The two armored divisions are not the entire offensive force of Syria, they are just the first offensive echelon of Syria. Under the cover of artillery, the Syrian army defending the north immediately crossed the border, and almost at the same time Hafiz Assad announced in Damascus that Syria had entered a state of war with Turkey. The infantry division and motorized infantry divisions were rushing from all over the country to northern Syria.

Syria is called Israel of the Soviet Union. In order to gain support from the Soviet Union, Hafiz Assad even led the Arab Society's Baath Party abolished the state religion of peace religion. Syria is the most serious country in the Middle East except for Iraq where the Communist Party seized power. This is of course related to the fact that the Alawites themselves are ethnic minorities, but this attitude has won the favor of the Soviet Union. Even the Soviet Union's latest T72 tank was sent to Syria.

The consequences of violent Soviet-style shelling, and the rolling smoke still enveloped the border positions. Syria's newly established Northern Army crossed the border with the unique sound of track friction of tanks. Not far away, a broken boundary marker was also written in Turkish.

The Northern Army includes two armored divisions, five motorized infantry divisions and infantry divisions. A total of 100,000 Syrian soldiers are heading north. The roads leading to northern Syria have been blocked. From time to time, Syrian Air Force fighter jets can be seen whistling by in the sky. They are rushing to the front line to bomb Turkey's military targets.

The T72 equipped with a 125 mm smoothbore gun on the ground was moving forward unceasingly. The MiG and Sukhoi fighters of the Syrian Air Force in the air poured bombs over the Turkish military targets, and for a moment, the southern Turkish border was filled with smoke.

The new Greek President Constantine Karamanlis faced the attacks and accusations of various parties, and he had a headache. He knew that because the military government had just fallen, the whole country of Greece was in a chaotic situation after being suppressed by the military government. After a long period of suppression, the people needed a catharsis point. The ongoing war in Cyprus has obviously become this catharsis point.

Syria's President Hafiz Assad launched a massive attack on Turkey. After the news reached Greece, the Greek people could no longer sit still. There were military enthusiasts everywhere, and Greece was not short of such people. In their eyes, Syria, a military power in the Middle East military power, was built by the Soviet Union, equipped with thousands of tanks, and fought with Israel in several Middle East wars. At this time, attacking Greece, Greece should take advantage of this time with Syria to permanently resolve the Cyprus issue.

"The Syrian army is not inferior to Turkey. It is a military power in the Middle East. If we unite with Syria, we can completely defeat Türkiye. As the president, you should choose actions that are beneficial to the country."

"If we pretend that we did not see Syria's existence, the protesters outside would tear us apart and replace a member of parliament that could protect Greece to speak on their behalf."

"President Constantine, do you know that there is a saying among the people that all Orthodox countries are in the Warsaw Pact. Why, as the purest Orthodox country, Greece helped NATO to oppose our own beliefs? Do we forget who was the first to loot Constantinople?"

The entire parliament was filled with voices like this, and Constantine Karamanlis was tired of dealing with all kinds of accusations. Public opinion can usually be considered farts. As long as the bourgeoisie is united, it can play with public opinion most of the time. The problem is that the Greek bourgeoisie is not united now.

When it comes to Turkey, national feelings have an absolute advantage. Constantine Karamanlis has no doubt that if he disagrees, as many as 100,000 protesters outside rushed in and slaughter the parliament.

"Quiet!" Constantine Karamanlis shouted, causing the increasingly chaotic atmosphere of parliament to stop, and sighed, "We will vote on the resolution to declare war on Turkey now."

He cannot put all the responsibility on himself, so that if the war fails, he will easily shirk responsibility. Obviously, Konstantin Karamanlis's idea is similar to Brezhnev. The prospect of victory is very wonderful. Although it is his own contribution, what about failure? Brezhnev is ready to let Selov take all the responsibility, and Konstantin Karamanlis is ready to push the responsibility to the parliament.

The voting results were almost one-sided. Soon, President Constantine Karamanlis announced on the whole country through television broadcast that "Greece officially declared war on Turkey to guarantee the rights and interests of the Greeks in Cyprus." In this way, after Greece withdrew from NATO's military command system, he immediately threw a bombshell inside NATO and declared war on Türkiye.

The Greek Air Force quickly took off on its own and flew to Cyprus to bomb the landing Turkish army. A few hours later, Hafiz Assad's envoy came to Athens and announced that Syria would fight in concert with Greece. In fact, the Syrian envoy did not receive any recognition at all in Constantine Karamanlis.

