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    "There are no tanks in front of our battalion!"

    In just eight words, it is proud!  It's the horn!  It is the strongest cry of the Chinese armored forces!

    With the heart-stirring message that made Li Jin and the Chinese armored forces famous all over the world, the door to the south of Ahvaz was completely opened.  When the message spread to all the troops, the first batch of landing troops swept across the entire Khuzestan Province like a sandstorm.

    After annihilating Ravensky's KV1 tank regiment, the 1st Battalion and the Infantry Battalion of the 22nd Independent Armored Regiment of the Chinese Defense Forces led by Li Jin only rested for half an hour, and together with the two battalions of the 6th Motorized Infantry Division that followed,  Taking the 17 captured KV1 tanks, they forcibly launched an attack on Shadegan.  Facing Shadegan's Soviet artillery and twenty BT7 tanks, Li Jin used 17 KV1 tanks to cover the infantry, and then dispersed the first battalion into platoon units, using the flat terrain to attack the Soviet army from all directions at the same time.

    Although the 70th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army stationed here fought hard, it had no choice but to have insufficient anti-tank means and lost air superiority. In the end, the artillery battalion was destroyed by HNA dive bombers and tanks, and the tank had to be lifted up when it could not outrun the tank on two legs.  White flag surrender.

    In just five hours, one armored battalion set up an ambush and wiped out a heavy tank regiment, and then one armored battalion and three infantry battalions wiped out an integrated Soviet infantry division. More than a thousand were killed and as many as seven thousand were captured.  !  Is there any more shocking result than this?  So much so that even Song Ziqing from Beijing thought it was a joke after receiving the battle report, and had to confirm it again before he believed it.

    At the same time, the Second Battalion of the 22nd Regiment led by Zhao Sanbiao also encountered the Soviet T34 Tank Regiment and the 235th Infantry Division coming from Ahvaz east of Abadan.  Compared with the slow and bulky kv1, the t34 is much more difficult to deal with.  Fortunately, the early T34's firepower and armor were still insufficient. Faced with the same sloped armor layout, the frontal protection was equivalent to a 120 mm homogeneous steel plate, and there were also 60 mm Type 31 tanks on the sides. The Soviet tanks could only gain a numerical advantage.  Eventually in the evening melee.  The Second Battalion destroyed 39 T34s in one fell swoop and captured 11 at the cost of eight of its own. The remaining 14 used the night to release smoke and escape back to Ahvaz.

    After losing the cover of the T34 tank, the 21st Infantry Division wheeled armored battalion that came ashore from Alvand showed its power, using thirty-six lz33 Hound wheeled armored vehicles and four Type 35 Jagdtiger tank destroyers as cover.  With the fire support of 155mm towed howitzers and three frigates, three infantry battalions and one combat engineer battalion were deployed to take over the second battalion to launch an attack on the Soviet 235th Infantry Division.

    Although the two Soviet infantry divisions trapped in Abadan went out of the city several times to cooperate with the pincer attack, they were blocked by the 120mm naval guns of the three territorial sea-class frigates on the river and Zhao Sanbiao's second battalion.  Finally it was dawn the next day.  The Soviet 235th Infantry Division collapsed across the board.  With the surrender of the 235th Division, the road from Ahvaz to Abadan was cut off, and Abadan, Iran's southwest oil and strategic town, was completely surrounded.

    On August 6, 1939, the Persian Gulf Army of the Chinese Defense Forces used the Port of Rig as a bait to lure the Soviet army to reinforce eastward. At the same time, it suddenly landed an armored regiment and an infantry division in the Alwand area at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab River.  It took only one day to surround Abadan and capture Shadegan and Behbehan.  By the next morning, Lige Harbor was also captured by the 21st Infantry Division.  The total offensive force invested has increased to five divisions.

