Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 98 Rushing to the East and Rushing to the West
※, a message sent by the staff officer of the war. [Reading Network] is what Du Qisheng is most afraid of
The town of Kawar, about kilometres southwest of Hakkari, came under sudden attack. After the heavy artillery bombardment that lasted for a few minutes, the two US infantry battalions stationed in the area did not have time to react, and the VTOL transport group sent the attacking troops to the American positions. When Dudgway received the message. Caval had fallen, as the news was given by a major battalion commander defending the Caval infantry battalion before the surrender order was given.
Very typical air assault combat.
Arguably. This is the offensive tactic that the Tenth Combat Individual is best at.
Although the predecessor of the 10 th combat unit was the old airborne army, and the most famous unit of the old airborne army was the airborne nursery brigade, the other two brigades of the airborne occupation army are both units that are very good at low-altitude assault tactics, of which the airborne assault brigade is a typical air assault brigade, and whether the airborne fighter Shao brigade is a unit that is good at low-altitude assault operations, no one can doubt the low-altitude assault capability of the 10th combat unit. The new address of this site has been changed to: Regret the heart, please log in to read!
For the US military. The fall of Kawar was an absolute disaster.
Before the phone call with Madame Loblin, when Duchway arranged for Blucher to carry out the assault, he made it clear that he wanted to take control of several military points west of Hakkari as soon as possible, and that the towns, including Kaval, must not be occupied by the other side. The reason is simple: the journey from Hakkari to Shernak is 24 thousand meters. The road is rough, and any town on the way could become a defensive position to block the breakout troops. If Pei Chengyi plans to fight the dogs at the time of the pass, he should have the Iranian army capture Khlan northeast of Hakkari as soon as possible, and at the same time send out an assault force to capture a town between Hakkari and Shernak.
As long as the assault is decisive and beautiful, the Republic Army will be able to take out Blucher with a minimum of troops.
At the time, Dudgway wasn't very worried.
First of all, Blucher had already recognized this catty. Not only had two infantry battalions ready for a breakout be deployed to Kaval before that, but they had also promised to immediately send troops to take control of all the towns along the way to Shernak. Secondly, the vertical take-off and landing transport group of the 10th combat unit has been operating in Iran, transporting war materiel for the first combat alone, and it is impossible to immediately rush to Iraq. Finally, the vanguard of the 10th Combat Unit would certainly reach Schernak before Blucher, so it was not very important whether or not to capture the town east of Schernak.
Clearly, something went wrong with Dugway's judgment.
When he received this news, Dugway's first reaction was to ask Blücher to attack Kavar immediately.
This time, without hesitation, he immediately gave the order to Bucher to immediately attack and break through to the side of Schellnak at all costs.
The question is. Unbeknownst to Dudgway, Blucher's forces were not fully prepared for a breakout.
Other words. Dudgway is in this pound. Time to make a mistake.
He had Blücher desperately trying to break out with one goal, and that was to put pressure on the ground forces that had captured Kavar. Forcing Bae Chengyi to devote more troops to Kaval, thus affecting the offensive operations of the 10th Combat Unit, so that the 10th Combat Unit could not reach Siirt in time. To achieve this, Blucher had to commit at least one brigade at a time, whereas at that time it could only commit a maximum of four battalions. That is, the strength of half a brigade. Obviously, in the case of insufficient forces, the offensive can only consume valuable combat forces.
In fact. At the time, Dudgway made another, less obvious mistake.
That is. It was not the combat units of the 10th combat unit that captured Kavar, but the units of the 1st combat unit!
