Chapter 822: The Decisive Battle Breaks Out One

Mount Erguiyes is a mountain more than 20 kilometers from Kayseri, which is a famous scenic area and ski resort in Turkey, and the world-famous Cappadocia in the north, which has been named one of the top ten beautiful places on the planet by American magazines and one of the two best places on earth for hot air balloon riding.

The forward command of the Kurdish armed forces, which is also the highest command body of the armed forces, is located in a rock pile at the foot of the mountain, of course, the Turkish army does not know about this, otherwise it would have been fought a long time ago.

The terrain here is dangerous, the road is rugged and very difficult to walk, but there is a winding mountain road, but unfortunately it has been cut off, the heavy mechanized equipment for mountain combat cannot be used, and the aircraft reconnaissance is not easy to find, it can be called easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is an infantry division with a number of more than 18,000 people nearby.

Wu Chen inspected the forefront of the temporary demarcation line between the two sides this time, and the name he used was to trade weapons and equipment, and the mercenary corps sold weapons to the Kurds, which was a matter of course, and no one could say anything.

He and several high-ranking people boarded three Black Hawk transport helicopters, escorted by twelve fighter jets, landed at a makeshift military airfield outside the small town of Develli, and then arrived at their destination in a Humvee SUV.

In order to improve operational efficiency, the General Logistics Department allocated the first batch of 100 Humvee off-road vehicles to the Kurdish armed forces units in the name of disposing of second-hand vehicles at the Mosul base, which are currently used by officers at and above the regimental level. In fact, according to the plan of the General Logistics Department, the number of units to be transferred will reach 10,000 or more, as well as a total of more than 10,000 transport trucks and special engineering vehicles, which need to be equipped in batches according to the situation on the battlefield.

Wu Chen also knows the importance of field vehicles, in order to protect the safety of soldiers, he has asked the design department to develop a wheeled anti-mine anti-ambush vehicle, not only to equip his own troops, but also to sell a large number of them in the future, which is also a development trend of the army's equipment. In the two wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US military suffered casualties from landmines and sneak attacks, and the superpowers trembled in pain.

Before the new equipment was produced, the Humvee off-road vehicles that the United States had just begun to retire were one of the main equipment of the mercenary corps.

"Akyol, can you learn something from the principal, but you just passed, and I can give you excellent in some aspects." Hunter said with a smirk. There are actually a few beautiful girls in camouflage military uniforms around this thing, not to mention, they are all beautiful women who are one in a thousand, and they want to have a figure or a look, and when he looks at the expressions of these girls, he knows that they have a very close relationship with Akyol.

"Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, this is also a helpless thing, although I personally do not agree with polygamy, it is a very old religious law, but the elders insist on doing this, and I have no way to refuse. These wives of mine are all from the Kurdish ethnic group, and their families are very influential in the local area, you should understand why they married me, right? Akyol said with a wry smile.

Hunter smiled slightly and did not continue, political marriage, it is a very common thing, Akyol is in charge of the supreme power of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kurand tribe, and is the leader of the future Kurand Germany, and those elders from the major families of the clan naturally want to establish close ties with him, and marriage is a means. In order to balance the unity of the whole clan and calm the hearts of the major families, Akyol can only accept this arrangement.

"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, who is this beautiful girl? I don't seem to have any impression of her, could it be that the boss just soaked it? Akyol looked at Ellie and asked Thompson secretly. This is a French pop singer, and she is very famous, but the boss and her have not reached that level, she is chasing the boss. Thompson said with a smile.

Ai Lijie, who came to the front line of the war for the first time, was not afraid at all, and even boldly picked up a gun and asked Wu Chen to take a photo of her. Of course, this may be because she is in a static battlefield and does not have the deterrent power of artillery fire, and today she has also changed into a camouflage military uniform, which looks unique.

Since the enemy could not carry out a large-scale surprise attack with tanks and armored vehicles, the most combat-ready infantry division in Akyol built two fortifications according to the mountainous terrain, and they were constantly being reinforced, and there was no shortage of stones here anyway.

The first fortification belongs to the infantry fortifications, defended by the strength of two infantry brigades, the ground is staggered with dug ravines, and the tunnels are full of dense fire points and sniper points, in addition to conventional rifles and machine guns, they are also equipped with a large number of rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles, which can play the most lethal role, and snipers can play the most extreme role.

The second line of fortifications is a close-range strike fortification, with the strength of an infantry brigade, a fire team of heavy machine guns and mortars at intervals in the tunnel, calculated firing angles, and equipped with man-portable anti-aircraft missiles, which are designed to strike at opposing helicopter gunships.

In addition, there is a secret fortification halfway up the mountain, which belongs to the position of long-range strike fire, adding up to the strength of fifty-four howitzers of three artillery battalions of an artillery brigade, all of which are hidden in the cave and do not show up, and these cannons are secretly arranged, first disassembled into parts, and then transported to the mountain and then assembled, led by the artillery officer of the mercenary regiment.

The main armament of this artillery brigade is American-made 1005-mm towed howitzers and former Soviet 122-mm towed howitzers, and there is also a special anti-aircraft missile battalion, armed with SAM-11 anti-aircraft missiles.

The tunnels were full of chattering soldiers, although when the war came, they still talked and laughed, and there was not the slightest nervousness, which was really worthy of a fighting nation, and there were also some female soldiers, who fought with weapons like male soldiers.

The headquarters is a hidden cave, there is a group of communication equipment in it, a group of female signal soldiers are contacting the troops, the wall is hung with a map made by the mercenary regiment, and there is a military sand table in the middle, as a senior commander during training, using the sand table to command operations is a subject that must be learned. Of course, the sand table is made by professionals from the General Staff of the mercenary corps, which is also a science, and not just anyone can make it.

"Your Excellency the Minister, the intelligence agency has just received top-secret information from the inside, saying that a group of mysterious people have come to the Kurdish troops in Mount Erguiyes, riding in American-made Black Hawk transport helicopters, which should be people from the Mosul base of the mercenary regiment, who have come to the front to negotiate some kind of cooperation with the Kurdish forces."

"According to the speculation of the intelligence services, the purpose of this group of people is to trade weapons and equipment, and in fact there has been a trading relationship between the two sides since the beginning of the war, and the vast majority of the weapons used by the Kurdish army are decommissioned weapons from the United States and the former Soviet Union bought from mercenaries." The intelligence chief said.