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Chapter 1768 The Wind Rises in the Persian Gulf

January 15, 4 a.m. Tehran time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Strings of red signal flares rose into the air in the dark sky, and after rising to the top, they slowly descended like meteors, and several major passes around Khuzestan in southwestern Persia, as well as important areas bordering Iraq, the defense line carefully constructed by the Japanese army was illuminated in blood red.

As the whistle sounded one after another, there was an uproar on the artillery positions one after another.

"Bang bang bang-"

In the rear of all the forward fronts, large and small orange fires began to bloom, and then the earth-shattering explosions sounded.

The people on the ground, as if standing in the center of an earthquake, were unsteady and shaking.

A cannon of different calibers spits out dazzling fire, and fires the shells according to the predetermined firing elements.

If you look down from the sky, you will feel that the fortifications built by the Japanese army in the area where they confronted the Anjia army have been completely reduced to a purgatory of blood and fire, and the severed limbs and arms are accompanied by guns that have become parts, and the earth seems to be soaked in blood against the constant flash of artillery fire and red flares.

The sound of shelling and explosions, louder and more violent, the ground trembled, shook violently, as if the end was near!

On the Japanese position, large and small explosion points were full of color, smoke and dust mixed with firelight, spitting straight into the night sky, and the violent smoke completely blocked the curved first quarter moon and the bright light of the stars.

The qualified devil soldiers were basically transferred to northwestern Iraq and southern Syria to fight against the British army. These indigenous soldiers, who had left the islands to fight in the Middle East and suffered so much, were suddenly treated with such high standards, and the remnants of the soldiers were terrified to see their comrades turned to powder in the artillery fire. Fortunately, the commanders at all levels, led by *** people, shot a large number of people in time, so that there was no immediate collapse.

The artillery fire continued, and the seemingly continuous fire, like a plough on the back of an ox, plowed inch by inch on the defensive line of the Lanyin army, and in the section where the fire passed, one by one the figures were either dismantled to pieces, or thrown out of the deep trenches, with mutilated limbs, falling into the soft scorched dust.

The steel plough of fire smashed the bunker fortifications it trod, flew the machine-gun ramparts it touched, and destroyed everything it walked.

The baptism of non-stop artillery fire for a quarter of an hour caused the morale of the Lanyin army to fall to the bottom.

The sound of the cannon slowed down and slowly extended into the distance.

As the blazer sounded, the infantry of the Anjia Army, led by the tanks that rushed out like arrows from the string, began to launch an all-out assault on the Japanese army's painstakingly managed defensive line.

To the north of Huzestan, at the intersection of Highway 5 and Highway 37, Andy Meshke, and Zheng Weihao's 9th Tank Division under the 3rd Tank Army of Ye Cheng's Front Army, quickly broke through the solid defense line built by the Lanyin Army and broke into the edge of the city.

Since the Japanese army entered the Middle East to fight, it has found a lot of good treasures from the British team, and various types of mountain artillery, field artillery and mortars are dazzling.

For example, 13-pounder rapid-fire field guns, 15-pounder and 18-pounder MK1 rapid-fire field guns, 18-pounder MK2 rapid-fire field guns, 4.5-inch MK1 and MK2 rapid-fire howitzers, 60-pounder MK1 guns, 5-inch MK1 howitzers, etc. are all artillery weapons in the last European war, most of the guns have a pitiful range of only five or six kilometers, as soon as the last European war is over, these outdated artillery guns were resold to the Middle East, and the governments supported and controlled by the British paid to arm the armies of various countries or regions.

After the Japanese army invaded the Persian Gulf, the sensational massacres in Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other places greatly deterred the Arabs, who quickly gathered around the British to resist the Japanese attack, but most of these armed forces were not professionally trained, and there were opponents of the experienced Japanese army? The commander of the Japanese army, General Kotaro Nakamura, used a slight strategy, and the coalition forces were beaten to the point that they lost their armor, and not only did the entire territory of Iraq fall, but also many armed equipment fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army couldn't look down on these old and scumbag artillery, so they threw all of them to the Lanyin army together with the captured ammunition, and now these weapons have created some trouble for the charging Anjia army.

