Chapter 8: Singing and Progressing

When the staff officer who changed shifts delivered lunch, Mu Haoyang received the latest information from Li Mingyang.

The source is very reliable. The losses suffered by the Egyptian and Syrian Air Force in the early morning were far less than the military advisory group said. Because of the early evacuation and the special attention to the construction of infrastructure such as hangars, the Egyptian Air Force lost less than 100 combat aircraft, most of which were J-10, only a few J-22, while the J-30i were all safe and sound. The situation in Syria was a little worse, with about 140 losses, but not as bad as expected. More importantly, both Egyptian and Syrian Air Forces took precautions and placed a large number of fake targets at the airport, including inflatable fighter models, so the military advisory group failed to figure out the situation immediately, and a serious error occurred in the first report provided. [bsp;    In addition to not losing many combat aircraft, the Egyptian and Syrian air base was quickly repaired.

This was completely expected by Mu Haoyang. Because according to the war plan he formulated for Egypt, the most important thing to guard against was Israel's sudden strike and the rapid recovery of combat capabilities after being hit by a sudden strike. Therefore, the Egyptian Air Force attached great importance to the restoration capabilities of the airport. At the end of 2036, it formed a professional engineering force and stocked up a large number of prefabricated equipment, such as prefabricated plates used to lay temporary runways.

In the fierce battle, the Egyptian Air Force does not need to rush to repair all the facilities of the base, but should first restore the runway to operate and allow fighters to take off for combat. After the air supremacy is guaranteed, try to repair the airport's infrastructure and improve the combat efficiency of fighters.

The air battle in the early morning just proves this.

Because the Egyptian Air Force's fighter jets took off in time to fight, it effectively prevented the second round of strikes from the Israeli Air Force and won more time.

Another piece of information was mentioned in the information.

At around 11 o'clock in Beijing time, when the Egyptian Air Force and the Israeli Air Force were fighting on the Sinai Peninsula, the Syrian Air Force also took the initiative to challenge the Israeli Air Force in the direction of the Golan Heights. Although the Syrian Air Force suffered heavy losses, nearly 40 fighters were still lost while dispatching more than 40 J-10s and more than 20 J-22 fighters to fight against the Israeli Air Force more than 40 fighters, only thirteen Israeli fighters were shot down, but the Syrian Air Force's active actions greatly restrained the Israeli Air Force. To be precise, the Israeli Air Force will no longer dare to underestimate the opponent in the north, because the Israeli ground forces on the Golan Heights are likely to be bombed, and the Syrian Army will also use this to attack, and Israel definitely does not want to fight on both sides.

It was affected by this that during the second large-scale air strike in the morning, the Israeli Air Force only dispatched more than 200 fighter jets.

You should know that during the first air strike in the early morning, the Israeli Air Force dispatched at least 500 fighter jets and intensively bombed important military facilities in Egypt.

Although Li Mingyang has not received the exact information, there is reason to believe that the second round of the Israeli Air Force's air strike did not achieve the expected results.

According to the subsequent results of Egypt, during the battle that morning, the Egyptian Air Force's air defense forces shot down at least 28 Israeli fighter jets, and the Egyptian Air Force's fighter jets were also successfully intercepted the Israeli Air Force's attack aircraft and shot down several enemy aircraft during air defense operations.

If this is true, the Israeli Air Force will not be able to seize air supremacy after the war breaks out.

If the air forces in Egypt and Syria cannot be defeated, Israel's offensive operations will soon encounter setbacks, and Israel will definitely not win the war.

However, the impact of air combat did not appear immediately.

When successfully defeating Israel's air assault, the Egyptian and Syrian air forces also suffered huge losses, and the command system was once in chaos and had no ability to conduct air counterattacks for the time being.

The result is that the Israeli Army, which seized the initiative, is still advancing rapidly on the Sinai Peninsula.

When Li Mingyang came to the news, the 8th Armored Brigade of Israel had advanced more than 100 kilometers, and a vanguard of its reconnaissance battalion even reached the east bank of the Suez Canal. More than a dozen brigades behind it were divided into three groups and were advancing forward at a distance of 20 kilometers per hour.

The rapid advancement was not only due to the extremely high mechanization of the Israeli army, but also related to Egypt's military deployment on the Sinai Peninsula.

When the Damascus incident was born, the main forces of the Egyptian army were all on the west bank of the Suez Canal.

On September 19, the Egyptian Army symbolically sent two mechanized infantry divisions to the Sinai Peninsula to strengthen its military deployment on the frontline defense line of the Sinai Peninsula. However, before the Israeli Army crossed the border, less than one-third of the two divisions crossed the Suez Canal, and all concentrated near the east coast. In addition, most of the main combat equipment was still on the west coast and could not arrive in time. Because Israeli ground troops advanced to God, by the morning of the 20th, the two divisions were still making final preparations and had no encounter with the Israeli army at all.

In fact, this is also related to the war plan formulated by Mu Haoyang for Egypt.

