Chapter 615: Fallujah

The wave of communist uprisings spread throughout the 14 provinces and every county of Iraq, and urgent telegrams were sent to Baghdad, and the huge strength accumulated by the Iraqi Communist Party over the past 10 years or so burst out at this moment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Everywhere there are communist forces with sickle and hammer flags, they are obviously prepared, and even the garrison in Baghdad, many troops directly change the flag, and they become the armed revolutionary forces under the Iraqi Communist Party.

Almost later in the same day, the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, General Mustafa, led the Kurdish forces out of the Kurdish area, and the aggressive southward offensive was clearly a distant echo of the Iraqi Communist Party in Basra.

"Conquer, Anbar province, and gain a foothold here, we march eastward down the Euphrates and march south with the Kurds to attack Baghdad, in response to the northward advance of the central army. Finally annihilate all the junta forces in Baghdad and put an end to the long civil war in our country. Bashir, the Central Committee member of the KGB unit trained by the KGB who landed in Syria, who had been working in the Soviet Union for all this work, shouted.

"First contact our underground party members in Anbar province, and we should control the situation as quickly as possible, so that the anti-rebellion workers can immediately take over the relevant work, and first eliminate the suspected unstable factors, and we will control the whole country within a period of time." Bashir had been in the Soviet Union for a long time, and since these people had been trained as spies, it was natural to understand what he meant.

The suspicious people mean the people of the junta, including the local armed forces, these are their enemies, and they will all be eliminated in the end, either now or later, and Bashir means that they can be eliminated now.

Then al-Bashir received a message from Hussein, the first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party. By order of Al-Radi, al-Bashir's subordinate units were established as the Western Military District of the Iraqi Liberation Army, and al-Bashir became the political commissar of the Central Committee in the Western Military District. He was responsible for the political work of the entire unit, and the position of commander was temporarily vacant, because for the time being, the central government knew who was more suitable for the position of commander among these Soviet-trained soldiers.

Anbar province is the largest province in Iraq, and the vast area bordering Syria is a vast desert with no people at all, only a few herders who exist and cannot play a role in resisting this armed force. But the eastern part of the largest province is only about 20 kilometers from Baghdad, which was officially seen in the first place. Serov and the General Staff decided to let these troops land from Syria and attack across the border from Iraq's western borders.

In the Middle East war a year ago, the Iraqi Air Force was also attacked by Israel, and then as the main supplier of Iraqi equipment, the Soviet Union temporarily made Iraq endure in the name of insufficient production, and has not replenished the lost fighters to this day.

In fact, these fighters were already in place, but not for the Iraqi government, but for the Iraqi Communist Party, which was already raising the banner of the uprising in Basra, and to the newly established Iraqi Liberation Army.

The troops of the Western Military Region continued to easily run over villages on the road, and at the same time, as the march process, the troops became larger and larger, and by the time they reached the provincial capital Ramadi, there were more than 30,000 people, T54 tanks slowly exerted, and there was a huge convoy in the rear, in an oil-producing country like Iraq, there was no shortage of fuel. When the entire army was marching, huge dust and smoke obscured the sky and the sun, covering the mighty team for dozens of miles.

The sight terrified the defenders of the government forces in Ramadi, and after negotiations, an agreement was reached. Iraqi government forces in Fallujah, which became part of the Iraqi Liberation Army (ALA), attacked Baghdad alongside troops from the Western Military District.

In the first few days, the government in Baghdad seemed to be stunned by the sudden insurgency, and urgent telegrams came from all directions, the Kurds in the north, under the leadership of Mustafa, had routed the cities defended by the government forces, and moved south along the upper reaches of the two river basins, and the Iraqi Communist Party in the south, which had taken full control of Basra province, had unloaded huge military equipment from its ships and had organized an armed force of more than 100,000 men, in the fighting between government forces and the Iraqi Liberation Army in the fighting in Maysan and Wasit governorates two days earlier, all of which were underground party forces in the rear directly from the rear to the military base of the government army.

In just a few days since the uprising of the Iraqi Communist Party in Basra, four provinces in southern Iraq have fallen into the hands of the Iraqi Liberation Army, and almost five provinces have been lost with the Western Military Districts, which have been killed from the Syrian direction. Why do you say almost, because Fallujah, the key town of Anbar province, is still in the hands of government forces.

