Chapter 152 Offensive General

Although Jiang Bowen and Qi Kaiwei sang opposite each other on the battlefield in Iran, they almost made Qi Kaiwei unable to get out of the stage, it is undeniable that Jiang Bowen is Qi Kaiwei's favorite student and has been deeply influenced by Qi Kaiwei's true teachings. He has many similarities with Qi Kaiwei, such as having a very clear view of the overall situation.

In late August, after being appointed as the acting war zone commander, Jiang Bowen first asked the Iranian army retreating to the western mountainous areas to actively harasse the US-Russian coalition forces, and through its previous relationship, namely its relationship with Yu Shihui, to provide support and assistance to the Iranian army in the region from Iraq.

At that time, Yu Shihui was already an army general and commander of the Middle East War Zone.

This harassing military action is not very helpful in attacking the US-Russian coalition forces, but it can minimize the combat forces of the US-Russian coalition forces.

More importantly, the Iranian army is very good at fighting guerrilla warfare.

You should know that as early as the early 21st century, the Iranian authorities formulated a local strategic defense plan and placed guerrilla warfare on a very high position. At that time, Iran even formed a special force under the ** Guard to be based on guerrilla warfare training for a long time. Although after the Second Korean War, to be precise, after the First Indian Ocean War, the security environment of Iran improved, the Iranian authorities did not reduce their attention to local guerrilla warfare, because all Iranian leaders knew that even if they could become a friendly country of China, it would be difficult to become an ally of China under the overall peace of the world situation, and it would be impossible to obtain absolute security guarantees.

Decades of guerrilla training have had an impact on the Iranian army that is difficult to express in words.

On the front battlefield, the Iranian army performed very poorly, and it could even be said to be defeated at once. Even when facing the Russian army with weak combat effectiveness, it was difficult to achieve satisfactory results. However, when we arrived at the battlefield behind enemy lines, Iranian soldiers were like they were completely reborn. In the words of General Gris, who was commanding the US military in Iran at that time, in the mountains, Iranian soldiers were hard to catch goats.

Of course, this metaphor is a bit inappropriate.

Iranian soldiers are definitely not goats that eat grass, but mountain leopards that eat meat.

The harassing battle lasted until early September, with less than 100,000 Iranian guerrillas holding at least 10,000 US troops, and about five times the Russian troops.

In some local battles, the Iranian guerrillas also achieved extremely gratifying results.

For example, on September 4, Iranian guerrillas ambushed a Russian army that entered the ambush circle, killed more than 100 Russian officers and soldiers in the battle, and captured 300 people. After the battle, Iranian guerrillas discovered that the ones fighting with them were actually all female soldiers.

You know, in Islamic culture, women are not warriors at all.

Later, these female Russian soldiers were sent to Iraq and were sent to China's prisoner-of-war camp in early 2054. After Russia was defeated, they were first repatriated.

In fact, during the entire war, Russia mobilized almost two million female soldiers, and about one-third of them were sent to the front line. According to information released after the war, at least 500,000 Russian female soldiers were injured and killed in the war, and about 100,000 were captured.

In terms of proportion, Russia is the country that mobilizes women to join the army the most, and is also the only country that allows women to serve on the front-line army.

This is obviously related to Russia's special national conditions.

According to the census data released by the Russian authorities in 2051, women accounted for 57.4%, one of the countries with the largest population gender gap in the world, second only to Japan and Norway. The main reason why women are much more than men is not that the male birth rate is low. At that time, Russia's male birth rate was actually slightly higher than women. The fundamental reason was that the average life expectancy of men was far lower than that of women. According to this census, the average life expectancy of Russian women was 82 years, while the average life expectancy of men was only 64 years old.

In fact, this is related to traditional Russian culture.

As a high-latitude country, alcohol, especially spirits, has long become a part of Russian culture, and "vodka" has even become synonymous with Russia. Although there is no official statistics, according to surveys by some private institutions, the alcohol abuse rate of Russian men is as high as 70%. In fact, diseases caused by alcoholism or alcoholism are the main cause of death for Russian men.

During the war, this led to a serious shortage of men who could join the army.

In order to supplement the military's combat losses, Russia had to recruit women to serve on a large scale.

You should know that after losing Siberia, Russia not only lost 60% of its territory, but also lost nearly 40% of its population. In addition, by the end of June 2053, Russia had lost about two million soldiers on the battlefield.

After only 60% of the population remained, the Russian authorities had to let female soldiers go to the battlefield.

Of course, this is also a Russian tradition.

During World War II, the Soviet Union mobilized millions of female soldiers and a large number of combat heroes emerged, proving that female soldiers are no worse than male soldiers.

Of course, these are all off-topics.

After the guerrilla warfare in the western mountainous areas started, Jiang Bowen issued an order to "marche into Tehran" on September 11 and launched the "Tehran Battle".

The main force is the 13th Army he brought.

