Babylonian Empire

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The distance between them and Jafri was almost 500 meters, which was almost the limit of the recoilless gun's firing range, but Jafri still had confidence.

Jaffrey was kneeling half-kneeling, his eyes fixed on the recoilless gun's optical sight, and the opponent was still driving. If he fired like this, he would definitely miss it. When shooting a moving target, you have to take into account the An advance amount, and the influence of wind direction.

In the scope, he was following the opponent's line of action, slowly turning the gun body, but he was moving a little faster than the opponent, and he was manually setting the lead based on experience.

When the opponent passed by from their side, the opportunity finally came!

Jafri aimed at the front of the opponent's tank and pulled the trigger.

"Boom!" Two huge flames shot out from the long nozzle on the breech breech at the back, and a large piece of grass behind was instantly burned.

If he was using anti-tank missiles, he would have to steer the missiles towards the target after the launch was completed, but now, as long as the shells were fired, his mission would be considered complete.

"Quick, second shot," Jafri said.

A gunner immediately ran up, opened the breech breech at the rear, loaded another fragmented armor shell he was carrying into it, then closed the breech breech, and hurried back to its original position.

Jafri's gaze was still in the scope, and when he heard that the shell was loaded, he immediately fired the fragmented armor shell at another tank according to the current aiming situation.

After the second piece of fire was released, the first shell hadn't arrived yet. Without caring about observing the results of the battle, Jafri immediately ordered to move to the pit!

A recoilless gun has a huge disadvantage, that is, when it is fired, it is too earth-shattering, and the flames that blow out will reveal the shooter's position. There is no doubt that the next moment will definitely attract the opponent's crazy counterattack .

From this perspective, a recoilless counterattack against the Iranian armored cluster is almost a suicidal act.

The first shell flew accurately to the side of the turret of the 69 tank, and then began his final blow.

After the shell hit the cast turret of the 69 tank, the thin shell shattered under the huge impact force, and the plastic explosive inside stuck tightly to the armor surface like a plaster, neither breaking nor flying apart.Then, the time-delayed fuze detonated the explosives pasted on the outside of the armor.

After this bombing, the Iranian armored soldiers inside felt the doomsday approaching. They knew that this was a fragmented armor bomb!

Before they could slow down, the shock wave generated by the explosion of the explosives acted on the armor with a pressure of tens of billions of pascals, and the huge force was transmitted into the armor, just like hitting a wall with a hammer. The wall did not penetrate, but the wall on the back was peeling off Similarly, the inner wall of the cast turret began to spin a butterfly-shaped fragment weighing several kilograms and dozens of small fragments.

These fragments are flying around inside the tank at a fast speed. Even a fragment the size of a fingernail will penetrate into the body of the tank operator. They immediately feel as if their bodies have been cut by countless knives. Blood flowed like a river, but no changes could be seen outside.

This is the power of broken armor bullets!However, the armor-breaking warhead of this recoilless gun can only break tanks made of homogeneous steel armor. If it is composite armor, it will be powerless. Moreover, due to the limitation of power, it can only damage the weak side walls and rear of the 69 tank turret. Walls can work.

Another tank, followed, suffered the same fate.

Fortunately for Jafri, the Iranians did not notice such a big movement!

Because, the main task of Qianfeng is to charge forward!For these two lagging tanks, they didn't pay much attention at all. The forward commander reprimanded the two tanks twice on the radio because of their unskilled tank operators. Anyway, they were also lagging behind, so it was up to them Go ahead, wait until the war is over, then train them well!

However, not all teams have the luck of Jaffrey's team.

Just when the Iranian armored soldiers advanced less than one kilometer, they were ambushed by another group. However, because the opponent could not find the fighter plane, they only aimed at a Type 63 armored vehicle outside.

After the fire, an infantry squad in the Type 63 armored vehicle was completely killed by the splashing shrapnel.

However, the fire when the shell was fired exposed the position of the shooter. At the next moment, the 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun on the roof of several armored vehicles next to it violently swept towards this side. At the same time, a 69 tank He stopped, and quickly fired a grenade at the shooter's position.

After the huge explosion, the warriors in this group all died heroically.

The forward commanders did not hesitate, their mission is to move forward, to move forward!These Iraqis are here to delay their actions. There is no need for them to entangle too much with a few Iraqi infantry here.

