Babylonian Empire

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"Allah is great, the eagle asks to land."

"Yes, the main runway is cleared."

After receiving the news from the ground, the pilot on the left began to slowly retract the throttle in the middle. At the same time, he slowly pushed the control stick in his hand forward, pushed the rudder a little, and the huge Il-76 was heading towards that runway. , slowly swooping down.

The lights got closer and lower, and finally, there was a sharp sound from the rear, and the four low-pressure tires on each side had touched the ground.

After sliding for several tens of meters, the two rows of low-pressure tires in front also touched the ground.

Finally, the plane came to a stop, and the cargo door at the rear began to fall slowly.

"Quickly, assemble the troops and prepare for battle immediately." Hades shouted loudly. At the same time, the desert leopard slowly drove down from the tail hatch. This time, they came to the land of Syria, and they came to fight!

Manav was on the tower, looking at the Iraqi troops diving out from the tail of the cabin, he felt a sense of trance, as if they were here to occupy and invade here.He shook his head, putting the thought out of his mind.

More than [-] large transport planes landed, unloaded personnel and equipment, and then took off again to return to Iraq.

"General Manav, the No.60 Seventh Airborne Regiment was ordered to arrive to help you guard the airport and wait for the counterattack after dawn." Abed, the head of the No.60 Seventh Airborne Regiment, came to the control tower and told Manav Said.

"Thank you very much. With your arrival, our base can withstand the attack of the rebels." Manav asked, "Where's your marines? Didn't they come together?"

Marines?Abed smiled apologetically, the Marine Corps plane was the first to land, and after they landed, Hades was no longer to be found, only a few wheeled infantry fighting vehicles were seen.Maybe, the opponent is following the road and preparing to counterattack Damascus. Everyone knows that Hades is brave.

Abed was only half right.

After Hades landed, he immediately assembled his marines. This time, they brought a total of 300 Desert Leopard infantry fighting vehicles, a team of 76 people.Due to the limited transport capacity and the fact that the Desert Leopards have only started to be equipped, the Marine Corps only brought [-] tanks this time, accounting for eight Il-[-] transport aircraft.

Leaving 200 people and six chariots at the air force base, Hades drove onto the road with ten chariots.

On the land of Syria, they do not have all kinds of advanced detection methods. Although people inside Damascus reported that the armored forces were dispatched, they did not know how much the opponent's armored forces dispatched and where they went. .

Therefore, Hades took ten battlefields and drove on the only way from Damascus to the air force base, hoping to gain something.

Detect the enemy's situation, confirm the size of the opponent, and the estimated time of arrival, and provide the basis for the subsequent action plan of our own troops.

In the night vision device, the dark road looks very clear. Since the production line of the Swedish infrared night vision device has been built in Iraq, the Iraqi equipment has begun to gradually promote the use of infrared night vision devices. Naturally, the desert leopard also Without exception, all Iraqi-produced infrared night vision devices were installed.

In this kind of dark night, on this kind of open road, without driving lights, it is a very refreshing thing to move fast in the dark. Hades felt the feeling of the long-lost battlefield and became familiar again.

A considerable advantage of wheeled chariots is that they are fast!Due to the drag of the tracks, the tracked combat vehicle will never reach a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, even the current speed of [-] kilometers per hour is impossible.

The armored brigade of the 55th Armored Division, with [-] T-[-] tanks, was marching on the road. In order to conceal their whereabouts and avoid being detected by possible reconnaissance planes in the sky, they did not turn on their headlights, but used their Infrared device: infrared headlight.

The T-55 tanks were moving forward at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. They were only 40 kilometers away from the air force base, and there were still more than two hours before dawn.

Therefore, they can take advantage of the darkness to reach the air force base and quickly resolve the battle there.

In the sky, airplanes are the natural enemy of tanks, especially in the air force base, which is equipped with the Gazelle helicopters imported from Syria. The Huot anti-tank missiles carried by the helicopters can cause great damage to the armored forces. In the battle on the Lan Heights, the Gazelle helicopter created many examples of destroying Israeli tanks.

They didn't know that just in front of them, there was already another army that was going to meet them on a narrow road.

Suddenly, many bright spots appeared on the dark green screen of the infrared night vision device. Those bright spots, like the eyes of a pack of wolves in the dark, were the infrared headlights of the T-55 tank!

In order to drive and fight at night, the T-55 tank has installed a total of three sets of night vision devices: ФГ-100 infrared headlights and TBH-2 infrared observation periscope installed on the right side of the front upper armor plate of the car body, which can provide the driver with a 60-meter The left and right night observation ability is enough for the driver to drive safely at night; the ОУ-3 infrared searchlight and the TKH-1 commander infrared periscope installed in front of the commander's conning tower can provide the commander with a night observation ability of about 300 meters, allowing the The commander observes the situation within 300 meters around; the л-2 infrared searchlight and the ТПК-1-22-11 gunner's night vision sight installed on the right side of the artillery can provide the gunner with a night observation capability of 800 meters, allowing the gunner Operate tank guns at night to attack.

Now, it is the marching stage, so most of the tanks only turn on the driver's infrared light, and a few turn on the commander's infrared searchlight to scan the surrounding situation.

In any case, they will not find the Iraqi wheeled tanks 800 meters ahead.

The infrared imaging device will not have such a long distance, but the other party's infrared headlights are like flashlights shining brightly in the dark, so that Hades' investigation team has already discovered them.

