Chapter five hundred and thirty eight battle plan
"His Excellency Kusai, we only use two thousand airborne troops to attack Tehran, which is probably very difficult, right?" Although Kusai's reputation as a god of war has spread throughout Iraq, as the Minister of Defense and as a confidant of Kusai, Adnan felt that he needed to remind him that he should not be confused by the victory in front of him.
"Yes, although Iran's military strength has been very weak under our several offensives, the total population of Iran is there. If Iran is in a state of war, Iran will easily organize more armed forces, such as those young soldiers who are not afraid of death. Now, Iran has nearly 20,000 troops in Tehran, so if we want to win, we have to send out surprise troops." Kusai said.
To launch a surprise attack? If I had known, Kusai would have had a trick.
"Airborne troops are the sharpest daggers and are used by us in the places we need most, because if we attack Tehran head-on, not to mention the speed of the troops' advancement, even if we reach the periphery of Tehran, we will be subject to the most fierce resistance. What we fear most is that the Iranians will fight with us in the streets. In this way, our weapon advantage will not be used at all, and our casualties will be very large." Kusai said: "We must avoid major casualties, so we must reuse our original tactics."
The original tactics? The generals remembered Abadan, who could not be captured for a long time, and was successfully attracted by Kusai. However, will the Iranians be fooled in the second time?
"His Excellency Kusai, Tehran is the capital of Iran. It may not be easy to lure the defenders there." said the Air Force Commander.
"Yes, it is not easy to directly lead it out, but if we attack the area in southern Tehran, do you think the Iranians will send reinforcements?" Kusai said.
After saying this, everyone understood that their commander wanted to kill Iran!
"We have arrived in Hamadan at present. As long as we send troops to the southeast, then the Iranian army in Tehran will definitely be dispatched." Kusai said.
"But even so, we may not be able to complete this mission with airborne troops, right?" Taha asked: "Even if the Iranians sent reinforcements, they will leave at least half of them in Tehran. Our airborne troops do not have heavy weapons, and the battle will probably not be so fast. At that time, as long as the Iranians come back and retreat to Tehran before our heavy troops arrive, we will still have great resistance."
"Don't forget, we have a team of native Iranians," Kusai said. "They can disguise themselves as a reinforcement from Ghazwan and pass through the junction between Ghazwan and the Central Province. When they reach Tehran a hundred kilometers away, it is when our airborne troops operate."
No wonder Your Excellency Kusai attaches so much importance to that army. It turns out that he wants that army to go to the battlefield!
"And, our airborne troops mainly control the airport. As long as the government buildings and the Ministry of Defense completely control these places, even if we control the focus of Tehran, and after we control the airport, the later troops can also transfer part of the troops through the airport."
Why control the airport? Because, with the airport, follow-up personnel will continue to arrive! With the continuous joining of follow-up personnel, plus the Iranian National Liberation Army, they only need to defend the first day. Then, Iraq's heavy troops can arrive in Tehran!
At that time, Tehran will take it down and sweep away the top leaders of Iran. So, will this Iran-Iraq war end so decently?
The senior Iraqi figures at the scene showed a happy expression on their faces after hearing Kusai's words. They did not expect that Kusai would actually occupy Tehran in this way. They seemed to have seen that the entire Iran had been integrated into Iraq's territory.
Just as Iraqi senior officials were planning their operations to attack Tehran with confidence, fierce battles were underway on the other side of the earth.
The American airborne troops were surprised to find that after they jumped out of the cabin, the one who greeted them was Death.
Because the firepower on the ground was not completely removed, the paratroopers who jumped off in advance suffered heavy casualties.
The rear several transport planes immediately raised their height and flew quickly over the airport.
At the same time, the ground attack aircraft just now flew towards here again. They regretted their losses and expressed indignation for the hidden enemies on the ground.
However, since there were already people on the ground at this time, they imagined that using firepower as unscrupulously as before would cause too much accidental injury. Therefore, they had to carefully identify the target. In the air, they had to slow down their speed.
"Prepare to carry missiles on your shoulders and let the Americans taste our power." Voramir said.
With his orders, the armed personnel who had been ready to carry Sam missiles began to aim.
