Night came as scheduled.

Covering the rolling forward of this army, but they did not choose to press it all in one go, especially the most valuable tanks, coupled with the slow movement speed, they could not keep up with the pace of the convoy, so in the process of advancing, this army continued to split out part after part, and became a flank cover, and finally only about 3,000 people remained.

Its armament consists of 10 tanks, a large number of off-road jeeps and trucks, not to mention gas canisters, mortars and rockets.

Meanwhile.

Caral Oil Base.

As one of the most important oil bases in northwest Saudi Arabia, the Karar oil base is close to the border, so it has obtained sufficient defensive weapons and weapons as soon as the armed attack appears, so although the number of subsequent attacks is quite large, it has not caused any large-scale damage.

Today, a battalion of royal cavalry, codenamed "Desert Tigers", is stationed here.

Although it is called a cavalry regiment battalion, it actually has nothing to do with the cavalry, but because the number of this unit used to belong to the cavalry, and now this cavalry battalion is actually an armored assault force, using all American equipment and American instructors, and the combat effectiveness on paper is very amazing, with a total number of more than seven hundred.

Their weapons include and are not limited to: M60A3 Super Patton main battle tank, M113 tracked armored personnel carrier, a small number of large-caliber heavy artillery, various types of individual rockets, small-caliber mortars, anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns, light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, etc.

In addition, in addition to the armament of about 700 people in this cavalry battalion, the Carral oil base also has a fixed security force of 500 people, which is similar to the existence of militia, and they are mainly equipped with various light weapons, partially fixed anti-aircraft machine guns, more than 50 rotorcraft, fifteen 59-k fire support vehicles, etc.

Finally, in addition to these fixed security forces, in the event of a sudden outbreak of conflict, more than 500 oil workers can be summoned and armed in an instant, and the total defense force is already close to 2,000 people.

"Ahh Trap me! Brother, let me take a nap. ”

"You keep staring and call me in an hour."

At two o'clock in the morning, the temperature in the desert had dropped very low, and on the high lookout post, I saw a soldier yawn and said, and the soldier next to him nodded and said:

"No problem, give me some of that!"

Hearing him say this, the sleepy soldier, although he had already sat down against the corner of the wall, still took out a small iron box from the inner pocket of his chest, and the soldier who was standing quickly stretched out his hand, and then the sleepy soldier picked up a handful of something from the box and put it in the hand of his companion, which could be seen in the dim light, it was tobacco.

"I'm asleep, you stare at the point!"

Then he put away the box and began to sleep, his companion poured the things in his hand into his mouth and began to chew, because of culture and religion, Saudi Arabia theoretically forbids drinking and smoking, but because of the particularity of the troops, in order to stay awake, and for some reason, some soldiers will secretly chew tobacco, which is more hidden than smoking.

"Good!"

Just as the soldier's mouth squirmed, suddenly he frowned slightly, then even turned his head sideways, and after a few seconds he kicked his companion, who had closed his eyes, and said:

"Hey! Listen! Is there the sound of an engine? ”

"North! It's from the north! ”

The companion who was already almost asleep and was suddenly kicked awake was still a little displeased, but when he heard him say this, he quickly stood up and raised his ears, and his expression changed in the next second!

"Searchlight! Searchlight! Twelve o'clock direction! Fast! Fast! Fast! ”

With his voice, the second floor of the lookout post did not react, the light of the searchlight was still motionless, and in an instant he knew that the people above must have fallen asleep!

At that moment, he took three steps and two steps, rushed up with his rifle, and then kicked at the two security guards who had fallen asleep against the wall, controlled the searchlight at the same time, and swept towards the north!

I saw that in the dark distance, the number of cars that could not be seen was driving rapidly, and it was unobstructed on the ground of the almost plain, and the billowing smoke and dust were particularly eye-catching under the searchlight!

"Damn! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

In an instant, his shout sounded, and the two confused security personnel woke up directly, and at the same time he directly pressed the alarm button next to him!

"Woooooooo

Suddenly, the entire oil base reverberated with a piercing siren!