It may seem that only five of Iraq's fourteen provinces have been lost, but in reality it cannot be counted as such, three provinces in northern Iraq are themselves controlled by Kurds, and two more provinces are also heavily accounted for by Kurds. If you look at it this way, in five days, Iraq's military junta has lost most of the country, leaving only a few provinces around Baghdad still in control.

"So loud? I'm sure there are a large number of former government troops in it, and they will definitely defect if the war is unfavorable, but forget it, this situation will be dealt with later. Serov put down the latest war report sent back from Iraq and asked, "Has Ismail's side communicated well, as long as Iraq wins, they will not be isolated in the Middle East, I hope they can temporarily put aside their differences and aid Iraq first." ”

"We've talked about it, and they've asked us for $40 million in aid. They will send 10,000 fighters to fight in Iraq. Mortin, the head of the First General Bureau, immediately replied, "The situation there is more tense, and I hope we can give some support." ”

"Small money, as long as you can gnaw Iraq down, this money is not a problem. Give them and let their warriors board right away! Serov simply agreed in its entirety, and in this case he should not be too picky.

The fierce fighting in Iraq spread throughout the world almost instantly, and compared with the quagmire in which the United States was mired in Vietnam, the Iraqi Communist Party achieved such great results in just a few days that it can almost be described as overwhelming. In contrast, the Polish and Romanian newspapers even optimistically predicted the imminent emergence of a new socialist state, saying, "We can see that democracy is flourishing in the countries that have always hated us, and even their own people do not believe in their own governments and accept our ideas." ”

"We can optimistically estimate that the great wave of world revolution is about to come, and perhaps our generation will see the collapse of the United States and the free world as he speaks."

On 20 January, the day US President Nixon was sworn in, when he was sworn in in Washington, Nixon's heart was full of gloom, especially the news from Iraq, which made him very irritable. For such an incident that broke out at the time of the change, even if he is a veteran politician, he can't pretend that nothing happened.

It seemed that at the first moment, Nixon was ready to mobilize the US Fifth Fleet to intervene in the Persian Gulf, but when he thought of the protesters squatting outside at the door of the White House every day, he dispelled this idea. He came to power through an anti-war election, just as the Warsaw Pact countries said, and now the free world, including the United States, has reached a point where the people do not believe what the government says.

Even Nixon doubted that if the Soviet Union attacked the United States tomorrow, there would be countless people in the United States leading the way, just as in Iraq in the past few days, when there were only more than 10,000 people in the riots, and in less than a week, the armed forces attacking Baghdad from three directions were close to 200,000.

"What about the Ba'ath Party? What about Shiites? What about Sunnis? What about tribal power? "Nixon really wanted to know, where have all these forces that have been fighting with the government army in the past few years gone? In response, Abdullah Rahman said that these people were often the first to be eliminated, and that his men were trained by the KGB and the Cheka.

The total strength of the Western Military Region of the Iraqi Liberation Army, with more than 40,000 troops, has reached the outside of Fallujah, where the defenders of Fallujah have received a death order from Baghdad to stop the rebels.

In the face of the huge Iraqi Liberation Army, the government forces in Fallujah City have not been idle, and have also actively prepared for war, and their main tactics are: placing a large number of mines and improvised explosive devices on the roads leading to the city; The commanding heights in the city are guarded by gunners; Dense tunnels, trenches, spider holes, minefields and roadside bombs were installed in the city, through which government troops could move between defensive points and ammunition depots; A large number of explosives were placed in some buildings in the city, controlled by leads, and once the Communists entered these bomb houses, they would be put to a pot; Mines and grenades were planted on the doors and windows of buildings, and the Communists would detonate bombs if they tried to push the doors in; In order to prevent the Communists from seizing the commanding heights, the stairs of a large number of buildings were blown up or sealed; Deliberately opening a road, ambushing on both sides with dense crossfire, attracting them to enter and striking them, etc.

This battle is very important for both sides of the war, once Fallujah is captured, it seems that Baghdad will be surrounded from three directions, both sides know this, and the government army has put two divisions to defend here. (To be continued.) )