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Chapter 1004 Death Highway (Second update, two in one, please subscribe)

Just as Yahya was in the palace dreaming of unifying Arabia, dozens of Butcher's Birds took off. Soon after taking off, these planes flew among the undulating sand dunes, just like in the past, like a camel caravan in the desert. The vast desert became their best cover.

At the same time, at an altitude of 20,000 meters, a pair of eyes were closely staring at the marching Saudi army. This army of nearly 40,000 people was so mighty and majestic.

Tanks and war horses marched across the Gobi Desert, raising billowing yellow dust. More than 20 years ago, they invaded Yemen from here. Now, they will once again use the most powerful armored forces on the peninsula to teach the Yemenis a lesson. Some cavalrymen are even planning how to snatch local women after taking down the Yemeni capital Sana'a.

For these Bedouins who came from the desert, the war mode they are most accustomed to is actually robbery. More than 20 years ago, when they arrived at the city of Sana'a, their fathers had robbed many local women, many of whom were even their mothers. Now they are just repeating the glory of their fathers.

Although the era of scimitars has ended, human nature will not change. For these Bedouins who came out of the desert, war means robbery and plunder.

When the cavalrymen were discussing how to rob and plunder, they did not realize that the pattern of war had long since changed. In fact, this is the biggest characteristic of the Arabs. Even if they used tanks and airplanes, their war thinking still remained in the 7th century AD. This is why, even with the most advanced weapons, they were defeated again and again. This is also the fundamental reason why, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, both sides used the world's most advanced weapons to fight a "modern war" of the inferior level of the th century.

Essentially, this is because this culture is anti-progress.

The changes in weapons and the advancement of technology cannot change the deep-rooted ideas in their brains, which are even against civilization.

This was true in the 21st century and is even more so now. For these Bedouins, who have long been accustomed to looting in the desert, they are eager to fight. What they desire is not the fighting itself, but looting.

Be it a machete, a rifle, or even a tank, it is just a tool for looting. When the cavalrymen were chatting, the tankmen who exposed their bodies also joined in the discussion. They even shouted to the cavalrymen - "Leave some good stuff for us too."

"Then you can all come down together to grab it!"

The cavalrymen laughed. The officers wearing British uniforms and Arab headscarves did not think the scene was a big deal. Some of them had studied in military academies in Cairo and had even studied military affairs in the UK. They seemed to have a full understanding of modern warfare, but in fact... they did not care about it at all.

Deep-rooted ideas cannot be changed, and even such ideas are not afraid of bullets, just like the thousands of Iranian child soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War, who had scriptures wrapped around their heads, were bare-handed, linked arms, and shouted "...Greatest" to attack Iraqi positions with human wave tactics. They detonated landmines one after another with their tender bodies. They only had two things on them: a photo of the ruler Khomeini and a plastic key - the key was the so-called shortcut to heaven.

If they died heroically with the key, they would be able to go straight to heaven, where endless delicious food and many stunning beauties were waiting for them.

This is true for the children decades later, and even more so for these extremely conservative Bedouin tribesmen who emerged from the desert. Their stubborn thinking makes them have no clear understanding of modern warfare at all.

While they were chatting in a relaxed tone and discussing how to plunder, what they didn't know was that a fleet of dozens of Butcher Birds were already swooping down on them.

Gao Zhengwu, who was leading the fleet, saw billowing smoke and dust as he crossed the sand dunes. He looked at the tanks in the distance and the cavalry around them.
“It was like a bunch of guys at a party.”

There was no air defense, no sentries, no... In short, there was no defense at all. For a moment, Gao Zhengwu even wondered if this huge marching column might be their "bait."

After all, anyone who has a little understanding of modern warfare would not march so brazenly. In fact, this is their characteristic. Compared with 12 centuries ago, only scimitars have been replaced by rifles, and Arabian horses have been replaced by tanks, but people and their brains have not changed at all.

Faced with the Arab girl who had lifted up her skirt, or rather, had taken off her clothes and was naked in front of him, Gao Zhengwu was just like any normal man - his eyes were shining and even bloodshot!
He immediately adjusted his tactics, but of course he couldn't help but secretly pray that these people wouldn't react too quickly after discovering them, otherwise his plan would fail.

"Attention all teams, follow my orders."

Gao Zhengwu, breaking the radio silence, said into the communicator:
"The enemy is now marching in a column that is more than 20 kilometers long. We will divide our troops into three groups and use bombs to attack from the front, rear and middle. Each platoon will choose its own target and attack freely along the marching route."

