Chapter 553: Airborne
"It turns out that the disadvantage of the Arabs on the battlefield really has nothing to do with our USSR. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Even if 50,000 pigs are captured, the Israelites have to catch them for three days, which is also called war. A telegram from the Middle East battlefield caused Serov, who was in the Soviet Ministry of Defense, to spit wildly and start a wave of irresponsible group ridicule.
With equal forces, the heavily fortified Jordanian defense line was quickly broken by the Israeli army. This certainly has nothing to do with the Soviet Union, although the country of Jordan stands with Syria and Egypt. But the protector of this country is not the USSR or the United States, but Great Britain, and the national army is British-made from training to armament.
"Fortunately, Syria is still in an offensive posture, otherwise it would be really uncomfortable. How could such an army become like this? "The Minister of Defense, Marshal Grechko, felt as if his war experience was of little use. This war is not at all what the Soviet Union thought, and judging from the battle loss ratio, it is a bit like Israel unilaterally beating the Arabs.
"It is necessary to create some public opinion, give Meshatsev a phone call and ask him to come here." Serov looked at Defense Minister Marshal Gretchko and said, "Starting tomorrow morning, all trains to the Caucasus will be suspended, and all lines will be used to transport troops." We have to make a blatant appearance to increase the troops, and I see how bold Israel is, and this time I scare the Jews. ”
"How? What more do you want? Marshal Grechko also asked curiously, at this point he still didn't know how to scare the Israelis, and the Soviet Union was still unwilling to threaten each other with the United States. At least for the sake of the Arabs is not worth it, contrary to Serov's thoughts, he is quite willing to act as if he will not hesitate to go to the trouble for the Arabs.
"I'm going to mobilize a force to go to Syria, and I need the air force to transport people there?" Serov looked up at the ceiling and said, "As long as our armed forces are present in Syria, I do not believe that Israel will dare to attack our soldiers." As soon as the news spread, the Arabs were demoralized and continued to engage in the war. ”
It makes sense to say this, but Marshal Grechko shook his head directly and said, "No matter which force you mobilize, I will not agree, and it will be a big deal to do so." "Marshal Grechko knows that Serov is also a member of the National Defense Committee, but usually Serov is only in a name, and he is the Minister of Defense, and he must not let this spy leader mess around.
"I don't need your consent to mobilize the troops. All I need to do is issue a presidential order. Serov came back to his senses and looked at the defense minister in front of him and said with a smile, "I want to mobilize the Cheka in Kyiv, which has nothing to do with the Ministry of Defense." ”
The Cheka Combat Division, the third division of the Internal Guard Army after his reorganization, belongs to several of the most powerful armed forces of the KGB, and its equipment and training are the same as the Dzerzhinsky Division of the Eternal Imperial Forest Army in Moscow, and its status is the same as that of the KGB Division of the Second Internal Guard Division in Leningrad, and it belongs to the ace unit of the KGB. The military uniform has a capital Russian letter C on the left chest, which means to suppress rebellion. The KGB internal guards refer to each other in the same way as the major KGB organs, and they call each other anti-anti-counter workers.
The next day, Meshatsev published an article in Pravda in an attempt to boost the morale of the Arab coalition forces, which wrote, "We must admit that compared to the size of Israel, the hundreds of millions of Arab people, and the united assistance of dozens of countries, Israel will definitely not win as long as the Arab coalition forces hold on and show the spirit of sacrifice for the country." ”
The Soviets taught the Arab coalition how to fight almost through Pravda, without any advanced tactics or morale, and explicitly told Egypt and Syria what they were afraid of because of your numbers. Even if it is 500,000 deaths, Israel will not be able to bear 50,000 deaths.
"The Arab coalition is bound to win, even if it is ten for one, the final result is that the Arabs win." Facing the newspapers of some countries, Serov shouted unabashedly, "If I were an Arab, even if I didn't know anything, as long as I could go to the battlefield to block bullets, so many Arabs in the world would pile up and kill Israel." ”
"As long as the war lasts for more than a month, Israel's domestic ammunition is simply not enough, on the contrary, although the Arab countries are not strong in industry, a little support from each country is enough to drag Israel to death." Nasser and Assad respectively demanded that their armies hold on through their broadcasts, and affirmed the judgment of the Soviet Union, saying that the two countries would definitely hold on.
Hundreds of thousands of troops are fighting each other in the Sinai Peninsula, in the Golan Heights, and in the Jordan River, although Israel is currently on the offensive in both the south and the east, and has gained a great advantage in the Jordan River. But none of this is a reason to excite Israelis. On the first day of the war, the Egyptian army gathered in the Sinai Peninsula, and although Israel eliminated the Egyptian air force, it also consumed a third of its own air force, and was also mired in a war of attrition in the north and Syria.
