Huang Li had three divisions at his disposal, an infantry division of the Foreign Legion, a mechanized division, and an infantry division composed of Syrians. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The French originally hired a semi-mechanized division from Lan Fang, but after the establishment of the Western Province, Lan Fang strengthened the equipment of this semi-mechanized division, and Huang Li brought a large number of armored vehicles originally deployed in Jerusalem, and this semi-mechanized division was also upgraded to a mechanized division.

The infantry division composed of Syrians does not have much combat effectiveness, it is basically negligible, in Huang Li's plan, the role of the Syrian division is to use support and logistics, at most it is to accept a prisoner or something, and the combat mission still falls on the two Foreign Legion troops.

After obtaining Qin Haoge's permission, Huang Li immediately launched an attack in the direction of Basra, and the main attack was the third division of the Lanfang Foreign Legion, that is, the mechanized division in Huang Li's hands.

The 3rd Division was also strong after several resupply attempts, with a tank battalion of 60 tanks, two infantry regiments of 110 armored vehicles, and an artillery battalion of 36 guns.

It wasn't until the eve of the attack that Huang Li received a jaw-dropping piece of news.

Opposite the 3rd Division was the 11th Iraqi Division, which was Yang Deshan's troops.

Your sister, Angus Wollaston is so good that he will not die, but he deployed the 11th Division opposite the 3rd Division, which is simply making Huang Li and Yang Deshan sit on wax, Lan Fang has been playing balance in the Middle East, and this time he finally played an oolong.

After getting the news, Huang Li urgently contacted Yang Deshan and prepared to communicate with Yang Deshan about how to fight tomorrow.

Yang Deshan's reaction surprised Huang Li very much, the Foreign Legion will fight normally tomorrow, but as long as the cannon sounds, Yang Deshan will order the troops to retreat, and wait until Lan Fang, who is accustomed to using firepower suppression, completes the fire preparations, it is estimated that Yang Deshan's troops have withdrawn from the battlefield, and then the troops of the Foreign Legion can rely on the advantage of mechanization to complete the counter-encirclement of the Saudi 6th Infantry Division and the 7th Cavalry Division on both flanks of the 11th Division's position.

What about the festival?

Not to mention escaping from the battle, he also sold all the friendly troops with his hands, Yang Deshan, the big leader of the "Brother Alliance", is really "not a brother enough" to do things.

However, for Huang Li, Yang Deshan's decision was simply too interesting, and Huang Li immediately gave an order to the troops to attack according to the original plan.

At 6 a.m. on 19 May, Huang Li's artillery launched an artillery attack on the 11th Division of the Iraqi National Guard on the front line of Basra as planned.

The positions of the 11th Division were immediately in disarray.

Hearing the first sound of artillery, Yang Deshan immediately ordered his troops to "prepare for battle."

This is actually a code, and the meaning of preparing for battle is to run quickly, run slowly, and be hit by artillery and cause heavy casualties, don't blame me for being polite.

So the positions of the 11th Division immediately collapsed.

"General, our troops have suffered heavy casualties and are in dire need of reinforcements." The commander of the 31st Regiment, Besher Atayi, called for reinforcements in the fifth minute of the start of the shelling.

"Hold it off for me, reinforcements will be there soon." Yang Deshan had no intention of sending reinforcements, and in front of Alva Hoyle, Yang Deshan was still fearless.

Alvar Hoyle was the chief of staff of the 11th Division of the Angus Wollaston faction, and since Qin Haoge invaded Iraq, Angus Wollaston had no hope of the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi army, and in order to supervise Yang Deshan's 11th Division to persist in the battle, Angus Wollaston sent a chief of staff to Yang Deshan's troops.

This was not special treatment, as Angus Wollaston sent chiefs of staff to each unit, and their role was not to draw up battle plans, but to supervise whether Angus Wollaston's orders were being strictly followed.

"General, more than half of my troops have been killed and wounded, and I am asking for reinforcements." Ten minutes after the shelling began, the commander of the 33rd Regiment, Timam Rafige, also called for help.

"Hold on, the shelling will pass soon, the Lanfang people don't have many shells, what you have to do is to hold on!" Yang Deshan was unmoved, even though Taimam's voice was already crying, Yang Deshan's heart was still as strong as iron.

To be honest, the names of the two regiment commanders under Yang Deshan are not very good, if they are transliterated in Chinese, one will be translated as "ornament" if you are not careful, and the other will be translated as "too numb".

"General, reinforcements should be considered." Alvar Hoyle listened to the dense explosion of shells like raindrops, and looked in the direction of the front line with concern.

The way the Lanfang army used artillery came from the way Britain and France used artillery in the world war, the British and French were at the peak of their national strength, and they didn't know what "frugality" was.

