When the order reached West Islam Abad, the pre-war commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Hazraj, was somewhat embarrassed.

Now, the fact that the troops were able to break through and achieve such great results had a lot to do with the stubborn fighting of the Medina Division, and now, in the attack on Bakhtalam, the Medina Division was in the vanguard, but now, the direct order from the headquarters of the military district was for this army to attack Karand.

What is Callander? It was a rough mountain road, and it was very difficult to get through the T-72 tanks of the Medina Division, and it would be even more troublesome if there were any more attacks by Iranian guerrillas.

Now, there is already a valley ahead, advance and hit Bakhtalan, then you can attack, retreat can defend, it is very beneficial to your own side, who gave such an order?

Although Lieutenant General Hazraj is dissatisfied, it is the duty of a soldier to carry out orders, and the Iraqi army is not like the US army, where the field commander has a lot of decision-making power, and if he disobeys orders, even if he wins, he will be considered disloyal and will be purged.

While he was pondering, suddenly, a violent explosion occurred outside the small city.

What's going on? Haven't the remnants of Iran here been purged?

Soon, he received the news: outside the city, there were several Iranian death squads, touched their positions, fortunately they laid some minefields, the Iranians stepped on the minefields and have retreated!

Iranians, back up? Lieutenant General Hazraj felt something strange and at the same time sensed the danger, and if the Iranians were to carry out this attack, then the speed of their attack would be greatly delayed.

"Send more sentinels to prevent this kind of incident from happening again." Lieutenant General Hazraj said.

"Report," a loud voice came from outside, it was Maliki, the commander of the Medina Division.

"Come in." Hazraj said.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, our 1st Armored Division is the most brave and good at fighting, and the task of attacking Bakhtaran this time will be handed over to our 1st Armored Division! We have now been cut off, and we can only defuse this crisis by defeating Bakhtaran. Maliki said.

The establishment of the Medina Division is the 1st Panzer Division, which shows how much attention this is a force.

The entire armored division, along the way, has always been charging forward, although they are all stragglers, they have developed a kind of arrogance that only ace troops have, so if they want to come over the task of the final attack, it is the most difficult combat operation.

Hazraj looked at him, Maliki was born in Tikrit, and he was also the most trusted person around the president, so he was placed in the position of commander of the 1st Armored Division, and he said: "The superior gave the battle order. ”

Al-Maliki immediately straightened up, listening to what he was most looking forward to.

"The 1st Panzer Division immediately marched north, occupied Kaland, and took Salpole Pohab. The 15th Panzer Division, the 47th, 49th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 53rd, 61st Infantry Division, march east and take Bakhtalam! ”

When Maliki heard this, his face suddenly turned ugly, Karand, Salpole pounced, didn't you go back? Sarpol Phu is a border town next to Iraq, what are you going to do there?

"Report, the tasks of our division can be completed with an ordinary infantry division, and I ask for an exchange of tasks." Al-Maliki said.

"This is an order from a superior, and it must be obeyed!" Hazraj said.

Maliki's mind was full of unconvinced: "Then I will ask my superiors!" So saying, he was about to run out.

"Give me back!" Hazraj said: "We are the army of Iraq, the army loyal to President Saddam, and since we have already given the task, we must strictly implement it. This order was given by the president himself! ”

Soldiers, obey orders as their duty!

Maliki is not a fool, and after a little thought, he understands that his head has been lowered.

He would rather lead an ordinary armored division than the most precious and reluctant force that the president considers. The army is for war!

"It's not an easy road, you have to be careful." "Especially the Iranians who are always there, and we are not familiar with it," Hazraj said. ”

"Yes." Al-Maliki was depressed, and although he did not agree with the order, he had to obey it unconditionally.

Suddenly, a shrill siren sounded in the small town.

Air raid! The Iranians actually moved so quickly!

Immediately after the Iranians regained the combat effectiveness of the formidable Tomcat, a-for-tat began.

Although Iraq has been bombing Bakhtalam, the Iraqi Air Force has always taken the high-altitude route, entering from a high altitude, bombing at a low altitude, and returning at a high altitude.

Therefore, the bombing of Iraq can almost be said to be blatant.

However, the Iranians are different.

The Iranians' flying skills are excellent, and, as if they are not afraid of death, from the air base in Tehran, the F-4 fighters that are full of bombs and have become very poor are flown to a low altitude of only about 100 meters above the ground.

