The Kingdom of Iran, Saqez, is located in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. It is now the only stronghold held by the Iranian Army. The strongholds to the north have all been lost.

In Saguez, there is a road through the Zagros Mountains. Although the infrastructure of the roads is not very good, it is barely able to pass trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, etc. This is a road that was built a few years ago in order to strengthen communication between the Kingdom of Iran and the Kingdom of Iraq.

This is also why the Caucasian Front of the Russian army stormed Sagaiz. They wanted to seize it and then cross the Zarogos Mountains by this road to northern Iraq.

Two tank divisions of the German 47th Army have been withdrawn. The previous attack caused them to lose a lot of tanks. Although not many tanks were destroyed on the battlefield, many were destroyed due to mechanical problems during long marches. Fortunately, the top brass of the Russian Federation understands the current difficulties of the Caucasian Front and is vigorously providing support to them. This allowed the two tank divisions to maintain a strong combat effectiveness.

However, the Iranian army has amassed a large number of troops in Saqaiz and has also built strong positions. If the tank division is allowed to attack, it will inevitably suffer large losses. Therefore, Lieutenant General Kozlov replaced the two tank divisions and let the infantry of the 51st Army attack.

The battle was very fierce, and the Russian 51st Infantry Division dispatched several infantry divisions to attack the positions of the Iranian army in turn. The fierce attack and the fearless charge cost the Iranian army extremely heavy losses. But even so, Saqez's main position is still under the control of the Iraqi army.

By the time the battle had been fought, the 1st and 2nd armies of the Iranian Army had almost lost everything, and there were not many troops left. However, the 3rd Army of the Iranian Army sent three infantry divisions to the top. Two infantry divisions of the 4th Army also arrived. This allowed the Iranian army to have enough troops to resist the Russian attack. Otherwise, the Russian army would have already taken down Sagaiz.

"No, the intensity of the attack is too small, so it is impossible to inflict too many casualties on the Iranians. They're going to keep it up. That's very bad for us! Comrade Batov, throw more troops into the attack! Lieutenant General Kozlov ordered.

The commander of the 51st Army, Lieutenant General Batov, gritted his teeth, but nodded anyway. Although he had the same rank as Lieutenant General Kozlov, Lieutenant General Kozlov was the commander of the Front, and he was nothing more than the commander of the army group, and could only unconditionally obey the orders of Lieutenant General Kozlov. Although he knew that increasing the intensity of the attack would make his troops suffer greater losses, there was no way to do it.

In the ensuing attack, the Russian 51st Army threw in the 9th Infantry Army. This is the elite unit of the Russian army. When they joined the attack, they inflicted heavy casualties on the Iranian army. The defensive line was also broken through twice by the Russian army in a row.

Although the losses of the Russian army in the battle were not small, the result was very satisfactory to Lieutenant General Kozlov. In his eyes, casualties do not matter, as long as the predetermined strategic goals can be accomplished, it is victory.

At this time, German planes appeared in the air. One BF-109 fighter jet, like a falcon, swooped down from the air, and the bullets of the aviation machine gun fired fiercely at the Russian army.

"Poof! Poof! ”

A powerful bullet hits the human body, leaving huge bullet holes. It was even directly beaten in two.

Dive bombers also attacked, and with that maddening, shrill whistling sound, they dropped aerial bombs into the ranks of the Russian attack.

"Boom!"

The heavy aerial bomb exploded, and the huge power swept around, and many Russian soldiers were directly torn to pieces, and the stumps and broken arms fell to the ground.

The powerful firepower and air stay capability of the ground attack aircraft have made them completely aerial firepower points on the battlefield, allowing them to use powerful firepower to attack the Russian troops on the ground and inflict greater casualties on them.

The appearance of hundreds of German fighters caused great casualties to the Russian troops who were attacking. It also made their attack posture immediately contained.

Even under the huge losses, some Russian units began to retreat.

The Iranian army, which was struggling to support, cheered. The Luftwaffe launched an air strike that gave them a respite.

"Bastard! The air force of the Germans is coming! Lieutenant General Kozlov scolded.

He knew that the German air force had arrived first. Then, in the next attack, their troops may have to risk being strafed and bombed by German fighters. One can imagine how big the casualties would be. What's worse is that the German army must have been on its way to come. The longer it drags on, the worse it will be for them. By then, I am afraid that before the attack on Kuwait, the German army would have already landed.

The Russian offensive was forced to stop because of the Luftwaffe's air strikes. The morale of the Russian army, which suffered heavy losses, was also greatly affected because of this.

However, after the Luftwaffe planes flew off the battlefield, Lieutenant General Kozlov ordered his troops to attack. His orders have become more severe. Because he knew that they didn't have much time left.

Even the German air strikes were not able to stop the Russian attack, at most causing them more casualties.

On November 2, the Russian army defeated the Iranian army and captured Saqez.

The Russian 47th Army and the 51st Army began to cross the Zagros Mountains.

However, in the process, they were still subjected to fierce air attacks by the German 7th Air Group, which made the Russian army pay a lot of price and waste a lot of time when crossing the Zagros Mountains.

On November 5, two mountain infantry divisions, the vanguard of the Russian 47th Army, attacked the defensive line constructed by the Iraqi Army's 1st Army in the western Zagros Mountains.

Although, the offensive of the Russian army is fierce. But the 1st Army of the Iraqi Army had previously built strong positions, which caused the Russian army to suffer heavy losses. It was not until 8 November that the 1st Army of the Iraqi Army was broken through.

After attacking northern Iraq, the Russian 47th Army and the 51st Army began to move south. But at the same time, they had to suffer from German air strikes and Iraqi army blockades, and the advance was not fast.

At the same time, the transport ships transporting the German 21st Army had already entered the Persian Gulf.

The Caucasian Front of the Russian Army failed this time!