Chapter 185: Trapped Beasts Still Fighting
Like the Battle of Aleppo two weeks ago, the final chapter also officially kicked off at dawn.
For any large-scale battle, the time for initiation must be carefully considered, and the same is true for this siege battle with Damascus and Mosul as the main force.
Since it has been able to receive air support from multiple countries in recent times, the arrogant FSA has completely lost the air supremacy of the occupied areas and has come from the west. The government forces and the US-British Allied Forces are becoming more and more skillful in cooperation. Choosing to launch a general offensive in the daytime, which is most conducive to giving full play to its air superiority has become an inevitable choice.
In the mid-eastern winter, a red sun slowly rose from the east in the early morning. The dense artillery fire had already begun like a thunderous start in the eastern part of Syria. It was like the prelude of the general attack. The various types of government-manned artillery that entered the pre-appointed position were fired at full speed. The rockets were fired quickly, and rockets quickly passed through the dawn sky, spreading sharp screams behind them. With the artillery fire on this side of the front line, dim smoke and dust continued to rise from the distant horizon. The Damascus army, which was only about ten kilometers away from the city, was ready to go. Just wait for the artillery fire to stop in the sky, then shouted in unison, picked up the steel guns, and rushed into the last fortress of the Liberal Party.
In line with the general offensive rhythm on the ground, the attacks in the sky gradually began. The batches of fighter jets taken off from the Truman and Queen Elizabeth were loaded with enemy ammunition, and were under the cover of several overhead F-34 and EA-35g electronic countermeasures aircraft to penetrate into the heart of Syria.
According to the target request sent by the Damascus Joint Command, the ground air defense forces were completely suppressed, like the US-British Allied Forces fighter jets entering an unmanned land, throwing precision-guided munitions to the key nodes of the rebel positions. By attacking their command communication networks, important firepower positions and key commanding heights, they supported the Damascus attack; after a fierce air strike, explosions broke out on the Liberal positions, and rolling black smoke almost covered the sky. The attacking striker of the government army immediately began the first wave of charges, gathering at the rebels, and killed Deirzor, who had become trapped in beasts.
Seeing that the Liberal Party’s nest was right in front of us, the government soldiers who were hit by armored vehicles were all full of morale.
Although I learned about a huge explosion in Sabha just a few days ago and my morale was briefly hit, the government officers and soldiers did not believe that the rebels were able to do the same in Deirzur. After all, since it was not a nuclear explosion, hoarding thousands of tons of explosives to detonate was an extremely crazy act. Besides, even if the Liberals on the opposite position were really crazy, where did they get so much explosives?
Since the opponents are blindly resisting, they will resolutely send them all to hell. The Syrians, who are deeply poisoned by the Liberal Party wars, have finally waited for a great opportunity to completely revenge. The unwritten agreement that "the stubborn resisters are not qualified to be prisoners" is also circulating everywhere in government forces.
Although no one will publicly admit it, in private, almost everyone is planning to do so.
The momentum was like a rainbow and the Damascus tanks and armored vehicles rushed on the open front line. The low-altitude armed helicopters sprinkled rockets on the frontier positions of the rebels, and the "bang-bang" of the self-propelled mortars fired one after another. In between, the low roar of the tank guns and the crisp and dense automatic gun strafing.
To do all his strength to fight a final battle to wipe out the remaining enemies, the Damascus army would not be stingy with ammunition at all. The mechanized infantry approaching the city had gotten off the car and rushed forward bravely to the Liberal position after the armored vehicles.
Faced with the government forces coming like a tide, the rebels on the suburban positions were also quite fierce. They were surrounded by all sides and had no way of retreat, and they simply wanted to die. All kinds of automatic weapons opened fire together, mixed with anti-tank missiles that were dragging smoke from time to time, rockets boosted grenades and even gun grenades. The "bang bang Ping Ping" fire sounds on the positions were completely unstoppable.
The Liberal Party, which was hit by the bombs falling from the sky and the fierce artillery fire of the Damascus army, was completely red. Although there was no hope of winning, the thugs still fought stubbornly on the frontier positions. Until the government forces covered by tanks rushed towards us, the two sides even launched a small-scale hand-to-hand battle similar to a massacre in the smoke and dust. The furious soldiers cleaned up these crazy Liberal Party members and stepped on the enemy's bodies and crossed the frontier positions with bomb craters and smoke.
