The decisive battle of the hole line is concentrated in two directions. [Full text reading] is to relieve the siege of the 8th and 5th combat units of the 62nd battle between Heche and Osmani, and the second is to attack Malatya. Comparatively speaking, because Malatya is the main transportation hub connecting the southern and central regions of Turkey, the attack on Malatya is even more crucial, and even related to whether the war can be ended in a favorable situation.

When planning, Pei Chengyi thought about sending the seventh combat unit that finally arrived on the battlefield to Diyarbakir to participate in the combat operation against Malatya, and discussed it with Su Jinhui, and got the support of the commander of the southern front. The reason for Pei Chengyi's decision is very simple, that is, the 1st Combat Unit and the 10th Combat Unit have been fighting continuously for half a month, the state of the troops has declined, and the officers and men urgently need a long rest and recuperation. Because Shang Xueyun's Seventh Combat Unit is also adapted from the Airborne Troops, which is an all-round combat unit with both offensive and defensive capabilities, according to Pei Chengyi's idea, combined with the armored assault force of the first combat unit and the low-altitude assault capability of the tenth combat unit, the seventh combat unit can easily tear through the defense line of the US-Turkish coalition forces, plus the old 10,000-Iranian army that participated in the war, it will definitely be able to take Malatya within a few days, that is, to occupy this vital city before the United States and Turkey submit a request for armistice negotiations.

The problem is that it is not Pei Chengyi who dominates the northern front, but Yuan Chenhao.

After Pei Chengyi proposed to send the seventh battle alone, Yuan Chenhao refused without thinking about it, and promised to complete the combat mission of capturing Malatya without increasing troops. Although Yuan Chenhao put forward a condition, that is, to fully guarantee the operational supply of the 1st and 10th combat units, especially the supply of ammunition, compared with sending an additional pound to the northern front, raising the level of logistics support is nothing at all.

As always, after careful consideration, Pei Chengyi handed over the decision-making power to Yuan Chenhao and let the front-line commander decide on the front-line combat operations. According to the rules, when Yuan Chenhao was fighting in Tsege, he not only had to report the situation to Pei Chengyi at any time, but also had to submit a perfect battle plan.

After getting Yuan Chenhao's battle plan, Pei Chengyi had nothing to worry about.

What Pei Chengyi didn't expect was that the state of the main forces of the two fronts was not bad, especially the 10th battle individual, because he had a short rest after capturing Diyarbak, so the enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers was very high, and morale and fighting spirit were not a problem. Stimulated by the 10th Combat Unit, the officers and men of the 1st Combat Unit were also very active, but the mental state of the officers and men had to be taken into account when carrying out combat missions.

The fact that the 10 th combat unit was able to maintain its vigorous combat effectiveness after leading the enemy to fierce fighting for many days, capturing several important cities and towns in succession, and advancing the battle line for hundreds of kilometers was due to the high-intensity combat training of the fighters for more than many years.

As the last combat unit of the Republican Army, the 10th Combat Unit was in a state of "combat readiness" from the day it was formed.

After the formation of the troops, they immediately went to the Hengduan Mountains in the southwest of the Republic to conduct combat training in the lofty mountains and mountains with a radius of several hundred thousand square kilometers. It is for this reason that before the outbreak of this war, the 10th combat unit became the most mysterious combat unit in the army of the Republic. Because Li Dongshi is the most famous airborne unit in the Republic and is one of the few airborne generals who have been promoted from ordinary soldiers, many people believe that the 10th Combat Unit is the only airborne unit retained by the Republic Army, and it is an air assault unit capable of carrying out low-altitude assault and airborne combat missions by vertical take-off and landing transport planes. Of course, there are also people who believe that the 10th combat unit is very likely to be the only and extremely large special forces in the Republic Army, because Xiang Linghui is the chief of the General Staff who was born in special forces, and after him, the special forces under the direct command of the General Staff will fall into the hands of a naval general, and it is necessary for him to retain a crack special operations force for the Republic Army before leaving office.

