Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 117 The decisive battle in the south
When Pei Chengyi contacted Su Jinhui, Du Qisheng was also at the meeting with Fayang to talk about the Internet.
Although in the eyes of most people, the United States is the protagonist of the coalition forces, and Turkey and Israel are supporting roles, no one denies the Israeli territory. Even if they cannot be the protagonist, they are the first supporting role. Western news media's high praise of Israel is not only related to Israel's active and proactive national defense policy. In the words of some Western news media, even if the homeland security is threatened and there is no other solution, even if the United States does not participate, Israel will launch a war without hesitation. To put it bluntly, in the conflict in the Middle East, the United States fights for interests, while Israel is fighting for survival. This gap in realm determines that Israel's irreplaceable territory.
On July, after Israel joined the war, the Israeli army was the absolute main force on the southern front. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishanao plus 84, please log in to read.
In less than 4 days of battle, the Israeli army advanced at an average speed of kilometers per day. By the night of the 8th, it not only swept across the Dela Province, but also pushed the front to the northwest of Suveda Province. It can be seen from the Israeli army's offensive route that because the US-Israeli coalition dispatched hundreds of thousands of combat troops, they could not fully deploy in the narrow area south of Damascus, the Israeli army first advanced eastward, and used a strategic detour to circumnavigate eastward. While opening the front, it also opened the defense line of the Sino-Syrian coalition, forcing the opponent to invest more troops on the front line. Because the initiative is in the hands of the US-Israeli coalition, when to launch an attack, where to launch an attack, and other factors that determine the outcome are determined by the US-Israeli coalition. So as long as the front line is opened, the US-Israeli coalition will sooner or later find a breakthrough.
It is undeniable that this tactic made Su Jinhui miserable.
Because he only had one combat unit in his hand, when the Israeli army attacked in a roundabout way, Su Jinhui had to adjust his defense tactics and threw all the heavy responsibility of positional warfare to the unreliable Syrian Defense Forces, allowing the ninth combat unit to play the role of firefighters behind the defense line, while the second combat unit was on standby in Damascus and acted as a battle reserve. It can be seen that in the previous few days of battle, Su Jinhui fought passively.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Su Jinhui.
After the battle started, Su Jinhui planned to break down the enemy's attack with an active and proactive attack. At that time, Su Jinhui placed the combat brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit in Kisvo, south of Damascus, and asked Fu Weimin to prepare enough combat supplies to stick to the sky. According to Su Jinhui's deployment, as long as the US-Israeli coalition advances to Damascus, the combat brigade will assault south along the Syria-Lebanese United Nations border line and kill the Golan Heights as fast as possible. Although the force of a brigade cannot capture the Golan Heights that the Israeli army has carefully built for several years, it can pose a fatal threat to the logistics support line of the US-Israeli coalition. As long as Kunetra can be defeated, the US-Israeli coalition can be forced to give up the attack.
In fact, Su Jinhui did not ignore another possibility, that is, the US-Israeli coalition forces attacked eastward and did not directly attack Damascus. For this reason, he placed the support brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit in Mismiye and Haybabu in the northeast of Dela Province, and built two lines of defense, and the Syrian Defense Forces defended the outer line of Haybabu. The inner defense of the first single support brigade of the Ninth Combat
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It was this deployment that allowed Su Jinhui to withstand the initial fierce attack of the US-Israeli coalition.
Because the US-Israeli coalition did not directly march into Damascus, Su Jinhui did not let the combat brigade go south to attack Kunetra. Instead, Fu Weimin ran directly to Sheikh Misken in the southern part of Dela Province. If this town could be occupied, it would be possible to block the passage of the US-Israeli coalition toward Izra, and he would be able to treat the US-Israeli coalition outside Suveda Province. This shows that at that time, Su Jinhui had already realized that the US-Israeli coalition would detour eastward to attack Damascus.
Unfortunately, when Fu Weimin led the combat brigade south, he was stubbornly blocked by the Israel Defense Force near Naiva. This battle, which took place in the early morning of July, made the officers and soldiers of the Ninth combat unit realize the strength of the Israel Defense Force. Until the end of the battle, Fu Weimin knew about the several captives he captured. The one who fought with them was the "Goran Brigade" of the Israel Defense Force: the 7th Armored Brigade.
