The strong resistance of the Iraqis made it very difficult for the Iranian army to surprise the attack.

From the early hours of the morning to now, it has been a full six hours of fighting, and the infantry regiment at the front has consumed most of it, and the Revolutionary Guards have also lost thousands of people, not counting the teenagers who stepped on the minefield at the front, but they have not repelled the Iraqis.

This made Lieutenant General Hassan, who was in charge of the command, a little disappointed, and originally expected that this raid would be able to turn the tide, but he did not expect that the battle would be so difficult.

He has no other way, only to defeat the Iraqi army in Abadan in order to relieve the siege of Abadan, this is an important battle, it can only be successful, not defeated!

All the troops have been transferred, and all he can do now is wait and wait for the good news from the front.

Suddenly, outside his headquarters, there was a commotion.

"Who? Don't know military discipline? Hassan shouted.

Suddenly, he was stunned, wasn't the person who came in front of him the spiritual leader of the great Iranian people, the idol of everyone, Khomeini? Isn't he in Tehran?

"Leaders are welcome to visit the frontline!" Hassan said.

"Well, I heard that the fight is fierce here, so I'll take a look at the soldiers." Khomeini said.

"Yes, we are fighting fiercely, but the victory will definitely be ours, and the Iraqis on the other side are almost unable to resist." Hassan said excitedly.

"Well, you go ahead and command." Khomeini knew that although he was a political and spiritual leader, his military command skills were not outstanding, and he came here for only one purpose: to boost the morale of the army!

I heard that the spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini personally came to the headquarters by the Bahamshar River, and right behind him, all the Iranian fighters, like crazy, launched a desperate assault.

"Long live Ayatollah Khomeini! Long live Iran! ”

In the lofty slogan, they braved the rain of bullets, constantly rushed forward, rushed forward, the machine guns in front of them, the mortar shells exploding around them, could not stop their belief in advancing, and they were now all fighting in a way that did not kill them.

One falls, the other comes up, one fires a rocket, misses, the other comes up to make up for it, a machine-gun position, all the way to eliminate ten rushing bazookas, only to be hit by a rocket from another angle.

The Persians are crazy!

Under this powerful offensive, the Iraqi front began to shrink gradually, and they could not withstand it.

Aware of this phenomenon, the defenders, who had been holding on to the city of Abadan for nearly a year, finally received the order of the commander-in-chief, and they gathered together and attacked fiercely towards the rear of the Iraqi army that was resisting the siege outside!

Listening to the sound of gunfire behind him, Kalmar knew that the defenders of the city had finally come out.

Their own resistance was not in vain, from yesterday to now, the 10th Panzer Division has lost more than 30 tanks, hundreds of soldiers, their sacrifice is valuable, if you enter Abadan for street fighting, this division of your own, I am afraid that the whole army will not be able to defeat it.

Now that the other party has been dispatched, the task of luring the enemy by himself is completed, and the next one is to successfully withdraw at the least cost.

Retreat is also a university question, and if you retreat casually without restrictions, it will eventually turn into a rout.

Kalmar gave the first order: two tank brigades, all of them at once, to fight a counter-charge against the approaching enemy on both sides!

The divisional artillery regiment will shoot out all the shells fiercely!

The Iranian infantry in front, inspired by Khomeini, burst out with strong combat effectiveness, they looked at the Iraqi soldiers in front, they had begun to retreat, and they were about to rush forward, but they saw that behind the opponent's position, smoke and dust were billowing out.

The other party's tanks are coming!

At this time, the Chieftain tank was already in a state of fuel outage because it had been driving all night, and returned to the rear to refuel.

Taking advantage of this gap, Iraq's tank brigades rushed up.

The T-62 tank gun let out an earth-shattering roar, and grenades came out of the 115mm tank barrel, mercilessly blasting Iranian GIs into the sky.

At the same time, countless shells flew from the sky, exploding next to the charging Iranian soldiers, and each shell took the lives of several soldiers.

The front line of strangulation has become a bloody meat grinder at this moment.

"Quick, rocket!" An Iranian company commander climbed into a crater, and the soldier behind him said he had fired a rocket, but it didn't hit.

The soldier behind him handed over the rocket, he quickly mounted it on the bazooka, stood up sharply, took aim, and fired at the tank a few hundred meters away from him!

"Boom!" The turret of the tank was pierced from the side, and in an instant, a terrible explosion of ammunition was triggered, sending the entire turret into the air.

Hit!

"Here, one more." The company commander shouted.

There was no movement behind him.

He looked back, the soldier who handed him the rocket just now, the lower half of his body had already been blown off, and behind him, blood was drenched, and he crawled a few meters away like this, and sent himself a rocket.

The company commander glanced at his own GI, got up, and prepared to run over to get rockets.

"Suddenly," the machine gun of another tank rang out, immediately knocking him into a sieve.

The defenders who came out of Abadan, with a total of one infantry division and one infantry brigade, under the cover of a dozen M48 tanks and more than thirty M113 infantry fighting vehicles, swooped down on the Iraqi front.

In the Iranian Army, only the most elite army can be equipped with 120 mm caliber British-made Chieftain tanks, the old American-made M48 tanks, are still in service with the Iranian army, but their models are the latest M48A5.

Compared with the previous models, the M48A5 increased the engine power to 750 horsepower, and the caliber of the main gun increased from 90 mm to 105 mm, although it could not be compared with the 120 mm Chieftain, but compared with the T-62 equipped by Iraq, the surname can not be inferior. Moreover, it is equipped with an aiming device that includes an active infrared night sight device, a mechanical ballistic computer and a combined optical rangefinder to shoot at the target with a very high accuracy.

Like a knife, they slammed open the Iraqi front.

The M48 tank fired shells incessantly, and with each shell, it knocked over the opponent's fortifications.

Although minefields and other fortifications were placed on the perimeter, there were no such fortifications in the direction facing Aladan, because the Iraqi army was going to attack the city, and if the mines were placed in front, it would affect their own attack.

In this way, it is also convenient for the defenders in the city, they are under the cover of tanks, those machine gun bunkers have been knocked out by tanks, they only need to rush forward, kill the army that has besieged them for nearly a year, and completely annihilate the Iraqis, which is their greatest wish.

They have the absolute upper hand.

Suddenly, the tanks of the Iraqis appeared ahead!

"One thousand and five meters ahead, in the direction of six o'clock, an armor-piercing bullet!" The commander of the M48 tank, calmly said.

Just now it was a fortification, a grenade was used, and now it has to be replaced with an armor-piercing projectile.

The loader immediately replaced the grenade in his hand, picked up an armor-piercing projectile, and stuffed it into the chamber.

"One thousand two hundred meters, ready to aim." The commander shouted.

"Boom!" The M48 tank shuddered, and an armor-piercing projectile was fired at the opposing tank.

The battle is raging.

In order to allow the soldiers of the infantry brigade fighting in the position to retreat as planned, Kalmar had to send the armored brigade out to resist the fierce attack of the opponent, and the soldiers began to speed into the Type 63 armored vehicles in an orderly manner.

The reason why the 10th Armored Division was chosen to undertake this mission was because the armored division acted quickly, and within 20 minutes, the soldiers who were still fighting just now had already got into armored vehicles and "fled" to the west.

After all the officers and men of the infantry brigade began to retreat, the two tank brigades completed the task of cover.

At this time, in the direction of the main attack of the Iranians, the Chieftain tank, having completed refueling, pounced again.

They wanted to use the chieftain's powerful main gun to teach Iraq's tank crews a lesson that they would never forget.

Who knows, they pounced, and the other party fled!

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