The short and savage battle ended soon. The bayonet was removed from the AK-12, wiped the bloodstains and stuffed them back into the scabbard. The government soldiers took the BMP-2e chariot and continued to rush forward, and soon approached the edge of the city of Deirzur.
With the approaching of the liberators, Deirzur, an important town in eastern Syria, is also the base camp that has been devoted to the Liberal rebellion. About 200,000 indigenous people have almost fled. The city that cannot move the place itself cannot escape the terrible fate that is about to come, and it has turned into rubble ruins in the fire of war and smoke.
The ground battle was in full swing. Just about two hours after the Damascus army launched the general attack, the Mosul army on the eastern front successfully broke through the Liberal Party’s outer defense. T-72m tanks painted in sand and yellow camouflage rumbled across the high ground and continued to move towards the vaguely visible city area in sight. Next, if everything goes well, then before sunset, this not-so-large city will be completely liberated, and the Liberal Party in the city will be completely cleaned up.
The progress of the general offensive was undoubtedly very smooth at the beginning. However, as the front lines on both sides continued to move forward, the FSA fighter that had almost disappeared some time ago reappeared in the air.
Facts have proved that the Liberal Party, surrounded by Damascus and Mosul, whose control area was compressed to a radius of dozens of kilometers, could also erupt unexpectedly powerful forces when facing a catastrophe: just as the battle gradually approached the city of Deirzur and approached the white-hot heat, from the only rebels controlled Deirzur Air Force Base, originally attacked by bombs, and the blocked airport runway had been temporarily repaired. Black yf-23 "ghosts" accelerated and slid under the control of the pilot, and then appeared in groups over the war zone.
"Fight, or Destruction", the Liberal Party, which had no way out of retreat, was really a bit surprising.
Before the launch of the general offensive, thanks to the unremitting efforts of intelligence agencies from various countries in the occupied areas, many national forces and Damascus received some intelligence. According to the deployment of FSA's "Deputy Commander" Kharif, the Liberal Air Force, which suffered heavy losses in the previous war, was reorganizing its strength and preparing to play a role in the Battle of Deirzur, which will soon be launched.
However, although the intelligence was delivered in time, the control area was constantly shrinking, and the strength of the Liberals was short of strength, no one thought they could still struggle with a powerful air force; even if the origin of the rebels' "Ghost" fighter jets was still a mystery, at least, there was only a small air force base in Deirzul. According to the line, at most, it was a squadron-level combat force stationed. According to the previous performance of the FSA fighter jets, a squadron-level YF-23 was really not enough to pose a threat to the multinational troops and Alsa.
This was the analysis of the Liberal Air Force before the general offensive was launched. However, once the fierce siege battle was really started, the forces involved in the various parties soon discovered that the situation had some unexpected changes.
Just after the battle started, the every move of Deirzur and surrounding areas was controlled through early warning aircraft, long-range warning radar and battlefield monitoring satellites. Whether it was the US-British Allied Forces under the jurisdiction of the multinational troops, the Arab League Defense Air Force that headed northward, or even the Central and Soviet forces that had recently joined the battle, and of course, including the Unsa who had been surrounded by the side, everyone quickly discovered something, that is, in the Deirzur area where the battle was fierce and the airspace was extremely narrow, traces of Liberal fighter jets soon appeared.
The most serious thing is that these traces are still increasing, indicating that the number of FSA fighters taking off the air continues to rise, and soon exceeded the astonishing scale of 100, and it is clearly still increasing!
This amazing fact was discovered through various battlefield monitoring methods. At the same time, the front combatants also sent back emergency reports. The F-34 "Silent Cat" fleet of the US-British Allied Forces patrolling the Syrian sky had encountered Liberal fighter jets and confirmed that the model was still the YF-23 "Ghost"; however, when we looked at the number, there were more than 30 enemy aircraft in front of us. Several "Silent Cats" intercepted with all their strength eliminated some of them through two rounds of over-visual-range missile attacks, but soon ran out of ammunition and had to retreat first. Fortunately, the fighter jets that launched the air strike had just left the war zone and did not encounter these FSA fighter jets that suddenly appeared head-on.
The air strikes on the city of Deir Zor have just been completed. F-34 and F-35 fighters that have completed ammunition dropping are returning at full speed at high altitude. Multinational troops, which have received a large alarm from the Liberal fighter jets, quickly adjusted their deployment. These fighters need to load air-to-air weapons and strike a second time after returning.
Chapter completed!