Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 144 A Miraculous Attack
The headquarters of the 10th Shogunate Coalition Army urgently went to Antalya. [No pop-up novel network] has a great impact on the ten and Yi "Gen" of the front-line soldiers.
On July 7, Pei Chengyi had just eaten breakfast, that is, at 8 o'clock Islamabad time, when good news came from the front line, and the support brigade of the 6th Combat Unit arrived at Osmaniye with the assistance of some combat units of the 8th Combat Unit and successfully joined forces with the 5th Combat Unit. Because the 6th Combat Individual Support Brigade had only one battalion of armored forces, the losses of the 5th Combat Individual and the 8th Combat Unit were very large. In addition, Osmaniye's U.S.-Turkish coalition was breaking through to Ceyhan to the west, so Sai Shanbiao suggested sending a small force to pursue the U.S.-Turkish coalition and not exerting too much pressure on the U.S.-Turkish coalition. That is, let the U.S.-Turkish forces retreat on their own, focusing on Iskenderon to the south.
Because the combat brigade of the 6th Combat Unit had already surrounded Iskenderun, Pei Chengyi did not oppose the tactics proposed by Han Shanbiao. It can be said that the 6th combat unit was able to encircle Iskenderun in less than an hour. And with two surprise assaults to force Dukiway to flee to Antalya, Pei Chengyi was already very satisfied. Because Iskenderon has been cut off from the ground access to the large rear. Therefore, it does not matter whether the sixth battle alone can defeat Iskenderon in time. In Pei Chengyi's opinion. Even after this battle, the two sides negotiated an armistice and the large-scale combat operation ended. The war will not end immediately. Even if they are not able to take Iskenderon in time, they can use the attack on Iskenderon to impose it on the United States and Turkey at the negotiating table
Force.
Of course, it would be better to be able to defeat Iskenderun in time, so as not to have many long nights.
It is precisely in this way that after receiving the battle report from Sai Shanbiao, Pei Chengyi contacted his wife Xueping and Jiang Wancheng and asked about the situation of the eighth combat unit and the fifth combat unit.
There is no doubt that neither combat unit is in very good condition.
Although the absolute casualty figures of the two combat units were not large, less than the number of officers and men killed in the battle was handsome, and only more than four officers and men were disabled. However, the battle losses of the two war cattle units were very heavy, especially the heavy equipment, which could be regarded as almost completely annihilated.
By the time the 6th Combat Individual Support Brigade arrived, the 8th Combat Unit was left with only less than bladed main battle tanks and about field infantry fighting vehicles, and the rest of the heavy equipment was destroyed while fighting for positions with the Americans. The situation was even worse for the 5th Combat Unit, because most of the heavy equipment was placed in the city as a fixed fire point, so by the time the 6th Combat Unit came to relieve the siege, the remaining main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles combined were not enough for the thugs.
Such a heavy loss. Created a problem, that is, neither combat unit could assist in the sixth battle alone.
Although Jiang Wancheng and Wang Xueping both promised to continue fighting and both asked to assist the Sixth Combat Unit in attacking, Wang Xueping also organized the remaining armored forces into a combat battalion to assist the Sixth Combat Unit's support brigade to go to Osmaniye, and made positive contributions to the Fifth Combat Unit in relieving the siege. The problem is that there is not enough heavy equipment, and no amount of morale can help. The new address of this site has been changed to summer: Sishan concave plus 8 concave, please log in to read
After understanding the situation, Pei Chengyi asked Jiang Wancheng and Wang Xueping to organize the remaining armored forces and assemble them in the direction of Bakhce, nominally to block the retreating US 2nd Armored Division and the 1st Infantry Division, but in fact to let them guard the logistics support line for the 6th combat unit. In the circumstances of the time. Since Duchway had fled, in order to avoid being surrounded by the Republican Army, the 2nd Panzer Division and the 4th Infantry Division abandoned the reinforcement of Malatya, as well as the siege of the 8th Combat Unit and the 5th Combat Unit alone, some of which had crossed the Ceyhan River, and the other part was retreating to Kahramanmaraş between Osmaniye and Malatya, intending to build defensive positions here and prevent the Republican ** division from meeting in both directions. It can be seen that unless he has more troops, it is unlikely that Pei Chengyi will be able to deal with the 2nd Panzer Division and the 4th Infantry Division before occupying Iskenderun and Malatya.
