Chapter 85

Conflict erupts

On the morning of the 27th, Baram had a brief consultation with Rollinson.

Rollinson clearly asked Baram to speed up the advancement and attract the main force of the Chinese and Syrian army as soon as possible. Because the US military's offense in the direction of Holmes has made a major breakthrough, but it has also encountered huge resistance, so Rollinson believes that the main force of the Chinese team is near Holmes.

But Baram believes that the Israeli army is advancing fast enough, and no matter how fast it is, the right wing will have great risks.

There is no doubt that this round of consultations has achieved no results.

Later, Rollinson proposed to the US-Israeli government coordinator that if his offensive plan was not implemented seriously, he would have to resign from his position as US military commander.

Interestingly, Baram told the Israeli Prime Minister almost at the same time that he would resign if Rollinson forces him to attack.

From this matter, we can completely see the difference between the two.

You should know that Rollinson is not responsible to the coordinator, but to Marshall. Therefore, even if he complains, he should look for Marshall. Relatively speaking, Baram found the right target because he was responsible to the Prime Minister of Israel, and the only one who decided to stay or not was the Prime Minister of Israel.

It can be seen that Rollinson was just yelling, but Baram was doing serious things, or he had already thought of resigning.

Obviously, at this time, either of Rollinson and Baram resigned would be a disaster.

At 10 o'clock that morning, General Marshall called Rollinson and asked him not to make trouble. Almost at the same time, the Israeli Prime Minister also told Balam that his resignation request would never be approved before the end of the battle, and that Rollinson must be given enough support in the offensive operation.

It is obvious that both the US and Israeli authorities support Rollinson.

The reason is also very simple. Russia has declared war on Iran, and Iran has declared war on Russia in the early morning of the 25th, and then asked for help from China. Although China is still silent, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has revealed that China will not tolerate any barbaric invasion. In other words, China will definitely declare war on Russia in the near future, but the Chinese authorities are still weighing the pros and cons of declaring war. In this way, the US-Israeli coalition must win a big victory in the Middle East, forcing China to increase its troops to the Middle East and unable to send troops to Iran.

According to the information disclosed after the war, the Russian president had agreed with the US president that if the US-Israeli coalition could achieve a major victory within the year, Russia would launch a ground attack on January 1, 2053. If not, Russia would definitely postpone the ground attack. On the phone, the Russian president even hinted that if the US-Israeli coalition did not restrain more Chinese teams on the Middle East battlefield, Russia would likely give up its plan to launch a ground attack on Iran and send ground troops originally planned to attack Iran to the Far East. The reason is very simple. As long as China has enough troops, it will declare war on Russia, and the battlefield will be in the Far East.

There is no doubt that the US-Israeli coalition must make a difference in the Middle East battlefield and must launch an attack.

Under the pressure of the Prime Minister, Baram finally compromised and promised to push the front line twenty kilometers on the 27th to capture Izra, north of Dela.

Although this is still a little different from Rollinson's request, because he hopes that Baram can capture Haibaib on the 27th, it is already a very good improvement compared to the first night. You should know that it was noon on the 27th when Baram made a compromise.

Baram's compromise does not mean that he will do exactly what Rollinson wants.

He agreed to capture Izra, mainly because he believed that under this situation, the threat to the right wing was not very big, and the Chinese team may still remain unmoved.

In this way, Balam saw a hope.

This means that as long as the Israeli army can gain a foothold in Izra, it is equivalent to being thirty kilometers closer to Damascus, and the Israeli army has the ability to defend Izra.

In addition, there is another important factor that cannot be ignored.

This is, Izra threatens the Chinese and Syrian legion behind the Golan Heights, so the Chinese and Syrian legion is likely to concentrate its forces to counterattack Izra.

If this is true, all Balam's concerns will disappear.

Of course, this is the ideal situation.

At this time, on the Holmes battlefield, the US offensive still did not improve much.

Although Rollinson claimed to have encountered the main force of the China Team here, in fact, the China Team that fought against the US military at Holmes only had eight assault clusters of the Thirteenth Army, which was equivalent to one-third of the army's strength, and the real main force was on the battlefield to the south.

However, the losses of the US military are indeed very heavy.

By noon on the 27th, after fighting for a day and a half, the US First Armored Division had almost lost its combat effectiveness, and the Third Infantry Division, which was pushed up, failed to expand its results.

According to the US military's war report, the First Armored Division had lost more than 400 main battle tanks at that time.

You should know that this super-organized armored division only has 600 main battle tanks in total. In other words, in a day and a half battle, the First Armored Division lost 70% of its main assault power, and the results achieved were only to obtain a bridgehead with an area of ​​less than 100 square kilometers on the east bank of the Holmes River. As for other gains, such as the losses created for the enemy, they are almost negligible.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that Rollinson's words have been believed, or Marshall believed it.

