After reporting the situation analysis to Li Pingko, Mu Haoyang went to the officers' restaurant for lunch.

Although the staff members are happy to bring boxed lunches for him and know that he likes to eat Sichuan cuisine, many times Mu Haoyang forgot to have lunch.

Affected by this, Ma Mingtao always suggested that he go to a restaurant for dinner instead of asking the staff to bring a lunch box for him.

When you arrive at the restaurant, you can't forget it.

For Mu Haoyang, who is almost fifty years old, a regular life is the first element of health, and he is no longer the special forces soldier back then.

At around twelve, Mu Haoyang returned to his job.

“Have lunch at the restaurant?”

"After listening to your advice, don't gossip now?"

"This is also for your own good. After all, we are not young people from twenty years ago." Ma Mingtao smiled and handed over a piece of information he had just received. "Old Li came, and has been confirmed by the Navy and Air Force. The Egyptian Army launched a missile attack ten minutes ago."

Mu Haoyang's brows jumped a few times, and walked into the office three steps in two steps.

"They are all short-range ballistic missiles," Ma Mingtao followed immediately, because he knew that Mu Haoyang generally did not like to read documents, and he wanted others to briefly explain the situation. "It mainly attacked Israel's air bases, command centers, air defense systems and material hoarding grounds."

"So, the Egyptian Army has learned very well."

"You probably taught it well."

Mu Haoyang smiled and sat on the sand before he opened the document.

When formulating a war plan for Egypt, Mu Haoyang emphasized the importance of tactical ballistic missiles, and this was exactly in line with the "counterattack strategy" he proposed. According to Mu Haoyang's analysis, if he was hit suddenly, the Egyptian air force is likely to lose its counterattack ability, and at least it is impossible to bomb important military targets in Israel as expected. Therefore, medium- and short-range tactical ballistic missiles have become Egypt's main counterattack force. How to use this counterattack force will determine whether the Egyptian army can turn the situation in time after the war begins.

To this end, Mu Haoyang clearly stated that it is necessary to focus on attacking Israel's air power and command system.

Fortunately, Egypt's missile forces have the ability to complete this mission after purchasing a large number of new short-range tactical ballistic missiles from China.

At that time, the main force of the Egyptian Army missile force was the "Sadat" tactical ballistic missile, and the predecessor of this missile was China's DF-24 short-range ballistic missile, with a maximum range of 480 kilometers and a warhead weighing 500 kilograms. It uses a single-stage solid rocket motor, with the ability to separate the ballistic body, with a ballistic end angle close to 90 degrees, and the dive degree after the warhead re-entered the atmosphere is as high as Mach 20,000, and the ballistic error is within one hundred thousand, that is, the compass error at the hit point is only 50 meters. If the terminal guidance system is installed, the error can be reduced to less than five meters, which is a veritable precise strike weapon. However, when exported, China did not provide a terminal guidance system.

It can be said that "Sadat" is a very advanced tactical ballistic missile.

Although Israel is the first country in the world to establish a strategic anti-missile defense system, its "Arrow" series of anti-missile interception systems have very advanced performance and can intercept ballistic missiles with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, Israel's anti-missile system is still not advanced enough to deal with "Sadat".

More importantly, the Egyptian Army adopted a saturation attack tactic.

As a national anti-missile interception system, its interception capability against multiple targets is definitely not strong enough, and it is difficult to deal with saturated attacks of tactical ballistic missiles.

To put it bluntly, even if some ballistic missiles can be shot down, all ballistic missiles cannot be shot down.

During this round of attack, the Egyptian Army fired more than 800 tactical ballistic missiles in one breath, including 320 "Sadat", focusing on attacking more than 20 important targets, including five air bases, four "arrow" anti-missile positions, two command centers, three communication centers, twelve material storage sites and six railway transportation hub stations. The attack intensity was so high that it exceeded the Israeli Air Force's raid.

It can be said that the Egyptians spent a lot of money and had the momentum of desperate attempts.

You should know that Egypt has less than 2,000 ballistic missiles in stock and less than 500 "Sadat". If this round of attack does not work, it will be difficult to use tactical ballistic missiles to reverse the situation.

While Mu Haoyang was reading the intelligence documents, the staff sent strategic reconnaissance intelligence provided by the Air Force.

The missile strike was very effective, at least achieving its goal. According to the photos taken by the strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all five Israeli air bases were severely damaged, hundreds of fighter jets were destroyed on the ground, and a large number of infrastructure were blown up. The destruction of the twelve material storage sites was even more serious, and the "arrow" anti-missile positions were completely paralyzed, and only the command and communication centers buried deep underground were not completely destroyed.

Of course, this round of missile strikes also had negative effects.

Of the more than 100 missiles attacking railway transportation hubs, at least 80% landed in nearby residential areas, causing thousands of houses to collapse. Although the Air Force did not provide accurate figures of civilian casualties, and every Israeli family has a basement for air defense, judging from the photos taken by the reconnaissance aircraft, the damage caused by the missile was very serious, and there must be many civilian casualties.

