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Lemezov rudely pushed away the paramedic who was bandaging his arm, and staggered from the pile of corpses to his feet. In front of him, there was an unimaginably terrifying scene. Not a single intact fighter plane could be found at the Avashdushanthape airbase, which had been full just a moment ago, and the wide tarmac was full of wreckage and corpses, and hundreds of soldiers were rolling and howling in the flesh and blood.

In just two hours, the largest military city in southern Iran, the most important air base of the Soviet army on the Persian side, was destroyed. Especially the terrible carpet bombing at the end, which not only left none of the 232 fighters alive, but also killed all the hundreds of soldiers who were rescuing the planes at that time! The kind of bombing scene that spread everywhere made every Soviet soldier who experienced it personally frightened. The reinforced concrete communications command center was blown off by a 500-kilogram semi-armor-piercing high-explosive bomb, and when the soldiers finally pulled out of the rubble, Lieutenant General Anisimovich, who was the political commissar of the Persian Front personally selected by Stalin and the commander of the Caucasian tank forces, his legs had been blown off by Zigan, revealing Sensen's white bones.

In addition to Anisimovich, two major generals, seven staff officers, and more than a dozen orderly soldiers who were hiding in the communications command building at that time were all killed, and three radio stations used to communicate with various units in the south were also missing. The only thing that can be thankful is that the Germans built Dusantape with bombing and heavy artillery in mind, so they built a strong underground ammunition depot to ensure that the two armies heading south would not run out of ammunition.

"Comrade Deputy Commander, Regiment Commander Alexander reports that the port of Rilo is under heavy shelling by the enemy fleet! A large number of troop carriers were also found at sea. ”

"They landed?!" Lemezov, who was worried about the loss and didn't know how to report to Mosgo, was startled, and didn't care about the political commissar who had passed out, and hurried into the spare dispatch room. But the old Marconi radio station in the backup bulletin room that had been used during the last European war had been ticking for a long time. Neither has received a reply from Porto Rilo. "It's too late, let the 87th Cavalry Division go to support as soon as possible!"

"Comrade Deputy Commander, the 87th Cavalry Division is in Shahr Kurd, and our radio contact was bombed and cannot be contacted."

"Comrade Troliko! Did you wear a military uniform on your first day? Had all our cavalry been blown up? Isn't there a single plane around?! Lemezov was furious and tore off the gauze wrapped around his arm. The pale-faced staff officer hurriedly nodded and tried to restore the communication between the troops, and also found a few I-15 biplane fighters that could take off from the field airfield in the suburbs, and asked them to reconnoiter and convey orders.

But the I-15 only took off, like a wild wolf roaming the grassland, two J-6 "double-headed Jiao" (the previous thunderbolt is J-7. The hippopotamus made a mistake) and the fighter rushed over from the sea. At the cost of three being shot down, the remaining two I-15s relied on the natural hovering ability of the biplanes to drop the tin cans containing the orders to the Soviet 87th Cavalry Division in Shahr Kurdish before they were shot down.

More than 6,000 Caucasian cavalry took advantage of the gap between the return flight of the Chinese Air Force to refuel, and rushed southward, and the two divisions of the Soviet Army in Behbehan and Kazelen also rushed to the port of Lilo. But just as they were heading south. Another fleet has already reached the sea 40 km from the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab. "Check the snorkel and be careful not to let seawater into the engine! When swimming, you should pay attention, don't be nervous when encountering silt, you can reverse first. Don't stop after going ashore, don't panic after dispersing with the troops, try to be with your comrades nearby, there will be planes in the sky to protect us before nightfall. Remember! Priority must be given to protecting the infantry. Three Biao. Send the insulated ice box down after an hour. The temperature outside is very high, and there are ice packs in the insulated box to help you cool down. Be careful with grenades and mines of enemy infantry, and do not poke your head out easily. Mosin Nagant is a very accurate rifle! No one is allowed to open the hatch for ventilation until the battle is over, understand?! ”

Inside the Tianshan No. 51 landing ship, Li Jin was explaining the main points of the landing battle. The young armored soldiers from all over the world who participated in the war for the first time were a little nervous. Because no one expected to land early. Originally, as planned, the landing was supposed to be scheduled for two o'clock in the afternoon. The sun was at its strongest at this time, which was not conducive to infantry combat. But no one expected that the navy and air force would fight so smoothly, so the original plan to carry out more than four rounds of air raids was terminated, and Bai Chongxi and the general staff decided to land early after research.

