Chapter 952: Building Momentum
The day after the Battle of Hadera, the two sides fought fiercely from sunrise until noon, each paying thousands of casualties. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Syrian offensive came to an end with the return of Syrian troops attacking from the left flank, but the Jewish militia and their foreign aid were bombed by Syrian aviation before they could celebrate their victory. Due to the severe lack of anti-aircraft weapons, the Jewish armed forces had no choice but to endure the old Syrian fighters. Fortunately, their rear route has not been cut off by the Syrian army, and support from Tel Aviv continues to reach Hadera, and most of the wounded can be evacuated to the rear in time for treatment.
From the afternoon to the evening, the Syrian army did not launch a ground offensive, but continued to bombard the defenders' positions in and around Hadera with warplanes and artillery, so that there was not a single building in this place that was largely intact. As night approached, the Jewish pilots once again risked being shot down to conduct an aerial reconnaissance, and found that a large number of Syrian troops were heading towards Hadeirah along the coastal road - in addition to thousands of infantry, there were also a considerable number of combat vehicles, armored vehicles, and trucks towing artillery.
When the news reached Tel Aviv, the members of the Zionist Executive Committee and the Jewish Militia Command could not help but be stunned: this is the rhythm of a hornet's nest!
While it is true that the Tel Aviv Jewish militia alone is tending to a young hound against a full-grown male lion with little hope of victory, the unstable situation in Riyadh (the capital of the Arab kingdom) seems to be intent on throwing the hot potato of Palestine to the Syrians. In this way, the Syrian army will have the confidence to sweep away the local Palestinian resistance until its inhabitants succumb to their bayonets and whips......
Most Zionists are just idealists on paper, who can talk about all kinds of tactics and tactics on weekdays, and when they actually find themselves in a war, they are all overwhelmed by the bloody situation, but fortunately there are a few doers among them, and Erhard Milch is the best of these doers. Despite his short arrival in Tel Aviv, where he was in charge of equipment procurement and militia training, rather than the overall situation, the retired German general worked tirelessly to bring about a fundamental change in the defense of Tel Aviv and the surrounding region. Ever since the Jewish armed forces clashed with the Syrian army in Hadera, whenever the members of the Zionist Executive Committee and the Jewish militia command were at a loss, he was able to stand up and persuade the crowd to adopt his tactics and deployments; Whenever the Jewish militia were panicked and at a loss, he mobilized the entire Tel Aviv to support the front......
Hearing that the main Syrian forces were about to be killed, the Zionist Executive Committee and the Jewish militia command were filled with a sense of defeatism, and some of the ants on the hot pot proposed to make peace with the Syrians, some suggested that the personnel of the Executive Committee and the militia command should be evacuated immediately, and some thought that Tel Aviv could be relied on to fight the Syrian army. At the critical moment, Milch weighed the situation, tried to explain the pros and cons, and persuaded the committee members to support his strategy of holding on to Hadera while mobilizing international public opinion, turning the crisis into an opportunity for the emergence of a Jewish state.
The traditional trench defenses were like papier-mâché shields in the face of the mechanized corps, as demonstrated by the Battle of Britain in the '30s and the Soviet-Japanese War in the '40s, but Milch made the decision to dig trenches in Hadera – a seaside town in ruins where the defenders were free to build fortifications. With clear instructions from the command, not only the Jewish militia and the Irish Foreign Legion soldiers stationed in Hadera were put to work, but the citizens of Tel Aviv were also mobilized, they removed the door panels, dismantled the furniture, cut down the trees in front of and behind the houses, loaded all kinds of timber to Hadera, and transported all kinds of timber to Haderaj for the defenders to reinforce the fortifications.
