Chapter 552: Take the Airport
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North of Tehran, where the 138th Division is stationed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info≦≧
When the order was conveyed to the division commander, the 138th Division was having dinner, and the division commander Wahari put down his hand to grab food and immediately ordered the troops to be assembled.
At this time, the sound of gunfire was faintly heard from the west of Tehran, and in that direction, it was the direction of the Tehran airbase, thirty kilometers away, and the sound of fighting could be heard!
The 138th Division was rapidly assembling, and the soldiers who were eating put down their rice bowls, picked up the guns that had been put aside, and began to assemble as a whole team outside.
Then, the car started, and they climbed into the car and rushed west for reinforcements.
Although they have been trained by Israeli instructors, from ordinary citizens who have never carried guns to qualified soldiers, but, after all, they have only been trained for a few months, and in this kind of emergency assembly and rapid sortie, they have shown enough quality, but compared to the regular professional army, they are still lacking, especially this time, they are going to fight for real time, but before departure, everyone did not think that they need to receive enough ammunition.
The officers did not think that it was necessary to allocate at least one base number of ammunition to the soldiers from the arsenal, they only thought about carrying out the combat order as soon as possible to reinforce the air base that had been attacked by the Iraqi airborne forces. ≦≧ soldiers didn't know that they would be nervous, and as soon as they pulled the trigger, they would use up the entire magazine, and the only two magazines they carried with them were not enough to consume.
Two airborne battalions, 1,400 airborne troops, in the process of landing, two fighters unfortunately died, and three others were injured when they landed and lost their combat capability.
These losses are already negligible.
Under the personal command of the regimental commander Abed, they began the battle with the Iranian defenders, relying on small arms in their hands.
The first battle went very well.
The Iranian defenders, who had suffered heavy casualties due to the bombardment first, did not react for a while, and even deserted themselves, but as the battle progressed, the surviving Iranian defenders began to counterattack as bullets whizzed past their ears.
At this time, the sky was already completely dark, and air-landing at dusk could minimize the losses, but since they were fighting on unfamiliar terrain and the area of the airfield was very large, it would take a process for them to completely wipe out the remnants of the enemy here. ≦≧
The airborne troops have the advantage, in addition to receiving assistance from heaven, they are also issued with part of the night vision device, in this era, night vision devices are still relatively valuable high-tech products, can only be distributed to elite special forces, and for the airborne regiment, at most according to the ratio of ten to one, that is, a squad, can only be owned by the squad leader.
Even so, after the use of night vision devices, it is already a tiger with wings for the Airborne Forces.
The remaining defenders, with their familiarity with the terrain, began to counterattack.
A team of five paratroopers slowly approached the end of the runway, one of the fighters with night vision devices, vigilantly searching the surroundings.
Suddenly, he stopped, and a hundred meters in front of him, there were two dark green shadows in the night vision goggles, which were two Iranian defenders, lying on the ground, in a vain attempt to sneak attack them.
In this kind of dark night, the visible distance is very short, and they have not yet discovered their own side, although they have heard their own footsteps, but they are still unable to determine their exact position. ≦≧
He gestured to his teammates, who had already been on the Iran-Iraq battlefield before becoming an airborne soldier, and it was easy to deal with those two Iranians.
The five men were divided into two groups, two of whom continued to walk slowly, and the other three, who were approaching their target from the other direction.
Just after the two fighters who continued to move forward walked forward for another twenty meters, the two Iranians on the opposite side finally couldn't bear it anymore and pulled the trigger.
The fire from the muzzles completely revealed their position, and at the moment when they fired their bullets, five assault rifles opened fire on their hiding place.
"Tutu, Tu Tu." Each of them fired only one three-point shot, and they had already accurately hit the two Iranian soldiers on the ground.
Similar battles were fought throughout the airport.
Abed commanded nearly 200 airborne troops, and the F-20 fighters in the air fired two Maverick missiles again, and after accurately attacking the tower, he launched a charge, attacking the tower that had collapsed most of the tower, and more than 30 people, including the commander of the air base, were all captured. ≦≧
Shaking off the soil on the tablecloth, Abed sat down in front of the command platform of the tower, the glass on the tower was completely shattered, and from here, he could see all the scenes outside.
There were still sporadic gunshots, but, if nothing else, they would have cleared the area within half an hour.
