The cold north wind gradually rose, there was no 3rd_IHFS station with combat missions for the time being, and there was no fighter plane on the airport runway waiting to depart, Long Yun, who hurriedly circled around the base, only felt a thick chill, and on the way back to the camp tent of the station, he inadvertently remembered another scene, that is, the night before he hurriedly left Beijing, he went to the Bauhinia Hotel to meet the Burmese royal family.

Thinking about that time, and looking at the present, young people immersed in the atmosphere of war can't help but have a bit of an abrupt myth.

In this world, will he also have to one day, put on a real military uniform for battle?

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The footsteps of the giants of war, once they begin to move forward, will not stop lightly.

Just when Long Yun, who was in the Sharqat Fort, sighed and wondered how this war would end, on the Syrian battlefield hundreds of kilometers away, the battle between the Damascus Army and the Liberal Party was also becoming white-hot, and the offensive and defensive confrontation between the two sides had reached a new peak.

To the surprise of the government army, the battle of besieging Deir ez-Zor was a bit of a surprise to the commanders on the battlefield.

Of course, looking at the eastern Syrian front, the fighting continued relatively smoothly in most areas, with tanks rumbling through the rebel lines crushing the Liberals' stubborn resistance, and after liberating the small city of Qom, they broke through several weak lines in the desert in succession, and the Damascus army soon advanced to about 50 kilometers from Deir ez-Zor before stopping to launch a general attack with friendly forces from other directions.

Compared to the advance on the south side of the Euphrates River. The battle on the north side of the river was a different story. Government forces attacking along the northeastern border cleared the remnants of the Liberal Party along the way. It successively captured the towns of Tel Abyad and Abba and completed the complete encirclement of Deir ez-Zor almost completely according to the predetermined plan.

As for the Turkish side, whether or not there is still a modicum of sympathy for the Liberal Party, the link between the two has now been completely severed.

In such a situation, Sabha, which was originally unremarkable and mostly shown as a small town on the map, became the focus of a fierce battle between the Syrian government forces and the rebels, which naturally surprised Damascus and even the United Nations Security Council.

From the newly liberated city of Raqqa, march east along the river to Sabha. The armoured government forces were soon stopped by the rebels on the outskirts of the town, and fierce fighting ensued between the two sides. After two consecutive tactical charges did not open the situation, the government army quickly called for air support, and when a formation of fighters and attack planes of the US-British coalition approached this small riverside city, the FSA fighters who had avoided the battle appeared in the sky ahead.

"Call 'Torch', call 'Torch', the number of empty conditions has been refreshed, please confirm the next battle order?"

"This is the 'torch.' Uranus', confirming the execution of Plan B. If it is intercepted by enemy aircraft, it can decide whether to abandon the attack or not; Repeat, execute Plan B, and in the event of an interception, you can decide for yourself whether to abandon the attack. ”

"Uh...... Uranus received, understood!"

Piloting the fighter plane into Syrian airspace, seeing more and more incoming targets on the multi-function display, the F-34 "Silent Cat" and F-35 "Lightning" fighters of the US-British coalition continued to fly forward in formation.

The command center's order was originally to provide air support for the Damascus army attacking Saabha, but the coalition fighters participating in the air raid today only carried small bombs such as GBU-39, and other powerful weapons such as FAE and ground-penetrating bombs were nowhere to be found.

Of course, the deployment of the command center was also carried out in accordance with the instructions of several major powers, and the real motive was not to put too much heavy firepower into Sabha, so as not to affect the conduct of a series of covert investigation operations.

Sabha, a small city located in the lower reaches of Lake Assad, Syria's largest lake, would have been the focus of the Security Council and several major powers if it were not for the brutal civil war, and the only tourism industry that had been wiped out by the raging war.

After the YF-23 "ghost" incident broke out, after a series of meticulous investigations, it was found that the matter was very extensive and secretive, and the CIA worked closely with the military to carry out a comprehensive inspection in the country and at the same time to intensify intelligence gathering in Syria. With the assistance of Damascus intelligence agencies, a series of information reports about the "ghost" fighter planes were obtained, which mentioned that the black fighters that appeared in the sky of the Middle East almost always traced their origins back to Sabha, an unknown small city with no military base and no industrial base, which naturally attracted the attention of the Americans.