The reason is simple, the VTOL transport group responsible for delivering combat units is indeed too late to return to Iraq, and therefore the troops of the 10th combat unit. In order to close the gate in time, Yuan Chenhao overstepped the command. Let the 10th combat individual transport force airlift the troops of the 1st combat unit. What's more. It was not the units of the combat brigade that were airlifted, since the units of the 1st Combat Individual Combat Brigade were all on the front line. The doppelganger has no skills. Sent to Kawar was the guard battalion of the artillery brigade of the 1st combat unit. Although it is also a combat unit, its independent combat capability is significantly inferior to that of the combat brigade unit. Exactly. Yuan Chenhao asked the artillery brigade of the 1st Combat Unit to provide him with a blade of artillery preparation, and cleared the obstacles for the officers and men of the guard battalion with about a key stewed shell. As a result, when the guard battalion arrived at the battlefield, the American troops had already lost their fighting spirit by the shelling. The surviving U.S. troops surrendered without much resistance and were transported by vertical take-off and landing transport planes to Iranian prisoner-of-war camps. More importantly, the guard battalion is not a regular combat unit, so Yuan Chenhao specially ordered the two artillery battalions of the artillery brigade of the first combat unit to provide artillery support for the guard battalion, and the other three artillery battalions should also provide artillery support for the guard battalion when they have no other tasks. Other words. When Blucher asked his troops to fight back. At least the Yanmen electromagnetic cannon is capable of shelling at the request of the defending forces at any time.
Standing in front of the US military is the fire net woven by this Zhao'er electromagnetic cannon.
Although the U.S. military makes small mistakes, when these small mistakes work together, they bring about a huge disaster.
In fact. The catastrophe has just begun.
After contacting Blucher, Duchway again asked the intelligence staff to make a report.
Although in his opinion, Bae Seung-clump deleted the air assault force after you occupied the Kayur point. There would have been no need for the combat units of the 10th Chambers to attack Schernak. Because the ultimate goal of the 10th Combat Unit was to occupy Siirt, and the most direct way was to send combat units to the outskirts of Siirt by tactical airlift. As long as the road between Sirt and Shernak is cut off, the Turkish army on its knees in Shernak will be crushed without a fight. When the time comes. At most, Pei Chengyi only needed to send a battalion of troops to escort the convoy carrying supplies to Shernak. But the report that the unmanned reconnaissance plane came back was unmistakably told Duchway. The assault force of the 10th Combat Unit is still assaulting Shernak and is expected to capture this vital town around dawn.
What does Pei Chengyi want to do?
Without the precious assault force to attack Silt, is he really ready to fight steadily, eat Blucher first, and then turn back to deal with the reinforcements?
This obviously doesn't make sense. Encirclement and reinforcement is the best strategic choice, and before taking out the main force of the US army, Pei Chengyi has no reason to let Blucher finish.
The problem is, Dudgway couldn't find a better explanation.
What's more, Pei Chengyi is not the kind of general who likes to play cards according to common sense. If he had been the kind of man who had been old-fashioned, Dudgway would have laughed out loud when he fell asleep.
Hungry Six said that if Pei Chengyi really planned to eat Blücher first, he would try his best to get Blücher out of the strong defensive position.
The best thing to do is to create some kind of situation where Dugway has to let Blücher break through. So in this case. Letting Blücher break through was the worst decision it was ever made.
The complicated situation made Du Qiwei at a loss.
As an excellent general who can cause trouble for Pei Chengyi, Du Qiwei did not complicate the problem and grasped the key point, that is, Pei Chengyi's purpose must be to gain the initiative in the northern battlefield through a thunderous attack, force the US military to carry out a full-scale counterattack, consume a large amount of the US army's living forces in the counterattack, and finally force the other side to accept some kind of fait accompli that allows both sides to step down. This, of course, is certainly a fait accompli that is more beneficial to the republic.
Tactically, the 10th Combat was left alone to capture Siirt before the Americans.
In fact, this was also the fundamental reason why the vanguard of the 10th Combat Unit was all rushing towards Shernak. Because in the case of having to take the ground offensive route, the shortest route to Silt had to pass through Schernak.
Thinking of this, Du Qiwei realized one point, that is, the airlift force in Pei Chengyi's hands was very limited.
