The first Chinese troops to enter the war zone were the Red Alert Express Anti-Counter Brigade under Qi Yiming, and their equipment, including their equipment, was also sent to Saudi Arabia by air. The main vehicles of the Red Alert Rapid Counter Brigade are MIFV6*6 infantry fighting vehicles and dozens of helicopters including Z-9, Z-20, and Wuzhi-10. In order to deliver the 8,000-strong rapid response brigade, the Air Force used nearly 100 sorties of Y-20s to send them into the war zone.

Therefore, on the third day of China's announcement of its dispatch of troops to intervene in the Gulf situation, the Rapid Reaction Brigade has basically completed its assembly in the theater of operations, and has become the fastest allied force to reach the theater except for the US Airborne Troops.

Since the initial projection of troops was the so-called most vulnerable window period in strategic terms, the United States was also very worried about being attacked by the Iraqi army before it completed the build-up of troops, so the US military used many methods. For example, it organized reporters to visit the mysterious F-117 stealth attack plane, and also announced the scale of the US military and its allies in a grand manner, creating the appearance of the allied forces in a menacing manner, and playing a role in deterring Saddam Hussein and Iraq. On the other hand, the United States has tried to avoid saying anything that provokes Iraq in public, and the elder Bush said in a national telephone address on 8 August that the US military's mission is purely defensive. At a news conference at noon, the elder Bush reiterated that the task of the US military was not to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

At the same time, the troops sent were prepared for the highest level of combat readiness, and in case the US troops were attacked when they landed at Saudi airports, some units distributed ammunition before they completed their deployment; As soon as the supplies and equipment arrived at the airport and port, they were immediately moved to safety; U.S. ground forces and Marines were quickly dispatched to defensive positions as soon as they got off the planes; As soon as the Air Force arrived at the Saudi Air Base, it was forced to immediately carry out patrol and airfield standby tasks.

Therefore, when the first large-scale allied force, China's ground troops, arrived, the United States used reporters to exaggerate and report on this situation on a large scale, creating a situation that the coalition forces pulled up by the United States were arriving in the war zone one after another and on a large scale, telling the Iraqis not to act rashly, but also to embolden themselves.

At the request of the U.S. Foreign Ministry, Department of Defense, White House office, and the press, China has made limited access to Western media coverage of the Red Alert Brigade, which first arrived. A group of Western media pounced on it like sharks smelling blood.

Tracy, a reporter for the New York Times, had just finished interviewing the US troops who had arrived first, and this time she came to interview the Chinese troops, and she couldn't help but have some thoughts of comparison.

The huge Chinese military transport plane looked chubby and wide, which made people feel a little cute, and Tracy raised her camera to take a few pictures of the huge dark silver transport plane. She knows very well that this kind of transport plane is made by China itself, and there are very few countries in the world that have the ability to build such a large military transport plane, and the United States and the Soviet Union can build it, and even European countries that claim to be advanced do not have a large military transport plane of this level.

"China's scientific and technological level is indeed very powerful!" Tracy thought, wondering how to put this out in her reporting.

The plane was designed to transport soldiers, and when the tail door of the transport plane opened, the heavily armed soldiers inside lined up out of the cabin with weapons and backpacks. The biggest shock to Tracy was that she had also witnessed the scene of the US military coming out of the cabin, but the Chinese military was completely different from the US military. Of course, the American soldiers were also lined up, but by no means as neatly as the Chinese soldiers, even when they walked out of the cabin, their steps were uniform, and several of them were patrolling outside with guns and vigilant eyes.

A French reporter next to him said: "Is it necessary to be so rigid, is it the case that the armies from GC countries are like this?" ”

Tracy didn't take this guy, she's a female journalist, and women's talents are more detail-oriented. The unit was dressed in desert digital camouflage uniforms, Kevlar helmets, bulletproof vests that were also desert digital camouflage, some wearing protective sunglasses, and military uniforms with large and small pockets containing all sorts of small things. Judging from the individual uniforms of Chinese soldiers alone, Tracy, as a military correspondent, can judge that their equipment is better than that of the US military and European armies.

At this time, the U.S. military did not have its own ACU all-terrain digital camouflage, and the first person in the world to use digital camouflage was the Chinese military. Tracy also knew that after the US military discovered China's new uniforms, it conducted some research and tests, and the results showed that the camouflage characteristics of digital camouflage were better than those of the current US military camouflage, and the United States is also stepping up the development of its own digital camouflage uniforms.

Tracy had to come to the conclusion that in terms of equipment, the Chinese army is likely to be superior to the American military. It's a bit hard to accept, but Tracy knows as a journalist that the more gimmicky a report like this is, the more eye-catching it is, and she begins to list the supporting arguments that support her point.

