Chapter 690: On the eve of Guderian's sneak attack on Iran
The next day, at 10 a.m.
Guderian, who had just taken a nap for a few hours, woke up early in the morning and received a message from the Iranian king Reza Khan about the current deployment of British and Soviet troops in Iran and the location of their positions.
"Hey! I really can't see that the former king is so fast, it seems that although he was driven out of Iran, he still has a certain amount of influence! ”
Guderian praised with satisfaction as he browsed the military information of the enemy army that the other party had given him.
Then Guderian ate his breakfast and looked at the information.
Then Guderian summoned all the high-ranking officers under his command to the war conference room, studied and analyzed the enemy situation in front of him, and prepared to carry out a quick lightning attack to quickly occupy all the British and Soviet troops in Iran.
It would be better to eliminate the enemy before they come to their senses, as well as the new Iranian government, which has become a puppet of Britain and the Soviet Union, before they come to their senses, as well as the oil lifelines and railway lines that control all of Iran.
However, because of the current situation in Iran, as recorded in the original historical data, all roads, railways, rivers, airports, ports, oil pipelines, telephones, telegraphs and radio facilities in Iran were occupied and divided by the British and Soviet armies.
Britain and the Soviet Union ostensibly said that they would guarantee that during the war against Germany, the German army would not have the opportunity to obtain Iranian railways to attack the troops of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries.
Secretly, however, Britain was supporting the separatist activities of various Iranian tribes to divide the power and power of the new Iranian government.
As for the Soviet army, they were unwilling to be lonely and used force to oust the Iranian governors in the northern provinces of Iran, and then appointed Soviet soldiers as the new governors, and also turned all these occupied areas into countries under the strict brainwashing control of the Soviet army, so as to brazenly seize Iranian territory.
So neither Britain nor the Soviet Union kept the promise they had made before the world to promise not to divide up Iran's territory.
So for Guderian, who attacked the British and Soviet troops stationed in Iran, he didn't feel guilty at all.
Because he knows very well that in this world is a world of the jungle, and that one country is weak and incompetent, then that country will be invaded and annexed by other powers.
This is an iron law of humanity that has been the same for thousands of years.
Even those countries around Iran in the Middle East will see the wind and rudder like grass on the wall, and if a country is strong, they will get close to that country, and even obey and cling to the past.
This can be seen in what Britain and France and the Soviet Union and the United States have done in the Middle East.
When Guderian discussed the sneak attack on Iran, he also included the Mosul oil field in Iraq's second largest city in his sneak attack list.
At this time, the Soviet Union was deploying more than 400 Soviet tanks and more than 10,000 Soviet troops to drive into northern Iran under the coordination of infantry and tan; Prepare to join up with the 402nd Infantry Division, the 1st Mountain Cavalry Division, the 23rd Cavalry Division, and two motorized independent regiments of the 2nd Line troops stationed in northern Iran to garrison Iran.
At the same time, the Soviet Union also sent an infantry division and a tank regiment to assemble along Turkey's European border, and the Soviet government had its eye on the Turkish regions of Ardahan and Kars.
The Soviet Union did this in the hope of completely preventing the German army from passing through Iran or Turkey, which cut off the Soviet army's transportation routes.
Because the ports in the Soviet Far East were under the attack and occupation of the Japanese navy, Iran became a strategic conduit for the Soviet Union to transport British and American military supplies.
In other words, Iran could never be controlled and occupied by the Germans.
In addition to the sudden deployment of large armies into Iran, the Soviets worked with Britain to squeeze Iran's wealth and natural resources.
For example, the British completely occupied the Kermanshah oil field in Iran, as well as various oil fields in the south, and air bases.
There were also thousands of trucks and railway wagons, while the Soviets looted and repatriated wheat, cotton, rice, sugar, tea, and rice grains, as well as cotton and woolen fabrics and other necessities produced in northern Iran.
Their ferocious methods and appearance are definitely not lost to the Japanese devils, the British, the American and German armies.
At the same time, in order to pay the British and Soviet troops who invaded and stationed, Britain and the Soviet Union also used violence to force the National Bank of Iran to issue an additional 700 million riyals in banknotes, so that the Iranian currency depreciated a lot overnight.
