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Chapter 1284 This is not a war, but a crushing victory (Second update, please subscribe)

In just a few minutes, dozens of luxury houses in Baghdad were razed to the ground in the bombing, ranging from the Prime Minister's Office to those mansions that were off-limits to outsiders.

Qasim, Arif... and other high-ranking government officials were targeted and eliminated in the bombing.

This air raid, which was completely different from any bombing in history, lasted less than ten minutes before the aircraft participating in the raid withdrew, leaving behind a city in extreme shock.

Alarms rang in Baghdad, fire trucks rushed to the explosion area with sirens blaring. Firefighters, soldiers and civilians shouted, trying to find survivors from the rubble.
Right before their eyes, a violent explosion occurred in the telegraph building in the center of Baghdad.

This is the second round of bombing - bombing of military and other important targets!
In the Persian Gulf, less than 100 nautical miles off the coast of Kuwait, in the operations room of the Yongchang destroyer, the moment the weapon operator pressed the launch button, the "Tomahawk" cruise missile hanging on the bow launcher suddenly burst into flames and flew into the distance.

Such a scene is destined to be frozen in time because it opens a new era.

At the moment after the Tomahawk cruise missile was launched, the 45-degree launch pad immediately became vertical, and a Tomahawk cruise missile was pushed onto the launch pad from the magazine below the launch pad.

Just eight seconds later, the Yongchang destroyer launched its second Tomahawk cruise missile. The dark sea surface was illuminated by the tail flame of the missile booster. Inside the bridge, Captain Zhao Yunjie quietly stared at the bright spot and muttered to himself:

"I never thought that one day a war could be conducted like this!"

Yes, they had never thought that war could be conducted in this way. In the past, the navy's attacks on land were basically based on artillery bombardment. Unless there were aircraft carriers, it was impossible to attack inland.

But now?
A destroyer equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles can launch an attack on an enemy country from 800 kilometers away. It can accurately hit a building like a willow bar at a hundred paces. This completely subverts everyone's imagination and cognition.

The four Yongchang-class destroyers are not just the sword-wielding escorts of the aircraft carrier, they are also offensive forces that can strike deep into the enemy's territory.

In just 2 minutes, they launched 96 Tomahawk cruise missiles - this is equivalent to half of the cruise missiles carried in the ammunition depots of the four destroyers' launchers. The MK13 launcher can carry 48 multi-purpose missiles such as air defense and anti-ship. In order to enhance the deep strike capability, they carried up to 24 Tomahawk missiles.

96 Tomahawk cruise missiles attacked important targets including telegraph buildings, air defense command centers, radar stations, airports, etc.

Almost immediately after the first round of "decapitation operation" raids ended, 96 cruise missiles swept across important targets inside and outside Baghdad.

Although the accuracy of these cruise missiles is far from comparable to that of later generations, the accuracy of 50 meters is sufficient to meet basic needs. After all, the scale of those targets is not that big.

At the Habubaniya Air Force Base, a former British military base, a cruise missile directly hit the ammunition depot. The violent explosion shook the entire base, and the explosion of thousands of tons of ammunition even caused a small earthquake, just like an atomic bomb explosion.

Lieutenant Colonel Harinkov woke up from his sleep and almost screamed in fear:

"Has the World War broken out?"

Although he was the head of the expert group, he had just arrived in Iraq. In fact, a month ago, a message began to circulate in his group that the superiors were going to send a group of people on a business trip abroad, either to Ethiopia or to Indonesia.

They even began to plan flight routes, because everyone knew that sometimes rumors were not groundless, and there was always a certain degree of reality behind them. The reality was that the Soviet Union was under a tight military siege by the United States and NATO, and American reconnaissance planes had long infiltrated Soviet airspace for reconnaissance. The entire Soviet Union was filled with a sense of insecurity, and it was precisely because of this crisis of being surrounded that the Soviet Union sought emerging countries to act as partners in order to break the siege of the United States.

It wasn't until two weeks ago that the news was finalized. The destination was confirmed to be Iraq to help that country train their air force to counter foreign threats.

A week ago, Lieutenant Colonel Kharinkov and some other selected officers formed an expert group and arrived in Iraq on an An-12 transport plane.

After arriving in Iraq, they had to assemble the latest MiG-21-F13 fighter jets provided by the Soviet Union to Iraq in advance. These aircraft were also transported to Iraq by air via An-12 transport aircraft.

Because the situation was urgent, these were directly drawn from Khalinkov's troops without any technical modifications.

It was for this reason that Kharinkov had an illusion that war had broken out.

He even thought it was a world war.