Because of the extraordinary nature of this incident, and the fact that it involved an absolute secret of the United States, although some things could not be known to outsiders, in order to quickly resolve the chaos in the Middle East, China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries still carried out a considerable amount of cooperation, among which Sabha was an important link in the investigation chain.

In addition to the frontal offensive of the Damascus army, several major powers have also tried to send agents to the rebel-occupied areas to investigate.

However, in any case, if a series of bombshells, cloud bursts, and other bombs were dropped during the air raids, I am afraid that this area would be completely in ruins, and the multinational forces would be able to carry out battlefield support missions with dozens of lightweight bombs, and the scope of attack would be limited to the ground positions of the Liberal Party on the outskirts of Sabha.

Since there is such a concern, the next battle will be an out-and-out tough battle for the Damascus army.

In the face of the stubborn resistance of the Liberal forces, the rebels who were originally weak in combat seemed to suddenly become brave and fearless, and the Sabuha, which was originally planned to be captured in half a day, had not yet entered the stage of street fighting from early morning to noon; Fortunately, for the government army, there are a lot of "silent cats" and "lightning" flying back and forth over the theater of operations, and the air raid mode of the US-British coalition has been revised somewhat, no longer violently direct SEAD and bombing in the air, but according to the call of the Syrian government army to deliver precision strike firepower.

Artillery fire roared on the ground, bombs flew in the sky, and the direct air strikes on the ground positions still played a big role, and after losing some armored vehicles and a large number of forward infantry, the rebels finally began to retreat from the afternoon.

After stubbornly resisting for most of the day, the Liberals, who had abandoned their positions, withdrew their positions and fled to the city of Sabha behind them.

In the course of the Syrian civil war, it was generally easy to capture a city as long as its perimeter defenses were breached, and the scattered rebels were clearly unable to stop the armoured government forces from entering the city; Similar to the situation on the ground, the "ghosts" who were still quite active in the air disappeared all at once, and it seemed that after half a day of resistance, they found that there was no chance of victory, and the FSA, which had been trying to intercept the fighters of the multinational force with all its might, and therefore suffered heavy losses, also abandoned the sky of Sabuha.

After the capture of Sabha, the next step is to liberate Tibnei, the western gate of Deir ez-Zor, and the ground forces of the government army can directly face the last forces of the Liberals and launch a final battle to besiege the besieged beasts.

With the excitement of another victory, with the ZTZ-96 tanks and BMP series infantry fighting vehicles at the flat end of the gun barrel rushed into the city, the main city area is not large, there is almost no organized defense force, and the retreating rebels basically left the city on off-road trucks and armored vehicles and fled eastward; Seeing the enemy smearing oil on the soles of their feet, the Damascus army, which was pursuing the victory, also pursued all the way, and a large number of armed forces killed the center of the town along the riverbank, at this moment, a sudden incident broke out without warning, leaving all the witnesses at the scene stunned.

At the first moment of the disaster, looking down from the low-flying "Lightning" fighter plane, the British pilot, who had completed a fire projection on the plane, was dazed, and after a moment, it turned into a state of extreme panic.

At this moment, right in front of the pilot's eyes, a huge bulge suddenly appeared out of thin air on the periphery of the town, which was originally sparsely vegetated and scattered with cluttered buildings; The originally solid earth, as if instantly turned into boiling boiling water, similar to the strange phenomenon of air distortion made the pilot at a loss, but he soon found that the expansion speed of this bulge was so fast, the center rose sharply, and it was still driving the surrounding ground to spread and undulate like ripples, and when the surprised F-35 pilot finally realized that the situation was not good, this large area of land that was still two or three hundred meters away had risen into the sky, wrapped in flying sand and rocks, and filled his entire field of vision in an instant!

The ground was rapidly approaching beneath him, and a terrifyingly distorted expanse of dim yellow completely obscured his vision, and the pilot who witnessed this shocking scene had forgotten how to control the warplane, and at the last moment of his life, he vaguely understood what a magnificent war he had just witnessed.

Jesus Christ, it seems like it should have been an explosion, an underground explosion of great magnitude! (To be continued......)