Chapter 1078: Ghosts and Dragons
Time passes day by day, and in the hinterland of the Middle East in the cold winter season, the breath of war becomes stronger every day.
After a few days of short recuperation, the Syrian government forces launched several skirmishes after the victory in Aleppo, almost completely eliminating the rebels on the north bank of the Euphrates; After capturing the riverside town of Raqqa in one fell swoop, the Damascus army was already on the front of Sabha, less than a hundred kilometers in a straight line from Deir ez-Zor to the east.
The northern front was advancing steadily, as were the government forces that had liberated Kudem in the previous phase, and the Damascus army, which had not participated in the Battle of Aleppo, advanced all the way south of the Euphrates River, and the front also advanced 80 kilometres east of Deir ez-Zor.
In the face of the swift offensive in Damascus, the Syrian Liberal Party, which originally claimed to have one million troops and an actual strength of about 500,000, had a large number of technical weapons and personnel, but the operational command, intelligence, and logistics systems were in chaos, the demoralized rebels in many places had surrendered to the government army in formation, and some of the antiquators who had blocked the "mutiny" were also directly shot on the spot by the mutinous soldiers.
While marching in stride on one side and crumbling on the other, the military campaign in Damascus proceeded smoothly until it approached Deir ez-Zor, where it encountered stubborn resistance from the elite Liberal forces.
The situation of the war is changing every day, the ground offensive in the west has been compressing the living space of the Liberal Party, the US-British coalition fighter planes have dominated the Syrian sky, the southern army is fierce ALSA continues the air strangulation war on the edge of the no-fly zone, the military pressure on all sides is increasing day by day, and the Liberal Party, which has been completely cut off from support, has been cornered.
Desperate. It's probably a pretty brutal narrative. However, it was the eve of the final war. And that's not all.
For a few days, just as NATA was fighting with all its might to defend the air supremacy in the no-fly zone, another air force that was ready to strike was also engaged in the air raid against the Liberals, which directly plunged the Liberals in the eastern part of the Syrian occupation into a purgatory of steel and fire.
In the past few days, the Mosul regime with limited strength has been tug-of-war with the Liberal Party on the front line of Tresuvar, and the limited Mosul regime actually wants to continue the offensive and burn the flames of war to Deir ez-Zor, the nest of the Syrian rebels, but from time to time several FSA fighters fly on the battlefield and launch air strikes against the new party forces, and the NATA, which has a thin army, has no way to completely stop the infiltration of these black "ghosts". They did not have the extra strength to carry out air strikes against the enemy, and they relied solely on ground warfare, and in the face of the desperate and increasingly crazy Liberal Party, the Iraqis really had nothing to do for a while.
Supposedly, the war has reached this point, and the Liberals are in a situation where they are besieged on all sides, almost without any foreign supplies and any form of support, and for eastern Syria, which is located inland and has a shambled industrial situation, even if all sides maintain a kind of encirclement at ease, the war will soon be over.
I just had to stay on hold for three or five months. The Liberals in the encirclement, let alone fighting. I'm afraid I can't even guarantee that people won't starve to death!
Besieging the enemy army and leaving it to its own fend seems to be a way of solving the Middle East problem.
However, at the very beginning of the decision to intervene, a consensus was reached that the multinational forces, which were determined to "cut through the chaos quickly," would naturally not accept such a slow routine, and seeing that the Baghdad regime in the south was no longer worried, the Eastern Alliance aircraft carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf seized the time to replenish fuel, ammunition, and supplies, and at the same time liaised with the Iranian side, requisitioned several alternate airfields, and after making a full preparation, it officially launched an air strike against the Syrian Liberal Party.
It was originally bombed by the US-British coalition forces on the Western Front, and now there is a strong enemy in the eastern sky, and the Liberal Party, which is full of bags, is almost about to collapse, and probably regrets the choice of the "leader" in the first place, but now that the army is pressing, it is too late to repent.
On the sixth day after the liberation of Aleppo by Damascus, dozens of Su-50/J-30 fighters that took off from the aircraft carriers "Tbilisi" and "Zhejiang" were loaded with ammunition and flew over a distance of nearly 700 kilometers to launch a fierce air attack on the Liberal-occupied areas on the Tresuwar front. With the help of a huge belly magazine, the carrier-based planes of the Eastern Union of the Eastern Union carrying several tons of air-facing weapons still maintained good radar stealth performance; after quietly approaching the war zone, they threw a large number of guided munitions in one go, and gliding bombs that used satellite navigation to return fell in batches, and the flames of the explosions came one after another, almost reflecting the sinking night sky of the Middle East at once.
