Chapter 552: Take the Airport
In the north of Tehran, the 138th Division was stationed.
When the order was passed to the division commander, the 138th Division was having supper. The division commander Wahari put down his hand to grab the rice and immediately ordered the gathering of troops.
At this time, gunfire sounds were vaguely heard from the west of Tehran. In that direction, the direction was the direction of the Tehran Air Force Base. You could hear the sound of war between thirty kilometers apart!
While the 138th Division was gathering quickly, the soldiers who were eating put down their rice bowls, picked up the guns that were placed aside, and started gathering outside.
Then the car started, and they climbed onto the car and rushed to the west to reinforce.
Although they have been trained by Israeli instructors and have never taken the gun to become qualified soldiers, they have only been training for a few months. The quality they showed is already high enough in this emergency assembly and rapid dispatch. However, compared with the regular professional army, they are still lacking, especially when they are going to fight this time, but everyone did not expect to receive enough ammunition before setting off.
The officers did not remember that they needed to distribute at least one base of ammunition to soldiers from the arsenal. They just wanted to execute combat orders as soon as possible to reinforce the air bases attacked by Iraqi airborne troops. The soldiers did not know that due to nervousness, they would pull the trigger and scatter the entire magazine. The only two magazines they carried with them were not enough to consume.
Two airborne battalions and 1,400 airborne troops, two soldiers unfortunately died during the landing, and three others were injured when landing and lost their combat ability.
These losses are already very small and almost negligible.
Under the personal command of the regiment commander Abed, they relied on the light weapons in their hands to start fighting the Iranian defenders.
The initial battle went very smoothly.
Because the Iranian defenders were first bombed, they suffered heavy casualties and were unable to react for a while, and even deserters appeared. However, as the battle progressed, as the bullets flew past their ears, the surviving Iranian defenders began to counterattack.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the airborne landing at dusk could minimize the losses, but because it was fighting on unfamiliar terrain and the area of the airport was very large, it would take a process for them to completely eliminate the remaining enemies here.
The advantages of airborne troops are not only available to receive assistance from heaven, but also to some night vision devices. In this era, night vision devices were still relatively expensive high-tech products and could only be distributed to elite special forces. For airborne regiments, they can only be distributed in a ratio of 10 to 1, which means that a squad can only have one unit for a squad leader.
Even so, after using the night vision device, it is already a big boom for the airborne troops.
The remaining defenders began to fight back with their familiarity with the terrain.
A five-person paratrooper team slowly touched the end of the runway, and one of the soldiers carrying night vision devices was searching around vigilantly.
Suddenly, he stopped. A hundred meters away from the front, there were two dark green shadows in the night vision instrument. They were two Iranian defenders lying on the ground, trying to launch a sneak attack on them.
In such dark nights, the distance that can be seen is very short. They have not yet discovered their own side. Although they have heard the sound of their own footsteps, they still cannot determine their specific direction.
He made a gesture to his teammates around him. Before becoming an airborne, they had already experienced it on the battlefield between Iran and Iran, and it was easy to deal with the two Iranians.
The five people were divided into two groups, two continued to walk forward slowly, and the other three touched the target from the other direction.
Just after the two soldiers who continued to move forward walked forward twenty meters, the two Iranians on the opposite side finally couldn't stand it anymore and pulled the trigger.
The fire from the muzzle completely exposed their position. The moment they fired the bullet, five assault rifles opened fire at their hiding place.
"Tutu, Tutu." Each person only shot three points once, and accurately hit the two Iranian soldiers on the ground.
Similar battles were taking place throughout the airport.
Abed commanded nearly 200 airborne troops, and the F-20 fighter jets in the air launched two Maverick missiles again. After accurately attacking the tower, he launched a charge and attacked the most collapsed tower. He also captured more than 30 people, including the commander of the air force base.
Shaking the soil on the tablecloth, Abed sat in front of the tower's podium. The glass on the tower was broken. From here, you can see all the scenes outside.
There were also sporadic gunfires, but if nothing unexpected happened, they would completely clear the area within half an hour.
"Send a report to General Adnan, Commander-in-Chief, that we have controlled the entire airport and will organize the runway later. The subsequent transport planes can land here in half an hour." Abed said to the adjutant beside him.