Perhaps both sides were a little afraid of the opponent's strength, so the battle was both intense and short.
After dawn, Su Jinhui asked Fu Weimin to withdraw from Pinglai, and the Israeli army also took the initiative to withdraw from the war.
By this time, Su Jinhui had already known that the US-Israeli coalition's offensive operations had been carefully ceasing, and had long expected that the combat brigade stationed in Kisvo would move south quickly, so the military used the most powerful 7th Armored Brigade to block Fu Weimin, causing the combat brigade of the ninth combat unit to return in vain.
With this task, Su Jinhui showed the overall view that a front-line commander should have.
After letting the support brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit guard Mismiye and Haybaib, Su Jinhui arranged a very special task for Fu Weimin, that is, to lead the combat brigade back to Damascus for rest. Fu Weimin didn't quite understand at that time. When he brought his troops back to Damascus and saw the Syrian military uniforms sent by the Syrian army, he realized that Su Jinhui asked them to dress up as the Syrian National Defense Forces.
On the battlefield, the offensive of the US-Israeli coalition forces was unstoppable.
By the morning of July 6, the US-Israeli coalition had captured several important military cities in the southern part of Dela Province, annihilated several Syrian troops, and began to attack Haibaibu. With the assistance of the combat unit support brigade, the Syrian National Defense Forces built a small small group in Haibaibu.
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It has to be said that facing the main force of the Israel Defense Forces and the powerful artillery support provided by the US fleet, the two Syrian infantry brigades can persist in the fall of Bu. Of course, this is also indispensable to the contribution of the Ninth Combat Unit Support Brigade. If there is no defensive position built in advance, especially those well-connected underground tunnels, the Syrian army may not be able to hold on for an hour.
In the early morning of July 7, the US-Israeli coalition began to attack Mismiye.
This time, the US-Israeli coalition forces, who were determined to win, failed to gain the advantage.
During the first hour of fighting, the support brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit used only three battalions of troops, one of the thugs was the combat battalion that served as a guard, and repelled four attacks from the US-Israeli coalition forces, and caused the Israeli Defense Forces, who were in the main offensive mission to lose at least thousands of officers and soldiers and hundreds of main combat equipment. After hitting a wall, the Israeli military also realized that the Republican army was fighting against them, not the Syrian Defense Forces.
That's why on the afternoon of the 7th, the US-Israeli coalition adjusted its strategy. In addition to letting the two infantry brigades of the Israel Defense Forces continue to attack Mismiye, the main force advanced from Haibaib eastward and built a defense line in Izra southward. It has to be admitted that Dayan's ability to predict the situation of the battle was very outstanding. That night, Su Jinhui asked the support brigade to launch a counterattack with the two Syrian infantry brigades to fight back and fight back to Haibaib and rebuilt a defensive position. By dawn, the Syrian army could already use large-caliber mortars to bombard Izra's Israeli positions. It can be seen that if the Israeli army had not built a defense line in Izra in advance, the line of its eastward advance would have been cut off.
What a pity is that the troops in Su Jinhui's hands prevented him from continuing to move south.
On the 8th, the US-Israeli coalition forces had already attacked Shehba, northwest of Suveda Province, and could go south to attack Suveda at any time.
At this time, the combat brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit who put on the Syrian uniform and painted the chariots with the Syrian military paint reached the desert in the northern part of Suveda Province. When the US-Israeli coalition was adjusting its offensive pace and preparing to attack Suveda, Fu Weimin led the combat brigade to fight a very beautiful counterattack.
In the afternoon of that day, the combat brigade began to siege Shehba.
Because this is the key to the Israeli army's strategic detour, the Israeli army did not make concessions. More importantly, when the road directly attacking Damascus was blocked, if the US-Israeli coalition forces want to attack Damascus through strategic detour, they must occupy Suveda and must launch an attack while defending.