Accompanied by the sound of the alarm, there are a number of points all over the oil base, one after another flares hit the sky, because in the past there were more rotorcraft sneak attacks, so now according to the defense regulations, the first time the enemy is found, it is necessary to fire flares to determine whether there is an enemy in the sky!

"Air Defense Sentry No. 1 reports! No enemies were found in the sky! ”

"Second air defense sentry report! No enemies were found in the sky! ”

"Air Defense No. 3"

In an instant, the light of the flare illuminated most of the night sky, and no gyrocopter was found.

At the same time, the command of the oil base.

In the past, the headquarters of the oil base was actually a production monitoring and dispatch room, but now this place also serves as a wartime headquarters, so there are relevant people on duty here at any time of the day or night to ensure that any problems can be dealt with in the first place.

The moment the alarm sounded, the commander-in-chief, who was dozing off on duty, woke up, sat up, grabbed the microphone and asked:

"Sentry! Quick Report! ”

"The number and direction of the enemy! The number and direction of the enemy! ”

Along with his voice, the left ear was a report that no enemy had been found in the sky, but the right ear heard a bad news!

"Twelve o'clock! Twelve o'clock! It is not possible to confirm the size of the enemy, but there are a lot! ”

"There are at least 100 vehicles! At least a hundred! ”

At that moment, the commander-in-chief felt that his heart suddenly sank, in the past month or so, although the Caral oil base has suffered many attacks, but the scale is not too large, or the rotorcraft in the air, because there are many anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery, so there is no loss, and the ground raid is generally a small scale of one or two hundred people, come and shoot a few steel tube rockets, and then a few shots, and finally the armored troops of the cavalry battalion go out and slip around, and a few people will run away.

But this time, it's clear that the scale is different!

At least a hundred cars, according to the way the militants sit in cars, each car can have at least ten people, which translates to at least a thousand people, which is already terrifying!

"Damn! Send alarm signals to several nearby bases! ”

"Also apply for air support from the Royal Air Force Base in Vess!"

"The gyrocopter takes off and prepares for battle! The reservists grab their weapons and go to the fence to prepare for defense, and the others take refuge! ”

Although he panicked in his heart, after many exercises, he still gave the order accurately, and just after he finished speaking, the door of the headquarters was knocked open, and he saw that a bearded soldier was already dressed neatly, he rushed over directly, grabbed the microphone and switched the channel, and then shouted:

"The cavalry battalion is in position! Prepare to leave the base and intercept and drive away the enemy! ”

"Repeat! The cavalry battalion is ready to attack! ”

After shouting, he rushed down in a hurry, and the cavalry battalion stationed here also began to move, and the tanks and tracked armored vehicles were rumbled in, and then with the addition of the battalion commander, the whole army drove directly to the north.

The reason why the Caral oil base will be equipped with troops, rather than a simple defense and security force, is because it is a very important oil production base, it not only has the ability to extract and store oil, but also includes a certain amount of oil refining capacity, and the smelted oil can be transported directly from the Red Sea in the west, especially to Europe in the north, which is much faster than from the Persian Gulf.

It is precisely because of this that this base cannot be subjected to large-scale attacks, and the significance of the cavalry battalion lies in this, they are armored troops, naturally not for positional warfare, but for field encounters!

"Boom, boom!"

In the next second, explosions began to sound at the oil base!

These explosions came from the rockets of the raiding troops in the distance, and I saw countless rockets in the night sky dragging dazzling tail flames, shooting directly over, this time the scale was much larger than the previous ten combined, and the first round of attacks was a salvo of forty rocket nests!

"Boom, boom!"

Dense explosions instantly rang out all around!

"Fight back! Artillery strikes back! ”

"Aim at the enemy's position and hit me!"

Seeing this scene, the artillery commander, who was located at the height of the watchtower, directly gave the order to counterattack!

After all, Saudi Arabia is equipped with a large number of 105 and 155 mm howitzers of various calibers from the United States and Western countries, and the firing range can easily reach a few kilometers to more than ten kilometers, and it can effectively counterattack the attack of steel tube rockets.

"Launch!"

