In the history of war, the impact of some coincidental factors on the battle situation often exceeds the combat operations deliberately planned by the commander.

The coincidence factor on November 22 produced a similar effect.

When the task force commanded by Mu Haoyang attacked Digo Garcia, the Israeli army also launched a campaign with the code-name "King David" to capture Amman.

Judging from the battle code name, it can prove how much the Israeli army attaches importance to this battle.

In fact, no matter how much the Israeli army attaches great importance to it, because whether it can capture Amman in time will determine whether the Israeli army can rush ahead of its opponent and launch a decisive attack on the southern Syria battlefield. Judging from the situation at that time, if the Israeli army cannot launch an attack before its opponent, failure will be a foregone conclusion.

According to the information released after the war, on the night of the 20th, Baram submitted a new combat plan to the Prime Minister.

In this combat plan, the Israeli army's next step is not to march into Damascus, but to sweep west from Dela to encircle and annihilate the Syrian army in the protruding part of the Golan Heights, thereby freeing the fourteen elite brigades on the Golan Heights, and leveling the front line, and then considering marching into Damascus.

However, in order to complete this task, the Israeli army must first conquer Amman.

The reason is very simple. Without passing through the Amman railways and highways, the Israeli army was unable to deploy more combat troops in Dela, and could not form a strong enough defense line in the east to resist the Chinese army still entrenched in Suveda Province when there were fewer crossings to the west.

According to Balam's combat deployment, during the attack on Amman, he would reorganize the Israeli army and use the broken troops to form fifteen brigades, plus the ten mobilized reserve brigades and six brigades of Dera, so the Israeli army could invest thirty-one brigades.

Of course, the key is whether we can capture Amman in time.

To this end, Baram planned a 22-day offensive operation.

Unfortunately, the battle was not going well from the beginning.

You should know that on the 20th and 21st, especially on the 21st, the Chinese Air Force sent 360 fighter jets to Iraq, and allowed more than 200 large electric transport aircraft to fly back and forth three times. Not only did it transport ground-flight equipment to Iraq to maintain 360 fighter jets, but it also sent nearly 100,000 tons of ammunition, two-thirds of which were ground strike ammunition. Iraq also provided sufficient fuel for these Chinese fighters to reduce the logistics burden of the Chinese Air Force, otherwise the transport aircraft would be used to transport fuel.

The result was that in the 22nd day of the battle, Yimei's air power encountered unprecedented challenges.

In the early morning of the 22nd alone, the two sides fought four large-scale air battles over Jordan, and each time the parties invested more than one hundred fighter jets.

Although high-intensity air combat has caused more than 400 fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force to run away and have no chance to use ground strike ammunition stored on the airport, it has also exhausted the US air force and it is difficult to provide air support to ground forces under ideal conditions.

Without air support, it would be difficult for the Israeli army to attack Amman to go smoothly.

You should know that in addition to the more than 80,000 officers and soldiers of the Kingdom of Jordan, there were three brigades of the 333rd Reserve Army of the Chinese Army and more than 200,000 paramilitary personnel mobilized. Because the Israeli army besieged Amman during the Battle of Dela, but returned in vain, by the 22nd, Amman's defense strength not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot.

At that time, Amman was a fortress.

At dawn, although the Israeli army broke through the defense line outside the city and attacked the Amman city, it did not capture the airport as Baram expected.

In fact, until that night, the Israeli army was unable to capture the airport.

The reason is very simple. Among the three Chinese army brigades, two and a half were near the airport, and only a small group of troops were assisting the Jordanian army in guarding the royal palace and other places.

The intention of the defenders is also very simple, which is to guard the airport.

As long as the airport is still in hand, the Israeli army will not expect to occupy Amman, because the Chinese army can obtain support from the rear from the airport at any time.

On the night of the 22nd, the Chinese Air Force dispatched a fleet of transport aircraft and conducted an emergency airlift to Amman.

During this air transport, not only did the entire main combat equipment of an armored brigade and about 10,000 tons of supplies were sent, but also 12,000 officers and soldiers were sent.

Of course, this air freight also paid an extremely heavy price, with at least seventeen large electric transport aircraft being shot down.

Importantly, this strategic air transport completely destroyed the Israeli army's attempt to capture Amman.

You should know that after this, the Chinese army in Amman had reached four brigades, and its strength increased to 23,000, which was equivalent to five brigades of the Israeli army in terms of combat effectiveness.

At that time, there were only eight brigades in total, while there were only three brigades in the airport direction.

The battle in Amman City lasted until the early morning of the 23rd. After nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers were injured and killed and still not made a major breakthrough, the Israeli army had to stop the attack.

Shortly after dawn, the Israeli army retreated.