But the Syrian envoy announced the news immediately made all the Greeks excited. This made the Greek presidential palace dare not clarify at all. At this time, President Karamanlis, who had not yet taken office for a few days, did not dare to stir up public opinion casually. He could only default to making the Greeks think that they had a military power in the Middle East as an ally.

In fact, Greece was actually just showing off a large army on the border of Constantinople, using artillery and Turkish artillery to launch a large-scale attack like Syria. President Karamanlis was still unwilling to enter the war completely, and at most he used Greece's naval and air force, which was no less than Turkey, to fight for Cyprus.

Turkey's reaction was extremely fast. The troops stationed in the south immediately gathered to resist the invasion of the Syrian army. The two sides encountered an open area that was rare in Turkey and immediately launched a tank battle. The t72 125 mm smoothbore gun had a hot metal heat flow, bombarding the armor of the US-made m60 tank turret. Then, in the second-stage hollow armor-breaking drug cover located behind the rocket engine, the main charge turned into a metal heat flow, and continued bombardment!

Under this metal heat flow, the main armor of the m60 tank was directly penetrated! The hot metal heat flow penetrated into the inside of the tank, and the ammunition inside was instantly detonated! This is very normal. After the baptism of the Patriotic War, the Soviet Union has always been very advanced in the concept of developing tanks, and this advancedness has been maintained until the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Until the disintegration, European and American tanks could only win with a physique that was 20 tons heavier than Soviet tanks. What if the Soviet tanks were 60 tons?

"Boom!" With the roar of the gun barrel, the 105-mm tank shells flew towards the Syrian armored troops in the distance. After a violent explosion, the smoke of guns dissipated, the t72 tank continued to advance and began to counterattack, constantly bombarding the US-made m60 tanks of the Turkish military with large-caliber artillery.

The first time that made the Soviet T72 tank famous was the tank battle in the Beka Valley between Syria and Israel. When almost all Syria's weapons and equipment and soldiers were of poor quality, they relied on the T72 tank to severely damage the Israeli armored forces. This not-so-high-end tank in the Soviet Union just appeared, NATO clearly realized what despair is.

Imagine the scene where the t72 tanks roared towards them in ten thousand, and the NATO army will experience what despair is. Now the Battle of Beca Valley in history has not yet arrived. Turkish soldiers first experienced the feelings of the Third Reich. When Germany was facing the T34 crisis, they faced the T72 crisis.

In less than thirty minutes, the t72 tank swept across the Turkish American-made tanks they faced, leaving behind the wreckage of the tanks that Turkey was still burning in place, proving that these Turkish soldiers had tried their best.

This happened in less than eight hours. Many people woke up in the morning and found that the world had changed. Greece and Turkey started a war, and a civil war began within NATO. The reinforcements he was looking for turned out to be Syria, an ally of the Soviet Union. Even the military enthusiasts with the biggest imagination could not imagine it.

In fact, it is normal. Syria itself is an ally of the Soviet Union. Greece is of course an ally of the Americans and NATO's own people, but Greece has never had any disgust towards the Soviet Union because Greece and Turkey have a grudge. The Soviet Union also has grudges against Turkey. The biggest religion in the Soviet Union is Orthodox religion. Although it has been suppressed, no one can change this fact.

The fact is that something that could not have happened now has happened. A NATO country and a Soviet ally united to attack another NATO country. Syria's participation in the war made the situation even more complicated, and the United States immediately couldn't sit still and called for Greece to stop, maintain unity with Türkiye, and jointly resist the Syrian invasion.

At the same time, Kissinger sent a diplomatic note to ask the Soviet Union to stop Syria's behavior. However, at this time, the tone of the Soviet Foreign Minister Andre Gromiko, who had been calling for peace, changed for the first time. His words were still very formal and his language was very appropriate, but his meaning was completely different. Andre Gromiko called on Turkey to return the illegally occupied territory of Syria to Syria and Xu La, so that peace could be exchanged for. The reason for the problem is that the United States should put pressure on Türkiye.

Whether choosing Turkey or Greece, it is a dilemma for the United States. Greece is weak and Turkey is strong, and the United States can only exert pressure on Greece. In fact, as long as it makes such a choice of two, the United States will lose, and the most happy person is the Soviet Union. What should I do if I choose one of them? If the Soviet Union launches its efforts to win over, who knows what will happen?
Chapter completed!