While Israel was still busy making a comprehensive plan, Egypt got the first shot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Under the orders of Nasser, the Egyptian army suddenly began a full-scale offensive, trying to preemptively strike Israel by surprise.

It may seem like the situation is very bad for Israel, but it's not that simple. The Egyptians, except for advancing a few kilometers that early that morning, soon ended in a stalemate in the fighting. The IDF on the front line could not be said to have easily stopped the advance of the Egyptian army, but at least it was not difficult.

Well, the reason is very simple, the IDF is superior to the Egyptians in terms of military quality and military equipment from top to bottom, and it would be strange if it would lose. And in this battle, a group of future generals are very eye-catching, such as Dayan.

Historically, Dayan shone in the Second Middle East War in 1956 and became Israel's god of war in one fell swoop. Sharon later said of Dayan: "Every morning he wakes up with 100 ideas in his head, 95 of them are dangerous and 3 are bad, but the remaining two are wonderful!" ”

For the world outside of the Middle East, Dayan was a big hit in the Second Middle East War, but for the native Palestinians, Dayan's name has long been heard by thunder. Dayan's parents, Russian Jewish immigrants who moved back to Palestine after World War I, joined Haganer at the age of 14 and, in his own words, "I started touching my father's carbine when I started to remember milking the family." ”

Historically, Britain used Jews to suppress Arabs to achieve the goal of divide and rule. When the Arabs revolted in the late thirties, the British and the Jews joined forces to suppress the Arabs, which was the beginning of the so-called Jewish police force or special night patrol, and Dayan served as a sergeant in the British organization and equipment.

As the international situation changed, the British began to change their attitude towards the Jews, and Dayan's police force was disbanded, and Dayan himself was imprisoned by the British authorities. However, the turning point soon came, and with the outbreak of World War II, Britain had to draw troops from its colonies and mandates around the world to fight France on its own soil, so it had to leave some reliable forces to maintain law and order in the colonies. As a result, Dayan's Hagan reconciled with the British, and Dayan joined the British Commonwealth Army in North Africa.

On June 7, 1941, during a battle with the Vichy French army in Syria, a bullet pierced Dayan's telescope and hit him in the left eye. At that time, there were only rudimentary bandaging conditions on the battlefield, and Dayan's left eye had to be removed because he missed the best time for treatment. And this also made the image of Dayan - with a pirate-like black blindfold.

For his bravery in battle, Dayan was awarded the British Order of Distinguished Service, one of the highest British decorations, mind you. Later, in the Israeli War of Independence (the First Middle East War), Dayan gained great prestige because of his bravery and skill, and even Ben-Gurion favored him. Peres became his own hardcore confidant, and the latter went on to serve as Israel's prime minister three times and later as Israel's president.

To get back to the point, Dayan's real battle for fame in the world was the Second Middle East War. Because to tell the truth, the military significance contained in the campaign tactics of the first Middle East war was not so much that Israel defeated the Arabs by virtue of its excellent military qualities and military art, but rather that it chose a less bad group among the two very bad rabble. Even in those days, the chief of the general staff of Aden did not have a detailed battle plan at all, and he almost thought of fighting wherever he wanted, and whether he won or lost many times relied on the courage and fighting spirit of middle and low-ranking officers and soldiers to solve problems.

But when it came to the Second Middle East War, it was a very different situation, the first planned war by Israel. At that time, Nasser fully supported the Arab death squads in their cross-border attacks on Israel, and made full preparations for war, trying to drive the Jews into the sea in the first war. At the same time, Britain and France were extremely angry with Nasser's recovery of the Suez Canal and the overthrow of the colonial order, and tried to teach Nasser a good lesson and snatch the Suez Canal back, so they hit it off with Israel and agreed that Israel would attack in the direction of the Sinai Peninsula, and Britain and France would be airborne in the canal zone. As for the back, the Egyptian people naturally ate the pot to welcome the king, and put Nasser in a cage.

So Israel's main objectives at that time were threefold: to crush the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, to uproot the Arab death squad base in Gaza, and to occupy Sharm el-Sheikh at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. However, due to the lack of strength of the IDF, Dayan knew that it was impossible to annihilate the Egyptian army in one fell swoop, so he set up a tactic with the main goal of defeat.

