Chapter 114 Combined Strikes by Land, Sea and Air

At 1 a.m. (Kuwait time) on 2 August 1990, with the close support and cooperation of the Air Force, Navy, Amphibious Warfare Forces and Special Operations Forces, three divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard crossed the Kuwaiti border and launched a surprise attack on Kuwait.

At 5:30 a.m., the main attacking force and the special operations forces met in Kuwait City.

After about 14 hours of fighting in the city, at 7 p.m., Iraqi forces completely occupied the Kuwaiti capital.

The offensive then continued to develop, with a steady stream of follow-up troops entering Kuwait.

Iraqi forces occupied all of Kuwait. Iraqi troops entered Kuwait with about 200,000 troops and more than 2,000 tanks.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced the annexation of Kuwait, making it Iraq's "19th province" and saying it "will forever be an integral part of Iraq."

At 8 p.m. on August 2, 1990, the United States launched the "Operation Desert Shield" defensive operation to prevent Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia.

On August 2, 1990, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 660, which condemned Iraq's violation of the UN Charter and demanded the withdrawal of its troops by a vote of 14 in favor, none against and one abstention.

The UN Security Council has adopted 12 resolutions condemning and sanctioning Iraq.

These resolutions have placed Iraq in a position of extreme political, economic, military and diplomatic isolation.

Resolution 678 sets a deadline of 15 January 1991 for Iraq to withdraw its troops, and if Iraq does not withdraw before the deadline, it authorizes United Nations Member States to use "all necessary means" to implement the resolutions adopted by the United Nations.

On 3 August 1990, the United States and the Soviet Union reached a consensus and issued a Joint Statement, demanding that Iraq "unconditionally withdraw its troops from Kuwait" and "fully restore Kuwait's sovereignty, legitimate political power and territorial integrity." This is completely consistent with the policy objectives of the United States towards Iraq. At the same time, arms supplies and military assistance to Iraq were halted.

On 3 August 1990, the Arab League issued a resolution condemning Iraq's acts of aggression and demanding that Iraq withdraw its troops.

The Arab League resolution also calls for an intra-Arab settlement of the conflict and warns of external interference.

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On August 4, 1990, the United States decided to send troops to the Gulf.

On 7 August, President Bush officially signed the "Desert Shield" initiative.

About 2,300 people from one brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division of the Chinese Army took off from the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina as the vanguard and headed for Saudi Arabia.

On August 7, 1990, the Chinese army left for Saudi Arabia.

In mid-August 1990, a coordinated operational command structure was established at the highest level of the Multinational Force as a result of consultations. The principle is that all units in the theater are under the unified command of Lieutenant General Khalid, commander of the armed forces of Saudi Arabia, and Colonel-General Schwarzkopf, commander of the central headquarters of the Mi Army, but each unit is under the orders and instructions of the highest authorities of the country.

Secretary of State James Baker organized a coalition of 34 countries against Iraq: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States. Of the 660,000 troops in this war, 74% were Mi.

The only difference from the original history is that a new Han state was added to the coalition army, and the alliance became thirty-five countries.

The Gulf War was about to break out, and the Han Kingdom also took this opportunity to speed up the course of the war and eliminate the opponent in front of them.

Didn't the people of the United States say that they support the Han State to fight against the evil country.

If you don't start now, when will you wait!

At 9:30 a.m. on 2 August, Admiral Xu Liqiang of the Han Royal Navy led a fleet consisting of two destroyers, four patrol boats, and two Bejia-class frigates to the predetermined sea area.

At this time, as the defensive side, Nguyen Dyong's army lost the cover of artillery and finally could not withstand the attack of the coalition army, and the army suffered heavy casualties, so it could only retreat to the edge of the city near Hue, using the broken walls of the houses as cover, shrinking its forces to resist stubbornly.

Naturally, the coalition side would not let Nguyen Dung go, and the two armies pursued Nguyen Dyong's army and fought fiercely on the northern outskirts of Hue City.

At 10 o'clock, fighter planes roared in the sky, and F-15 fighters flew over Hue, intending to carry out an air attack on the Nanban army.

In this naval and air bombardment, the Air Force had to locate the Nanban troops on the ground, and then transmit it to the Navy ships through a data link so that they could carry out precision strikes.

The F-15 fighter was the first to attack, and the missile was fired precisely at the ground target - the headquarters of the Nanban army, carrying out a decapitation operation.

Immediately afterwards, the helicopter on the destroyer took to the air, thinking about the defense area of Nguyen Dung army in Hue City, who, together with the F-15, were responsible for striking at the army of the defending side.

Eight warships on the sea opened fire almost simultaneously, and dense naval guns streaked across the sky and fired at the Nanban army outside Hue City.

Due to the positioning of the fighters in the sky, the landing points of these shells were very accurate, and the casualties caused were also huge. The few so-called tanks in the hands of the Nanban army were vulnerable to the dense naval artillery and turned into a pair of scrap metal.

The shells on the warship were firing almost non-stop, and the order given by the fleet commander Xu Liqiang was to shoot all the shells for me.

The landing point of the artillery shells advanced along the Nanban army, forming a carpet bombardment like a wave, but the Nanban army was too late to run, and the stumps and broken arms of the bombed flew all over the sky.

The hundreds of thousands of troops of the entire tripartite forces of the Southern Barbarians were not much after the civil war, and it is really hard to say how much they can be left after such a tragic bombardment.

The firing of the naval guns lasted more than 40 minutes, and there was the monitoring of fighters in the air, and the results of the battle on the ground were clear.

The Nanban army was bombed so badly that the entire army was shattered, and at this moment gunshots rang out in the city, apparently the guerrillas led by Zhang Shigang entered Hue City to clear the remnants of the army.

The army outside the city is probably in place, but it can't get too close to prevent it from being accidentally bombed by the navy and air force.

Helicopters were still searching for remnants in the sky to strafe, most of the large-scale troops were gone, and the formation of the Nanban army was completely disrupted and disabled.

And their headquarters was also hit by missiles, and as for Du Zhangmen and a few others, it is estimated that there will be more than one luck.

The rest of the tasks depend on Zhang Shigang and them, and the tasks of the navy and air force have basically been completed.

As soon as the naval guns stopped firing, the helicopters in the sky had already spotted a large number of troops in the fields in the distance, and pressed towards Hue City in a three-sided attack.

The air helicopter reported the situation to Xu Liqiang, the commander of the warship, and also reported the situation of the remnants of the Nanban army.

Commander Xu Liqiang received the report and knew that his mission had been completed.

Nima, it's not fun, it's only been an hour.

But if you can't fight it, do you want to fire at Zhang Shigang's army?

Forget it, just get over it and retreat.