Chapter 117: Armageddon in the Air
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The location of Israel and Abyeh dictates that ground forces can only land from southern Israel, so that they can seize the beach and land in the Gulf of Aqaba and capture Eilat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info//Free eBook Download//
In the whole of Eilat, there are only a dozen kilometers of coastline, and the coastline suitable for landing is even shorter, I am afraid that it is only a few kilometers.
It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to attack and land on the beach in such a narrow area.
Israel has apparently seen this clearly, and is urgently mobilizing its troops to build fortifications in Eilat, making it clear that the posture is to contain the landing of Abyah.
Once Israel is given enough time to build a fortification similar to the Macedonian Line along the short coastline, it will be exponentially more difficult for Abyeh to land again.
So the core of the second voice is to grab time with the Israeli army, and if you capture Eilat, you will open up the situation, and the war will be much easier.
Of course, this way of fighting causes staggering losses of soldiers.
Seeing that the two sides were arguing, Saleh spoke: "Why don't we ask the chairman what he means and let the chairman decide." ā
In many previous situations, such as the annexation war against the Northern Soviet Union, important military strategies were decided by Yang Tian.
Saleh still does not have the courage of Yang Tian to dare to easily decide such a thing that may determine the direction of the war and even the fate of the country.
Said shook his head and said, "The chairman has more important things now, and if you have to ask the chairman about everything, then what do you want our Ministry of Defense and our Joint Chiefs of Staff to do?" ā
It is only different from the past, at the beginning, the Ministry of Defense was not a climate, and many staff officers did not have experience, but now it is different, after several years of development, the Ministry of Defense also has a foundation, and naturally should fulfill their duties.
Saleh snorted lightly and said, "That's good. You tell me which scheme you decide to use. ā
Many officers looked at Said.
Said's face was strained, and his expression was extremely solemn, and after a long time, he said: "I support the second set of plans, and land on Eilat as soon as possible." ā
After that, Saeed added: "After the meeting, we will submit the detailed implementation plan to the chairman. ā
Obviously, Said was also a little weak-hearted and submitted the plan to Yang Tian. That is, the meaning of asking Yang Tian in disguise.
Saleh thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. He doesn't have any idea of his own, in his opinion, any set of plans is fine, but Said's last sentence is quite in line with his mind, no matter what, just report it and see what Yang Tian has to say.
Soon, on the instructions of Saleh. The Ministry of National Defense sent the specific second set of combat plans to Yang Tian.
That is, in half an hour, Said received Yang Tian's instructions, which were very simple, just one sentence: agree. Execute as soon as possible.
Said breathed a sigh of relief, Saleh also had a bottom in his heart, the war machine was also running, and the army, navy and air force began to move. The time for the beach-grabbing landing was set for dawn the next day.
This is the real speed of soldiers.
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Eilat, the beautiful harbor city, stroll along the beaches of the Bay of Aqaba. It's like walking in a dreamland, and the unique combination of dry desert climate and coastal climate creates a unique beauty.
In particular, the Bay of Aqaba is the most beautiful place in the Red Sea, with some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the Red Sea, and the water temperature is constant at 15 degrees Celsius all year round, making it ideal for water sports.
However, now Eilat is already in a mess, and the Israeli government has urgently evacuated the local residents, and the so-called emergency evacuation is not so much that a large number of IDF troops who have arrived first have driven the citizens out of Eilat with guns.
Even the Jordanian city of Aqaba, which is not far away, is empty, and it is clear that the Jordanian government knows that Abyeh has no choice but to attack it, and Aqaba is the most vulnerable place to the war.
Around the entire coastline, almost non-stop construction of fortifications has begun.
On the eve of the Israeli government's declaration of war, a regiment of engineers belonging to the 7th Infantry Division in the Southern Region received an order from the Southern Command to rush to Eilat to build fortifications.
This 7th Infantry Division is a border guard in the southern sector, and the regular troops of Israel, all of which have entered mechanization, are either armored divisions or mechanized infantry brigades, and there are almost no such pure infantry divisions.
And this engineering regiment among them is also a professional engineering regiment, which mainly repairs fortifications during wartime.
After they arrived in Eilat, in addition to cooperating with the local government to evacuate the residents, they began to hurry up and repair the fortifications.
The ships in the port of Eilat, whether ordinary fishing boats or precious yachts, were blown up and sunk in the harbor, blocking the harbor and preventing the approach of Abye's ships.
As for several "Dabur"-class patrol boats and "Aliyah-class missile boats" in the Eilat Naval Base, they all sailed out of the harbor and patrolled in the Gulf of Aqaba in the posture of a strong man going to the death.