Soon, the sailors began to move out one by one tin vacuum insulated ice boxes, each containing four water-cooled vests. Unlike the five-man tanks in Europe and the United States, the tanks of the Republic of China are all four-man tanks, because of the installation of double periscopes for the gunner and the commander, coupled with the popularization of the vehicle-mounted short-wave communication radio, the commander can shoulder the task of command and liaison.

The water-cooled vests are all specially made, with a total of three layers, a rubber water bladder inside, a nylon waterproof layer in the middle, and a cotton cloth cover on the outside. This is a small piece of equipment specially designed for the study of armored forces in hot desert areas. Before the battle, the vest will be frozen in the gas refrigerator and used in the special insulated box. Generally, the troops will wear one before departure, and put another one in the insulated box to replace it, so as to ensure that the three-hour battle will not be attrition due to high temperatures. In order to avoid attrition due to high temperatures, and when domestic transportation capacity is tight and it is necessary to give priority to securing ammunition and military supplies, the General Staff Department has specially purchased dozens of large gas refrigerators from the United States to prevent this situation.

As soon as the tankmen put the insulated box away, an explosion sounded outside the cabin. "The enemy has begun shelling! Look, the heavy cruiser is up. The soldiers who had not yet landed rushed to the portholes, and through the glass, they could clearly see that the sky above the sand-yellow horizon was filled with smoke, and white water columns had been raised around the two frigates near the sea.

In 1939, the navies of the major powers knew very little about the new landing ships that could rush the beach, so the Soviets believed that if China wanted to land, it would definitely need seaports and docks to dock ocean-going ships to unload heavy equipment, so Lemezov deployed most of his forces in the harbor area north of Lilo. However, because of its proximity to the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab, it was the only way to stop the enemy from quickly penetrating Abadan along the river, so the Soviets deployed a B4 artillery company and an infantry regiment. The 203mm B4 howitzer is a powerful howitzer in the Soviet Army, with a range of 17,000 meters.

The commander of the Soviet artillery company, seeing the frigate approaching the mouth of the river, thought that they were going to burrow into the Shatt al-Arab and attack Abadan, so he immediately ordered to open fire. But this Ural officer, who had never seen the sea and did not know what the navy was, did not understand what he was up against.

The white column of water stirred up by the B4 high-explosive grenade made Gao Tianxiang clench his fist excitedly, and the double captain of the Nanyang Naval College and the British Greenwich Naval College was about to go crazy if he wanted to fight. He did not even hear the suggestion of the staff officer to let the destroyers return fire so as not to waste shells, and personally led two heavy and light cruisers to return fire. "Bow southwest, turn 45 degrees, measure the wind speed." Under the skillful command of the gunner, two heavy cruisers slowly crossed the hull, and 18 210 mm/L55 naval guns were raised little by little, aiming at the Soviet artillery position 26 miles away.

"Fire!"

The gun commander shouted softly, and the 18 naval guns roared at the same time. The huge recoil directly pushed the 10,000-ton hull half a meter horizontally. "Lie down!" The commander of the Soviet artillery company, who was observing, was startled when he saw a large puff of black smoke suddenly erupting from the distance on the sea, but it was too late! The position of planks, sand and low woods simply could not stop the bombardment of 210-mm high-explosive shells, even if the soft sand reduced the power of the explosion by half, but

Naval heavy artillery is not something that a mere army artillery battery can withstand. "Boom. Thundered. "With only three rounds, four bulky B4 howitzers were shattered in the explosion.

