The garrison received a telegram from the Theater Command, and there was only one sentence, which made the two division commanders and the two division chiefs of staff and others think for a while, could it be that the Theater Command let them directly raid Riyadh?

This is really too risky, there is still a distance of 150 kilometers from the fifth camp to Riyadh, if the risk of raiding Riyadh and the logistics line is cut off, then the officers and soldiers who go to the raid will be in danger of being surrounded and annihilated. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is because the height at which they stand is different and the way they think about the problem is different.

In the view of the theater command, each camp is defended by one battalion of troops, and no number of indigenous troops can attack it, and the gap in weapons cannot be made up by numbers; If the Saudis concentrate the whole country on attacking a camp and just encircle and annihilate them, the natives can only fight quickly; The idea at the top was that it would be enough to repel the native army, while the garrison wanted to get more victories when it was safe.

There is also the fact that the garrison has experienced too few wars, overestimating the enemy, underestimating itself, and not knowing how to flexibly change tactics; If Riyadh is captured, the Saudi army will lose its logistics base, which will be a fatal blow to its army, and they will either desperately snatch it back or flee outright; If they want to snatch it back, they can concentrate their forces to counter-encircle them.

After careful discussion, the division commanders, chief of staff, and deputy division commanders of the two garrison divisions decided to concentrate the cavalry of the two divisions to raid Riyadh, and they felt that the telegram from the theater of operations must have a deep meaning.

A total of 1,000 cavalry, including camels and horses, were brought with them for 5 days, and if the reinforcements could not reach Riyadh within 5 days, they could only apply to the war zone for airships to drop supplies.

And they judged that as long as Riyadh was occupied, the Saudi army would definitely come back to help, and the two divisions would have enough strength to support the cavalry in battle.

The Saudi army still proceeded according to plan, but they did not know that on the morning of July 10, the cavalry of the Xia Empire had quietly marched towards Riyadh.

The cavalry units of the garrison left the camp in batches, and the Saudi intelligence officers who monitored the camp also believed that these were scouts sent by the Xia Empire, and did not make a correct judgment, because they had the impression that each batch of scouts sent by the Xia Empire recently was very large.

In the early morning of the 11th, the Saudi army arrived at the designated place and waited for the time to launch an attack.

At this time, there were already more than 3,000 officers and soldiers in the 3rd camp, and they were ready to wait for the arrival of the Saudi army.

By 3 a.m., the Saudi army had completely surrounded Camp 3, and they were only three miles away from the camp.

After a short break, at 3:30 a.m., Ibn Saud issued a general order.

10,000 cavalry began to attack the Xia Empire's camp from 4 directions, and at the same time, the only 10 mountain guns of the Saudi army began to shell the Xia Empire's military camp.

Due to the low level of mountain artillery used by these natives, the artillery position was built only more than 2,000 meters away from the Xia Empire's military camp.

The artillery bombardment of the Saudi army caused some losses to the Xia Imperial army, but the counterattack of the Xia Imperial garrison was very fast, and before the mountain artillery could return fire, the shells of the M1 mortar had already fallen on the Saudi artillery positions.

The destructive power of mortars against mountain artillery is limited, but they can effectively kill and injure artillery, and the rate of fire of mortars is much greater than that of the mountain guns used by the Saudi army, so that the Saudi artillery gave up continuing to shell the Xia Imperial military camp, but scattered and fled.

Then the garrison's mountain artillery began to return fire on the Saudi artillery positions, and the overwhelming shells blew up the Saudi mountain artillery to pieces. The fleeing artillerymen still had palpitations when they looked at the scene on the artillery position, if they escaped a little later, they would all be blown into slag by the Xia Empire like those mountain artillery.

Tens of thousands of cavalry ran and made a loud rumbling noise, and the ground shook very violently, awakening all the defenders in the camp.

When the mountain artillery shelled the Saudi artillery position, the M2 mortar began to shell the Saudi cavalry, and without the influence of the Saudi artillery, the garrison artillery had no scruples and began to bombard the Saudi cavalry unscrupulously.

Each M2 mortar shell could kill 1 or 2 cavalrymen, and the cavalry was quickly trampled to pieces by the cavalry behind them after falling off their horses or camels; When a camel or horse in front of you is killed and falls, it will trip several cavalrymen behind you in succession.

When the mountain artillery also began to join in the bombardment of the Saudi cavalry, every shell fell, the Saudi cavalry would be blown up with flesh and blood, and a piece of cavalry would fall at once.

The cavalry behind turned a blind eye to this and continued to charge.

The artillery inflicted great casualties on the Saudi cavalry, but the arrow had to be fired, and Ibn Saud did not dare to order the cavalry to stop, and the cavalry that launched the charge could not stop, especially at such a close distance from the Xia Empire's camp, if they stopped, they happened to become a fixed target of the opponent, and the casualties would be greater.

When the cavalry was still about 800 meters away from the camp, the heavy machine-gun fortress at the trench began to fire barrages outward, and the rows of cavalry were hit by heavy machine-gun fire, and the cavalry behind them would continue to rush forward.

This kind of dense charge one after another had a great impact on the psychology of the garrison, and many soldiers were so frightened by this formation that they wet their pants without realizing it.

At a distance of 500 meters, light machine guns, rifles, etc. all began to fire, and the casualties of the Saudi cavalry were even greater.

At this distance, the Saudi cavalry will fall for every point of heavy machine gun fire, and the hit rate of the light machine gun is also very high, with the shortening of the distance, the Saudi cavalry has no formation, and only a few lonely cavalry are left at the front, and some horses and camels on the cavalry have long been hit and landed.

With no hope of victory, and the cavalry could not get close to the enemy's camp, Ibn Saud sounded the horn of retreat with tears in his eyes, but there was very little to retreat.

Looking at the tragic scene on the battlefield, in less than 10 minutes, the 10,000 cavalry troops disappeared like this, many chiefs were already dumbfounded, some people have been fighting between tribes all their lives, and they have never encountered such a tragic war, compared to now, they used to be children.

Without much explanation, Ibn Saud led the rest of the men and began to evacuate in a southwesterly direction.

Fortunately, he did not bet all the troops on him, and there were still 30,000 troops left.

The 15,000 cavalry as a reserve followed, and the 10,000 troops who were tasked with blocking also received the order to withdraw, and none of them lost, and the Xia Empire did not send reinforcements at all.

As for the disabled on the battlefield, now they can't take care of it, and the Xia Empire's mountain artillery didn't shell them, which already made them feel very lucky.

After the withdrawal of the Saudi troops, it was almost dawn, and the commander of the regiment leading the army here did not order the soldiers to go out to clean up the battlefield, but first counted the casualties of the troops.

was shelled by Saudi mountain artillery, killing 86 people and wounding 154; In the process of holding back the cavalry, 37 people were killed and 217 were wounded.

More than 500 people were scared to pee their pants.

After dawn, the battlefield was cleaned, and after statistics, 7,816 Saudi troops were killed and 1,141 seriously wounded were captured.

Together, less than 500 camels and horses were captured; Dead and seriously wounded camels and horses alone were enough for the garrison to eat for a while, but the officers and men of Camp 3 estimated that they did not like meat for a short time.