The city of Fallujah was surrounded by regiments at this time, but Bashir knew that the PLA could not completely surround the city, because the city was on the west side of the Euphrates River, and Bashir had been in the Soviet Union for a long time, and two examples of battles flashed in his mind almost instantly, that is, two famous battles during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, the Battle of Leningrad and the Battle of Stalingrad, two cities named after two generations of leaders of the Soviet Union, and they were in a state of complete siege. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In the end, the defending Soviet Union finally turned defeat into victory under huge casualties.

"Normally, it's impossible to capture a well-defended city without paying huge casualties, but your Soviet instructor also said that it was a regular army when he talked about the examples of the two battles, right? Do you remember what they said? Bashir asked, looking at the group of Soviet commanders.

The instructor of the National Security Council said that the most valuable resistance force in a country is people, and if someone has all hope, from the perspective of the two countries, often the resisters will maintain a strong fighting spirit because of the country and the nation. However, in the case of civil war, this sentiment is often not high, and besides, although street fighting is difficult to accept in the concept of regular warfare, it can be solved by another way, that is, to completely destroy the city, whether it is to burn it or bombard it with heavy artillery, and kill all the people inside, which will naturally not become an obstacle. Someone immediately answered Bashir's question.

"So let's get started, how do we cut off Baghdad support on the right bank of the Euphrates, have you thought about it?" Al-Bashir then asked another question, how to cut off Baghdad's support is still a question.

"Maybe we need the help of the Soviet Union, and if they can convince the Soviet Union to sacrifice an oil tanker, then they can help!" This question is actually not difficult, and the solution is always figured out.

"The Soviets will definitely help us, there is simply no choice for them." Bashir said calmly that the only port in Iraq is Basra, which is controlled by the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party. As long as the first secretary made a request to the USSR, this was not a problem.

Al-Bashir ordered a propaganda campaign against Fallujah in the hope that more residents would realize the dangers of war in order to withdraw from the city, and he had already decided to blow it up with Soviet artillery. Even a heavy artillery, which was famous in World War II, is being transported from Syria at a slow pace.

This kind of heavy artillery is the artifact of the Soviet Union to deal with heavy fortifications and urban street battles, the B-4 howitzer, and he has another even louder name, Stalin's hammer. The B-4 howitzer has good ballistic properties and high firing accuracy with a total weight of 15.8 tons. Due to the large weight of the gun, the designers equipped it with a tracked gun mount, which weighed 11 tons and used the chassis of a "Comintern" heavy tracked tractor, which could provide the gun with limited maneuverability. The B-4 howitzer can be called a monster mounted on a tractor. The tail of the B-4 howitzer mount is equipped with auxiliary wheels for traction, and the towing speed is about 15 km / h, because most of the Soviet Union is in the ice and snow in winter, and the ice and snow are often muddy after melting, which is very unfavorable for the maneuverability of heavy artillery, for the B-4 with a total weight of 15.8 tons, the improvement of maneuverability after the installation of tracks is quite obvious.

Iraq did not have the icy and muddy environment of the Soviet Union, but the second batch of military supplies from the port of Ozad reached Syria later, because the Western military districts advanced very quickly, and this batch of 12 Stalin's hammer heavy guns was still moving slowly a hundred kilometers away.

For Serov, the Soviet Union has produced thousands of this thing, and because the Soviet Union has completed the mechanization of the whole army, this kind of heavy artillery has been eliminated, but the ammunition and artillery in stock are still there, and the Soviet Union will not face street fighting for the time being, but he knows the power of this thing, and he directly pulled the heavy artillery out of the warehouse, transported it to Syria and sent it to the hands of the Iraqi Communist Party on the road.

Stalin's hammer can be used more in street battles than other heavy artillery in that this tracked heavy artillery can often follow the infantry into the city to fight, and the offensive route of the Red Army's battle for the Reichstag in Berlin is the route of Stalin's hammer all the way forward, and there is no tile left in the place where it passes.

"Who says Iraqis can't fight, isn't that quite a way to find a way? Dispatch a thousand-ton tanker to fill it with fuel and go up the river, sink upstream in Fallujah, and the ignition work doesn't have to be handed over to us, right? By the way, it's more dangerous, let the Iraqi crews do it themselves. Serov quickly responded to the Iraqi Communist Party's plea for help, so many sacrifices were made, a tanker was nothing, it was not a giant tanker, the water of the Euphrates River was so deep that the big ships could not enter.

What al-Bashir meant was to sink a tanker full of fuel and ignite it, turn the Euphrates into a fiery snake, and stop the reinforcements from Baghdad, and Serov had to calculate what kind of tanker was the most suitable, and it was better not to block the attack of the Iraqi Communist Party, otherwise Fallujah would conquer it, and the fire dragon blocking the other side would become an obstacle to his side, which was not good.