In the violent explosion, the entire air force base was engulfed in fire, the ammunition depot was destroyed, and the oil depot turned into a sea of ​​fire.

The flaming red flames lit up the entire night sky.

What was going on? The sudden bombing left everyone confused.

"Where are the enemy planes?"

Khalinkov heard Chistyakov shout.

"We had no idea where they were, and all the radar was just snow."

"Did anyone see the plane?"

the answer is negative.

The second round of bombing was entirely carried out using cruise missiles, with the aim of destroying their air defense facilities and radar early warning facilities before the air strike was launched.

Just as planned, after a round of missile strikes, Iraq's limited air defense radar stations were basically destroyed, and the air force bases were also severely damaged.

It was not until the end of the second round of bombing that a fleet of aircraft took off from the aircraft carrier "Friendship" in the Persian Gulf and finally arrived at various air force bases. They used special bunker-buster bombs to destroy the runways to prevent Iraqi planes from taking off. They only attacked the few that had escaped the net. They encountered almost no resistance during the bombing, and except for a few anti-aircraft artillery counterattacks, there were no other counterattacks.

In fact, Iraq is not yet equipped with SAM-2 air defense missiles.

In just over ten minutes, the entire Iraqi air defense force was completely destroyed.

While the air base was being bombed, the Iraqi military's front-line commanders all tried to contact the top brass, but received no response - all the radio stations were filled with noise, and the landline phones could not reach the top brass either.

For a time, the leaderless Iraqi army was like a headless fly, facing everything that happened at a loss. However, despite this, all kinds of rumors still spread to the military camp - most of the senior officials and generals of Qassim and the government in Baghdad died in the bombing!
Faced with this situation, people are naturally panicking!
At the same time, the "Kingdom of Iraq Radio" established in Musandam broadcasts to Iraq all day, telling all Iraqis through the broadcast that Qasim's brutal rule has been overthrown.

"...The Kingdom will soon return to Baghdad, and Iraq will once again regain its former tranquility and peace. Every Iraqi, whether Shia, Sunni, Kurd, or Christian, will be treated fairly as in the past..."

The news coming from the radio shocked all Iraqis - the king is coming back!
For the Iraqis who had long been disgusted with the Qasim regime, this was naturally a good thing that made them rejoice. In the city of Basra, the royalists who had been lurking immediately launched an uprising. They arrested local officials and the flag of the Kingdom of Iraq was immediately raised.

Uprisings also broke out in Mosul and other places. Faced with the people's uprisings, local governments were completely unable to suppress them because most of the Iraqi troops were stationed in the Kurdish region to quell the local rebellion. Only Baghdad had a large number of troops stationed there.

However, the military camps near Baghdad were also attacked by air strikes. Even if they managed to escape the air strikes and survive, the situation that followed made everyone feel like a headless fly.

"The Ministry of Defense has been destroyed!"

"General Arif's house was razed to the ground..."

After the news spread, the officers in the barracks were thrown into chaos. Although some people stood up and tried to organize the troops, in this chaos, no one had the absolute authority to make the other side surrender, especially when the military ranks were equal.

Even though some high-ranking officials managed to escape danger by staying at their mistresses' homes, they never tried to restore the organization because they knew very well that they did not have enough prestige.

"Even if Cassim is still alive, he has only one choice now - escape!"

This is well known, because Cassim had long lost the support of the people, and now his rule is only maintained by inertia. No one knows what will happen next. It may be a uniformitarianism, but in any case, they did not expect this result - the king was restored!

When those high-ranking officials whose hands were stained with royal blood drove to the north, or their companies contacted the northern army, or fled to Syria, some smart officials suddenly came to their senses!
They immediately expressed their loyalty to the king through various channels. Even the national anthem from the king's era was played again on the radio station in Baghdad, and the host expressed his loyalty to the king in excited words.

"We, every Iraqi, are looking forward to the return of the King and Princess!"

Despite the rebelliousness of the Baghdad radio station, they were not attacked by the military and police. In fact, in the chaos, no one cared about them at all. However, the "rebellion" of the Baghdad radio station was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, forcing those wavering people to finally face the reality - Qasim's rule was over.

The King is back!
At the same time, nearly 20,000 Iraqi royal troops crossed the border and entered Iraq from the Hassa Emirate, Kuwait and Iran on the southern border of Iraq. Only half a day later, the royal army occupied Basra without bloodshed.

The next day, Nanyang's tank landing ships sailed to the mouth of the Arabian River and landed in Faao. Tens of thousands of Nanyang Army troops began to enter Iraq, and with the support of naval aviation, began to advance inland!

(End of this chapter)