Chapter 395: The Iran-Iraq War Breaks Out

"Boom, boom, boom." The roar of the desert camouflage tank's engine echoed across the wilderness.

The unique V-shaped anti-wave plate on the front, the high barrel and the cast turret all represent that this is the latest Soviet exported tank, the T-72M! The Iraqi army is the first user of this tank! All of them are equipped to Iraq's most powerful Republican Guard!

This is the Hammurabi Division of the Republican Guard! As the first unit to be equipped with T-72, the combat effectiveness of the Hammurabi Division is second to none in the entire Iraqi army! And now, their mission is to cross the border and occupy the southern part of Iran! Seize the important Iranian cities of Khorramshahr and Abadan!

Such a large armored force is very spectacular when charging!

A command-type T-72 tank stopped, and a fat commander leaned half of his body out of the T-72's turret, picked up a telescope, and looked at the terrain in the distance.

Lieutenant Colonel Ali Abdullah Shehri, commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hamurabi Division of Iraq, was filled with excitement. They had crossed the border and entered Iran! These lands will all belong to Iraq!

Ali was born in a poor family in Tikrit. He was thin and small. After joining the army, he was assigned to the armored force. His living standard improved significantly afterwards. He changed from a bean sprout figure to a plump body full of fat. He was jokingly called "Armored Ali". However, his flaws did not outweigh his merits. He was extremely talented, especially in commanding armored forces. He had intuition and talent rarely seen by ordinary people. He was also one of the few Iraqi armored commanders who entered the French Saint-Cyr Military Academy and the German Armored School to systematically study Western armored tactics and strategies.

After Saddam became president, all the soldiers from Tikrit were selected to join the Republican Guard, and Ali suddenly became the commander of the most combat-effective 8th Armored Brigade!

Ten minutes ago, when they crossed the Iranian border, the Iranian border guards only resisted symbolically and then retreated. No one can stop the T-72 tanks from attacking!

Thinking about what happened just now, when the 125mm grenade easily destroyed the Iranian fortifications, Ali was extremely excited. The Iranians were no match for the Iraqi armored troops!

"Attention, an Iranian Chieftain tank has been spotted ahead!" Ali observed the billowing smoke and dust ahead through his telescope. He soon determined the model of the enemy's tank, an outdated Chieftain tank!

In some ways, with a combat weight of 57 tons and a 120mm tank gun, the Chieftain tank seems to be an advanced tank made in the 1960s. However, the backward sighting system and the engine with only 650 horsepower make this bulky tank very poor in mobility, just like the heavy tanks in the World War II era. If it were all added to the armor, it would be fine. The problem is that in the era when the Chieftain tank was born, there was no concept of composite armor. This bulky tank is because it uses cast armor. The thickness of the Chieftain tank's body armor is generally 80-90mm, and the thickest part of the armor is the front of the turret, which is only 150mm. In this era, such thin armor is simply an appetizer for the T-72. In Hokkaido, the T-72's special armor-piercing projectile can penetrate a meter thick homogeneous armor!

Ali was extremely excited when he discovered the Iranian armored forces. He retreated back into the turret and commanded his armored forces to attack!

Charge, charge! Black smoke came out of the rear of the T-72 tank, the high-powered engine roared, the gun barrel was raised high, and at a distance of 1,500 meters, the tank gun opened fire.

"Boom, boom!" As the tank gun opened fire, the Iranian tanks on the opposite side were instantly destroyed, and the cast tank turrets were blown off. The scene was extremely spectacular.

"Go around the Iranians and wipe them out!" Ali kept giving orders on the radio.

The charge of dozens of Iranian tanks had no effect. The T-72 tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade destroyed all of the Iranian Chieftain tanks in less than five minutes!

Go forward, keep going forward! The battle just now made Ali quite satisfied. Iran is already too weak to withstand a single blow! In two hours, we can rush to Khorramshahr! Tomorrow we can rush to Abadan, and in half a month, we can reach the Iranian capital of Tehran!

Following the T-72 tank is the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, which is an advanced infantry fighting vehicle introduced simultaneously with the T-72 tank. The body is made of welded steel plates, which can protect against bullets and shell fragments. The front arc area is protected against 12.7mm armor-piercing bullets and armor-piercing incendiary bullets. The front upper armor is aluminum armor with reinforced ribs. It uses a 6-cylinder 300 horsepower diesel engine, torsion bar suspension, driving wheels in front, idlers in the back, and 6 road wheels and 3 track rollers on each side. It has strong mobility and can keep up with the speed of main battle tanks.

At the same time, the infantry fighting vehicle also has a 73mm 2A28 low-pressure smoothbore gun and a SEG anti-tank missile monorail launcher with 4 missiles. It fully inherits the characteristics of Soviet weapons and has powerful firepower! Even if it is against a tank, you can give it a try.

Inside the infantry fighting vehicles are soldiers from the 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. In their hearts, they are silently encouraging themselves to eliminate the Iranians and take back our own land!

This is just one of the entire armies attacking Iran. In this military operation against Iran, Iraq has put all its efforts into it. Three armies are advancing simultaneously from the north, middle and south!

Due to the terrain, the attacking troops in the north and the center were just feints, and only the troops in the south were the focus!

While marching, Saddam gave an inspiring speech on TV. Facing Iran's export of revolution, Iraq had no choice. Iraq was already an enlightened modern country elected by the people and would never follow the path of a barbaric country! HMN was under the slogan of exporting revolution, but in fact it was doing something even more crazy, even openly challenging basic international norms, detaining and even killing diplomats. This was an act that would be condemned by the whole world! Iraq would bring justice to the entire Middle East and seek the truth!

Almost immediately after Saddam gave his speech, the White House spokesman also began his speech. In view of Iran's stubbornness, its refusal to repent, and its continued killing of innocent American hostages, the United States could no longer tolerate it and decided to implement the second phase of the Persian Hell combat mission, and the ground offensive began! Moreover, if Iran continued to kill the hostages, the United States would consider using nuclear weapons to attack major cities in Iran, including Tehran!