Although Qin Zhiyuan advocated frugality in Lanfang, but now the artillery logistics under Huang Li are in charge of the French, so let's build it hard.

"Not yet, the Lanfang people have not launched an attack yet, and the living force must stay at the critical moment." Yang Deshan ignored Alva Hoyle's suggestion.

"Then we always have to fight back! And what about our artillery? "Alvar Hoyle doesn't want to be beaten.

"Countermeasures? Also artillery? Yang Deshan's eyes were a little strange when he looked at Alvar Hoyle, full of incredulity and anger that he tried his best to suppress: "We don't have artillery at all, we have never gained trust, we have never seen a single artillery, what do you want me to use to fight back?" ”

Alva Hoyle was immediately speechless, Yang Deshan said the truth, whether it was Steven Straitch or Angus Wollaston, they had never trusted the Iraqis, or even the Persians, so although Iraq had established an army, the troops were not equipped with artillery, only simple rifles and a few machine guns, and the Iraqis relied on these rudimentary weapons to deal with Lanfang's tanks and armored vehicles.

How can you deal with it!

In addition to being ashamed, Alva Hoyle's admiration for Yang Deshan also immediately arose, and Yang Deshan was worthy of admiration for being able to persist in fighting despite such a big gap in equipment. Alvar Hoyle had already decided that when writing the post-war report, no matter what the battle turned out to be, Alvar Hoyle would add this fact, even if it was defeated, it was definitely not Yang Deshan's responsibility.

Alvar Hoyle also participated in the world war, and if the British faced such a large gap in equipment, I am afraid that the front would collapse before the war began, and it would not have held out until now.

Lan Fang's artillery fire was indeed fierce, and half an hour after the shelling began, the telephone line between Yang Deshan's headquarters and the front line had been blown up, and the situation at the front had been completely cut off. In order to restore contact, Yang Deshan sent a communications corps to connect the line many times, and when the phone was reconnected, a phone called came from the frightened screams of "furnishings": "Lanfang people-Lanfang's tank is up——"

Another phone was an unfamiliar voice: "Hey, hey, is there anyone-" At the beginning, the voice on the phone was still in Chinese, but then it was changed to English: "On behalf of the Third Division of the Lanfang Foreign Legion, I officially inform you that you have been surrounded, immediately lay down your arms and surrender, this is your only way out, if you resist to the end, what awaits you will definitely be a dead end, we Lanfang has always treated prisoners preferentially, you will be treated according to your rank, think about your family and children, How they hope that you will return safely—"

The guy talking on the phone was still a chatter, and he didn't stop talking for several minutes, which made Alvar Hoyle, who put down the microphone, pale.

"What should I do?" Alva Hoyle awaits Young's decision.

"What else can I do, withdraw, I don't want to go to the Lanfang military camp to be a coolie-" Yang Deshan muttered, and immediately took the lead and left the headquarters.

In the world war, the Lanfang people and the British were allies, so whether it was Yang Deshan or Alvar Hoyle, they all knew the virtue of the Lanfang people, and the so-called "treatment that matches the military rank" was a lie, and the Lanfang people never had the saying of "preferential treatment of prisoners", no matter who they were, there was only one end for being captured by Lanfang, that is, to act as coolies to get their own rations, otherwise even the general would be hungry.

"Of course, I don't want to be taken prisoner." After Alvar Hoyle finished speaking, he followed Yang Deshan to the "bulldog".

As a senior military officer, Yang Deshan still has preferential treatment, such as the "bulldog" assigned to Yang Deshan for use, which is one of Yang Deshan's benefits.

This is really embarrassing, Britain is at war with Lanfang, but the cars used in the army are all made by Lanfang, is this considered a "capital enemy"?

However, neither Yang Deshan nor Alvar Hoyle was in the mood to think about this issue, and Yang Deshan was still in the car and kept issuing orders for the troops to retreat to Kuwait City and set up a assembly point in Kuwait City. Alvar Hoyle's mind was on the post-war report, which was written in such a particular way, that sometimes even a single word could make a difference.

Yang Deshan did not ignore Alvar Hoyle, and not far after the car drove out, Yang Deshan suddenly handed Alvar Hoyle a small box: "This is what you left in the command center, I will help you clean it up." ”

Alvar Hoyle was a little puzzled when he took the box, and when he opened it, his color changed dramatically.

A whole box of gold bars and various jewelry, although the box is not too large, the value of this small box, roughly estimated, is more than 100,000 pounds.

Oh, 100,000 pounds, that's a lot of money, Alva Hoyle has never seen such a big sum of money, even if you add up the money that Alva Hoyle has seen, it is estimated that the value of this small box is not as high.