Slave in between. One by one, the good news was passed to the small division located in Guadalbaiwa.

The first to achieve a great victory was Lieutenant General Ling Yunxiao's first combat individual. After a few words, the small armored division and the 3rd Infantry Division, known as the "Devil's Division", achieved a proud record of destroying the enemy's bowers and capturing the enemy's four bowers, including about 8 wounded.

I have to say that the Lingyunxiao Treasure Knife is not old.

Because Ling Yunxiao is already many years old, even if he can be promoted to army general immediately, due to the influence of the army's overall low profile, it is impossible for him to become the chief of the general staff, or even the chief of the army staff, before he has a song to become the chief of the general staff. Therefore, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, Ling Yunxiao is very likely to be promoted next year, and leave the front-line combat units to obtain an important position in the army headquarters as an outstanding general with outstanding military achievements, and become another senior general after Tang Yinglong who can make major contributions to the development and construction of the army. To put it bluntly, it is to be a stepping stone for Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao, generals who are much younger than him.

In fact, what Ling Yunxiao has done in the past few years is almost no different from this speculation.

In a sense, when Xiang Linghui sent Ling Yunxiao to the first combat unit and deployed the first combat unit in Pakistan, he hoped that he could play the role of "fixing the sea god's needle". In the words of rumors within the Army. The greatest value of Ling Yunxiao's existence is to protect young generals like Yuan Chenhao, who have a bright future but are fledgling, so that they can become the mainstay of the army after the year of force. Objectively speaking, although Ling Yunxiao is the commander of the first combat unit and has no direct relationship with the South Asian Theater, his existence has indeed played a great role. Not to mention anything else, as long as he is in Pakistan for one day, the General Staff will not think about what Yuan Chenhao will do. In the past few years from the end of Tian to the beginning of the year, the most Ling Yunxiao did was to sort out the relationship for Yuan Chenhao and solve the troubles in the war zone. For example, in the military exercises within the theater, Ling Yunxiao taught Luo Shaopeng many times, so that the lieutenant general commander who likes to get carried away knows who is the boss of the South Asian theater. To be honest, if it weren't for Ling Yunxiao's efforts, Yuan Chenhao would definitely not be able to control Luo Shaopeng. Look at it from this aspect. Ling Yunxiao is undoubtedly a very good "regent."

Affected by this, when Pei Chengyi arranged combat missions, many people opposed letting the first combat unit go to Iran and take on the heavy task of fighting in the southeast of Turkey. At that time, in addition to Yuan Chenhao, even Yang Shaoyong, who had a great influence on Pei Chengyi, believed that Ling Yunxiao was no longer the Ling Yunxiao of the year, although the combat effectiveness of the first combat unit was there, but in the case of needing to be alone, Ling Yunxiao was very likely to be unable to complete the task. Because when planning the war, Pei Chengyi only planned to put in combat units in the southeast of Turkey, and the battle in this direction determined whether the situation could be opened. To lay the foundation for victory, the performance of the first combat unit is crucial, and there must be no mistakes, let alone missed opportunities due to the mistakes of the commander.

It must be admitted that Ling Qixiao's piece has paid off.

If it weren't for Yuan Chenhao's resolute support, or even the support of having no other choice, I'm afraid Pei Chengyi would really put Ling Yunxiao aside and let Li Dongshi's tenth combat unit, or Luo Shaopeng's second combat unit, enter Iran. The new address of this site has been changed to: a few goo, please log in to read!

Strictly speaking, in the battle in the previous few days, Ling Yunxiao's performance was sorry for Yuan Chenhao's height.

Because the situation changed, after the ground war began, the first combat unit did not take charge alone.

Although in the battle of attacking Van Province, the performance of the 1st Combat Unit was commendable and successfully completed the campaign mission, but after the US troops arrived in Hakkari, the performance of the 1st Combat Unit was far from worthy of the title of "the number one ace unit of the Republic Army", especially after the 10th Battle marched into Turkey, it failed to march into Siirt in time after capturing Tatwan, so that the US troops had the opportunity to hold on to Siirt.

