In June 1953, the war in the Persian Gulf had been going on for a quarter.

As Viola said, the Republican Air Force suffered heavy losses under the continuous high-intensity air raids of the US military, and the airport in Abu Dhabi was basically destroyed, and the Republic Air Force had to shrink the defensive circle. But correspondingly, the US aircraft carrier battle group also withdrew from the Persian Gulf because of the battle losses.

Six of the eight aircraft carriers dispatched by the US military this time were hit by bombs, and two of them lost their ability to sail and could only be towed out of the Persian Gulf by destroyers.

In order to cope with the high-intensity attrition on the front line, Lin Youde had to continue to use Turkey and Damascus to transfer the plane to the Persian Gulf -- the long-range aircraft flew directly to Istanbul for refueling, and then transferred to the Persian Gulf, and the short-range aircraft was transported to the vicinity of Damascus to go ashore, and then flew to the Persian Gulf.

Of course, the U.S. government came forward to accuse Lin Youde of openly aiding the war, but Lin Youde immediately said that I am a normal delivery order, a legitimate and reasonable business activity, can you still not let me deliver the order? I lost money you gave?

The Americans also whimsically hoped that the German government would put pressure on Lin's enterprises, but the German government did not dare to let go of a single fart, not only that, but also acquiesced to Lin Youde's postponement of the delivery of the super ghost ordered by the German army, and gave priority to ensuring the supply to the Persian Gulf -- in fact, they sent the planes that had been built for the German army to the Persian Gulf, and some of the planes were painted with military insignia, and when they arrived in the Persian Gulf, they only casually covered the military emblem and went to the sky. It also retains the traditional yellow nose color scheme of the Luftwaffe (under the artificial influence of Lin Youde, the yellow nose was used by the Luftwaffe until the jet age).

At the same time as the air war was going on, the ground war finally began, because the air force of the Republic turned to air defense operations in important places, and the US troops finally landed in Abu Dhabi, and the Republican Guard, which was originally stationed in Abu Dhabi, fought and walked, and stabilized the defense line more than 100 kilometers away from the Qatar Peninsula.

MacArthur, who was sitting in the rear, thought that he could break through the Republican Guard's defensive line within a week, so he ordered Ridgway to move forward despite a single qiē, but it backfired, and the Republican Guard's ground forces showed strong combat effectiveness.

Among them, the Grizzly self-propelled guns with eight rounds of ammunition are amazingly powerful, and they often carry out rapid firepower attacks on US troops, and the artillery fire comes quickly and ruthlessly, putting great pressure on the US troops. Once the Grizzly Bear finished shooting, it would immediately move, and the U.S. planes tried to find the Grizzly Bear's position several times but returned empty-handed, losing the plane in vain.

In addition, there are rocket launchers carried by small pickup trucks, which are things that Lin Youde temporarily made out for the Republican Guard to try, and it turned out that the effect is wonderful, and the specially made small desert pickup trucks are fast and durable, and they can go deep into the desert to bypass the US defense line and patrol, and then use rockets to attack the supply and hoarding points of the US military.

In addition, the Republican Guard also has a considerable advantage in terms of armor power, and their new tanks are exactly the same as those of the German Army, with thick multi-layered frontal armor defenses, which makes the American army feel that their M48 Patton tanks are not enough firepower.

This is the first time that the United States has tried to design and manufacture its own main tank after imitating Lin Youde's Leopard, and it has developed to the A3 type, equipped with a 105 mm tank gun, and has an electron tube ballistic computer and an early rangefinder. However, in the face of the main tank of the Republican Guard, which has frontal armor up to 200 mm thick and has a 120 mm tank gun, it is still slightly insufficient.

The U.S. military originally thought that it could rely on better fire control to counter the Republic's heavy armor artillery, but after actually fighting, it was found that the M48 did not have a better performance than the opponent in terms of fire control, and the 105 mm gun could barely shake the frontal armor of the 200 mm inclination turret of the Republican Guard tank on the front, and it was a waste of expression to hit the gun shield. The main chariot of the Republican Guard has a very fashionable design of being the first to meet the enemy, and four-fifths of the cross-sectional area of the front of the hull is the first armor. Although the inclination angle of the lower armor is not large, because it is tilted inward, the angle of impact of the shell will be better than when the upper armor is cambered to meet the enemy, and the equivalent thickness of the armor will also be greatly increased.

In fact, such an inward tilt design is reflected in the broadside armor belt of battleships in another time and space, and the broadside armor of Yamato-type battleships is shrunk inward.

Because of this special inward inclination design, the US military found that its 105 guns could not effectively penetrate the frontal hull of the Republican Guard's main battle vehicle at a distance of more than 700 meters, and whether it could penetrate at 700 meters depended on luck, and only by breaking through to a distance of about 300 meters to attack the hull could it be possible to penetrate the 120 mm hull armor.

Fortunately, the pitch angle of the US combat vehicles is very good, and there is still a chance to penetrate this unique camber front armor when entering hand-to-hand combat. But the Republican Guard's Panzers were equally aware of this, knowing that they would be safe at a distance of 1,000 meters, and that their 120mm guns could easily penetrate Patton's front at this distance and beyond. As a result, the armored engagement in the Persian Gulf region was charged at a distance of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, and once the American army broke through to a thousand meters, the Republican Guard's armored troops would reverse and fight.

At this time, the disadvantages of the poor environmental adaptability of the US combat vehicles were reflected, and when fighting in North Africa, the US military was deeply troubled by dust, and the US combat vehicles often stopped because they inhaled too much dust.

You know, the amount of air inhaled by the engine of the combat vehicle is very huge, so the dust in the air will accumulate in a large amount in the engine of the combat vehicle, and the amount of dust inhaled by the engine of the combat vehicle is abnormally alarming.

A large number of American tanks were spread out on the march, almost as many as the Republican Guard had destroyed.

The damaged combat vehicles have greatly increased the logistical burden of the US military, and the US military, which has always been known for its logistical supply capacity, is also a little overwhelmed at this time.

But that didn't dampen MacArthur's hubris, and he still thought he had a way to end the war this summer. MacArthur had always been bitter about Eisenhower's ability to become president, and since the commander of the European theater of operations could be president, then he should also be the supreme commander of the Asian region. MacArthur was ready to use his excellent performance in the Persian Gulf region to add leverage to future races.

Ridgway, on the other hand, kept sending telegrams to make MacArthur understand that a breakthrough was impossible until the road from Abu Dhabi to the front was built.

But that's how the army is, the officers crush people to death, MacArthur's orders are there, and Ridgway can only keep kicking the sappers in the ass and making them hurry up the repair of the road. R1148