Chapter 1032 The pot is Saudi
"Remember, be sure to pick up the pace, because the Americans are likely to run. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info" Admiral Baghramyan told him uncomfortably, this possibility exists, and it is very large, and it is unreasonable for the Americans to wait stupidly in the same place.
Although the Soviet Union is also a three-country alliance, Iraq, Iran and later the Soviet Union are all distinct, in the battle in key areas, the Soviet army will not let the two countries get involved, the Soviet Union has experience in the Great Patriotic War in this regard, how many times have seen the collapse of the client state on the German side, how can it not be remembered for a long time, of course, the premise of all this is that they are strong enough, and the troops are strong.
These two points are currently occupied by the Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the Saudi defense line, it immediately caused a shock to the entire US military in the Persian Gulf, and now the US military has experienced the mood of the German Wehrmacht in the Romanian battlefield. Although the Saudi army does not have the ability to fight back, the collapsed front still brings great trouble to the US military.
"The whole army withdrew to the territory of Saudi Arabia, and ordered the Seventh Army to entangle the Soviet army and buy us time to evacuate." Admiral Schwarzkopf had to admit that the American army was no longer able to capture Kuwait City, and on the contrary, there was a risk of total annihilation. The troops under the city of Kuwait are the troops of the US military after the military reform, that is, the troops that are very suitable for the country of hanging kindergartens. And whether the Seventh Army is a heavy army, or the kind of equipment used to deal with the Soviet Red Army, just like the commander of the Seventh Army, Lieutenant General Franks, said, this kind of reform of the American army, really encountering an opponent of the size of the Soviet Army, the result is not as good as the original.
The military field is changing much faster than expected, and even the fastest of all. If you can't keep up with this pace, you may have lost the war. Once the reform of the US military is completed, it will be even more powerful, and it is just halfway through the process, when it encounters an opponent like the Soviet Union.
The U.S. troops hanging in mid-air, whether they were traditional combat units like the Seventh Army or the current lightly armed troops, were not enough to meet the huge number of Soviet troops, and for the Soviet Union, this battle was at the right time.
The broken troops must be the Seventh Army, because the Seventh Army has been too deeply entangled with the Soviet Army, and it is not easy to retreat. Moreover, the Seventh Army is a heavy army, and if the American troops under Kuwait City are allowed to cover the retreat of the Seventh Army, the possibility of resisting the pursuit of the Soviet Union will be even lower, and the offensive of the American troops under Kuwait City has stopped, and all units have received orders from the headquarters.
The 14th Combined Army of the Red Banner on the Western Front is coming to the rescue, and the 6th Tank Army of the Northern Red Banner is trying to extinguish the flames of the oil pipeline, and the situation is unprecedentedly bad.
"I estimate that the ultimatum will come soon, of course, it is secret, so you don't have much time to attack, and encircle the combat units of the US army as much as possible to lay a good foundation for the follow-up." Serov spoke on the phone with Senior General Baglamyan, who was on the front line, and said, "The United States will not wait for the whole world to think that they have lost the war, and I will not agree with it, but nuclear war will not come without warning, so it will be okay for the time being." ”
"Well, even if it can't be all surrounded, the Seventh Army will definitely not be able to escape." General Baghramyan looked at his watch and calculated the time of the march, "Four hours......
"I'll try to get you there!" Serov simply agreed, and then hung up the phone without hesitation.
By order of General Baglamyan, the units of the Soviet Red Army increased the pace of the offensive. The Red Banner of the Western Front and the 14th Arms of the Composite Group Army advanced rapidly. With the cooperation of the army and aviation units, it captured the high ground of the Mutrah Pass west of Kuwait City, cut off the retreat of the US Seventh Army north of Kuwait City, and took control of Highway 6 to the north of Kuwait City. The Ryazan Division landed near the international airport on the southern outskirts of Kuwait City and joined up with the T-72 tank group of the 6th Panzer Division of the Iraqi Army, indicating that the Soviets had relieved the siege of Kuwait.
At noon on the same day, with the heavy fire support of the US Navy's carrier-based aircraft formation and the A-10 attack planes of the Marine Corps Air Force, the Shepherd Light Armored Infantry Battalion of the 1st Marine Division took the lead in tearing open the opening and opened a retreat route before the Iraqi People's Army pursued.
At this time, a large armored force was assembled under Lieutenant General Franks, including the 1st and 3rd Armored Divisions of the American Army, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the 1st British Armored Division. They are the elite of NATO, the main force drawn from the troops specially designed to deal with the Warsaw Pact, and Lieutenant General Franks did not command the breakout, and it was also very dangerous to divide his troops in a difficult situation to block the Red Banner 14th Arms Composite Army, and buy time for the US troops under Kuwait City to retreat.