Not far away, a Chinese officer pressed a button on his helmet and said, "The 2nd Battalion has arrived smoothly, over." ”

Tracy quickly discovered the details, and he didn't see any complicated communications on the officer, but there was no doubt that he had just reported to the command line about his troops. Tracy had found a new piece of evidence of her own, that the Chinese military had advanced, sophisticated, and sophisticated individual communications devices, and that she had planned to ask her about it in an interview.

Officers and attachés of the U.S. military who had already arrived rushed to the airport to welcome the arrival of the Chinese allies. I don't know if the road was set up intentionally, the Chinese and American officers were both colonels, and the two saluted and shook hands with each other, and the reporters rushed up in a swarm, shaking the two guys with flashing lights.

"Welcome, welcome, ready to kick a couple of Iraqi asses?" The American colonel's slang made the Chinese translator sweat a little, but it still translated it as "give the Iraqis a little color."

The Chinese colonel smiled heartily, and he didn't know whether Lu Dao was casually or deliberately arranged to say this: "Our PLA is willing to attach to the tail, and what we really need to rely on is the US military!" ”

was slapped on the back, and sure enough, the American officer with a lower IQ was very happy, but Tracy, who was watching this scene, couldn't help pouting, she felt that the American colonel was too easy to fool, and the Chinese army showed something obviously stronger than the American army, and he was unwary, and accepted the compliment with peace of mind.

"Sooner or later, China will develop into the great enemy of the United States!" Tracy was a woman, but she was also a military correspondent, and she was very sensitive to these things, but although she thought so, she was not too worried, because she felt that even one day, it would be at least half a century later. The current United States is definitely not an existence that China can match, and we can only honestly look up, and it has nothing to do with China's ability to have a few pieces of equipment that are better than those of the United States.

On the runway on the other side of the airport, several Y-20s began to load and unload equipment in the cargo hold, each of which was loaded with two six-wheeled infantry combat vehicles of the MIFV, two large trucks and a trailer, and then three Dongfeng Mengshi jeeps. The entire brigade is armed with infantry combat vehicles in the early hundreds, which are mainly used for rapid maneuvers. Although they are not equipped with main battle tanks, these infantry vehicles are integrated with anti-tank missiles, which are not without the power to fight even against the enemy's armored forces. In addition, their main mode of operation is to be in the second line or against a relatively weak enemy, and then there are occasions such as urban warfare.

With the arrival of Chinese troops, another big problem has surfaced – the multinational force command system. The U.S. military naturally hopes to have an American as the commander of the multinational force, as it did during the Korean War, and the United States will command the multinational force in a unified manner. And Saudi Arabia obviously has its own considerations, hoping that Prince Sultan will command the armies of various countries; The French, who have always been misfit and teasing of all kinds, made it clear that they did not intend to accept the command of any country and to command themselves.

The United States has had some contacts with China, and Qi Yiming also suggested some things at the beginning. China said that it can accept the command of the joint command of the multinational force, but its own troops have the right to veto the orders of the joint command according to their actual situation and needs. This means that I nominally listen to your assignment, and if I'm upset, your assignment is no different to me.

The United States can only pinch its nose and admit it, and openly do not mention the so-called right of Chinese troops to refuse to carry out orders, but publicize China's entry into the Western-dominated multinational forces.

In the end, a strange parallel command system was formed in the Gulf Theater, led by the US military, with Western multinational forces such as the LinkedIn Army and the Italian Army plus PLA, with a total strength of about 700,000; Led by the Saudi army, it led a multinational force from the Islamic world, with a total strength of 200,000; The French army itself was a small group, but it needed to coordinate with both sides, and the total strength was more than 10,000.

To enable such a complex chain of command to function smoothly, the multinational force has also established a coalition coordination, communications and unification center at the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation building in Riyadh. The Assistant Commander of the Army at U.S. Central Headquarters and the Assistant Commander of the Saudi Joint Forces lead the Coalition Coordination, Communications and Unification Center on behalf of their respective command bodies. The center, which houses the ground forces, air force, navy, air defense, special operations, logistics and intelligence departments, is staffed by Saudi and American forces, and is open and operational 24 hours a day.

The U.S. military also sends contact teams to the troops of other member countries of the Multinational Force, down to the battalion level. At first, China was reluctant, but the United States did a lot of work against China, and it did not know what kind of benefits it promised, and in the end China agreed to the United States' plan to a limited extent. However, the U.S. military officers and soldiers in charge of liaison are restricted from traveling around the Chinese camps, and there are even special "security guards" who are responsible for their safety, in effect, to monitor them in case they spy on any military intelligence.