613 Tank Bombing
At this moment, all the tanks and armored vehicles on the southern front on the battlefield between Iran and Iran began to move.
The number of Iraqi tanks exceeded 42o, and more than 500 armored vehicles rushed towards the Iranian position on the front line of more than ten kilometers.
On the Iranian side, there were also 37o tanks and 400 armored vehicles, and they also rushed towards the invaders in three clusters.
The distance between the two sides continues to shrink as time goes by and the increasing dust.
"Stop moving forward!" At the beginning of the combat area, Ansar issued a serious order, and the order was sent out by the Maula Hazari beside him. The regiment commander, who was supposed to be in the command post, boarded a command tank of Dragon Guard II, and he will personally lead the first battalion of the First Regiment to charge.
"The Second Battalion, the Third Battalion, the defensive formation is unfolded! The First Battalion, stop advancing, and respond in the center. The armored vehicle troops disperse towards the tank troops, keep a distance, and be careful to hide!" Ansar's orders laid out in a series of lines.
He had no way to command the tanks next to him. They were not equipment from the Revolutionary Guards, but from the National Defense Forces.
In this battle, the armored regiment of the Revolutionary Guards was the absolute main force. Although the weight of the Patton tank from the United States and the Chief tank from the United Kingdom was greater than that of the Dragon Guard tank, in terms of advancedness, defense, and even firepower, they could not be compared with the lighter Dragon Guard tank.
In Iran, most of them are equipped with second-generation tanks. Although the chief weighs nearly 60 tons, no matter the caliber of the tank or the internal environment, it cannot be compared with the third-generation tanks, and it cannot penetrate the defense of the t72, let alone the more advanced t64 and the US m1.
"Hazari, please inform your friendly forces to move closer to us. The Iraqis have more tanks and armor than us. We can only concentrate our efforts to break through one of their clusters. Then we will eat the tanks next to them! Let them leave some of the tanks on both sides to restrain..." Ansar's command ability is unquestionable.
Hazari doesn't care about the other person's tone now.
The situation on the front line was constantly reported by the armored vehicles that were reconnaissance. The distance between the two sides was less than eight kilometers. The range of the tank's high-explosive bombs had reached here. However, neither side fired first.
The third-generation tank with thick skin and thick flesh is impossible to impress defense at such a distance. Unless it is a large-scale saturation shelling of heavy artillery, some results may be achieved.
Iraqi commanders are not fools. They will not fight in places where Iranian tanks can be supported by heavy artillery troops.
Therefore, the tank combat between the two sides will basically not encounter support from the artillery troops. Once the artillery troops appear, the other side will have to retreat, and expect it to come from another battle!
"There is about to contact the front, Mr. Liu, should our artillery be dispatched?" After obtaining information from the front, Altaidel asked Liu Suxue who was drinking tea while the old god was.
Liu Suxue shook his head, "The artillery should move towards the Shadegan area. Once the results are achieved here, the other side should be the main battlefield. Otherwise, it will not be able to clear Mahshahr or counterattack Dardhoven..."
Artillery troops cannot appear here. Being able to effectively bully armored vehicles does not mean that they can deal with tanks with thick skin.
"But, in this way, our tank troops..."
"There is nothing. You should have full confidence in the Dragon Guard tank. Before that, our tanks had been bombarded with 152 shells. Such powerful shells could not penetrate the defense of the Dragon Guard tank. Iran has the most advanced tanks in the United States and the Soviet Union, and ours can withstand it. Why can't theirs?" Liu Suxue rudely interrupted the other party's words.
Then nothing else was said.
As long as Iraq has no support from armored forces, their 6th Army will not be so powerful.
Altaidel frowned and began to dispatch the counterattack.
40,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards and 60,000 old troops began their final preparations before the war.
Tanks and bazooka from China were brought down to each infantry squad, each squad, and seven anti-tank armor-piercing bombs. Similarly, there were 62 bazooka and the 4o fire that Middle Easterners like the most.
"boom!"
The Iraqis knew that the other party had stopped and were waiting for their arrival. At the last few kilometers, they stopped at the same level as the barrels, and the gun barrels charged fiercely at their tanks.
While both sides looked at each other, the Iraqi tank troops rushing to a halt stopped, then quickly raised the barrel. Before they could fire, the first round of attacks on the other side had already begun!
"Let's fire! Fuck them hard!" At this time, the extra command was useless. After Kasim received information in the command car behind, he ordered.