Of course, most of the accusations against the first battle individual are related to its reputation.

If the First Combat Unit had been just an ordinary unit, it would not have been criticized so much, and it would have even been considered outstanding. Relative to the previous performance, the performance of the 1st combat unit in the first days of the Turkish battle was really unsatisfactory, and it is difficult to associate it with the ace troops.

Objectively speaking, the responsibility is not on Ling Yunxiao.

The phenomenon of declining combat effectiveness exists in most combat units, and the reason for this is related to the third military reform.

Like the previous two military reforms, the massive loss of talent is the most important incidental to the third military reform, although before the military reform, the then state king Yuanqing clearly put forward the army building strategy of "talent first", requiring all units to effectively protect the interests of officers and soldiers, and in the reform by improving the treatment and welfare of military personnel, improve the social status of military personnel, but under the influence of the general environment, no one can resist the impact of military reform, in the tide of disarmament, A lot of talented servicemen have left the army.

Mother Excuse Me, this is definitely a loss for the republic.

By the beginning of the year, the third military reform was basically over, and in contrast to the loss of a large number of outstanding soldiers, with the retirement of some soldiers. The troops began to absorb fresh blood. Hand Reach... Pull; Left and right. Most of them are technical sergeants or officers. There are only a few officers and soldiers of the grass-roots troops.

The biggest impact of this change is the decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the Republican Army has been improving, and it has not declined. The "decline" mentioned here is actually the end of the Shu period, that is, the war in India has just ended. Compared to the peak of the Army of the Republic.

The predecessor of the First Combat Unit was the Knife Army, which in turn was the most prominent unit during the Indian War.

Obviously, in people's hearts. The first battle should be a victorious force that is invincible, invincible, and invincible, not to mention defeat, and there can be no setbacks.

Undoubtedly, this is a very wrong view.

In fact, both Yuan Chenhao and Pei Chengyi highly praised the performance of the first battle individual on the battlefield in the battle report. Objectively speaking, before the 10th combat unit entered the Turkish battle, the 1st combat unit undertook the heavy task of attacking Van Cheng and Tatwan, and had to sweep the entire northern front and encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Turkish troops in just a few days, and its own casualties could not persuade others, which was absolutely a miracle among miracles.

For those who like to pick a bone in the egg, the only thing that the 1st Combat Unit failed to do well was not able to swing regularly to capture the vital Silt before the American army, and the 10th Combat Unit to quickly encircle and annihilate the European Legion. Avoid the siege that follows.

In fact, this is also where Ling Yunxiao is most dissatisfied with his officers and soldiers.

If it was dragged behind. That is, the support brigade that assisted the Iranian army in annihilating the U.S. forces in Hakkari could quickly intervene and replace the combat brigade to attack Tatwan, which was defended by the Turkish army, and the first combat unit could occupy Siirt before the U.S. forces. Accomplish the operation of the European Army in the most beautiful way.

Affected by this, when Pei Chengyi arranged the task of attacking Sierte, Ling Yunxiao took the main position.

In front of Yuan Chenhao and many other generals. Ling Yunxiao only made one guarantee, that is, to defeat Siirt and annihilate the American European Legion within an hour. Then. Ling Yunxiao did not ask the 10th combat unit to provide support, but only asked the 10th combat unit to hold the western defense line and prevent the US troops from breaking through. Considering that the first combat unit was the first to participate in the battle and occupied the most extensive area, Yuan Chenhao took the initiative to coordinate. Fortunately, Li Dongshi is not Luo Shaopeng, not only does he not have the idea of watching jokes, but he is also very positive.

In any case, the first combat unit was the main force attacking Sierte.

