Under the orders of Major Iskander, 50 elite soldiers of the "Mohammed" battalion of the Irish Foreign Regiment rushed to the northern pastures of Amona in two trailer trucks and two six-wheeled trucks. This large ranch of more than 200 acres www.biquge.info now houses more than 4,000 cows, more than half of which are mature dairy cows. In terms of size and production, it should be among the best in the whole of Palestine and even in the Middle East. Fresh milk from here is constantly being shipped to Tel Aviv, some of which is canned directly for the citizens and some of which is used to produce a variety of dairy products, ensuring the basic food supply of the huge Jewish settlement of Tel Aviv.

In addition to the open pastures and neat and hygienic wooden cattle sheds, this ranch established by Jewish settlers also had a large warehouse for forage storage, which was twenty meters high, equivalent to an ordinary four-story building, covering an area of nearly one acre, equivalent to 4,000 square meters, and its main body was a concrete structure, although the walls were not thick enough to withstand artillery fire, but they were more than enough to protect against gunfire. Unfortunately, the 40 Jewish militiamen stationed here, including a small "flying army" armed with machine guns and submachine guns, failed to make the most of the defensive value of this fortified fortress. The Arabs seized the warehouse from them with only two charges, with no more than 30 dead and wounded.

By the time the Ottoman warriors, who had been co-opted by the Irish army, arrived at the ranch, the unarmoured defenders had retreated to the cattle shed at the southern end of the ranch. Speaking of which, they cannot be completely blamed for this defeat, most of them are civilians who work hard to make a living on weekdays, and only after the end of each day's work do they have time to receive basic military training, even so, under the constraints of various objective conditions, it is very good for each person to have a training opportunity of one bullet per month, and the actual combat experience is infinitely close to zero. In the face of the screaming Arab riders, how many people do not panic? How many people can keep their composure after a random shot? The only thing to be thankful for is that 39 of the 40 guards withdrew unscathed, and only one unlucky one was missing.

On this moonless night, the sight in the field was rather bad. After rendezvous with the disorganized defenders, the officer who commanded the group of Ottoman warriors to support the ranch quickly gathered the squad commanders, and after a brief discussion, quickly determined the combat strategy of launching a counterattack on the spot and retaking the warehouse in lightning.

"The whole team marched east along the cowshed, leaping forward, pinning down and blocking the enemy from the right flank." After receiving the order, Master Chief Demillock conveyed the battle order to his nine soldiers in concise tactical terms, and then indicated the battle formation with a column advance gesture.

These 9 soldiers are all "remnants" of the old Ottoman army, 2 of them served in the Ottoman Guards like Demilok, and the remaining 7 served in 5 different units in the past, they basically didn't know each other before they defected to Ireland, and after joining the Irish Foreign Legion, the harsh training gradually reborn them, and when they were not sent abroad, they were often arranged by the Irish military to play the "villain role", and they fought various confrontations with the Irish regular army in exercises, The combination of rewards and punishments and the lack of choice forced them to abandon the bad habits they had cultivated in the Ottoman army, and then to defeat the proud Irish army in battles of equal standard, and establish a great reputation in the military circles of Ireland and even the Western Allies.

Although the equipment level of the Irish Foreign Legion is comparable to that of the regular army of the new United Kingdom, there is still a clear gap between it and the country's real special operations elite - the Royal Guard of Ireland. At the beginning of 1948, the world-renowned ace unit was already equipped with vehicle-mounted and individual infrared night vision devices, which could accurately kill targets in an environment where they could not see their fingers, and explored a more mature modern night combat mode. For this alone, the Irish Foreign Legion has an irreparable disadvantage of courage and skill......

A minute later, Demilok was holding the handguard at the front of the magazine of the STG-45 assault rifle with his left hand down, grasping the handle of the rifle with his right hand - his thumb ready to open the safety - and then pulling the trigger with his index finger to start firing, his feet alternating rapidly forward, sometimes standing guard with his left leg in front and his right leg touching the ground. Two assault men, also wielding STG-45s, followed by two grenadiers with Hubert-III semi-automatic rifles and grenade launchers, who were tasked with supporting their teammates with guns and grenades in close combat, and killing and wounding enemies with grenades in medium- and long-range attacks or defenses; Behind them are the gunners armed with MG-43 machine guns and the co-shooters with two ammunition boxes, who will stop at any time to provide strong fire support to the combat team; Next up was a demoman with a 50mm bazooka, a sniper with a sniper Hubert-III semi-automatic rifle, and behind him was a veteran non-commissioned officer with an STG-45.

