Chapter 728: Syria's Efforts
"It seems that this move is right when using Arab nationalism to suppress pan-peaceism." Selov, who was driving in the desert, was surrounded by soldiers of the Soviet Union's engineers entering northern Iraq. In terms of protecting himself, he did not need anyone to remind him that the 11,000 Soviet engineers' forces could defeat them in the Middle East.
Engineer troops are common in socialist countries. The Soviet engineer troops also shoulder an important mission and carry out production and construction at home. The recent events are mainly three. When will the war end? The Warsaw Pact joint combat exercises, the confrontation between the Soviet Red Navy and the US Navy.
The first problem is naturally that the Soviet Union, Syria and Greece began to withdraw their troops after destroying the Turkish military forces. Before withdrawing, they would try to help the Kurds establish an army of 200,000 to defend themselves, and also serve as a buffer area for the Soviet Union and Turkey. In terms of light weapons, the Soviet Union has no shortage of assault rifles. It can be said without hesitation that the assault rifles in the arsenal are now enough to arm one-tenth of the Soviets.
The problem lies in the heavy weapons. Even if the Soviet Union's annual tank production has repeatedly hit new highs in recent years, it is impossible to supplement the Kurds for a while. If you want to support an army in a short time, you may need to lay off some of the troops and then give the weapons to the Kurds. If this plan cannot be passed, I believe Ustinov will be very busy this year. The army equipment of the Greek Defense Forces is not very good in the eyes of the Soviet Union, and it is necessary to replace American weapons with Soviet weapons.
This is the armament of 400,000 armed forces. In addition, the Soviet Union and Syria have also lost some of their troops. Military production may have to be expanded. As for the seized Turkish American equipment to the Kurds, this option has never been considered. The valuable weapons will be brought back to the country for research, and the valueless Soviet Union is ready to sell them to other neutral countries. If no one wants them, they will be destroyed.
The Warsaw Pact joint combat exercise may be to avoid stimulating NATO. The countries that participated in the exercise were designated Eastern European countries except the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union only dispatched air force to participate in the exercise, and neither the Eastern European Cluster nor the Ukraine or the Belarusian Military Region would participate. The Soviet Ministry of Defense also wanted to see if the Warsaw Pact friends could fight after leaving the Soviet Red Army.
The forces participating in the exercise were 300,000, including the People's Army of various countries. The exercise locations were set in Poland, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Observers will be sent to visit the progress of the exercise.
"But the name of this exercise is Western 74? Is it too obvious?" Serov, who was swaying back and forth in the jeep, felt a very strange feeling in his heart when he saw the exercise code. The code of the Soviet Union's exercise has always been quite direct. The exercise for NATO is the West, the exercise for Asia is the East, and the naval exercise is the Ocean Series. The names are very straightforward...
This Western 74 military exercise that is about to begin is definitely incomparable to the Western 81 exercise that the Soviet Union personally took on in history. In fact, the Soviet Union does not need to use military exercises to show its presence. To be honest, the Soviet Union is now full of presence in the whole world, unless the enemy is blind and has not seen the Soviet Union fight in Turkey.
"Dad, it seems we're here, and the local Kurds said it's almost here." The convoy stopped slowly and a very young man came over and said, "Are we going to start now?"
"Oh, first check the surrounding terrain. There is no special destruction of corpses. It should not be difficult to find it with our engineers' experience!" Sherov was stunned when he saw the other party, then remembered that he had taken over for a long time. He put down the book to relieve his boredom, pushed open the door of Gas, stepped on the soft land with one foot, and looked around blankly, "This place is really not very good. It's almost October and it's still the temperature, so that comrades can pay attention to heatstroke."
Occasionally, a whirlwind rolls up a pillar of yellow sand and slowly rises into the sky, with an inexplicable quiet atmosphere. Sometimes, strong winds blow, flying sand and stones, and the momentum seems to destroy the entire nature under its might, which is feared and helpless. Walking into the Gobi Desert is like entering the primitive wilderness, full of desolation and lifelessness. However, in order to find water, the ephedra plant penetrates its roots deeply into the coarse sand and gravel.
Thinking of the desert scenery I read in my previous life, Selov felt no fluctuations in his heart and even wanted to laugh. If he had to summarize it here, it would be even shorter and would not use the word "chicken soup" in his heart. In simple terms, it is very consistent with his definition of the old, young, and poor areas in his heart. In simple terms, it is not a place for people to live.