But at present, Serov has one more thing, that is, the military exercises in Turkestan, the North Caucasus and the Caucasus, there are only a few countries that can fight in the entire Middle East, Syria and Egypt are still staring at Israel, and the remaining two countries that can intervene in the Iraqi civil war are Turkey and Iran, Turkey is the second largest armed force in NATO in terms of the number of troops, second only to the United States. Iran is the most pro-American Middle Eastern country in this era, and its friendship with the United States is still higher than that of Saudi Arabia, and it is also the Middle East policeman that the United States has always supported.

Iran is all-American-style equipment, Pahlavi is also very good to the army, the current Iran is not the Iran that played with the sea of people after the religious revolution, it is very possible to be fooled by the United States with a hot brain for a while, who knows if Pahlavi will do something to make a fire out of the fire? After Nixon came to power, Pahlavi announced yesterday that he was worried about the situation in Iraq.

In this case, let Pahlavi's worries be greater, Soviet Defense Minister Andrei. Marshal Grechko announced that military exercises involving the three military districts of Turkestan, the North Caucasus, and Transcaucasia will soon begin, and that the three military districts, together with the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Sea sub-fleet, will begin a week-long military exercises to deter reckless actions by Turkey and Iran.

As for the country of Saudi Arabia, it is not that the Soviet Union looks down on him, at present, this country has just begun to rise, and as for military strength, Serov believes that this country, which even the Houthis cannot defeat, has not risen at all.

by Defense Andrei. The exercise, which was personally presided over by Marshal Grechko, with more than 60,000 participants, completed the maneuver between the three military districts, as well as the landing exercises of the Black Sea Fleet, the Caspian Sea Detachment, and the infantry of the Soviet Navy, covering the entire Caucasus and the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. As soon as the news was released, it put strong pressure on Turkey and Iran, and they raised the alert status in their border areas, and the Soviet Union did have a gap between its navy and the United States, but it did not look at how wide the Black Sea was. Once the Soviet Red Navy hits, the US Navy will not even have a chance to rescue.

As a result, the two countries did not hear the US demand for intervention between the two countries, and expressed their own difficulties: the international economy is not good, the armaments are insufficient, and the personnel are not in order, and simply put, they cannot intervene in the war in Iraq.

Both countries believe that the United States itself will not go up, and it is unrealistic for them to go up and confront the Soviet Union. You must know that both Turkey and Iran border the USSR, what was the strongest of the USSR? The army tanks calculated in 10,000 really don't know that the severity of the tank will be a catastrophe for them, so no matter what support the United States provides, it is impossible for the two governments to agree.

"What are you kidding, providing weapons support? Let's go against the USSR? Can the Soviet Union be dealt with with with weapons support? Pahlavi muttered alone after sending off the American envoy. Don't say that there is a real fight, even the current exercises have tightened the strings of the Iranian military.

In the past few days, the Iraqi Communist Party and the northern Kurdish armed forces are still on the offensive, approaching Baghdad from the north and south, but on the whole, the front is quite stable, after all, the Iraqi military government has been fighting for so many years, and it is not difficult to stabilize the front, and at the same time, Baghdad has begun to ask for foreign help, indicating that this is the Soviet Union's subversive action against Iraq, and I hope that the international community will support it, but the international community is relatively busy at present.

Brezhnev, who was negotiating with Bougla and the Federal Republic of Germany, revealed in his words, consciously or unconsciously, that there were indeed powerful hardliners in the Soviet Union, and that they were even quite dissatisfied with their own policy of détente with Western Europe. As for the hardliners, they are probably all anyway, except for himself and Kosygin.

After several days of preparation and shouting, al-Bashir finally made all the preparations, more than 300 cannons lined up in Fallujah, he estimated that 90 percent of the city's residents had been evacuated, and the rest were either not afraid of death or were hardcore supporters of the junta, so there was no need to stay at this time.

At dawn on 25 January, just as the sky was dawning, the artillery positions of the Iraqi Liberation Army (IRA) burst into the sky with a loud noise, and shells were fired one after another, which opened up a heavy shelling of Fallujah, and the oil tanker flying the American flag upstream was hit, and then the entire Euphrates River was transformed into a fiery dragon.

The shelling lasted for six hours, more than 10,000 tons of shells were fired, and the whole of Fallujah was already unrecognizable in the telescope, and with the last shell bombarded the city, at the same time the Iraqi Liberation Army T54 tanks had already broken out of their positions, followed by PLA soldiers, and behind them were the slowly moving tracked heavy artillery, Stalin's hammer. (To be continued.) )