Chapter 1284 This is not a war, but a crushing (second update, please subscribe)
In just a few minutes, dozens of mansions in Baghdad were razed to the ground during the bombing. From the Prime Minister's Office to those deep mansions and courtyards that no one is allowed to enter.
Qasim, Arif... and other senior government officials one after another were targeted and eliminated during the bombing.
This air raid, which was completely different from any bombing in history, lasted less than ten minutes. The fleet participating in the air raid withdrew, leaving only a city in extreme shock.
While the alarm was blaring in Baghdad, fire trucks with sirens blaring were rushing towards the explosion area, and firefighters, soldiers and people were shouting, trying to find survivors from the ruins,
Right before their eyes, a violent explosion occurred in the telegraph building in the center of Baghdad.
This is the second round of bombing - bombing of military and other important targets!
Persian Gulf, less than 100 nautical miles off the coast of Kuwait, in the war room of the destroyer Yongchang, the moment the weapons operator pressed the launch button, the "Tomahawk" cruise missile hung on the bow launcher Suddenly a ball of flame burst out and then flew into the distance.
Such a scene is destined to be frozen, because it opens a new era.
The moment after the Tomahawk cruise missile was launched, the 45-degree launcher immediately became vertical, and a Tomahawk cruise missile was pushed onto the launcher from the magazine below the launcher.
Just eight seconds later, the destroyer Yongchang launched the second Tomahawk cruise missile. While the dark sea surface was illuminated by the tail flame of the missile booster, captain Zhao Yunjie watched quietly in the bridge. That highlight, he said to himself:
"I never thought that one day the war could be carried out like this!"
Yes, they never thought that the war could be carried out like this in the past. In the past, the navy Attacks on land are basically based on artillery bombardment. Unless there are aircraft carriers, it is simply impossible to attack the interior.
But what about now?
Destroyers equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles can launch deep attacks on enemy countries from a distance of 800 kilometers. Just like piercing the Yang with a hundred steps, hitting a certain building accurately. This simply subverted everyone's imagination and understanding.
The four Yongchang-class destroyers are not just aircraft carrier escorts, they are also an offensive force that can strike deep into the enemy's country.
In just 2 minutes, they launched 96 Tomahawk cruise missiles - this is equivalent to half of the cruise missiles carried in the magazine of the four destroyer launchers. The MK13 launcher can carry 48 Anti-aircraft, anti-ship and other multi-purpose missiles, and in order to enhance their deep strike capabilities, they carry up to 24 Tomahawk missiles.
96 Tomahawk cruise missiles attack targets including telegraph buildings, air defense command centers, radar stations, airports and other important targets.
Almost immediately after the first round of "Operation Decapitation" raids ended, 96 cruise missiles swept across important targets inside and outside Baghdad.
Although the accuracy of these cruise missiles is far from comparable to that of later generations, the accuracy of 50 meters is enough to meet basic needs. After all, the scale of those targets is left there.
At Habu Baniya Air Base, a former British military base, a cruise missile directly hit the ammunition depot. A violent explosion shook the entire base. The explosion of thousands of tons of ammunition even caused a small earthquake, just like an atomic bomb explosion. generally.
Lieutenant Colonel Kharenkov woke up from his sleep and almost screamed in horror:
"Did a world war break out?"
Although he is an expert Team leader, but he also just came to Iraq. In fact, as early as a month ago, news began to circulate in his main body that the superiors would dispatch a group of people to go on a business trip abroad. Either go to Ethiopia or Indonesia.
They even started to formulate a flight route, because everyone knew that sometimes rumors are not groundless, it always has certain realistic technology, and the realistic technology is that the Soviet Union is under strict military control by the United States and NATO Under siege, American reconnaissance aircraft penetrated Soviet airspace for a long time to conduct reconnaissance. There was a sense of insecurity throughout the Soviet Union, and it was precisely because of this crisis that the Soviet Union sought emerging countries to act as partners to break the siege of the United States.
It wasn't until two weeks ago that the news finally settled. The sure place to go is to Iraq to help the country train their air force to counter threats from foreign countries.
A week ago, Lieutenant Colonel Kharenkov and some other selected military officers formed an expert team and arrived in Iraq on an An-12 transport plane.
After arriving in Iraq, they had to assemble the latest MiG-21-F13 fighter jets provided by the Soviet Union to Iraq in advance. These aircraft were also transported to Iraq by air via An-12 transport aircraft.
Because of the emergency, these were taken directly from Kharenkov's unit without any technical modifications.
It is precisely because of this that Kharenkov had the illusion that war had broken out.
He even thought it was a world war.