The main task of the Engineer Corps is to blow up the seaside half of the city on the periphery of Eilat to form a relatively long impact zone.
This has several advantages, one is to contain Abyeha's tanks and armored vehicles, Abyeha's Red Sea Fleet has enough transport capacity to directly send tanks to the case, and even Abyeha has amphibious tanks. Constructing a ruined strip along the coastline would greatly halt the advance of the armored forces.
At the same time, in the consideration of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, this time the Eilat defensive battle will be a ground soldier contact battle. The entire Eilat is too small, and a large-scale tank unit cannot spread out its formation at all, and there is no room for impact, and the rash use of tanks will only become a target for anti-tank weapons and helicopters.
Therefore, Israel felt that the landing war was about Erlat, and it was convenient to fight an urban street battle to leave an impact zone.
At the same time, the Engineer Corps also began to renovate the empty Eilat, building fortifications on the main streets, digging bomb shelters, in a word, digging deeper, clearly predicting that Abye would carry out large-scale air raids to cover it.
And with the arrival of more ground troops, around Eilat, the remaining coastline suitable for landing began to be fortified and fortified.
In just one day, the Israeli army, with astonishing perseverance, built a decent defensive line along the entire coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba.
If you see it clearly from above, you can even see the scene of tens of thousands of black ants working frantically.
Naturally, Ahayah's every move in the Gulf of Aqaba could not be concealed from Abyeha, and the Red Sea Fleet also purposefully fired artillery shells to bombard the fortifications built in order to slow down the progress of Israel's fortifications.
Abyeh was also racing for time, and a large number of troop carriers were dispatched frequently at the Marine Corps base around Gaul to transport the marines to the Gulf of Aqaba in preparation for the dawn landing battle.
Although the United States did not dare to enter the war, it also shared military intelligence and sent information on Abyeh's troop movements to the Israeli government.
At the same time, a large number of intelligence agents such as the Mossad are also frequently active, sending out information one after another.
Of course, although Abye does not have military satellites, the Federal Intelligence Service is not idle, and all kinds of internal lines and intelligence agents are frequently operating to collect all kinds of military intelligence.
The military has not moved, and intelligence comes first, which is the best embodiment of this.
Israel discovered Abyah's intentions and speculated that the beach-grabbing landing was imminent.
Abyeh was already aware that Israel was frantically building fortifications and mobilizing troops to Eilat to make a landing on the beach before the fortifications were successfully built.
Both sides are in a race against time.
Finally, after a long night, the light of dawn illuminated the Red Sea and the blue waters of the Gulf of Aqaba.
An Israeli soldier who had been busy for a day and a night, barely resting, snorted, and when he raised his eyes, he noticed something.
In the southeast, on the horizon of the red sky, many black spots suddenly appeared, and they flew in swarms like locusts.
Sharp air raid sirens rang throughout Eilat, and an officer next to him pulled the soldier and jumped straight into the dug fortifications.
At the same time, an alarming number of black spots have appeared in the northern sky of Eilat, which are the Israeli Air Force, which has just arrived in an emergency.
With the intelligence support of the United States, two carrier-based aircraft flying wings, numbering nearly eighty Blackbird-S fighters, took off and flew to Eilat, and they could not hide the fact that Israel could not hide it at all.
The Israeli government also responded urgently, and at the Teruf Air Base, the closest to Eilat, all the fighter jets were lifted into the air, and a total of more than 60 fighter jets took off urgently to meet the battle.
Israel's air force is the most powerful in the Middle East, and the first batch of fighters to arrive are mainly F-15 and F-16, which are also Israel's main fighter models.
With a total of more than 100 fighters fighting against each other, this is probably the largest air battle since the beginning of the 21 st century.
The fighter jet pierced the sky, the roar seemed to shake the heavens and the earth, and the clouds were torn apart, this is a battle that belongs to the sword in the sky and the eagle in the sky.
"Spread out!"
At a distance of more than a dozen kilometers, the commanders of the aircraft groups of both sides gave the same order at the same time.
Air combat is not a tank cluster charge, the more numerous and concentrated it is, the more powerful it is.
The fighter planes need space to fight, otherwise, maybe the machine gun bullets hit their own planes, and they even couldn't dodge, and their own family members collided together.
Thankfully, the vast expanse of the sky is their best battlefield.
Below, countless Israeli soldiers stuck their heads out of the fortifications and looked up at the two fighter groups that were rapidly spreading out like sparrows in the sky, and they couldn't help but be a little sluggish.
Once upon a time, there was an aerial Armageddon of this magnitude in modern warfare. (To be continued.) )