Throughout history, the chariot industry in many countries was born out of tractor factories. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 With this in mind, the Jews established their first tractor factory in Tel Aviv in the early 40's to assemble American Caterpillar agricultural tractors and tracked tractors in a cooperative manner. By the mid-40s, the plant was able to assemble 20 tractors or bulldozers per month, and could carry out full maintenance of the returned tractors and bulldozers, and had the ability to produce some of its own parts.

In the early summer of 1948, with the arrival of chariots purchased from the New United Kingdom, the tractor factory, known as the K of Spades, became the cradle of Jewish chariot troops. In warehouses full of crates, 120 Jews with all kinds of driving experience - tractor drivers, truck drivers and motorcyclists - began to learn to drive under the guidance of Irish instructors, and 400 carefully selected volunteers were trained in the same way in the operation and maintenance of the tank, so that they could be assigned commanders, gunners and radiomen.

In fact, according to the advice of the new United Kingdom military, it is best for these Jewish cadets to go to Ireland for 6-8 months of professional training, but the Zionists are eager to hope that the tanks they buy at a high price can form combat effectiveness, and the changes in the situation in Palestine do not allow them to toss back and forth, so the two sides finally decided to train the first batch of tank crews of the Zionist organization in the form of on-site teaching and combat training.

While the Jewish cadets were training day and night at the K of Spades factory on a full-time basis, Arab militants, backed by the Arab kingdom or Syria, were unwilling to accept the crushing defeat in the town of Amuna, as the Zionist organization feared, and set off a wave of attacks against Jews and ghettos in the Palestinian areas. For a time, the Jews outside the Tel Aviv militia ring were terrified, many tried to retreat to Tel Aviv, and Arab militants took the opportunity to ambush the road to Tel Aviv, looting and even maiming the Jews who passed there, and countless Jewish families suffered as a result. Moreover, the Jewish villages and towns around Tel Aviv were also frequently harassed by Arab forces, who often broke them up, attacked and kidnapped Jews working in the fields around the villages, extorted their families, and risked ripping their bills even if they paid a ransom.

Faced with this dire situation, the Zionists decided to speed up the establishment of a Jewish state, and their funds continued to flow to the new United Kingdom in exchange for huge quantities of weapons and ammunition. By July 1948, in addition to the "Mohammed" battalion that had arrived in advance, the Irish Foreign Legion had two strong brigades, the "Nikolai" battalion and the "Napoleon" battalion, and the most powerful "Viking" battalion also transferred a chariot company and the battalion's baggage maintenance unit, so that the Irish Foreign Legion assembled in Tel Aviv had nearly 3,000 people, and the number of Jewish militia had more than tripled. The busy port city has become a barracks.

Soon after, the Syrian Republic re-entered Palestine on the grounds that border towns had been attacked by armed mobs, but the Syrian army did not target the militants who were wreaking havoc in the Palestinian region, but instead slaughtered Tel Aviv and Jaffa, the richest cities in the region. The border guards guarding the northwestern border retreated almost without a fight, and the regular troops stationed in the Palestinian coastal areas did nothing to allow the Syrian army to enter the defense area, while the most well-equipped divisions of the Arab kingdom were assembled in the capital area hundreds of kilometers away, and according to their previous marching efficiency, it was impossible for them to come to reinforcements without ten days and half a month.

The Palestinian areas that are now nominally part of the Arab kingdom are not represented by the League of Nations to complain about the Syrian army's aggression against the country, and the League of Nations is powerless to do anything about the actions of the Syrian army. In such a situation, the Jews would either allow the Syrian army to march into Tel Aviv as they pleased, or they would have to fight the large number of regular Syrian troops on their own.

The Zionists had no choice but to take up arms against the Syrian army.

A battle engraved with courage and indomitable kicked off in the seaside town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. More than 1,200 Jewish militiamen, in coordination with more than 400 fighters from the Nicholas Battalion of the Irish Foreign Legion, held temporary fortifications to meet the Syrian advance force of about 1,500 men. At first glance, the defenders have both numerical superiority and geographical advantages, but considering the combat strength of both sides, the situation does not allow the defenders to be optimistic in the slightest. The Syrian Republic was born at the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire, which first expelled the Ottoman army by force, and then sent troops to support the side of the Turkish Republic in the Turkish Civil War. In recent years, the construction and development of the Syrian army has been greatly assisted by the Turks, and at the same time, it has maintained close ties with Italy, which is actively expanding its influence to the east, and the armament situation is relatively ideal. Judging from the several armed conflicts over Palestinian sovereignty, the two ace divisions of the Syrian army are quite high-quality and very powerful, and the front-line troops against the Arab kingdom are basically able to act as two. To the Jewish people's relief, the Syrian army that entered Palestine did not have the names of the two ace divisions. However, Damascus, the capital of Syria, is located on the southwestern border of the country, just a stone's throw away from the Palestinian region, and Syria is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, and the vast Mediterranean Sea to the west.