"Let some comrades install tents, and we will start our homework tomorrow. Don't let the Kurds go, we have not found the place yet." Selov was very uncomfortable with the sand here wearing military boots, and gave the order one step deep and one step shallow one step.
He will not go back to Moscow recently, and he cannot explain to the queen at home, so he rushed here and hide for a while before talking about it. Erwin is not a safe place. If Valia is happy to come here in the name of the Ministry of Education, he really has no way to do it. The last telegram Her Majesty the Queen already has this meaning.
"As compared to commanding operations, is the work of archaeology more suitable for me?" Selov sat on the ground and experienced the life of the nomadic peoples eating raw meat and drinking blood. General Mustafa's men sent a lot of sheep, which would only be sent to feed in the Soviet Union tomorrow. Although these mutton did not taste his taste, he did not need to be too entangled between being hungry and eating.
The motherland is in war, and he, a general political commissar, always feels a little unemployed. But this job is very suitable for him. He has a very common language with the Americans. Simply put, it means not to conflict with any major power, and a middle-class country must find the right opportunity. If possible, he is very willing to show what social imperialism is in countries such as Malta and San Marino.
It would be best if your opponents are beggars, and you don’t even have cold weapons to grab them. Only such opponents can make him feel the best in the world. Unfortunately, there are no weak countries next to the Soviet Union, and I don’t want a group of banana republics in Central America to allow the United States to show its imperialist hegemony in the world at any time.
Selov, who was exerting strength against roasted lamb legs, was considering the issue of geographical factors. He had to distract himself, otherwise he would be afraid that he would not be able to eat it, which would be too stinky...
For modern warfare, the performance of equipment has exceeded human adaptability, so at Erwin's Soviet Southern War Zone General Command, the breakthrough point chosen was night battle. This may cause some accidental injuries, but Turkish soldiers faced the same disadvantage.
The flare was just a consumable for the Soviet Union. During the Patriotic War, Soviet soldiers were already familiar with this kind of thing. They were still dispatched by the air force at night. The huge group of Soviet bombers visited Kahramanmalash again, formerly known as Malash as the eastern city of Turkey and the capital of Kahramanmalash Province.
On a high ground next to the Marashjehan River, three passes controlling Mount Torros are an important transportation route between Anatolia and Syria, and have an important position. The city of Malash, located on the high ground, has a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Syrian government forces, whose combat effectiveness is no higher than that of Turkey, were hindered when they advanced here.
This is the end of Hafiz Assad's plan, but it must be conquered, otherwise Turkey may go south at any time in the future to take back the land occupied by Syria. Now the Syrian army has increased to 150,000, including the Fourth Armored Division led by Hafiz Assad's younger brother.
What made Hafiz Assad more angry was that it would take the help of the Soviet Union to make progress, which was not in line with his character. He hoped to treat the Soviet Union equally. Syria must have its own value, but the Syrian army disappointed him again and again.
This is also related to Syria's hasty preparations. The war against Turkey was purely temporary, unlike Israel for so long, so when it arrived in Marash, the Syrian government forces could not make any progress.
At two o'clock in the evening, a group of Soviet bombers under the escort of the Aviation Division appeared above Malash with incendiary bombs. The appearance of the Soviet bombers was immediately discovered by the Turkish military defending Malash. A shrill air defense alarm appeared over the city, and high-power searchlights shot directly into the dark sky. The anti-aircraft artillery troops were guided by the searchlights to find the invading Soviet Air Force.
Originally, the Turks did not use this kind of World War II method, but whoever made the Soviets shamelessly attack Türkiye and killed Türkiye's modern air defense missiles at one time, Turkish soldiers now can only settle for the second best.
Unfortunately, the Soviet bomber group began to throw incendiary bombs outside the range of the anti-aircraft artillery troops. The incendiary bombs dropped from high altitude fell on the ground and ignited everything there. A river of flames formed on the high ground of the city of Marash.
While the Soviet Air Force was in the gap, Syrian artillery troops made a discovery and concentrated more than 700 cannons to launch a gunfire on the Turkish position in Malash City for more than an hour. Even the Soviet Air Force had left the gunfire and continued.
At the same time, the Hisse coalition forces on the island of Cyprus were also carrying out the same action, and began to organize an attack under artillery attack, trying to annihilate the Turkish troops that had become an isolated army. "Long live Greece, long live Cyprus..."
Chapter completed!