Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 71 An Unfair Race

The sudden "failure of the satellite caused by the United Kingdom."

As a high-tech, high-investment cutting-edge military equipment system, under the influence of electronic equipment miniaturization, system integration, modular design and other technologies, the military satellite system has long given up the exhibition mode of emphasizing a single function, and will concentrate more and more on the same satellite or the same constellation, resulting in the satellite system becoming more and more complex, and it is not uncommon for small faults to occur. [Full text reading]

It wasn't until the technicians who were about the point of the cut that they realized that something was wrong.

In both sets of image data returned by the reconnaissance satellite system, a problem arose that the resolution of the reconnaissance photographs for South Asia, especially southern Pakistan and southeastern Iran, was reduced by two orders of magnitude, that is, from centimeters to meters.

This is definitely not a general glitch.

There are many reasons for the reduction of the resolution of the images taken by reconnaissance satellites, and in the case of optical reconnaissance satellites, it is possible that there may be problems with the data returned to the ground base due to factors such as equipment resonance, backlighting, the lens being hit by space junk, and the failure of the signal transmitter, but this problem only occurs in a certain area. There are only two possible causes, one is the resonance of the device, and the other is interference. Because artificial satellites all operate in elliptical orbits, the degree of flight is different depending on the orbital altitude. However, the near-low orbit is not completely vacuumed, and the system on the satellite may have regular vibrations, and the resonance phenomenon will definitely appear at the two points that the slightly circular orbit wants to correspond.

The technician immediately looked for a photo at another spot.

The result told him that Wei Yan was not affected by the resonance, but was disturbed. The address of this site has been changed to: Eliminate the heart, delete please log in to read!

I have to admit that the defeated intelligence analyst was very rigorous, and although he could think with his eyes closed that the reconnaissance satellite must have been interfered with, the intelligence analyst did not report it before getting the evidence.

In other words, it wasn't until around 4 o'clock that Stark got hold of the situation.

The marine, who had followed Duchway for many years, immediately ordered the old to adjust the working orbits of several satellites and figure out the situation in South Asia as soon as possible. He hadn't forgotten the most important thing, and that was to contact Duchway.

When he received the news of Stark's arrival, Dudgway was immediately taken aback.

This is definitely not good news. Because he didn't understand technology, the first thing that came to Dugway's mind was that the US military satellite system had been attacked. Although the location of the incident was in South Asia and, according to the data provided, the centre of the disturbed area was in southeastern Iran, there was reason to believe that the incident was closely related to Iran, but Duchway had no reason to believe that, as an ordinary country, Iran was capable of dealing with United States reconnaissance satellites. There is no doubt that it must be the Republic that is behind it. More importantly, the war is about to break out, and the Republic's focus on dealing with US reconnaissance satellites over South Asia must be related to Pei Chengyi. In other words, Pei Chengyi has already begun to act.

Making a judgment is not the same as finding a confession

Take the position of Dugway. Even if he knew that Pei Chengyi was about to punch. He didn't know how to deal with it.

The reason is simple, he doesn't know which direction Pei Chengyi will punch at all.

Although Du Qiwei has 10,000 reasons to believe that Pei Chengyi will concentrate his efforts on attacking the Turkish army in the Zagros Mountains, and strive to use air strikes to break the Turkish army's combat effectiveness and will to resist before the ground troops arrive, Duchway still does not dare to make assumptions in the absence of conclusive evidence.

It can be said that this kind of evidence-based thinking has long been deeply rooted in Dudgway's bone marrow.

You know, on the battlefield, the situation changes quickly, and sometimes you have to make a judgment without evidence.

While waiting for more definite information, Dudgway personally called Stark to ask for details. After learning that the reconnaissance satellite had only failed in the skies over South Asia and was working normally in other areas, Duchway immediately realized that this was a sign that war was about to explode.

After hanging up the phone, Du Qiwei issued another warning to the Turkish army.

