It was late in the night, and one after another CH-47 Chinooks, plucking onions on dry land, like a falcon, flew away from the base of Ahvaz.

At this time, the belly of the CH-47 was already filled with fuel and ammunition urgently needed by the armored division.

Without fuel, the tank is just an ornament, and without ammunition, the tank can only choose to escape.

The afternoon battle, the consumption of ammunition, was also very large.

The Chieftain tank had an ammunition base of 64 rounds, but because the mission was to assault the rear of the Iraqi army, half of the shells were grenades, which were the preferred type of ammunition for assaulting the enemy's defenses.

However, it was not expected that in the swamp, desperately blocked by the opposing tank brigade, a tank battle broke out.

The grenade is a projectile containing a fierce explosive, relying on the fragments produced during the explosion and the energy generated by the explosion of the explosive to play a destructive role in the ammunition, against the infantry, this is a big killing weapon, against the fortifications, can also constitute a part of the threat, but, against the tank, then there is more than enough power.

Against tanks, the main type of ammunition is shelling tail stabilized armor-piercing shells, each tank has only 20 rounds, and the rest are armor-fragmenting shells. As practice has shown, armor-shattering shells cannot deal with the T-62, only armor-piercing shells are the best.

Therefore, the ammunition delivered this time was mainly armor-piercing shells used by the 120-mm rifled guns of the Chieftain tank.

In addition to tank shells, 109-mm shells for part of the M155A1 self-propelled howitzers were delivered.

In 79, Iran imported 440 M109A1 self-propelled howitzers from the United States to equip several domestic armored divisions and provide fire cover.

The M109A1 self-propelled howitzer is a 39 times caliber barrel, 155 mm caliber large howitzer, this weapon is mainly used to accompany armored groups, with a maximum range of 18 kilometers, providing long-range fire assistance.

This time, there was a battalion of such self-propelled howitzers that entered the swamp with the armored division, but the swamp was obviously a big test for self-propelled howitzers with worse mobile capabilities.

In order to pass through the swamp, it was necessary to reduce its own weight, so the self-propelled howitzers, although they followed, did not carry shells. Each shell is about 50 kilograms, which is a ton and a half of weight savings for carrying 30 shells, which is very helpful for passing through the swamp.

As a result, the shells were set on fire in the supply base before they could be loaded onto the self-propelled howitzers.

Otherwise, in daytime battles, although self-propelled howitzers are deployed in the rear, with their long range, they are enough to send all the opponent's armored vehicles into the sky and greatly reduce their frontal pressure.

Rajavi stood next to the command vehicle and listened to a loud roar in the air in the distance.

In the low-light night vision devices, the pilots of the CH-47 group, already seeing a row of parked vehicles in the distance, after radio confirmation, they landed in a suitable place and unloaded the supplies they were carrying.

All the soldiers rushed to help, and in the wind whipped up the rotors of the helicopter, they picked up the oil cans they carried on them, and ran to their chiefs.

As long as the Chieftain is refueled and refilled, the Chieftain is still a powerful weapon!

The pilots of the helicopter were all very nervous, because before they set off, they got the news that the last two Cobras responsible for covering them had been shot down, and they could only rely on themselves, and if they encountered any attack, it might be a disaster.

God knows what the cobra was shot down by, and if there were Iraqi hinds here, who knows if they would risk the darkness of the night to attack themselves quietly?

But the soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, and in order to save the armored division, they have no choice but to take Chinook.

Rajawi looked at the busy soldiers, and then looked at the stars in the sky, thinking about the soldiers who died in the battle today, and his feelings were very complicated, O Almighty Allah, please bless Iran, a country with many disasters!

Baghdad, the presidential palace.

"Your Excellency, although Qusay is young, he is resourceful, and although we have not found him, have we not found his body?" Defense Minister Adnan Hellara and Saddam Hussein said.

Adnan was Qusay's uncle, but he was Iraq's defense minister and head of military security, and when he learned about the Southern Military Region, he immediately came to see Saddam Hussein and reported to him.

"Yes, I didn't expect that although Qusay was young, he did such a few big things, when he said that he wanted to go to the Southern Military District, I agreed, he went to the Southern Military District, and he didn't stay at the headquarters, but went to the Susangild Marsh, which could not have been a battlefield, but as a result, the Iranians actually came from the swamp." Saddam Hussein sighed and said: "Qusay is worthy of being my good son, if he hadn't arrived at the 35th Armored Brigade, which was resting, and would not have raised his vigilance, he would not have succeeded in blocking the Iranians in the swamp, and if the Iranians succeeded, we would have fallen into a great passivity." ”

As the president of a country, especially the president with many strong aspirations, Saddam Hussein knows that now is not the time to consider personal feelings, and even if Qusay dies, it will be glorious even if he dies!

Adnan looked at the map on the wall, and was also deeply touched, who would have thought that the Iranians would have chosen to appear in a place that would never have appeared, if the 35th Armored Brigade had not blocked it, and the Iranians had driven straight in, they would have inserted a knife in the back of more than a dozen divisions besieging Aladan, and these troops would be caught off guard, and the results achieved in more than a year would probably come to naught.

According to the battle report from the front, the 35th Brigade fought out half of the tank troops, but finally succeeded in blocking the pace of the Iranians, and the 35th Brigade made a great achievement!

"How did the Air Force do it, is it ready for the attack?" Saddam asked dissatisfied.

Major General Abid immediately sweated profusely and said: "Your Excellency the President, when the Iranians were discovered, the fighters at our Basra Air Base were undergoing maintenance, and it was a squadron of MiG-21 fighters on combat duty, which was completely powerless against the tanks on the ground, and most of the Hind helicopter gunships were in the Abadan area, and three squadrons of Hind helicopters were currently being mobilized to prepare to assist the Susangilde swamp area, and at the same time, the number of ground bombs needed by the Su-20 was insufficient and was being transferred by the headquarters tomorrow morning, the Air Force will definitely be dispatched, and at the same time the battle plan will be presented to His Excellency the President. ”

"What happened to the MiG-21? Isn't the MiG-21 equipped with missiles? Isn't it okay to hit a tank with missiles? It's the fear of war! Also, only three squadrons of hinds? It is simply not enough, transfer 6 squadrons past, and tomorrow morning, take off the MiG-25, MiG-23 and Su-20, go together to deal with the tanks of the Iranians, carry out the order. Saddam said.

Without the slightest hesitation, Abid immediately replied, "Yes, Your Excellency." ”

Saddam Hussein never believed in the Air Force, and moreover, he had another problem, like the mustache, he liked to dictate the specific tactics of the army, but the level was not enough, and the command of the army was okay, but he did not understand the air force at all. As a result, the Air Force was timid and did nothing at all.

The MiG-21 is missile, but that's an air-to-air missile, hit a tank? I'm afraid only His Excellency the President can think of it, right? The MiG-25 is a high-altitude high-speed fighter, what to do with such a fighter to go to the swamp?

Abid didn't dare to say more, he didn't want to be purged for no reason, so he revised the battle plan overnight.

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