Chapter 36: Take a sharp turn

The Israeli army invaded, leaving Jordan with no choice.

At 10 o'clock on the night of the 16th, the King of Jordan convened an emergency cabinet meeting. After the military made a guarantee, he finally decided to declare war on Israel.

Half an hour later, the Jordanian ambassador met with Du Xiaolei and formally proposed that Jordan would declare war on Israel within twelve hours, hoping that China could provide military assistance within its capacity, help Jordan defeat the invading enemy and protect Jordan's territory and sovereignty integrity.

Although Jordan's attitude changed a little late, Du Xiaolei couldn't ask for it and immediately made a promise.

After reporting to Huang Hanlin, Du Xiaolei went to find Mu Haoyang and discussed sending troops to Jordan.

At this time, it was the early morning of the 17th battlefield time, and Mu Haoyang sent the news as soon as possible, so Yu Shihui notified Jiang Bowen in time.

Du Xiaolei said a few words very simple, but it stumped Mu Haoyang.

You should know that at that time, there was only one way to provide emergency assistance to Jordan: deploy combat forces through strategic air transport.

The problem is that the Air Force transport fleet is transporting air forces to Iraq, and it is impossible to draw enough transport aircraft to support Jordan.

Of course, Mu Haoyang did not disappoint Du Xiaolei, and immediately expressed that he would do his best to protect Jordan.

In any case, Mu Haoyang is still a little politically conscious, and has known Du Xiaolei for so many years, and has more or less understood the key points of diplomacy. Before asking Huang Hanlin for advice, Du Xiaolei agreed to provide security guarantees for Jordan, and his main motivation was diplomatic interests. To put it bluntly, Jordan's participation in the war will completely change the position of the Arab world and allow more Arab countries to join this war against Israel. Israel has declared war on China, and it is the United States of the United States. Therefore, the actions of Arab countries will add points to China to a great extent. More importantly, the general mobilization of Arab countries is extremely beneficial to the war situation in the Middle East.

For Mu Haoyang, even if he can't do it, he still needs to find a way to do it.

After talking to Du Xiaolei, he spoke to his mother Qi Tie to ask about the situation of the Air Force transport fleet.

The mother Qi Tie's reply was very direct. All the transport planes that could fly to Jordan have been used. Unless Iran promised to open the airport, the tactical transport planes would not be able to fly over. Obviously, even if Iran wants to open the airport, it would have to spend some effort on diplomacy, and it would definitely be difficult to meet Jordan's needs immediately.

However, his mother Qi Tie did not disappoint Mu Haoyang.

At that time, he proposed two solutions. One was to strengthen the air force deployed in Iraq and allow the air force to undertake some strike tasks, so as to weaken the Israeli army's combat operations in Jordan, cover the Jordanian Army to consolidate Amman's defense deployment, and gain enough time. The other was to complete the task of deploying air defense fighter jets to Iraq, that is, from the afternoon of the 17th, the strategic transport aircraft group was used to airlift a batch of ground troops to Jordan.

Mu Haoyang did not make a decision immediately, but pulled Qi Kaiwei in.

Obviously, Qi Kaiwei supports the latter option because it can make the army play a greater role. And according to what he said, after the 13th Army launched an attack, the Israeli army would inevitably focus on the border area of ​​Jordania. It is impossible to dispatch too much force to attack Amman. Just send a symbolic force to ensure that Amman is safe. In fact, Qi Kaiwei even believes that it only needs to inspire the morale of the Jordanian army, and the method is very simple: send a ground force to make the Jordanian army believe that it is fighting side by side with the Chinese army.

Of course, Qi Kaiwei is not blindly confident.

In the eyes of Arab countries, the Chinese army, especially the Chinese army, is a myth of invincibility.

After weighing the pros and cons, Mu Haoyang adopted Qi Kaiwei's suggestion and asked him to draw a force from the 333rd Preparatory Army to send it to Amman.

When reporting to Du Xiaolei, Mu Haoyang also mentioned that if the Jordanian army needs it, it can provide supplies and equipment.

Obviously, Mu Haoyang and Qi Kaiwei made a mistake at this time, that is, they overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Israeli army and underestimated the strategic deployment of the Israeli army.

The main reason for this illusion is definitely the battle a few hours ago.

The two assault clusters almost wiped out the 7th Armored Brigade of the Israeli Army within two hours, and their own casualties were almost negligible, which made Mu Haoyang and Qi Kaiwei full of confidence in the army, believing that they could defend Amman by sending thousands of officers and soldiers.

When Mu Haoyang and Qi Kaiwei made this decision, the battle ahead had already begun.

After receiving the order to "get it aside", Jiang Bowen immediately sent a small reconnaissance force into Jordan, controlled the Jabir Station north of Malfrak, and blocked the expressway from Amman to Damascus. Although there was an ordinary road to Damascus through Dela, there were enough signs that the main force of the Israeli army was on the highway and would use the expressway as the main marching route. From a geographical point of view, the expressway was in the east. If the Israeli army planned to encircle it, it would also enter Syria from here.