In order to delay as much time as possible for the Syrian army to launch a new attack on Hadera, Mirch also persuaded the committee members to use their "secret weapon" -- the "Hebrew" equipped with 150-mm multiple rocket launchers and 324-mm torpedo tubes. This ship with a displacement of nearly 300 tons is nominally a private pleasure boat of a wealthy Jewish businessman, but it is actually a 1927 minesweeper designed and built by the Limerick Shipyard, and the original armament is one 88 mm high-level dual-purpose gun, two 20 mm machine guns, and the maximum speed is 18 knots. The minesweepers purchased by the Jews from the Irish military were such strategic mothballers. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Irish military dismantled the deck weapons, military antennas and mine-sweeping equipment before handing over the ship to these special users, and at the same time added two sets of 150 mm multiple rocket launchers and four 324 mm torpedo tubes in a covert manner, making it a light ship with far more force than minesweepers and patrol ships of the same class. The well-funded Zionists purchased four 1927 minesweepers and 16 other light ships of various purposes from the Irish, and sent hundreds of seafarers to Ireland for training and receiving ships, but the process of building up naval vessels was much longer than that of the Army and Air Force. Until the Battle of Hadera, only one minesweeper of the 1927 and one of the offshore patrol ships of the 1922 type officially joined the Jewish militia in Tel Aviv.
Under the control of 55 Jewish sailors and 2 Irish advisers, the "Hebrew" quietly approached the coast, and after receiving the contact guidance of its own ground forces, it successively fired five waves of a total of 60 rockets into the assembly area of the Syrian army.
Although the absolute number of Jews on this planet is only a small percentage of the world's total population, and they have been in a stateless diaspora for more than 2,000 years, thanks to their shrewdness and diligence, Jews have a very considerable energy in the fields of finance, commerce and trade. A few hours later, the Berlin Zeitung, the Wall Street Journal, the Neue Zürich Zeitung, and the Le Monde all carried the news of the Syrian army's war of aggression against the Arab kingdom, and many influential radio stations followed suit to report the news of the Syrian army's invasion of the Palestinian areas. The European and American publics had little interest in the conflict between the two Middle Eastern countries, but these news reports cleverly exploited the special status of Jerusalem in the eyes of Christians, speculating that this religious holy city was the main target of the Syrian army, but because of the cowardice of the Arab army, the residents of Jerusalem had to organize themselves against the invaders, and in this case, if the city of Jerusalem was not burned down by the war, it would become a bloody purgatory.
Jerusalem was about to be baptized in blood, and such alarmist public opinion immediately aroused strong concern among the people in Europe and the United States, and governments and even heads of state quickly felt the huge influence of public opinion and reacted one after another. On the third day of the battle of Hadera, nearly 20,000 regular Syrian officers and soldiers launched wave after wave of attacks on the positions of the defenders, and the Syrian diplomatic ambassadors to Germany, the United States, the New United Kingdom, Switzerland and other countries received notes from the governments of the countries where they were stationed, demanding that the Syrian government give an official explanation for sending troops to invade the Palestinian areas, and the government of the Arab kingdom, which had been silent since the Syrian army's cross-border operation, could not sit still, and they publicly condemned the military aggression in Syria and told them to withdraw their troops immediately, He also hinted that the main forces of the Arab kingdom army are gathering in the Palestinian areas, and the soldiers are sworn to defend every inch of the country's territory and will never be afraid of the enemy.
The Syrians can be perfunctory about the notes from the governments of European and American countries, because the previous armed conflicts have made them clear that these countries have no intention of getting involved in the Palestinian areas, but they have to be vigilant about the ultimatum of the Arab kingdom and the movement of the armies of the Arab kingdoms to the west -- the rulers of the Arab kingdoms wanted to use Palestine to contain the energy of the Syrian government and army, so they did not send the main force to come for a long time. Now that the pressure of public opinion forces them to fight for their dignity and status, once they give it their all, the Syrian army will face a fierce battle of lions against elephants......
The battle on the third day of the Battle of Hadera came to an end in a blood-red sunset, and Syrian soldiers whipped up the remains of the dead with white flags. In this day's fierce fighting, the Syrian army basically used all the weapons they could use, including aviation ******, in addition to not using chemical weapons, trying to win this battle with only spiritual significance, but at the heavy price of dozens of tanks and more than 2,000 soldiers, the result was still in vain, and the only thing standing in front of their guns was a group of Jews who were not good at fighting, a group of militiamen who did not even have military uniforms.
Realizing that the capture of Tel Aviv was a luxury in a short period of time, the Syrian army withdrew from the Palestinian areas as quickly as it came, and the large but slow Arab kingdom army could only dust off the intruders, but even so, they pretended to fight the Syrian army in the border area, and then informed the people of the world about their success in countering the aggression......
The New Year is here, and I wish you a New Year! Wishing you all a blessed and healthy Year of the Rooster!
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