Two armored divisions are not the entire offensive forces of Syria, it is only the first echelon of the Syrian offensive. Pen ~ fun ~ cabinet www.biquge.info under the cover of artillery, the Syrian army defending the north immediately crossed the border, and almost at the same time Hafez al-Assad announced in Damascus that Syria had entered a state of war with Turkey. Infantry divisions and motorized rifle divisions are rushing to northern Syria from all over the country.

Syria is known as the Israel of the Soviet Union, and Hafez al-Assad even led the Arab Social Baath Party to abolish the status of the state religion of peace in order to gain the support of the Soviet Union. This, of course, had something to do with the fact that the Alawites themselves were a minority, but this attitude won the goodwill of the Soviet Union, and even the newest Soviet T72 tanks were sent to Syria.

As a result of the intense Soviet-style shelling, billowing smoke still shrouded the positions on the border, Syria's newly formed Army Group North crossed the border with the characteristic sound of tank crawler friction, and a broken boundary monument not far away also wrote Syria, Turkey in Turkish.

Army Group North, which includes two armored divisions, five motorized infantry divisions and infantry divisions, with a total of 100,000 Syrian troops, is heading north, the roads leading to northern Syria have been blocked, and Syrian Air Force fighter jets can be seen whizzing past from time to time in the sky, and they are rushing to the front line to bomb Turkish military targets.

The T72, armed with a 125-mm smoothbore gun on the ground, moved forward indomitably, and the MiG and Sukhoi fighters of the Syrian Air Force in the air rained bombs over Turkish military targets, and for a time the southern border of Turkey was full of smoke.

Greece's new president, Konstantin? Karamanlis was faced with the criticism and accusations of various parties, and he had a great headache. He knew that because the junta had just fallen, the whole of Greece was in a state of chaos after being suppressed by the junta. After a long period of repression, the population needs a catharsis, and the ongoing war in Cyprus has clearly become this catharsis.

After the news of Syria's President Hafez Assad attacking Turkey reached Greece, the Greek people could not sit still, military enthusiasts are everywhere, and Greece has no shortage of such people. In their eyes, Syria, a military power in the Middle East, was built by the Soviet Union, equipped with thousands of tanks, and fought bloody battles with Israel in several Middle East wars, attacking Greece at this time, and Greece should take advantage of this time to work with Syria to permanently solve the Cyprus problem.

"The Syrian army is not below Turkey, it is a military power in the Middle East, if we unite with Syria, we can completely defeat Turkey, as president you should choose a move that is beneficial to the country."

"If we pretend not to see Syria, the protesters outside will tear us all apart and replace them with a parliamentarian who can protect Greece."

"President Constantine, do you know that there is a saying among the population that all Orthodox countries are in the Warsaw Pact, why does Greece, as the purest Orthodox country, help NATO against our own faith, have we forgotten who ransacked Constantinople in the first place?"

The whole parliament was flooded with voices like this, Konstantin? Karamanlis struggled to cope with the accusations. Public opinion is a thing that can usually be considered a fart, as long as the bourgeoisie is united, most of the time it can play with public opinion, the problem is that the Greek bourgeoisie is not united now.

When it comes to Turkey, national sentiment has the absolute upper hand. Constantine? Karamanlis had no doubt that if he didn't agree, a crowd of up to 100,000 protesters outside would rush in and bloodied the council.

"Quiet!" Constantine? Karamanlis let out a loud shout, which put a stop to the increasingly chaotic atmosphere in the parliament, and sighed, "We will now vote on the resolution to declare war on Turkey." ”

He can't put all the blame on himself, so that if the war is lost, he will easily shirk the responsibility. Apparently Konstantin? Karamanlis's idea was similar to that of Brezhnev. The prospect of victory is very wonderful, the credit is certainly your own, but what about the defeat? Brezhnev is ready to put Serov to full responsibility, Konstantin? Karamanlis was ready to put the blame on the Parliament.

The result of the vote was almost one-sided, and soon, Konstantin? President Karamanlis announced to the Greek nation via television broadcast that "Greece has officially declared war on Turkey and guarantees the rights and interests of the Greek community in Cyprus." "In this way, immediately after Greece withdrew from NATO's military command system, it dropped a bombshell within NATO, declaring war on Turkey.

The Greek Air Force quickly took off on the mainland and flew to Cyprus to bomb the landed Turkish troops. A few hours later, Hafez al-Assad's envoy arrived in Athens and announced that Syria would fight in concert with Greece. In fact, the Syrian envoy was not in Konstantin at all? Karamanlis there to get any recognition.