The reason why the main force of the airborne troops landed at the airport and controlled it is because, with the airport, they can transport heavy equipment by air as soon as possible to prepare for the subsequent battles.
In modern warfare, airports have become the most important place for military strategists to fight for.
In the battle just now, all the equipment on the tower was damaged. After the power supply was interrupted, the equipment was no longer available, but a spare radio station was still working.
The battle was going straightforward and Abed felt a little happy. He dramatically picked up the headphones of the radio station and put them on his head. He heard an urgent call inside: "Blue bird, blue bird, please continue to hold on. Reinforcements have set out, please be sure to hold on."
Bluebird is the call code for Tehran Air Force Base.
Reinforcements are coming? Unexpectedly, they are coming so fast! Abed is nervous. He is not afraid of war. But in this case, the second batch of transport planes that want to land on the runway will be in danger.
"We will deal with the Iranians who came here to die," said Abed.
If the Iranians who came came carried air defense missiles, the transport plane would be tragic. The small transport plane was fine. If the Il-76 was shot like this, Abed could think of how His Excellency Kusai would be angry with him with his toes. That was the strategic transportation force of the Iraqi Air Force.
Abed spoke very easily because he didn't know that the commanders of Tehran attached so much importance to him that they actually sent all the reserve forces and a whole reorganized division. The only thing that allowed him to comfort him was probably that this reorganized division was just an infantry division, and was equipped with only light weapons. Even if the Iranians who came had dozens of tanks, it would be a great threat to them.
"Call for air support." Although Abed was proud, he was able to recognize the current situation and kill the Iranian reinforcements, whether it was done by planes in the sky or by his own airborne troops. What he needed most now is the result.
After receiving Abed's request, the early warning aircraft immediately mobilized two Su-25 attack aircraft hovering near the Tehran Air Force Base to stop the Iranian reinforcements.
The Tehran Air Force Base is not in the city, but in the suburbs about ten kilometers away from the center of the city. Therefore, the troops coming to reinforce must pass through the road leading to the Tehran Air Force Base, no matter which station is dispatched, no matter which station is deployed, they must pass through the highway to the Tehran Air Force Base.
At this time, on this highway, cars were loaded with Iranian soldiers, coming quickly. Some soldiers were standing in the carriage, and some were outside the carriage, holding the railings on the carriage. They looked serious and they were slightly excited.
Because, this is their first battle!
The 138th Infantry Division, since it is a purebred infantry division, is completely infantry, without artillery and armored soldiers, has only more than 5,000 people. Although they have only been formed for a few months and have not experienced actual combat, their sense of war is still relatively strong.
But they didn't know what a cruel battle they would be.
When the Su-25 flew to the predetermined location, the Iranian troops on the ground had already entered only two thousand meters from the Tehran Air Force Base.
Under the wings of Su-25, six S-24 240mm rocket launch nests were mounted. The pilot pressed the operating rod downwards, and then pressed the launch button.
Fire flashed under the wings, and rockets gushed out of the rocket launch nest and flew towards the dense vehicles on the road.
"Boom!" A car was the first to be hit by a rocket. The 240mm rocket was extremely powerful. The car was immediately blown into the sky. The fire lit up illuminated the entire convoy and pointed out the direction for the subsequent attacks of fighter jets.
"Quick, get off the car and hide, carry missiles on your shoulders, and kill those two planes." Division Commander Wahari immediately ordered when he saw the convoy in front of him being attacked by the plane.
The car behind stopped, and the Iranian soldiers jumped out of the car. Now they are not far from the air force base. Even if they don't use cars, they can still arrive.
On a jeep, two Iranian soldiers did not jump out of the car and carried a stinger air defense missile directly on the car.
Due to the lack of weapons, their newly formed infantry division only has a total of more than a dozen portable air defense missiles.
Putting on the headphones and looking at the scope, the Iranian soldier aimed at the attack aircraft that was spitting out flames. A beep sound came from the headphones, and the missile had locked the target.
In the ignited fire, against the backdrop of the flames, Iranian soldiers pulled the trigger, ignited the stinger missile from the launcher, and flew into the sky. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)!~!
Chapter completed!