The Crusader tank is the most "advanced" tank developed and produced by Britain before the fall, this kind of cruiser tank, the biggest advantage is high mobility, its acceleration and the highest cruising ability, so that the German tanks are beyond the dust.

With Britain entering the arms of Germany, the production of this tank has been stopped, and the British tank industry has been taken over by Germany to produce German Panther 3 tanks, and those tanks in stock must also be effectively used.

In this way, when Iraq's mechanized brigades attacked their own British air bases, they suffered great losses, so Germany generously exported to Iraq a batch of new tanks, which were Crusader tanks!

If compared with the German Panther 3, the Crusader tank is already very outdated, but compared to the previous Iraqi CV33, Renault FT17, this tank is simply a shotgun.

Its biggest feature is that it weighs lightly, only 20 tons, and at the same time, the engine horsepower is as high as 340 horsepower, so that the tank has sufficient maneuverability to soar in the mountains.

So, from the northeast of Iraq, it took only a few hours to soar to Tabriz, the first Iraqi army to enter Tabriz, and behind him, there were also infantry of the 3rd Division, in cars, which would also set off before dawn.

Now, the commander of the mechanized brigade, Hermi Said, looked at the government building in front of him, his heart was surging, their mission was completed so easily, the Soviets were really like, remembering the last time they were abused by the British Air Force, Hermi felt that the Soviet army and the British army were really not on the same level.

"At the invitation of the Iranian government, Iraqi troops entered the Tabriz area of Iranian territory to temporarily help maintain peace in Tabriz." Just after the Iraqi army successfully captured Tabriz, the Iraqi government released a radio broadcast, and it was also a major decision made by Rashid Ali after taking power in Iraq, and he will become one of Iraq's greatest prime ministers!

Iraq and Iran are contradictory, and this is determined by deep history, although the two countries are bordered, they are ethnically different, one is Arab and the other is Persian.

The most important dispute between the two countries is the border of the Shatt al-Arab.

The Shatt al-Arab is formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and is about 204 kilometers long, with 102 kilometers downstream near the Gulf forming the border between Iraq and Persia. The Arabian River Basin is rich in oil reserves and is an important oil-producing region for Iraq and Persia.

The strategic and economic importance of the Shatt al-Arab has kept Iraq and Persia at odds with each other over the Shatt al-Arab border dispute. Whether Iraq will exclusively share Shatt al-Arab sovereignty with Iran is key to the Shatt al-Arab border dispute between the two countries.

Just after Iraq's independence, when the Iraqi King and Prime Minister visited Iran in 1932, Iran proposed to demarcate the Shatt al-Arab border along the center line of the main channel, but after the refusal, the border clashed. At the end of 1934, the two sides appealed the dispute to the League of Nations.

As a result, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 shook the entire Gulf region, prompting Iraq and Persia to overcome their differences and work together to deal with external threats. In 1936, Iraq and Iran withdrew their appeals and resumed direct negotiations.

In 1937, Iran and Iraq signed the Tehran Treaty, which reaffirmed the Istanbul Agreement of 1913 and the memorandum of the Boundary Survey Commission of 1914 as the basis for the demarcation of the border between Iran and Iraq, and stipulated that the boundary of the Shatt al-Arab River shall be demarcated in accordance with the Istanbul Agreement of 1913, except for the vicinity of Abadan and the center line of the main waterway.

In later generations, the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war was entirely due to the coming to power of Iraq's strongman Silly Damu, and with the increase in national strength brought about by Iraq's oil interests, Silly Damu took risks.

And now, there is a dispute between Iraq and Iran, but it is not to the point of war. And the invasion of the Soviets made Iraq feel cold.

Once the USSR gains Azerbaijan and even overthrows the Iranian regime, then Iraq will definitely not be better, now, do it when it's time to do it!

Anyway, there is Germany behind it, what are you afraid of!

Now, they have an easy victory in Tabriz, which gives them even more confidence.

Of course, after this incident, Iran has to say something! It is easy to invite the Iraqi army to come over, and to let Iraq withdraw its troops, it is necessary to talk about the conditions.

The Iraqi army appeared in Tabriz! They took control of the situation in the whole of Tabriz, the newly emerged Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan, which had already perished in less than a week after its formation!

Except for a few high-level officials who slipped away, most of the officials were controlled by the Iraqi army, waiting for an unknown fate, and at the same time, Iraq's accession caused major changes in the situation in Iran.

"We should have expected the Iraqis to send troops a long time ago." The Kremlin is relatively deserted, and Khrushchev's words are also extremely deep: "The Iraqis cut off the back road of our army, the prospects are too bad!" ”

Even a layman like Khrushchev could see that the situation in the battle was no longer optimistic.

Although the Soviet Union could send reinforcements from the Caspian Sea, the last time the artillery regiment of the tank division was annihilated, it has already shown that it is not safe to land on the Caspian Sea and attack directly, and the Iranian cavalry is elusive and will come out of the mountains at any time, so that the Soviet Union will suffer heavy losses, even well-equipped troops will be annihilated, not to mention logistical supplies.

The main channel for logistical reinforcement in the Soviet Union was still through land transportation, going through Azerbaijan, and the local partisans had already made the logistics troops scratch their heads, and now, with the fall of Tabriz, their logistics have been completely cut off.

"Now, we have to worry about the safety of the more than 60,000 Soviet soldiers who are still fighting in Qazvin, and they are at risk of being surrounded." Zhukov said with a frown.

With the mobilization of troops, the small city of Qazvin has gathered more than 80,000 Soviet troops! That's more than 80,000 mouths, and the pressure on logistics is even greater.

"It's less than 60,000 people." At this moment, Budyonny on the side said coldly: "The latest report of the battle from Qazvin, after twenty-four hours of fierce fighting, the Soviet Red Army in Qazvin has lost more than 8,000 people, and the battle line is still the same as before the attack was launched yesterday!" ”

Everyone shuddered in their hearts, and more than 8,000 people were killed!