Lieutenant General Francks' move also made the US Seventh Army completely lose hope of breaking through and became the target of the four Soviet blocs, and the US Seventh Army had to face its own four times the Soviet attack, because the Soviet Union's land supremacy in this time and space far exceeded history, and the US aircraft carriers could not be too close to the Persian Gulf to carry out rescue.
In the Great Kremlin of the Soviet Union, Serov listened to the righteous words of the American ambassador to the Soviet Union with his eyelids drooping and his expressionless face, and the performance was full of emotions and threats, "Once a nuclear war comes, the Soviet Union will not think that it is the victor, we will attack from all directions, the Soviet Union will not be able to defend at all, the whole world will fall into a catastrophe, and the Soviet Union must also take into account the nuclear weapons in the hands of Britain and France......"
Serov had to interrupt, "Dear Mr. Ambassador, I have to correct that the nuclear weapons of other countries in the world, except for the USSR and the United States, are negligible, and the number of nuclear weapons of our USSR is close to twice that of the United States, okay, even if the USSR does not become the winner of a nuclear war, it will definitely not become a loser." ”
"It seems that the general secretary is ready for nuclear war?" The American ambassador continued to ask aggressively.
"It's a pity that the right to launch nuclear weapons is not in your hands, and the right to launch nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union is in my hands." Serov had to educate the American ambassador again in terms of class, and Serov said in front of the ambassador that he was equivalent to a ruling class, and although this ambassador was also respected, his position in front of him, the general secretary, was close to that of the proletariat.
Of course, he was completely understandable for such a violent reaction, and if the situation in the USSR was estimated in reverse, it was similar. When the U.S. ambassador came to the Kremlin, whether he came to issue a threat of nuclear war or something, he said that this matter can still be discussed, and if he does not come, it proves that it is a big deal now, and how to end it is a problem.
"The Soviet Red Army must immediately stop its military operations!" The American ambassador put forward the first condition, which looks fair.
"And then the U.S. military continues to break through so that we don't get anything?" Serov has a beautiful expression, probing the expression of the American ambassador, are you kidding me? There is no sincerity in negotiations.
"I mean, the US and Soviet forces have temporarily ceased military operations!" The US ambassador repeated that he was wondering if the general secretary was deliberately misinterpreting his own meaning, and that the current situation was unfavorable to the US military and could not continue to develop.
"In accordance with the spirit of the United Nations, Iraq must remove Kuwaiti territory, and Iran should remove Bahrain." The American ambassador put forward the second condition, which is somewhat spoiled.
"Let's continue the conversation and talk about the nuclear war or who will win." Serov proposed very sincerely. If it could agree to this, would the Soviet Union still venture into the Middle East? As early as when the scope of the war was in the Arab countries, the Soviet Union sank a bunch of British warships such as the Ark Royal at sea, and fought with the United States on land, how? Everything is playing with the United States?
"Mr. Ambassador, I think that our conversation is a bit hasty now, and that Mr. Baker and Comrade Gromyko should have a far-sighted, fruitful mediation and negotiation that takes into account the interests of both sides, so that the interests of our two countries can be maximized, and at the same time, we should have brought this small conflict, which should not have occurred, to an honorable end on mutually acceptable terms!" Serov was in the mood to drag words at this time, and he had long been fond of talking about it. But isn't it over now? And the USSR had a clear advantage.
When the wonderful prospects are in front of him, he needs to work hard not to let the bright future become a mirage, so he needs to take care of the face of the Americans.
Was the United States defeated? Of course not, Serov was the first to deny it, otherwise Bush would be annoyed and angry, and the losses of the two countries would continue, and Serov could openly declare that the Red Army had made a breakthrough from the positions of the Saudi troops, and that the US troops had maintained a strong fighting spirit from beginning to end, and that the fighting spirit made the Red Army deeply admired.
"Mr. Ambassador, please tell President Bush that the Soviet Union never had the intention of putting the United States to death." Serov coughed affectionately and said, "This skirmish is because the Soviet Union and the United States have shouldered their own international obligations and have been involved by the allies in the Middle East. ”
Sending off the American ambassador, Serov pursed his lips and thought for a moment, before the results of the talks, the encirclement still has to be tightened, that's for sure. Is the Kodak plan also possible?
At this time, the whole world needs the French, and the French are very opportune, and before the situation has reached the worst time, French President Francois Mitterrand once again publicly announced that he is willing to mediate the Middle East contradictions between the Soviet Union and the United States, and Britain is resolutely opposed.
The reaction of the Soviet Union and the United States was very peculiar, neither agreeing nor opposing, but the collapse of the Saudi army, which led to the failure of the US military's plan to rescue Kuwait, has begun to circulate in the United States. Of course, the responsibility for the failure of the plan cannot belong to the great United States, and the Soviet Union also very simply admitted that the pot belonged to Saudi Arabia.