After arriving here, the two Tomcat fighters in the formation will quickly climb to guard the airspace here, and those fighters behind will start to bomb unscrupulously.

It has been ravaged by the Iraqi Air Force for so long, and now, it is finally the turn of our own Air Force to raise its eyebrows!

In the process of climbing, the Tomcat fighter immediately spotted two Mirage F1 fighters cruising here.

After knowing that the Iranian Air Force had restored its combat effectiveness, the Air Force of the Northern Military District began to enter the first level of combat readiness, and the Mirage F1 fighters at the Bakr Air Base in the central part of the country took on the task of cruising over the theater of operations.

The Sinola radar of the Mirage F1 fighter has a Doppler function, which can eliminate clutter on the ground, detect the opponent's aircraft flying close to the ground, and prevent the opponent's sneak attack.

However, the detection range of this radar was not far enough, and because of the problem of azimuth angle, it was not discovered until the opposing formation flew to a distance of twenty kilometers from Bakhtalan.

The pilots of the two fighters immediately notified the ground air defense and the fighters in the rear to take off urgently, and at the same time, they met them, hoping to shoot down the Iranian plane with their own Matra medium-range missiles.

In order to maintain concealment, when penetrating at low altitudes, the Tomcat fighters did not turn on the radar, and when they climbed, they turned on the radar at the same time to scan the surrounding airspace, and suddenly, they also found two planes flying from the other side.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only forty kilometers.

At such a distance, the Immortal Bird missile could also be used, but the Iranian pilot Hochloye was somewhat reluctant to use the valuable Immortal Bird missile, and gave the order to launch the Sparrow missile to the weapon officer in the rear compartment.

Almost at the same time, the sound of being locked by the other party came from the headphones.

Hochloye was taken aback, but he didn't expect that this time the Iraqis took advantage of him, and the other party actually took the lead!

In air combat, being able to detect the enemy before the enemy is a very important aspect, because life and death in air combat may be a difference of one or two seconds.

Although he was locked, Hochloye was not afraid, the fighters and fire control radars equipped by the Iraqis were very simple and primitive, and the complex ground clutter at low altitude could help him the most.

It seems that the only way to dive down first and then play hide and seek with the other party.

Having just climbed less than a thousand meters of height, he chose to dive again.

At this time, the pilot of the Mirage F1 fighter had already launched a missile.

Although Iran already knows that Iraq has purchased Mirage F1 fighters from France, the radar of this fighter is much more advanced than that of Soviet-style fighters, but they do not know how advanced it is, not to mention, in yesterday's air battle, Tomcat fighters once again showed strong combat effectiveness, just diving, they got rid of the opponent's missiles, which made Hochloye already look down on those Iraqi planes a little.

Just dive to a height of a few hundred meters and you'll be able to get rid of that nasty locked sound!

Who knows, the altimeter has turned to an altitude of three hundred meters, and he still hasn't gotten rid of the incoming missile!

The other side's radar, in the complex echoes of the ground, managed to catch him!

Pull it up! At an altitude of several hundred meters, it takes a lot of luck to change from diving to level flight.

Hochloye pulled the pole with all his might, lowered the speed brake, and made the huge eagle turn its head and fly, otherwise it would come into contact with the ground and have an affectionate and violent kiss.

However, Hochloye is very confident that the Tomcat fighter has excellent maneuverability at high and low altitudes, and there is no problem at all when it pulls up at an altitude of several hundred meters.

However, in the next second, his heart was cold.

On the instrument in front of the cockpit, a red light lit up.

Right engine failure!

The right engine was installed directly after the spare engine was unsealed from the United States, because of the tense war situation, the ground crew did not carry out a comprehensive disassembly of this engine in order to repair one more aircraft, and generally speaking, it was completely unnecessary.

Unexpectedly, he dropped the chain at a critical moment.

Before the plane had even changed back to level flight, it had already engaged in a passionate kiss with a raised hill on the ground.

A large area of fire ignited, and the Tomcat fighter was reduced to pieces.

Then, the flying Matra 530 missile hit this sea of fire.

The Mirage F1 has finally achieved the result of shooting down the Tomcat fighter again!

It's just that they are not in the mood to appreciate the crashed Tomcat fighter on the ground at this time, because the other one has disappeared!

The pilot of the other Tomcat fighter had already returned to a low altitude, and, having passed through a canyon on the ground, the peaks on both sides of the canyon blocked the radar signal of the Mirage F1, and then, the fighter pulled up, and had already flown behind the Mirage F1!

(To be continued)