Hundreds of tanks lined up, and then the gun barrels began to rise, and they opened fire violently at the enemy who was only more than two kilometers away.
Without aiming, the dense tank formation allows the gun captains on both sides to just press the shell button quickly.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A series of explosions began to cause the tank's gun barrel mouth to eject flames and white smoke, starting the prelude to the war in the dust.
"Storm up! Use armored bombs! The first battalion will continue to stand by!" After two rounds of shooting, no results were achieved at all.
High explosive bomb cannot break the defense.
The opponent's tanks cannot penetrate the defense of the Dragon Guard type!
After learning about the situation, Ansar didn't even make a judgment, so he issued an inconspicuous order.
"Let all tanks move together!" Chinese tanks need to fire during the march, which can effectively increase defense and make it difficult for the enemy to aim. Moreover, the fire control system above can assist the tanks in shooting during operation.
The same is true for the American m1 tank.
The Soviet t64 also had this ability.
At the beginning of the contact, the tanks on the two wings did not move quickly, but stopped in place, and both sides bombarded each other with shells. Whether it was the British chief or the American Patton, they were tank guns with only 105 mm and could not use the tungsten-core tail wing armor-piercing shells from China.
The British naturally would not provide it to Iran at this time.
The war started not long, and more than ten Bartons beat the opponent's t72 a few times and turned into burning scrap iron.
If the other party didn't have too many t72 in their hands, the war would end at the beginning.
Iraq is equipped with more t54/t55 from the Soviet Union. Therefore, the two sides are evenly matched.
"Ansar, the right wing has scrapped eight liang m48, two chiefs..."
"Don't worry about the two wings, our main battlefield is the middle position!" Ansar said gritting his teeth. He is not the front-line commander, but the interim commander of the First Regiment.
Moreover, Altaidel, as the front-line commander, seemed to have no intention of command at all, and allowed them to fight like a mess.
In the area more than 20 kilometers northeast of Daldhoven, it is the main battlefield of this tank battle. The most elite and advanced tank troops are in the middle. The first regiment of the Iraqi Presidential Guard Tikrit Division faces the most elite armored regiment of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Both sides are the top third-generation tanks.
But the two wings on the middle battlefield are different.
Both sides are second-generation tanks, and only Iraq has a large number of T72s, which are the main forces in the war.
"Give the infantry out of the car, and the armored vehicles back! Tank cover, rush to the front and kill them with a rocket launcher!" On the eastern wing battlefield, more than 20 T72s kept making the Iranian Patton tanks a ball of fire.
Commander Meshalyi's eyes were red.
Their tanks are not defensive, and the old American tanks are simply unable to effectively resist the Soviet 125mm tank guns.
"Commander, you can't do this. If our infantry does not have the cover of armored vehicles, the opponent's tanks and machine guns can turn them into minced meat!" The staff advised the commander appointed by the top, "and, Colonel Hojatyi asked us to leave a small part to restrain them and move closer to them..."
"Leave a small part? How to stay? Once we retreat, the other party will chase us and gradually kill us. At that time, we will not be able to fight back at all." After that, he picked up the walkie-phone used for command and ordered all the tank commanders: "All units should pay attention to it, organize defense on the spot, and fuck them hard for me! The coordinated bazooka soldiers rushed up and killed the other party's tank! Allah bless us!"
With Meshalyi's order, they were originally fighting on their own. Some of them scattered to both sides to escape the enemy's attacks and stopped. Then the tank body turned, and the front of the car was facing the Iraqi tank, and the turret also turned.
It seemed as if the situation on Iran was revealed, and the Iraqi side was the same. The tank stopped, and t72 moved forward, forming the first defensive position, and the t55 and t54 behind also began to move towards this position and then stopped.
"boom!"
The battlefield, which had just been quiet for a moment, became hot again with the sound of a cannon popping out of the bolt.
The back door of the armored vehicles originally mixed in the tank team opened, and countless Iranian tank soldiers took the bazooka and jumped down, and soon climbed onto the ground. Under the cover of the tanks that slowly moved towards the wall, they were ready to rush towards the Iraqi positions opposite.
The anti-tank rocket launchers in their hands have been tested by war.
It has great power to deal with advanced third-generation tanks like t72!
As the armored vehicles retreated, many infantrymen were blown into a pile of minced meat and blood mist by the dense bullets fired from the opposite side and the small shells on the armored vehicles. Meshalyi immediately roared!
"Machine Gunner, cover!" (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!