Walking past the six cowsheds, Demilok stopped, slowly squatted, and then bent his right hand and clenched his fingers into a fist, signaling that there was an enemy in front of his teammates. After observing for a moment, he spread his five fingers and swung his right hand outward, giving the command to the right to make a tactical deployment. Due to the limited visual distance in this environment, the soldiers following behind passed the battle instructions one by one with gestures, and moved lightly and quickly to the right side of the leading non-commissioned officer. During this time, Dmirok fell to his knees on one knee, his assault rifle in his right hand, and his binoculars in his left hand, and carefully observed the enemy situation in and around the storehouse: after taking the large warehouse, the Arabs did not seem to be busy sweeping the entire pasture, but after inspecting the nearest cowshed, they cheerfully beckoned their companions and began to drive the cattle from the barn to the east.

On the road east of the pasture, Arab riders with torches were escorting trucks and wagons, and some of them seemed to have extinguished their torches, screaming as they fired from the hill in the direction of the town, seemingly unafraid that the Jewish militia, armed with machine guns, would leave the town and intercept them.

Demirok and his well-trained and experienced soldiers waited quietly, and after a while, the two squads attacked the warehouse from the front, and the two wings of the coordinated squad immediately opened fire, and the dense and accurate fire caused a large number of Arabs around the warehouse to be killed and wounded in an instant, and those who were driving cattle hurriedly raised their guns to return fire, but in this kind of night, when they couldn't even see people clearly from a distance of three or five meters, most of their bullets were fired at the cowshed. The two teams of Ottoman warriors alternated between firing and moving, and the vibrating muzzle flames were the perfect guide to their aiming, so that the warehouse was filled with the sound of gunfire, cow mooing, and the screams of Arabs wounded.

After the battle began, Demirok suppressed the Arabs at the warehouse gate with a series of shots, while observing the changes in the situation on the battlefield shrewdly. Aware that the Arab riders with torches were speeding up from a little distance, he shouted to his soldiers between magazines: "Heavy, grenadier, demoman, block the road to the east!" ”

Without hesitation, the Heavy turned the direction of the gun, and the two grenadiers quickly loaded the grenade launcher on the muzzle, and the Demoman, who had never had a chance to perform, quickly reloaded the grenade-type rocket. In a matter of moments, three weapons came into play: the intensive strafing of machine guns was the natural enemy of the infantry cavalry, not to mention the MG-43, which was known for its rate of fire; The explosive power of the grenade is slightly better than that of ordinary grenades, except for the sound when fired, it basically falls silently and then explodes; Although the power of individual rockets is inferior to airborne and vehicle-mounted rockets, it is undoubtedly a "big killer" among individual weapons, and the shrill and strange whistling sound of rockets when they are launched can be clearly heard several kilometers away, and a random grenade rocket can cause a death zone of 10-15 meters......

It wasn't long before the road leading to the ranch warehouse was paved with the remains of men and horses, and many of the survivors were scurrying in panic, and the ownerless horses were galloping in all directions. Encountering an invisible and impenetrable "devil's wall", the fierce Arab militants were timid, and they hesitated and wandered far away. Restrained by the enemy on the periphery, the Ottoman warriors who attacked the warehouse head-on managed to sweep away the Arab fighters around the warehouse, while a small number of men were still trying to hold the warehouse. Instead of rushing in, the Ottoman warriors, who had gone through various battle formations and military exercises, slyly threw two smoke bombs into it, and then shouted "Run, poisonous gas" in Arabic. In less than half a minute, the Arabs inside escaped from the warehouse, and the Ottoman soldiers who were squatting outside easily picked up the "human head".

However, seeing that the elite fighters of the "Muhammad" battalion were about to successfully regain the ranch warehouse, the last group of Arabs ruthlessly set a fire before withdrawing, and the large bundles of haystacks were immediately ignited, and the fire in the warehouse also illuminated a large area around it, and the exposed Ottoman fighters were soon fired upon by the Arabs, and they had to retreat to the cattle shed area, where they watched as the hay stockpiled for two months was burned to ashes......

The Arab militants' attempts to seize pastures and rob cows failed under the sharp counterattack of their opponents, and they paid a heavy price in hundreds of casualties, but they did not intend to bow to the Jews and admit defeat. After the large group of men and horses arrived on the outskirts of Amona Town, the leader gave orders one after another, ordering the more than 1,000 armed men in the rendezvous to form a large half-moon attack array, and placed the trucks in the center of the array. In the compartment of several of these trucks, there are such awesome guys as 12.7 mm large-caliber machine guns and 120 mm heavy mortars!

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