You should know that the First Armored Division is the number one ace force of the US Army. It is the first division-level combat force in the history of the US Army and the first US Army to go abroad to participate in the war. It has an extremely brilliant history and also has the best weapons and equipment in the United States.

In the eyes of US generals, the one who can destroy the First Armored Division within one and a half days is definitely a powerful force.

In fact, there was enough intelligence at that time that the battle with the First Armored Division was only a small unit of the Chinese Army.

According to the information disclosed after the war, as early as the night of the 26th, a Syrian military officer captured by the US military told that the CPC team had only two assault troops that arrived on the front line, with a total force of more than 2,000. On the 27th, another captured Syrian military officer told that the CPC team that arrived in Homs had about 10,000 people, which was not the main force of the group army at all. In addition, the US military's aviation reconnaissance also proved this point, that is, there were not many combat troops in the CPC team operating on the battlefield at the same time, with a total force of about 10,000 people.

The problem is that these signs have been ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

After the war, many people believed that Rollinson made a big mistake because he was unable to accurately judge the deployment of the Chinese team based on the information he had already mastered.

These accusations have some truth, but they are not comprehensive.

At that time, there were many factors that made Rollinson make a wrong judgment. For example, he believed that the tactical deployment of the main attacking troops first played a role, and the Chinese team did not launch a counterattack in the south, which made him believe that the Chinese team had already arrived near Holmes before Baram launched the attack.

Among these factors, there is another factor that is often overlooked, that is, the disguise ability of the Chinese team.

At that time, the Chinese team adopted a very primitive but very effective camouflage method, that is, using yellow sand everywhere on the battlefield to cover up the main combat equipment. As a result, the aerial reconnaissance of the US-Israeli coalition forces became a decoration, because it was difficult to find the main combat equipment buried under the sand, whether it was the naked eye or the detection equipment. As for the personnel moving around, it was even more impossible to tell whether it was the Chinese people or the Syrian soldiers.

In fact, this method of disguise was also learned temporarily.

Don’t forget that the main combat equipment of the China ** team has been electrified, and there is no serious thermal radiation. Even if it is completely covered by sand and gravel, it can be rushed out without any preparation. If other power systems are used, this cannot be done.

Efficient camouflage means make it difficult for the US-Israeli coalition to accurately judge the deployment of the ** team.

Not to mention anything else, even Balam only speculated that the main force of the ** team was concentrated in Suveda Province, or that it made a judgment based on intuition without any intelligence support. It was precisely because of this that Rollinson repeatedly accused Balam, saying that he limited the speed of the troops' advancement without any reason.

As the US military's attack on Holmes became more and more difficult, Rollinson's complaints became more and more harsh.

On the afternoon of the 27th, the Israeli army continued to advance northward and arrived in the south of Izra in the evening, but the Israeli army failed to capture Izra in time.

At that time, the main force guarding Izra was a Syrian infantry division and a Syrian infantry brigade.

Importantly, on the morning of the same day, Major General Jiang Bowen sent two assault clusters deployed in the direction of the Golan Heights to Izra.

At that time, Jiang Bowen was not helping Lu Liyi, but did not want the main force placed in the south to be surrounded by the Israeli army.

As a result, the Israeli army encountered very fierce resistance when attacking Izra.

Although the advancement slowed down, in Baram's opinion, this was not necessarily a good thing.

Don't forget that he only released ten brigades on the left wing, and only two armored brigades. If the attack on Izra suffers too much, he will not only lose his ability to advance, but also likely to be defeated by the counterattack of the Chinese team. In Balam's tactics, the disaster caused by the collapse of the left wing is no worse than the encirclement of the right wing. What's more terrible is that if Balam wants to avoid the collapse of the left wing, he has to draw troops from the right wing to strengthen the left wing, so that his counter-encirclement power to stay on the right wing greatly reduces, which is equivalent to increasing the risk of the right wing and causing his tactics to be in trouble.

After learning that the Chinese team appeared in Izra, Balam decisively ordered the attack to stop.

In his opinion, this is a signal for the Chinese team to launch a counterattack, because if the Chinese team wants to launch a counterattack, they must first block the Israeli army on the left wing.

Now, the conflict between Baram and Rollinson could no longer be concealed.

After learning that Baram had ordered the cessation of the attack, Rollinson was so angry that he ordered the Fourth Infantry Division, who was left behind the Golan Heights, to rush to Holmes to rescue him.

Obviously, Rollinson was so angry.

However, Brigadier General Domno, the commander of the Fourth Infantry Division, did not lose his head and did not immediately execute this order, because according to the pre-war assignment, he obeyed the command of Baram.

Chapter 85

Conflict erupts
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