Of course, among the various speculations, the most eye-catching is the training intensity of the tenth battle individual.

Over the years, this combat unit, composed of more than 20,000 officers and men, has been training and has been training in the mountains and mountains. You must know that even if it is a newly established unit, the training period is only six months, and even if it is an elite unit, the training cycle will not exceed more than a year, giving the 10th combat unit an extremely special combat capability.

In other combat units, there is a strict division of tasks between combat brigades and support brigades, with support brigades performing only some non-frontal combat tasks on the battlefield and at most only positional defense tasks. That is, the support brigade will not be involved in the offensive. In the 10th combat unit, because the support brigade is extremely large, 3 low-altitude assault battalions and 3 low-altitude strike battalions have hundreds of combat aircraft and approximately! In addition to the normal state of the thugs, the guard battalion, the "communications reconnaissance battalion is mainly responsible for fighting a single directly subordinate large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft", the support battalion is mainly for providing medical care, communications and other non-material support tasks for the troops, and the 3 logistics battalion is mainly responsible for material support, and the total strength of the brigade is above the heart. In a combat state, the low-altitude assault battalion and the low-altitude strike battalion will be strengthened, the logistics battalion will be more than doubled, the scale of the communications reconnaissance battalion and the support battalion will be expanded, and the total strength of the brigade will most likely exceed that of the concave knife man. When the mine is formed by the alliance. The 10th combat unit received a high degree of merit from the Army Command. The Yimai Aid Brigade is organized according to combat standards, and training is carried out in accordance with combat standards. For Li Dongshi, who was born in the Airborne Forces, it was impossible to leave a unit with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the battlefield under any circumstances. You must know that in the Wulao Resistance Battle and the Ranchi Resistance Battle, Li Dongshi's Airborne Stuffy Brigade held out to the last moment, and all the officers and soldiers participated in the positional defense battle, and there was no difference between combatants and non-combatants at all, so in the 10th Combat Unit, there was no such difference. From the day it was formed, the support brigade of the 10th combat unit had to conduct combat training according to the standards of a combat brigade.

In terms of armament and equipment, the support brigade is still a support brigade.

In addition to other things, in terms of firearms for soldiers, in combat brigades, an infantry assaulter is equipped with a combat pistol as standard, while in the support brigade, in addition to the guard battalion, one-third of the officers and men of the other battalions are equipped with close-range self-defense weapons, and two-thirds are equipped only with self-defense pistols.

The biggest problem is not yet guns, but heavy equipment.

After going to the battlefield, the problem of guns is relatively easy to solve. Because Iraq has produced hundreds of thousands of assault rifles that are very similar to those of the Republican Army in the form of imported production, and in the same caliber, the 10th Combat Unit can manage to obtain combat guns from the Iraqi Army after the Iraqi army enters the ground to fight. The real trouble is the heavy equipment of the armored forces, not to mention Iraq, even Iran is unlikely to provide the 10th combat unit with main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, and in modern warfare, it is difficult for infantry to complete combat missions without armored forces.

In view of this situation, during the training, Li Dongshi adopted the method of "replacing personnel without changing equipment" to allow the officers and men of the combat brigade and the support brigade to exchange posts with each other, so that the officers and men of the support brigade could master the operation method of the main battle equipment. At that time, Li Dongshi had not thought of letting the support brigade act as the main attack force. It is just hoped that in the event of fierce fighting, the support brigade will be able to fully play the role of a reserve and be able to complete the combat mission like a combat brigade. After arriving on the battlefield, Li Dongshi's arrangement immediately played a more important role. In the first round of assaults, several battalions of the 10th Combat Unit Support Brigade disguised themselves as the main force and fought all the way from Gizre to Shernak, not only successfully completing the feint mission, but also unexpectedly attacking Erokh, which made the first contribution to the later capture of Sirter. During the attack on Bartman, the Support Brigade also played a particularly crucial role in covering the flank defense of the Combat Brigade, otherwise the Combat Brigade would not have been able to capture Bartman before the arrival of the main American army. Even in the battle against Diyarbakir, the support brigade showed itself very well. In the words of some officers and men of the combat brigade, as long as there is enough heavy equipment, the support brigade can divide the four men to form a second combat brigade.

