The city of Fallujah was surrounded by groups at this time, but Bashir knew that the People's Liberation Army could not all surround the city, because the city was on the west side of the Euphrates River. Bashir stayed in the Soviet Union for a long time, and two examples of war flashed through his mind almost instantly, namely the two famous battles during the Soviet Patriotic War, the Battle of Leningrad and the Battle of Stalingrad. Two cities named after two generations of Soviet leaders were in a state of complete encirclement. In the end, the Soviet Union, which was defending, eventually turned defeated and won with huge casualties.

"From a normal perspective, it is impossible to capture a city that is closely guarded without causing huge casualties. However, when your Soviet instructors talked about the two battles, they also said that it was the expiration of the regular army, right? Do you still remember what they said at that time?" Bashir asked as he looked at the group of commanders who were trained by the Soviet Union.

"The instructor of the National Security Council said that the most valuable resistance of a country is people, and some people have all hope. From the perspective of the two countries, the resisters often maintain strong fighting spirit because of the country and nation. However, in the case of civil war, this sentiment often does not rise. Moreover, although street fighting is difficult to accept in the concept of regular combat, a different method can be solved, that is, completely destroying the city, whether it is burned by fire or bombarding with heavy artillery, killing all the people inside will naturally not become an obstacle." Someone immediately answered Bashir's question.

"So let's start, how do we cut off the support of Baghdad on the right bank of the Euphrates River? Have you ever thought about it?" Bashir turned to ask another question. How to cut off the support of Baghdad is still a question.

"We may need the help of the Soviet Union. If they can convince the Soviet Union to sacrifice an oil tanker, it can help!" This question is actually not difficult, and people always think of it.

"The Soviets will definitely help us, and there is no choice for them." Bashir said calmly. The only port in Iraq is Basra, which is controlled by the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party. As long as the First Secretary makes a request to the Soviet Union, this is not a problem.

Bashir ordered a propaganda offensive against Fallujah, hoping to make more residents realize the danger of the war so that they can withdraw from Fallujah. In his heart, he had decided to use Soviet heavy artillery to blow Fallujah to tie. Even a heavy artillery that was famous during World War II was coming from the Syrian Games at a slow speed.

This kind of heavy artillery was the magic weapon that the Soviet Union equipped to deal with heavy fortifications and urban street fighting. The b-4 howitzer, which has another more resounding name, Stalin's Hammer. The b-4 howitzer has good ballistic performance and high shooting accuracy, with a total weight of 15.8 tons. Due to the large weight of the gun body, the designer equipped it with a crawler-type gun mount, which weighs 11 tons, and uses the chassis of the "Comintern" heavy crawler-type tractor, which can be used for fire

The gun provides limited maneuverability. The b-4 howitzer can be called a monster installed on a tractor. The b-4 howitzer cannon stand is equipped with auxiliary wheels for traction, and the traction speed is about 15 kilometers per hour. Since most parts of the Soviet Union were in ice and snow in winter, and the ice and snow melted often had mud abnormality, this is very unfavorable for the maneuverability of large-weight artillery. For the b-4 with a total weight of 15.8 tons, the maneuverability improvement after the crawler is installed is quite obvious.

Iraq did not have the icy, snowy and muddy environment of the Soviet Union, but the second batch of military supplies that departed from the Aosad port arrived in Syria later. Because the Western military region was advancing very quickly, this batch of twelve Stalin's hammer heavy artillery was still moving slowly a hundred kilometers away.

For Selov, the Soviet Union produced thousands of this thing, and because the Soviet Union had completed the mechanization of the entire army, this heavy artillery has been eliminated. However, the inventory of ammunition and artillery are still there, and the Soviet Union will not face street fighting for the time being. However, he knew the power of this thing, so he pulled out the heavy artillery from the warehouse and transported it to Syria and sent it to the hands of the Iraqi Communist Party on the way.

The Stalin Hammer is more useful in street combat than other heavy artillery. This kind of crawler heavy artillery can often follow the infantry into the city to fight. The offensive route of the Red Army's Berlin Capitol was the route of Stalin Hammer's advance and bombardment, and there was no tiles left wherever it passed.

"Who said that Iraqis can't fight? Isn't this quite possible? Is it possible to find a way to do it? Is it a thousand-ton tanker filled with fuel and sank upstream, and the work of ignition is not to be handed over to us, right? By the way, it's more dangerous, let the Iraqi crew do it themselves." Selov quickly responded to the Iraqi Communist Party's request for help. So many sacrifices were done, and what is an oil tanker? It's not a giant tanker. The water depth of the Euphrates River cannot be entered.