Only in this case. Pei Chengyi would let the main force attacking Sierte take the ground passage, and in order to avoid interference with the main attacking force, he let the assist force capture Kawar by air assault, so that Blucher could not reach Schernak in time anyway.
Seeing the problem clearly, Duchway contacted Blücher again and asked him to speed up the break.
Even if Blucher had exhausted all his strength in Kaval's position, even if only a few hundred American troops had been able to set foot on the road to Schernak, he would have posed a threat to Schernak's enemies and thus caused problems for his opponents.
It was also at this time that Duchway received his latest battle report.
The vanguard of the Iranian army reached Crane and went on the offensive. After stubborn resistance, the Turkish army had to abandon the outer line of defense and hand over the responsibility of guarding Crane to the two American battalions left behind. Blucher had no choice but to let the 2 battalions of American GIs hold their positions. Until a breakthrough is made in the battle to attack Kavar in the south, even if you fight to the last man, you can't lose Crane.
By this time, Blucher was already on two sides, caught between the Republican and Iranian armies.
The appearance of Iranian troops actually proved Duchime's judgment.
The republican ** team that assaulted Kawar will not go much, and the task of this unit is the same as that of the airborne return brigade that captured the five elders that year. It is to defend to the death and block the door of the US military to break through. Unlike the situation back then, it was not the republican ** team that took on the offensive duty, but the less reliable Iranian army. It is precisely in this way that Duchway believes that as long as the breakthrough is resolute, Blucher still has a chance to escape. In fact, Blucher had the same idea, so he focused his main forces on the breakout battle in the south. There was only one consequence of this, and that was the concentration of American forces, allowing the artillery brigade guard battalion guarding Caval to provide enough opportunities for their comrades to destroy the enemy hundreds of kilometers away.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of 7 Iranian army divisions must not be ignored.
Although the strength of the airborne thugs in those years was doubled. Now 2 pounds of the US military. The battalion's many officers and men had to face about 10,000 Iranian officers and soldiers in seven divisions, and the four divisions that rushed to the front had about 60,000 officers and soldiers. Other words. U.S. forces need to block the onslaught of Iranian forces about a blade times the number of them.
Obviously, this is a very unfair battle.
If you consider that the US military has no long-range artillery, no way to get air support, and not even many mortars, this battle is even less suspenseful.
By dawn, in just two rendezvous, more than half of the two US battalions had suffered casualties.
As the sky brightened, the Iranian army sent in three other divisions of artillery, concentrating artillery of various calibers to support the attacking troops, and the remaining armor was able to block the attack. For the fourth time, the Iranian army spoke about attacking the heart of the shield. B will then fall into the hands of the Iranian army. With the offensive intensity of the Iranian army, Hakkari will be attacked on the ground by noon on the 2nd at the latest.
There were only eight hours left for Blucher to break out.
The mother is undoubted. For the U.S. military, which only has the advantage of the old strength and no firepower, it is very good to defeat Kaval in 8 hours.
Whether Duchway wanted it or not, by dawn he admitted that Blucher was basically hopeless.
Exactly. On the morning of 2 July, Duchway sent a vertiport to Hakkari to pick up Blucher. Whatever one may say, Blucher was a lieutenant general. After the founding of the United States, even in the Peninsula War, which was lost very completely. Nor did the lieutenant general serve as a prisoner.
In fact. By dawn on July 2, the situation on the battlefield was already very unfavorable for the US military.
The vanguard of the 10th Combat Unit captured Schernak with great strength and began to advance towards Sirt, which was expected to reach Silt that afternoon.
In response to this situation, Duchway passed the Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Army. ordered that the Turkish army guarding Sirt must fight to the death; Otherwise, they will be punished as traitors. But Duchway could not have counted on the Turkish army, otherwise he would not have fought like this. Therefore, after ordering the Turkish army to fight to the death, he also ordered the American reinforcements that had already arrived from Diyarbakir to immediately send an advance force to Sirte. In Duchway's view, the worst of the worst could be avoided, when the vanguard of the 10th Combat Unit would capture Silt as bloodlessly as the attack on Schernak. For this. The only way to do this is to let the reinforcements send the vanguard. Of course, Duchway did not forget to leave the reinforcements behind, speed up the march, and make sure to reach Siirt before dark. The address of this site has been changed to: anti-goo, please log in to read!
