Chapter 728: Syria's Efforts
"Using Arab nationalism to suppress pan-pacifism seems to be the right move. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info "Serov, driving in the desert, was surrounded by soldiers of the Soviet engineering division that had entered northern Iraq. In terms of protecting himself, he did not need to be reminded by anyone that the 11,000-strong Soviet engineering divisions did not have the power to defeat them in the Middle East.
The engineering corps was widespread in socialist countries, and the engineering corps of the USSR, like that, shouldered an important mission, carrying out production and construction in the country, and what has happened recently is mainly three, when will the war end? Joint combat exercises of the Warsaw Pact, the confrontation between the Soviet Red Navy and the US Navy.
The first problem is, of course, that the Soviets, Syria, and Greece will begin to withdraw their troops after destroying the Turkish military forces, and before withdrawing, they will try to help the Kurds build up an army of 200,000 people to defend themselves, and also serve as a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Turkey. In terms of light weapons, the Soviet Union did not lack anything in the slightest, and Soviet assault rifles can be said to be unceremoniously, and now the assault rifles in the arsenal are enough to arm one-tenth of the Soviet people.
The problem is that in terms of heavy weapons, even if the Soviet Union's annual tank production has reached record highs in recent years, it will not be able to replenish the Kurds for a while, and in order to support an army in a short period of time, it may be necessary to reduce some of the army and then give weapons to the Kurds. If this plan does not work, I believe that Ustinov will be very busy this year. The army equipment of the Greek Wehrmacht was also not very good in the eyes of the USSR, and it was necessary to replace American weapons with Soviet-style ones.
This is the armament of 400,000 armed forces, plus the Soviet Union and Syria also lost a little each, military production may have to be expanded, as for the captured Turkish American-style equipment to the Kurds, this option has never been considered, valuable weapons will be brought back to the country for research, and the worthless Soviet Union is ready to sell to other neutral countries. If no one wants it, it will be destroyed.
The Warsaw Pact joint combat exercise may be aimed at avoiding provoking NATO, and the countries participating in the exercise were finally set to be Eastern European countries other than the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union only sent its air force to participate in the exercise, and the Eastern European cluster and the military districts of Ukraine and Belarus would not participate. The Ministry of Defense of the USSR also wanted to see if the Warsaw Pact's partners could still fight without the Soviet Red Army.
The 300,000 troops, including the people's armies of all countries, will take part in the exercise, and Poland will send observers from Yugoslavia, Iraq, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria to see the progress of the exercise.
"But the name of this exercise is Western 74? Wouldn't it be too obvious. Serov, who was sitting in the jeep swaying back and forth, had a very strange feeling in his heart when he saw the code name of the exercise. The Soviet Union's exercise code name has always been quite straightforward: the West for NATO, the East for Asia, and the maritime series for naval exercises. The names are pretty straightforward......
In fact, the Soviet Union does not need to use military exercises to show its presence, and it is unceremonious to say that the Soviet Union now has a strong presence in the world, unless the enemy is blind and does not see the Soviet Union fighting in Turkey.
"Dad, it looks like we've arrived, and the local Kurds say it's almost here." The convoy slowly stopped, and a very young man walked over and said, "Shall we start now?" ”
"Oh, first survey the surrounding terrain, there is no special destruction of corpses, it should not be difficult to find with the experience of our engineering troops!" Serov looked at the other party and was stunned for a moment, only then did he remember that he had been taking over the plate for a long time, put down the book used to relieve boredom, pushed open the door of Gas, stepped on the soft ground with one foot, and looked around blankly, "This place is really not very good, it's almost October and it's still this temperature, let comrades pay attention to the problem of heat stroke." ”
Occasionally, a whirlwind rolls up a column of yellow sand and rises into the air, and there is an inexplicable quiet atmosphere. Sometimes the wind blows, the sand and rocks fly, and the momentum seems to wipe out the entire natural world under its majesty, which is terrifying and helpless. Walking into the Gobi Desert is like entering a primeval wilderness, full of desolation and lifelessness. However, in search of water, the ephedra grass dug its roots deep into the coarse gravel.
Thinking of the desert scenery he read in his previous life, Serov's heart did not fluctuate and even wanted to laugh, if he was asked to summarize this, it was actually more brief, and he didn't use the vocabulary of chicken soup for the soul at all, in simple terms, it was very much in line with the definition of the old and young in his heart, and it was not a place for people to live.
"Let some of the comrades install tents, and we will start the operation tomorrow. Don't let the Kurds go, we haven't found a location yet. Serov was very uncomfortable with stepping on the sand here in his military boots, and gave the order with a deep foot and a shallow foot.