"Boom-"

One after another, the shells were fired indiscriminately into the group of Anjia troops in the charge.

The armor of the Leopard tank was enough to cope with the direct bombardment of these old guns, so in the flash of light and extinguishment, the tanks did not stop and kept charging forward. But the unprotected infantry was different, and slowly began to show some casualties as the irregular shells rained down.

Huang Jialiang is an ordinary armored infantry member of the 5th Regiment of the 9th Tank Division. He is a short Jing from Nanhua, who only joined the army in June last year, and now has the rank of private.

The Fifth Regiment is an armored infantry regiment, whose role is to accompany the tanks to attack and prevent the opponent's flesh bullet attack. Since armored infantry had to carry weapons and huddle in the cabins of compact armored personnel carriers, they generally needed those who were short, like the submariners of the Navy. At this moment, Huang Jialiang followed closely behind the tank, and together with the officers and soldiers of the An family, let out a fanatical roar, and rushed forward.

Under the command of the *** officer, the Lanyin Army used various buildings in the city and used all kinds of firepower to shoot at the officers and soldiers of Anjia in the attack.

At this time, the tanks in front stopped advancing.

It turned out that a hundred meters ahead, a trench with a width of seven or eight meters and a depth of about three or four meters suddenly appeared. This trench was skillfully supported by wooden planks before defending the army, and then sprinkled with mud on it for camouflage, and the air force had taken detailed pictures before, and scouts had also infiltrated and reconnoitred many times, but no abnormalities were found.

After today's battle began, several tanks that had rushed ahead had just driven up the planks laid on the trenches, which could not withstand the crushing of tanks weighing twenty or thirty tons, and suddenly collapsed, and the tanks plunged headlong into the trenches.

As the trenches collapsed one after another, the defenders fired indiscriminately, tearing down the remaining wooden planks one by one, and an anti-tank trench to prevent tank attacks appeared in front of the mechanized troops of the Anjia Army.

The rest of the tanks could not have wings, so they had to stop there, temporarily acting as mobile batteries to fire at the defenders' fire points in the city.

As this sudden turn of events was not expected, the charging troops were not prepared with engineers.

At this point the general attack had been launched, and it was impossible to wait for the sappers to come up and blast out the way before resuming the attack, in which case the armored infantry quickly moved forward, jumped over the tanks, jumped into the trenches, and then continued the attack by means of a ladder.

After rushing into the city of Andymyszk, the buildings in all directions emitted the sound of shooting, a machine gun and submachine gun roared, and countless bullets cut out fiery red ballistics, frantically harvesting the lives of the attacking soldiers of the An Family Army.

The most terrifying of all was a 12.7mm four-barreled machine gun modified by the British, which somehow fell into the hands of the Laninan army, and the enemy set it up on top of a small two-story reinforced concrete building behind an adobe house facing the street. The exits of several streets were all covered by their firepower, and in the dull and dense sound of "dang dang dang", the tongues of fire sprayed out by the four barrels, like the sickles wielded by the god of death, swept the officers and soldiers of Anjia who rushed to the front to the ground like cutting wheat, and the loyal and brave soldiers were torn apart, and their flesh and blood flew sideways.

In just two or three minutes, the number of casualties of the armored infantry quickly exceeded fifty, and almost a platoon was reimbursed.

"Platoon leader, squad leader—"

Huang Jialiang curled up at the corner of a house, his eyes were broken, he roared loudly and angrily, and under the surge of blood, he suddenly straightened up and quickly rushed towards the middle of the street. Just now, the platoon commander and squad leader, who rushed to the front with people, as well as more than 30 officers and soldiers of the platoon, fell in a pool of blood together.

"Whoosh-"

A burst of bullets swept over, and Huang Jialiang, who wanted to save his platoon commander and squad leader, was pressed to the ground by the company commander Zhang Yu who rushed up, and then dragged him behind the corner.

