Rajawi received an order from General Sharaf to withdraw from the battle immediately, retreat to safety, wait for the night helicopter to resupply, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

Withdraw from the fight? Rajawi was a little troubled, and now, the two armies are in a state of glue, and either side withdraws will give the other side a chance to pursue and attack, and the battle has reached this point, and both sides have already turned red.

In front of the position, at least seventy or eighty chiefs were hit by the opposing side, except for a tank battalion that began to annihilate the whole army, most of them were stuck in the swamp and could not move, and were killed by the approaching T-62s.

And his own chieftain, relying on the advantage of long-range shooting, also killed at least seventy T-62s, and now, the number of tanks of the opposing side has become significantly scarce, after all, the opponent has only one tank brigade in size, and it is not superior in numbers.

It's just that the chieftains in his rear have almost fallen into a situation of running out of oil, otherwise, as soon as they come up, they will press up with the momentum of thunder, which is enough to kill the other party, but this kind of swamp greatly increases the difficulty of their own attack. Damn the swamp!

At least this large-scale armored battle confirmed the fact that the T-62 of the Iraqis was not as powerful as the chieftain they were equipped with, and as long as they highlighted the swamp and reached the land of a flat river, their armored division could still complete the pre-task.

"Order the fourth and fifth armored battalions, alternately cover the retreat." Rajavi gave the order to fight.

By this time, Muhammad's 35th Armored Brigade was also exhausted.

Practice has shown that when a unit suffers more than a third of its combat casualties, it becomes war-weary, and when it suffers more than half of its casualties, it is in danger of collapse.

And now, although the infantry battalions in the rear have not yet lost anything, the three armored battalions in the front have lost half of their tanks.

Morale can be indestructible, and what supports the tank soldiers to fight bravely is a belief, and the rear is a horse and a flat river, and the other side must be stopped here, otherwise, once the other side breaks through, then, in the past year, countless brothers have been killed and injured, and the situation in exchange is likely to be lost.

Those who can become tank soldiers are the elite of the army, and the training in the past few days has given them a defense, and today's battle can be described as recuperating.

Now, the situation on the battlefield is in a glued state, and their tank soldiers, although the formation is chaotic, still dare to fight and dare to rush, especially Ali's company, which is worthy of the banner of the heroic company, they rushed to the front, and the number of tanks destroyed is also the largest.

Muhammad also saw the situation clearly, and the greatest threat to his armored troops was that the sheikh could fire at a distance of 1,800 meters, and His Excellency Qusay had always trained his men in the ability to shoot at long distances, just to prepare for this day.

Thinking of this, Muhammad was a little sad, there was no news of His Excellency Qusay, I am afraid, they had already met with an accident.

Due to the relative distance and the fierce fighting, Muhammad did not know that the special forces led by Zhang Feng, which had just been formed for less than half a month, had done a major job of blowing up the opponent's ammunition and fuel.

"Report to the brigade commander that the other side is showing signs of retreat." Tankmen from the front line sent a report.

Fall back? Ali calculated that the other party must have run out of fuel, and he wanted to order his armored battalion to continue the pursuit, but, thinking that his subordinates had shed enough blood today, he dispelled this idea.

Since the other side wants to withdraw, then withdraw himself, Muhammad ordered: "Tank battalion, shrink the defensive line, prepare to retreat, armored reconnaissance vehicles, come forward to reconnoitre." ”

If Zhang Feng is here, it will definitely make the armored brigade unable to relax and chase it to the end in one go, even if it is wiped out by the other side to the point that there is only one tank company left, as long as the opponent's fuel is exhausted, then the other party will have to be eliminated in addition to surrendering.

Conservative thinking and lack of the spirit of taking the initiative to attack -- this was the bad habit of many officers during the Iran-Iraq war, and they were not qualified at all to command a modern war, so in the Gulf War, the US military taught Saddam Hussein a profound lesson.

There is only one tactic for the armored corps, and that is, attack, constantly attack!

In fact, there was another reason why Mohammed had to order the retreat, his own tankmen simply did not have the ability to fight at night, although there was a periscope of the TKH-3 type used at night, and with the ОУ?ЗГК infrared searchlight installed in front of the conning tower, the effective distance was 400 meters, but the tankmen had problems even using the fire control system during the day, let alone at night.

If you really rush up, maybe you won't be able to come back.

Muhammad didn't want to run out of his armored forces, he had already blocked the Iranians' sneak attack in the swamps, and the military district would certainly not sit idly by, and would soon send the air force to support him, and it was already a great achievement that he could block the attack of a division of the opposing side with a brigade.

The sound of artillery fire became quieter and less, and finally, the two warring sides broke away from the battlefield.

Being able to break away smoothly and not being glued to the other party's tanks, Rajavi lamented that his luck was really good, and he also felt sorry for the other party's commander, it seems that there was a problem with the other party's intelligence communication, and their own logistics base was bombed, and they probably don't know about it.

The CH-47 is capable of transporting ten tons of supplies, so that one night is enough to bring in fuel and ammunition, and tomorrow, he will not fight so badly again.

It was a very wasteful way to transport supplies by helicopter for the armored troops, but now there was no choice, the logistics base had been destroyed, and it would take at least three or five days to transport it again by off-road trucks from the rear, and by then, I am afraid that all the chiefs would have to be immobilized due to lack of fuel, and the chiefs would have become turkeys.

In Iran's armored sequence, the Chieftain is the most powerful tank, equipped with about four tank divisions, and the rest are American-made M60 and M48 tanks, which have almost been eliminated, and it is this Chieftain tank that can shock the Iraqi army head-on.

If the Chieftain tanks were wiped out in the swamps, it would greatly reduce the offensive capability of the Iranian army. Sharaf consulted Abel Hassan, who was still in Ahvaz, and he immediately ordered to save the desperate tank division at all costs.

In the darkness of the night, CH-47 Chinook helicopters, loaded with ammunition and fuel, rose from the ground.

As an all-weather take-off and landing helicopter, the pilot of the CH-47 is equipped with a starlight night vision device, the so-called starlight night vision device, which is the first generation of passive night vision products, using the ambient light emitted by the moon and stars to amplify the reflected infrared rays around it, relying on tube technology to accelerate and amplify, so that this starlight night vision device has a very short lifespan, so few pilots are willing to wear this thing except when training and performing special tasks at night.

And tonight, this thing, will play a huge role.

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