Due to the torrential rains for several days, the Susan Gald region in Khuzestan province has long since turned into a swampy area. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When it comes to the Middle East and North Africa, Zhang Feng's impression is that the desert is full of sky, but when he arrived here, he found that this was not the case at all.

Baghdad and Basra are both well-watered and lush vegetation. Here, it is the famous Lianghe River Basin, which gave birth to a great ancient civilization.

Like the southwest and northwest, most of the neighboring Saudi Arabia is almost desert, while the southeast of Iraq has several lakes, and the water source is not very scarce.

The same is true of the border with Iran, where large areas of aquatic plants grow in the Susangald region, and the land around Susanged, near the mouth of the two river basins, has become muddy and impassable due to the rains of several days.

Sport utility vehicle? It doesn't matter if you're a two-wheel drive or a four-wheel drive, no matter how much horsepower you have, you have to get into a mud puddle.

Only tracked armored vehicles can barely pass.

In the original tank battle, more than 400 tanks from both sides participated in the battle, but in the end, more than 200 of them fell into the swamp and never got up again.

It is also a nightmare for tracked vehicles.

Most of Iran's weapons are American-made, only the main battle tank, but the British Chieftain type has been chosen.

The Chieftain tank, with a dead weight of 55 tons, was much heavier than other tanks of its time, and the larger dead weight brought with it thick armor, a powerful 720-horsepower engine, a rifled gun of 120 mm caliber, coupled with advanced sighting equipment, which allowed it to have up to eighty percent of the starting hits against moving tanks at a distance of 1500 meters.

The only downside is that it's too heavy and not very suitable for swampy areas.

Iraq is mostly equipped with Soviet T-62 tanks, which are exported to the Warsaw Pact group in large quantities, but they are only simplified models within the Soviet army. Although the caliber of the gun is also 115 mm, however, the fire control system is very simple, equipped with infrared lights!

Tanks during World War II, aiming mostly by feeling, to the fifties, the more popular is the coaxial machine gun, that is, equipped with a machine gun coaxial with the tank gun, first use the machine gun to fire tracer bullets to do a point shot, if the machine gun hits, to prove that the aim is accurate, and then fire the shell, (Khan, very primitive and rudimentary, but that is also better than aiming by experience.) Later, optical equipment was introduced, that is, infrared headlights were used to illuminate the opponent, and they themselves observed with a periscope to determine the position, and the effective distance was up to a thousand meters.

The tanks now equipped by the Iraqi army use this fire control system.

The Chieftain tank, on the other hand, has already used a laser rangefinder, a crosswind sensor, and a ballistic computer to fuse together, and almost has the prototype of a modern tank fire control system. And the German Leopard hunt-and-destroyer fire control system, which has the best fire control system, can always aim at the target no matter how bumpy the body is.

However, even if the fire control system is backward, the heroic Iraqi tank crews do not feel ashamed, they do not have the concept that they will be beaten if they are backward, what they like the most is to abandon this backward system and use the method of direct aiming to shoot, they trust their eyes more.

The only advantage of the T-62 is probably its low weight, which is only 44 tons of full combat weight, and the wide tracks make it much better than the Chieftain tank in its ability to pass through swamps.

While recalling the combat effectiveness of Iraq's tank troops, Zhang Feng came to the headquarters of the 35th Armored Brigade of the 13th Armored Division, and the brigade commander was a middle-aged soldier named Mohammed.

Mohammed is one of the most commonly used names in Iraq, along with Zhang Ming and Li Qiang.

For these swamps, the Southern Military District Command is very relieved, these places, the enemy's tanks, are almost impassable natural barriers, that is, they are safe here, and it is because of this that Zhang Feng was transferred here.

If they had known that the biggest tank battle since the Fourth Middle East War was about to take place here, Izzat would probably not have been so calm.

Zhang Feng became a group of four, in addition to Warih and Ghazal, plus one of the guards sent to him by Izzat: Marwan.

Marwan is Izzat's personal guard, he is five big and three thick, and he is like a god in marksmanship, and he is one of Izzat's henchmen, and he was sent to Zhang Feng's side, of course, to protect Zhang Feng, the deeper meaning, Zhang Feng did not think about it.

The most important thing for him now is to integrate with the soldiers of this armored brigade to see how effective they are and whether they can withstand the attack of the Iranian tanks.

"Welcome to your Excellency Qusay, to inspect our 35th Armored Brigade, which is an honor for all the officers and men of our Armored Brigade." Standing at the door of the headquarters, Mohammed saw His Excellency Qusay's jeep coming, and immediately saluted and said.

"Allah is on top and it is a great honor to be able to see our mighty chariots." Zhang Feng returned the salute and said, his eyes were already looking at a tank parked in the open space next to him.

"Your Excellency Qusay is tired from a long journey, so let's go to the brigade headquarters to rest first, and then inspect the troops. Muhammad said.

"Okay." After walking for such a long time, Zhang Feng was indeed a little tired.

"How many tanks are there in our armored brigade?" Zhang Feng asked as he walked.

"We have three tank battalions, an artillery battalion, an infantry battalion, each tank battalion has thirty-six tanks, (one battalion has three companies, each company has twelve combat vehicles), the artillery battalion has forty artillery pieces, and the infantry battalion has sixty-four armored vehicles, for a total of one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three." Muhammad said.

After listening to Muhammad's reply, Zhang Feng nodded, these people will be the main force guarding the Susan Gald area.

There is also a reason why the Iranians want to capture this place, this is in the soft underbelly of the defense of the Southern Military District, if the other side captures this place, they can either go south and take Khorramshahr, which has been occupied for nearly a year, and Bakdan, which has been besieged, or go north and go straight to Baghdad.

"Do we have helicopter gunships?" Zhang Feng asked, helicopter gunship, but against the natural enemy of the tank, the front armor of the tank is the thickest, followed by the side and rear, and the thinnest is probably the armor at the top.

"We have about 50 Mi-24s in our military region, but they are all deployed in the military region, and in the Susan Gald area, we do not have Mi-24 protection." Muhammad said.

Zhang Yang knows that although the Iraqi army is equipped with helicopter gunships, (to be continued.) )