Chapter 796 Suppression of Landmines

"I found the enemy's armored unit, 800 meters away from our side." A member of the special forces in a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle at the front reported calmly.

Hades in the second car has also spotted the target at this moment. Judging from the number of those infrared headlights, the opponent is the size of an armored brigade, about a hundred tanks, which is already a very high number up.

Moreover, Hades then calculated that in this case, the other party would arrive at the air force base before five o'clock in the morning. Although there were already about 55 fighters transported by air from Iraq in the air force base at this time, they all It is a lightly armed force, whether it is a paratrooper fighting vehicle or a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, it cannot confront the T-[-] tank head-on. Although the opponent's tank is also an old main battle tank, it is a second-line equipment, but, after all, it is tank!

"We need to be here to stop the opponent's tank troops and delay their actions. Wait until dawn, which will be the end of these tanks." Hades said.

By daybreak, our armored forces can almost reach Damascus, and the fighter planes in the air force base can also be dispatched. By then, the tanks of these Syrian rebels may be destroyed. up.

Now, let your own troops delay the other party's actions!

Hades gave them an order over the radio.

Although the Desert Leopard infantry fighting vehicle is also equipped with Soviet-made SEG anti-tank missiles, this first-generation anti-tank missile uses visual aiming, manual control, and wired transmission instructions. At night, it is almost unusable.Although they also have night vision devices, when using night vision devices to observe, the flames from the tail of the missile will seriously interfere with the shooter's line of sight. Therefore, this kind of missile has almost no ability to launch at night, and Qusay has already started Prepare Iraq's own anti-tank missiles, but there is still a big gap.

However, they are not trying to block the opponent head-on, but to delay the opponent's actions, or in other words, harassment, which is also a basic task of special forces.

On the Desert Leopard at the front, several fighters quickly jumped out from the rear hatch and laid several Type 72 anti-tank mines on the road.

One of the most common ways for infantry to deal with tanks is to lay anti-tank mines on the opponent's only way.

However, on the battlefield, no one knows exactly where the opponent's tanks will come from, so a large number of layings will be effective, but now, they don't have this question, because the opponent is taking this road!

The T-55 tank uses all-metal single-pin tracks. This kind of track directly presses on the road surface, which is a great damage to the road surface. However, the current unit of the Fourth Armored Division has no time to pay attention to this. For this kind of thing, if they don't take the road, then they have to travel off-road from the land, the speed is low, not to mention the time, the key is that the bumps are too severe!The second-line armored units, their training is not very sufficient, and they have never trained so intensively, so if they are asked to go off the road and advance from the wilderness, they will say nothing.

Therefore, they only need to deploy a few pressure-fired anti-tank mines to have a good effect. As long as one explodes, they will never advance from the road again.In this way, their marching speed will drop immediately.

After laying a few mines, they returned to the Leopard, which began to drive down the road.

However, as soon as I got off the road, I heard Hades' voice on the radio: "Lay the roadside with mines at a distance of five meters within 100 meters on both sides of the road, and the speed must be fast!"

It can’t be so cheap. These guys, when Hades withdrew from the side, suddenly thought of this trick. After the front tank hits a mine, the tanks behind will definitely drive off the road from both sides. Give them a treat and let them know that maneuvering swaggering down the highway in time of war is expensive.

After laying the mines, the last Desert Leopard began to evacuate the area at high speed. The wheeled infantry fighting vehicle showed good maneuverability, 8*8 drive, excellent suspension, and advanced chassis , it is also very easy to drive in the wild.

The engine at the rear of the car body was roaring. Wearing a tank cap, you could still feel the huge noise. Drilling in the sultry tank, the armored soldiers of the [-]th Armored Division felt very uncomfortable.

At this time, except for a few officers, most of the soldiers thought that they were going to suppress the rebellion, and there were rebels in the air force base they were going to.

In the tank at the front, the tank crews of the third battalion and three squads in a row are advancing intently.

The driver of the tank is a soldier who is familiar with the terrain here. He knows that now that they are getting closer to the air force base, they will enter the fighting state at any time. Therefore, the artillery on this tank has been loaded with a grenade. To deal with emerging threats, the tank's turret, always pointing forward.

The high-speed track rubs against the double-rim-mounted rubber road wheels below from time to time. Because there are no drag wheels, when the track is too loose, it will droop to the road wheels below and make a harsh sound.

After nearly two hours of continuous driving, the driver's legs were already a little tired, but he couldn't let go of the accelerator and had to push forward at such a full speed.

The metal tracks are constantly moving forward, and the tank's good mobility is because it walks on the tracks, providing the largest ground contact area.

Suddenly, the front track that had been transferred to the ground pressed against something 10 centimeters thick. It hadn't transmitted the vibration to the car body through the unreliable shock absorption, and the unexpected happened suddenly.

Because this is a Type 72 metal-shell anti-tank mine. With the pressure of the tank's track, the pressing mechanism of the steel disc spring starts to move. Immediately, the Type 72-A explosion-resistant fuze explodes, igniting the explosion-resistant mine composed of TNT and 5 kilograms of explosives were distributed in half by RDX, and then a huge explosion came.

"Boom!" This landmine bloomed a bright flame in the darkness. In the flames, the track on this side was completely blown off, but the driving wheel was still moving, and the track seemed to be cramped. The same, quickly left the car body and scattered behind.