say to these officials, he only asks them to do their duty and appease the people, he will not take any drastic actions against the people here, it is roughly, what should you do, I will help you as much as possible, and you don't play any tricks, otherwise don't blame me for not leaving anyone behind.
After solving these officials, Canglong picked up another document, which was a battle damage report from the bloody battle of Ahvaz, and even under such planning, their losses were very serious, with dozens of main battle tanks lost, five unrepairable, and more than twenty armored vehicles, most of which were difficult to repair.
The casualties reached 3,000, 2,000 killed and 1,000 seriously wounded, most of them were infantry of the field division, although this casualty was absolutely acceptable for the results of this war, but Canglong's heart was still heavy.
He can prevaricate with the phrase that there will always be casualties in war, but wouldn't it be better without war? These people don't have to die, they are all fresh and young lives.
But war will always happen, this is something that Canglong has no choice but to stop it, there is no way, if you don't fight others, others will come to fight you, if you don't hit other people's territory, then others will hit your territory and slaughter your people.
In contrast, Canglong is more willing to choose to take the initiative to attack to defend the lives of his people.
The Iranian army suffered heavy losses, 10,000 Revolutionary Guards were killed, and less than a few hundred survived after the war, Canglong did not do anything to them, but asked the military doctor to give them the best medical treatment, they are worthy of admiration of the enemy, compared to those who escaped captives, although Canglong captured nearly 30,000 people, (some disguised as civilians hiding in civilian houses) but only a few thousand of them were wounded.
Therefore, except for the wounded captives, most of the rest were driven directly by the dragon to the desert near Ahvaz and kept under centralized care, providing only a fixed amount of water and food.
After everything was settled, Canglong began to wait, waiting for Black Impermanence to capture Diz Ful, waiting for the Iranian army to counterattack, but he waited for a long time, but the air force's reconnaissance plane told him that the Iranian army had stopped on the outskirts of Ramhomz, more than a hundred kilometers away from Ahvaz.
While he was wondering, Vivien also had someone bring the news that the Iranian envoy had arrived in Basra and was seeking negotiations, and that the envoy had arrived in Basra an hour before he had attacked Ahvaz.