After he gave the order, everyone's voices came through the headset. The fleet that was originally preparing to launch a rocket attack immediately transformed itself, split into three sharp arrows, and rushed towards the marching Saudi army.

When thirty-six Butcher Birds roared and swooped down on the marching column on the ground from three directions, the cavalrymen didn't even react. It wasn't that they didn't react, but... they didn't have much experience in this area at all, and they didn't even disperse their troops.

"Plane, plane, be careful of their machine guns..."

Some cavalry officers shouted loudly. For these Arabs who had never experienced World War II, they never knew how cruel modern warfare was. In their minds, the planes seemed to be the same as those that fought against the Hejaz and Yemenis more than 20 years ago, and could only use machine guns to shoot and occasionally drop a few small bombs.

It was no big deal at all. Of course, it didn't mean that they would just passively take the beating - the cavalrymen on horseback immediately fired into the air with rifles and light machine guns. Yes, they didn't even have anti-aircraft machine guns.

Such defense had absolutely no effect on the "Butcher Birds". When they swooped down regardless of the consequences, the two 30mm MK108 machine guns at the roots of the wings roared, instantly creating a bloody storm on the battlefield.

But in just a blink of an eye, hundreds of shells swept through the cavalry column. They did not fire armor-piercing shells, but thin-shell shells with extremely strong destructive power. This type of shell was developed by the German army during World War II to attack heavy bombers such as B17. The shells with a charge of up to 85 grams have amazing destructive power. Only 4 shells are needed to shoot down a B-17, and a single hit can destroy a single-engine fighter. Moreover, the effect is first-class whether it is to dismantle fighters or bombers.

Although in the 540s, this kind of shell with a muzzle velocity of only 108 meters and the MK108 cannon had long been outdated, the low muzzle velocity led to the main defect of the MK-1000, that is, the ballistic drop was serious, and the projectile would drop 41 meters within a distance of 108 meters. This defect made it difficult for the Mk- to hit a maneuvering target, and even when it was used to attack the main target of its design-bombers, it had to fire at a very close distance. However, after research, the technical department of the Nanyang Air Force found a new use-as an aerial "automatic howitzer" specifically used to attack infantry clusters, so it was resurrected on the Butcher Bird after changing its purpose.

In order to accomplish this mission, engineers redesigned the shells, slightly thickening the stretch-formed shell wall and carving prefabricated fragmentation grooves in the shell wall. Although the explosive volume was slightly reduced, the increase in fragments increased its lethality several times. Although the charge was reduced, it was still as high as 60 grams, and it was loaded with more powerful high-energy B explosives. The high-energy explosives and prefabricated fragments increased the effective fragments produced by the explosion by dozens of times, and its killing radius reached 15m.

To a certain extent, this cannon is basically an enhanced version of the grenade machine gun - except that its warhead is heavier and more powerful! As a low-speed machine gun, it has a firing rate of only 660 rounds per minute, so its gun sound is a bit special, "boom, boom" a bit like the sound of an electric hammer.

Amid the sound of cannons being struck by electric hammers, high-explosive shells fell from the sky like raindrops, breaking the cavalrymen's bodies, breaking them and their horses in two. At the same time, in the violent explosion, hundreds of shrapnel unscrupulously reaped lives around them.

The violent explosion covered the entire marching column, like thousands of grenades, and in the blink of an eye, it enveloped the cavalry marching column.

In an instant, the road turned into hell. The 30mm grenade might not be able to destroy the tank - it couldn't even penetrate the thin steel plate, but the violent explosion blew the unprotected Saudi cavalry into the sky. Broken limbs were flying everywhere. In the dense rain of bullets, the sky and the earth were all red. The bodies torn apart by the shells were blown away by the shock wave of the explosion, and red flesh and blood flew in the air.

The cavalry and trucks that were originally marching became targets. They were almost motionless and enjoyed the baptism of artillery shells. In less than a minute, tens of thousands of artillery shells were poured on them. The resolute effect was like pouring tens of thousands of reinforced grenades in a short period of time. After all, ordinary grenades only have about 50 grams of explosives. Any unprotected creatures covered in such dense artillery fire felt only a baptism like hell.

Sometimes, being burned in the fire may not necessarily lead to rebirth, but it can certainly cost a person’s life.

Just as the Butcher Birds were roaring and sweeping the marching columns on the ground with their "grenade machine guns", they had already flown above the columns. As they were roaring past, the cluster bombs hanging under their wings were dropped. The moment the bomb boxes were opened, hundreds of bombs covered the earth like raindrops.

