Chapter 1004 Highway of Death (Second update, two in one, please subscribe)
While Yahya in the palace was dreaming of his dream of unifying Arabia, dozens of Butcher Birds took off. , not long after these planes took off, they were flying among the undulating sand dunes as before, like a camel caravan on the desert sea. The vast desert became their best cover.
At the same time, at an altitude of 20,000 meters, a pair of eyes has been staring closely at the marching Saudi army. This army of nearly 40,000 people is so majestic.
Tanks and war horses are raising huge clouds of yellow dust on the Gobi. They invaded Yemen from here more than 20 years ago. Now, they will once again use the most powerful armor on the peninsula. The troops teach Yemeni people how to behave. Some cavalry have even planned how to snatch local women after they capture Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
For these Bedouins who were born in the desert, the mode of warfare they are most accustomed to is robbery. When they came to the city of Sana'a more than 20 years ago, their fathers had robbed Many local women have left, and many of them were even their mothers. Now they are just repeating the glory of their fathers once again.
Although the era of scimitars is over, human nature will not change. For these Bedouins who came out of the desert, war is all about robbery and plunder.
When the cavalry were discussing how to rob and plunder, what they did not realize at all was that the mode of war had already changed. In fact, this was the biggest characteristic of the Arabs, even if they were They used tanks and airplanes, but their war thinking was still stuck in the 7th century AD. This is why, even if they use the most advanced weapons, they are defeated again and again when fighting. This is why they continue to lose. In the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, both sides used the world's most advanced weapons to fight the root cause of the inferior "modern war" of the 19th century.
Essentially, it is because this culture rejects progress.
The changes in weapons and the prosperity of science and technology cannot change the deep-rooted thoughts in their brains, which even reject civilization.
This is true in the 21st century, and even more so now. For these Bedouins, who had long been accustomed to plundering in the desert, they were eager to fight. What they longed for was not the battle itself, but plundering.
Whether it's a machete or a rifle, even a tank is just a tool for looting. While the cavalry were chatting, the tank crews who exposed their bodies also joined the discussion. They even Shouting to the cavalry - "Leave some good things for us too".
“You can come down and grab it together when the time comes!”
The cavalry laughed. Regarding the scene in front of them, the officers wearing British military uniforms and Arab headscarves also I don’t think it’s a big deal. Not only did some of them study in Cairo’s military academies, but they even went to the UK to study military affairs. They seemed to have a full understanding of modern warfare, but in fact... they didn’t know anything about it. Don't care about this.
Deep-rooted thoughts cannot be changed, and even this kind of thoughts are not afraid of bullets, just like thousands of Iranian child soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War. They started to attack the Iraqi positions with human wave tactics, shouting "...The Supreme". They detonated landmines one after another with their immature bodies. They only had two things on their bodies: a photo of the ruler Khomeini and a handful of The plastic key - that key is the so-called shortcut to heaven.
If they sacrifice heroically with that key, they can go straight to heaven, where endless delicacies and many stunning beauties are waiting for them.
This is true for children decades later, and it is even more true for these extremely conservative Bedouin tribesmen who came out of the desert. Their stubborn ideas prevent them from having a clear understanding of modern warfare at all.
While these people were chatting in a relaxed tone and discussing how to plunder, what they didn’t know was that a fleet of dozens of Butcher Birds was already rushing toward them. Coming. " Just like a group of guys attending a party. "
There was no air defense, no sentry, no... in short, no defense. Even for a moment, Gao Zhengwu felt that this huge marching column would. It won't be their "bait".
After all, anyone who has a little understanding of modern warfare would not be able to march in such a swaggering manner. In fact, this is exactly their characteristic. Compared with 12 centuries ago, the scimitar was replaced by a rifle. The Arabian horse was replaced by a tank, but the human body and the human brain remained unchanged.
Faced with the Arab girl who lifted up her skirt, no, she should have just taken off her skirt, naked in front of her eyes, Gao Zhengwu was like any normal man - his His eyes were shining and even bloodshot!
Immediately adjusted his tactics. Of course, he couldn't help but secretly pray that these people would not react too quickly after discovering them, otherwise his plan would fail.
"Attention, all units, listen to my orders."
Gao Zhengwu, who broke the radio silence, said to the communicator:
"Now the enemy is a marching column with a length of more than 20 kilometers. Our troops are divided into three lines and attack with bombs from the beginning, end and middle. Each platoon chooses its own target and attacks freely along the marching line."