Recently, he will not return to Moscow, and he can't explain it to the Empress at home, so he will go directly here, and hide for a while, Erwin is not a safe place, in case Valya is happy to come over in the name of the Ministry of Education, he really has no way at all, and Her Majesty the Empress already meant this in the last telegram.
"Is archaeology more suitable for me than commanding operations?" Serov sat on the ground and experienced the life of the nomads who drank blood, and General Mustafa's men sent a lot of sheep, which will be sent by the Soviet Union tomorrow. Although these lambs are not to his taste, he does not need to be very entangled between hunger and eating.
The motherland was at war, and when a general political commissar came to do civil engineering, he always felt a little unprofessional. But this job is very suitable for him, commanding the war he has a common language with the Americans, in short, he does not conflict with any big country, and the medium countries must also find opportunities, if possible, he is very willing to show what is called social imperialism in Malta and San Marino.
It is a pity that there is no weak country next to the Soviet Union, and I don't want a group of banana republics in Central America to let the United States show its imperialist hegemony in the world at any time.
Serov, who was working the roast leg of lamb, was thinking about geographical factors again. He had to distract himself, or he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to eat, it would be too fat......
For modern warfare, the performance of equipment has exceeded human adaptability, so in Erwin's General Command of the Southern Theater of Operations of the USSR, the chosen breakthrough point was night fighting. This may have caused some accidental injuries, but the Turkish soldiers faced the same disadvantage.
The flare was nothing more than a consumable thing for the USSR, and the Soviet soldiers were already familiar with this kind of thing during the Great Patriotic War, or at night, or by the Air Force first, and the huge Soviet bomber group once again patronized Kahramanmaraş, formerly known as Maras, a city in central and eastern Turkey, the capital of Kahramanmaraş Province.
On a high ground beside the Ceyhan River in Marashya, it controls the three passes of the Taurus Mountains, and is an important communication artery between Anatolia and Syria. The city of Marash, on high ground, has an easy terrain to defend and difficult to attack, and the Syrian government army, which is not as strong as Turkey, has been hindered in its advance.
This is the end point of Hafez al-Assad's plan, but it must be conquered, otherwise Turkey may move south at any time in the future to reclaim the land occupied by Syria. The Syrian army has now grown to 150,000 men, including the Fourth Panzer Division, led by Hafez al-Assad's brother.
What makes Hafez Assad more angry is that he still has to make progress with the help of the Soviet Union, which is not in line with his character, he wants to be treated as an equal with the Soviet Union, Syria must have its own value, but the Syrian army has disappointed him again and again.
This is also related to the hasty preparations in Syria, the war against Turkey is purely improvised, unlike the preparation for Israel for so long, so when it comes to the city of Marash, the Syrian government forces cannot make progress.
At two o'clock in the evening, the Soviet bomber group under the escort of the aviation division appeared in the sky over Marash with a full load of burning ejections, and the appearance of the Soviet bomber group was immediately discovered by the Turkish military defending Marash, and a terrible air defense siren appeared over the city, and high-power searchlights shone directly into the dark sky. Anti-aircraft artillery units were guided by searchlights in search of the invading Soviet Air Force.
Originally, the Turks did not use such methods of the Second World War, but who let the Soviets shamelessly raid Turkey and kill Turkey's modern anti-aircraft missiles in one go, and now the Turkish soldiers can only retreat to the second.
Unfortunately, the Soviet bomber group, out of range of the anti-aircraft artillery units, began to throw incendiary bombs, which fell to the ground from a high altitude and exploded with a huge explosion, igniting everything in their path. In the heights of the city of Marash, a river of flames has formed.
At the same time as the gap in the Soviet Air Force, the artillery units of Syria made a little discovery, concentrating more than seven hundred artillery pieces to shell the Turkish positions in the city of Marash for more than an hour, and even the Soviet Air Force had left and the shelling continued.
At the same time, the Greek-Serbian forces on the island of Cyprus were also carrying out the same action, and began to organize an offensive under the shelling, hoping to annihilate the Turkish army, which had become a lone army, "Long live Greece, long live Cyprus......
"Long live Syria, long live President Assad." More than 700 tanks of three armored divisions in Syria covered the infantry behind them and began to attack, in terms of scale, Assad completely gave the order to die, under this pressure, the attack of the 150,000 Syrian army this time was completely a group charge, the Turkish soldiers who were lucky enough not to die smelled the smell of barbecue over and over again, and were horrified to see the group charge launched by the Syrians, and the mountains were full of Syrian soldiers, and he couldn't even aim. (To be continued.) )