After walking two kilometers, another shattered shell was fired, and a 69 tank was destroyed.

At this time, the forward commander realized that the Iraqis were blocking their march with a fearless spirit of sacrifice, but this made him even more convinced that advancing was his best choice!

He lined up all the 63 armored vehicles outside, and used the machine gun on the vehicle to keep shooting far and near the grass on both sides, and at the same time, continued to move forward.

Jafri saw that the Iranians were not paying attention to him, so he returned to the launching position just now. In less than 10 minutes, the second wave of armored troops arrived again.

In the scope, Jafri carefully aimed at the second wave of Iranian armored forces. This should be their main force. Like locusts, there are at least two hundred vehicles!

"Tutu, chug." On the periphery of the Iranian armored forces, the machine guns of the 63 armored vehicles were probing the surroundings. They had already learned of the striker's encounter through the radio, and adopted the same measures.

"Lie down!" Jafri suddenly found a row of bullets shooting towards him, immediately fell down, and at the same time whispered to several soldiers around him.

A loader behind him didn't have time to lie down, and the 12.7mm machine gun bullet immediately blasted his head, and blood spattered Jafri all over.

Come on, Iranians!Jafri wiped the blood of his comrades from his eyes, and aimed his scope at the Iranian armor again.

Chapter 4 Eighteen Holds the Iranian Armored Forces!

Along the No. [-] road next to the Shatt al-Arab River, the [-]th Armored Division was advancing rapidly.

They were marching along the river bank. After receiving the order to speed up, Ahmadi Avatar, the commander of the [-]th Armored Division, immediately ordered the troops to drive onto the No. [-] highway.

Originally, in this kind of march, it was necessary to use trailers to drag heavy equipment to the border. However, during the suppression of the rebellion in the north, the trailers equipped by the [-]th Armored Division have already participated in transporting the equipment of other brother troops to the north. mission, and stayed in Mosul, did not return immediately.

Therefore, the Fourth Armored Division had to drive its tanks and maneuver to the south. The BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle and various other vehicles are okay, but the T-72 main battle tanks in the armored division are definitely fuel-guzzling guys, so, the ones who follow the troops are also the logistics of the division vehicle.

In Fort Saleh, the armored group refueled again. However, the two refuelings were delayed for a long time. Facing the urgent battle ahead, Ahmadi finally made the decision to drive along the road.

Although all kinds of armored vehicles use rubber-mounted tracks, some of the rubber pads have fallen off after several years of use. Therefore, driving directly on the road, or the equipment of the entire division, will cause serious damage to the road. big damage.

But the army was on fire, and they couldn't wait for too long, so they had to drive the tanks onto the road and run quickly.

A T-72 tank drove up from the edge of the road on the side. Then, the track on the left stopped rotating, and the track on the right continued to rotate, and the body came upright. However, on the road on the edge of the track on the left, an A visibly squeezed asphalt on the pavement.

No matter how solid the road is, it can't stand the toss of these big guys.

Then, the second car, the third car, they drove onto the road without stopping, and continued to move south.

Driving on the road, in addition to possibly destroying the road surface, there is another problem, that is, it is easy to be spotted by the planes in the sky. Therefore, the division's Shilehe four-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft gun has already deployed its equipment while walking. , Air defense operations can be carried out at any time.

Although Iran's air force is exhausted, it still needs to prevent possible encounters with sporadic enemy aircraft.

The 1th Armored Division arrived at the battlefield 42 minute earlier, which could reduce the casualties of the [-]nd Division.

After Jafri once again killed an Iranian tank with a recoilless gun, his position has been exposed.

The Iranian armored group has received news that the Iraqi infantry is using recoilless guns to pose a threat to them, so they are very vigilant.

Seeing the flames appearing from the side, they immediately used machine guns to frantically sweep Jafri's position.

Jafri was shot several times and fell down unwillingly.

Scenes like this happen everywhere.

"Master, our gunners have suffered heavy losses." A staff officer in the division headquarters said. "However, the Iranian armored forces are still attacking."

"Turn up our bazookas too, we must stop the Iranians from attacking!" said the division commander Majid firmly.

Looking at the division commander's order, the others knew that if anyone suggested retreating now, the division commander might shoot him immediately.

No matter how much the entire division has paid, the task of the headquarters must be completed!