There is only one way for Israel to quickly crush a country and force the other side to withdraw from the war. And the Arab coalition has only one purpose, to fight hard! Turn the war into a positional war, and use the superior numbers of your own army to consume Israel's living forces.
Ten Israeli brigades in the Jordan River quickly occupied the assault positions and routed the defending Jordanian troops. Three armoured brigades were pursuing the defeated Jordanian forces, but the Syrian Army's attacks in the south and Egypt, as well as in the Golan Heights, turned into a war of attrition. Three days into the war, the Israeli Army has already lost more than two thousand killed, not counting the downed Air Force pilots.
"Nasser still wants to save Jordan? Don't make a fuss, Jordan's shame should be in a hurry for the British. Serov, who received the news, really didn't know what Nasser was thinking? When the Arab brothers are in trouble, should they draw their swords to help? Don't look at yourself with lice anymore, and still have time to tickle others?
Egypt and Israel have been locked in a tug-of-war towards the Sinai Peninsula, does Egypt still have the strength to save Jordan? If Iraq were not in the current situation, Iraq itself would have been able to rescue Jordan. But isn't there no way around it now?
"Nasser announced that two divisions of the Sultan and one division of the ****** had entered the sequence of the Egyptian army and were now under his own command." Servanov informed Serov of the latest information on the battlefield.
"Those troops should be used in the Sinai Peninsula, tell Nasser that Israel's goal is to control the Suez Canal, just like in the last war!" Israel's purpose is not known to Serov, but now that Egypt and Israel are fighting in the Sinai Peninsula, he said yes, then it must be, who made the Sinai Peninsula the main direction of attack.
The city of Ismailia is the capital and largest city of Ismaili Province in the Arab Republic of Egypt, located in the northeast of Egypt, with a total area of about 1,000 square kilometers. It is located on the west bank of the Suez Canal, about halfway between Port Said to the north and Suez to the south. The canal widens within the city's territory and connects to Lake Tiemsah, further south to Lake Great Bitter, and east to the Sinai Peninsula, the Asian part of Egypt. It is the central city of the Suez Canal region.
The city of Ismailia has now become the headquarters of Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula, surrounded by troops from all over Egypt, and various facilities from the British and French colonial periods have been used. Including here, Egypt has amassed more than 200,000 troops in the Sinai Peninsula, and the vulnerable part of the assembly is entrusted to the Soviet military advisory group in Egypt.
In order to break the stalemate in the Sinai Peninsula, Moshe Dayan ordered the 202nd Paratrooper Brigade to be airborne in the Sinai Peninsula.
"What are you afraid of, how many people can there be in a paratrooper brigade, there are troops of our 11th Division in the Sinai Peninsula, can a paratrooper brigade change the tide of the war?" Nasser issued a letter to his compatriots in Egypt, expressing his determination to fight Israel to the end this time.
Later, the Sudanese government said that it was willing to provide everything it needed to help Egypt stabilize its social supply, so that Egypt could continue to fight as a country with a good territorial climate and abundant resources. Although Sudan's population is only one-third of that of Egypt, it is accumulating very quickly. Military construction and economic development have achieved initial results, and the per capita wealth is much richer than that of Egypt, which is of course inseparable from the support of the Soviet Union.
Israel's biggest advance in the Jordanian direction, the commander of Israel's Central Military District, Uzi? Major General Nalski was in charge of directing the assault on Jerusalem and the surrounding area. He sent rice? Ali's 10th Mechanized Brigade controlled the Jerusalem corridor, cutting the road between the city and Ramallah, and the paratrooper brigade under the command of Colonel Gul was responsible for occupying the Old City. On the same day, the Israeli army began to storm Jerusalem. The next morning, the Gul paratrooper brigade crossed the area between the Mandelbaum Gate and the police academy. In the morning, Israeli forces seized the area between the Old City of Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied Mount Scopus, and the Gul paratrooper brigade took up positions at the foot of the hill and made contact with the mountain. The Ghul Paratrooper Brigade began its assault on the city of Jerusalem and soon occupied it.
Just when Israel defeated Jordan, the Damascus airport was under martial law, the Syrian army gathered around, these soldiers looked at each other, did not know what their defense minister Hafez Assad meant, at this time there were black dots in the north, as the distance narrowed, the Syrian soldiers standing below saw the Soviet flag on the tail of the transport plane, every five minutes a Soviet transport plane landed, after the transport plane slowly landed, the cabin door opened, and a major general glanced at it with a blazing eye, slowly walking down, the Russian letter C on his chest sparkling. (To be continued.) )