The offensive line was also unexpected: directly crossed the Cavere Desert, and without roads or railways, the Thirteenth Army forced 400 kilometers within 36 hours. On the night of September 12, it reached the outskirts of Tehran and captured Valamine.

At the same time, the First Third Army, which was in concert, launched an attack on Mashhad in northeastern Iran.

Here, facing Turkmenistan, three Russian military divisions and a US armored brigade were stationed. It was this unit that made Turkmenistan dare not act rashly.

At that time, Jiang Bowen took many measures to cover up the whereabouts of the 13th Army.

He had only one purpose: to convince the US-Russian coalition that the main battlefield was in Mashhad, and the Chinese-Iranian army launched an offensive for political purposes, that is, to remove the military threats to Turkmenistan and make this only Central Asian country that did not participate in the war an ally of China.

Because of his clever disguise methods and the First Third Army was indeed attacking Mashhad, Jiang Bowen's goal was achieved. On the morning of September 13, the US-Russian coalition forces believed that the main battlefield was in Mashhad, and sent all the troops east of Tehran to the east.

In the next two days, Jiang Bowen did not fight.

The main reason is that the logistics problems of the 13th Army were not solved, and at that time, they could only use tactical transport aircraft from the Land Airlines to transport combat materials to the front line.

Because air freight is not efficient, it takes time to hoard combat supplies.

On September 15, when the assault cluster of the Thirteenth Army, which took off his Iranian uniform and pulled out the camouflage props from the ground war platform, entered Tehran, the US-Russian coalition forces woke up and realized that the purpose of the Sino-Iranian army was to capture Tehran, but it was too late.

Before the US-Russian coalition returned to Tehran, the Thirteenth Army captured the city abandoned by the Iranian army.

You know, when the Iranian army evacuated Tehran, it almost completely destroyed the city.

In a sense, Jiang Bowen entered Tehran not for military purposes, but for political purposes, that is, to convince Qi Kaiwei that he launched a large-scale counterattack on the battlefield of Iran not to achieve a great victory, but to boost Iran's morale.

Of course, the more important reason for doing this is that the counterattack on the battlefield of Iran will not have an impact on the mainland battlefield.

You should know that at that time, Qi Kaiwei launched a strategic offensive on the mainland battlefield, almost reaching a level of paranoidness, that is, opposing all combat operations with negative impacts.

If Jiang Bowen is not well aware of it, he will definitely be criticized by Qi Kaiwei.

No matter what, he is an army general. Even if Pang Yuelong secretly pulls him two things, he will have to make a living in the army led by Qi Kaiwei in the future.

Of course, Jiang Bowen can manage the Army, but not the Marine Corps.

In other words, the Marines' fight has nothing directly to do with him, the acting commander. Even if Qi Kaiwei wants to get angry, he has to spray his anger at Pang Yuelong.

The result was that when the US-Russian coalition forces returned to Tehran, two land divisions launched a full-line counterattack on the Eastern Front battlefield.

The two divisions have not many troops, and the length of the eastern line is about 1,000 kilometers. However, this front line extending from the Iran-Turkey border to the Hrud Mountains is almost all in a flat desert or Gobi. Although the infrastructure on the front, especially the road traffic facilities, is extremely simple, the two Marine Divisions also have a complete set of ground war platforms, and have dedicated Marine Air Force to provide air transport support.

Thanks to this, the two marine divisions fought like two armies.

Now, trouble for the US-Russian coalition forces is coming.

You should know that at that time, the main force of the US-Russian coalition was facing Khuzestan Province. Whether it was to go to Tehran or the eastern defense line, it was hundreds of kilometers away. The poor transportation infrastructure limited the battlefield mobility of the main armored forces of the US-Russian coalition. What's more serious is that if you go to Tehran, the flanks would definitely be broken by the Chinese army. If you go to the eastern front, the rear route might be cut off.

However, Jiang Bowen's situation is not very ideal.

Don't forget that he only has two armies and two land combat divisions in his hands.

After the fight on the Eastern Front, he had no reserve team.

As for the Iranian army, Jiang Bowen has not yet thought about how much more than two million Iranian soldiers can make in addition to the guerrilla battlefield behind enemy lines.

After the war, some people pointed out that Jiang Bowen was too young and lacked enough experience, otherwise he would not have made such a mistake.

The problem is that the problem Jiang Bowen encountered was not a problem he could solve at all, because it was not him who refused to increase his troops, but Qi Kaiwei.

More importantly, the main purpose of Jiang Bowen's attack was not to encircle and annihilate the US-Russian coalition forces.

If you really want to say anything, you can only blame Qi Kaiwei for attaching too much importance to the mainland battlefield and ignoring other battlefields, which made Jiang Bowen missed the excellent opportunity to wipe out the US-Russian coalition forces and achieve a decisive victory on the Iranian battlefield. Of course, if you consider the subsequent period on the mainland battlefield, you cannot blame Qi Kaiwei, because if you increase troops to the Iranian battlefield, the situation on the mainland battlefield will definitely be different.

Chapter 152 Offensive General
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