At around 7 a.m., behind a sand dune south of Ramla City, two "gray squirrels" wheeled armored vehicles that were on standby were arranged in T-shaped shapes. Two soldiers wearing anti-collision hats and camouflage costumes lay on the dunes like lizards, observing the situation in the city through military telescopes. Both of them had high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, typical European faces, one with a red nose, a beard, and the other with a hooked nose, and the beard was cleanly shaved. The collar seals on the collars were all decorated with a battle axe emblem.

"Those Arabs have started digging trenches, it's too late!" Hong Nose muttered.

"Digging the trench means they plan to defend the city and wait for reinforcements to arrive, rather than abandoning the city and running away!" Eagle-Hook Nose responded.

"Do you want to give them a try to test the firepower?" Hongbitou suggested.

The Eagle Nose did not talk, but turned its head to look northwest. A slight roar came from the sky. Following the sound, two Curtis F-11s flew at low altitude. The pilots did not seem to notice the two friendly reconnaissance vehicles in the wilderness. They flew towards Ramla along the road extending from Tel Aviv to this day, maintaining a steady and monotonous flight posture. When the distance was close, people on the ground could clearly see a round and black guy hanging under their belly. When approaching the city, they dropped loading objects one by one. After a moment, a loud bang was heard, and a ball of explosive flames and a dry land appeared on the edge of the city.

"Is there one dud?" Hongnie shook her head with contempt.

Hawk Nose said in a affirmative tone: "This is a Jewish homemade aviation bomb. It would be great if there was a normal explosion."

"That's right..." Hong Nodou agreed.

The aftermath of the explosion quickly dissipated, and the smoke and dust slowly dissipated. The Arabs who had previously dug the trench seemed to disappear out of thin air. Until the two bomb-dropped planes flew away, they got up in groups of three, confused and hesitantly. After a long time, a man like an officer finally came out to clean up the situation. At their orders, the soldiers and civilians picked up the tools in disappointment, and the few injured were carried on camels and transported to the city...

The hooked nose on the dune raised his hand and looked at the watch: "A bomb made these Arabs busy for half an hour. Let's give them something more interesting?"

Red nose grinned and said, "What's wrong?"

Hawk's nose raised his fist: "See you later!"

"See you later!" Hong Nodou fisted him.

After a while, two "gray squirrels" started one after another with a pleasant roar. They drove out of the dunes one after another, sailed towards Ramla at lightning speed, and raised up rolling dust like a slashing wave of a thunderbolt. Before they could get closer, the Arabs who built fortifications outside Ramla City noticed this unusual scene. They shouted loudly and alerted their companions. The soldiers and civilians were in chaos again. The soldiers picked up their weapons one after another, and the civilians ran into the city in panic.

Two or three kilometers away from the Arabs' fortifications, two "gray squirrels" opened fire as they marched. The 20mm machine guns sprayed out a series of shells with crisp roars. Each of them marked the trajectory with tracer bullets, which looked particularly clear. Wherever the shells reached, sand and soil flew everywhere and debris splashed. Arab soldiers did not dare to fight against them. They shrank in trenches. Machine gunners deployed in solid buildings rushed to fire, but how could the range of ordinary machine guns exceed kilometers?

Two "gray squirrels" moved quickly outside the range of the defending machine guns. Although the firepower of the cannon was not enough to kill the Arabs in large numbers, it made the Arab soldiers on the positions outside the city unable to advance or retreat. After about ten minutes, the cannons in the city roared and the shells roared out of the city. Their explosion was far less powerful than the previous aviation bomb, but it was much more powerful than the light artillery used by the Arab Guards Cavalry Division. Its effective range of killing can reach twenty or thirty meters. As long as it landed near the enemy wheeled armored vehicles, it could easily be destroyed. However, the two "gray squirrels" were so agile that they quickly escaped without waiting for the Arab artillery fire to approach, and they acted separately. One was circling the west of the city and the other rushed to the east of the city, making it difficult for Arab artillery soldiers to capture their traces.

After a series of reconnaissance attacks, the two "gray squirrels" immediately retreated southward and retreated from the battle without any injuries.

40 minutes later, the 1st Armored Combat Company of the Irish Foreign Corps "Viking Battalion" drove along the highway to the south of Ramla, and more than 500 other squadrons of the Jewish "Flying Army" accompanied them. The main force of the 1st Guard Cavalry Division of the Arab Kingdom, which was originally stationed in Ramla, had its main force destroyed in the Battle of Rehovot, and the soldiers and equipment sent by the Guard Artillery Division to assist were basically gone but never returned. At this time, Ramla was only one cavalry battalion, a heavy artillery battalion and some baggage units left. Although there were still more than 2,000 soldiers, when the chariots of the Jewish camp were rumbling, most of the Arabs were scared out of their courage and had no confidence or courage to resist stubbornly.

