On the wide desert, the temperature reached more than 50 degrees, and the armored soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade of the 1st Armored Division sweated like rain in the sound of the rumbling 1,200-horsepower Perkins diesel engine.

When the Challenger tank was designed, it was designed according to the British climate, and in this desert, the tank's original air conditioner could not provide enough cooling power at all, and hot air was blowing, and the engine behind it was constantly sending heat.

In order to rush quickly, the entire armored force is advancing at full speed.

The 7th Armored Brigade, nicknamed the Desert Rats, is now not as laid-back as the Desert Rats, and everyone is following the steamer.

Finally, the brigade commander, Colonel William Kelvin, finally couldn't take it anymore and opened the turret hatch above his head.

Colonel William is a veteran, his father, who once participated in World War II, at that time, tank crews, almost never stayed inside the tank, especially the commander, half of his body leaned outside, visually found the enemy, and then commanded the tank to fire, which was the standard tactic at that time. Of course, there are also many commanders who were directly shattered in this way.

Now, commanding Britain's most powerful armoured force, William longed to be like his father, and he was on the tank, his body bouncing with the tank, feeling the heat of the sand in his face, and he felt the same as inside the tank.

The march of the entire armored force, especially in the desert area, will stir up countless yellow sands, and the tanks in the front do not matter, and the tanks in the back are actually very uncomfortable.

William picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance in a jolt, hoping to run into the Iraqi armored forces and fight with real guns.

But. This seems to be a delusion, in the case of their own strong air power, the Republican Guard of Iraq, those powerful armored forces, do not dare to come out to fight in the field at all, otherwise they will definitely be completely killed by air strikes!

For Kuwait. Iraq is also desperate, almost pulling the most elite Republican Guard to Kuwait.

As he thought, William continued to observe with his telescope, and at that moment, he saw the same dust appear everywhere in the distance.

What's going on? In the high-magnification telescope, he saw black dots one by one, and the black dots continued to magnify, and finally. Turned into tanks!

"Attention, Iraqi armored forces spotted!" William quickly retracted into the turret and closed the hatch.

The battle is about to begin!

They did not know that in order to protect Kuwait City, a dozen days ago, the Hammurabi division of the Republican Guard of Iraq would put their main battle tanks. Buried in the desert of northwestern Kuwait, they have been waiting for this opportunity!

Right now. The battle began, and the U.S. Air Force fighters, mainly used to search for the most threatening Scud missiles, went to the desert near Kuwait, and the United States did not find buried tanks under the desert.

In the Gulf War, the Americans found tanks under the sand. At that time, it was because it was started, and the engine was heated, which caused it to be detected by the infrared device.

And now, Hammurabi is well hidden.

Several hundred main battle tanks, including the T-80U and a small number of Type 90s tanks imported from Pakistan. They are all equipped to the Hammurabi division, and they are no longer those monkey versions of the T-72 of later generations!

In particular, the tanks imported from Pakistan, because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, led to a large number of tanks being banned from export by Pakistan in the later period, but dozens of tanks in the early stage entered the equipment sequence of Iraq and became the killer weapon of Hammurabi's division.

These tanks have an excellent sighting system, and at a distance of more than 2,000 meters, on the leading Type 90 tank, the commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hammurabi Division, Ali Abdullah Shehri, calmly commanded his own army to attack, holding his fat belly.

Ali is 33 years old, is the contact talent of the Iraqi armored forces, was born poor in his early years, after entering the army, the standard of living has improved significantly, and his body has become the same as the rich Saudis, full of fat and pot-bellied, so he is jokingly called "armored Ali", but the flaws are not hidden, he has rare intuition and talent in the command of armored forces, and he is one of the few Iraqi armored commanders to enter the French Saint-Cyr Military Academy and the German Armored Forces School to systematically learn Western armored force tactics. Strategic talents. During the Iran-Iraq War, the armored troops led by Panzer Ali once penetrated hundreds of kilometers into the interior of Iran, causing the Iranians to cry wolf.

It's just that he was commanding the T-62 tank at that time, and the small space inside made Panzer Ali feel very uncomfortable, so when the army was equipped with this batch of Pakistani-made Type 90 tanks, Panzer Ali immediately liked the tank with a large turret, although there was less automatic loader, and it had to be loaded manually, it was still relatively spacious inside, more spacious than the three-person T-72 tank!

