Chapter 20 Westward
Don't be afraid, be discouraged, the color of the red flag will not fade away. This is the last fire burning for the motherland. We know it will not be destroyed. This is the star of our motherland, and it will always shine. The Turkish national anthem "March of Independence".
Iraq, Mandelli.
The Fourth Mechanized Chan Division of the 6th Iraqi Army is stationed here. Although this unit is not the main force on the front line, it has considerable combat effectiveness.\Its predecessor was the Fourth Mechanized Division of the Iraqi Republic Guard, which was later split by Liu Ming. Part of it was incorporated into the newly established 35th Chan Division, and the other part was the 38th Aircraft and Infantry Brigade United formed the new Fourth Aircraft and Infantry Division.
In February 198, the 35th Chan Division was incorporated into the Baghdad Military Region, participated in the central offensive against the Iran War, and supported the Northern Express Cluster's raid on Tehran and other areas. The Fourth Infantry Division was transferred to the 5th Army and transferred to the north to the Southern Azerbaijan region to serve as a garrison task.\ During the Northern Military Region's attack on Turkey, the unit was on guard in the border area, but did not exchange fire with the Turkish army.
After the war, the Fourth Infantry Division returned to the Baghdad Military Region and served as a garrison in the military city of Mandeli. This is the eastern branch of Baghdad and has always been a military important place. However, as Iraqi troops occupied the front line of the Zagros Mountains, the Iraqi government signed the Mehran Treaty, which has become a strategic rear, far less important than before.
"All-wide gathering" An officer suddenly shouted at the soldiers who were working on the move. The basketball in the soldiers' hands was adjusted to the ground. Before they could come back to their senses, the urgent and urgent gathering sounded throughout the camp. After a while, a large number of people rushed out, and the soldiers were fully armed and arranged in neat rows in the wide range. The shiny helmets shone in the sun, like a forest of steel.
The commander of the Fourth Machine Step Division, Mu Tari, wore a steel helmet and looked at the troops entering the mobilization state with a serious expression.\He turned around and said to the staff officer beside him: "Immediately issue an order, and all units will go to the ammunition depot to collect live ammunition, and all tank tanks will be sealed, and a practical pull drill will be carried out in two hours."
The staff officer looked at the division commander in surprise. The real-time training exercise required the Baghdad Military Region to sign the order, but before that, the Fourth Infantry Division did not receive relevant documents.\ However, since it was a war period and the military situation was tense, the troops often had to face emergencies, so the staff officer did not dare to ask more questions and immediately salute and issued the order.
One after another, the tanks and tanks drove out of the camp. Brigadier General Mutari jumped on a BMP chariot and followed the troops. He was quite satisfied with his response to his troops. Except for the elevators of the 6th Army's sudden failure to reach the dispatch status due to the incident, the tanks and vehicles of the other units were fully loaded, which gave him sufficient confidence.\
The people in the Ninth Division were too much and wanted to use force to deal with the conservatives. Since General Kusai doesn't care, then we will use the remaining guards ourselves!
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In the West Bank, after intense discussions, the Israeli Ministry of Defense approved General Avinig's counterattack plan. General Uchi Dayan, the commander of the Northern Military Region, personally inspected the front line. All the troops were preparing to stay Zhang. At the same time, in order to divert the attention of the Iraqi army and induce their reserve troops to leave areas where it is easy to counterattack, Israel took various confusing actions.\
For this purpose, the Israeli army in the central region carried out a series of tentative attacks, hoping to cross the Jordan River, while a small army detoured from the western wing, hoping to pass through the Arab valley. However, this was futile. General Shavir Diyala of the Central Military Region accurately and simply gave Israeli temptation a powerful counterattack.
Between the Arab hills where rocks overlap, the Iraqi army here paid practical actions to commemorate the heroic spirits of the officers and soldiers of the 29th Division who fought here.\They taught the Israeli armored forces a lesson again, set up obstacle minefields, and then surrounded and annihilated the assault Israeli forces.
The battle was fierce and short, with more than 70 tanks and tanks in Israel turning into burning scrap iron, while the Iraqis suffered only less than fifty casualties. This heavy raid caused the Israeli army in the central region to stop all offensive operations and huddled on the position and never moved again.
However, all these actions had the expected effect on the Iraqi Front Command, which made it not pay attention to the threat to the flanks near Syria in the north, and made General Bachelor decide to withdraw an elite armored division from the reserve force to support the Jordanian troops in the central region.\The Iraqi Air Force temporarily concentrated its forces to bomb the enemy's aircraft, namely the Israeli air base in the central region, so that Israeli fighter jets could not take off. However, this also invisibly weakened the air operations in the north, and mapped out the assembly operations of the Israeli troops.
The counterattack of the Israeli army was code-named "Sword of the North". The official operation was launched on the night of the 21st of the month. The Israeli army, the Paratrooper Brigade, took the lead in taking the surprise attack and captured the Nuno Heights overlooking the entire area. Then, the position of the Syrian army in the area was encircled from the flank. The battle was very smooth, and Israel's armored troops quickly rushed into Lebanon, and then crossed the Lebanese-Syrian border and rushed into Jordan.
Under the cover of night, the main force of the two brigades crossed the Jordan River in northern Jordan, and they attacked south from there. The Iraqi First Army quickly showed the intention of the Israeli army and sent reinforcements to resist firmly in the north.
However, General Bacher's front-line command did not know that the Israelites' goal was not to attack Iraq's solid defense line or annihilate Iraq's biological forces. Avinig was a famous general, and the famous generals were never interested in the targets of his ability. What he wanted was to destroy Iraq's logistics base and weaken Iraq's continuous combat capabilities, even if it was only delayed by one month!
Although this goal is difficult for this offensive force, it can be achieved!
Chapter completed!