Forward, forward, the proudest cavalry of the Soviets, invincible!

Galloping through the mountains of northern Iran, you can realize that cavalry is the most suitable type of troops here, they have strong mobility and flexibility, and at the same time, the machine guns dragged behind the horses also allow them to have strong firepower at any time when needed!

The 23rd Cavalry Division, almost in conjunction with the 1st Mountain Cavalry Division, differed in the routes of attack on both sides.

While the 1st Mountain Cavalry Division had already connected several cities and was marching towards Tabriz, the 23rd Cavalry Division had also established a lot of achievements.

Rush, rush! The cavalrymen, wielding their sabers, cut in half the occasional resisting Iranian soldiers, and the soldiers of the Iranian border guards behind them hurriedly threw away their guns and surrendered.

This battle went too well!

The division commander, Colonel Baranov, on his own horseback, observed his long procession.

They marched eastward along the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, and within a day they rushed to the port of Enzeri and captured Rasht, and now, after a night's rest, the strength of their cavalry and horses had been restored.

Today, they are going to occupy the western gate of Tehran, the city of Qazvin!

When attacking on the shores of the Caspian Sea, they were walking on a flat coast, and now, marching south, they are in the mountains.

The cavalry was in the mountains, and the formation could not be deployed. This kind of long snake formation is easy to be ambushed by the enemy.

It also takes time for the enemy to prepare an ambush! The Soviet army in this operation formulated the tactics of quick victory, and these were all lessons learned from the German blitzkrieg.

Fast, this is the only magic weapon, as long as the speed is fast enough to make the opponent unpredictable, then the opponent will not be able to organize an effective counterattack at all!

Along the way, the Iranian army did not have any decent resistance at all, and everywhere it went, the Iranian army was in a situation of collapse, which made the Soviet cavalry even more excited, for them, today they quickly stepped up and occupied the city of Qazvin, and tomorrow, they will be able to join the first army in the city of Qazvin, and then rush to Tehran!

On both sides, there are tall and majestic mountains, ambush? Wake up, without ten days and half a month's work, can you transport equipment to the mountains?

Colonel Baranov was not worried about being ambushed, he was only worried that he was not fast enough.

The cavalry had advanced for an hour, and the mountain pass ahead was even more dangerous.

Godasco Valley!

The roads in Iran are built along the interior of the valley, which is lined with high mountains on both sides, and it stretches for more than a dozen kilometers.

"Commander, should we send someone to the top of the mountain to check it out?" Beside Baranov, the commander of the cavalry company, Koenig, said.

Koenig was a tall Cossack who had lived on horseback since he was a child, and the most notable thing about it was a scar on his face, which stretched almost all the way down the left corner of the eye to the right side of his mouth.

This is what was left over from the time of the battle with the White Army, and for the Cossack men, it was a pride to be cut in the face by the other party's saber, they were born to fight, and it was an honor to be wounded in battle.

Now, Koenig has also discovered the dangers of the terrain, and if there are enemies lurking on the peaks on both sides, it is a great threat to his side.

"No, all we need to do is speed up the whip and run over!" Baranov said: "We have no time to delay, and two days to Tehran is our goal." ”

In two days, it is about to become two days later, which has already made Baranov lose face, if he can't wait for the first army in Qazvin, he will even plan to go to Tehran alone with his own troops, storm the palace of Reza Khan, capture Reza Khan alive, and bring it back to the Soviet Union!

Hurry up and rush over!

After walking through this valley, there was Qazvin in front of him, and he couldn't wait.

At Baranov's urging, the striker did not hesitate, and one by one the white horses stepped into the Godasco Valley.

They didn't know that on both sides of the mountain, at this time, there were pairs of eyes watching the arrival of this huge army.

Iran's army, in fact, is not less.

The Iranian army is about 120,000 men and consists of two Royal Guards divisions armed with 105 mm Skoda guns, both stationed in Tehran, and nine ordinary divisions, each stationed in six military districts across the country, of which five divisions are in the north to defend against the Soviet Union and four in the south to defend oil fields and defend against possible naval attacks.

In addition to these, there are 5 gendarmerie brigades, as well as 1 separate mechanized brigade.

These armies, in the invasion of the Soviets, did not play an immediate role at all, because they were scattered in various stations, could not be concentrated and twisted into fists, and were easily attacked by the Soviets.

They weren't ready.

Even after a day's time, Moder had only gathered about six battalions near Qazvin, plus the 167th Infantry Division, which had arrived in a hurry, and the total number had just exceeded 10,000, but Moder was already full of confidence.

Handan toddler.

The Soviets wanted to learn from the German blitzkrieg, using cavalry instead of tanks in the mountains, with the ability to maneuver quickly, and along the way, they really blinded the Iranians.

However, the essence of the German blitzkrieg is definitely not only to use the advantage of maneuver to attack, on the way forward, it must be accompanied by a large number of Stuka bombers, blowing up the enemy in front of them in advance!

The Soviets used bombers, and their bombers, which were just a kind of intimidation, indiscriminately dropped two bombs on the city to tell the citizens not to try in vain to resist the invasion of the Soviet troops!

It's that simple, it's just too pediatric.

Of course, there is also a reason for this, northern Iran is mountainous, anti-aircraft machine guns are easy to hide, and even light machine guns can be mounted to shoot in the air, while the Soviets lack effective armor protection of ground attack aircraft, the only Il-2, are deployed in the west.

Moreover, they also felt that it was unnecessary, there were no large fortifications in the mountains of Iran, and they could not find suitable targets.

Moreover, the consistent Soviet mentality of the army made them despise the role of the air force, and if they could have had an aircraft to search the way forward, it would have avoided this tragic annihilation.

Moder's headquarters was set up in a natural cave on the back slope of the mountain, and reports from the front line were constantly transmitted to his headquarters.

"The advance of the Soviets, has entered our ambush zone!"