In an instant, the continuous sound of explosions was like the roar of machine guns, ringing on the ground. In an instant, everything was shrouded in black smoke. Those cluster bombs dropped dual-purpose submunitions that could penetrate armor and kill. Each submunition could form thousands of deadly fragments after exploding.

If grenade machine guns were hell for the unprotected cavalry and trucks, then the ground immediately turned into a real purgatory when these cluster bombs fell. The Churchill tanks in the explosion area became complete targets. Almost every tank was attacked by several bombs. In the violent explosion, the tanks turned into burning scrap metal. The baptism suffered by the unprotected cavalry and their horses was devastating. They were almost completely enveloped in dense smoke, blown into the sky in the violent explosion, and then their bodies were torn to pieces by countless fragments.

Just like that, the butcher birds whizzing by have transformed into the gods of death, sowing death and pouring the kiss of death over the earth.

But in just a moment, this mighty army was shrouded by the god of death. The steel rain formed by grenades, machine guns and cluster bombs was reaping lives like the scythe of the god of death.

When the first round of attacks ended and the wind dispersed the smoke, corpses could be seen everywhere on the ground. The once majestic tanks had now turned into piles of burning scrap metal.

"Boom! Boom!"

There were continuous explosions. The turrets of some tanks were blown into the sky by the shells that exploded inside them. The Churchill tanks with their heads blown off took off their hats one after another as if they were saluting the "butcher's bird" in the sky.

I don’t know how long it took, but finally, the last “Butcher Bird” ran out of ammunition, and the Grim Reaper in the sky finally calmed down.

The wind blowing from afar dispersed more of the smoke, and the desert road before people's eyes was no longer a road, but a real purgatory - among the wreckage of hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and tanks, tens of thousands of corpses were scattered among them, and the bloody body fragments even dyed the earth red.

Some ownerless war horses cried out in despair on the battlefield. In the billowing smoke, broken limbs were scattered all over the ground. Among them, there were some wounded soldiers struggling in a pool of blood. Under the scorching sun, they soon died.

As he flew through the air, Gao Zhengwu was completely stunned. He did not expect that this attack would have such an effect, so much so that when he saw some Arab cavalry fleeing, he even forgot to pursue them. Even though he had experienced too many wars and was accustomed to the cruelty, they were still stunned when they saw the scene before them.

When the pilots were flying the Butcher's Bird over the highway for the last time, a reconnaissance plane flew over the air, took some pictures, and then left. Soon, the aerial photos taken by the reconnaissance plane were sent to the command post in Sana'a. Seeing the tragic scene on the highway, everyone fell silent.

Looking at the battlefield that was like purgatory, Du Changwu's expression kept changing. Not only did he not feel the slightest bit of joy, but even a thought emerged in his mind - it's all over!
This is too much force!
Du Changwu's face and expression looked very strange at this moment. Not only him, but other consultants in the advisory group also had the same expression. They felt uncomfortable!

Originally, their plan was very clear, which was to severely damage the Saudi army through an air strike and force them to go on the defense. However, who would have thought that a very normal air strike would directly turn into a devastating blow - almost a total annihilation raid.

"This, this... these guys are too weak!"

Who can I go to for justice now?

You're using too much force!
"Fuck, they are just a bunch of pigs, they can't be so weak, it's just an air raid, don't they know how to hide and disperse during the air raid?"

When Du Changwu cursed in his heart, he obviously didn't know that even decades later, when American pilots poured bullets on Highway 80, destroyed thousands of tanks and cars, and turned the highway into a "Death Highway", when they looked at the burned vehicles and charred bodies, they also had a question in their hearts - after eight years of fighting, didn't the Iraqi army know how to disperse and hide?

Sometimes, this land is so magical that you can never understand the people and things here with normal means. But looking at the tragic scene in the aerial photos, Du Changwu couldn't help but sigh and said to himself.

"Okay, Saudi Arabia is finished..."

Yes, Saudi Arabia is finished. This air strike destroyed not only the desert cavalry on which they rely to maintain their rule, but also the authority established by the Saudis in this land. After all, their authority is based on scimitars and violence. When the devastating blow on the Death Highway spreads to all parts of the country, those tribes that have long been dissatisfied with their rule will surely stand up and overthrow their rule.

After casually throwing the photo on the table, Du Changwu quietly lit a cigarette...

(End of this chapter)