Chapter Seventy-Seven: Young Soldiers
On the evening of September 25.
When the last rays of the setting sun disappeared from the west, the camouflaged armored vehicles and tanks spread out the weeds spread on them, and countless people were crowded, making various preparations before departure.
For several days they had been reversing day and night from Ahvaz, hiding during the day and starting at night, and today they were about to reach their destination: Abadan.
In front of them is the Bahamshar River, which they are going to cross tonight and make a surprise attack on the Iraqi army entrenched on the outskirts of Aladan, to relieve the defenders of Abadan, and to drive away the invaders!
Dozens of temporary bridges were quickly erected, and the various units began to run across the river in an orderly manner.
At the forefront, there were thousands of young soldiers in their teens.
In Iran, there is no family planning, and although the mortality rate is high, there are still many babies born, and because of poverty and backwardness, a large number of young people are idle and wander around. As long as you can gather a few dozen people and get the permission of the mullahs to dedicate themselves to Khomeini, you can become the captain of the Revolutionary Guards, and enjoy good treatment and social status. This is a special policy of Iran, and, after the advocacy of the mullahs, anyone who fights bravely and sacrifices his life for the country can go to the paradise where the god Allah lives, they are convinced of this idea, they have the courage of the newborn calf not to be afraid of the tiger, they are not afraid of death when they charge, they are Khomeini's secret weapon, tonight, they will show their strong combat effectiveness!
They didn't know that all this was already a small secret unit, monitoring from a distance, and information began to be gathered to the headquarters, and orders were constantly conveyed.
The bright moonlight sprinkled the land, and the rear armored units, with the help of heavy bridges erected by sappers, also began to cross the Bahamshahr River.
This offensive brought together most of Khomeini's forces, a total of five infantry regiments, two armored brigades, about 30,000 people, and 10,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as for the young soldiers, the number of dead has been included.
With the defenders of Aladan, this time we must defeat all the Iraqi troops surrounding Abadan!
By the time they arrived at the outskirts of Aladan, it was already early in the morning of the 26th.
Although it did not enter Aladan, during the one-year siege, the Iraqi army was well prepared to prepare for a counteroffensive by Iranian forces. A defensive line consisting of a multi-layered mine array, barbed nets, and tank barrier trenches 10 meters wide and 3 meters deep with oil drums was built on the perimeter of Abadan to avoid being attacked from behind by Iranian forces.
"Attention units, the Iranians are coming up, the Iranians are coming up." On the radio, in tanks and armored vehicles, Kalmar, commander of the 10th Armored Division, said.
The 10th Panzer Division is an elite tank division, which is left to assume the role of luring the enemy, and when it retreats, it will also take on the task of strategic counterattack reserve in due course.
What is the right timing? It is to be able to lure out the defenders of Abadan!
By this time, the night was already dark, but everyone knew that the battle was about to begin.
"Long live Allah, long live Ayatollah Khomeini!" Suddenly, countless heads appeared in the dark night sky, shouting slogans, and in the midst of the dumbfounded eyes of the defenders, they boldly stepped into the minefield.
"Boom, boom!" There are people who are blown to pieces, people who are constantly being overturned into the sky, but no one stops, they are still shouting slogans and rushing up desperately.
This is the attack of the Iranian boys, this is how they can go to heaven, their bodies have disappeared here, but their souls can go to heaven!
They are fearless, shouting slogans and moving forward all the time.
The desperate attack, the constant sound of mines, stunned the fighters of the 10th Panzer Division on this side of the position.
The other party is crazy?
Everyone is flesh and blood, and who would dare to go to a minefield with the warriors here? It's not crazy, it's still crazy!
Khomeini is not crazy, he has no choice.
In the battle of Susangilde Marsh, one of Iran's most elite armored divisions was completely annihilated, which gave the Iranian army a great blow, and the armored forces that were finally assembled again must not be lost in the early stage of the offensive, so, under his call, the young soldiers were called up, with the flesh and blood of the young soldiers, stepped on the opponent's minefield, and opened the way forward for their troops!
And the young soldiers, the soul will be purified and ascend to heaven.
The young soldiers who have been called by the Great Command, their devotion to Allah makes them fearless.
"Shoot, shoot now." Urgent orders were issued from the division headquarters in Kalmar.
The military district headquarters in Basra also received this shocking news, and everyone's hearts sank.
They knew that this time they were able to calmly respond to the enemy, and the efforts of the past two months were inseparable, if the whereabouts of the Persians had not been discovered in advance, now, the army besieging Abadan would probably be very dangerous, Khomeini actually drove such a group of teenagers who were not afraid of death to the minefield! It's appalling. The army is caught off guard, and I am afraid that it will really be defeated.
Zhang Feng knew that all this was true, the Iran-Iraq War was a war no less tragic than World War II, and when high-tech weapons had appeared, he still used such primitive tactics of crowds and the blood of countless people to pave the road to victory.
This is absolutely blasphemy against Allah!
Only victory, only the defeat of Khomeini's regime, can such a tragedy not be repeated!
Behind the position, the soldiers of the infantry brigade, who had already been ambushed, rushed their weapons and fired fiercely at the Persians on the opposite side.
The tanks in the fortifications behind began to use machine guns, mercilessly strafing the rushing enemy.
The oil drums placed in front of the minefield were blown up, and suddenly, a sea of fire was formed, and the survivors who waded through the minefield rolled in the flames.
Thousands of young soldiers have all lay down on the road through the minefield, and the corpses are scattered all over the field.
With their bodies, they opened a bloody path through a minefield.
In the rear, with a small number of tanks as the lead, a large number of infantry, followed.
Bullets are flying everywhere, no one knows if they will be hit by bullets and fall down in the next moment, they are all rushing forward, desperate to rush forward, they seem to have become thinking machines at this moment, they are fearless of death.
The sound of rapid and short automatic rifle fire, the sound of continuous heavy machine gun fire, mixed with the sound of grenade explosions from mortars and tank guns, the darkness of the night had been shattered by tracer bullets.
Abadan, enter the bloody battle tonight!
PS: In the Iran-Iraq war, the most tragic thing was the young soldiers who stepped on landmines, and they were the vanguard in repeated large-scale counterattacks.
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