At this time, his eyes were firmly fixed on the commander's peripheral vision in front of him, and the yellow sand was all over the sky, and he knew that it was the tank of the invading coalition army!

Kill the Americans! Armored Ali's heart was full of battle intent at this time.

"Attention, the third regiment is outflanked from the left, the second regiment is outflanked from the right, and the first regiment is rushing up with me!" Ali shouted over the radio: "Fight bravely for the honor of our Iraqi armored forces!" ”

Fight! Iraq's armored troops, invincible and indomitable!

A regiment is equipped with Pakistani Type 90 tanks, and in the bumps, the two-way stable turret ensures that the muzzle of the gun is always towards the enemy, even if you put a glass of water on the mouth of the barrel, it will definitely not fall!

Ali's eyes were fixed on the perimeter and he locked on to the first target, the tank that rushed up! At this time, Ali, who looked at the silhouette of the other side and was familiar with various Western tanks, knew that what he encountered was not the armored forces of the Americans' M1A1, but the Challenger tanks of the British!

"One armor-piercing projectile, the distance is two thousand two, and the wind speed is 3!" Ali shouted.

As a commander, he should command the battle in the back, however, Ali always likes to rush to the front line, and he is the first! He is very confident in the tank he is driving!

The track stirred up the yellow sand, the sand and dust were rolling behind, Ali's line of sight in front was very good, just in the rapid movement of the tank, there was a loud bang, a cloud of black smoke appeared at the mouth of the gun barrel, and a tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing bullet flew out!

Colonel William, on the other side, couldn't help but laugh a little when he saw that the other party actually fired a shell at such a distance, those monkey versions of the T-72 can hit within a thousand meters!

However, at this moment, he saw a tank on the left side in front of him, shook violently, followed it, and stopped.

Hit!

At a distance of 2,200 meters, the armor-piercing projectile flew over and hit the main armor in front of the main turret of the Challenger tank, and the pride of the British, the world's best Chobham armor, stubbornly blocked the armor-piercing projectile, which could penetrate only a few millimeters, and shot the hot metal heat into the inside of the tank, so that all the tank members were killed.

However, it is not as claimed by the outside world, if it can block the armor-piercing projectile, the crew can completely survive, although the mass of the armor-piercing bullet is not large, but the huge speed brings huge energy, and after the collision with the front armor of the tank, the entire tank was shaken, and the tank crew inside was shocked, as if it was slapped by the shock wave of the explosion of a large-caliber grenade.

The people inside all fainted.

“034,034！” Colonel William shouted over the radio, but there was no response, looking at the torrent of Iraqi armor that was rolling in front of him, Colonel William sensed that something was wrong.

Those tanks are not old Soviet tanks at all! Look at the shape of the turret, it looks very much like a German Type 90 tank! For a moment, he remembered that Iraq had once imported a batch of such tanks from Pakistan!

Damn it! This tank made in Pakistan has the same sophisticated fire control system as the Germans, and the tank gun is as fierce as the original, except for the backward armor system!

"Rush up and fire!" Colonel William shouted over the radio.

Originally, how to deal with Iraq's armored forces had been planned before the operation, because Iraq's main tank, that is, the T-72 fire control system imported from the Soviet Union, was backward, and it was almost impossible to hit the target from a distance of 1,000 meters.

Retreat will ensure that your main armor will always face the greatest threat, and at the same time, use your range advantage to constantly destroy the opponent from a long distance!

But now, the Iraqis are equipped with tanks, and the fire control system is actually more advanced than their own, and at a distance of two thousand meters, one shot hit a tank, which made Colonel William immediately alert, and then use the original tactics, it is no longer possible, and now the only way is to rush forward! The Leopard 2 tank is a thin-skinned stuffing, and the armor is used in the monkey version of Chobham exported by the British at sea, and the performance is not at the same level as the challenger, and the armor-piercing shells fired by their own 120mm rifled guns can easily penetrate the opponent's tank!

With this in mind, the 7th Armored Brigade of the British 1st Armored Division launched a tank attack, and against the Pakistani-made Type 90 tanks equipped by Iraq!

Smoke came out of the tail exhaust pipe, the 1,200-horsepower engine roared, the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, and at the same time, the tank guns of both sides were also aiming at each other.

"Put!" A commander shouted, loaded with all the firing data, and an armor-piercing shell flew out of the L30 tank gun. (To be continued.) )