I have to admit it. Sixth, the ability to fight alone is far beyond Pei Chengyi's imagination.
After he had arranged the fifth battle unit and the eighth battle unit, the fourth good news came from the mouth, and the vanguard of the sixth battle unit had already attacked Iskenderun. Although in the battle report, Sai Zhibiao did not mention whether the vanguard troops had entered the city, and according to the usual situation, this indicated that the troops had not yet entered the city and had only reached the perimeter of the enemy's defensive line, but in just a few hours, the 6th combat unit was killed by the Iskenderun thugs and helped the 8th combat unit and the 5th combat unit to break the siege, which was definitely a great miracle.
This time, Pei Chengyi didn't dare to be careless, and immediately contacted Sai Shanbiao.
For this commander from the Heavy Armored Army, Pei Chengyi did not make too many requests, but asked him to make full use of the low morale of the US-Turkish coalition army and not make unnecessary sacrifices when attacking Iszundren.
To put it bluntly, Pei Chengyi is already hinting at Sai Zhibiao that if it is difficult, there is no need to storm Iskenderun.
Whether or not Sai Shanbiao heard this hint is not so easy to say.
From 8 a.m. on the battlefield, which corresponds to the old point of Fongfen on the Gwadar port, Hasakah, who remained in Syria by the 6th Combat Artillery Brigade, shelled the enemy defenses in Iskenderun on the orders of Sejibi and according to the coordinates provided by the scouts of the Combat Brigade. About a few minutes after the shelling began, he was stunned. Several O7-inch units of the O7-inch type that were recruited to transport the wounded were sent to the port area. Over the next two hours, the transport planes flew several times back and forth. A combat unit the size of a reinforced battalion was sent over to complete the combat operation to capture the port of Iskenderun.
This round of low-altitude assault. It completely broke the morale of the US-Turkish coalition forces.
Sai's approach also angered the Syrian Defense Forces (IDF) generals. According to the agreement, the Syrian Air Force dispatched dozens of planes to carry out battlefield rescue missions, that is, to send the wounded from the front line to the rear. Because the size of the Syrian Air Force is very limited, with less than four Fighters, this task makes it impossible for the Syrian Air Force's 2-foot fleet to perform other missions. What's more. These transport planes are also responsible for transporting the wounded Syrian troops on the southern front to military hospitals in the rear. If it were not for Pei Chengyi, who personally contacted the chief of the General Staff of the Syrian army, the Syrian Air Force would not be obliged to send medical planes to the northern front. According to a report submitted by the Syrian authorities to the authorities of the Republic after the war, the forced conscription of several medical planes by the Syrian army led to the failure of the wounded Syrian army to be taken to the rear hospital in time, and about the wounded Syrian army were killed as a result.
Of course, the Syrian authorities did not accuse Sai Zhibiao for this, because they also benefited from it.
As the headquarters of the U.S.-Turkish coalition and one of the closest ports to the battlefield, the sea is one of the most important military bases of the Turkish Navy in the Mediterranean direction, and Iskenderun has always been a material transit center for the U.S. and Turkish forces. Although more supplies were sent to Antalya after the Eighth and Fifth Battles opened up the western battlefield of the Northern Front, there were still a number of ships unloading at the port of Iskenderun by the time Dudgway left.
According to post-war statistics, when the assault units of the 6th Combat Unit entered the port area, the materials stored in the port of Kenderun in Iraq exceeded 10,000 tons, including at least 10,000 tons of ammunition and 40,000 tons of grain for the fighters.
Without a doubt, this is an amazing asset.