After seeing that the B4 heavy artillery, which they thought was the most powerful in peacetime, was easily dealt with by the opponent's naval heavy artillery, the Soviet infantry hiding in the trenches were frightened. "Do not be afraid! The valiant proletarian Red Army fighters should not be frightened by artillery! The great General Secretary Comrade was in Moscow watching me boom. Before the regimental commissar's words of encouragement were finished, a 210-mm high-explosive grenade exploded not far from him. When the soldiers raised their heads in the yellow sand, they found that only a calf was left in the position where the political commissar was standing just now.

"It's horrible! The cannon of imperialism is more powerful than the ** cannon. When a young Turkmen warrior picked up his rifle and muttered to himself, the entire infantry regiment was enveloped in artillery fire. With the Xiangjiang light cruiser also rushed up. The addition of twelve 155-mm naval guns drowned the entire infantry regiment in a hail of bullets and fire. The trenches could not stop the bombardment of heavy artillery, and although the 155-mm grenade was less lethal and could not exert the terrible shock wave of the mud, it could lift the sand and bury all the trenches that crisscrossed it. The soldier was buried alive. The corpses were torn apart, and the machine guns and mortars were destroyed before they had time to fire a single round of ammunition. In just fifteen minutes of the landing ship's beaching, 288 210 high-explosive shells and 1081 155 high-explosive shells washed the Soviet infantry regiment from beginning to end.

With a shock under his feet, the pressurized water tank in the front section of the landing ship was quickly drained. The Tianshan No. 51, with its bow raised high, was the first to rush to the beach. As soon as the bridge was lowered, Zhao Sanbiao rushed into the shallow sea with his own 31 tank. "Rush! Kill, kill, kill! "Zhao Sanbiao is a typical martial arts madman. After leading the tanks around the obstacles set up by the Soviets, they swooped down on the position.

"Tank, it's a tank!" One of the surviving Soviet soldiers stared wide-eyed as the Type 31 tank rushed towards him at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. As soon as several fierce Soviet soldiers next to them grabbed grenades and wanted to wait for the other side to approach and attack, two snake fighters swept over the trenches of the position. Eight 12.7 mm heavy machine guns rained down bullets, and the Soviet infantry, who had just escaped the artillery, were swept to death. As Zhao Sanbiao's tank ran over the corpses of the Soviet troops, all 10 Tianshan-class landing ships successfully stormed the beach, and more than 3,000 heavily armed infantry landed on the beach under the cover of naval guns and tanks. The 22nd Separate Panzer Regiment was even more non-stop, expanding the beachhead in all directions. Hundreds of small landing craft also emerged from the flotilla, each carrying 30 heavily armed infantry or a six-wheeled light truck. "Don't stop! Ran Nanxuan took the third battalion to the port of Shahpur (now the port of Khomeini). Sanbiao, rush to Abadan along the river, don't worry about the back, the naval frigate will go up the river to cover you! The rest of me go to Sadaigan! At Li Jin's shouting, the 22nd Independent Armored Regiment began to soar.

Three tank battalions, with dozens of jeeps and wheeled armored vehicles crawling with infantry, began to penetrate in depth under the cover of Sky Snake B ground attack aircraft and Yaksha dive bombers. The air assault formation, consisting of 12 Y-7 small general-purpose transport planes, also flew deeper under the protection of fighters.

At this time, Ahvaz was completely confused, and when the communication cavalry jumped off his horse panting, he seemed to have been frightened by the tragic bombing in front of him, and even reported in a much quieter voice: "Comrade commander, comrade commander!" The Chinese fleet was spotted at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab! ”

"The mouth of the Shatt? Isn't it Port Lilo? "Lemezov wondered a little, an hour ago it was reported that a fleet had been found in the port of Lilo, why had a fleet been found again at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab? There is no harbor there, and large warships will not enter the narrow inland river unless they can't do it, so where are they going? Do you want to go up the river and land in Abadan? It is possible that the port of Abadan is fully equipped and can dock seven or eight 10,000-ton ships at a time.

