Chapter 33: What's That?!

"Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander! The enemy's third line of defense has been broken through by our troops! Now our first brigade is penetrating into the enemy's depth, and is about to reach the Reims River Bridge!"

In the headquarters of the 3rd Wing, Wing Commander Sovisky was listening over the radio to the situation of the troops interspersed on the first line.

The current situation is very favorable to the emperor, the first wing has begun to prepare for the offensive, the third wing is clearing the minefield and preparing to cross the shoal, the enemy will disperse his forces on three fronts and confront the emperor, everywhere is restrained, everywhere is passive

'The initiative on the battlefield is in our hands!'

Although the 1st Wing and the Artillery Wing suffered a crushing defeat, Sovisky understood that it was the result of the officers underestimating the enemy's overly dispersed forces, and that it was a self-destructive defeat.

If it is a one-on-one real knife and a real gun, the emperor is not afraid that he will not be able to do it against the Galian army.

The other side's command system is too inefficient, the quality of officers is too poor, and it is not like a campaign-level strike force in its own form. ’

This is the conclusion that Sovisky has come to for two months by fighting and on the Gallia Army.

Now the strength of the two sides is basically equal, and the fight is morale, equipment and command. As the construction of a campaign-level command unit, the emperor is far from being able to compare with the Gallia Army, so Sovisky dared to let the troops quickly penetrate the enemy's rear, because he knew that the faster the attack, the more it could disrupt and defeat the Gallia's command system and battlefield command, so he ordered to quickly penetrate to the heart of the enemy at any cost - the Reims River Bridge, cutting off the enemy's retreat and causing the enemy's northern defense line to collapse the operational plan

"Very well, keep attacking! Don't stop until you reach the bridge! Remember! Immediately let the infantry control the bridge before and after reaching the big one! Our follow-up troops need this bridge!"

The battle has reached this point, Sovisky is not very worried about the battle situation, his own attack from the beginning to the present took less than an hour, to tear open the enemy's three lines of defense, although the enemy this time to improve the structure of the defensive position, but did not change the situation that the Gallia army was pressed by the emperor

"As long as you take the Reims River Bridge, half of the battle will be won!"

Sovisky was confident. He trusted his subordinates and believed in the combat effectiveness and execution ability of his troops

But this time, Lady Luck didn't smile at him

"Report to the Wing Commander! My 1st Chariot Brigade has reached the enemy's fourth line of defense, and the Reims River Bridge is about to ...... Wait a minute!What is this?!"

The captain of the tank group, who was excitedly reporting the battle situation on the radio, suddenly made a very surprised sound, as if something strange had happened

"What's wrong?!Hey!What's wrong with the 1st Tank Brigade?What's wrong?Is it the enemy's tank unit that has started to counterattack?!"

Hearing the sound on the radio, Sovis could almost sense that the enemy might have set a trap in the last line of defense, but he couldn't guess what it was.

"No, the enemy did not send tank troops, only enemy fortifications...... The trenches built by the enemy are a little strange!"

The captain of the tank brigade reported

"Strange?!How strange?!"[[CP|.] W:638|H:398|A:L|U:http://file1.qidian.com/chapters/201311/28/3024026635212594713888943712575.jpg]]]"The other side's trenches...... It was dug very wide, with an opening at least 5 meters wide at the top, and it was also very deep at the bottom, almost 5 meters, and on the other side of the ditch there was a small ground of earth more than two meters higher than ours. My chariot can't get through, and two chariots have already fallen into it!"

The voice of the captain of the chariot brigade was very anxious, and it seemed that he was really stumped.

"Don't be in a hurry, look for any gaps and bypass from somewhere else!"

"No! This kind of trench of the enemy has been cultivating from the river to the high ground, and we can't find a way to get there! What should we do?!

Listening to the desperate voice of his most powerful deputy, Sovisky's face turned pale, and he felt that he had been tricked......

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"Report! Your Excellency Commander! Captain Andrew, the captain of the regular army brigade, reports that the ground chariot troops have stopped in front of the trench!

The communicator shouted excitedly

It is no wonder that within an hour, the chariot troops of the emperor ** broke through the three lines of defense of the regular army one after another, almost swept the entire northern defense line of the Gallian army, and shattered the fortifications built by the Gallian army.

"It's not strange, I'd be surprised if they could come. ”

Still lying on the table looking at the map, waiting for the opportunity to fight back, Carl said lightly

Yes, this trench is the famous anti-tank trench invented by the Israelis in the Fourth Middle East War - the Golan trench.

On October 6, 1973, the Fourth Middle East War broke out.

The Arab countries of Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel from the west and north at the same time, kicking off the fourth Middle East war. On the northern front, three Syrian armored brigades armed with 800 Soviet-made T-62 main battle tanks led three Syrian infantry divisions straight to the Golan Heights to cover the attack. At that time, the T-62 main battle tank was a good tank, and the armor protection was also the best in the world at that time.