"Send a report to the commander-in-chief, General Adnan, that we have taken control of the entire airport, and the runway will be sorted out later, and the follow-up transport planes can land here in half an hour." Abed said to his lieutenant.
The reason why the main forces of the Airborne Forces landed at the airfield and controlled it was because with the airfield, they could transport heavy equipment by airlift in the first time to prepare for the subsequent battle.
In modern warfare, airfields have become the most important battleground.
In the battle just now, all the equipment on the tower was destroyed, and after the power supply was interrupted, the equipment was no longer usable, but a backup radio station was still working. ≦≧
The battle went neatly, and Abed felt a little complacent, and he dramatically picked up the headset of the radio station, put it on his head, and heard an urgent call inside: "Blue Bird, Blue Bird, please keep going, reinforcements have departed, please hold on." ”
Blue Jay, is the call code for Tehran Air Base.
Reinforcements coming? Unexpectedly, they came so fast! Abed's heart tightened, he was not afraid of war, but in this case, the second batch of his own transport planes that wanted to land on the runway would be in danger.
"Delay the arrival of the transport plane, and we will deal with the Iranians who came here to send them to their deaths first." Abed said.
If the Iranians who came were carrying anti-aircraft missiles, then the transport plane would be a tragedy, and the small transport plane would be able to say that if the Il-76 was shot down like this, Abed could think of how His Excellency Qusay would be angry with himself, and that was the strategic transport force of the Iraqi Air Force.
Abed said very easily, because he didn't know that the commander of Tehran attached so much importance to him that he actually sent all the reserve forces, a whole integrated division, and the only thing that made him more comforted was that this integrated division was only an infantry division, and it was only equipped with light weapons, even if the Iranians who came had dozens of tanks, it would be a great threat to them.
"Call for air support." Although Abed's pride is proud, he can also recognize the current situation and take out the reinforcements of the Iranians, whether it is done by the planes in the sky or his own airborne troops, what he needs most now is the result.
Receiving Abed's request, AWACS immediately mobilized two Su-25 attack planes hovering near Tehran airbase to block the Iranian reinforcements.
The Tehran airbase is not in the city, but on the outskirts of the city, about 10 kilometers from the center of the city, so the troops coming to reinforce it, regardless of the station, must pass through the road leading to the Tehran airbase.
At this time, on this highway, cars full of Iranian soldiers are hurrying up, some soldiers are standing in the carriage, and some are outside the carriage, holding on to the railing on the carriage, their expressions are serious, and their hearts are slightly excited.
Because, this is their first battle!
The 138th Infantry Division, because it is a purebred infantry division, is completely infantry, has no artillery, no armored troops, and has only more than 5,000 personnel.
It's just that they don't know what a brutal battle it will be to greet them.
When the Su-25 flew to the intended location, the Iranian troops on the ground had already moved to a distance of only two kilometers from the Tehran air base.
Under the wings of the Su-25, six S-24 240-mm rocket launch nests were mounted, and the pilot pressed down on the operating stick, and then, pressed the launch button.
The fire flickered under the wings, and rockets erupted from the rocket launch nest and flew towards the dense vehicles on the road.
"Boom!" A car bore the brunt of the rocket, the 240 mm rocket was so powerful that the car was immediately lifted into the sky, and the fire ignited illuminated the entire convoy and pointed out the direction for the subsequent fighter attack.
"Quick, get out of the car and hide, shoulder missiles, and kill those two planes." The division commander Wahari saw that the convoy in front of him was attacked by planes and immediately ordered.
The car behind stopped, and the Iranian GIs jumped out of the car, and now it is not far from the airbase, and they can run to get there even without a car.
In a jeep, two Iranian soldiers did not jump out of the car, but directly in the car, carrying a Stinger anti-aircraft missile.
Due to the lack of weapons, their newly formed infantry division had only a dozen portable anti-aircraft missiles in total.
Putting on the headphones and staring his eyes at the scope, the Iranian GIs aimed the portable anti-aircraft missile at the attack plane that was spitting out tongues of fire, and there was a beeping sound from the headset, and the missile had locked onto the target.
In the midst of the blazing fire, the Iranian soldier pulled the trigger, and from the launch canister, the Stinger missile ignited and flew into the sky.