Chapter Seventy-Eight: Catching Fire
The impregnable line of defense was precarious under the onslaught of the Iranians who were not afraid of death.
The first line of defense, consisting of mines, oil drums, has lost its due role in the devotion of the young soldiers who have ascended to heaven.
They finally reached the trench ahead.
Looking at the trench that was ten meters wide and three meters deep, they were waiting for the team transporting firewood from the rear to arrive.
The opponent's machine guns, automatic rifles, and all kinds of firepower were all used in this direction, and even the chieftain tanks, who were not afraid of light firepower, were helpless in front of the trench.
I don't know who, the first, pushed down the corpses of the soldiers killed in battle, and as a result, the second, the third, they used the corpses of their own brothers, to lay a way.
People kept falling, people kept rushing up, and the corpses that fell down became stepping stones again.
Finally, relying on the corpse of their brother, they filled in the trench.
The Chieftain tank, which was waiting on the side, rumbled past.
In the dark night, the T-62 tanks, arranged behind the position, could not aim at the rolling chiefs, and most of the tank crews were not used to using backward infrared headlights for aiming. They can only estimate the shooting, and this shooting just exposes where they are hiding.
Just now, I have been charging, I have been silently sacrificing, and now, I have finally rushed up!
The tankmen of the Chieftain, using an advanced fire control system, blew up several T-62s that opened fire over the turrets.
"Two brigades and three battalions, two brigades and three battalions, counter-charge, drive the Persians back." The division commander's angry shouts were heard over the radio.
The third battalion was a machine infantry battalion, and when he saw that his tanks could not compete with the Persian chieftains, he immediately called out to his soldiers: "Rocketeers, come with me and kill the Persian tanks." ”
As he spoke, he picked up an RPG bazooka and ran forward.
The chieftain's tankmen were full of anxiety because they had been pressed down just now, and now that they had passed through the trench, they were eager to kill all the enemy on the opposite side at once, and the chieftain's tanks drove faster and faster, distancing themselves from their own infantry.
The commander of the third battalion carried a bazooka, listened to the rumble of the tank engine on the opposite side, knew that he was getting closer and closer to the other party, and in a blur, saw the silhouette of the chief, he immediately turned around and jumped into a bomb crater next to him.
"Click, click." The synchronized machine gun at the front of the turret of the tank is constantly strafing as the turret rotates.
The commander of the third battalion saw several soldiers who were following him, and before he could hide, he was shot by the tank's machine gun.
7.62mm machine gun bullets knocked them to the ground, blood staining the ground red.
Anger welled up in the eyes of the commander of the third battalion, and by this time, the tank had already passed by his side, and he quickly aimed at the rear of the tank and pulled the trigger.
A puff of white smoke came out from behind him, and a tongue of fire rushed towards the chief.
Tanks, deprived of infantry protection, are easily attacked by infantry from the rear of the side fire, the inside of the tank has a narrow line of sight and many blind spots.
They were still moving forward, and suddenly, they felt a violent impact.
The rocket accurately hit the chieftain in the tail.
Any tank, with protection from the tail, is the weakest, and here again the engine is located, and the heat flow of the bazooka, which ignited a terrible fire.
Suddenly, the tankers were surrounded by fire.
In front of it was a machine-gun position, several NSVS heavy machine guns, which were frantically spitting tongues of fire, and the fighters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who rushed up were all torn in half by powerful 12.7mm machine gun bullets.
This heavy machine gun was designed in 1972 by three designers, Nikin, Sokolov and Vladimir Volkov, to equip the Iraqi army in the late 70s.
The gun uses a 12.7×108 mm caliber heavy ammunition, a total length of 1560 mm, a full weight of 25 kg, a barrel weight of 9 kg, and can be used as a different machine gun with different gun mounts. The soldiers of the mechanized infantry brigade use the 6T7 gun mount, which is mainly used to deal with ground targets, called NSVS machine guns, with an effective firing range of 1500~2000 meters, a theoretical rate of fire of 700~800 rounds / min, and a combat rate of fire of 80~100 rounds / min.
And the most advanced machine gun of this kind is equipped with a 1PN52-1 night vision scope, but even in the 10th Armored Division, only the machine gun squad of their machine infantry division is equipped with this kind of sight for experimental use.
Tonight, they were in the limelight.
They stood right in front of the charging Iranian Revolutionary Guards, their machine guns spitting out tongues of fire that devoured the lives of the Persians.
Although it was dark at night, in the night vision goggles, they could also see the green silhouettes of the living soldiers, and all they needed to do was to shoot and shoot at these silhouettes.
Those who were able to enter the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were the die-hards of the Iranian revolution, and the elements most loyal to Khomeini, who were not afraid of death at all, kept charging, and then fell.
The predecessor of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was only an active element in the revolution, and many of them were radicals who had just picked up a gun and did not know much about actual combat movements.
Soon, a company of Revolutionary Guards all fell on the way of the charge.
The machine gunners were a little numb in fighting, and all the enemies were so tenacious that the more they fought, the more frightened they became.
An army that voluntarily goes to the death is very terrible.
Then came an infantry company of the regular army.
They were all strictly trained, and although their company commander had just been released from prison as a purge, he was still full of love for the motherland of Iran, so he was full of hatred for the invading Iraqi army.
If it weren't for the invasion of Iraq, he would probably have been purged, and now, it was Iraq who came back again and saved his life.
Of course, he didn't think so, seeing the ferocity of the opponent's firepower, he immediately ordered the soldiers, crawling forward, going around the side of the opponent's position, and killing the opponent with a bazooka!
The Heavy was already tired, and many of the corpses that had fallen to the ground were still able to show faint shadows in the night vision devices due to their body temperature, so the Heavy did not notice that some of the green shadows on the ground were moving slowly.
Suddenly, a green shadow leaped up, and then a stream of fire flew over.
Bazooka!
The machine gunners were shocked, and their only instinct was to quickly jump away and lie down.
"Boom!" The rockets exploded accurately at the machine-gun position, blasting the heavy machine-gun into scrap metal.
The battle continued until dawn, and the 10th Panzer Division, already with heavy losses, had already suffered heavy losses.
The division commander Kalmar strictly carried out the plan drawn up by the military district, and when the defenders of Abadan came out, they were able to retreat.
And the defenders of Abadan will definitely come out of the city when they are at their weakest, and they will inevitably be "defeated" under the attack of the two.
Kalmar knew he had to stand up.
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