Operation Desert Sabre was officially launched, and the large-scale ground battle that the multinational forces had painstakingly managed for a long time officially began. The 310th Division, which was originally in the Second Eastern Theater, joined forces with the First Marine Expeditionary Force and the Arab Coalition to take the eastern route, the 127th Mechanized Infantry Division coordinated with the U.S. Seventh Army and the British First Armored Division on the central front, and the 113th Mechanized Infantry Division with the French Sixth Light Armored Division and the U.S. 18th Airborne Army on the western route.

The battle began at 4 a.m., with the central front holding its ground and the eastern and western fronts advancing almost simultaneously.

On the Eastern Front, the 1st Marine Division of the US Army launched a surprise attack on Iraqi troops in Kuwait from its "elbow" position west of Kuwait's southern border. The entire Eastern Front is actually an important part of Schwarzkov's plan to attract the Iraqi army, and the Iraqi army will take it for granted that the multinational force wants to recapture Kuwaiti territory, so the recent Eastern Front battlefield is the center of gravity. However, in fact, Schwartzkov is still quite insightful on battlefield strategy, and he is playing a rather old-fashioned but effective tactic of attacking the east and attacking the west, and although there is indeed a breakthrough mission on the eastern front, in fact, the larger troops he prepared on the western and central fronts are the killer weapons that will kill the Iraqi army.

According to the operational plan, the mission of the US 18th Airborne Force is to break through about 260 kilometers into Iraqi territory, reach the Euphrates River, cut off Iraq's communication line from Highway 8 to Baghdad, isolate Iraq's troops in the Kuwait theater of operations, and cooperate with other units to annihilate the Iraqi army's strategic reserve and Republican Guard. The U.S. 7th Army is responsible for the main offensive mission in the theater, and its main goal is to annihilate the Iraqi Republican Guard, which is dominated by armored units. According to the plan, the direction of the army's attack was parallel to the 18th Airborne Army to the north, directly penetrating into the depths of Iraq, and then moving eastward to coordinate with the 18th Airborne Army to encircle and annihilate the divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

On the map, the western front and the central line are like two parallel and safe left hooks, directly hitting the weaker ribs of Iraq's defenses, and then a powerful recovery will completely seal the largest number of Kuwaiti garrisons of the Iraqi army.

On the Eastern Front, after the 1st Marine Division of the US Marine Corps completed its assault from the west, the 310th Blue Army Mechanized Infantry Division of the Chinese Army, which coordinated with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, was the main frontal attack on the most difficult, concentrated and solid defensive line. Considering that the 310th Division is still much heavier than the equipment of the First Expeditionary Force, and the previous battle of Hyfji also confirmed that although the 310th Division has not been established for a long time, it is also a team that can fight tough battles.

The Iraqi army has built a tight and complex defensive front on the Kosha border, consisting of various fortifications, trenches, barbed wire and minefields, which is quite a problem for the multinational force, not to mention the remnants of the Iraqi army here that have not been completely routed by air strikes, and the multinational force that is still stubbornly resisting the attack.

Almost as soon as the 310th Division began to assault, it was met with stubborn resistance from the first line of defense of the Iraqi army. Of course, this kind of tenacity also has to be divided into occasions, if it is placed in the period of World War I, it is definitely a head-numbing defensive battle against the tough battle, but in the face of the reloaded 310 Division, this stubborn resistance is actually not too difficult to resolve.

The month-long air raids of the Desert Storm caused serious losses in the Iraqi army's heavy weapons, and even if they kept a few artillery pieces, it was difficult to gather the ammunition and other supplies they needed, so when the 310th Division attacked head-on, although those fortifications were constantly counterattacking, the weapons basically used were light weapons, occasionally some mortars and rocket launchers, and even a medium and large caliber artillery was missing.

"Sword in the stone 5-2, aim at the target, shoot!" At the forefront of the 310th Division was an armored line of tanks, their muzzles aimed at the flame-spitting fortifications, and then destroyed them with their own powerful direct fire.

These fortifications are actually in tatters, earlier the multinational force air force had carried out many strikes on Iraqi defense facilities and troops in the theater of operations, such as these obvious border fortifications, all of which were baptized once by fighters using ground-penetrating bombs and the like, so when the 310th Division attacked, some soldiers found through observation that some Iraqi soldiers were in a broken wall with their upper bodies exposed, leaning on half of the wall that did not collapse and firing at themselves.

Such a defense was clearly not sufficient, and when the direct fire of the Rhino II tank swept through, the Iraqi army was beaten to pieces. As more and more fortifications were destroyed, and the firepower points in the line became thinner, the first line of defense on the border was broken.

