Chapter 563: Ambush and Counter-Ambush
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The town of Callion has been put on high alert, and Turkish and Northern Cypriot forces have fortified the town in an attempt to turn it into an Ottoman fortress. The town was garrisoned www.biquge.info tank battalion of the 39th Turkish Division, which invaded Cyprus that year, and was also known as the Hell Armored Unit in this war. The Turkish forces in Cyprus developed it into an elite armored battalion in Cyprus, except for a small number of Leopard II tanks, the rest was M60 main battle tanks, and after the Northern Cyprus army deployed a considerable number of Tao anti-tank missiles, the Turkish army considered Coolion even more impregnable.
However, this time the tank battalion of the 39th Division faced not a Cypriot army that was far inferior to itself, but a red army from hell. Their torrent of steel once broke the invincible German chariot and planted the red flag on the top of the Reichstag. They also staged the August 1 military exercise that shocked the entire Western world, convincing all Western leaders that the Soviet Union could prush all European countries within a week.
A steel unit of T72 main battle tanks headed in the direction of the town of Coolion, with its turret aimed at the northern region. Pedestrians on the road stopped and watched as the mighty armored army slowly passed by.
In the seventies, they were a nightmare for all of Europe, the cogs of war that the Red-Background Empire was proud of. It's just that with the economic downturn in the nineties and the changes in the world situation, these war defenders who defended the country had to be sealed forever in the dark warehouse, and slowly slept like this.
The leader of steel is gone, but the steel of the leader has always guarded the people.
Those who had been eager to fight sat on the roofs of the BMP chariots, and everyone was silently wiping their weapons in their hands, and in a few moments they would be confronted by their old enemy, the Turkish army. It's going to be a bloody contest. The hatred accumulated from the Third Roman period, as well as the humiliation of the defeat in the Eleventh Russo-Turkish War, made them strongly hostile to the Turks.
Alkasha threw the cigarette in his hand into the grass, turned his head and said to himself, "We just want to prove that the former Soviet army is not dead, we are still here, and we are faithfully defending their people, forever." ”
This was the last glory of the former Soviet army, and when Marshal Ogarkov proposed the creation of a modern army in the army, they knew that their time had passed.
After a decade of decline in the Soviet Union, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union gradually eased. Although the United States has tested the bottom line of the Soviet Union again and again, all the seemingly tough counterattacks are just sticking to the last bottom line. If Moscow takes a step back, Yanayev faces a divided federal state.
However, for Arkasha, the danger is not the most important, the surprise attack is the focus, the Turkish army is not ready for war, but the Soviet Union has completed the mobilization and deployment in the shortest possible time, if there is really a war, the Soviet Union will be able to seize the opportunity. Even if the UN came out as a mediator, the Soviet Union had already won back the lost territory.
It was precisely because the location of the battle was chosen in the suburbs that the Soviet army was able to give full play to its advantages, baptize artillery fire, charge tanks in clusters, and capture the Ottoman fortress that the Turkish army was proud of with lightning speed. The Red Flag of the USSR was planted above the highest spire of the church.
The Ottoman fortress did not have the sense of urgency it had before the war, and the Turkish troops in the Ottoman fortress did not even think that the Cypriot army would attack their fortress. This is nothing more than an under-built army. According to the commander of the tank battalion of the 39th Division, an army without strong air cover and without ground artillery support wants to break through this fortress? It's just a dream.
The Cypriot Air Force is only a small number of Mi-24 Hind helicopters and a few older MiGs, and in the eyes of the Turkish army, which has a well-developed combat system, it is only a target for ground air defense. But what makes Turkey mind is the fact that Cyprus is preparing to build an air base near the western town of Paphos, which will be handed over to the Soviet military when completed. This provoked a strong reaction from the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot sides. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement stating that it would bring this dangerous development to the attention of the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council and threatened to continue to take the necessary measures to deal with the threats facing the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Turkey. And the Turkish Cypriot leader, Denktash, warned that as long as Soviet combat planes took off from the base, they would never return to the base. Turkish fighters will break their wings.
In the face of such a threat, Moscow did not show much emotion, but they were ready to teach the Turkish Republic of Cyprus a lesson.
The Turkish governor was still cheering up these ambitious boys, "Take it easy, boys, the Cypriot army may choose to attack Coolion in the next few days, and then we will not be able to drive back a single tank!" Victory belongs to Turkey, to the Ottoman fortress! The Cypriot army and the Greek regime behind which they support nothing to fear at all. Moreover, we have an armored force in the countryside five kilometres away, and when the Cypriot army passes through that only route, it will be their time of death. ”
As soon as the words fell, the correspondent walked up to the commander with an ugly face and whispered to the battalion commander, "Oh no, battalion commander." The ambushed army was met with counter-ambushes by enemy troops. ”
"What?"
The battalion commander immediately stood up and walked into the tent with a pale face, and the staff officers in the tent looked back at the battalion commander and automatically consciously gave way to the way. He picked up the walkie-talkie and said to the troops on the other end, "What's going on?" ”
The voice on the other end of the intercom appeared very anxious, and there was the cacophony of explosions interfering with the communication. But the battalion commander could barely hear what the other party was saying.
"We were surrounded, ambush warfare, ambush warfare turned into counter-ambushes. Oh my God, there were Soviet tanks everywhere, they formed a steel ring, attacking our ambush troops from all sides, and the powerful M24 Hind helicopters attacked us in the air, asking for support! ”
As soon as the voice ended, after a cacophony of voices that could tear through the eardrums, the walkie-talkie returned to calm. Everyone looked at each other, at a loss.
"This is the elite of the Turkish tank battalion, and the other side is able to use air-ground coordination, when will the Cypriot army be able to reach this level?" The battalion commander of the tank battalion of the 39th Division muttered to himself.
Of course, he did not know that it was not the Cypriot army that was fighting the Turkish tank battalion, but a real Soviet Red Army.
After the battle in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires, the Soviet Union's counter-ambush tactics matured. In Afghanistan it was forced to use combat units to escort transport convoys. In the early days of the war, a support detachment consisting of two tanks, two armored transport vehicles and two maintenance vehicles was usually sent to act together with the supply convoy. The convoy, usually led by tanks and armoured transport vehicles, entered the guerrilla zone and was escorted by a formation of four Mi-8 or Mi-24 Hind helicopters.
The Soviets first sent helicopters to reconnoiter both sides of the road ahead, and only after receiving the helicopter report did the convoy begin to move forward. If a moving convoy encounters roadblocks and ambushes, or suspects an ambush, helicopter gunships, tanks and all artillery guns are the first to concentrate fire on areas where the guerrillas are likely to hide.
In this way, the Turkish tank battalion was forced out of the prototype directly by the rocket artillery of the Mi-24 helicopters of the Soviet army and the artillery fire of the tanks.
"Send a tank company to support them immediately, I'm going to get this force out before it's wiped out, quick!"
The battalion commander gave orders to his subordinates in a bit of a panic, he knew that these tank drivers were the trump cards of the Hell Armored Battalion, and once they were lost, the nickname of the Hell Armored Battalion would be meaningless.
"What kind of role is the other party......
The battalion commander sat down on his chair, and even his fingers trembled a little.
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