Duchway, it seems, is turning the tide.
As long as the US reinforcements reach Siirt and stabilize their positions, the Republican ** offensive will be contained, and the initiative will be lost.
In fact, even Duchway is not convinced that the situation is becoming favorable for the US military.
The reason is simple. The first reinforcements consisted of only one brigade. Even the armored brigade of the 1st Fighter Armored Division is very limited in strength, so its role on the battlefield is very limited. Not to mention the confrontation with the combat units of the Republic Army, it is questionable whether the Khomeini Division of the Iranian Army can be defeated in one fell swoop.
This time. Du Qizan made the second, more obvious mistake, which was to divide the reinforcements.
In a situation where the strength of the reinforcements is already very limited. The detachment of two more battalions of vanguard would only make the reinforcements more vulnerable. Although Duchway did not believe that the reinforcements would be surrounded when they reached Silt, it would be difficult to get out as long as the reinforcements fell into the encirclement. If Du Qiwei can calm down and look at the problem from an outsider's point of view, he will be able to see that if Pei Chengyi wants to win, he will have to annihilate a large number of the US army's living forces, and the most effective way is to let the US army divide its forces and annihilate the US troops scattered into small units. In fact, born in the fighting of Hakari province. The same is true. If Lychel gathers tens of thousands of American troops together, no matter which direction he breaks through. Even if it is an offensive battle with 7 Iranian divisions, it will not suffer much loss.
Arguably. Pei Chengyi's series of tactical plans "were all aimed at forcing Du Qiwei to divide his troops.
Because I'm in the middle of the game. Not a bystander, so Duchway didn't have such an obvious problem.
Exactly. While Duchway ordered the first reinforcements to move forward, the main force of the 10th Combat Unit was assembling towards Guizre. Because Pei Chengyi has changed the purpose of the attack, it doesn't matter whether he fights Sierte or not, so in addition to letting the vanguard troops who are responsible for the feint mission continue to attack Sierte. Yuan Chenhao did not let the main force of the 10th combat unit rush out.
After confirming that the U.S. reinforcements had sent the vanguard, and had left the insertion in Bismir between Diyarbakir and Batman, Yuan Chenhao contacted Li Dongshi and asked him to immediately lead the main force of Gizreji, cross the Tigris River, and march to Bartman.
Because it was necessary to arrive at Batman after the first reinforcement of the US army and before the second reinforcement force, and quickly capture Batman, Yuan Chenhao provided Li Dongshi with several large unmanned reconnaissance planes and early warning aircraft. So that Li Dongshi can grasp the battlefield information in a timely manner. Adjust the individual assault of the 10th battle according to the actions of the American forces.
What's more. The 10th Combat Unit dispersed as soon as it reached the town of Idir, west of Gizre, with all the tanks covered in camouflage nets modeled after the Turkish Army, and the infantry put on Turkish uniforms and turned to the side, forming several Turkish units that had been routed by the Republican **.
Although this inferior camouflage method will be detected sooner or later, it will still be effective in the short term.
After arranging the tasks of the 10th combat unit, Yuan Chenhao contacted Ling Yunxiao and asked the 1st combat unit to act according to the adjusted combat plan and assist the 10th combat unit in attacking Bartman. To be precise, it was a frontal feint that forced Duchway to send out the second batch of reinforcements that had arrived in Diyarbakir to create conditions for the heavy damage to the American army.
Get this thing right. Yuan Chenhao went to meet with the chief of the general staff of the Iranian Defense Forces.
Because there is no need to besiege two American troops at the same time, in order to prevent long nights and dreams, it is necessary to eat one American army as soon as possible. Obviously, Blucher's army was more tempting.