Immediately afterwards, the 310th Division mobilized artillery and carried out artillery bombardment on the other group of Iraqi troops in the direction of depth at the front of the next line of defense, this time using not only 155mm PLZ-88 guns, but also 122mm 40-tube Dragon Tooth rocket launchers. The artillery fire covered this group of Iraqi troops and did not even hold out until the tanks of the 310th Division arrived, and then had to retreat from the defensive line to minimize the terrible losses.

The resistance of the Iraqi army is definitely not resolute enough, but there is too much difference in strength, and often they cannot hold out for more than 15 minutes in front of the 310th Division, and they will inevitably break up and surrender. The 1st Marine Division of the US Marine Corps, which was also on the Eastern Front, was not ambiguous in its fighting, but its performance was no worse than that of the 310th Division. Their assault mode has some similar frog-jumping tactics, and they do not take the initiative to annihilate the enemy, nor can they attack fortified targets such as Ahmad Jabar airfield, and they leave the task of clearing the Iraqi army of buildings and fortifications to the follow-up units. The entire Eastern Front Multinational Force has invested more than 100,000 horses, so they don't have to worry at all that no one will do such a thing, the 2nd Marine Division will follow up to help them sweep away this tail, and the Army's 2nd Mechanized Division is also nearby to rely on.

The 310th Division not only had the task of penetrating deep and occupying the Mutrah Pass and the road leading from Kuwait City to the north of the 70 km, but also had to open the way for the follow-up troops to advance, which meant that they had to wade through several roads in the minefield.

Qi Yiming provided PLA with several quite good demining techniques, both in terms of accuracy and safety, which are among the best in the world at this time, but the only problem cannot be guaranteed, that is, time. For the multinational force, with more than 100,000 Allied soldiers rushing through the area, they did not have a few months to allow the 310th Division to slowly demine.

At this time, the staff of the 310th Division thought of a way to say that it was stupid or not stupid, and that it was not smart or not. Drones were sent to direct some of the sappers to the weakest point of the Iraqi defenses, and then the sappers used in-line charges or extra-long multi-section blasters to create a coherent and long enough passage through the Iraqi minefields. Subsequent armoured units followed the lightning-free path that had been blasted with explosives, and passed through the area under radio silence.

Naturally, Qi Yiming was unwilling to just use this method to let the troops pass, and he had already planned for crossing the minefield, so he specially sent a bald head to enter the war zone under the protection of the army's dragon breath special squad.

Li Ying was holding a Type 90 automatic rifle in his arms, which was actually another dimensional SCAR-L, which was directly copied by NORINCO and officially released in this year, called the Type 90 automatic rifle. The comprehensive evaluation of this automatic rifle should be above the Type 95-II (Type 85-II), but the military does not believe that there is a need for a large-scale rearmament because of some modest advantages, after all, the 95 series has been equipped with millions of PLAs, and it is really not a smart thing to change to millions of Type 90s.

Li Ying turned his head to the white horse Ajia beside him and said, "The bald guy we escorted, looking at the evil sect for a while, I made eye contact with him when I was on the plane, and I felt that my soul was going to be seen by him." ”

Bai Ma Ajia said poorly: "I didn't expect you to be okay, don't bring soap to take a bath in the future!" ”

Li Ying said angrily: "You are gay, I didn't mean that." I'm mean, this guy definitely doesn't look easy. ”

White Horse Ajia sighed: "You think I don't see it, this guy definitely has extraordinary abilities, I practiced in the temple for a period of time when I was young, there was a very powerful Rinpoche there, and you can feel the coercion and indescribable power from him. This bald guy gives me the feeling that ...... Ten times more powerful than that Rinpoche. ”

The team leader Su Tian walked over with a sleek sunglasses and explained: "You send the protection target to the location shown on the GPS, don't ask if it's superfluous." It's just a short stretch, don't have any problems, oh and, protecting the safety of the target is more important than everything else, including the mission, and yourselves, understand? ”

Li Ying rarely saw the captain say such heavy words, and he also felt the seriousness, and his face was stiff and said: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

Despite this, Li Ying and Baima Ajia were even more curious about the bald guy behind them, but both of them were relatively disciplined, no one accosted the bald guy, and the bald guy also sat in the back seat of this Dongfeng warrior with a military kettle, drinking something that seemed to be tea.

Ten minutes later, Li Ying and White Horse Ajia sent the bald guy to a place where prisoners of war were held, which was guarded by a company of the Red Alert Express Brigade, and one of the guys who looked like an agent led the bald guy to a secret room, as for what to do, Li Ying and White Horse Ajia were not told, and they would not ask more.

That was the end of their work, and they got into the jeep and returned to join the rest of the team. Just a dozen minutes later, the Joint Operations Command received an intelligence map showing the minefields of all minefields along the Eastern Front, making the task of clearing the roads easier for the multinational forces.