In the 10th combat unit, the significance of the support brigade is not at all the ability to perform offensive combat missions.

As a fast assault force, the Support Brigade of the 10th Combat Unit is able to complete low-altitude assault missions without the support of the combat brigade. To be precise, only the heavy equipment of the combat brigade is needed, and the officers and men of the support brigade can attack like a combat unit.

It can be said that this is an important combat capability of Feifeng.

This time, what Yuan Chenhao wants to use is the ability of the 10th Combat Unit Support Brigade.

In fact, before that, the 10th Combat Individual Support Brigade had proven their strength with their actions. When marching towards Malatya, Yuan Chenhao left the 1st combat unit in the front, and left the 10th combat unit alone responsible for flanking and outflanking, that is, capturing Baskir and Sifrij and blocking Elazig's Turkish army. It is the support brigade that carries out this task. What's more, after the capture of Baskil, the low-altitude assault battalion of the support brigade was all dispatched, and half of the combat brigade's troops were sent from Diyarbakir to Baskir in just one hour. That is, before the 1st combat unit reached the offensive position, the 10th combat unit was individually ready for the assault on Malatya.

According to Yuan Chenhao's arrangement, the frontal attack was still the responsibility of the first combat unit.

Because the losses of the first combat unit were too great when attacking Siverek, and the mental state of the officers and soldiers was not good, Yuan Chenhao did not expect this ace unit to be able to assault more than 4,000 kilometers in one go, break through several defensive lines of the US-Turkish coalition army, and become the main force in the attack on Malatya. In his opinion, because the first combat unit has a good reputation, as long as Ling Yunxiao leads this force to kill Malatya, the US-Turkish coalition will not take it lightly and will definitely send the main force over. Considering that the First Combat Unit is an armored force that is extremely good at fighting tough battles, it is unlikely that the US-Turkish coalition forces will pin their hopes on holding on, and should focus on weakening the assault capability of the First Combat Unit through active counterattacks or even active attacks, so as to block the First Combat Unit south of Malatya. As a result, the U.S.-Turkish coalition would have to devote enough troops in that direction to cause holes in the defenses in other directions.

It can be said that this is the opportunity that Yuan Chenhao is trying his best to create.

The problem is that the U.S.-Turkish coalition in Malatya has limited troops, and it is very likely that they will stall for time by holding on.

In other words, Yuan Chenhao could not completely pin his hopes on the first combat unit, and when necessary, he had to let the tenth battle knock and chop to attack Malatti, and Ji Chenhao, who deployed the tenth combat unit, asked Li Dongshi to send the armored unit of the combat brigade to Baskil first.

The key is not an armored assault, but how to use the low-altitude assault capabilities of the 10th combat unit.

In the combat strategy submitted to Pei Chengyi, Yuan Chenhao clearly mentioned this point, that is, to fully wield the main combat capability of the tenth combat unit.

It was only by this time that the 10th combat unit really fought in the way it did best.

Before attacking the U.S. fleet, the Republic Air Force dispatched tactical aviation to bomb the defensive positions of the U.S.-Turkish coalition in the direction of Malatya. Although the main purpose of this round of bombing was to cover the combat operations of the attacking American fleet, it also provided great help to the 10th combat unit. You know, after the start of the war, the Air Force of the Republic has not yet provided air support for the ground offensive in any direction with such high intensity.

Thanks to this extremely heavy air strike, the 10th combat unit went on the offensive.

