Arab horses, Damascus steel knives, in the Middle Ages, such mounts and weapons belong to the top configuration, but the wheel of history is rolling forward, mankind has entered the electric age, the maturity of mechanical technology and the popularization of automatic weapons have brought a new mode of warfare, however, the army commanders and officers at all levels of the Arab kingdom have not only not understood the truth that backwardness will be beaten from previous Palestinian conflicts, but have maintained a mysterious confidence in the equipment level of their own armed forces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Guards Cavalry Division, which is regarded as the first strong force in Arabia, is probably the last division-sized pure cavalry unit of this era, with more than 7,000 brave cavalry and more than 4,000 hard-working auxiliary combat personnel, equipped with more than 9,000 horses and more than 5,000 camels, and is equipped with a considerable number of horse-drawn machine guns and horse-drawn artillery compared with the cavalry units of the great powers before and after World War I. A cavalry unit of this magnitude is immense wherever it goes. The sight of brightly dressed riders, armed with swords and rifles, marching through the city and town, and gunners sitting on six-horse-drawn gun wagons, always made the Arabs so proud that they were so fearless that they were empty-eyed......

As the experienced and nimble Western generals had predicted, the Arab kingdom's military leadership was determined to pacify the restless Palestinian Jews by force and cut off their aspirations of a Jewish state. At a time when the official representatives of the Arab Kingdom were complaining to the League of Nations against the Jews of deliberate separatism on the basis of the Zionist Platform, the Guards Cavalry Division stationed in the small city of Ramla took the lead in action, and it took just over an hour for an advance force of more than 2,000 horsemen to cut through the two roads from the Jewish town of Rehovot to Tel Aviv, laying machine guns and artillery in positions sufficient to block the roads. Immediately afterwards, the main force of the Guards Cavalry Division slaughtered Rehovot, intimidating the Jewish soldiers and civilians who were stationed there with the sound of horses' hooves and billowing dust.

Before the advent of the Arab cavalry, the Jewish militia of Rehovot had built complete fortifications on the ring road and had timely access to the guns and ammunition from Tel Aviv, including 36 MG-43s and 200,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition, which, if properly deployed, would be sufficient to withstand the onslaught of thousands of Arab cavalry.

In addition to these firearms and ammunition, the assistance from Tel Aviv also includes eight "Grey Squirrel" wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles from the "Viking" battalion of the Irish Foreign Legion, which are equipped with a 20-mm machine gun and two 100-mm anti-tank rockets, and are equipped with two sets of six-pack smoke grenade launchers.

After encircling Rehovot, the Arab Guards Cavalry Division did not choose to attack directly, but waited for the Zionist leaders in Tel Aviv to respond to the 12-hour ultimatum of the Arab government - either disarm and swear allegiance to the king, or leave the country within a limited time.

Before the deadline for the ultimatum arrived, the commissioners of the Zionist Executive Committee and the Tel Aviv militia command were not in a mess like ants on a hot pan. Having renounced all unrealistic illusions, they were ready for a decisive battle with the government forces of the Arab kingdom, and made a very wise decision - to hand over the command of the battle to Erhard Mirch, who had previously performed very well.

Shouldering the safety of hundreds of thousands of Jews in Palestine and the fate of the entire Jewish nation, the retired German general of Jewish origin became more and more calm and calm, and he expected that the Arab government forces would not easily attack the city of Tel Aviv.

Approaching the deadline for the ultimatum of the Arab Kingdom Government, the two cleared streets of Tel Aviv resounded with a rumbling roar, and the Boeing P-12s and Curtis F-11s, which had already withdrawn from active duty of the US military, began to glide along the smooth road surface and pulled up before reaching the end of the street -- in order to avoid possible bombing by the Arab Kingdom government forces, the militia command reduced all the planes of the flying club to pieces, or hid them in suburban farms or hidden in urban warehouses. In the past six months, the Zionist organization has purchased hundreds of aircraft through various channels, including many monoplanes such as the IR-39 that are still in service, but due to the inventory and surveillance of the Arab Kingdom, they have not shipped these aircraft with better performance to Tel Aviv, and most of the aircraft operating in Palestine are models with civilian ******** names like the Fi-60, and the Boeing P-12 and Curtis F-11 purchased from the United States have been disarmed before entering the country. Now that the Arab kingdom has torn its face, the situation is so critical that the Zionists no longer need to hide it, so the technicians have equipped them with machine guns and bomb pylons, so that they have recovered a certain combat capability, but this is only an emergency measure, compared with the original standard performance is still not a small gap.