In the face of the torrent of ironclad rolling in, the Israeli army defending the Golan Heights had only 60 old "Sherman" tanks. The strength and weakness are like the sky, and it seems that the Israeli army will not be able to escape. Unexpectedly, the Syrian tank convoy, which was advancing at the maximum throttle, was blocked in front of a trench in the Golan Heights, and was at a loss.

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Located on the Syrian-Israeli border with a total area of 1,176 square kilometers, the Golan Heights is like a huge platform, condescendingly overlooking the entire eastern plain of Israel and overlooking Lake Tiberias, Israel's most important water source. In order to control the Golan Heights, Syria and Israel have fought fierce battles on many occasions. The world's largest tank battle after World War II took place here. In that war, it was an anti-tank trench that helped Israel successfully overcome Syria's overwhelming armor superiority.

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This trench was dug by the army, and although the Israeli army defending the Golan Heights was small in number and poorly equipped, it was very particular about tactics. The mouth of the trench is 6 meters wide, the bottom is 4 meters wide, and the depth is 9 meters. According to the general method of constructing anti-tank trenches, the excavated earth should be piled on both sides. However, the Israeli army went against the norm and piled up all the accumulated soil on its own side and built a soft soil embankment more than two meters high.

This trench has made the Syrian army very troubled, so let's fill it with bulldozers, because all the accumulated soil is piled on the Israeli side, and the Golan Heights are solid volcanic lava fields, bulldozers can't shovel hard ground, and there is no soil to fill. The Chinese and Syrian troops had no choice but to fill the tanks into the trenches, which were only more than 2 meters high, but 9 meters deep.

The Syrian army had no choice but to come up with a last resort and erect a rutted bridge with a tank bridge, but because the other end of the trench was more than two meters high, the bridge erected was high at one end and the other was low, and the high end was on the soft soil embankment, so that the tanks crossing the bridge swayed left and right, and they turned into the trench at every turn.

The fate of the tanks that came by chance was even more tragic, because when they crossed the earthen embankment, the hull was raised, exposing the weakly armored bottom; when they crossed the earthen embankment and came down, the fragile top was exposed, and "the head was raised and the belly was exposed, and the head was lowered and the back was exposed," giving the Israeli army two excellent opportunities to aim and shoot, and it became a "live target" for the antitank guns.

After four days of fighting, the Syrian army not only did not advance half a step, but on the contrary, on the contrary, on both sides of the anti-tank trench, 250 tanks and 260 armored vehicles were dropped. This area is therefore known as the "Valley of Tears" in the Middle East. In this way, the Israeli army skillfully used an anti-tank trench to successfully delay the offensive of the Syrian army and buy time for the arrival of reinforcements. When the Israeli army switched to a counteroffensive, bulldozers easily pushed the accumulated soil into the trenches to build an "earthen bridge" to ensure the rapid passage of troops to launch an attack. After the war, this anti-tank trench became known as the "Golan Trench".

With the level of equipment in the seventies of the twentieth century, there is no way to deal with this kind of trench, and with the emperor **, who is now at the level of the 30s, let alone have any ideas.

Three days earlier, before Lilia had fallen ill, he had told Lilia about the trench, and had begun to build it with her approval.

Lando Bassa's army is not very large, but there are 200,000 citizens and refugees who can be mobilized to repair the fortifications! Although after a few days of evacuation, there are still more than 100,000, tens of thousands of people heard that the army is going to fight the emperor here, and they have taken the initiative to join the engineering team to help build the fortifications, so in less than three days, a trench that is one kilometer long and extends from the northern highlands to the river was repaired.

In order to further hinder the enemy's attack, the river was also diverted into the ditch, and with the mud in the ditch, it swallowed up any enemy vehicles and soldiers who fell into the ditch. (The original version of the Golan Trench was muddy.)

After hearing reports that the enemy troops had fallen into the mud and were massively blocked in the trenches,

Carl knew the time had come!

"Order the artillery units to immediately open fire at the designated coordinates! Order the anti-tank artillery squadrons and rocket squads to immediately start firing! After destroying the enemy tank units, the 3rd Militia Brigade, the entire regular army, and the 3rd Squadron of the Northern Army will immediately attack! The tank squadrons and infantry on the northern front of the Golan trench will immediately launch a counterattack!"

Carl got up from his seat and looked at everyone excitedly

"Everyone, you feel uncomfortable being pressed and beaten by the emperor ** for a long time, right?! Now the time for revenge has come, how did they come just now, how can we beat them back now! Everyone obeys my orders!"

"Smack!"

Everyone in the headquarters stood upright, respectfully awaiting the final order.

This time, it was a sincere admiration

"All the Galia Army, the whole front begins to counterattack!"

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