Before the tactical fighters returned to Syria, the vertical take-off and landing transport group transporting the ground combat units of the 10th Combat Unit reached Yazehan on the north bank of the Tokhma River, captured the Turkish headquarters before the Turkish forces defending the area could react, and then forced the Turkish troops to surrender. About two hours later, another low-altitude assault unit of the 10th Combat Unit occupied Doanshehir, about kilometres south-west of Malatya. At this point, the 10th combat unit completed the combat operation of encircling Malatya.

In the early morning of the day of entry, the 10th Combat Individual Ground Panzer Corps crossed the Tokhma River.

At this time, the vanguard of the 1st Combat Unit had just arrived in Sindik, about 7 tantes of distance from Malatya. What's worse is that the Turkish army deployed in Sinjik has a thug battalion. The vanguard of the 1st combat unit, having suffered a setback in the assault, did not continue to venture into the attack, but stopped its advance, intending to hand over the task of attacking the fortified position to the main forces that were about to arrive.

By this time, Xi Chenhao's deployment had already paid off.

Judging from the actual situation, the US-Turkish coalition has only two catties. Choose. The first is to quickly shrink the defensive line and take a proactive counterattack in a certain direction. The second is to let Elazig's Turkish army attack, and strive to help the U.S.-Turkish coalition in Malatya break the siege.

Because Malatya is extremely important, and can even be said to be the most important strategic point in the central region of Turkey, and the republican ** team can even march along the railway line to Ankara, so before Duchway made a choice, the chief of the general staff of the Turkish National Army made a choice, that is, let Elazig's Turkish army attack westward and attack Baskir at all costs.

For Dudgway, this is not a bad thing.

Elazig is also of great strategic importance, and is the main concentration point of the Taurus Line, so Elazig has hundreds of thousands of Turkish troops, even if most of them are reserve troops, and some are new troops formed with conscripted recruits, and there is not much combat effectiveness at all, but in the case of insufficient American troops, it is much better to have an army to attack Baskil than to let the 10th combat unit attack Malatya.

Of course, the actions of the Turkish army also helped Duchway make a decision.

Probably because he had a premonition that the war was about to end, Duchway already knew that the "Orenet" aircraft carrier battle group had been devastated, so when the chief of the general staff of the Turkish National Army adjusted the deployment, Duchway not only did not intervene in the thugs, but also asked the US troops stationed in Malatya to concentrate their forces against the 1st Combat Unit in the south, instead of encircling and suppressing the 10th Combat Unit in the east with the Turkish army. From a military point of view, this is a very wrong decision. In any case, only half of the combat brigade of the 10th combat unit is fighting on the front line, and with the fact that the enemy is on the back of the belly, it is easier to deal with. If you can eat the 10th combat unit in one go, it's not too late to go back and deal with the 1st combat unit. Politically, this was again a very correct decision, and in a situation where he was doomed to lose the war, Duchway had to leave a way out for himself. Because Du Qiwei is the supreme commander of the coalition forces, and the Turkish chief of staff adjusts the deployment, which is an unauthorized transfer of troops, so by focusing on the first combat individual, Du Qiwei can shift the responsibility to the chief of staff of the Turkish army after the war.

Judging from the situation at the time, Du Qiwei really had no skills.

Although military common sense told Du Qiwei that the republican ** team launched such a fierce attack, it must be overdrawing the combat effectiveness of the army, not only the offensive could not be sustained, but also had a serious negative impact on the later combat operations. To put it bluntly, after the offense, the republican ** team will expose a lot of flaws. But Du Qiwei knows better that Pei Chengyi is by no means the kind of commander who does not leave a way out, and the fact that the seventh combat unit has not yet come on the field shows that Pei Chengyi has taken precautions. With the combat effectiveness of the Republican ** team, even if it can't continue to attack, it can stabilize the defense. In other words, Pei Chengyi's aim was to end the fighting on the northern front as soon as possible, and not to overthrow the Turkish regime.

Such a result is acceptable to Dudgway.

Of course, Duchway did not expect that the battle in the other direction would almost cost him all his money.

It can be said that even Pei Chengyi did not expect that in the early morning of the mouth, he would be so close to victory.