Zhang Yu yelled at the recruit: "Private, don't you want to die? ”

"Platoon commanders and squad leaders...... They...... They ......"

Huang Jialiang's mouth was deflated, and tears suddenly flowed out.

"Alas!"

Zhang Yu sighed, stretched out his hand, straightened the steel helmet on Huang Jialiang's head, and said to him solemnly: "Private, I have seen it, it is precisely because your platoon commander and squad leader have all sacrificed that you have to be more calm and think about how to avenge them, instead of putting your own life on the line." ”

After speaking, Zhang Yu threw down Huang Jialiang, moved forward a few times, flashed to the back of a low earthen house with the roof removed, and through the gap between the bricks, he took a closer look at the fierce large-caliber four-barreled machine gun, turned around and yelled: "The rest of the people in a row, follow me!" Second platoon, third platoon, fire cover! ”

After saying that, without waiting for the instructor to react to stop him, he bent his waist and ran along the corner of the wall to another street that was very different from the direction of the crowd charge.

Seven or eight soldiers, including Huang Jialiang, quickly followed Zhang Yu, and beside them, the debris from the explosion and the bullets that pierced the air and flew with a screaming sound kept passing by.

Just when Zhang Yu was moving with a platoon, the crowd charging on the other side fell under the enemy's dense firepower, and the attack was suppressed by the enemy's powerful firepower.

Zhang Yu calmly took these soldiers and followed the corner of the wall to the corner of the street.

This street presents an eerie "T" shape, the row of houses in front is the top one, and the fire point that hides the four-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun is at the end of that vertical, almost all the directions of attack are ***.

At this time, it is estimated that the siege battle was in a stalemate, and the artillery outside the city began to shell the enemy's fire points. It's a pity that the landing point is not good, the enemy's positions have not been hit too hard, and ammunition is still being sprayed.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Zhang Yu took people and stumbled into a pit more than one meter deep two hundred meters in front of the small building, which was blown out by several large-caliber shells and connected together, he pressed the steel helmet on his head, turned his head, and said with appreciation: "It is worthy of the soldiers led by Lao Tzu, all of them followed unharmed, very good, with you, I am more sure of the next move!" Damn, it's been a long time since I've encountered such heavy firepower...... Get down ......"

Zhang Yu pressed Huang Jialiang to the ground, a string of dense bullets swept above the crater, Zhang Yu took a "puff", spit out the dirt in his mouth, and pointed at the soldiers next to him, pointing to the quadruple machine gun that was shooting happily, and said:

"Brothers, do you see? That damn anti-aircraft machine gun, right behind this building, almost all the way forward, was *** by it, and for a short time, the tanks couldn't keep up, and I suspect that this neighborhood still has enemy anti-tank fire, so now we have to go and kill it to minimize the casualties of the siege troops. In a moment, we touched from there—"

Zhang Yu pointed to the bottom of the building where the anti-aircraft machine gun was located, and Huang Jialiang followed Zhang Yu's gesture and found a ditch that looked like a drainage ditch, which was very close to the small building where the anti-aircraft machine gun was located.

"Okay, now let's start counting, I'll count to three, and everyone will charge forward in two groups, alternately covering one...... 2. ......"

Zhang Yu picked up the Type I automatic rifle in his hand, and the soldiers listened nervously to the numbers in his mouth, Huang Jialiang did not take the gun, but took out a grenade.

"Three...... Sortie! ”

With Zhang Yu shouting, the nine people quickly rushed out and rushed towards the drainage ditch.

Without rushing a few steps, with the help of the light from the shells and flares, the Lanyin army spotted these uninvited guests, dense bullets, and immediately chased after them.

Huang Jialiang quickly threw out the grenade, and continued to rush forward under the cover of the smoke and dust raised by the grenade explosion, and just when Zhang Yu and Huang Jialiang had just rushed into the drainage ditch, they heard the roar of the Vickers Mark I heavy machine gun, and the seven soldiers behind them were immediately swept to the ground.