The intention of uprooting the Arab death squad bases in Gaza is not much to say, but the occupation of Sharm el-Sheikh is worth mentioning. Sharm el-Sheikh, located at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, guards the Strait of Tyran, the outlet of the Gulf of Aqaba to the Red Sea, and is only 200 meters away from the island of Tyran, which is the outlet of the bay. At that time, Nasser did blockade Eilat and closed the Suez Canal to Israel, prohibiting Israeli-flagged merchant ships from passing through the Suez Canal.

Anyway, the Jews were quite annoyed by this, and they wanted to pull out the nails for a long time. However, there are two difficulties in achieving these goals: First, the Israeli army should act before the British and French paratroopers. However, in order to surprise the snake and delay the general mobilization and troop mobilization of Egypt as much as possible, the Israeli army must create the illusion that the direction of the Sinai Peninsula is only a feint, which is still relatively difficult; Second, Israel expects the United Nations to intervene forcefully to order an armistice, so the main operational objectives must be achieved in the shortest possible time, creating a fait accompli.

At that time, the Egyptian army deployed a heavy army group on the line from Rafah to Arish, the junction of Gaza, Sinai and the Negev desert, and could threaten Tel Aviv, Israel's first most important town, and smash Israel's lair in the north; To the east, it is possible to establish contact with the Jordanian army occupying Jerusalem and cut Israel in two; Even going south could cut off the Israeli army that dared to march through the Negev desert into Sinai.

Gaza, Sinai and Negev are all deserts, but the Rafah area is a bit hilly, and the Egyptian army has built a fortification here, and if the Israeli army goes to attack, it may not be able to conquer it, and it can easily turn into a protracted war. If this heavy group is not resolved, the flank of the Israeli army attacking Sinai will be exposed to the rain of bullets of the Egyptian army. Sharm el-Sheikh, on the other hand, is an impassable desert on the Israeli side, and there is only one road on the west coast on the Red Sea side, but in order to use this road, you have to cross the whole of Sinai and break the layers of Egyptian defenses, which is also difficult to do.

The situation seems to be extremely unfavorable for Israel, but the Egyptian army has a fatal weakness - the will to fight is not strong, and once important communication routes and strategic points are breached, such as outflanking or isolating the rear, the Egyptians will quickly collapse.

Dayan's strength is that he accurately grasped this weakness of the Egyptians, and decided not to attack head-on, but to penetrate from the side and back in large depths, prompting the Egyptians to collapse. His battle plan was this: in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula with Sharon's paratrooper brigade interspersed, but on the eve of the war, Sharon led the Jordanian front, where the main force of the brigade was completely opposite, to confuse the Arabs. At the zero hour of the war, a battalion of paratroopers first parachuted on the east side of the Mitra Pass, a strategic passage in central Sinai, and immediately after the war began, the main force of the Sharon Brigade turned around, crossed the Negev Desert at high speed, broke through Kuntila and Nacala, rushed to the Mitra Pass to join the paratroopers who parachuted first, and cut off the connection between the Egyptian troops in the north and south of Sinai. The paratroopers then attacked Gaza in the north and then in Sharm el-Sheikh in the south. Dayan had only given Sharon 24 hours at the time, but he thought in his heart that he would be thankful that 48 hours could converge.

Speaking of which, Sharon was also strong, and he led the team to set off without waiting for the arrival of the six-wheeled off-road truck assigned to him, forcibly expropriating all the civilian vehicles that could be found along the way, and forcibly marching in the desert with rolling and climbing, slamming and running over Kuntila, and finally forcibly marching nearly 300 kilometers in less than 30 hours, successfully completing the task.

But not all Israeli commanders performed as well as Sharon. Simhony was eager to fight, disobeyed Dayan's orders, and before the paratroopers' offensive on the northern front began, he could not wait to throw the elite 7th Armored Brigade and its 100 tanks into the battle on the central front.