According to the calculation of international prices before the war, "the total value of 40,000 tons of grain is about 1 million yuan, that is, about 100 million US dollars." What's more, the northern part of Syria had just been hit by floods, leaving about 10,000 people homeless, and prices in northern Syria were ridiculously high due to the war. Food has long been the most sought-after scarce resource. According to some information released by the authorities of the Republic after the war, it is certainly much more important to have at least 10,000 tons of food during the war than to have a soldier who has unfortunately died in battle. The new address of this site has been changed to summer: Sishan Cave plus 8 four, please log in to read
In fact. Before the sixth battle completely captured Iskenderun, the Syrian president sent a special envoy to the port of Gwadar, on the one hand, expressing his willingness to send troops to Turkey to assist the Republican ** team in maintaining order on the battlefield. On the other hand, it is hoped that the joint commander will turn a blind eye to the food issue in Iskenderun. After meeting with Pei Chengyi, the special envoy of the Syrian president flew directly to the capital of the republic. In any case, the loot worth tens of billions is definitely not something that Pei Chengyi can do with what he wants. Besides. With the Kurds in the occupied areas also devastated by the war, and many people in the remote areas of Iraq and Iran hungry, it is impossible for Pei Chengyi to hand over food to the Syrian army regardless of the real danger in the occupied areas. In fact, it is the leaders of the republics who can make decisions. And not front-line commanders.
Exactly. The Syrian authorities have launched a very active diplomatic campaign.
Because it is unlikely that the republic will make much effort on the southern front, and it is unlikely that it will even be able to return the front to the way it was before the war broke out, so when meeting with the special envoy of the Syrian president. Gu Weimin not only did not refuse the request of the Syrian authorities, but also offered to tide over the difficulties with Syria.
Since we are going through difficulties together, we naturally have to share the benefits.
As a result, of the 40,000 tons of food, only 10,000 tons were handed over to the Syrian authorities, 10,000 tons were used to relieve Syrian civilians affected by the floods, and about 10,000 tons were used to relieve the affected people in the floodplains, including the Kurds.
This was only a minor episode in the battle against Iskenderun.
In fact. For the Republican ** team, what is more important is the 10,000 tons of ammunition stored in the ammunition depot.
Although the main ammunition of the U.S. military cannot be used by the equipment of the Republican ** team, for example, the caliber of the U.S. electromagnetic cannon shell is pounds, that is, about small kilograms, while the caliber of the electromagnetic cannon shells of the Republic Army is kilograms, and the caliber of the electromagnetic cannon shells of the Navy is divided into two types: kilograms and kilograms.
Not to mention such large ammunition, even the bullets are different.
In the year of the year. That is, before the end of the Iran War, the U.S. Army made a painful decision to eliminate all small-caliber rifles that performed extremely badly in the war, spent a lot of money to prescribe millimeter caliber automatic rifle cartridges, and based on this bullet, it opened a series of gun family Baoshan assault rifles, Sishan carbines, and group thug caliber rifle cartridges, and developed a new rifle cartridge with a caliber of 7 millimeters, and before the outbreak of the Peninsula War, the infantry combat weapon family that used the cartridge included assault rifles, short-barreled paratrooper rifles, carbines, Heavy barrel special marksman rifle with squad light machine gun. Because the development of electromagnetic guns and laser guns has been delayed again and again, the first electric touch gun of the Republic of China has been successfully developed at the beginning of the year. It's just that under the influence of the third military reform, plus the 7 mm infantry combat weapons can meet most of the combat needs, the Republic Army did not purchase electromagnetic guns, so when the Middle East war broke out, the main weapons in the hands of the infantry of the Republic and the United States Army were still traditional guns, but the new rifles on both sides used many new principles, such as the use of caseless bullets, and the use of special warheads and so on. Of course, the point is that in order to demonstrate the status of great powers, the two sides did not use the theoretical optimal caliber, that is, 7 mm caliber bullets.