At the beginning of the fighting, the Syrian army, which was in a no-man's land in the Palestinian areas, did not take the Jewish armed forces seriously, and they were led by more than a dozen armored fighting vehicles, followed by large groups of infantry, and rushed in without suppressing artillery fire. The inexperienced Jewish militiamen were unable to compose their breath and opened fire before the opposing infantry could all come within range of the bullets. This time, the Russian officers and soldiers of the "Nikolai" battalion did not have any subtlety, directly greeted the Syrians exposed in the open area with machine gun and mortar fire, and fired armor-piercing shells with 80 mm caliber vehicle-mounted recoilless guns, destroying nearly half of the Syrian armored fighting vehicles on the spot.

The defenders' unbelievable firepower gave the Syrian advance force a blow to the head, and the Syrians, who had lost their troops, showed the well-trained side of the regular troops, first showing weakness to the enemy, deliberately making the withdrawal appear scattered, and at the same time ambushing the unengaged reserves on the flanks. Seeing that the defenders did not come in pursuit, they gathered their troops in an orderly manner, dug fortifications on the spot beyond the range of artillery fire, and did not launch even a tentative attack on Hadera that day.

Towards dusk, the Jewish militia reconnaissance planes spotted about a brigade of Syrian troops marching south north of Hadera, and it was normally expected that the Syrian army, after joining up with the advance force, would launch an offensive against Hadera the next morning at the latest, with the attacking side not only having three or four times the superiority in strength, but also a certain number of mortars and infantry guns into battle. Seeing that a fierce battle was inevitable, the Jewish militia decided to evacuate the residents of Hadera to Tel Aviv overnight. Dozens of buses and trucks arrived in Hardera from Tel Aviv in time, bringing more than 500 militiamen and more than 300 soldiers of the "Nikolai" battalion, and removing all the old and weak women and children from Hadera. For the rest of the night, Jewish militia and Russian officers and soldiers serving in the Irish Foreign Legion dug and fortified their fortifications, and by daybreak a neat seaside town had been transformed into a fortified area of trenches and obstacles.

Before dawn, the 1st Panzer Squadron of the Tel Aviv Jewish Militia also arrived in Hadera to support the battle. The squadron was equipped with 2 "patrolmen" and 8 "heavy infantry", and the crews of each tank crew were the best trained among the first batch of tank cadets. Under the command of the Joint Operations Staff, these tanks did not drive directly into the towns, but laid ambushes in the farmsteads of the right flank with storehouses and bushes.

After daybreak, the Syrians on the opposite side did not attack in a hurry, but did not rush to make fires and make food, and at the same time shelled Hadera with heavy mortars and infantry artillery. At about eight o'clock, the Syrian officers and soldiers finished their breakfast, and the formation of fighter planes flying from the direction of Syria also happened to arrive. The indiscriminate bombardment of aircraft and artillery almost turned Hadera into a pile of rubble. Most of the Jewish militia had escaped artillery fire and bombing in bunkers behind their positions, but many of them had been overwhelmed by the battle, and when they returned to their positions, few were not trembling at the sight of thousands of Syrian soldiers pushing them in a vast array of skirmishers. Even so, none of these Jewish warriors, who had been trained in Judaism since childhood, tired of being displaced and fed up with foreign bullying, ran away without permission, and all of them remained motionless and silent, holding their weapons, waiting for the order to shoot.

1,000,000,000,000,000,...... The enemy is getting closer and closer, the roar of armored vehicles is clear to the ears, and the rustling of footsteps converges into a piece, like an autumn wind blowing the branches and leaves. In order to control the situation as much as possible, the Russian fighters of the "Nikolai" battalion were dispersed to various Jewish militia detachments, except for one company, and under their leadership, the Jewish militiamen loaded their bullets one after another, and pointed their guns at the enemy in front of them......

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