However, Mu Haoyang is not concerned about the effect of missile strikes, but another set of photos.

"What do you think?"

"Speak east and attack west." Ma Mingtao lit a cigarette and said, "Egypt's missile warfare, and gathered hundreds of thousands of troops on the west bank of the canal, and put on a counterattack on the Sinai Peninsula, which clearly put pressure on Israel and forced the Israeli army to continue to attack the fifth stop. Before capturing the stronghold on the east bank of the canal, it is difficult for the Israeli army to draw the main force into the Golan Heights, so it is Syria's turn to take action."

Mu Haoyang nodded thoughtfully and his eyes returned to those photos.

In the direction of the Golan Heights, the Syrian Army also completed the preparations before the attack. Twenty divisions had already assembled in the south of Damascus, eight of which had entered the offensive position, with a total force of more than 250,000 and nearly 3,000 main battle tanks of various types.

Such a huge army is definitely a fatal threat.

In contrast, the Israel Defense Force only deployed eight brigades on the Golan Heights. Although three of them were genuine ace rates, namely the First Infantry Brigade, the Seventh Armored Brigade and the 188th Armored Brigade, they were far inferior to the Syrian army in terms of size of troops and armor strength. The only thing the Israel Defense Force could rely on was the rugged terrain on the Golan Heights and the defense line that had been operating for decades.

You should know that in the Fourth Middle East War, the IDF defeated the Syrian army ten times more than it was here.

What Mu Haoyang is concerned about is whether the IDF still has the ability to create miracles again?

Relatively speaking, military strength is not the most important factor. The combat intentions of both sides and the deployment based on it are the key to determining the outcome.

Compared with the Fourth Middle East War, Israel's advantage is not obvious.

Not to mention anything else, on the first day of the war, the Israeli Air Force's performance was not outstanding and did not seize air supremacy like the Fourth Middle East War.

By the morning of the 21st, before the Egyptian missile war, three large-scale air combat had been fought. Although the Israeli Air Force still maintained its advantage in tactical terms, achieving a brilliant record of shooting down nearly 200 Egypt-Syrian fighters, and only lost less than 100 fighters, strategically, the Israeli Air Force failed to seize the initiative and did not provide sufficient effective air support for the ground forces.

Take the fifth stop battle as an example, the Israeli Air Force failed to play its due role.

When the Second Infantry Brigade was attacking, the Israeli Air Force dispatched less than twenty fighter jets and dropped less than one hundred tons of bombs.

More importantly, the Israeli Air Force will not last for a few days in the face of such a large amount of consumption.

You should know that if you try to consume, even if you have a 2-to-1 loss ratio, the Egyptian-Syrian Air Force will not suffer any losses, and you are confident that you can fight the Israeli Air Force. If you consider the impact of the strategic depth, the Israeli Air Force must obtain at least a 1-to-4 exchange ratio to have hope of winning the air war.

There is no doubt that the Israeli Air Force was far from reaching this level during the first day of the battle.

The direct impact is that by the morning of the 21st, the main task of the Israeli Air Force was still to compete for air supremacy, rather than providing support to ground forces.

If this situation continues, there is little hope for Israel to defend the Golan Heights.

Of course, the main reason is that the Israel Defense Force attaches too much importance to the plan formulated before the war, that is, after sweeping the Sinai Peninsula, it will move to the Golan Heights. Affected by this, when the Syrian Army was preparing for war, the Israel Defense Force not only did not take the initiative, but even did not harass it, almost allowing the Syrian Army to successfully complete the pre-war assembly without being disturbed.

If the IDF fought more proactively, the situation would definitely be different.

Not to mention anything else, even a tentative tactical counterattack can disrupt Syria's offensive deployment and gain time for the tough battle on the Sinai Peninsula.

Mu Haoyang wrote all these considerations into the situation analysis report and clearly mentioned that if the IDF fails to attack before the Syrian Army, the battle on the Golan Heights will not last long. After the Syrian Army, the Egyptian Army will also launch a counterattack, and Israel will be forced to turn the troops on the Sinai Peninsula into a defensive state, focusing on defense on both the north and south fronts.

Next, as long as the offensive between Egypt and Syria is resilient enough, to be precise, it will be difficult for Israel to reverse the situation and can only retreat steadily under very passive circumstances. And its national defense line has no danger of defending at all, and it is not a suspense that the defeat is not a suspense.

The conclusion is that in the next few hours, whether the IDF actively attacks in the direction of the Golan Heights will determine the direction of the war.

Because the Syrian Army is likely to choose to attack at night, use its military strength as much as possible, and reduce the risk of air strikes as much as possible, so as long as the senior generals of the Israel Defense Forces are not too stupid, they will attack before dark on the 21st...
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