In the end, Britain and the Soviet Union also used all kinds of shameless means to obtain a large amount of cash from Iran, and also used the money to launch an armed rebellion of various Iranian tribes, so as to gradually split the new Iranian government, so as to achieve their goal of carving up and controlling Iran.
While the British and the Soviet Union were doing these evil things, they did not know that Guderian's aircraft carrier fleet was already lurking on the outskirts of the Caspian Sea, and was deploying lightning attack operations.
"Leader Stalin! What a wisdom! He took such good care of us and sent so many troops into Iran again to assist us defenders in consolidating our power in northern Iran! ”
When the commander-in-chief of the Iranian garrison, Lieutenant General Kozlov, looked at the newly arrived Soviet troops and joined the barracks under his jurisdiction, he smiled brightly at the division commander Chekovsky, like a sunflower, and smiled.
"Our leader is indeed great and wise, and if it weren't for the fact that the fighting at home hasn't gone well lately, he would have sent more people to Iran, and maybe even we would have been able to drive the damned British out of Iran and let us dominate the whole of Iran!"
The division commander Chekovsky also smiled slightly.
"Shhhh Don't be so loud, we are still in cooperation with Britain and the United States, and we must not insult them casually! Although I don't like these capitalist countries either! ”
The commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Kozlov, immediately reminded the other side.
"Hmmm! Sorry, I just lost my words! ”
In this regard, the division commander Chekovsky also apologized after embarrassingly and cautiously glancing at whether there was anyone else.
"It's okay! We are all comrades! ”
"By the way, how is the situation in our domestic war against Germany?"
"I've been out of the country for a while, and I don't know as much about the fighting there as you local troops!
The commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Kozlov, smiled mildly and changed the subject.
"It's not good! Those German troops don't know why they are always able to obtain a large number of new weapons and equipment, which always catches our front-line troops by surprise! ”
"This is how the recent Battle of the Dnieper was defeated by the Germans, and we have already evacuated all our troops to the Kharkov area!"
"However, our great leader is also engaged in another big battle, so just in case, he suddenly sent us to Iran to help defend Iran from the German attack, as well as to obtain military supplies and supplies transported by Britain and the United States, as well as medicines, food and other items!"
The division commander Chekovsky replied with a serious expression.
"Hey! You can rest assured! It is impossible for the Germans to have the surplus forces to attack Iran now, unless they have an aircraft carrier fleet and win the war on both the east and the west. ”
"Of course, even if they come to attack Iran, won't there still be our army and the British army stationed here?"
"I will definitely let these German troops who invaded Iran come and go! Annihilation is all here! ”
Hearing this, the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Kozlov, smiled confidently.
Because he was confident in the strength he now had, and he knew that the British had formed the "Persian-Iraqi forces" in the south into two corps, the 3rd and 21st Indian Corps, with two British divisions and one British armoured brigade, three Indian divisions and one Indian armoured brigade, and two Polish divisions.
Moreover, once attacked by the German army, the British and American forces will mobilize 9 more Iranian infantry divisions, as well as the few remaining Iraqi troops to serve as cannon fodder to fight the German army.
The above troop deployment and formation are similar to those recorded in the original historical materials on the Internet; It's just that it started in 1942, and now in 1943 it hasn't changed much.
In other words, he was not worried about the sneak attack of the German army at all, especially now that he still has more than 10,000 Soviet troops and hundreds of tanks on the front line that Stalin had just dispatched.
For himself to be so strong, how can he not be proud, why does he not have the capital of pride?
Moreover, what he is most concerned about now is how to deduct some of the millions of tons of military supplies, transportation, medical medicines, and food and other materials obtained from Britain and the United States.
"Well said! Commander!
"For the sake of our Red Empire's final anti-fascist victory, I am willing to obey your command, Commander, and fight against Germany in unison!"
Looking at the confident commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Kozlov, the division commander Chekovsky also immediately praised.
Then the two of them went to the reception banquet and prepared to eat, drink, and be merry.