Although the Turkish army has entered a state of combat readiness in accordance with the warning issued by Du Qiwei more than three hours ago, and it is of little significance for Du Qiwei to give another warning, the purpose of Du Qiwei's warning is not to warn the Turkish army, but to shirk responsibility for the upcoming strike.

In the hours before that, Duchway had been following the movements of the Turkish army.

To be precise, it was the U.S.-Turkish Coalition Command that was paying attention to the Turkish army's combat readiness, and the staff officer in charge of the matter would report to Duchway every half hour. Although Du Qiwei did not expect the Turkish army to perform spectacularly, the state of the Turkish army still made him miserable.

It is a cutting edge to three points. The front-line units of the Turkish army only entered the position.

In fact, most of the Turkish combat units were not deployed. According to the information returned by the liaison officers sent by Du Qiwei to the battalion-level units of the Turkish army, most of the Turkish troops only entered a state of combat readiness symbolically, and did not strictly follow the requirements for combat readiness to be prepared for a sudden attack. Among other things, more than half of the Turkish battalion-level troops remained in the camp after 4 o'clock and did not enter the defensive positions as required. What made the US liaison officers even more angry was that after they put forward their request that they should enter the position as soon as possible, the Turkish commander not only refused to accept it, but also refused on the grounds that the Turkish officers and men could not go to the battlefield hungry and respected the rights of the Turkish soldiers.

On the whole, the vast majority of Turkish officers and men did not take the war seriously at all.

Of course, there is nothing to blame for this. As early as the night of the flying day, Duchway repeatedly warned the Turkish high-level. Don't have any illusions about war, as long as the republic makes a war decision, it can crush the Turkish army with a strong wind, but from the prime minister to the chief of the general staff, no one in the Turkish leadership believes it, and some even think that Duchway is alarmist and wants the Turkish side to hand over all the command, so that the Turkish army can become the vanguard of the US army's attack on Iraq and Iran.

The reason for the paralysis of the Turkish top is not complicated, that is, the enemy is still thousands of miles away.

Although the authorities of the Republic were actively preparing for war, the military deployment of the Republic was not so active and decisive at the time of Dudgway's repeated warnings. By the end of the day, the closest combat unit of the Republican Army to Turkey was still in the desert of western Iraq, the closest to Turkey was the Republic Navy fleet in the Persian Gulf, and the combat unit of the Republic Air Force was far away in Pakistan.

In the eyes of Turkey's top brass, this is definitely not an offensive deployment against Turkey.

In order to reassure the Prime Minister. The Chief of the Turkish General Staff not only gave personal assurances. It has also been analyzed that the three aircraft carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf will not be able to provide sufficient air support for the ground forces, and if the ground forces of the Republic attack without air support and air cover, they will not only not want to break through the defense line set up by the Turkish army in the southeastern mountains, but will also be attacked head-on by the Turkish Air Force. Therefore, the chief of the general staff of the Turkish army concluded that as long as the republic did not deploy aviation to the front, the war would not have broken out.

Affected by this, the Turkish prime minister naturally did not take Duchway's words to heart.

Again receiving a warning from Duchway, the Turkish authorities still did not take it seriously. In their opinion, the enemy is still thousands of kilometers away, and there is no need to worry about the security of the homeland.

Since the Turkish army does not take Duchway seriously. Naturally, Duchway would not take the Turkish army seriously.

While waiting for further information, Duchway began to consider a very crucial and very important matter, namely, whether to send the vanguard of two brigades to the southeastern part of Turkey.

It can be said that these two brigades from the European legions played a very key role in the early battles. The address of this site has been changed to: Eliminate the heart, delete please log in to read!

If there is no choice but to use the U.S. military to plug the bullet hole, then Duchway will have to abandon his roundabout offensive operations in northern Syria and focus on the southern theater, concentrating his forces from the Golan Heights to Damascus and fighting a massive war of attrition against the Republican Army in the vast deserts of Syria.

