Like the Battle of Aleppo two weeks ago, the final chapter of the battle officially began at dawn.

The timing of any campaign of this magnitude is a deliberate effort, and this was no case with the siege of Damascus and Mosul as the main forces.

Since they have been able to get air support from multinational forces for some time recently, the arrogant FSA has completely lost air supremacy in the occupied areas, and has been covering up all the way from the west, and the cooperation between the government forces and the US-British coalition forces has become more and more skillful, and it has become an inevitable choice to launch a general offensive during the day, which is most conducive to giving full play to air superiority.

In the hinterland of the Middle East in the depths of winter, a round of red sun slowly rises from the east in the early morning, and the dense artillery preparations have already begun in the eastern part of Syria like a thunderous start, like a prelude to a general offensive. As the artillery fire on this side of the battle line shook the sky, and patches of dusk smoke and dust continued to rise from the distant horizon, the Damascus army, which had reached the outskirts of modern Erzur and was only about 10 kilometers from the city, was ready to attack, and when the artillery fire in the sky stopped for a while, they shouted in unison, raised their steel guns, and rushed into the last bastion of the Liberal Party.

Batches of fighters that took off from the "Truman" and "Queen Elizabeth" were loaded with enemy ammunition and penetrated deep into the Syrian hinterland under the cover of several F-34 and EA-35G electronic combat aircraft.

In accordance with the target request sent by the joint command in Damascus, the US-British coalition fighters, which completely suppressed the ground air defense forces and entered a no-man's land, threw precision-guided munitions one after another at key nodes in the rebel positions. to support the Damascus offensive by striking at its command and communications networks, important fire positions, and key commanding heights; After a heavy air raid. Explosions and billowing black smoke almost obscured the sky from the Liberal Party position. The attacking vanguard of the government army immediately began the first wave of charges, killing Deir ez-Zor, where the rebels had gathered and had become a trapped beast.

Seeing that the nest of the Liberal Party was in front of them, the government soldiers who rode on the armored vehicle were all demoralized.

Although morale was briefly hit by the massive explosion in Sabha just a few days earlier, the government officers and soldiers did not believe that the rebels could do the same in Deir ez-Zor, since it was not a nuclear explosion, and it was crazy to accumulate thousands of tons of explosives to detonate. Besides, even if the Liberals on the opposite side really went crazy, where did they get so many explosives?

Since the opponents are blindly stubborn, then resolutely send them all to hell, and the Syrians, who have been deeply poisoned by the war of the Liberal Party, have finally waited for a great opportunity for complete revenge today, and the unwritten agreement that "the recalcitrant is not qualified to be prisoners" is also circulating everywhere in the government army.

No one would admit it publicly, but in private, almost everyone was going to do it.

With such momentum, the tanks and armored vehicles of the Damascus army stormed on the open front. Low-altitude helicopter gunships rained a round of rockets at the rebels' forward positions, and the "thump-thump" of self-propelled mortars opened fire one after another. In between, there was the low roar of tank guns and bursts of crisp, dense automatic cannon fire.

Fighting a final battle to sweep away the remnants of the enemy, the Damascus army did not skimp on ammunition at all, and the mechanized infantry approaching the city outline dismounted and charged, and followed the armored vehicles to advance bravely towards the Liberal positions.

In the face of the flood of government troops, the rebels on the outskirts of the city were also quite ferocious, surrounded on all sides and had no way to retreat, and all kinds of automatic weapons opened fire at the same time, mixed with anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and even gun grenades that were dragging smoke and flying from time to time, and the sound of "bang-ping-ping" fire on the position was completely non-stop.

Although there was no hope of victory at all, the thugs still put up stubborn resistance in the forward position, until the government troops covered by tanks rushed forward, and the two sides even engaged in a skirmish-like white-knuckle battle that was close to slaughter in the smoke and dust.

The short brutal battle ended quickly, with the bayonets removed from the AK-12s, wiped the blood and sheathed back into their scabbards, and the government soldiers continued forward in BMP-2E tanks, approaching the edge of Deir ez-Zor in a short time.

With the liberators approaching, Deir ez-Zor, an important town in eastern Syria and a stronghold since the Liberal rebellion, almost 200,000 indigenous people fled, and the city itself, unable to move its place, could not escape the terrible fate that was coming, and was reduced to rubble in the flames and smoke of war.

