Chapter 237: Actions of the 10th Panzer Division

No one knows when the 10th Panzer Division was dispatched, and no one knows the route on which the 10th Panzer Division walked, everything is top secret. There are no pop-up windows in Qishuwu

The commander of the 10th Panzer Division, Kalma, after receiving the order, began to study the route of the march.

His Excellency Qusay's orders were very firm: his whereabouts must not be known to the Iranians, nor should the Iranians be aware of them, and the whereabouts of his troops must be kept secret.

Therefore, compared with the 35th Panzer Division, which marched with swagger, the route they chose was the northeast of Hamid, where no one walked, on the edge of the Susangilde marshland, which was sparsely populated and easy to conceal, and they marched at night.

At the same time, the military district also gave them the greatest preferential treatment: all the off-road trucks of the military district joined their ranks and supplied them.

If we talk about the distance from Hamid to Ahvaz in a straight line, the tank can be driven without refueling, but if you take into account the twists and turns of the course of action, take into account the concealed whereabouts, one or two refueling is indispensable.

The night was already getting dark, and they began their march again. At this time, the modification of the 69 tank has already shown its effect, the night vision device of the infrared imaging device, the effect is not generally good, at a distance of a thousand meters, you can clearly see that those backward infrared headlights can have a distance of up to five or six hundred meters.

The extra distance means that they are able to spot each other at a greater distance.

Tonight, the most dangerous time, they need to cross the Karon River and appear in the eastern part of Ahvaz.

According to the information sent from the military district, about three hours later, a large number of Iranian reinforcements will go to their intended ambush site: a valley a hundred miles east of Ahvaz, at that time, it is just after four o'clock in the morning, they need to block the Iranian troops there, and when it is dawn, the air force will provide support, and they need to quickly turn back and capture Ahvaz!

And tomorrow during the day, the 60th Panzer Division in the rear will also arrive on the battlefield.

"Hurry, hurry!" A tank squad leader commanded.

Beside him, the monster-like armored car was slowly driving in.

When it reached the banks of the Karon River, it picked a solid piece of ground and began its movements.

The steel plate above his head is slowly moving forward, parallel to each other, and then, the second steel plate stacked on top of each other is also moving forward, and the third... As if sticking out a long tentacle, the steel plate in front of the tank is getting longer and longer.

If you see this scene for the first time, you will be very surprised, but this squad leader has already seen it many times.

Isn't it just a bridge tank? What's all the fuss!

However, in such a dark night, it is extremely difficult to successfully build a bridge.

The steel plates of this tank were all stretched out, and it had just reached the middle of the river, and another tank that was exactly the same had already driven up.

Repeating the action just now, building on what he had just done, he then stretched out his tentacles forward.

Finally, the tentacles reached the other side, and a sturdy steel bridge was built.

In the rear, the tanks that had been refueled drove up one by one, and the driver stuck his head out of the cockpit and stared at the steel bridge in front of him. The track made contact with the steel bridge accurately, and then walked forward, although it looked a little thin, but this steel bridge could fully withstand the weight of the tank.

One after the other, the armored units crossed the Karon River like ghosts, in incredible ways.

They did not seize the bridges that spanned the river, and in that case, their whereabouts would be exposed.

The 69 tank, at this time, showed its advantages: in the rear, there was an extra fuel tank, the oil pipe went directly into the engine, and when used, the fuel carried outside was used first.

With an external fuel tank and internal fuel, the 69 tank did not need to be refueled to reach the predetermined battlefield, moreover, it could provide two hours of combat consumption.

The Chinese-made Type 63 armored car, which followed behind, was not good, although it consumed much less fuel, but it also carried less fuel. Therefore, they came up with another idea: each armored car carried an extra five oil barrels of fuel.

Because they don't know when they will enter the battle, and it is almost impossible to refuel in battle, so they each came up with their own methods.

To the east of the Karon River, they were getting closer and closer to the intended ambush site.

The dark clouds didn't know when they had dispersed, the sky was full of stars, and the moon showed its cold brilliance.

In the moonlight, there was also an army on the march.

Compared to the 10th Panzer Division in Kalmar, the marching columns of this army were very chaotic, their tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, mixed together, each of them were driving at full speed, in order to better see the road, even ignoring the light control, turned on the headlights.

They have already been released, and their only task is to get to the port of Khomeini as soon as possible!

Yesterday near evening, the Iraqi army was more than a hundred miles away from the port of Khomeini, and if they marched in the evening, I am afraid that they would have arrived the next morning.

Therefore, they want to get to the port of Khomeini before the Iraqi army and help the defenders hold the port city, there is no other way, except to be faster, or faster!

If you don't use the lights, then the speed of the march will be reduced, and if you don't reach the port of Khomeini tomorrow morning, the situation will be in trouble.

Tracked vehicles, even at the highest speeds, could not match wheeled vehicles, so the tanks and armored vehicles of the 65th Brigade gradually fell behind, and the trucks full of GIs ran very fast.

It is unlikely that they would be able to get cover from the tanks if they wanted to follow behind, because they had driven directly on the road, and some of the tanks were in a hurry, and there was no rubber block for road walking, and when they walked through, the road was destroyed and they could no longer walk.

Gradually, even the order of the 65 brigade was disrupted, and even the tanks of a tank company were scattered.

It is taboo to march at night, and it is even more taboo to march like this at night, and if they are attacked, then they will not be able to organize an effective counteroffensive at all. However, they have been completely carried away by the siege of the port of Khomeini, and besides, the Iraqis are targeting the port of Khomeini, which is still far from them.

Unbeknownst to them, doom was getting closer and closer to them.

The bright headlights shine on the road ahead, the road ahead, passing through a valley.