The reason is very simple. In combat in the urban area, the Israeli army suffered extremely heavy losses and could not last long. If they did not retreat outside the city in time, they would be surrounded and annihilated by the China-Obama coalition. The direct reason for the Israeli army's retreat was that in a counterattack in the early morning, an assault force of the Chinese army passed through the gaps in the defense zone between the two brigades of the Israeli army, entered the rear of the Israeli army, and dropped the Israeli army's material storage center located in the western suburbs of Amman. Although the assault did not cause any greater damage, the assault force with only two battalions also retreated immediately, the Israeli army lost more than 10,000 tons of combat materials, mainly ammunition, which led to a complete collapse of the logistics system.

In fact, this attack was a coincidence.

At that time, the Israeli army was about to use the reserve team to withdraw the two brigades. As a result, when arranging the replacement of defense, the Israeli army staff did not let the two brigades retreat in turn, but let the two brigades retreat at the same time, resulting in a very chaotic situation in the defense zone and a clear crack appeared between the defense zone. More importantly, the commander of the Chinese army did not know this situation at that time, but decided to launch a tentative counterattack to find out the reality of the Israeli army in order to re-deploy the defense line after dawn to welcome a new round of attacks by the Israeli army. Among the three counterattack troops he sent, the middle of the army was aimed at the crack in the middle of the Israeli army's defense line, and by chance, it fought when the Israeli army changed its defense.

If this is not the case, the Chinese military's assault will definitely end in failure.

Of course, the greater coincidence is that the Israeli front-line commander regarded this counterattack as a signal of the Chinese army's counterattack, and believed that the Chinese army was strong enough to launch a counterattack. You should know that on the night of the 22nd, the Chinese army was comprehensively strengthened.

Affected by this, Major General Netanyahu, the commander of the Israeli army, issued a retreat order in the early morning.

Now, it will not be so easy for the Israeli army to invade Amman city again.

In fact, the retreat order issued by Netanyahu has declared that the Israeli army's attack on Amman was completely failed. Although the Israeli army launched several attacks on Amman after this, the scale of each time was very limited. The main purpose was not to capture Amman, but to prevent the Amman defenders from counterattacking. It was from this day that the Amman siege, which lasted for 188 days, officially kicked off. In the next six months, the Israeli army had been besieging Amman but not capturing Amman, and the Central Euro army did not launch a counterattack in Amman. During this six-month siege, the Israeli army was doing

The most common one was shelling Amman, and the most Chinese army did was to repair the airports destroyed by shelling. In order to ensure that Amman did not fall into the hands of the Israeli army, the Chinese army began a strategic air operation to Amman. During the entire encirclement war, the Chinese Air Force dispatched more than 8,000 transport aircraft and airlifted 1.5 million tons of supplies to Amman, ensuring that more than 2 million soldiers and civilians in Amman could have no worries about food and clothing, and also ensuring that the Amman defenders did not run out of ammunition and food. In this amazing strategic air operation, the Chinese Air Force lost more than 100 transport aircraft and killed more than 300 pilots.

It can be said that the Amman siege gave the Chinese Air Force a chance to demonstrate its continued combat power.

It was this siege war that made the top leaders of the Chinese military believe in the huge potential of strategic air freight and provided a theoretical basis for the large-scale development of air freight forces in the later stage.

Of course, this battle also fundamentally changed the Israeli army's offensive strategy.

The most direct influence is that Balam had to give up his dream of winning a decisive victory on the northern battlefield, that is, he no longer aims to march into Damascus as his fundamental purpose.

By December, with the arrival of US reinforcements and the completion of Israel's second phase of war mobilization, the Israeli army began a combat operation to sweep the entire Jordan. It burned the war to Saudi Arabia, which eventually led to many countries in the Arab world declaring war on Israel and the United States.

Of course, these are all later stories.

The battle in Amman on the 22nd strengthened the influence of the Chinese Navy to attack Digo Garcia in disguise, which was equivalent to urging the US military to take action in the Indian Ocean as soon as possible.

Judging from the situation at that time, the top U.S. military officials had no reason to suspect that China was launching a strategic counterattack in the Indian Ocean.

Although there is enough evidence to show that Mu Haoyang, who is in the task force, has nothing to do with the Battle of Amman, and Zhou Yusheng does not have enough ability to affect the army's combat operations. The Battle of Amman and the task force's attack on Digo Garcia were actually just a coincidence, but the US authorities could not understand the relationship at that time, and could not believe it was just a coincidence, but would regard it as a signal of China launching a strategic counterattack.

There is no doubt that these two battles are inherently connected.

Not to mention anything else, who will ultimately belong to the Indian Ocean sea power will definitely have a decisive impact on the Middle East War.

It is precisely this inner connection that has allowed the high-level US military to connect this series of battles. That is, losing Digo Garcia is equivalent to losing the sea control power of the Indian Ocean, and losing the sea control power of the Indian Ocean is equivalent to losing the Middle East War, and losing the Middle East War is equivalent to losing the entire war.

Regardless of whether this understanding is correct or not, its impact is extremely far-reaching.
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