After he gave the order After that, everyone's voices came from the earphones. The aircraft group that was originally preparing to launch a rocket attack immediately transformed into three sharp arrows and rushed towards the marching Saudi army.
When the thirty-six Butcher Birds roared towards the marching column on the ground from three directions, the cavalry had not even reacted. It was not that they had not reacted, but … They don’t have much experience in this area at all, and they don’t even have to disperse their troops.
"Planes, planes, be careful of their machine guns..."
Some cavalry officers shouted loudly, for these Arabs who had never experienced World War II, they never knew , how cruel modern war is. In their minds, the aircraft seemed to be the same ones that could only shoot with machine guns and occasionally drop a few small bombs during the war with the Hejaz and Yemenis more than 20 years ago.
It's not a big deal at all. Of course, this doesn't mean they will be beaten passively - the cavalry on horseback immediately shoot into the air with rifles and light machine guns. Yes, they don't even have anti-aircraft machine guns. .
Such a defense had no effect at all on the "Butcher Birds". When they pounced on them regardless, the two 30mm MK108 cannons at the wing roots roared. In an instant, a bloody storm broke out on the battlefield.
But in just the blink of an eye, hundreds of artillery shells swept through the cavalry column. They were not firing armor-piercing shells, but extremely damaging thin-shell shells - this kind of shells were used by the German army in World War II. Developed to attack heavy bombers such as B17, the shells with a charge of up to 85 grams have amazing destructive power-it only takes 4 rounds to shoot down a B-17, and a single hit can destroy a single-engine fighter jet. Moreover, Whether it is dismantling fighter jets or bombers, the effect is first-rate.
Although in the 1950s, this kind of artillery shell with a muzzle velocity of only 540 meters and the MK108 cannon had long been outdated. The low muzzle velocity caused the main flaw of the MK-108, that is, the ballistic drop was serious, and the projectile It will drop 41 meters over a distance of 1000 meters. This flaw makes it difficult for the Mk-108 to hit moving targets, and even when used against bombers, the main target for which it was designed, it must fire at extremely close range. However, after research, the technical department of the Nanyang Air Force found a new use - as an aerial "automatic howitzer" specially used to attack infantry groups, so after changing its use, it was resurrected on the Butcher Bird.
In order to accomplish this mission, engineers redesigned the artillery shell. While slightly thickening the stretch-formed shell wall, they also carved a prefabricated fragmentation groove into the shell wall. Although the explosive volume was slightly smaller, There is a decrease, but due to the increase in fragments, its lethality has increased several times. Although the charge has been reduced, it is still as high as 60 grams, and it is still filled with more powerful high-energy B explosives, high-energy explosives and prefabricated fragments, which increases the effective fragments generated during the explosion by dozens of times, and its killing radius reaches 15m. .
To a certain extent, this kind of machine gun is simply an enhanced version of the grenade machine gun - except that its warhead is heavier and more powerful! As a low-speed machine gun, its rate of fire is only 660 rounds per minute, so its gun sound sounds a bit special, the "boom, boom" sound is a bit like the impact of an electric hammer.
Amidst the sound of electric hammers hammering cannons, high-explosive shells fell from the sky like raindrops. The shells broke the bodies of the cavalry, breaking them and the bodies of the horses into two pieces. At the same time, in the violent explosion, hundreds of shrapnel ruthlessly harvested the surrounding lives.
The violent explosion covered the entire marching column, like thousands of hand grenades, covering the cavalry marching column in the blink of an eye.
In an instant, the road turned into hell. The 30mm grenade might not be able to destroy the tank - it couldn't even penetrate the thin steel plate. However, the violent explosion blew the unprotected Saudi cavalry into the sky, everywhere. They were all flying severed limbs. In the dense rain of bullets, the sky and the earth were filled with red. The bodies torn apart by the shells were blown away by the shock wave of the explosion, and red flesh and blood were flying in the air.
The cavalry and trucks that were originally marching became targets. They were almost motionless enjoying the baptism of artillery shells. In less than a minute, tens of thousands of artillery shells were poured on them. Its resolute effect is like dumping tens of thousands of reinforced grenades in a short period of time. After all, ordinary grenade charges are only about 50 grams. Any unprotected creature shrouded in it will be affected by such dense artillery fire. , all I felt was a baptism like hell.
Bathing in fire may not necessarily result in rebirth, but it can definitely kill someone.
