Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 847
The French army suffered disasters one after another, and their reconnaissance planes were also cut off due to electromagnetic interference in communication. Many reconnaissance planes lost control and crashed in mountainous areas.All-round high-power electromagnetic interference is more harmful to the French. Once there is no radio and no source of information, the French army will be completely blind, while the Dragon Army infantry uses the old-fashioned wired telephone contact method. not affected by electromagnetic interference.In this asymmetric war, the French army slowly fell into the abyss.

On August 23, the Chinese and French troops fought fiercely in Basra at the northern foot of Zagros Mountain. This was also the largest frontal battle in Iraq that officially kicked off.

Basra, located at the northern foot of Zagros Mountain, is an important port in the Persian Gulf and an important port to ensure Iraqi supplies. Its strategic location is very important. Even if Baghdad is lost, the city of Basra cannot be lost!
Before the Dragon Army launched its attack, the heavy weapons carefully preserved by the Iraqi army were deployed in the mountains near Basra, and the entire city of Basra had become a huge fortress, where 30 French and Iraqi regular troops were scattered and concentrated. The periphery of the city is densely covered with criss-cross ravines, and landmines are everywhere.

In modern warfare, positional warfare is of course unable to withstand an enemy with air superiority, so what the Iraqis want to fight is not a positional warfare, but a new type of warfare that combines urban warfare and mobile warfare.Because the city of Basra is not big, a small city with a normal population of only 40 would not be able to withstand the violent bombing and shelling of the invaders' army if it was a simple street battle.

Feng Yuxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Dragon Army, formulated completely different tactics for attacking Basra and Baghdad. For Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, it is difficult to destroy because of its large size, and because it is the capital of Iraq, the Dragon Army tends to occupy it.And Basra, a port city, is the starting point of Iraq's lifeline.So Feng Yuxiang made a decision: "Blow up Basra completely! Raze the city to the ground!"

So, starting from the end of April, a large number of Lanxiang dive bombers and Predator heavy bombers loaded with bombs flew over Basra every day, pouring bombs into the city crazily.Twelve bombers at a time can drop about 1600 tons of bombs at a time, and at least four batches of bombers pass by in formation every day, dropping a large number of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs on the city.The daily bombing volume is about [-] tons.

After nearly a week of bombing, the city was hit by tens of thousands of tons of bombs. If these tens of thousands of tons were replaced by nuclear bombs dropped at one time, the city would have ceased to exist long ago, but this is an expansion war, not a race Extinction, unless you want to completely destroy the earth.

The bombs dropped again and again have already blew up the city into ruins, but the Iraqis have survived tenaciously in the ruins by virtue of their solid underground fortifications.The port was bombed. Under the guidance of the French army, they used ships such as car roll-off ships and landing craft to transport weapons and ammunition.

The city was bombed, and most of the Iraqi soldiers and civilians moved to the mountains. Every day, the mountain roads bombed by the Dragon Army were repaired to ensure the smooth flow of lifelines.Supplies transported in from the Persian Gulf passed through the ruins of the city and were transported throughout Iraq.

In order to completely wipe out the resistance of the Iraqi army, the Long Army also bombed the mountainous area, but it only had a negligible effect.Feng Yuxiang had issued a warning to the French army that if they sent weapons and ammunition to Iraq, they would sink French merchant ships without hesitation.

France defended and said: "We are transporting humanitarian supplies. You invaded a country like this, created a large number of refugees, and displaced a large number of ordinary people. We provide them with the necessary living supplies in a humanitarian spirit, so that they can live." go down!"

At the same time, France declared: "The Persian Gulf is the Persian Gulf of the Middle East and Europe. Except for the national aircraft along the Persian Gulf, once any foreign aircraft enters the sky over the Persian Gulf, the French army has the right to maintain the security of the Persian Gulf."

Seeing that the warning was ineffective, the Long Army dispatched fighter jets to attack the French merchant ships in the Persian Gulf.Next, Feng Yuxiang ordered decisively: "Although Basra is already in ruins, we have to send troops to occupy the ruins. Only by occupying the ruins can we truly cut off the supply lines of the French and Iraqis."

In order to launch an attack on Basra, Feng Yuxiang mobilized 15 troops, starting from Erbil, passing through Samaha, and launching a ground attack in the direction of Basra.

Once Basra falls, the main ground force of the Dragon Army can avoid passing through the Zagros Mountains, attack all the way east along the Iraqi plains, and attack all the way to Baghdad, thus completely cutting off the lifeline of Iraq.Therefore, the Battle of Basra is also a key battle for the survival of Iraq!
On April [-], when the vanguard of the Dragon Army, [-] troops, passed through Samaha and was about to cross the Tigris River, it was attacked by an ambushed [-] Iraqi "popular mobilization army."