Although Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao knew Ling Yunxiao's personality and did not urge the first battle to speed up the attack, Ling Yunxiao was a general with a very big picture of the situation, and when he first led the sword army on the battlefield, he helped the army to conquer Seoul with a large in-depth assault that Du Qiwei would never forget, laying the foundation for the Republic Army to advance to Busan, and when the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army killed Baatman, and Li Dongshi did not want to use the Ranchi Defensive Battle to defeat the US army, Ling Yunxiao knew that the 10th Combat Unit could not always be in the way of the west of the European Corps. Therefore, soon after the start of the offensive, he gave the order to speed up the offensive.

It must be admitted that age has not changed Ling Yunxiao's tactical style.

Like the sword army of the year, in the battle of the fortification, the single attack of the first battle is still sharp.

Before the 10th Combat Unit shifted its focus, Ling Yunxiao used the Liduo vertical take-off and landing transport planes specially sent by Yuan Chenhao to send the troops of the three combat battalions to the northwest, southwest, and southeast of Sierte, strengthening the encirclement in these three directions. According to Ling Yunxiao's arrangement, the task of these three battalions was only one catty, "that is, after the offensive troops of the 10th combat unit withdrew from the battle, the US troops were tightly locked in the encirclement." In order to strengthen this encirclement, Ling Yunxiao made a very crucial arrangement, that is, let each of the three combat battalions establish direct communication links with the three artillery battalions, and the artillery battalion would give priority to providing artillery support to the fiber combat battalion during defensive operations. That is, in order to prevent the US military from breaking through. Ling Yunxiao let an artillery battalion carry out the fire blockade mission. Judging from the subsequent battles, if there was no such arrangement, even if the officers and men of the three battles could hold the defensive line, they would not be able to control the number of casualties within persuasion.

Once the defensive line was deployed, the first combat unit began to attack.

At this time, it was already noon on the 8th. In other words, in order to encircle the European Legion of the US Army and ensure the total annihilation of this combat force with a total strength of more than 20,000, Ling Yunxiao spent about half of his time and did enough "foreplay to make the later attack extremely sharp."

As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood.

Having made sufficient preparations, the attack of the Diren combat unit was unstoppable.

Starting from the old point of battle time in Baghdad time, the 6 combat battalions of the 1st combat unit are on the road, and each 2 battalions are one way. Attack from the north, northeast and east. In order to increase the intensity of the attack, each battalion has direct contact with 2 artillery battalions and receives quick artillery support. In order to ensure that the fire channel was unimpeded, Ling Yunxiao not only applied for several large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to provide communication support, but also interrupted all communication except tactics. The address of this site has been changed to: In addition to the coo, please log in to read!

It's Ling Yunxiao, if it is someone else, Yuan Chenhao will definitely not agree.

You must know that when the first battle was attacked by Sierte alone, the front-line commander Yuan Chenhao could only learn about the battle situation on the front line from the tactical sharing information platform. Because in the fierce battle, no unit will update tactical information in a timely manner, and even any unit has developed the habit of updating tactical information in the middle of the battle, so on the information sharing platform, it can only obtain outdated tactical information, and it is impossible to command troops to fight according to this tactical information. Precisely because it is not necessary to command the Diren combat unit to fight. Therefore, Yuan Chenhao was not affected too much.

According to the battle report of the first battle, the three attacks were fought very fiercely.

In Ling Yunxiao's words after the war, the European Army is indeed the first ace unit in the US Army to complete the reorganization, not only has very advanced equipment, but also has very flexible tactics, and a strong will to fight, basically representing the highest combat effectiveness of the US army. However, judging from the actual results of the battle, the battle against Siirt was fierce, but it was far from the standard of "tragic". In any case, the total number of casualties of the first combat unit is more than that of the meritorious people, and the casualty figure of the US military is also just over the old meritorious people. In other battles that reached the "tragic" standard, such as the battle in which the Airborne 3 Brigade defended Ranchi, the casualty figures must have been several times, if not several times, of these two.

Because of the poor communication, the situation at that time could only be learned from the battle reports of the first combat unit and the memories of some veterans.