"! There is even hidden firepower! It seems that this small building is an important fire support point for the enemy! Zhang Yu said scoldingly.

Huang Jialiang's expression was painful, he could hardly believe that those people whose bodies were almost broken by the waist, and who were still tossing and turning on the ground in pain at the moment and were still being fired by machine guns, were the robes who had just fought with him.

"Quick-don't be stunned, follow me!"

Zhang Yu's big hand knocked on Huang Jialiang's steel helmet, which made him sober up, and then said solemnly: "Private, take out the grenade, put a bayonet on the automatic rifle, and rush with me!" ”

After speaking, Zhang Yu yelled and quickly rushed into the door of the small building.

Seven Lanyin soldiers who were shooting out on the ground floor found them, one of them was leaning against the wall, loading the rifle and was about to shoot out, the Lanyin soldier reacted the fastest, turned the muzzle of the rifle in his hand, and aimed at Zhang Yu, but the distance between the two sides was too close, Zhang Yu rushed forward, had already hit him, grabbed the barrel of his gun and pinned it to the side, "snap-" The bullet hit the wall behind Huang Jialiang, and the sparks flew.

Huang Jialiang didn't dare to slack off, picked up the automatic rifle, and aimed it at the other six Lanyin soldiers who were in a hurry, and it was a burst of strafing. Six Lanyin soldiers, including the shooter, the co-shooter, and the ammunition man, who operated the Vickers Mark I heavy machine gun, all fell in a pool of blood.

Zhang Yu tried his best, pressed the barrel of the Lanyin soldier who was fighting with him with his hand, reached out and took out the dagger on his leg, and stabbed it into the soldier's lower abdomen at once.

"Good boy, you killed six of them in one go! This is to avenge the comrades-in-arms who died just now! Zhang Yu raised his head, gave Huang Jialiang a thumbs up, and shouted, "Let's go, let's go upstairs and blow up that machine gun—"

Suddenly, a Lanyin soldier rushed down from the staircase, and Li Lee, who was armed with a bayonet. Enfield Type III rifle, Zhang Yu had just shaken off the body of the Lanyin soldier on his body, and was stabbed in the shoulder by the newly rushed Lanyin soldier.

Zhang Yuyi grabbed the bayonet and scuffled with the Lanyin soldier. During the scuffle, the Lan Yin soldier threw away his rifle and took out the pistol on his waist, but Zhang Yu couldn't stop it. Huang Jialiang was afraid of injuring Zhang Yu by mistake, so he had to put down the automatic rifle, rushed up and stretched out a hand, and held down the pistol of the Lan Yin soldier.

With Huang Jialiang's assistance, Zhang Yu held down the arm of the Lan Yin soldier with one hand, picked up the dagger with the other, and stabbed him into the chest.

The Lanyin soldier had two spasms, but finally stopped moving.

Zhang Yu just breathed a sigh of relief, and the staircase rushed down two Lanyin soldiers again, Zhang Yu saw it and shouted: "Be careful!" ”

Then he pushed Huang Jialiang, who was facing away from the stairs, to the side, and Zhang Yu rushed up by himself and stabbed the chest of the soldier Lanyin in the front. However, the Lanyin soldier in the back pulled the trigger of the submachine gun he was holding.

"Da-da-"

A crisp gunshot rang out, and at the same time as Zhang Yu rushed forward, more than a dozen bullets were fired into his body, his eyes widened angrily, and he fell down unwillingly, but he still hugged the barrel of the other party's gun tightly.

"Company commander!"

Huang Jialiang, who was extremely angry, picked up the bayonet-mounted Type I automatic rifle and stabbed violently at the Lanyin soldiers who were entangled by Zhang Yu. The Lan Yin soldier reached out in vain to block it, but in his terrible scream, the bayonet of the automatic rifle passed directly through the back of his hand and plunged into his neck.

