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The South Ossetian army was no longer able to stop the advance of Georgian armored forces, and the soldiers stationed at the Zak road checkpoint had no chance of counterattacking in the face of heavily armed armored units. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoT72 tanks began to move along the Zack highway towards the Roksky tunnel.

The government troops of South Ossetia suffered heavy losses from the surprise attack of the Georgian army. Some tank bases were attacked by MiG-21 and Su-27 fighters before they could respond to the battle, and all the troops were destroyed. It was not their fault, who knew that these fighters of the Soviet Air Force, which took off from Georgia, were actually aimed at their own people. Minashvili was still somewhat far-sighted. It was understood that in order to block the advance of Soviet armored units, it was necessary to occupy the Roksky tunnel. Even bombed them as a last resort to slow down the advance of the Soviet troops.

But without the coordinated operation of the air force and ground air defense forces, the Georgian armored forces that raided the Zak road were somewhat dangerous, and once the Soviets carried out air support strikes, they would be wiped out like live targets. Minashvili also took this into account, and originally occupied the airfield immediately after the capture of South Ossetia, and used Su-27 fighters to carry bombs on the spot to bomb the remnants of the South Ossetian army stationed in the Kazbek Mountains.

But the surgical strike of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet caused heavy losses to the Georgian Air Force, and even Minashvili did not realize that it was the Black Sea Fleet, not the Soviet Air Force, that launched the attack in the first place. It was clear that this hand caught the Georgian Air Force off guard. Now even Minashvili can only pray that the armored forces will be able to take the tunnel before the vanguard of the Soviet 58th Army arrives.

The T72's thick tracks crushed the white flowers that grew at both ends of the road into the black dirt, and the resistance of the Georgian rebels was hard to be reckoned with. They often lay in ambush at both ends of the road, using PRG rockets to fire at both sides of the T72 tank, and even the only self-propelled gun of the Shilka River that could fight in coordination was ambushed by the enemy and scrapped, and now only one tank with less than one or two companies has reached the point near the Roksky tunnel.

"Ahead is the Roksky tunnel, as long as we take it, South Ossetia will be ours." When the tank commander saw in his binoculars the entrance to the Roksky tunnel and the last bit of troops stationed there, he couldn't help but get excited. From this moment to now, the Georgian Independence Army has not encountered any resistance at all, which means that the defenders of South Ossetia have exhausted all their troops. The part in front of the tunnel was just a handful of people who were the last to resist.

And the road is continuous and gentle, with no rough and dangerous places. That is, it is impossible for the remnants of South Ossetia to set up an ambush here to attack two tank companies.

He straightened his hat and ordered the 1st Company to advance at full speed and capture the last pass. Holding the Roksky tunnel, Georgia seized the initiative in the army.

The commander could even sense that victory was in sight, and he would become a hero of Georgia's victory in the war of independence.

Unbeknownst to the attacking Georgian troops, however, that twenty minutes earlier the vanguard of the two motorized infantry battalions of the Soviet army had passed through the tunnel and learned that the Georgian army was marching here. They decided to take the plan by surprise and catch each other off guard.

First of all, all the units of the motorized infantry battalion were hidden in the tunnel, creating the illusion that the Soviet army had not been increased for a long time. Then all the South Ossetian troops along the road were withdrawn, creating the illusion that no one in the Georgian armored forces could stop them. Under such a double trap, the commander of the armored company took a risky offensive approach, rushing to the final finish line without the cover of aerial fire.

However, a squadron of Su-25 attack aircraft that had taken off from a military airfield was rapidly approaching the Zack road, and they were providing air support to the vanguard motorized infantry battalion. And the commander of the motorized infantry battalion was targeting two dozen T72 tanks along the road. They were like moving ground targets, tightly targeted by Su-25 attack aircraft.

Soon the commander in charge of the attack felt that something was wrong, and the soldiers at the mouth of the Roksky tunnel were too lazy. It didn't look like a big enemy at all, and after they came into range, the soldiers in the Roksky tunnel still didn't change anything. In fact, by condescending observation, they were quite capable of spotting the attacking Georgian armored forces.

Now the Georgian commanders are faced with a dilemma: one is that they are at a strategic point close at hand, and if they stop and wait for air support, they are likely to lose it. The second is that the temptation was too great, and the commander of the Georgian tank company took a risky approach, not waiting for follow-up air support, and attacked directly.

However, the accident happened at this moment, and the commander of the armored unit heard a sharp whistling sound coming from a distance, like the roar of an airplane. He raised his head and saw a squadron of Su-25 attack aircraft flying in his direction, and the commander of the armored unit suddenly realized that something was wrong and hurriedly radioed all the crew members to abandon the car and flee.

He got out of the top cover of the T72 tank and jumped onto the hard concrete floor. Grab the pistol and run away, by this time the Su-25 attack aircraft had approached the armored units on the road, and without any fire cover, they were lambs to the slaughter.

When the Su-25 attack aircraft pilot locked onto the tank through the screen, a whizzing air-to-surface missile fell from the sky.

The KH29 missiles loaded with the Su-25 were aimed at the T72 tanks on the road, and after each HK29 was launched, the turret of a T72 tank on the road was directly overturned, rolling up smoke and flames, because some of the Georgian tank crews evacuated the tank in advance, so these became the targets of the Su-25 attack aircraft, and there was no power to fight back.

All of a sudden, the Zack Highway became a veritable road of death, and the crew who did not have time to evacuate died in the cockpit along with the burning tank, and through the driver's hatch, the entire tank could be seen like a furnace, and the flames swallowed everything in the car.

After the first round of strikes, the Su-25 attack aircraft fired again at the T72 tank with a 30-mm cannon, and the top of all the tanks smashed into a honeycomb coal-shaped crater. When the Su-25 attack aircraft confirmed that the tank had been completely destroyed, it flew away. All that remained was the black iron sheets burning on the road, and the billowing smoke of gunpowder.

The motorized infantry battalion hidden inside the tunnel finally showed its fangs, and after the air power cleared the tank company with precision strikes, they would quickly occupy the Kazbek Mountains and clear the obstacles for the 58th Army behind.

The rebels in Georgia did not yet know that the true strength of the Soviet army was only now beginning to show. (To be continued.) )