Bashir means to sink a tanker full of fuel to ignite it, turning the Euphrates River into a fire snake, and stopping the reinforcements in Baghdad. Selov must calculate what kind of tanker is the most suitable, and it is best not to block the attack of the Iraqi Communist Party, otherwise Fallujah will conquer it, and the fire dragon that blocks the opponent will become an obstacle to his side. This is not good.

But at present, Selov has one more thing, that is, the military exercises of Turkey, the North Caucasus and the Caucasus. There are only a few countries that can fight in the entire Middle East. Syria and Egypt are still staring at Israel. The remaining two countries that can interfere with the Iraqi civil war are Turkey and Iran. Turkey is the second largest armed force in NATO, second only to the United States in terms of the number of troops. Iran is the most pro-US Middle Eastern country in this era, and its friendship with the United States is still above Saudi Arabia. It is also the Middle East police that the United States has always supported.

Iran has all-American equipment, and Pahlavi is also very good to the army. Iran is not the Iran that has been playing with people after the religious revolution. It is very likely that he will be fooled by the United States for a moment. Who knows whether Pahlavi will do something to get out of the fire? After Nixon came to power, Pahlavi announced yesterday that he was worried about the situation in Iraq.

If this is the case, let Pahlavi's worries be greater. Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Andre Grechko announced that military exercises involving the three military regions of Turkey, the North Caucasus and the Transcaucasus will begin. At that time, the three military regions plus the Black Sea Fleet, the Caspian Sea Squadron will start a week's military exercise to shock Turkey and Iran's rash actions.

As for Saudi Arabia, it was not that the Soviet Union looked down on him. This country is just beginning to rise. As for its military strength, Selov believes that this country that cannot even defeat the Houthis has never risen at all.

The exercise, chaired by Marshal Andre Grechko, personally participated in the exercise, with more than 60,000 people, completing maneuvers between the three military regions, as well as the landing exercises of the Black Sea Fleet, the Caspian Sea Squadron and the Soviet Navy infantry, involved the entire Caucasus and the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Once the news was released, it put strong pressure on Turkey and Iran, and raised their alert status in their border areas. The Soviet navy did have a gap with the United States, but it didn’t look at how wide the Black Sea was. Once the Soviet Red Navy came, the US Navy would not even have a chance to rescue.

As a result, the two countries did not hear the United States' demand for interference between the two countries, and expressed their own difficulties, the international economy was poor, the military was insufficient, and the staff was not intact. Simply put, it was impossible to interfere in the Iraq war.

Both countries believe that the United States does not go up by itself, so it is unrealistic to let them go up and fight against the Soviet Union. You should know that Turkey and Iran are bordering the Soviet Union. What is the strongest thing about the Soviet Union? The army tanks calculated by 10,000 are really a disaster for them, so no matter what support the United States provides, both governments cannot agree.

"What a joke, provide weapon support? Let's deal with the Soviet Union? Can the Soviet Union deal with weapons support?" Pahlavi murmured alone after sending off the US envoy. Don't really fight, even the current exercises have made the Iranian military tighten a string.

In the past few days, the Iraqi Communist Party and the northern Kurdish armed forces are still constantly attacking and approaching Baghdad from both north and south. However, overall, the front is still stable. After all, the Iraqi military government has fought for so many years, so it is not difficult to stabilize the front. At the same time, Baghdad has begun to seek help from the outside, which shows that this is the Soviet subversive action against Iraq. I hope the international community will support it, but the international community is currently busy.

Brezhnev was negotiating with Bogra and the Federal Germany, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed in his words that there were indeed powerful hardliners in the Soviet Union, and he was even quite dissatisfied with his own and Western Europe's policy of easing. As for the few hardliners, except for himself and Kosigin, they were probably all.

After several days of preparation and shouting, Bashir finally made all the preparations. More than 300 cannons were lined up in Fallujah. He estimated that 90% of the residents in the city had been evacuated. The remaining people were either not afraid of death or were hard-core supporters of the military government. There was no need to hold back at this time.

On January 25th, when the sky was just dawn, the artillery positions of the Iraqi People's Liberation Army made a loud noise, one after another of the artillery shells were fired, and they were bombarded violently at Fallujah. They were shot upstream by an oil tanker with the American flag hanging upstream and were hit. Then the entire Euphrates River turned into a fire dragon.
Chapter completed!