When Li Chen and the others withdrew from the forward reconnaissance post, they also reported Li Chen's judgment to the battalion headquarters by the way. As a matter of fact, the command and staff groups of the 310th Division are all of a relatively high level, and naturally they understood the intentions of the Iraqis when they received the news, but no one minded the officers and men at the grassroots level expressing their ideas.

The 310th Division is still a member of the multinational force, so although it is very autonomous, it still has to report to the joint operations command when it comes to defensive operations, and the division commander Zhang Wanquan quickly got in touch with the commander-in-chief of the multinational force, Schwartzkov, through a special line.

"Our division has detected that two enemy armored battalions are approaching our division, and our division will launch a self-defense counterattack and request air support." Zhang Wanquan said this very skillfully, theoretically he should have asked the Joint Operations Command for instructions, but he bluntly told Schwardskov that the 310th Division would counterattack on the spot, blocking the opening for Schwartzkov to issue orders to the 310th Division, but he still asked Schwartzkov for air support. According to the unspoken rules formed since the war, if it is to support the Chinese army, then the amount of air power sent should also be Chinese fighters.

Schwartzkov himself did not expect to be able to command the Chinese army as well as the American army, and the outbreak of fighting at the station of the 310th Division was not unexpected for him, but it was somewhat surprising. If the US Marine Corps was still stationed there, he would definitely pay more attention, but it was the Chinese army stationed there, so his requirements were naturally lowered, and it was good to hold the front line and prevent the Iraqi army from breaking through.

For the Chinese Army, Schwartzkov has only one simple concept, that is, it is probably strong. Legend has it that in the Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1986, the 309th Division, the ace unit of the Chinese PLA Army, swept through the entire military region of the Soviet Army with the strength of one division, which frightened the Soviets and shocked the Yankees. Now this 310th Division is claimed to be formed according to the standardized army of the West, and Schwarzkov also went to inspect it once, and he felt that it really learned quite like the American army. Naturally, he did not think deeply that this was an imaginary enemy force, because according to the same path, China had formed a corps (group army) with a total of nearly 100,000 men, and Schwartzkov did not feel that it was necessary for any country to form such a large-scale imaginary enemy force.

As long as the 310th Division can have 70 or 80 percent of the combat strength of the ordinary US army, he believes that there will be no problem in resisting the attack of the Iraqi army. Moreover, the Iraqi army's offensive is composed of two armored battalions, and the 310th Division has multiple camps in this area, with more than 20,000 troops, and it is absolutely impossible for the Iraqi army to shake their defense in this area with two battalions.

After Zhang Wanquan finished his report, he did not wait for reinforcements or let the Iraqis come to him, but took the initiative to seek war. The reconnaissance posts of the 310th Division at the front are all lightly armored vehicles, and they are relatively scattered, most of them are platoons. Because of the presence of Kirov reconnaissance airboats, the actual task of these reconnaissance posts is to open the defensive line and search for targets such as Iraqi scouts who cross the border. Once a large-scale land battle breaks out, these reconnaissance posts will quickly leave the front line in Dongfeng warriors and MIFV infantry vehicles, just like Li Chen and the others, and join the support forces in the rear.

These reconnaissance lightly armed units merged with the first wave of armored battalions to form an assault force about the size of a reinforced battalion, with 22 tanks and 19 infantry fighting vehicles. The division commander Zhang Wanquan also urgently dispatched the army aviation units of the 310th Division to support, and about four Wuzhi-10 merged with this ground force, and it is worth mentioning that the cannons and rockets of these four Wuzhi-10 are basically NATO.

Although the 310th Division was assembled quickly, there was someone who was faster than them, and that was the strike force of the Air Force. After the Joint Operations Command received the Iraqi army's movements, Lieutenant General Horner, commander of the Multinational Air Force, also familiarly handed over command to PLA Air Force Major General Han Swee Jie, deputy commander of the Air Force.

Han Swee Keat immediately ordered the Air Force's multi-role fighters stationed at the Udeid base to take to the air for combat, the Air Force did not carry attack planes into the theater this time, and the main ground strike missions were all carried out by the all-round J-9 Shadow Leopard, and then there were bomber units coming from the mainland. Only one model is used but is suitable for multiple missions, which also simplifies the task volume of the Air Force's ground support operations, but the Air Force has also set up two pilot teams for each fighter, and under normal circumstances, air combat will not carry out ground attack or electronic warfare operations.

An entire J-9 group immediately flew to the front line, and even these winged ones found two Iraqi armored battalions ready to attack before the first wave of troops of the 310th Division made contact with the enemy.

Just when these fighters carrying AR-2, LT-2/3 and other attack weapons were preparing to "feast", they found that they were not the only ones who liked to "grab monsters".

The rumbling sound of explosions sounded from the vicinity of the Iraqi army's armored troops advancing southward, and the sand and gunpowder smoke that had been blown up instantly enveloped the Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles that had come in iron and blood.

"Hell, it's artillery!" One of the pilots frustrated removed his oxygen mask and craned his neck down to observe the effects of the attack.