By this time night had fallen, and the Arab cavalry, believing that there was no danger of air raids, had no warning of the impending danger, and they were ready to move outside Rehovot, talking freely about the looting and burning of the Jewish inhabitants after entering the city. As soon as the time limit for the ultimatum arrived, the commander of the Guards Cavalry Division sent a telegram directly to the General Staff, and immediately received an order that "the Jews have not answered, and your troops will attack as planned." The swaggering Arab general had a smug smile on his lips, as if the town in front of him had become a fat sheep to be slaughtered at will.

The chaotic sound of artillery sounded, they came from the pride of France - the M1897 75mm rapid-fire gun, although the French were beaten almost helplessly on the battlefield of World War I, and the 75mm rapid-fire gun that was pinned on was also beaten by the Germans' 105 and 150mm howitzers, but this could not hide the revolutionary status of this artillery, the United States, Britain and other countries had purchased technology and licensed a large number of manufactured and improved it, during the Arab War of Independence, U.S. military assistance to Arab tribal forces included a lightweight M1897 with modified rubber tires that could be towed quickly over rough roads.

The M1897's greatest advantage is its fast rate of fire and high accuracy, but it also causes its congenital defect - the straight trajectory makes it impossible to attack targets behind obstacles, which is especially prominent in siege operations, and the low power of artillery shells means that the defending soldiers only need to hide in strong buildings or properly reinforced bunkers to avoid enemy shelling as much as possible.

Despite the use of the M1897 for more than a decade, the military of the Arab kingdom has never thought deeply about the pros and cons of this weapon, and has not even properly maintained these weapons at their disposal, and it is not surprising that they have repeatedly failed in head-to-head conversations with the Syrian army.

In less than 10 minutes of shelling, the Arabs fired more than 400 shells at their heavily surrounded Rehovot, and several buildings on the periphery of the town caught fire, but the interior of the town remained dark and apparently untouched by the shelling. With the sound of whistles and the characteristic shouts, the elite cavalry of the Arab Guards Cavalry Division attacked, and the horses under their crotches approached or reached half a ton, and their hooves stomped on the ground, rumbling, and thousands of horses converged into rolling thunder, and the earth trembled. These nomads on horseback were highly skilled in riding, wielding sharp steel knives and roaring like a black tide......

"Everyone, calm down! Keep calm! Listen to my commands......"

In a trench behind the ring road, a Jewish militia commander in an American-made MK-I steel helmet and khaki uniform took a deep breath, his hand holding a revolver trembling slightly. The bright moonlight illuminated the fields and the rushing Arab cavalry, whom he had never seen in his life, and was unsure that the trench would be able to withstand the onslaught of the Arab cavalry, and the Jewish militia around him were just as terrified by the unknown as he was. At this time, if someone shouts "run away", probably the entire front will collapse in an instant!

Suddenly a machine gun was heard in the trench, and the Jewish militia commander didn't care so much, shouted "fire" hoarsely, and then raised his hand to shoot. With the range of the revolver, there would be no threat to the Arab cavalry, which was still at least a few hundred meters away, but the Maxim, M-1918, MG-43 in the trenches, as well as the Mauser, Springfield, and Enfeld in the hands of the militiamen, these crazy roaring weapons made the surging black tide seem to hit an invisible wall, and could no longer get closer.

After a long time, the Jewish militia commander, who had squandered a lot of bullets, finally regained some senses, picked up the monocular he had found in the antique shop and looked at it, and the black tide in the distance seemed to be moving, and then he loudly ordered a ceasefire. It was about two minutes before the gunfire on the entire front completely stopped. Someone fired a flare into the field, and when the white light temporarily changed the scene from the haze under the moonlight to the clarity of day, the scene that caught the eye made everyone alive at both ends of the battlefield stunned: the bare farmland in winter turned into a Shura hell, full of corpses, blood quietly gathered, forming puddles, streams, those half-dead war horses were still struggling tenaciously, and those cavalrymen who fell from their horses but survived looked lost and dejected, like walking corpses... … The cavalry versus the infantry, which should have been one-sided battles, was presented in a diametrically opposite way to those who had only touched the threshold of modern warfare, and the astonishment of the Jews and the consternation of the Arabs was only the beginning.

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