Looking at the company commander who fell in a pool of blood to save himself, Huang Jialiang's tears could no longer be suppressed, and instantly flowed all over his cheeks. He gently stretched out his hand, closed Zhang Yu's eyes, picked up the grenade on Zhang Yu's body, his eyes became resolute and sharp, and he muttered: "Company commander, I'll go and solve the enemy!" ”

Huang Jialiang put all the grenades away and looked up at the top of the stairs, where the four-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun was still roaring.

"Boom—"

Amid the rising orange-red flames and the sound of a huge explosion, the four-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun that had been raging for a long time finally muted fire, and in front of the street, which was firmly suppressed by enemy fire, the cheers of the officers and men of Anjia suddenly sounded, "Rush", "The enemy was killed by our comrades!" "Long live An Jiajun! In the midst of this deafening cry, the officers and men of An Jia rushed towards the center of the city like an unstoppable surging river.

In the face of this overwhelming and powerful offensive, the Lanyin army was defeated and gradually weakened.

As the tank units joined the battle, the Lanyin army was slowly wiped out.

After six hours of fighting, by 10 o'clock in the morning, the city of Andymyshk, an important town in the north of Khuzestan, finally fell under the control of the An army, and the gate to the southern plain of Khuzestan was completely opened.

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The port of Bushehr, on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf, was built in the thirties of the eighteenth century as the main port connecting Isfahan with Shiraz and other cities to the sea.

Hu Jialin arrived here by special plane on 13 June and urgently set up a front-line command center to coordinate the war in the Middle East.

This powerful attack, the headquarters issued a very clear order, with lightning speed to take Khuzestan and Iraq, cut off the road for the Japanese army to go south, and then send a partial division along the coastal road on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf to the south, until it reached Cape Haad in Oman at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, completely under control of the Persian Gulf.

At half past ten in the morning, a steady stream of intelligence from various units converged on the headquarters of the former enemy.

Chief of Staff Huang Zhi looked at the map and explained the battle situation to Commander-in-Chief Hu Jialin, Political Commissar Huang Yingwu, Deputy Political Commissar An Mingqi and others:

"So far, the ministries are going well. On the northern front, the 1st Army of the Yecheng Tank Group attacked from the Schilling Forts in Kermanshah and the Mehran area of Ilam, in which the 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions and the 1st Armored Infantry Division, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Heavy Tank Regiments had broken through the defense line from Gratu to Hanaigan. The enemy did not expect that we would deploy such a powerful tank force in the Kerman-Shah area, which had no railway connection, and the defense line would collapse at the slightest touch.

"Iraq is almost all plains, and after the border defense line is breached, the remaining enemy is vulnerable to attack. The road from Hanaigan to Baghdad is only 200 kilometers, and it is expected that the troops will be under the city of Baghdad within three days. At the same time, there is a railway connection between Hanaigan and Baghdad, and the supplies we have stockpiled on the border can be easily transported to the front by rail, and there will be no problems in terms of supplies;

"The 3rd Tank Division and the 2nd Panzer Infantry Division, as well as the 4th and 5th Heavy Tank Regiments, broke through the Baidra Barrier constructed by the Japanese at 6:25 a.m. The enemy on this line, under the deterrence of our powerful mechanized corps, abandoned their positions and fled before engagement, and our troops pursued all the way, and at 9:40 a.m., they entered the city of Jesan. At this rate, the city of Kut, an important city in eastern Iraq, can be captured by this evening. ”

Hu Jialin nodded with satisfaction and said:

"Very good, the main purpose of this attack on Iraq is to be fast, to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army in southeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq before it can react, so that the territory controlled by the Japanese army can become a buffer zone between us and the British army. Wait until we completely take the Persian Gulf, and then seek to completely annihilate the Japanese army. ”

"Ye Cheng's cluster has done a good job!"

Huang Zhi said with a smile: "The task they shoulder is very heavy, the Second Tank Army has to stay on the northern front of Persia to prevent the Soviets from turning their faces, and the Third Tank Army has to cooperate with Yang Jiuxiao's corps to take Huzestan." The units directly under the cluster have to respond to all fronts at any time, and it is not easy for them to perform like this. ”

"How's it going to the south?"