This is exactly what Ditchway has been trying to avoid. It's not that the U.S. military can't afford a war of attrition, it's that the U.S. can't afford a war of attrition. Although several U.S. intelligence agencies have provided sufficiently accurate intelligence. That is, the current republic is no longer the republic of the previous year, and due to the rapid decline in the population of young and middle-aged people, the country's ability to withstand war is much worse than before, and it is absolutely impossible to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers for a tragic victory like the Korean War did, but Du Qiwei has all the more reason to believe that under the influence of national culture and other factors, the United States will definitely retreat before the republic.

There can be no war of attrition. It is necessary to concentrate superior forces.

The problem is that the Turkish army cannot count on it, and the situation will not be much better.

When thinking about this question, Du Qiwei must stand on Pei Chengyi's personal position and consider asking.

Pei Chengyi must know the situation of the Turkish army and know that the Turkish army is a weakness. It's a breakthrough. Although Pei Chengyi has no reason to invest heavy troops in the Zagros Mountains, and he should not even regard Turkey as a key target, otherwise he would not have put the first ground force in the desert next to Syria, but Duchway has reason to believe that Pei Chengyi will open a breakthrough in the whole war in Turkey and use Turkey to drag down the opponent.

Change pounds. position, Dudgway will do the same.

To be precise, when the Turkish army has nothing to count on, Pei Chengyi only needs to put in a combat unit in the north to achieve good results. Even if Pei Chengyi doesn't have enough troops, he will make a fuss about the troops. For example, let the fiercest Combat Unit 1 go to the north alone, send the 9th Combat Unit and the 2nd Combat Unit to Syria, and use the 10th Combat Unit that has not yet reached the theater of operations as a replacement. Under these circumstances, it was almost impossible for the Turkish army to block the sharp attack of the 1st combat unit, and if not to crumble, it would be crushed.

By this time. If Du Qiwei still does not act, Pei Chengyi will have the absolute initiative.

What would happen next, Duchway could hardly have dared to think about it.

You must know that as a war expert who killed South Korea and defeated India, Bae Chengyi will definitely not be soft on the Turkish authorities. Because the head of the republic has already obtained the authorization for war, and the republic does not have relevant laws governing the combat operations of the army on the battlefield, it is possible that the conditions allow, that is, if the war will not be more costly. Bae Seung-yi will definitely go straight to Ankara and turn Turkey into a second South Korea, or a second India. Under this ending. It is already a blessing in misfortune that Turkey can become a second India. The authorities of the republic deal with Turkey by settling the Kurdish problem, so after the overthrow of the Turkish regime, the authorities of the republic will certainly transfer all the Kurds in the vicinity to Turkey. Let Turkey be plunged into war, and even take the opportunity to dismember Turkey. In those years, in order to monopolize the huge market of 100 million people, the Republic did not dismember India, which does not mean that it will not be ruthless against a country with only tens of millions of people.

At this point, even if the fighting in the south is extremely beneficial to the United States, that is, the United States overthrows the Syrian regime and even the Iraqi regime, it is not the United States that wins.

In other words, the Turkish regime must not be allowed to finish.

In order to achieve this, it is necessary to find a way to plug the hole in the southeast direction of the Turkish mainland. It is also necessary to invest the two brigades that will arrive in the theater first, which is equivalent to completely vetoing the previous operational deployment. The address of this site has been changed to: anti-8, please log in to read!

There is no doubt that this is a very painful choice for Dudgway.

No matter who it is, there will be some hesitation in such a choice.

Just after the point, Stark came with the exact news. Reconnaissance satellites were indeed jammed. And the source of interference should be somewhere in the southern part of the Lute desert in eastern Iran, not more than four kilometers from Pakistan and no more than a kilometer from the port of Gwadar. Due to the interference, US reconnaissance satellites were unable to obtain in time the details of military bases in southern Pakistan and southeastern Iran, including the Republic's largest air station in South Asia. As well as about the old air bases capable of deploying tactical aviation.