But no one can deny it. Blade 10,000 tons of ammunition is a great treasure of the pen. You must know that at that time, the Republican ** team had already captured some of the main battle equipment of the US army on the battlefield, and even found several electromagnetic guns that had not been completely destroyed in the warehouse at Diyarbakir Airport. With these munitions, as well as the captured weapons and equipment, the Republican ** team will be able to conduct a comprehensive test of the main equipment of the US ** team and accurately grasp the performance of the US military equipment.
Until the end of the war, the United States authorities were negotiating with the Republic, hoping that the Republic would abide by international morality and return the ammunition and supplies that had been seized in Iskenderun.
Of course, under the circumstances, the US-Turkish coalition was certainly not concerned about the ammunition supplies in the port.
For the US-Turkish coalition forces, the biggest blow to the port area was that the last bit of morale and fighting spirit was lost in an instant.
In the case of being surrounded on three sides. The U.S.-Turkish coalition still insisted on resisting, mainly by retreating from the sea. In any case, the US Navy still holds the sea supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean, and there are still a large number of ships in the port, which is really untenable. It's not too late to hop on a boat and leave. With the port occupied by the Republican Army, it would not be possible for the US-Turkish forces to retreat smoothly, even if it was not completely occupied.
It can be seen that Sai Shanbiao does not want to delay time.
Judging by the situation at that time, the biggest problem of the 6th combat unit was that the forces were too dispersed. Although the assault on Iskenderun was swift, no one could deny that the offensive operations of the 6th Combat Unit could not be sustained with only combat brigades. Since the support brigade was still in the north, and as the U.S.-Turkish forces moved to the west bank of the Ceyhan River, the support brigade would definitely have to build a defensive line at Osmaniye, and it was unlikely that the brigade would be sent south to reinforce the combat brigade, so he had to find a way to fight and not waste precious time at Iskenderun.
In fact, Dudgway knows that, too.
The problem was that at that time, Duchway had just arrived in Antalya, and the coalition command had not yet been formed, so he could only understand the fighting situation on the front line through the tactical information sharing platform of the US army, and then contact the frontline troops in the most primitive way. Because the 6th Combat Unit had carried out a large-scale electric bombing during the attack on Iskenderun, Duchway was unable to contact the previous commander in time, and therefore could not issue combat orders to the front-line commander in time.
With the 6th combat unit attacking the port area. The fall of Iskenderun is only a matter of time.
For the crazy attack of the sixth combat unit, Pei Chengyi did not point a finger. Like commanding other troops to fight, Pei Chengyi has a high degree of trust in front-line commanders, and believes that only front-line commanders can understand the situation on the front line and make accurate judgments. There is no doubt that Pei Chengyi's concept of command can be said to be the foundation of victory. Under the circumstances at that time, if Pei Chengyi insisted on arranging the combat operation of attacking Iskenderun according to his judgment, he would slow down the offensive and use firepower to discourage the fighting spirit of the US-Turkish coalition forces. I'm afraid it turned out to be a different story.
Because Sai Zhibiao's performance in the direction of Iskenderun was remarkable, so at noon, Pei Chengyi turned his attention to Malatya.
Maybe he didn't expect the sixth combat unit to be so magical, so Yuan Chenhao's attack on Malatya was not very eye-catching.
To be precise, it was the sixth battle that the single attack in the Iskenderun direction was too good. It was only then that the combat operations of the 1st Combat Individual and the 10th Combat Unit against Malatya were dwarfed. Speaking from facts, Yuan Chenhao's offensive operations have been proceeding in an orderly manner, not only according to plan. It's also a little faster than calculating profits. If all goes well, the 1st and 10th combat units will be able to annihilate the US-Turkish forces in Malatya and complete the battle to capture Malatya.
Because the offensive operation was strictly controlled and carried out according to plan, the 1st and 10th combat units had been fighting on the battlefield for many days. The state was not very good, so Pei Chengyi did not make any excessive requests, and asked Yuan Chenhao to arrange the combat mission reasonably, and not to pay a greater price in order to rush the progress.
It was at this time, that is, in the afternoon of the first day, that Pei Chengyi received a call from Li Cunxun from China.
The war is coming to an end!