There is nothing to say about the war report, the really public war report has been processed by the Military Intelligence Agency, and some of the content that is unfavorable to the republic or the republican ** team has definitely been deleted, and some content related to secrecy has also been deleted or modified. In front of the common people, it must have been a glamorous battle.

Comparatively, some veterans' memories are more trustworthy.

Follow the memories of a tankman who took part in the battle, and lost his left arm during the battle. From the very beginning, the battle was not very smooth. Before entering the city, the new anti-tank missiles of the US military posed a great threat, and nearly one-third of the tanks and combat vehicles damaged in the battle were killed by the new anti-tank missiles of the US military. After entering the city, the U.S. Army's main battle tank became the biggest threat. Because the European legion had fought with the Iranian grass team before, and also met with the vanguard of the 10th combat unit in Baatman, he was more aware of the performance of the tank, and Zhishan's electromagnetic cannon could only penetrate the frontal armor of the thug within the thug's fierce meter, which happened to be a more common engagement distance in urban warfare, so the US army hid all the tanks in the buildings in the city early on and used them as fixed anti-tank fire points. Although this method greatly limits the application of the main battle tank and makes the US military lose the ability to break through prematurely, it is definitely a nightmare for the attacking Republican team, especially those tankers. Hitting the back, the attacking troops called for artillery fire and destroyed almost all the buildings in the offensive route, and only after making sure that there was no possibility of an ambush before moving on.

If this were not the case, the battle would have ended before dark.

Of course, the officers and men of the 1st Combat Unit cannot be blamed for being cowardly.

On the battlefield, no one is the same. Why shed blood and sacrifice when there is no need to fight desperately with the enemy?

Strictly speaking, this situation had a lot to do with Duchham, because before that, Duchway's order was to hold on to Siirt and wait for reinforcements to arrive. As a result, none of the more than 20,000 officers and men of the European legion planned to break through. And they all think that they can rely on urban buildings. Repelled the attack of the 1st combat unit.

The failure of the Republican authorities to publish the civilian casualties of the battle until decades after the end of the war, and the fact that the Republic paid for the construction of a new city of Sirt on the banks of the Tigris River to the west shortly after the end of the war, had a lot to do with the civilian casualties caused by the battle. According to estimates by some Western news outlets, half of the inhabitants of Near Livansilt were killed by artillery fire during the siege that lasted for several hours. That is, civilian casualties are close to the old thousand. And some other Western media think. Civilian casualties exceeded 10,000.

In any case, the army's casualties are nothing compared to civilian casualties.

Of course, the Western news media, which support those who believe that the civilian casualties in the Battle of Sirt were too high, have come up with three so-called "evidence." "One is that Sirt is one of the few large and medium-sized cities in the Kurdistan region that is dominated by Turks, and before the siege of the Republican **. In addition to about 30,000 Kurds who left the city. More than 10,000 Turks remained in the city, while the Western news media only contacted less than 10,000 Turks after the war. The second is that the authorities of the republic did not allow journalists to go to Siirt until after the end of the war, rather than after the end of the fighting, exactly as in the case of the attack on Calcutta, India, and the Western news media have confirmed that the number of civilian casualties in the battle of Kolkata is dozens of times higher than the official announcement of the republic. Finally, shortly after the end of the battle, before the early hours of the morning, Pei Chengyi handed over the heavy task of occupying Siirt to the Iranian army that followed up, and 3 days later, the Iraqi army took over the Iranian army, which caused the situation in Siirte to become chaotic, and no one knew what had happened in the past few days, and there was no way to blame the republican ** team for what they did when attacking Siirt. The address of this site has been changed to: Excuse me. 8. Please read the law!

What has become of Silt, Pei Chengyi knows very well.

As the supreme commander of the Combined Command, there was no reason to ignore the safety of thousands of Republican soldiers and Allied officers and soldiers for the sake of some Turks until the end of the war.