Chapter 791: Mediterranean Condor
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The attack of the 4th Panzer Division went very smoothly, because they were caught by surprise. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info≦≧
No one ever thought that there would be a rebellion in Damascus, and the main body of the rebellion would be the 4th Panzer Division, which was originally prepared to aid the Golan Heights, and the commander of the Panzer Division, Leyadh, was a close confidant of Assad.
However, it was so suddenly, when the 4th Panzer Division appeared in Damascus, the armored units of the Republican Guard, which was responsible for the guard, were still in the garrison and did not come out, and even if they came out, it would be useless, because their tanks had not yet been issued with live ammunition.
Moreover, a small number of generals in the Republican Guard had been notified in advance, and they had mobilized their troops and easily blocked their stations, and this most closely related unit of Assad was actually useless, so it was trapped and inactive.
In fact, the reason is very simple, because the Republican Guard is the most sharp force in Syria, and it is also the most trusted force of Assad, similar to the Republican Guard in Iraq, this force, from the commander to the soldiers, is from Assad's Alawites, in the proverb's way, they are all their old family. Therefore, this force can exert its greatest power in the face of interference from external forces.
However, it was also their old family members who defected this time, and Rifart knew many of them very well, and Richfat only selected a few of his closest cronies, explained the operation to them, and promised to succeed after the operation. will promote them to more important positions.
In doing so, Rifart was also done in order to be able to take over the Republican Guard in its entirety. ≦≧ with this guard, he was more certain in control of Damascus.
Fighting broke out only in Damascus hospitals. Here, the fighters in charge of the guard stubbornly resisted the attack of the 4th Panzer Division, but, with light weapons, wanted to contend with heavy weapons such as tanks. The results are clear.
Rifaat also knew that this was the most critical battle, and he personally oversaw the battle, regardless of civilian casualties. Tank guns were used for shè strikes, and after several hours, the battle here was finally resolved. At this point, it's late at night.
With complete control of the place, Rifaat finally met his old acquaintance.
"Rifaat, you rebel!" Defense Minister Mustafa angrily rebuked that he had discovered that he had made such a big mistake and that he had ignored the danger that Damascus might face, and that he had finally been taken advantage of by Rifaat and used force. seized power.
The soldiers outside were all killed in battle, and although Mustafa had all the armed forces in Syria, he was now unable to mobilize any of the troops.
"Rebels?" Mustafa said: "Now that Baz has been killed, how can I, as the vice president of Syria, not express my condolences, and how is my brother doing?" I have something to say to him. ”
Until now. What happened to the president of Syria, the supreme leader of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, no one knows, even Mustafa, who was waiting outside, did not know that in the fierce battle just now, Mustafa had been directing the battle until the last moment. ≦≧
Rifaat was very happy, and in this he had captured almost all the leading officials of Syria, and this rebellion, he carried out very successfully.
These people, if they obey themselves, then, they can be let go, if they oppose themselves, then, killing them on the spot is the best choice, Rifart knows that cutting the grass will be eradicated, and he doesn't want to leave anyone to oppose him.
No one answered him, they were very angry about Rifaat's rebellion, and at the same time, they were also thinking about their own way back, Rifaat, when dealing with the rebellion, but the blood was shedding, today, Rifaat has returned to Damascus, will he repeat his original behavior?
Rifaat looked at the high-ranking officials who had become prisoners of his ranks, and easily pushed open the door to the operating room.
Even if it's a heart bypass surgery, an hour or two is enough, where did it take so long! Intuitively, Rifaat was very strange about his brother's condition.
He pushed open the door and saw the doctor in the room, and the operating table was empty.
What about Hafez? Rifaat was frightened, as long as Hafez was not caught, this coup d'état would be a failure, Hafez was very likely to go to other cities, organize an army, and take Damascus back! As long as Hafez is around, Rifaat will never succeed!
Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! Rifaat's eyes instantly turned red, and he pointed a pistol at a doctor and asked, "Where's Hafez?" ”
The doctor was too frightened to speak, but just pointed to the top of his head. ≦≧
Overhead, at some point, a large hole had appeared, which was originally the location of the vent.
It turned out that just when the battle on the periphery began, out of nowhere, a helicopter flew in, landed on the roof of the building, and took a step ahead of President Hafez to rescue him.
The doctor didn't finish speaking, in fact, it was President Hafez who was rescued, because they rescued the president for several hours, but they still didn't save the president, but the doctors didn't give up, they were waiting for a miracle.
The fifty-five-year-old Hafez is President Hafez who has been in power for 15 years, and finally did not survive another 15 years of his governing career, because the early death of his eldest son hit his newly recovered body again, and as a result, he eventually suffered a heart attack and left his beloved career in Syria.
People outside don't know that the president is gone, they only know that Rifaat found out that the president is no longer inside, then, Rifaat's coup d'état will not succeed!
Mustafa glanced at it, only to realize that among the people who were arrested, why was there no Air Force Commander Manaf?
Two small helicopters, nimbly shuttling through the dark Damascus area, soon disappeared into the night. ≦≧
From the helicopter, Manaf looked at President Hafez who was no longer breathing in the seat next to him. Looking at the Damascus area below, the mood is very flustered. Syria, where will it go from here?
"Commander. Let's go back to the airbase first, although there is a rebellion in the army, but our air force is still loyal to President Hafez and to you. Said one of the armed men in front.
Yes. We also have the Air Force! We need to announce this rebellion to the whole country, we need to get rid of the rebels! Manav made up his mind.