Kill the big guys first! They accumulated a lot of hatred against the ac-130e armed transport aircraft that spit out flames to both sides. In the first round of attacks just now, most of the comrades who died were dead in the attacks of such air gunboats.
At this time, the air gunboats were not aware of the threat on the ground. If there were weapons on the ground that could deal with them, they would have fired in the first round of their own attacks. They were convinced that the anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground were only lethal to the airborne personnel and had no threat to them.
They didn't know that they were wrong again this time.
The machine gunners on the air gunboat were looking out from the opened side door, and umbrellas could be seen falling to the ground everywhere, but the people above were dead, and the remaining paratroopers were gathering in one place.
Where were the Grenadas hiding? The firepower on the ground seemed to suddenly disappear.
Suddenly, a stream of white smoke appeared from a low building.
"Air defense missile!" the machine gunner shouted: "Note, there are air defense missiles on the ground!"
When the pilot in the front cabin heard this, he immediately opened the throttle, pulled up the bulky plane, and turned on the switch of the hot flame bomb.
Suddenly, spectacular hot flame bombs appeared on both sides of the air gunboat, scattering downwards like fireworks. This is the only self-defense weapon on this plane.
It is impossible for the air gunboat to dodge such missiles to make a high overload maneuver. They can only hope that the hot flame bomb can lead to the target while climbing up.
Fortunately, they dodged the missile.
However, then, another missile flew up from the other side.
This missile is the latest shoulder-mounted air defense missile that has only been equipped with the Soviet army this year, Sam-18!
The Sam-18 missile was developed in 1971, but it did not enter the army until 1983. It can face and chase and attack various low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude targets, hover helicopters and other targets. The combat performance is still not out of date until twenty years later.
Now, this missile has shown its power for the first time, and it can be completely distinguished from the false targets of the hot flame bomb!
In the history of the Soviet army, it was the first time that a weapon and equipment unit had been put into actual combat in less than a year.
"Boom!" The missile accurately hit an engine of the air gunboat. The 1.27 kg high-explosion sieve killing warhead with a near-explosion fuse torn the wings. The air gunboat immediately rolled in the air and then fell down.
Seeing that the aerial gunboat was shot down, the remaining few had to accelerate and rise, leaving this dangerous airspace and conducting such attacks at low altitude. What they feared the most was the air defense missiles on the ground.
The a-6 attack aircraft and the a-7 attack aircraft then arrived. They are flexible attack aircraft specially designed to eliminate this threat.
Towards the location where the air defense missile was launched just now, the A-6 attack aircraft fired a series of rockets, turning the place into ruins.
Fierce battles are constantly taking place.
At the airport, the US parachute troops suffered great losses, but in other directions, their offense was still smooth.
The US carrier-based aviation force carried out aviation fire preparations on Grenwell. 400 Marines from the 84-1 Marine Amphibious Guarantee Brigade boarded the land of Grenwell on a helicopter from the amphibious assault ship "Guam", and occupied the city in eastern Grenada with the 800 US troops who arrived later.
At the same time, the US Marine Corps is also preparing to land from southern Grenada Island.
Just after the US invasion of Grenada began, the Reagan administration discovered that the statement that it proposed to rescue its citizens had no support in the world, and most countries around the world expressed strong opposition.
Almost all countries believe that this war is an aggressive war launched by the United States against a sovereign state, and all of them oppose the United States, including the United States' Western European Union. Just after the Soviet Union brazenly invaded Afghanistan, they did not expect that the United States would also launch an invasion of a sovereign state in this way!
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States held an emergency meeting in Washington, believing that the United States' behavior in Grenada seriously undermined the "non-interference principle" and demanded that the United States withdraw its troops immediately. When the United Nations Security Council voted for the "American aggression" case proposed by Nicaragua, 11 votes were in favor, and the United States immediately vetoed its veto to prevent the proposal from passing. What Reagan did not expect was that even Britain abstained this time because Grenada was a member of the Commonwealth!
The only thing that the Reagan administration can be pleased with is probably the beginning of this incident, which suppressed the inside story of the Korean Air passenger plane that was so popular some time ago.
Chapter completed!