On the Jewish camp, the joint combat troops that won a big victory in Rehovot had an absolute advantage in morale. After previous fire reconnaissance, they knew that there were Arab artillery in the city, so before they got close to Ramla, more than 20 chariots and more than 500 infantrymen spread out in the wilderness on both sides of the road, and then slowly advanced towards Ramla City.

At this time, a half-tracked armored command vehicle drove straight into the dunes where the two scouts were staying, and then stopped. Kurt Meyer wore his beloved German short-brimmed hat, black windbreaker, black gloves, and black leather boots, and looked at the ancient and old city of Lamla with great enthusiasm. In the view enlarged by the telescope, there was no one in the position outside the city. I believe that the Arab soldiers guarding the city were hiding in the unfinished trenches. As for the Arab guards cavalry battalion in the mouth of the prisoners of war, they might be hiding in the city, waiting for the right time to give it a try, or they might not have the intention to fight and have already escaped.

If the attack is carried out at any cost, the chariots and infantry in front of them are capable of clearing out the Arab defenders outside Ramla City, but the Arab artillery in the city is likely to cause them to suffer great losses, including the damage to some of the chariots, which is obviously something that Meyer does not want to see. The reason why the 1st Armored Company of the "Viking" Battalion and the Jewish "Flying Army" set up an offensive formation in this wilderness was just to attract the attention of the opponent and make the flanking detour attacks of the 2nd and 3rd Armored Companies reach a certain degree of suddenness.

Sure enough, the Arab defenders of Ramla stared at the enemy approaching from the south, and soon the sound of rumbling cannons sounded in the city. The heavy shells roared in front of the joint combat forces composed of Jews and their foreign aid, and burst out large masses of dust and sand in the wilderness. The marching tanks stopped one after another, and they adjusted their turrets, raised their muzzles, and then opened fire. When using grenades, the artillery of the "Celtic Knight" H-type chariot can attack targets 10 kilometers away, and their absolute range is slightly lower than that of the old howitzers equipped by the Arab Guards Artillery Division, but it is more than enough to bombard the defense positions outside the city beyond the range of the defenders' artillery fire.

After smashing several rounds of grenades on the defending positions, the chariots of the 1st Armored Combat Company of the Viking Battalion began to project smoke bombs, and the white smoke spread across the southern position of Ramla City to interfere with the sight of the Arab artillery. The Arabs thought that this was a means for the opponent to reduce attack casualties, and they faintly heard the roar of the chariots running, so they tried their best to continue to block the shooting, but they did not know that the enemy's chariots and infantry were still staying outside the range of their artillery waiting for the attack order.

Not long after, rolling dust appeared in both southeast and southwest of Ramla. According to the previously determined combat plan, the 2nd and 3rd Armored Companies of the Viking Battalion will fight at full speed after the 1st Armored Companies and defenders. There will be more than 200 Jewish "Flying Army" soldiers who are maneuvering in vehicles to fight together. However, this strict plan has a bad hidden danger, that is, the Jewish aviation forces cannot provide sufficient cover for their ground forces, not to mention their US-based warfare.

The number of aircraft is too small, and even in a one-on-one contest, it is difficult for their pilots to gain advantage in the Arab Air Force, which is also equipped with US-made fighter jets. Since most Arabs have a low level of modern culture, the cost of cultivating them to become qualified pilots is much greater than directly hiring foreign pilots. The Arab government forces have been employed for many years to hire retired pilots from American, Italian and other armies. Among these people, there are many good players who have participated in the war. It is easy to deal with those Jewish pilots who have only had a few months of flight.

Fortunately, most of the military airports in the Arab Kingdom are built around the capital and along the Persian Gulf coast. There are fewer airports in the central and northwest areas. The long-distance mobilization of air forces and their logistics supply units takes a long time. In addition, they are despised by the Jewish armed forces. At this time, the Arabs had only a few flight squadrons in the Palestine region, and they were very unfamiliar with the cooperation with the ground forces. When four American Martin B-10 bombers appeared above Ramla, the "Celtic Knights" and the "3rd Armored Assault Company of the 2nd Armored Combat Company of the "Viking" Battalion were

The "Irish Leopard" had broken through the fragile defenses of the Arab defenders in the east and west of the city with an unstoppable momentum. These chariots passed through the city and rushed towards the Arab artillery positions deployed in the city and north of the city. Under such a battle situation, the bombers of the Arab Kingdom Air Force were not very helpful. Four Martin B-10s hovered in vain over the city. In the end, they had to smash the bombs on the Jewish coalition forces that were carrying out feint attacks in the south of the city, killing and injuring more than a dozen Jewish "Flying Army" and injuring one chariot belonging to the "Viking" battalion of the Irish Foreign Corps. That's all...
Chapter completed!