Chapter 569: Attacking Saudi Arabia

"Hammurabi's Division, attack!" Ali's voice rang out in the empty desert, and there was immense anger in his words.

Just now, the president's voice ended with an explosion. Although he didn't know what happened, he had a vague premonition. At this time, what should his troops do? Of course, rush in and take actual action to avenge Baghdad!

attack!

The engine of the T-72 tank made a rumbling sound, the tracks kicked up dust, and the rolling armored torrent had started!

It was just early morning.

The night sky is dotted with countless stars, and the clear moonlight shines into the desert. The entire desert seems to be covered with a layer of gauze.

"Attention, turn off the infrared headlights." Ali's voice sounded again on the radio.

Tank night battles require some special means, and in this era, they mainly rely on infrared headlights! Ali also has a deep understanding of infrared headlights. It is better to have nothing than to have this thing!

Especially now, relying on the moonlight, we can also see the situation dozens of meters ahead, as long as we make sure that the tanks don't collide with each other! Anyway, there is desert everywhere here, just follow the general direction! If you turn on the infrared headlights, although you can see the situation five or six hundred meters away, it also means that you will expose your target! In the opponent's infrared sighting system, the infrared headlights are a very powerful mark, guiding the opponent to launch artillery shells.

So, just like now, we are racing in the desert in the dark, and the enemy can't find us at all! All we have to do is to defeat the troops on the border line ahead!

Originally, the borders between Middle Eastern countries were vague and surrounded by deserts. If a boundary marker was erected, it would soon be covered by the desert. The environment for setting up outposts here was extremely harsh. However, with the intensification of conflicts between them, Saudi Arabia still deployed some troops on the border. For example, there is about a battalion of troops on the opposite side!

At this moment, countless rocket lights flew overhead, and the trailing flames drew a bright light in the sky.

As the armored division moved, the divisional artillery in the rear opened fire! The BM21 40-barrel 122mm rocket launcher was fired from the rear, aiming at the Saudi border guards' station!

Soon, the sound of explosions was heard ahead, and the 122mm multiple rocket launcher completely flattened the camp opposite!

These armored divisions of the Republican Guard are all equipped according to the organization of the Soviet Army. The Soviet Army, which has always advocated artilleryism, has an extremely powerful artillery organization!

The tank tracks rolled across the border, the Saudi border troops had completely disappeared, and Saudi Arabia's door was completely opened!

In fact, if they wanted to attack, they could have done it long ago, but President Saddam has always been tolerant and unwilling to go to war with Saudi Arabia. But now, Saudi Arabia has brought American forces to the Middle East!

The tank continued to race across the desert, and ahead, there was still endless desert!

Behind Hammurabi's division, the rest of the army was also preparing to attack.

"Iraqi invading forces have been discovered and have crossed the border area." An E-3 early warning aircraft was flying over the desert. Since the war began, the E-3 early warning aircraft has been on patrol. Although it is now night, it is also necessary to prevent sneak attacks by the Iraqi Air Force. At the same time, the several Nighthawks that have been sent out by its own side also need to provide certain early warning information.

But now, the early warning aircraft did not detect the situation in the sky. On the contrary, the convoy on the ground attracted the attention of the early warning aircraft.

The E-3 early warning aircraft can not only handle target situations in the sky, but also handle situations on the ground. The attack of such a large ground force naturally cannot be hidden from the scanning of the early warning aircraft.

Through radio, the intelligence was quickly sent to the base camp in the rear, namely Prince Sultan Air Force Base, which is the location of the newly formed US Middle East Command.

William James Crowe Jr., who was in charge of the entire Middle East war, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. After that, he was promoted to Director of the East Asia and Pacific Office of the Department of Defense in 1973, and Commander of the U.S. Forces in the Middle East in Bahrain in 1976. He was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1977, and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy in Europe and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe in 1980. Historically, he was supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Headquarters in 1983. But now, the situation in the Middle East has suddenly deteriorated. As a former commander in the Middle East, he is quite familiar with this place, so he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Middle East Command.

William Jr.'s deputy was the young black general Colin Luther Powell, who relied on his own abilities to rise to high positions step by step. Historically, he relied on honesty and hard work to become the first black general in the United States, the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first black Secretary of State.

In the 1960s, Powell was sent to Vietnam twice to participate in the war. After returning from the Vietnam battlefield in 1969, he entered George Washington University to study, and then worked in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff of the Pentagon. He then served as the commander of the US Army Battalion in South Korea, the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division and the commander of the 5th Regiment of the US Army in Germany, the senior military assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States, and the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Now, as a veteran of the Vietnam War, he has been sent to the Saudi battlefield to save the emergency here.

The results of the F-117A stealth aircraft's attack have not yet appeared, and now the Iraqi army has invaded in large numbers!

"Immediately mobilize the 1st Cavalry Division and the 101st Airborne Division to block the gap and prevent the Iraqis from getting in!" Upon hearing this, Little William said immediately.

What are they afraid of? The most feared thing is that the Iraqi soldiers will come and kill them! That is why they have to quickly launch air strikes, hoping to destroy the Iraqi resistance as soon as possible, but now, the Iraqi army is still coming!

"No, the Iraqis are now in high spirits and in large numbers. Once they are scattered in the desert, it will be difficult for us to deal with them." Powell said, "I think it is better to let the Iraqis come. It is thousands of kilometers from the Kuwaiti border to Riyadh. The Iraqi tanks will advance to the Dahna Desert at most before dawn, which is within the strike radius of our base. Our A-10 attack aircraft and armed helicopters will let the Iraqis know that no matter how powerful the Soviet armored forces are, they are not as good as our air-to-ground integrated warfare. Here, we can wait for them to tire themselves out, and it is not so easy for the Iraqi Air Force to break through our defense line."

Let the Iraqis in and use air power to destroy these Iraqi tank troops in the Saudi desert!