The ground battle was in full swing, and about two hours after the Damascus Army launched its general offensive, the Mosul Army on the Eastern Front also broke through the Liberal Party's outer defenses, and T-72M tanks painted in sand and yellow camouflage rumbled across the high ground and continued to advance towards the city outline that loomed in sight; Next, if there is a qiē shun lì, then before sunset, the city that is not too large will be completely liberated, and the Liberal Party in the city will be completely wiped out.

The progress of the general offensive was undoubtedly smooth at the beginning, but as the front on the east and west sides continued to move forward, the FSA fighters, which had almost disappeared some time ago, reappeared in the air.

Facts have proved that the Liberal Party, which is surrounded by Damascus and Mosul on both sides and whose control area has been compressed to a radius of several tens of kilometers, can also burst out with unexpectedly powerful forces in the face of annihilation: just when the fighting is gradually approaching the city of Deir ez-Zor and is approaching the white heat, from the Deir ez-Zor Air Base, which is the only one controlled by the rebels, the airport runway that was originally bombed and blocked has been temporarily repaired, and one after another black YF-23 "ghosts" are speeding up and taxiing under the control of the pilots. Groups then appeared in droves over the war zone.

"Fight, or ruin", the Liberal Party, which has no way out, is really a little surprising in the final madness.

Prior to the launch of the general offensive, thanks to the tireless efforts of the intelligence agencies of various countries in the occupied areas, the Multinational Force and Damascus received some information, and according to the deployment of the FSA "deputy commander" Kharif, the Liberal Air Force, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous war, was regaining its strength and preparing to play a role in the soon-to-be-started Battle of Deir Ezzor.

However, although the intelligence arrived in time, no one thought that they could still muster a powerful air force against the Liberal Party, which was shrinking and overstretched; Even if the origin of the rebels' "ghost" fighters is still a mystery, at least, there is only one small air base in Deir ez-Zor, and according to the report, at most it is a squadron-level combat force stationed, and according to the previous FSA fighter table, the YF-23 of just one squadron is really not enough to pose any threat to the multinational force and ALSA.

This was the case with the Liberal Air Force before the general offensive began, but once the siege began, the forces involved quickly found that the situation had changed unexpectedly.

Just after the battle began, early warning aircraft, long-range warning radars and battlefield monitoring satellites were used to control every move in Deir ez-Zor and the surrounding area, whether it was the US-British coalition forces under the jurisdiction of the multinational forces, or the Arab League Defense Air Force, which was moving north, and even the newly joined Chinese and Soviet forces, and of course, the UNSA that swept from the sidelines, everyone quickly discovered one thing, that is, in the area of Deir ez-Zor, where the fighting was fierce and the airspace was extremely narrow, there were soon traces of Liberal fighters.

The most serious thing is that these traces are still increasing, showing that the number of FSA fighters taking off to attack continues to rise, and soon exceeds the astonishing scale of a hundred, and it is clear that it is still increasing!

At the same time, the front-line combatants also sent back an urgent report that the F-34 "Silent Cat" fleet of the US-British coalition patrolling the Syrian sky had encountered the Liberal fighters, and it was confirmed that the model was still YF-23 "Ghost"; However, looking at the number again, there were more than 30 enemy planes in the airspace in front of them, and several "silent cats" that were intercepted with all their might were wiped out by two rounds of over-the-horizon missile attacks, but they soon ran out of ammunition and had to retreat first.

The F-34 and F-35 fighters that had completed the bomb throwing were returning at full speed at high altitude, and the multinational forces that had received the alarm of the large-scale sortie of the Liberal fighters quickly adjusted their deployment, and these fighters needed to be loaded with air-to-air weapons for a second attack after returning home.

In the west, on the south side of the city where the Damascus army was fiercely attacking, another support force specializing in air warfare also found that the situation was different, and after receiving the shared intelligence from the multinational forces, the ALSA side also made a decision, and at various air bases in Saudi Arabia, the F-22 "Raptor" and MiG-44 "Snow Sculpture" fighters in the first level of combat readiness quickly glided into the air, climbed to an altitude of 6,000 meters, and immediately entered supersonic cruise, and rushed to the northern sky in groups. (To be continued......)