This was a suicide attack. Iraqi militiamen without any heavy weapons dug pits in the ground, lay in ambush, covered them with stone slabs and covered them with soil.When the Dragon Army passed over their heads, a large number of Iraqi militiamen with explosives strapped to their bodies jumped out of the ground and launched a suicide attack on the Chinese passing by their heads.

Ten thousand "meat bombs" jumped out of the ground, and there were continuous explosions everywhere, and the ground burst into flames, causing dozens of Chinese soldiers to be blown to pieces.The tanks, armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and light assault vehicles of the vanguard of the Dragon Army suffered varying degrees of damage during the attack.

Feng Yuxiang immediately retaliated and arranged for an assault infantry division to lie in ambush on the only way to Basra. When the French army passed here to reinforce Basra, the Dragon Army attacked the French transport convoy from behind. , More than 300 large trucks full of supplies were burned, and more than 600 French soldiers responsible for the transportation task were killed.

The troops led by Tang Shengzhi managed to pass through this disaster area with great difficulty, and it took them ten days to arrive outside the city of Rasht.As far as the eye can see, the city is already a ruin of reinforced concrete. Thick smoke is billowing above the city, and the fires in many places have not been extinguished.

However, in the depths of the city's underground, there are hidden French and Iraqi armed forces. The ruins that were destroyed lie on the ground, but in fact, the depth of the ground has been thickened, protecting the underground fortifications from the bombs of the Dragon Army. destruction.

Tang Shengzhi also used incendiary bombs to bomb the city, but with little effect.Tang Shengzhi looked at the ruins with a telescope outside the city. He sighed and said, "It seems that even cockroaches can't survive here. Only God knows how those Iraqis can survive here."

At the same time, he also knew that although it was just a ruin, this place was of great significance. This was the entrance to the Iraqi Plain. Once the Dragon Army occupied this ruin, they would be able to attack eastward without hindrance. Otherwise, Feng Yuxiang would not If you are full, ask the soldiers to occupy a piece of ruins without any complete buildings.

In the Zagros Mountains to the east of Basra, the Iraqi commander Sanjay is laying out the battle plan. He proposed: "When the dragon army launched an attack on the city, our last armored force used the cover of camouflaged troops to attack from the mountain. Come out inside and fight a large-scale ground battle with the Dragon Army, even if we use up all the last heavy weapons in Iraq, as long as we can kill the Dragon Army in large numbers, we will be worth it!"

The French commander Henri Honoré Giraud objected to his proposal: "You only have a few heavy weapons left in Iraq, and after the heavy weapons of the Dragon Army are destroyed, they can quickly be replenished. Moreover, the Dragon Army The army must be led by the Kurds. If you fight like this, you can only destroy the Kurds. The lives of the Kurds are worthless, and the Chinese don’t treat them as human beings. When they die, they die. There are. But when the Kurds have exhausted all your heavy weapons, how can the Chinese resist when they come up?"

"Then according to your French friends, what should we do?" Sanjay asked.

"I think you should let the popular mobilization army fight against the Kurds! You should pull a large number of militiamen out of the mountains overnight and send them into the ruins of Basra. When the Kurds come, they will come out and attack them. The Kurds are almost done fighting, and it's time for the Chinese to come up. At that time, let's launch a large-scale counterattack." Jiro said.

Anyway, as long as the French are not used to carry out this kind of suicide attack, Giro will not object, and he strongly supports it.

After listening to Ji Luo's words, Sanjay also felt that it made sense. After all, if those militiamen used it to deal with the Chinese, they would probably have no chance of detonating explosives, and they would be completely wiped out by the opponent. Instead of dying in vain, it is better to go Die with the damned Kurds, and then dispatch the regular army to die with the Chinese!

Feng Yuxiang also expected that it would be very difficult to enter Basra for street fighting. Drawing on the lessons of Tehran's street fighting, if it is a frontal breakthrough, the Dragon Army will definitely suffer relatively large losses. Therefore, he asked all troops to quickly familiarize themselves with the terrain after entering Basra. Find the hidden stronghold in the shortest possible time, and conduct a counter-ambush against the defense forces in Basra.

On May [-], the Kurdish militiamen who were the first to attack the city entered the city of Basra from the west, south and southwest. When they attacked the ruins of the city, they were not stopped by anything.

Before, the Dragon Army did not carry out any firepower preparations. Isn't the continuous bombing for nearly a week not enough?It is futile to prepare for firepower. It is better to save some ammunition and wait until the target is found before launching an attack.

At this time, the city of Basra was full of snipers from the Fayi regular army and suicide attackers from the militia, waiting for the arrival of the Kurds.

(End of this chapter)