But the announcement of the Syrian envoy immediately made all Greeks boil. This made the Greek presidential palace dare not clarify at all, and at this time, President Karamanlis, who has not been in office for a few days, does not dare to stir up public opinion casually. The Greeks can only be acquiesced in thinking that they have a military power in the Middle East as an ally.

In fact, Greece on the border of Constantinople, in fact, only put on the appearance of a large army pressing the border, shelling each other with artillery and Turkish artillery, and did not attack on a large scale at all like Syria. President Karamanlis is still reluctant to enter into the war completely, and at most is fighting for Cyprus with a Greek navy and air force that is not inferior to Turkey.

Turkey's response was not unpleasant, as troops stationed in the south immediately assembled to defend themselves against the invasion of the Syrian army, and a tank battle ensued in an open field rarely seen in Turkey. The T72 125-mm smoothbore gun with a red-hot metal heat flow bombarded the armor of the turret of the American-made M60 tank, and then, inside the second stage hollow armor-piercing powder cover located behind the rocket engine, the main charge turned into a metal heat flow, and continued to bombard!

Under this stream of metal heat, the main armor of the M60 tank was directly penetrated! The hot metal heat flow penetrated the inside of the tank, and the ammunition inside was detonated in an instant! This is quite normal, after the baptism of the Great Patriotic War, the USSR was very advanced in the concept of developing tanks, and this advancement was maintained until the collapse of the USSR. Until the disintegration, European and American tanks could only win with a physique that was 20 tons heavier than Soviet tanks. And what if Soviet tanks were also sixty tons?

"Boom!" With the roar of the barrels, one hundred and five mm tank shells flew towards the Syrian armored forces in the distance. After a violent explosion and the smoke cleared, the T72 tank continued to move forward and at the same time began to counterattack, constantly shelling the American-made M60 tanks of the Turkish military with large-caliber artillery.

The first time the Soviet T72 tank became famous was the Bekaa Valley tank battle between Syria and Israel, when almost all of Syria's weapons and equipment and the quality of soldiers were backward, relying on T72 tanks to inflict heavy damage on Israeli armored forces. As soon as this tank, which was not a high-end tank in the Soviet Union, appeared, it made NATO clearly understand what it means to be desperate.

Imagine the scene of the T72 tank roaring towards itself, the NATO army will experience what it means to be desperate, and now the battle of the Bekaa Valley in history has not yet arrived, and the Turkish soldiers first experienced the feelings of the Third Reich, when Germany was facing the T34 crisis, they were facing the T72 crisis.

In less than 30 minutes, the T72 tank swept away the Turkish American-made tank in front of it, and disappeared like a proud knight, leaving behind the wreckage of the tank that was still burning in place, proving that these Turkish soldiers had done their best.

This is what happened in less than eight hours, and many people woke up in the morning to find that the world had changed. Greece and Turkey went to war, starting a civil war within NATO, and the reinforcements they were looking for turned out to be Syria, an ally of the Soviet Union. Even military enthusiasts with the biggest brains can't imagine it.

In fact, it is also normal, Syria itself is an ally of the USSR, Greece, of course, is an ally of the Americans, NATO's own people, but Greece has always had no ill feelings towards the USSR, because Greece and Turkey have enmity. The Soviet Union also had enmity with Turkey, and the largest religion in the Soviet Union was the Orthodox Church, and although it was always suppressed, no one could change this fact.

The fact is that now what would have been impossible has happened, when one NATO country and one Soviet ally unite and attack another NATO country. Syria's entry into the war further complicated the situation, and the United States immediately could not sit still, calling for Greece to stop and maintain unity with Turkey to resist the Syrian invasion.

At the same time, Kissinger sent a diplomatic note asking the Soviet Union to stop its actions in Syria. But at this time, the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei, who had been calling for peace? For the first time, Gromyko's tone changed, and his language was still very formal, and his language was very decent, but the meaning was completely different. Andre? Gromyko called on Turkey to return the territories illegally occupied by Syria to Syria and Xula in exchange for peace. The reason for the problem lies in the fact that the United States should put pressure on Turkey.

Whether to choose Turkey or Greece is a dilemma for the United States. Greece is weak and Turkey is strong, and the United States can only exert pressure on Greece, in fact, as long as it makes this kind of choice, the United States will lose whoever it chooses, and the Soviet Union is the happiest. What if you choose one over the other? If the Soviet Union had launched a wooing, who knows what would have happened?

"Are the Soviets going to fight a proxy war with us?" Many generals are out there advocating that the Soviet Union is going to attack Turkey, but these generals have IQs online when they are in the White House, and those statements are nothing more than fooling ordinary people. They did not think that the USSR would directly attack a single NATO country. (To be continued.) )