The brigade commander received the order and ordered the commander to be the commander of the brigade. Major General Adan's battalion crossed the Dajka Oasis and penetrated deep into the enemy's depth, raiding Abu. Angela. Speaking of this Adan, we have to say that this Adan is not very old (born in 1926), he was only in his twenties during the Israeli War of Independence, but don't look at him young, he is really strong in war. Born in Palestine and raised in the Negev Desert, he grew up in Palmak, an elite Jewish unit.

On the eve of Israel's War of Independence, Adan led a small detachment into Eilat and secured Israel's precious access to the Red Sea. When he heard the news of the establishment of the State of Israel, the mobile Adan found a white cloth, dyed the Star of David, which represents the Jews, with pen and ink, and then climbed the flagpole to raise the Davidian flag. This is the first time in more than 2,000 years since the Romans drove the Jews out of Israel that the Jews have raised the banner of David in their homeland. Although the flag painted by Adam is different from the later Israeli flag, it is generally considered to be the first Israeli flag in history.

For Jews, the photograph of Adam climbing the flagpole and raising the Flag of David is as historic as the photograph of the U.S. Marines planting the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima.

Continuing to talk about Adan during the Second Middle East War, he was already the commander of the armored battalion at this time, and he acted quickly after receiving the order. Root. Ali realized that the operation might have been too risky, and was about to order Adam to stop the operation immediately, but it was too late, as Adam's forces had simply exceeded the radio range. By the next time he contacted Adan, the fierce battalion commander had already captured Abu. Argeira.

It should be said that Adan's action was an accident, and the effect of this accident was quite good. The Egyptians didn't expect the Jews to be so crazy and prodigal. Argera was not heavily defended at all, and the defenders were quickly routed in the face of Israeli armor that "fell from the sky".

Well, the divine soldier Adan became a key point on the battlefield, because Abu. Argeyla was so important that Adam's capture of it was the equivalent of a fish bone stuck in the throat of the Egyptian army. Soon hordes of Egyptian troops began to march towards Abu. Argera leaned closer, ready to pull out the bone. Adan only led an armored battalion to maneuver around the hordes of the enemy for 12 hours, ensuring that Abu was able to ensure that when the main force of the brigade arrived, Abu Abu. Argera is still in her hands.

Abu. The loss of Argera became the key point of defeat for the Egyptians, who were the backbone of the Egyptians, and the Egyptians, who had been broken from their backs, could only retreat to Ismaria on the other side of the Suez Canal under the threat of the 7th Panzer Brigade on the front and paratroopers on the flanks.

It should be said that this beginning was quite wonderful, but immediately Sharon's reckless temper flared up, and in the need to compete for honor, he wanted to reach the Suez Canal first, so he repeatedly asked Dayan to attack and prepare to cross the Mitra Pass, which is only 48 kilometers from the Suez Canal. But Dayan disagreed, because his intention was always to crush the Egyptian army as quickly as possible and seize strategic targets before the United Nations forced a ceasefire.

It's just that Sharon really has Patton's demeanor, and he brought fire reconnaissance to the extreme in Sicily Patton, and Sharon is no exception, he turned fire reconnaissance into intersperse, but he was not Patton after all, and this interspersed operation was strongly resisted by the Egyptian army, resulting in heavy losses for Sharon's paratroopers. The Battle of Mithra Pass is highly controversial in the history of the Israeli military, and it is generally believed that Sharon was bent on sacrificing the lives of his soldiers for personal glory, and in the end he did not achieve any tactical goals.

Fortunately, the Jews had completely taken the initiative before this, and with the collapse of the Egyptian army on the central front, the Egyptian army on other fronts was also greatly intimidated, and the Jews did have a stronger will to fight than the Egyptians, and most of the troops were able to overcome the difficulties to complete the battle goal. In particular, the 9th Brigade, which seized Sharm el-Sheikh, forced its march in the desert with incredible perseverance, despite the fact that the vehicles were stuck in the sand, the supply was lagged, the equipment was damaged and the personnel were exhausted, they rushed towards Sharm el-Sheikh, 330 kilometers away, and finally captured Sharm el-Sheikh before the United Nations armistice. (To be continued.) )