Accompanied by the sound of the command of the artillery!

"Boom, boom!"

The artillery positions inside the base were fired directly at the direction from which the rockets were coming!

Then these shells, exploded in the darkness ten kilometers away, shining with a brilliant light, but it is a pity that the rocket artillery adopts the mode of vehicle launch, and it can be transferred immediately after launching, it is obvious that the raiding troops have played a time difference, and have left after launching, coupled with inaccurate aiming in the dark and other reasons, did not hit the rocket launcher.

"Aim! Launch! ”

At the same time, the other artillery gave up the search for rocket launchers, carried out this "blind sniping" behavior, and directly began to fire at the large enemy forces that launched the attack!

"Boom, boom!"

In the next second, a cannonball broke out in the middle of the billowing smoke and dust convoy!

However, it is clear that this raiding force is professionally trained, and they have taken the situation into account, so the vehicles are very scattered, and the vast majority of them are not of great influence except for a few unlucky ones.

"Reload again! Calibrate the ballistics! ”

With the sound of passwords one by one, the artillery positions were very busy, and in the darkness more than ten kilometers away, the light of rocket fire appeared again!

"Pay attention to concealment and adjust the muzzle pointing!"

"Reload! Get ready to fire! ”

At that moment, the artillery commander who was at the lookout post on a high place naturally watched the firing in the distance and quickly gave the order to open fire.

Just when the long-range artillery units of both sides are bombarding each other.

I saw that the overall scattered raiding troops were still advancing at a constant speed, led by various pickup trucks and military jeeps, the tires rolled on the ground, raising a large amount of smoke and dust, and these smoke and dust covered the ten tanks behind, and the cavalry battalion also left the outer wall of the base and directly blocked it head-on!

As time passes, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer!

"Attention! 2.5 km! ”

"High-explosive grenades are reloaded! Ready to launch! ”

At this moment, the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion, sitting on the command car, pulled the handle next to him, and his body shook with the bumps to give this order!

"Yes!"

At that moment, accompanied by the voice on the radio, the battalion commander was ready to give the enemy a head-on blow!

However, a scene that he didn't expect appeared!

"Bang bang bang!"

Suddenly there were a few muffled sounds of firing on the opposite side!

"Boom!"

In the next second, an M60 tank that rushed to the front of the entire armored assault force was shot, and it was a fatal attack from a tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing projectile!

"We've been shot!"

The voice flashed on the radio, and then the tank exploded!

"Boom!"

The entire tank turned into a ball of fire, and the turret was directly overturned, rolling in the sky several times, and finally fell heavily to the ground!

"Buzz"

The battalion commander's mind was full of tinnitus sounds, and the next second he panicked!

Because originally in his opinion, the enemy was nothing more than some armed men in various cars, at most with some steel tube rockets, which was good, but he never thought that the enemy actually had tanks!

And although the M60 is not the most advanced tank, it is also the strongest main battle tank in the United States after World War II, the defense is still very amazing, and at such a distance, the M-60 can be killed directly with one shot, then the opponent cannot be an ordinary tank, at least it is an opponent of the level of T-72!

"Damn! The enemy has tanks! The enemy has tanks! Hasten! Hasten! ”

"Approaching quickly! Gyrocopter support! Apply for gyrocopter support! ”

In the next second, the battalion commander's voice sounded in the internal command channel and the entire base commander-in-chief channel at the same time, causing the commander-in-chief of the oil base sitting in the command headquarters to be directly stunned!

When did the militants also have tanks? What's going on? Isn't it the militants? Was it Jordan, an already unfriendly old neighbor to the north?

And the reason why the battalion commander gave this order is also very simple, it is definitely not possible to turn around and run now, because the butt defense of the tank is far worse than the front, and only when the distance is close, your own tank may threaten the enemy's tank, otherwise it is a dead end!

Next, the commander-in-chief, sitting in the command room, felt like he had spent the longest twenty minutes of his life!

"Damn! They have anti-aircraft machine guns, which gyroplanes cannot support! ”

"We need fire cover! We need to retreat! There are too many enemies! At least 5,000 people! Damn it! They have tanks! We need cover! ”

"Fire support vehicles retreat from the flanks to cover the armored forces!"

