In the early days of the Gulf War, a "great man" named Sanfat really responded to the words of a "great man" named Sanfat -- modern warfare is artillery warfare.

After the UN Security Council adopted a one-month and 10-day ultimatum resolution on the use of force against Iraq, Saddam Hussein first ordered Iraqi troops on the border to launch artillery bombardments on coalition Arab forces and French troops stationed on the other side of the border. The Iraqi army has deployed a certain scale of Soviet 2S1, 2S3 and 2S4 self-propelled guns, BM-21 rocket artillery, Astros-2 rocket launchers from Brazil, and even old 152mm towed artillery from China, with a total size of more than 100 pieces.

Mentally calculated or not, when Iraqi artillery shelled the front of the multinational force, it still caused some panic, because the multinational force did not expect Saddam to actually act at this time, and did not wait for the deadline of the ultimatum. At the top of the border are three armored brigades of Saudi Arabia, which basically belong to a mix of American equipment and Chinese equipment, equipped with a certain amount of Chinese tracked armored vehicles, and the tanks are mainly M48, M60 and the like.

The armored forces engaged the enemy in a stationary state, and moreover, they were still subjected to artillery fire, which naturally received a serious blow. In particular, the bombardment of some heavy artillery has a very good effect on the main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, and soon the Saudis lost dozens of armored vehicles, but these three armored brigades also played their role as an "early warning", and if they were attacked, it means that the Iraqis are going to attack.

In addition to the Saudi "early warning force", the Syrian 9th Armored Division and 1 Separate Battalion, the Kuwaiti 35th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 20th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the Egyptian 4th Armored Brigade were dragged to the forefront.

According to the strategy laid down by the Joint Operations Command, after being attacked by Iraq, the Iraqi army should be held back as much as possible to allow time for the rear, evacuate the local population, and implement regional defense.

Despite the large number of multinational forces, they still attach great importance to Iraq, and it is generally believed that the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi army is relatively strong, and unless it is the United States, other countries may suffer losses if they join forces to fight Iraq. This also led to the fact that at the beginning of the war, the large-scale artillery bombardment in Iraq caused some front-line commanders to weaken their legs and hurriedly retreat from the front, and it was also called an "established strategy".

The 6th Light Armored Division of the French Army (Young Deer Force) was defending on the west side of Haf'Abatin, defending the flank of the entire multinational defense line, but now that the Arab coalition forces have retreated, the 6th Light Division of the French Army is equivalent to standing out, even if the French are proud to be stronger than the Iraqis, but the Iraqi army in front of them is more than 100,000 in size with multiple divisions, and the Gallic Rooster, even if he is conceited, does not think that he is capable of resisting an enemy several times his own, and can only break away.

As a result, such an unreliable move by the multinational force resulted in the three Saudi armoured brigades on the border, which had been used as an early warning and delay, to be completely exposed to the Iraqis. After being shelled quite badly, the Saudi armored forces were hit by the Iraqi tank forces, and the battle was not very good, a group of T-72 and 69 tanks, against the M48 and M60 tanks, the two sides did not fight too much, basically pulling the formation and beating each other.

Sadly, because of the previous shelling, the Saudi side was in a scattered formation, and was besieged by Iraqi tank units when it was neighboring the enemy, and was finally defeated.

The defeat of the Saudi army and the withdrawal of the multinational force led to the capture of the important town of Haf'al-Abatin on the northern border of Saudi Arabia by the Iraqi army. As soon as the news came out, the whole world was shocked, and several giants involved in the multinational force, including the United States, China, Britain, France, and other countries, were greatly shaken.

Prince Sultan, who commanded the Arab coalition forces, was extremely angry, and called the commanders of several Arab countries who had fled, and counted them down: "The cowardice and cowardice of your soldiers have caused us heavy losses, hundreds of people have died on the border, and many more have been captured by the Iraqis, our cities have been taken by the Iraqis, and now the whole world is watching the jokes of our multinational forces, and all this is caused by you irresponsible fellows." ”

The commanders of several other countries also consciously took advantage of their losses, and only said a few words in a stupid manner, only the commander of Syria forcibly retorted: "Our earliest plan was to withdraw from this area and defend it after being attacked, and now that our main strength has been preserved, we can immediately launch a counterattack, which has nothing to do with whether we are cowardly or not." ”

Prince Sultan laughed angrily at this guy, and then said: "Okay, you said that you can fight back now, so now I order you to send your troops to counterattack and recapture Haf'abatein, can you do it?" ”

The Syrian commander immediately knotted his tongue and was speechless for a while.