That's right, when Pei Chengyi contacted Su Jinhui, the US military's first thug, the Land Warrior Division, was rushing towards Su Weida.
Duchiwei contacted Dayan for nothing else, but wanted to figure out how fast the U.S. thug, the Marine Division, was responsible for attacking Suveda, how quickly the Israeli army could march towards Damascus. Or in other words, whether it could defeat the individual combat brigade of the ninth battle in Shehba.
From Dayan's standpoint, he had no other choice.
The decision to attack Damascus was to avoid the defensive positions in the southwest and south of Damascus, make full use of the mobile capabilities of the IDF, and annihilate the main forces of the Sino-Syrian coalition in mobile warfare, and provide space for investing more combat troops. What Dayan did not expect was that the mobile combat capabilities of the Ninth Combat Unit of the Republic's Army far exceeded those of the IDF's ace troops, and were better at eliminating the enemy in sports. Although the performance of the Syrian Defense Force was indeed very bad, far from being able to stand alone, in the face of the Ninth Battle, the Israeli Defense Forces hit a wall one after another and failed to open up the situation.
Judging from the situation on the night of the 8th, the Israeli army had only two choices, either stick to the results or attack with all their might.
The result of the former will definitely not be much better for the Israeli army. In Duqiwei's words, if the Israeli army stops its attack, Pei Chengyi will be able to put the main force on the northern front. When he solves the problem on Turkey, he will free up his hands to deal with Israel. At that time, the Israeli army will not only fail to defend the results it has achieved, but will even lose the Golan Heights, thus completely losing the strategic advantages of the Middle East.
In short, Dayan had no other way, so he could only let the Israeli army continue to attack.
Of course, there are ways to attack. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishan Ao plus 84, please log in to read
As a small country with a population of only a few million, it is definitely not a wise choice to fight casualties and consume with opponents. After the founding of Israel, it put the protection of vital forces first. After the Fourth Middle East War, Israel fell into a situation of disagreement with the surrounding Arab countries, and Israel's opponents became Palestinian guerrillas supported by Arab countries and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. During this period, an unwritten rule was formed within the Israeli Defense Forces, that is, if the Israeli military casualties and thugs in the attack, they would kill the other party's old people. From this, it can be seen that the Israeli Defense Forces are not only fierce, but also care about the lives of officers and soldiers.
To exert the combat effectiveness of the IDF, we must fight more together.
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After Duchiwei proposed that the Israeli army should actively attack, Dayan made a very direct request, that is, the Israeli army would continue to assault westward and fight against the opponent in the desert in the northern part of Suveda Province and southwest of Damascus Province. In addition to continuing to provide long-range artillery support, the US military also had to provide air support to the Israeli army.
Duqiwei agreed to this request without thinking.
Although the Israeli army occupied a lot of special officials in the battles in the former states, Shin-ri suffered a lot in the combat brigade of the Kawako fighting unit in Nai Nai's battle. Ding Ying suffered a lot in the battle for air supremacy. It was not that the Israeli Air Force was not well equipped, but for decades, the Israeli Air Force did not have to worry about air supremacy at all, and it was almost always under pressure. Therefore, the construction of the Israeli Air Force tended to be air support rather than seize air supremacy. Not to mention, among the hundreds of fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force,
There are only dozens of heavy air-battery fighter jets that mainly seize air supremacy, and the rest are all multi-purpose fighter jets that mainly target ground strikes. Because the deployment and adjustment of the US Air Force will not be completed until Japan, after Israel joined the war, the Israeli Air Force was the first to be "focused on" by the Republic Air Force. After more than three days of high-intensity combat, the Israeli Air Force almost lost its combat capabilities. What comforted the Jews was that under the full-scale attack of the US Air Force and the Navy, the Syrian Air Force was almost wiped out.
More importantly, Du Qiran guessed Dayang's intentions.
In the battle of position attack, the Israeli army not only finds it difficult to gain advantage, but also suffers great casualties. Dayan definitely does not want to exhaust the last drop of Israel's blood in the battle of position attack. From Dayan's standpoint, he longs for a victory thug and a victory that does not require too much blood. Obviously, the battle in the open desert is more in line with Dayan's appetite. In this case, Dayan will have no choice but to fight the decisive battle with the Sino-Syrian coalition.