After seeing his report, the deputy commander actually looked at the map and did not respond, and the communication soldier was anxious: "Comrade commander! They are bombarding the 215th Regiment with heavy artillery, and the casualties of the troops are very serious, please send reinforcements immediately. ”

"Heavy artillery? What a caliber. ”

"At least eight inches."

"Oops!" As soon as he heard that the infantry regiment was actually bombarded by large-caliber naval guns, Lemezov immediately realized that he had hit the trick, and the port of Lilo must be a decoy fleet. It's too late to rebuke now, the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab is only 60 kilometers from Abadan and 143 kilometers from Ahvaz, and if they control the nearby port of Shahpur, then the ocean-going ships can dock directly at the ports of Abadan and Shahpur.

Heavy equipment must not be allowed ashore! Remezov knew the point, if heavy equipment did not go ashore, then the light infantry alone, even with naval and aircraft protection, would not be able to penetrate deeply. But if there are tanks and artillery, it is possible to penetrate in depth. However, he still did not expect that the Chinese Navy had a new landing ship that could carry a large number of tanks and rush directly to the beach, so he insisted that the enemy stormed the estuary in order to occupy Abadan along the river and obtain a good port, so he immediately used the repaired telephone to order two divisions of Abadan to block it with all their might, and at the same time transferred an infantry division and a newest T34 tank regiment from Ahvaz to support Abadan. Finally, the KV1 heavy tank regiment stationed in Shadaigan and the infantry division of Ramshir were ordered to reinforce the port of Shahpur

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"Rush up, rush up!"

In the Hufufu base, Bai Chongxi, who was anxiously waiting for the front-line battle report, had just lit a cigarette, and Li Mingrui and Zhu Jiande, the commander of the 18th Army, rushed in from outside: "Commander, the 22nd Independent Armored Regiment has boarded!" According to them, the resistance of the Soviet troops was slight. Right now! The 73rd Infantry Division of the 18th Army had also followed behind and went ashore one after another, and Gao Tianxiang also sent three frigates with two infantry battalions to go up the river. Zhu Binhou is bombing Shahpur Port with all his might, and a battalion of the 22nd Independent Armored Regiment has bypassed from behind, as long as the harbor is taken, the 4th Armored Division, the 6th Motorized Infantry Division and the 36th Infantry Division can go ashore from here to bypass Ahvaz, the 4th and 36th Divisions will go north to Dizful overnight, the 6th Division will attack Lilo Port in the east, and the 21st Division will go north to attack Isfahan after protecting the 21st Division ashore. ”

"Okay, great!" Bai Chongxi also slapped his thigh fiercely and continued to ask, "Is there any news from the commando?" ”

"It's already gone. The Pahlavi Shah contacted hundreds of former Iranian military officers, and here, you see, 60 kilometers north of Ahvaz, a small village called Gisandr on the left side of the Shushtar oasis, they found enough open space for transport planes to land. After reading it, if there is no problem, the assault team can use transport planes to send the troops here directly, cover the troops going straight to the north, and also block the way for the Soviet 25th Army and the 61st Army to flee north. ”

After listening to the introduction, Bai Chongxi nodded vigorously: "Send a telegram to the country, the president must be in a hurry." After ordering the second fleet to set off immediately, find all the ships that can be mobilized, and transport troops to me! After finishing speaking, he turned to Zhu Jiande, who was a few years older than him. Brother Jiande, I'll trouble you to go ahead for a trip. Remember, don't be afraid of casualties, be sure to speed up and penetrate deeply! As long as Diz Fuller and Isfahan are taken, the battle will be won in half. ”

"Commander, don't worry, these two places, we have to decide!" Zhu Jiande spoke with a thick Sichuan accent and walked out laughing