Chapter 691 692 Marching into Turkey
Since the end of the nineties, Barzani has led Kurdistan to fight against the governments of Syria, Turkey, and Iraq for many years, and has basically stabilized the borders of Kurdistan with the Kurdish region of Iraq and the Kurdish region of Syria as the main components. Despite repeated border clashes with Turkey and the instigation of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) forces in Turkey to launch uprisings and attacks, Kurdistan has no access to the vast Kurdish settlements in Turkey.
Kurdistan's path to independence was contrary to American interests, so in the end Barzani gave up currying favor with the United States and chose to draw closer to China. China did not bring Kurdistan into the SCO, but China still moved frequently with Kurdistan in private, and Qi Yiming also provided a considerable amount of arms and supplies to Kurdistan under the instructions of the above.
In the world war, Kurdistan did not do anything at first, but the Iraqi Shiites in the south established the Babylonian Republic and completely destroyed Iraq, which changed the entire geographical shape of the Middle East. However, during this period of time, on the border between Kurdistan and Babylon, there were constantly military supplies from Babylon to Kurdistan, and these military materials were basically manufactured in the Red Guard sub-base in Babylon, and at the same time, groups of Red Police soldiers served as instructors to train Kurdistan soldiers and improve their combat effectiveness.
Originally, in the face of multinational strangulation, Kurdistan already had an army of about 500,000, and took advantage of the wave of the world war Kurdistan absorbed Turkish volunteers and national service men, and expanded the army to 800,000. This situation naturally makes Syria and Turkey very uncomfortable, especially since Turkey is still a member of NATO and shoulders other NATO defense tasks, and many troops have been transferred overseas with the US military.
The vast majority of Kurdistan's 800,000 troops are land forces, and originally they were similar in nature to guerrillas, at most they were militants, using light weapons and some improvised heavy weapons, and only a few American weapons brigades and some Ukrainian weapons brigades were well equipped. With the inflow of a large number of Chinese weapons, Kurdistan has built up quite a number of lightly armed units of a fast and counterproductive nature, and although the ability to fight tough battles is not sufficient, on the whole it still has a certain combat effectiveness.
And Qi Yiming exported at least 1,000 VT-1 or VT-4 tanks and 3,000 VN series armored vehicles of various types to Kurdistan, which greatly improved the combat capability of Kurdistan's armored forces, but Qi Yiming was also slightly worried that these armored troops and mechanized troops in Kurdistan were very immature, although the equipment was good, but who knows if it will become a transport brigade if it really goes to the battlefield. In order to solve this problem, Qi Yiming recruited Kurdish Red Police soldiers from the Red Police Base and came to Kurdistan as a volunteer to join the army, becoming a group of soldiers with excellent skills and trust.
At a time when the North African theater was in a state of not very fierce tug-of-war, the SCO General Strategic Staff (the highest military organ established in the SCO during the war and directly responsible to the SCO Council) was determined to directly link North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe together through the actions of Kurdistan and create even greater problems for NATO.
And Kurdistan's president Barzani also wants to rely on the help of the SCO to completely defeat Turkey, seize the Kurdish settlements within its territory, and form a country with a population of more than 30 million and a wider territory. In order to achieve this, Barzani can be said to have spared no effort, otherwise he would not have squeezed out 800,000 troops in the small population of Kurdistan, which shows that he has already squeezed success or failure in this game.
The Babylonian army is also assigned by the SCO Military and Strategic General Staff to assist Kurdistan in the onslaught of Turkey, and there is also a Chinese army stationed in Babylon, with a total strength of more than 180,000 people, which can be regarded as a huge momentum, the main direction of attack of the Kurdish army is from northern Syria to the north into Turkish territory, the Turkish army has put up a fierce resistance to the Kurdish army, but the Kurdish army, which has changed guns and has an absolute advantage in strength, successfully crushed the Turks, and continuously advanced hundreds of kilometers in a relatively flat area, Occupied large swathes of Turkish land.
Turkey could not tolerate this, and the Turkish army made an urgent build-up, and even fighters sent abroad for missions were called back directly home to deal with the battle with Kurdistan. However, the real commander of the Ku army was a Red Alert general sent by Qi Yiming in the past, and the tactical level was quite high, and the Ku army, which was also uneven in strength, continued to achieve impressive results, and the Turks were defeated one after another.
The crisis in Turkey is also like a basin of cold water poured directly on the heads of the Americans, and the importance of Turkey is self-evident. Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia, is an important strategic node, and if the Chinese defeat Turkey and open up the passage from the Persian Gulf in the Indian Ocean to Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in Europe, then the Chinese will connect their Eurasian layout into one, thus making NATO face a greater dilemma in Europe.
If Greece in the south is defeated, then the Chinese troops in Europe and the SCO coalition forces will be able to rest easy in the south, and they will be able to attack NATO countries more smoothly and freely, and eventually even occupy these places. This is an unacceptable outcome for the United States and NATO, so the priority of aiding Turkey and defeating the invading Kuk army has been raised to a more important position than protecting Europe's industrial capacity.
As a result, George W. Bush decided to send 10 new divisions of the US military to Turkey to assist Turkish government forces in resisting the Turkish Workers' Party and the more regular Kurdistan army. These 10 divisions of the US military are newly formed units composed of reserve officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted men, mixed with newly recruited recruits. Its combat effectiveness cannot be said to be none, and it is still quite inferior to the ace units such as the 1st Cavalry Division and the 1st Armored Division of the United States.
The Americans' actions this time were also very fast, and all the equipment of the air force was transported by air, and the soldiers were first sent to Turkey by transport planes, and this kind of rapid reaction was actually very colorful to the Chinese troops, but the US military began to be very self-conscious about its own capabilities.