Huang Yingwu asked: "Huzestan's battle report, except for the Third Tank Army's successful capture of Talezange and Andy Meshke, there is no news about the two group armies of Yang Jiuxiao's corps?" ”

"There it is! But the situation is not so rosy! ”

Huang Zhi's expression became solemn: "The eastern region of Huzestan is the main oil-producing area of Huzestan. After the Japanese seized the area, they drove the locals to resume production of oil wells that had been partially destroyed by the British. After obtaining a large amount of crude oil, the Japanese squandered it and filled a huge trench behind their line with crude oil for war.

"In the early hours of this morning, it was discovered that the front-line troops were under heavy artillery fire from our troops, and the enemy commander immediately retreated his troops across that ravine, and then set fire to the oil. Now, that wall of fire forty or fifty meters wide is blocking the pace of our army's advance! It is not yet known how much oil the enemy poured into that trench, and if the fire is not extinguished for a long time, the 3rd Tank Army may be left alone! ”

Hu Jialin asked a little angrily: "Haven't these situations been detected beforehand?" Andy Meshk's anti-tank trench can also be used as an excuse for the enemy's clever concealment, so what about this trench? It can't just come out of nowhere, right? ”

Huang Zhi explained: "This trench has already existed. The British were to build an oil pipeline to connect the Gachisalan oil fields with the port city of the Persian Gulf, and that trench was built to bury the pipeline. No one thought that the *** people would be so vicious and quietly introduce crude oil from the Chisalan oil field to form a natural wall of fire to block the advance of our army! ”

"*** people are so scheming!"

Hu Jialin listened to the explanation, but his anger disappeared, he read the relevant information, and knew that the Gachisaran oil field is the largest oil field in Persia at present, this oil field, like all oil fields in Persia, under the high pressure of the earth's crust, the petroleum gas dissolved in the crude oil drives the crude oil to rise along the well pipe, it is a rare self-blowing well, and even the oil pump used to draw oil is not needed.

With such unique conditions, if the Japanese army does not make clever use of it, it is truly incredible.

Huang Yingwu comforted: "This is just right, it can test the ability of Ye Cheng's tank troops to continue fighting." The tank army is our trump card unit, and at present, Xiao Wu has formed a second tank group in the northern region of Kazakhstan, all of which will be equipped with Leopard and Tiger tanks, and the eliminated weapons and equipment will be used to assist the Far Eastern Army......"

Huang Zhi asked: "Didn't the Far East develop the T34 tank based on our Leopard tank?" Why old tanks? ”

"Their capacity can't keep up!"

Huang Yingwu replied: "The T28, T26 and BT series tanks are not outdated, and they are enough to deal with the army of Moscow!" Due to the effects of the Great Purge, the Soviet Union's development of tanks and fighters came to a standstill, which is why the Far East was able to hold out under heavy pressure. As a result of their cooperation with us, their weapons and equipment are more advanced than those of the Soviet army, especially in local battles, they want to transform the advantage of weapons into actual military superiority, and want our Kemirovo industrial zone, but let the boss refuse, as compensation, the boss signed a military cooperation agreement with them, we will provide weapons and strategic materials worth 500 million Chinese dollars to the Far East, which can be regarded as a thank you to the Far East for facing us! ”

Huang Zhi nodded, he knew very well that it was precisely because the Far Eastern Republic stood in the west and north of Central Asia and built a barrier against the wind for Central Asia and China, so this kind of effort was completely worth it! As long as the war does not unfold in Central Asia, the An Jiajun can concentrate on developing industry and agriculture and building a group of border fortresses, and when the Far East and Moscow are divided in the future, South China's superiority will be unstoppable, thus ensuring the security of its inherent territory.

In a sense, this is also a kind of conspiracy, and in order to survive, Moscow and the Far Eastern republics have to make friends with South China in order to strike some kind of balance.

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