In the violent explosion, the entire air force base fell into a sea of fire, the ammunition depot was destroyed, and the oil depot turned into a sea of fire.
The fiery red flames reflected the entire night sky.
What's going on? The sudden bombing suddenly confused everyone.
"Where are the enemy planes?"
Kharenkov heard Chisyakov shout.
“We don’t know where they are, all the radars are full of snowflakes.”
“Has anyone seen the plane?”
The answer is Negative.
The second round of bombing was entirely based on cruise missiles, with the purpose of destroying their air defense facilities and radar warning facilities before the air strike was launched.
Just as planned, after one round of missile launches, Iraq's limited air defense radar stations were basically destroyed, and the air force base was also severely damaged.
Until the second round After the bombing, the aircraft fleet taking off from the USS Friendship aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf belatedly flew to various air force bases and used special ground-penetrating bombs to destroy their runways to prevent the Iraqi aircraft from taking off. Only a few that escaped the attack were attacked, and there was little resistance during the bombing. Apart from a few anti-aircraft artillery counterattacks, there was no other counterattack.
In fact, Iraq is not yet equipped with SAM-2 air defense missiles.
In just ten minutes, the entire Iraqi air defense force was completely destroyed.
While the air force base was being bombed, the forward commanders of the Iraqi military all tried to contact the senior officials, but received no response - all radio stations were full of noise, and even wired telephones could not contact the senior officials.
For a time, the leaderless Iraqi army was like a headless fly, confused and at a loss when facing everything that happened. But despite this, various rumors still spread to the military camp-Qasim in Baghdad and most of the senior government officials and generals died in the bombing!
Faced with this situation, people are naturally panicked!
At the same time, the "Kingdom of Iraq Radio" established in Musandam broadcasts to Iraq throughout the day, through The radio broadcast told all Iraqis that Qasim's brutal rule had been overthrown.
“…The kingdom is about to return to Baghdad, and Iraq will once again regain its former calm and peace. Every Iraqi, whether Shia, Sunni, Kurd, or Christian , they will all be treated fairly as in the past..."
The news that came out on the radio shocked all Iraqis - the king is coming back!
For the Iraqis who had long been disgusted with the Qasim regime, this was naturally a good and encouraging thing. In the city of Basra, the royalists who had been lurking immediately launched an uprising. Local officials were arrested and the flag of the Kingdom of Iraq was immediately raised.
Uprisings have also occurred in places such as Mosul. In the face of popular uprisings, various places are completely unable to suppress them, because most of the Iraqi army is stationed in the Kurdish region to quell the local rebellion. Only Baghdad has a large number of troops stationed.
But the military camp near Baghdad was also hit by air strikes. Even if they were lucky enough to escape the air strikes and survive, what happened next left everyone like headless flies.
“The Ministry of Defense is destroyed!”
"General Arif's house was razed to the ground..."
After the news came out, the officers in the military camp suddenly became confused. Although some people came forward and tried to organize the troops, in this chaos Among them, no one has the absolute authority to make the other surrender, especially when they have equal military ranks.
Even though some high-ranking officials escaped disaster because they stayed at their mistress's house, they did not try to restore the organization at all because they knew that they did not have enough prestige.
"Even if Cassim is still alive, now he has only one choice - to run away!"
This is well known, because Cassim has long been heartbroken, and now his The rule is only maintained by inertia. No one knows what will happen next. It may be a uniform change, but no matter what, they did not expect that it would be like this - the king is restored!
When those high-ranking officials with royal blood on their hands drove to the north one after another, or companies contacted the army in the north, or fled to Syria, some officials with flexible minds suddenly woke up!
They immediately expressed their loyalty to the king through various channels. Even on the radio station in Baghdad, the national anthem of the king's era was once again played. The host expressed his loyalty to the king in excited words.
“We, every Iraqi, are praying for the return of His Royal Highness the King and Princess!”
Despite the rebellion of the Baghdad radio station, they were not attacked by the military and police. In fact, in this chaos, no one cared about them at all, but Baghdad Radio's "anyway" was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, allowing those wavering people to finally Faced with the status quo - Qasim's reign was over.
The king is back!
At the same time, nearly 20,000 Iraqi troops on the southern border of Iraq crossed the border and entered Iraq from the Al-Hasa Emirate, Kuwait and Iran. After only half a day, the Royal Army occupied Basra without any blood.
The next day, Nanyang's tank landing ship sailed to the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab River and landed in Fao. Tens of thousands of Nanyang Army troops began to enter Iraq, and with the support of naval aviation, they began to advance inland!
(End of this chapter)