All of this was too much of a fluke, and Manav still thought back to what had just happened.
When he found out that there were rebels outside. During the siege of the hospital, Manav knew that the safety of the president was now paramount.
At such times, the streets of Damascus were already occupied by the rebels, it was no longer possible to urgently mobilize troops, and the rebels cut the telephone lines of the hospitals.
Manaf's hands. Still holding one thing, a wireless phone.
Although radio stations were used when commanding troops, especially the Air Force, Manav was summoned by the president, and after he returned, before he could report all the reports, the president had an accident. So, Manav didn't have a radio station with him, even a hand-held one, but thankfully, he also had a wireless phone. ≦≧
As a product of scientific and technological progress, Syria is also gradually experimenting with new wireless telephone equipment, but the network has only just been built, and there are few wireless telephone equipment, but Manaf knows that the captain of a special unit under his command has one of these wireless telephones.
Thus, for the first time in the world's military history, the operation of using a civilian wireless telephone to issue combat orders for the army began. (In later generations, when the Han Kuang military exercise, the Taiwan military did not like to use FM radio, but used mobile phones to talk, the call quality is high, convenient and fast, the only drawback is that it does not meet the requirements of the exercise!) )
Manav commanded the Air Force, and in the Air Force, there was a special unit called the Mediterranean Condor.
This force, even in later generations, is still a mystery whether it exists and how large it is.
And now, this unit, which has just been established for about half a year, has only three small detachments and a scale of 50 people. And their equipment, which is even more special, uses the legal Gazelle helicopter.
Because Iraq's special forces have shown their strong strength, Manaf, who is red-eyed, also hopes that Syria will have such a force, and after consulting with the president, such a special force will not be established in the army, but in the air force first.
Since President Assad was originally an Air Force pilot, he was very concerned about the construction of the Air Force.
Following the example of Iraq, this particular unit also uses helicopters as the main means of transportation, however, instead of the bulky Mi-24, they use small Gazelle helicopters.
Almost all of Syria's military equipment is Soviet-style, with the exception of this batch of helicopters.
After the purchase of the Bell AH-1 Cobra gunship in the form of Sè, Syria began to look for a helicopter gunship that could be used against it, however, at that time, the USSR could not afford to provide the equivalent Xing Mi-24 gunship that Syria requested, they needed to give priority to guaranteeing their bases in the GDR, as a result, with the facilitation of the Saudis, Syria, which had not purchased Western-made fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters since the late 50s, purchased the SA.342L "Little Antelope" manufactured by the French aerospace company"Helicopters, in 1977, the first batch of 18 were delivered. This incident came as a great surprise to Western countries.
The Soviets were even more surprised, and then exported a simplified version of the Mi-24 helicopter gunship to Syria.
However, after the comparison of the Syrian Air Force, the Xing ability of the Gazelle helicopter is even better, which is also the reason why it was selected by the Mediterranean Condor.
The only flaw is that the helicopter is too small. The small size of the helicopter is indicated by a single engine and a glass cockpit with a panoramic view of the front, which uses a side-by-side two-seat piloting mechanism with a total of five seats in two rows. The first two, however, have only one cāo longitudinal system, that is, this helicopter, is completely single-piloted. However, now the scale of the Condor force in the Mediterranean is relatively small, and it is okay to use this kind of helicopter, and the introduction plan of a new helicopter is also in the pipeline.
This time there were two helicopters, including the pilot, and there were only ten people, but it was enough. After the bodies of Manav and the president were seated in the back seats, there were two fighters of the special forces, sitting on the steel pipe skid landing gear outside.
Large and medium-sized helicopters generally use wheeled landing gear, and only lightweight helicopters use fixed steel pipe welded landing gear when the impact force is relatively small when landing. However, this also provides a new use for this type of helicopter, and when there are not enough people to ride, several additional personnel can sit on the sled outside to increase the carrying capacity.
(This way, in modern times, is also available, that is, the United States MD530 "Bird" light helicopter, this helicopter is smaller, smaller than the antelope, the Americans outside the helicopter, on each side of the bench a row of benches, one side can sit two people, tied to the chair through the seat belt, holding a rifle, it looks very stylish.) )
It is precisely because of this small helicopter that it has gone more smoothly in tonight's operation.
The small helicopter, combined with the advanced avionics of France, allows this helicopter to travel leisurely over the dark sky of Damascus.
And, in the hours of firefighting below, there was a moment when the firefighting stopped, and the Gazelle helicopter saw an opportunity to fly through the building behind the hospital and onto the roof of that building.
Although the exchange of fire stopped, the engines of dozens of T-55 tanks around them were still rumbling, and no one noticed that when their peripheral attack was blocked, there were uninvited guests in the sky.
The main reason is that all the strength of the attacking troops is concentrated in the battle on the ground, and no one notices that an uninvited guest is coming in the sky.
However, when Major General Manav, who took advantage of the chaos and went to the rooftop, led people into the operating room through the top vent, he found that what the doctors were still rescuing was just a corpse!
Time was of the essence, and Major General Manaf had to leave the hospital with the body of President Hafez with him.
Manav knew that it was a fluke to be able to take the president's body away and prevent it from falling into the hands of the rebels, and that as long as he returned to the air base, he could organize an air force to counterinsurgency.
And now, before the time comes, although he can call in helicopter gunships and fixed-wing aircraft of the Air Force to bomb the rebels, it is now dark night, and it is not clear at all whether we are friends or foes. rq!!!