Chapter 039: War in the Middle East (3)
Mustafa Ismail Inonu, a graduate of the Istanbul Military Academy and commander of the 4th Army Corps during World War I, was one of Kemal's main military right-hand men, leading his army to defeat the Greek invasion in two battles of Inonenu.
After the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, Inonu served as Prime Minister (1923~1924, 1925~1937), the second person in the Turkish government, and after the death of President Kemal in 1938, Inonu became the president and the lifelong chairman of the ruling Republican People's Party.
When President Inonu learned that Germany had rejected his request, he was very annoyed, although Turkey had rejected relations with the Arabs since independence, and instead emphasized his Turkic origins, but in his heart they had always hoped to be able to once again establish a great Turkish state across Asia, Africa and Europe, like the Ottoman Empire.
When Inonu learned that Israel was established, the anger of the Arabs was completely aroused, and he was very excited, thinking that this was the best time to win over the Arabs.
Of course, he has other plans, that is, if he can't get rid of Israel, which is supported by Britain, France and the United States, they can also occupy Syria to expand its territorial area.
Turkey quickly sent 50,000 troops into Syria at this time, if it were not for the estimation of Syria's feelings, and at the same time in order to avoid Syria's vigilance, they directly sent 100,000 troops.
The Turkish side wants to reach an agreement with the Arab countries led by Syria, and the Turkish army will command all the Arab armies as the main force, after all, the Turkish army has rich combat experience, and the officers are also familiar with the tactics of the European and American armies.
Iran, Egypt, and Syria do not agree, after Turkey left Asia and joined Europe, they have always regarded Turkey as an outlier, not to mention that the former Ottoman Empire was their suzerain, often bullied them, and finally became independent, they didn't want the Turks to gain too much influence in Arab countries,
These countries want to be the leader of the Arab countries, so they try their best to exclude Turkey, but they also want to be able to fire a large number of arms from Turkey, after all, among these countries, only Turkey has a relatively complete industrial system.
Therefore, in the end, it was agreed that Turkey would not be the main force and would not lead the United Arab Army, and that the Turkish army would only participate in the war as a reserve force.
According to this agreement, Inonu immediately made adjustments, he instead let the troops make trouble, causing heavy losses to the Arab army, especially the Syrian army, so that their losses of no soldiers can be used for the best, only then Turkey can stay in Syria under the pretext of protecting Syria, or even occupy it directly,
And the military commander of the United Arab Forces was finally held by the ** of Syria, and Egypt was responsible for the attack from the Sinai Peninsula,
On September 28, the Arab countries quickly and chaotically concentrated 250,000 troops and 200,000 young men who had fled from the Palestinian areas to launch an attack on Israel.
Egypt has also completed the deployment of troops to the Sinai Peninsula, but they only have 50,000 troops, because the British have not allowed them to have too many troops.
Now the whole Middle East is full of chaos, behind which it is obvious that there are signs of manipulation by Britain, France and the United States, the prime minister except Turkey and Saudi Arabia have more autonomy, and other countries, such as Syria, Iran, and Egypt are all semi-colonies of the United Kingdom, and Britain actually allowed them to attack Israel.
This would have been unthinkable without the permission of the British, no matter how angry these Arabs were, and the country of Jordan had been warned that they were not allowed to participate in the siege of Israel, and perhaps Britain, France and the United States were also worried that one side was the sea, and the other three sides were besieged Israel, a country that had just been established for a month, would not be able to withstand it, and it would not be very convenient to intervene at that time.
If the Israelis can't hold on, helping Israel will inevitably offend the Arabs, it doesn't matter in normal times, but at this time, the international situation is very unfavorable to them, and if the Arabs come to make trouble, it will be a big threat, so they can only order Jordan to remain neutral,
And these countries are still very taboo about the Rothschilds and the Jews, there is no way to make them independent, they can't slaughter the Jews as naked as Germany, but they want to teach the Jews an unforgettable lesson,
And the British also want to make some money on arms by the way, and at the same time hit the strength of these Arab countries, if the Israelis wipe out the armies of these countries that are clamoring for independence every day, then the strength of these countries will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the possibility of wanting independence is even smaller, and Britain needs time to make up for the trauma of World War II, so with the help of the hands of the Israelis to consume them, and it can be said that making money can be said to be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
On the last day of September, the Arabs launched an attack on Israel on October 1 after their last warnings were ineffective,
Ben-Gurion had been prepared at this time, although these Israeli troops had just been recruited, but there was a tradition of guns in Europe and the United States, and these people were often ostracized, so they had guns at home, and their marksmanship was naturally not bad, and there were many people who had served in the armies of various countries, so the Israeli army has always been a relatively strong force.