The conclusion given is very straightforward, relying on this old multi-catty, base, it is possible to deploy tactical fighters above the persuasion plane.

Due to the lack of time, no more detailed analysis was given, such as when the first bombing campaign could begin at the earliest, but Stark did not ignore the matter. According to him, the interference should start before the mouth. If the republican Air Force had already completed its deployment ahead of schedule, the bombs dropped by the first tactical fighters would have fallen before they could behold. Even if the Republican Air Force did not carry out tactical deployment in advance, but began to deploy only after the jamming began. Strategic aviation, or tactical aviation deployed in the country, is responsible for the first round of strike missions. It is supported by tankers deployed on the front line. Then the first round of bombing will begin at 7 o'clock. Because several days before that, the Republic Air Force had taken advantage of the opportunity of joint exercises with Iraq to adjust the support aviation units deployed in the South Asian theater, and most of the transport planes could be converted into tankers, so there is reason to believe that Pei Chengyi would adopt the latter tactic, that is, use the combat planes deployed in the country to carry out the initial strike mission.

In fact, Stark's judgment was quickly proven, as there was less than half an hour left before 6 o'clock.

He told Duchway that many things could be done in this half-hour, such as the Union Brucher, so that the most ambitious and talented general in the US military since Duchway could play a greater role.

In any case, there is one thing that Duchway cannot ignore, and that is that it was Lieutenant General Blucher who suggested the deployment of 2 brigades to Turkey in advance. At the time of Blucher's proposal, Duchway had also focused on Israel, arguing that the battle facing the Golan Heights was crucial. Although it now seems that Dugway's judgment was not correct, Blucher was able to come up with a very different idea. And stick to your own opinions, which is already very good. More importantly, it was Blucher's insistence that made Duchway decide to send 2 Army Brigades to Turkey before sending the Marines, because Greece refused to facilitate the US troops going to Turkey, so the US troops could only go by sea.

It was for this reason that as early as the beginning of the key, that is, at the time when the Kurdish problem intensified, Duchway gave Blucher a precautionary shot, and if necessary, the commander of this European corps had to put down his shelf and command 2 army brigades to fight as a front line commander. Because the 1st Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division were both units under Blucher, and they were the units that he carried out reform experiments. Therefore, the lieutenant general did not refuse Du Qiwei's request, but readily agreed. In fact. Blucher's offer to send two army brigades to Turkey was in the hope of gaining a performance opportunity in this war and thus achieving greater achievements.

The call took only the old minutes, and Duchway gave only one order, which was to get ready for battle.

For Duchway, the only thing he could count on was that General Blucher's Ange had not been in vain. Able to receive results on the battlefield. Let's be direct. That is, 2 army brigades were able to reach the southeastern part of Turkey before the 1st Combat Unit of the Republic Army and set up a defensive line behind the butt of the Turkish army.

Very fortunately, the situation is more favorable for the US military. This is because the US troops deployed in Iskenderun are only more than 1,000 kilometers away from Hakkari, and the distance is less than 1,000 kilometers, while the 1st Combat Unit deployed in Pakistan's Balochistan province is as far as a kilometer away from Hakkari, and the distance is more than 4,000 kilometers. Although the assault capability of this ground force, commanded by the number one fierce general of the Republic, is unparalleled in the world, there is no reason to run ahead of the US military in this unfair race.

Du Qiwei only needs to worry about one question, that is, whether Pei Chengyi will target the US military and blow up all the bridges from Iskenderun to Hakkari. It was for this reason that, when giving the order to Blucher, Duchway not only demanded that he bring as many bridges as possible, but also made an unmistakable request that he must reach Hakkari within an hour and that the defensive line be deployed. To relieve the pressure on Blucher. Duchway undertook to provide him with comprehensive information on the war zone within the time of his speech.

It's really an unfair race.

The U.S. military only needs to march and die for kilometers, while Lingyunxiao's first combat unit needs to march for 4,000 meters!