From another perspective, this is exactly the result that Duchwi wants.
Of course, neither Dayan nor Duchiwei wanted the US-Israeli coalition to suffer failure in this decisive battle.
Because it was impossible to send reinforcements to Israel in time, when the two Marine Divisions were allowed to do their best, the only thing Duchiwei could do was to meet Dayan's requirements, mobilize all support forces during the battle, and help the Israel Defense Force win this battle that cannot be lost.
Realizing that the decisive battle was coming, it was not just Dayan and Duchiway.
While talking on the phone with Pei Chengyi, Su Jinhui also mentioned the decisive battle, and also concluded that the decisive battle would be launched in the desert southeast of Damascus.
In fact, with the battle situation at that time, the decisive battle was definitely unavoidable. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishan Ao plus 8 Si, please log in to read
After the Israeli army emerged from the Golan Heights, they were attacking eastward without pointing the attack arrow at Damascus, hoping to obtain a battlefield suitable for the decisive battle, rather than burning the war into Jordan, which remained neutral. Su Jinhui asked the Sino-Syrian coalition to retreat step by step, and fought desperately with the US-Israeli coalition in Dela Province for control. In addition to expanding the depth of the defense zone in Damascus to the south, the biggest purpose was to prepare for the subsequent decisive battle.
It can be said that Su Jinhui's ability to fight and thug in the battle is not inferior to Pei Chengyi.
As an admiral who came out of the Ao Army, Su Jinhui definitely did not lack the ability to command the decisive battle of the armored clusters. You should know that the Ao Army is the most famous heavy armored army of the Republic Army, and is the best-known unit in the battle of armored clusters. In the Seoul Battle of the Peninsula War, the Kolkata Battle of the Indian War and the Battle of Bangalore, the Ao Army showed strength far exceeding other legions.
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Compared with Dayan, Su Jinhui has both advantages and disadvantages.
The biggest advantage is that he can command two combat units as he pleases, and can make the commander of the Syrian army convince and obey his dispatch. In comparison, Dayan cannot mobilize two US Marine divisions like a finger.
The biggest disadvantage is that Su Jinhui has too few troops. Although when discussing tactics with Pei Chengyi, Su Jinhui clearly mentioned that in mobile warfare in desert areas, the combat effectiveness of combat units can be maximized to make up for the problems of military strength, he also mentioned that because of the small force, he did not throw the heavy responsibility of frontal defense to the Syrian army, resulting in empty flanks.
In response to this problem, Su Jinhui proposed a solution to "fight quickly"
This is also the issue that Pei Chengshu is most concerned about.
According to Su Jinhui, Dayan is likely to allow the US Second Marine Division, who had not been on the battlefield, to assault from Shehba to Damascus, and to encircle the Syrian army about south of Damascus, forcing the Syrian army to move eastward. The Israeli reinforcements, which had already gathered on standby in the Golan Heights, could advance along the border of Syrian border to Damascus. It can be said that the offensive tactics of the US-Israeli coalition cannot be dealt with head-on. The only solution is to quickly defeat the main force of the Israeli army in the decisive battle, and then move westward, compress the attack space of the 2nd Marine Division, and defeat the US-Israeli coalition's campaign attempt.
At this time, Su Jinhui clearly mentioned that to achieve this goal, sufficient firepower support must be provided.
It is not just artillery support, but also air support.
In order to attract Pei Chengyi's attention, or to ask Pei Chengyi to agree to the support request, Su Jinhui also hinted that Pei Chengyi's low-altitude attack power troops have arrived in Iraq and can participate in combat operations on the Southern Front at any time. If a low-altitude attack aircraft unit specifically used to deal with armored troops can be invested on the Southern Front, the battlefield situation will be completely changed, and the chances of victory of the Sino-Syrian coalition will be greatly improved.
Of course, Pei Chengyi also knew Su Jinhui's meaning very well.
Judging from the situation at that time, Pei Chengyi had no other choice.
Chapter completed!