"Fire! Fire! Suppress them! ”

"Pay attention to cover, the rockets on the opposite side are coming again!"

"Fire support vehicles cover the ground forces, open fire! Keep firing! ”

"Hahaha! Push forward! Advance from the flanks! ”

"Be careful, watch out for the tank on the other side!"

"The fighters at the Royal Air Force Base have taken off and are rushing to support, and the estimated time is thirty minutes!"

And just as the fighters of the air base took off and rushed to the Karar oil base to support, the raiding forces that had already approached ten kilometers away from the air base quickly launched an attack!

When the exchange of fire between the two sides became more and more intense, and a large number of rockets were fired into the base, causing fatal damage to the hangar, runway, oil depot, ammunition depot, and even anti-aircraft missiles and radars, a large number of buzzing sounds suddenly sounded in the sky, and then the overwhelming rotorcraft flew over!

At that moment, the entire base was completely in a desperate situation!

After all, the scale of this base is not large, it was used as a front-line airfield during the desert war, the garrison has only two battalions, their defensive strength is very average, in the face of a large number of rocket artillery and gas tank mortars, there is no time to organize effective air defense operations, and this raid mobilized more than a hundred rotorcraft, even if it is the entire base of anti-aircraft missiles, it is not enough to consume!

Early morning, Riyadh, Satler's office.

I saw Sattler sitting at his desk with bloodshot eyes, and three staff members standing not far away, he looked at the report in front of him and said:

"That is, in addition to the fighters who are on duty to support them, the Royal Vess Air Base was almost destroyed?"

"And those fighters had to return to Darien Air Force Base?"

"The death toll of the entire base is more than five hundred, and the number of wounded is more than three hundred?"

"Five oil depots at the Caral oil base were detonated, and the oil refining equipment was severely damaged, but the enemy was repelled by stubborn resistance?"

"I wonder if this is a glorified statement or if it's the real situation."

Regarding Sattler's question, the staff member quickly said:

"Report to Your Highness, there is no beautification, it is indeed repulsed."

"On the one hand, thanks to their tenacious fighting, on the other hand, thanks to the damage caused by fire support vehicles, and on the other hand, it is possible that they succeeded in their sneak attack on the air base"

Hearing this, Sattler laughed angrily, shook his head and said:

"You go on!"

The staff member nodded and continued:

"At present, after the analysis of the battle, experts believe that there are the following problems."

"First, our M60 tanks, in the face of the T72 tank, simply can't play an adequate role, whether it's offense, defense, or range, so we need to purchase new tanks, such as the M1."

"Second, our fighter jets lack sufficient ground output capabilities, and His Majesty hopes to be able to purchase specialized ground attack aircraft or heavy fighters."

"Thirdly, the fire support vehicles are performing well, and His Majesty believes that the process of being incorporated into the official battle sequence should be accelerated, but the problem is that we do not have enough soldiers now."

"Fourth, there are loopholes in our air defense means, in the face of a large number of rotorcraft, anti-aircraft missiles are not enough, and in the case of a coordinated attack on the ground, the rotorcraft quickly penetrates the defense at an altitude of less than fifty meters, and the anti-aircraft machine guns and cannons simply cannot play a normal attack effect, so I need more effective anti-aircraft weapons."

"Fifth, during this battle, we found a large number of rotorcraft and rockets that were not produced by the Red Star Complex"

Hearing this, Sartler let out a long sigh and said with a complicated expression:

"That friend of mine has really ushered in a new era of war!"

"Looks like I'm going to have to visit him soon."

With Sattaler's emotion, in the next few days, whether in the south or in the north, there were many similar "motorized stream" attacks, the militants relied on various vehicles on the ground, pulled a large number of steel tube rockets, dispatched thousands of people, and the sky with hundreds of dense gyroplanes, each time can achieve fruitful results!

And the Saudi troops, exhausted!

After all, the total size of their army is less than 100,000 men, and their territory is so vast, how can they be able to defend it?