Prince Sultan gave these people a disdainful look, and finally had to turn to the Americans, who were on the second line.

The U.S. and its main allies are defending the area north of Julebay, not far from the border. When the war report came that Iraq had taken the initiative to attack and defeated the Saudi army, and even scared off the Arab coalition forces, the US military reacted immediately in order to avoid the escalation of the war. The 101st Air Assault Division and the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division immediately pushed forward and intercepted between King Khalid Military City and Haf'abatin to block further movements of the Iraqi army.

In addition, the U.S. military immediately launched a large-scale air campaign with the intention of bringing the flames of war back into Iraq.

Commander of the U.S. Central Command, Theater Commander Norman? Schwartzkov looked very unpleasant in his command post, and it was a shame that a war he was in charge of was fought with such a ridiculous and ugly start.

"It seems that those guys in white turbans are still unbelievable," Schwartzkov, who is of German origin and has a little discrimination in his bones, picked up the phone on the table and ordered: "Pick me up from the commander of the Chinese Air Force, Liu." ”

The phone was answered, and Schwartzkov first greeted him warmly, and then got to the point: "Liu, it's very frustrating that our allies have messed things up, but now is the time for us to turn the tide, and I believe that the boys in the United States and China can do it." Now I need your ground attack fleet to launch attacks on sixty-eight targets in Iraq, as we have planned before, and we can't let the Iraqis fight so easily, and from here, we have to take down the baton, and the war needs to be fought at our pace. ”

Liu Nian, who is in charge of the commander of China's Gulf Theater Air Force, said with a hearty smile on the phone: "Okay, no problem, general, in 20 minutes at the latest, our fighter planes will take off, and today will be a bad day for the Iraqis!" ”

"Ha Luha, our air force will cooperate with you in combat, pay attention to the smooth communication." Schwartzkov also said that before the war, in order to unify the joint operations of the Chinese and American militaries, China's fighters were temporarily equipped with a set of additional friend or foe identifiers, so that they could be connected with NATO-standard fighters, so that there would be no oolong accidents in the sky where each other thought they were enemies.

Although the scale of the Chinese army's participation in the war is only one-fifth of that of the US military, the Chinese army is a trustworthy and reliable force in terms of equipment level and training level.

Deployed in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Chinese Air Force, there are dozens of J-9 fighters, Schwarzkov equates this fighter with the latest American F-15E fighter, can flexibly switch between air combat and ground combat, has a very strong air combat capability and ground attack capability, in Gwadar, Pakistan, the Chinese do not deploy nearly 50 F-14 fighters, as an American general, Schwartzkov knows very well how strong Tomcat is.

In addition, the Chinese have placed two amphibious assault ships in the Persian Gulf, as well as a certain number of J-7/A-11, which can carry out stealth penetration strikes against some targets in Iraq. It can be said that the Qiang-7 is China's F-117 stealth attack aircraft, and the U.S. military has not brought a lot of F-117 this time, so in terms of stealth strikes, it is also necessary to borrow China's Qiang-7.

As the instructions were conveyed layer by layer, the units involved in the operation immediately entered the operation from the state of combat readiness, and Liu Nian's order also went straight to the Kashgar airport in China, and the bomber units stationed there would also join the air raid. According to the plan, there will be nearly 100 sorties in this wave of attacks, and the main targets will be airports, oil depots, barracks, equipment warehouses, and other military facilities in Iraq.

Through Chinese and American satellites, the multinational force has long been able to grasp all kinds of valuable information in Iraq, which can come in handy when an attack is needed. In order to prevent being severely attacked by the multinational forces, the Iraqis not only built underground command posts and underground hangars, but also built a large number of false targets, such as fake aircraft, missiles, tanks and other models, and even fake airfields and fake positions. In order to make it realistic, the heat is also released by burning debris and the like to deceive the thermal imaging equipment.

However, China has a higher degree of precision spy satellites, as well as drone reconnaissance, so many false targets have been determined, but this information has been taken by the military and not copied to the Americans, it is estimated that they will be able to hit fake targets when they are in action, and their own system data is marked with which are camouflage.

Although this is at most a small pit to harm the Yankees, why not.