Just as the Butcher Birds roared and used their "grenade machine guns" to sweep the marching columns on the ground, they had already flown above the columns. As they roared past, cluster bombs hung under the wings. Dropped, the moment the ammunition box was opened, hundreds of bombs covered the ground like raindrops.
In an instant, the continuous explosions were like the roar of machine guns, ringing on the ground. In an instant, everything was shrouded in black smoke, and all those dropped by cluster bombs were It is an armor-piercing and anti-personnel dual-purpose submunition. Each ammunition can form thousands of deadly fragments after explosion.
If the grenade machine gun is hell for unprotected cavalry and trucks, then when these cluster bombs fall, the ground immediately becomes a real purgatory, and the Churchill tanks in the explosion area completely transform It became a target, and almost every tank was attacked by several bombs. In the violent explosion, the tanks turned into burning scrap metal, and the cavalry and their horses without any protection were baptized with destruction. Sexually, they were almost completely enveloped in dense smoke, blown into the sky in a violent explosion, and then their bodies were torn apart by countless fragments.
In this way, the whistling butcher birds have transformed into the God of Death, spreading death over the earth and pouring out the kiss of death.
In just a moment, this mighty army was shrouded in death. The steel rain formed by grenade machine guns and cluster bombs harvested lives like the scythe of death.
When the first round of attacks was over and the wind blew away the smoke, the corpses that could be seen everywhere on the ground and the originally majestic tanks had turned into piles of burning tanks. Scrap iron.
"Boom! Boom!"
There were continuous explosions. The turrets of some tanks were blown into the sky by the shells that exploded inside. Those Churchill tanks with their heads blown off were like It was like taking off their hats to the "butcher bird" in the sky, one after another taking off their hats to salute.
I don't know how long it took, but finally, the last "Butcher Bird" ran out of ammunition, and the death in the sky stopped.
The wind blowing from a distance blew away more smoke. The desert road that appeared in front of people was no longer a road, but a real purgatory - hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles. And among the wreckage of the tanks, tens of thousands of corpses were scattered among them. The bloody corpse fragments even dyed the ground red.
Some ownerless horses screamed in despair on the battlefield. In the billowing smoke, there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and some of the wounded were struggling in a pool of blood. Under the scorching sun, They died quickly.
When flying through the air, Gao Zhengwu was stunned. He did not expect that the attack would have such an effect. So, when he saw some Arab cavalry escaping, he even forgot to pursue them. , even though they have experienced too many wars and have long been accustomed to cruelty, they were still stunned when they saw the scene in front of them.
When the pilots flew the Butcher Bird over the road for the last time, a reconnaissance plane passed by. After taking the photo, it left. Soon, the reconnaissance plane took the photo. The aerial photos taken were sent to the command post in Sana'a. Everyone fell silent when they saw the tragic situation on the highway.
Looking at the purgatory-like battlefield, Du Changwu's expression kept changing. Not only did he not feel happy at all, but he even had a thought in his mind - he was finished!
This is too much force!
Du Changwu's face and expression looked extremely weird at this time. Not only him, but also the other consultants on the advisory group generally had the same expression. They felt uncomfortable!
Originally, their plan was very clear, which was to severely damage the Saudi army through an air strike and force them to switch to defense. But who would have thought that a normal air strike would directly turn into a devastating blow-almost A total annihilation raid.
"This, this... these guys are too inexperienced!"
Who can I talk to now to reason with you?
Excessive force!
"Damn it, even a group of pigs can't be so unbeaten. It's just an air raid. During the air raid, don't they know how to hide or disperse?"
When Du Changwu cursed like this in his heart, he obviously didn't know that even decades later, when US military pilots rained bullets on Highway 80, destroying thousands of tanks and cars, turning the highway into " "Highway of Death", when looking at the burned vehicles and charred corpses, they also had a question in their minds - didn't the Iraqi army, which had been fighting for eight years, know how to disperse and evade?
Sometimes, this land is so magical, so magical that you can never understand the people and things here with normality. But looking at the tragic situation in the aerial photos, Du Changwu couldn't help but sigh and said to himself.
"Okay, Saudi Arabia is finished..."
Yes, Saudi Arabia is finished. This air strike destroyed not only the desert warriors they relied on to maintain their rule, but also the Saudi establishment on this land. After all, their authority is based on machetes and violence. When the devastating blows on the Death Highway spread to various places, those tribes that have long been dissatisfied with their rule will definitely stand up and overthrow them. rule.
Putting the photo on the table casually, Du Changwu silently lit a cigarette...
(End of this chapter)