For the first time since the multinational force entered the war, it was attacked from the east for the first time, and the Liberal Party, which had not received any prior information, was completely caught off guard, and important targets such as command centers, airfields, fuel depots and power plants were directly hit by various bombs, and spreaders carrying a large number of smart submunitions flew over the airport, blocking the main runways of several forward airfields, and the FSA fighters who wanted to take to the air could only lie on the tarmac in a daze, or worse, unfortunately, It was directly hit by the submunition and completely incapacitated.
The air offensive of the Chinese and Soviet forces has completely surprised the Liberals, after bombing in Iraq and now turning to Syria.
It was not until the first gliding bombs had hit the target and exploded into flames and flames that the chaotic rebel air defense command system received some reports that the anti-aircraft missile and anti-aircraft artillery units deployed in the suburbs of Deir ez-Zor opened fire one after another, but the time had been missed, and this wave of fierce anti-aircraft fire did not pose any threat to the air attack formation.
In the face of large-scale air raids, the ground anti-aircraft firepower with very poor mobility could not hit the multinational force fighters that retreated with one blow, and when the FSA fighters in other theaters urgently rose into the air and flew to the eastern front, the Su-50/J-30 fleet, which had cleanly completed the air raid, had already finished work and returned home, and the YF-23 "ghost", which had not performed very well in radar, was eager to pursue, and suddenly crossed the border of the no-fly zone and attacked eastward, but met the UNSA fighter formation that had been ambushed here in advance.
In the dark night sky, a sudden encounter broke out, and for the Liberal fighters who rushed up recklessly, the shape was not ordinary.
It is completely different from the NATA encountered some time ago, and the UNSA, which took over the airspace of the liberated areas, is not at all comparable to the New Party Air Force in terms of weapons and equipment, as well as personnel; A large number of J-20A "Weilong" painted with gray low-visibility camouflage, gray-white "UN" looming on the wings, like a ghost in the night sky, the early warning aircraft in the rear issued a series of engagement orders, dark midnight battles, visual contact with the enemy is of course the second choice, with abundant numerical superiority, and the quality of fighters that surpass the Liberal Party, under the command of the integrated combat system, and the returning Eastern Union carrier-based aircraft formation rubbed shoulders, and gave priority to the "Weilong" formation that was engaged in over-the-horizon engagement, and soon divided into joint attacks, Rain down a dense rain of PL-15C/PL-15K missiles against the hastily packed fleet of "Ghosts".
Stealth fighter against stealth fighter, one of the side has neither a combat system nor advanced missile weapons, and it is taught by the UNSA to be a man every minute, which is obviously certain.
Having just been hit by a sudden air raid and an important target on the ground bombed by the multinational force, the frustrated Liberals seemed to see this as a prelude to an Iraqi attack, mobilizing troops to the front line and sending a huge force of twenty or thirty YF-23s to follow them.
In the war-torn Syria, I don't know where these "ghosts" come from, the commander cursed and gave the order, and a black bat dragging a bright tail flame was speeding through the night sky, RWR quickly captured the radar radiation signal of the eastern sky, and it was pitch black outside the cockpit, and the rebel pilots who were nervously watching the display screen trembled slightly, while still calling each other in the channel to determine tactics.
Flying fourth-generation fighters with radar stealth (of course, the level of some subsystems is questionable), but still using voice call signs, the Liberal pilots who are temporarily recruited and undergoing hellish training are prone to use the on-board information system as an ornament as soon as they take off, which is actually doomed to their tragic fate.
In the night sky, as the distance between the warring sides continues to shorten, the "ghost" fleet carrying AIM-120B missiles is still accelerating to climb head-on, preparing to close to the missile range and launch another salvo, the airborne radar vaguely found the traces of enemy aircraft flying sideways, and the rough screening of the number quickly made the FSA pilots react, tonight they encountered UNSA, not the weak NATA!
However, before they could chew the chill that entered the bone marrow, a battle between "ghosts" and "dragons" in the dark night suddenly broke out.
The "Ghost" aircraft group, which was not too afraid of RHAAM (Radar_Homing_Air_to_Air_Missile, radar-guided air-to-air missiles), was divided into three formations and separated from each other, preparing to carry out an over-the-horizon confrontation with the UNSA fleet of Hulala in the sky.
However, the rebel pilots here were still making their own calculations and considering which position in the formation they were nesting in to be the least likely to be targeted by the active bombs, but the missile attacks in the distant sky had already been launched in unison, and the "Weilong" fighters, which had accelerated to Mach 1.6 and climbed to an altitude of 7,000 meters, quickly carried out the first round of BVR salvos, and more than 20 PL-15K long-range ramjet bombs burst out one after another, rushing on the long journey of attacking the enemy. (To be continued......)