Due to the restrictions of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, Egypt cannot deploy its main force on the Sinai Peninsula. Even the total force of the paramilitary force cannot exceed 20,000. If Egypt increases troops on the Sinai Peninsula in advance, it is equivalent to declaring war on Israel and provoking war. Therefore, when formulating the war plan, Mu Haoyang clearly mentioned that Egypt should place its main force on the West Bank and take the lead in the future, that is, after the war breaks out, quickly complete pre-war assembly, cross the Suez Canal, and fight the Israeli army on the Sinai Peninsula. To this end, Egypt should not only place its main logistics support force on the West Bank, but also focus on strengthening the troops' ability to cross the river.

According to this plan, the Egyptian army needed to guard at least one stronghold on the east coast.

The Egyptian Army strictly implemented the war plan formulated by Mu Haoyang. Two mechanized infantry divisions were stationed at the fifth stop on the north side of the Great Kuhu Lake, respectively. The main force was deployed along the west bank of the Great Kuhu Lake. In addition, the city of Suez was guarded by six divisions. The Egyptian Army did not rely on huge troops, but an astonishing number of artillery units. At that time, two thousand long-range artillery near the Great Kuhu Lake passed.

Even if the Egyptian Air Force cannot provide air support, the Egyptian Army has enough artillery fire.

This deployment of the Egyptian Army has been confirmed by the Air Force and the Navy that strategic reconnaissance aircraft and carrier-based early warning aircraft have collected enough battlefield information.

On the other hand, the situation of the Israeli Army is not very ideal.

It is undeniable that the Israeli Army's assault is quite amazing, but the potential threat is also very huge.

Even if the Egyptian Army's two strategic strongholds on the east bank of the Suez Canal are not considered, the Egyptian Army will immediately launch a counterattack. Even if the Israeli Army can reach the Port of Shet and the fifth stop, it may not be able to fight, and it may not be able to defend the existing results.

The reason is very simple: at the end of the force.

After the reclaim of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt has always regarded it as a strategic barrier and does not pay much attention to infrastructure. It has not built a railway and a high-grade highway on the east bank of the canal for decades. Even ordinary roads have only three vertical and three horizontal lines, and most places are deserts with few people.

In modern ground war, roads are both the direction of advancement and the main artery of logistics support.

Without railways, the Israeli Army can only use trucks to transport supplies to the front line, and the efficiency of trucks is far less than that of trains, and the traffic capacity of ordinary roads is far less than that of high-level highways. If the traffic capacity of the highway is based on, up to ten brigades will be supported to fight on the front line. As a result, the Israeli Army invested forty brigades in one go. Affected by this, the Israeli Army deployed up to ten brigades on the front line, and other troops had to stay in the rear, either responsible for covering the supply passage, transporting supplies, or acting as a reserve. Perhaps this can enhance the Israeli Army's continuous assault capabilities. After all, a sufficient number of reserves is a necessary factor in maintaining the offensive, but it also limits the assault intensity of the Israeli Army, that is, without enough troops, it is impossible to break through the solid defense line.

More importantly, the Israeli Army is not the Israeli Air Force.

In the air force that advocates offensiveness, in the past few decades, the main experience of the Israeli Army and the resulting military establishment ideas have all come from the extremely difficult "Yongpuja War". In this war, the Israeli Army defeated the powerful Arab army through internal operations, laying the foundation for later strategic counterattacks. Therefore, the Israeli Army has always regarded internal operations as its main business, defeating the enemy's offensive actions through tenacious defense, and then taking advantage of the enemy's weak attack to launch a comprehensive counterattack.

In addition, the largest battle the Israeli army has experienced in the past few decades is the attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which is not a large-scale ground war at all.

Affected by these factors, the Israeli Army is actually not a force that is good at attacking or actively attacking.

The most direct manifestation is that from the first to sixth generations, the "Mekava" main battle tank does not pay attention to mobility, but puts protection capabilities at the right hand. For example, the "Mekava 6" type, which claims to have reached the fourth generation level, its maximum off-road degree is only 30 kilometers per hour, which is about 30% lower than the real fourth-generation main battle tank, and its maximum off-road distance is only more than 200 kilometers, and its road distance is only 500 kilometers, which is much lower than most of the fourth-generation main battle tanks that focus on attack.

Based on this information, Mu Haoyang mentioned in the situation analysis report submitted to Li Pingko that if the Israeli army cannot take over the Egyptian stronghold on the east bank of the Suez Canal in one go, the Egyptian army will launch a counterattack within the next 24 to 48 hours. Because the Israeli army failed to clear the Egyptian army on the east bank of the canal as planned, it would be impossible to transfer the main force to the Golan Heights. Therefore, when the Egyptian army launches counterattack, the Syrian army is likely to attack and Israel will fight on both sides.

Not to mention Israel, even a big country like China should try to avoid fighting on both sides.

Small countries like Israel are fighting on two fronts, and there is no need to say much more about the result...
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