And Ben-Gurion still did not plan to take the initiative to attack at the beginning, the first reason is to avoid the truth, so that he can occupy the moral high ground, the second is that although most of the Israeli troops have experience in shooting before, but fighting alone is still very different from fighting hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention that they used to fight rabbits, pheasants or something, and there was almost no danger to the hunters themselves, but now they are blocking the enemy in the midst of artillery fire, not to mention that the number of enemies far exceeds their own, and they shoot at people for the first time, and they have no combat experience. Therefore, it is safer and safer to fight positional warfare, at least it is not easy to rout,
The United Arab Army took the initiative to attack because of the large number of people, but Jordan was controlled by the British and did not let them attack from Jordan, and they did not dare to offend the British, so in fact, the area they attacked on the northern front was very narrow, but it was more convenient to attack in the south in the direction of the Sinai Peninsula, but there were only 50,000 Egyptian troops here,
At sea, Turkey did not send their navy, in fact, their navy is quite good, I don't know if it is because they want to occupy Syria or are afraid of British and American intervention,
Under the command of the United Arab Army, the Prime Minister launched an attack on the Israeli army with aircraft, and at the same time their artillery also threatened the Israeli positions.
And the Israeli planes were also dispatched to fight fiercely with the Arab Air Force, but the planes of the Arab Army are old-fashioned, the best aircraft should be imported by Turkey from Germany, but it is already a product of several years ago, and the Israeli army is the most advanced American and British aircraft at the moment,
Fortunately, most of the pilots of the Israeli army are recruited temporarily, and most of them are temporary aircraft, and there are a few former aircraft enthusiasts who fly the kind of biplane old planes of the First World War period, which is naturally incomparable with the current complex aircraft.
However, the pilots of the Arab air force such as Turkey are much more experienced, especially the Turkish air force, which originally belongs to an independent country, and the army construction is quite good, at least independent enough, Kemal himself and his successor Du Yu's army construction is also extremely important,
In this way, because the Israeli army can dispatch relatively few planes and lack experience, while the planes dispatched by the Afghan army are old and weak, the number is still considerable, and the pilots are also relatively experienced, so the two sides actually reached a tie after a day.
Although the artillery bombardment effect of the Afghan army was almost accurate, it was better than the artillery, and because of the large number of professionals, the Israeli army built a large number of safe and reliable fortifications, and although most of its own artillery did not have any accuracy, it did not suffer much loss.
For three days in a row, there were basically only air battles and artillery battles between the two sides, and there was not much army offensive, ** has been testing the firepower of the Israeli army, and he found that the level of artillery and air combat of the Israeli army is not very good.
On the fourth day, he began to order the army to launch a tentative offensive,** preventing 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry from attacking under the cover of a small number of armored tanks and aircraft artillery.
The Israeli army is well prepared, unlike in history, the Israeli military leaders have always believed that war is inevitable, and Britain is willing to sell weapons to them in exchange for the necessary funds to maintain the battlefield operations at home.
As soon as Israel was established, the U.S. government recognized Israel under their manipulation, and at the same time provided a large number of weapons to Israel, which made the Israeli army not so obvious in terms of equipment and personnel.
Historically, the Afghan army had a total of 120,000 people, while the Israeli army had only more than 30,000 at the beginning of the launch, and there was a lack of tanks and artillery, and there were far fewer planes than the Afghan army.
15,000 Afghan troops launched an attack on the Israeli army under the cover of artillery and aircraft, and the Israeli army was not so afraid after the experience of the previous three days, and they bravely climbed out of the bomb shelter and lay down in the trenches under the orders of the Zionists and commanders to shoot at the attacking Afghan troops.
The artillery and machine guns of the Israeli army focused on attacking the cavalry of the Afghan army, as we all know, in front of the galloping cavalry, in addition to the armored troops, the other troops on the ground will beat drums in their hearts when they hear the shock of the earth, everyone knows that if they are killed by the cavalry, then they basically have no chance to fight back, and what awaits them is only to be trampled into pulp by horses or cut off their heads by sabers, and then trampled into pulp by horses.
"Click...... Bang bang ...... "Machine guns, rifles, and then submachine guns fired fiercely at the cavalry of the Afghan army, and the cavalry of the Afghan army also returned fire with rifles, but with little effect, only a little affected the shooting of the Israeli army,
However, this does not mean that the losses of the Israeli army are very small, because while the Israeli army climbed out of the air-raid shelter, the artillery bombardment of the Israeli army's positions was carried out from time to time, and there were planes in the sky from time to time to help the battle, and for a time the Israeli army itself was also hit by artillery bombardment when it slaughtered the Afghan cavalry.