Of course, the Israeli army may not necessarily launch an attack along the expressway.

You should know that the Middle East is mainly desert-based, which is very suitable for mechanized troops to advance in the field. As long as there is sufficient purpose, the Israeli army will march in the field.

At 1:30 a.m., the reconnaissance forces that controlled Jabir Station took the initiative to move south.

Half an hour later, the Chinese and Israeli troops encountered the north of Malfrak.

Both sides are small reconnaissance units, so this encounter did not make a name for themselves. After half an hour of entanglement, they each withdrew.

This battle also made the Israeli army inform that the Chinese army had entered Jordan.

The problem before Baram was very serious because he did not expect the Chinese army to be so fast, nor did he expect the Chinese army to take the initiative.

What's more serious is that the Chinese Air Force fighter jets have appeared above the battlefield.

In an air battle at 1:30 a.m., the Israeli Air Force lost eighteen fighters, and the other side lost only three. Moreover, Israeli pilots found that the fighters they fought did not belong to Syria, and were obviously a new type of fighter that was completely different from the J-30.

Obviously, there is only one possibility, this is the Chinese Air Force's j-31.

The Israeli army's judgment was correct. At that time, the first batch of J-31 was indeed the J-31, rather than the J-30, which was usually used to perform air control missions. The reason is very simple. All J-30s of the Chinese Air Force were arranged on other battlefields, most of which were performing local air defense missions. On the night of the 16th, the Air Force could only mobilize J-31, and among the four fighter wings, the J-31 was equipped in Pakistan. This wing was the closest to Iraq and arrived first, so it carried out the first round of air defense patrol missions in the early morning of the 17th.

Of course, the air combat performance of these j-31s is not bad.

Although the j-31 was a multi-purpose model to make up for the gap in the attack force generated by the j-22 after its large-scale retirement, in 2050, after the Air Force's financial shortage was alleviated, it turned to purchase j-31 with stronger air control capabilities, and gradually improved the original j-31. At that time, the pure multi-purpose j-31 was basically deployed in China, and those sent abroad were all air-control enhancement types.

In other words, the air combat capabilities of these j-31s are not only not worse than those of j-30, but also more prominent.

Of course, the Israeli Air Force's defeat in air combat was related to underestimating the enemy or intelligence, because before that, no one knew that China had sent fighters to Iraq. As a result, when the Israeli Air Force pilot encountered an opponent in the air, he thought the other side was a Syrian fighter. In addition, the air combat was carried out at night, and the outline of the fighter on the night vision device was very blurry. When the fighting stage entered, the Israeli pilot discovered the abnormality.

Fighting with J-31, the Israeli fighter jets have no chance of winning.

According to the tests of the Chinese Air Force, the fighting ability of the air-control strengthened j-31 exceeds that of j-30, and can briefly reach a maximum overload of twenty g during maneuvering, while the maximum overload of the latest j-30 is only eighteen g, while the f-44c of the Israeli army can only reach fifteen g.

As for the quality of pilots, the Israeli army has no advantage.

It has only been seven years since the Second Indian Ocean War. Most of the pilots who participated in the war were still in service and are in the golden age of pilots.

More importantly, this J-31 aircraft group came from Pakistan and was the main force in the Second Indian Ocean War.

At that time, among the ninety-six groups of pilots in this wing, twelve groups were ace pilots, and the most record reached fourteen.

Relatively speaking, fifteen years have passed since the Fifteenth Middle East War. Most of the Israeli pilots who participated in the war had retired, and those who had not retired had left the front-line troops. Only a very small number were still serving in the fighter troops, and their experience was obviously far inferior to that of Chinese pilots. The only advantage of Israeli pilots was that they participated in the war more than ten days in advance and gained some practical experience in fighting with the Egyptian-Syrian Air Force. The problem is that the Egyptian-Syrian Air Force could not be compared with the Chinese Air Force at all, and these experiences were often not useful at all.

It can be said that Balam was very sober at that time.

According to the information disclosed later, the first thing Baram did in the early morning of the 17th was not to issue new combat orders to the frontline troops, but to call the Israeli Prime Minister, asking the Prime Minister to come forward in person and ask the United States to send troops, especially air forces, to participate in the war as soon as possible. According to Baram, if the United States does not send air forces to the war immediately, Israel is likely to lose air supremacy in the next few days.

Anyone with some common sense knows what it means to lose air supremacy.

However, Baram was a bit overestimating the Chinese Air Force because all those involved in the war were air combat aircraft. Even if the J-31 was a real multi-purpose fighter, even if the air-controlled model had complete ground strike capabilities, the Chinese Air Force did not transport ground strike ammunition to the front line. Considering the subsequent delivery of ground troops to Jordan and the logistical support pressure after the start of a large-scale ground war, it is unlikely that the Chinese Air Force's fighter aircraft will gain ground strike capabilities in the next few days.

Of course, these situations are enough to make Baram make a new judgment on the battle situation.

Chapter 36: Take a sharp turn
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