This round of artillery strikes is naturally from the artillery unit of the 310th Division, with the 309th Division as the standard PLA infantry division template, the artillery of the Blue Army Division is actually relatively weak, in order to make up for this shortcoming, Qi Yiming also specially formed a Red Police Independent Artillery Regiment mixed with the 310th Division. Artillery is also one of the few units in the 310th Division that is not quite the same as the NATO army, because for example, the technical level of PLZ-88 (05) is not even advanced compared with the M109 self-propelled artillery used by the US military, first the bottom row of extended-range projectiles can reach a terrible range of 75 kilometers, and then from the electronic equipment, three defenses, digitization, firing rate and ammunition types, PLZ-88 is even more advanced than the M-109A6 Paladin self-propelled artillery that the US military has not yet equipped on a large scale.

In the early days, the 310th Division had some second-hand self-propelled guns from the United States, but later found that they were not used very well, so they were finally equipped with their own guns.

Together with the Red Police Artillery Regiment, the 310th Division was able to put together a 72-gun PLZ-88 self-propelled artillery unit, and of course, in addition to this, they also had other artillery equipment such as the 105mm assault gun version of the multi-purpose infantry vehicle, the 120mm mortar version, the 122mm 40-barrel Dragon Tooth rocket launcher, etc.

The self-propelled guns used to shell Iraqi armored forces were actually an artillery battalion with a total of 18 guns. Under the school firing service of the Kirov airboats, they launched artillery fire on the enemy at a distance of about sixty kilometers. The Iraqi troops were stunned by this sudden artillery bombardment, and they did not find the slightest sign of artillery presence in the vicinity, but suddenly they came under heavy artillery fire, and terrible high-explosive shells continued to fall around their marching columns, and two tanks and one armored vehicle were destroyed in the first wave of shelling.

Perhaps due to the poor efficiency of attacking moving armored targets, but this may also have something to do with the long firing distance, the artillery battalion stopped shelling after attempting a short but fierce offensive. Each gun fired about 2-3 shells, which ultimately resulted in the destruction of three tanks and four armored vehicles.

When the Air Force's Shadow Leopard Air Brigade found that the artillery had stopped, they immediately swooped down from the sky like predatory vultures, and the two armored battalions of the Iraqi army had just experienced a headless artillery bombardment, and there was some damage.

Although it is not a full-time attack aircraft, the J-9 is not sloppy in its anti-armor work. Their main anti-armor weapon is the AR-2 missile, but due to the pylons and launch methods, the AR-2 can only be mounted on the main pylons under the wings with a 2-in-1 composite pylon, and cannot be hung with auxiliary fuel tanks. Since the front line is only 600 kilometers away from Udeid Air Base, the internal fuel of the J-9 heavy fighter is enough to go back and forth and even play in the air for a while.

The pylons under the belly mainly carried the Flying and Thunder series of guided bombs, and the 250-kilogram joint attack bombs carried six, sometimes more. Although these guided bombs are not as accurate as the AR-2 and have strong armor-piercing ability, the power of the explosion is enough to destroy things like the T-72 and BMP-1.

Some pilots are participating in actual combat for the first time, but they are not unfamiliar with it, and the strict combat training has allowed all the Shadow Leopard pilots to blow up at least a few targets in person, and some are even real vehicle targets, so when they began to besiege the Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles, they were quite familiar with the road.

All kinds of weapons were constantly thrown down in the sky, and the Iraqi armored troops who had not recovered from the previous shelling exploded overhead, especially the AR-2 after hitting the tank, it was bound to set off a huge explosion of light and fire, looking down from the sky like a blooming rose, which was intoxicating.

When the armored units at the head of the 310th Division arrived on the battlefield, they only saw the wreckage of an armored vehicle billowing with billowing smoke, including 40 tanks, 21 armored vehicles and 15 other vehicles that were completely destroyed in the front and rear shelling and air raids, and the Iraqi army suffered heavy casualties, and the two armored battalions that were sent to attack the camp of the 310th Division were completely annihilated, and only a few Iraqi soldiers survived and became prisoners of the 310th Division.

This Iraqi armored unit did not have time to withdraw after suffering heavy losses, it was really the Chinese Air Force's strikes that were too effective and accurate, and the Chinese pilots who were used to playing this kind of game also knew very well what kind of attack to use, which targets to attack first, which could hinder these tanks and armored vehicles from retreating calmly, and in the end, not a single tank escaped from this cemetery, and all of them became a series of results of the J-9 fighters.

The platoon commander of Li Chen's reconnaissance platoon said a little resentfully: "What kind of large-scale land battle do you want to fight, we have not seen the face of the enemy yet, and we have been all taken in by those who have wings, are we here to capture prisoners full-time?" ”

However, before he could finish complaining, the armored battalion received new intelligence instructions - the other two Iraqi troops were making a roundabout, as if they wanted to cooperate with the vanguard to complete the outflanking of the Chinese armored battalion, but they did not know that the first wave of troops they were counting on had been beaten to scrap metal.