    On August 7, the Third Battalion of the 22nd Independent Armored Regiment, led by Ran Nanxuan, handed over Behebehan to the brother troops and rushed to Shadegan.  Li Jin, who had two armored battalions and an infantry regiment, did not hesitate and immediately launched an attack on Ahvaz, thirty kilometers away.  The naval aviation force also invested 112 fighter planes to cooperate with the army.  to 3 p.m.  The first battalion has broken through the Soviet defense line in the southern suburbs of Ahvaz, and the third battalion has circled to the north, and cooperated with the light infantry regiment delivered to Jisander by transport plane, encircling five Soviet divisions in one fell swoop in less than fifteen square kilometers of Ahvaz.  In Washi City.

    News of the simultaneous siege of Abadan and Ahvaz shocked Moscow.  Stalin even sent a telegram directly to Chemezov, deputy commander of the Persian Front, demanding that all Red Army commanders and fighters on the southern front of the Persian Front must fight to the end. At the same time, he strictly ordered Konev to mobilize heavy troops south to support the southern front.  Pravda, known as the mouthpiece of the Kremlin, also issued a statement on the same day.  The National Defense Forces are required to withdraw from Iran immediately, otherwise millions of Red Army troops will fight back with the fiercest force.

    Beijing also showed no sign of weakness. At the national education dinner that night, Gu Weijun, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, solemnly stated in front of dozens of Chinese and foreign reporters that the Soviet troops must immediately withdraw from Iran and Afghanistan!  The persecution of people of all ethnic groups in Central Asia must stop!  Allow all ethnic groups in Central Asia to become independent!  Otherwise, the war will not end!

    The competing high-level officials of China and the Soviet Union pushed the war in Persia to its climax!  On the morning of August 8, the 47th Mixed Wing of the Air Force, consisting of 336 fighter planes and transport aircraft, arrived at the Kofuf Air Base in Saudi Arabia via Kabul.  At the same time, the first batch of 36 Huashe B fighter attack aircraft and 22 Air Force ghost car dive bombers were stationed at Shadegan Field Airport.

    ? ?The forward deployment of the U.S. Army announced the full-scale battle of Ahvaz.

    "Support, support, we need support!"

    "Party members' vanguard group! Officers! All go to the front line. Naval guns! Boom."

    Under the scorching sun, artillery boomed in Abadan, and the Soviet 65th Army headquarters in the Abadan building of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company was in chaos. Lieutenant General Serenkov had just thrown the phone angrily when the guards  He threw himself to the ground hard.  The artillery shells from the Shatt al-Arab fell next to the headquarters. The violent explosion shattered all the exquisite decorations left by the British, and large clouds of ash fell from the ceiling.

    Three territorial sea-class frigates that went up the river to protect the infantry landing launched a fierce attack from 12 kilometers away. Smoke billowed, fireballs spread everywhere, and the reapers' lives were ruthless.

    The territorial sea class is just a standard low-end anti-submarine escort warship. In order to reduce the cost, it adopts a civilian ship structure. Only the main bridge is equipped with a 60mm protective steel plate.  The standard displacement is 1,100 tons, with a maximum displacement of 1,500 tons. It has a 120mm/l45 high-level dual-purpose naval gun with shields at the front and rear, two twin 40mm anti-aircraft guns and two 25mm single-barreled machine guns. Torpedoes can be optional when needed.  This is a warship specially designed for anti-submarine and escort missions. It has complete equipment, depth bombs, and mine guide rails. It has a wide hull, good seaworthiness, and long range, but its maximum speed is only 26 knots.

    But even with these three frigates, the Abadan Soviet army was still helpless.

    Serenkov gritted his teeth.  He was the commander of the 65th Army of the Soviet Red Army, and the commander of the Southwest Military Region during the Civil War. During the Battle of Tsaritsyn, his troops were always at the forefront, almost biting down the entire city bit by bit against the machine guns of the White Army.  Later, even Stalin personally praised him and said that he was a model of the Red Army.  This time, in order to defeat the imperialist threat to the hinterland of the Caucasus, the 65th Army accepted the personal commission of the General Secretary and was transferred from Stalingrad (Tsaritsyn) to garrison Abadan, the southwest gateway to Iran.

