Chapter 1164

Saqez, Kingdom of Iran, at the foot of the Zagros Mountains. This has now become the only stronghold held by the Iranian army. Those strongholds to the north have all been lost.

In Sargez there is a road through the Zagros Mountains. Although the road facilities are not very good, it is barely able to pass trucks, tanks and armored vehicles. This is a road specially built several years ago in order to strengthen the communication between the Kingdom of Iran and the Kingdom of Iraq.

This is also the reason why the Russian Caucasus Front attacked Sagez. They hope to capture here, and then through this road, through the Zarogos Mountains, hit northern Iraq.

The two tank divisions of the German 47th Army have been withdrawn. The previous attack caused them to lose a lot of tanks. Although not many tanks were destroyed on the battlefield, many tanks were damaged due to mechanical failures due to long marches. Fortunately, the high-level officials in Bu-Russia understand the current difficulties of the Caucasus Front Army and are vigorously providing them with support. This enabled the two tank divisions to maintain a strong combat effectiveness.

However, the Iranian Army assembled a large number of troops in Saqez and built a solid position. If the tank division is allowed to attack, it will inevitably suffer greater losses. Therefore, Lieutenant General Kozlov withdrew the two tank divisions and let the infantry of the 51st Army attack.

The battle was very fierce. The 51st Infantry Division of the Russian Army dispatched several infantry divisions to attack the positions of the Iranian Army in turn. The violent attack and the fearless charge caused the Iranian army to pay extremely heavy losses. But even so, the main position of Saguez is still under the control of the Iraqi army.

So far, the Iranian Army's 1st Army and 2nd Army have almost lost everything, and there are not many troops left. However, the 3rd Army of the Iranian Army mobilized three infantry divisions to come up. The 4th Army also had two infantry divisions arriving. This allowed the Iranian Army to have enough troops to resist the Russian attack. Otherwise, the Russian army may have already captured Saguez.

"No, the intensity of the attack is too small, so it is impossible to cause too many casualties to the Iranians. They will continue. It will be very bad for us! Comrade Batov, invest more troops Launch an attack!" Lieutenant General Kozlov ordered.

Lieutenant General Batov, commander of the 51st Army, gritted his teeth, but still nodded. Although his military rank is the same as Lieutenant General Kozlov, Lieutenant General Kozlov is the commander of the front army, and he is only the commander of the group army, and he can only obey the orders of Lieutenant General Kozlov unconditionally. Although he knew that increasing the intensity of the attack would cause greater losses to his troops, there was no way to do that.

In the ensuing attack, the Russian 51st Army joined the 9th Infantry Army. This is the elite unit of the Russian army. After they joined the attack, they immediately caused great casualties to the Iranian army. The defense line was also broken through twice by the Russian army.

Although the losses of the Russian army in the battle were not small, Lieutenant General Kozlov was very satisfied with the result. In his eyes, casualties are not important, as long as the predetermined strategic goals can be achieved, it is a victory.

At this time, German planes appeared in the sky. A frame of BF-109 fighter jets, like falcons, swooped down from the air, and the bullets from the aviation machine guns fired fiercely at the Russian army.

"Puff! Puff!"

The powerful bullet hit the human body, leaving a huge bullet hole. It was even directly broken into two pieces.

The dive bombers also started to attack, and with the maddening screaming sound, they dropped aerial bombs into the Russian offensive queue.

"boom!"

The heavy aerial bomb exploded, sweeping all around with great power, and many Russian soldiers were directly torn into pieces, and their limbs and arms fell to the ground.

The powerful firepower and ability to stay in the air of the ground attack aircraft made them completely become air firepower points on the battlefield, and they were able to use powerful firepower to attack the Russian army on the ground, causing them greater casualties.

The appearance of hundreds of German fighter planes caused great casualties to the attacking Russian troops. It also made their attacking posture immediately contained.

Even under huge losses, some Russian troops began to retreat.

The Iranian army, which was struggling to support, cheered. The air strike launched by the Luftwaffe gave them a respite.

"Bastard! The German air force is coming!" Lieutenant General Kozlov cursed.

He knew that since the German air force had arrived first. Then, in the next offensive, their troops may have to risk being strafed and bombed by German fighter planes to launch an attack. One can imagine how big such casualties would be. What's more terrible is that the German army must be on the way. The longer it takes, the worse it will be for them. At that time, I am afraid that the German army will have already landed before hitting Kuwait.

The Russian offensive was forced to stop due to air strikes by the Luftwaffe. The morale of the Russian army, which suffered heavy losses, was greatly affected by this.

However, after the Luftwaffe fighter planes flew away from the battlefield, Lieutenant General Kozlov strictly ordered the troops to attack. His orders were also more severe. Because he knew they didn't have much time left.

Even the air strikes of the German army failed to stop the Russian army's offensive, at most it caused them more casualties.

On November 2, the Russian army defeated the Iranian army and captured Saqez.

The 47th Army and the 51st Army of the Russian Army have begun to cross the Zagros Mountains.

However, during this process, they were still severely attacked by the German 7th Aviation Group, which made the Russian army pay a lot of money when they crossed the Zagros Mountains, and also wasted a lot of time. .

On November 5, the vanguard of the 47th Army of the Russian Army, two mountain infantry divisions attacked the defense line built by the 1st Army of the Iraqi Army in the west of the Zagros Mountains.

Although, the Russian offensive was fierce. However, the 1st Army of the Iraqi Army built a strong position before, which caused great losses to the Russian army. It was not until November 8 that the defense line of the 1st Army of the Iraqi Army was broken through.

After invading northern Iraq, the Russian 47th Army and 51st Army began to move south. But at the same time, they had to suffer from the German air strikes and the blocking of the Iraqi army, and the speed of advancement was not fast.

At the same time, the transport ship transporting the German 21st Army has entered the Persian Gulf.

The Russian Caucasus Front Army failed this time!