    But he, like everyone else, did not expect that the war was completely different from what it was back then.

    Ground-air coordination!  Sea and air cooperation!  Sea and land collaboration!  Butan collaboration!  Compared with the Wehrmacht on the opposite side, the so-called powerful Soviet Red Army looks like an army from the last century. Faced with advanced multi-service coordination tactics, it is completely unable to come up with any effective means of confrontation.

    "The same emotion was expressed by Lieutenant General Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the British Army in the Middle East who was almost accidentally injured while standing on the top of the destroyer's mast.  The battle of just over fifty hours made him and all the British officers who watched the battle deeply moved.

    In sight, two Snake B fighter attack aircraft were close to the ground and pounced at ultra-low altitude on the Soviet anti-tank gun positions blocking the advance of the tanks.  Compared with the Snake, this fighter-attack aircraft that looks like a British Hurricane has been replaced with a new 1,500-horsepower water-cooled engine, and the four 12.7 mm machine guns have also been replaced with four 25 mm aviation cannons.  Although the range cannot be increased, the armor is thicker and can carry three 120kg bombs or eight 90mm ground-attack rockets, making it a multifunctional combat attack aircraft.

    While the Snake B fighter attack aircraft flew over the position, four bombs hit the position one after another. The sand and dust raised by the explosion obscured the view, but Wavell understood that this firepower point without air defense coordination would definitely not survive anymore.  Sure enough, after the plane returned from the circle, the four Type 31 tanks had already broken through the firepower point and continued to advance deeper into Abadan.

    "General! Heavy cruiser."

    Amidst the adjutant¡¯s reminder, Wavell twitched the corner of his mouth several times, and saw that the heavy cruiser Changsha of the 22nd Fleet of the Republic of China Navy actually entered the Shatt al-Arab River.

    Although the Soviet Union lacks coastal defense capabilities, the navy generally does not allow capital ships to sail into narrow rivers. This time the Changsha took the initiative to enter, clearly to capture Abadan as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams.  This scene made Wavell sigh in his heart, and he understood that Abadan was no longer connected to Britain, so he waved his hand to the adjutant and said in a helpless tone: "Please General Quinan stop the action, it is not necessary."

    The addition of nine 210mm heavy artillery announced the destruction of the Abadan Soviet army.  Serenkov, whom Stalin called a model for the Soviet army, was immediately killed by the heavy cruiser's firepower.  After losing their command, the Soviet army became more chaotic, and finally had to surrender under the leadership of a deputy division commander that afternoon.

    After capturing Abadan, the 4th Armored Division of the Persian Gulf Army, which had been wandering at the mouth of the river, finally found a foothold.  As soon as the three ro-ro ships docked, hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and trucks full of soldiers rushed to Ahvaz, the last stronghold in southwest Iran.

    On the afternoon of August 9, facing insurmountable air superiority, the five Soviet infantry divisions surrounded in Ahvaz suffered heavy casualties. Finally, the 4th Armored Division, 6th Motorized Rifle Division, 73rd Infantry Division of the Chinese Group Army in the Persian Gulf were killed.  Surrounded by infantry divisions, they surrendered without hope of waiting for reinforcements.  On the same day, the 21st Infantry Division and an armored regiment that disembarked from Rig Port, under the cover of naval carrier-based aircraft, quickly liberated Kazerun and Shiraz, the important towns in Fars Province, Iran, and opened the way to Iran.Gate of Sfahan.

    In just four days, 12 Soviet divisions, 292 aircraft, 472 tanks, 1,300 various vehicles stationed in the provinces of Hormuz, Fars, Ahmadi and Khuzestan along the Persian Gulf coast  A total of 150,000 troops, including trucks, 13,000 war horses, and a large amount of baggage and ammunition were swept away. Lieutenant General Chemezov, deputy commander of the Soviet Persian Front, was injured and captured
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