Chapter 615 Fallujah

  The wave of the Communist Party’s uprising spread throughout the 14 provinces of Iraq, and emergency telegrams were sent to Baghdad in every county. The huge power accumulated by the Iraqi Communist Party over the past ten years burst out at this moment. There are communist armed forces with sickle and hammer flags everywhere. They are obviously well prepared, and even the garrison provided by Baghdad, many troops directly changed the flag and became an armed revolutionary force under the Iraqi Communist Party.

Almost later on the same day, General Mustafa, the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, led the Kurdish armed forces to leave the area where the Kurds gathered, and attacked aggressively southward, apparently in a situation that echoed the Iraqi Communist Party in Basra, and worse news. It came sooner or later that a well-equipped force appeared on the border with Syria, and this force even exceeded the configuration of the capital Baghdad.

“Conquer, Anbar Province, take a firm foothold here, we will turn eastward from the Euphrates, and together with the Kurds, we will go south to attack Baghdad, and support the army in the center to advance northward. In the end, all the armed forces of the military government will be wiped out in Baghdad, and the end Civil war in our country for a long time,” shouted Bashir, the Central Committee member in charge of the work in the Soviet Union of the KGB-trained unit that landed in Syria.

“First contact our underground party members in Anbar Province, and cooperate with the inside and outside to control the situation as quickly as possible, and let the anti-rebel workers take over the relevant work immediately. First, we must clear the suspicious factors of instability. We will control the country within a certain period of time. “Bashir has been in the Soviet Union for a long time, and these people have received spy training, so they naturally understand what he means.

  Suspicious people means people from the military government, including the local armed forces. These are their enemies and will eventually be eliminated, either now or later. Bashir means that they can be eliminated now and then eliminated.

   Then Bashir received the order of the first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, Hussein Al-Ladi, and Bashir’s subordinate units were established as the Western Military Region of the Iraqi Liberation Army, and Bashir became the political commissar of the Central Military Region in the West. Responsible for the political work of the entire unit, and the commander position is temporarily vacant, because the temporary center knows who is more suitable for the commander position among these Soviet-trained soldiers.

  Anbar Province is the largest province in Iraq, and the vast area bordering Syria is a vast desert. The endless desert is completely uninhabited, and only some herdsmen exist, which cannot play any role in resisting this armed force. However, the eastern part of the largest province is only a few dozen kilometers from Baghdad. It was officially seen because of this. Serov and the General Staff made the decision to land these troops from Syria and cross the border from Iraq’s western border.

Above this unit are fighter jets that have already revolted to guide the route. At the same time, members of the Soviet military advisory group in Syria are driving fighter jets painted with the Syrian flag and whistling in the sky. In the Middle East war a year ago, the Iraqi Air Force was also attacked. After the attack by Israel, as the main supplier of Iraqi equipment, the Soviet Union made Iraq temporarily endure in the name of insufficient production, and today it has not replenished the lost fighters.

   These fighter jets are already in place, but they are not given to the Iraqi government, but to the Iraqi Communist Party, which has raised the banner of the uprising in Basra, and the newly established Iraqi Liberation Army.

The troops of the Western Military Region continued to easily crush villages on the road. At the same time, the troops became larger and larger as they marched. By the time they reached the provincial capital Ramadi, there were more than 30,000 people. The T54 tanks slowly worked hard. The rear is a huge convoy, and in an oil-producing country like Iraq, there is no shortage of fuel. When the entire troop was marching, the huge dust and smoke covered the sky and the sun, obscuring the mighty team that was dozens of miles long.

The sight of    made Ramadi’s government defenders tremble, and after negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement. Iraqi government troops stationed in Fallujah, which became part of the Iraqi Liberation Army, attacked Baghdad along with troops from the Western Military District.

In the first few days, the Baghdad government seemed to be stunned by the sudden insurgency. Emergency telegrams came from all directions. The Kurds in the north, led by Mustafa, had already defeated the city defended by government forces. The upper reaches of the river basin are heading south, and the Iraqi Communist Party, which has completely controlled Basra Province in the south, has unloaded huge military equipment from the ship, and has organized an armed force of more than 100,000 people. Two days ago, it was in Maysan Province and Wasit. In the provincial battle, in the battle between the government army and the Iraqi Liberation Army, the underground party armed forces in the rear directly brought the military supply base of the government army from the rear.

   In just a few days since the Iraqi Communist Party revolted in Basra, four provinces in southern Iraq have fallen into the hands of the Iraqi Liberation Army. Together with the Western military region that came from Syria, almost five provinces have been lost. Why is it said to be almost, because Fallujah, an important town in Anbar Province, is still in the hands of the government forces.

   It seems that only five of Iraq’s fourteen provinces have lost, but in fact it cannot be counted as such. Three northern Iraqi provinces are themselves controlled by Kurds, and two other provinces are also heavily populated by Kurds. Looking at it this way, in five days, the Iraqi military government has lost more than half of the country, and only a few provinces around Baghdad are still under control.

“So much momentum? I’m sure there are a lot of original government troops inside. If the war goes bad, they will definitely turn their backs, but forget it, this situation will be dealt with in the future.” Shelov put down the latest battle report sent back from Iraq and asked, “Ismail has communicated well. As long as Iraq wins, they will not be alone in the Middle East. I hope they can temporarily put aside their differences and help Iraq first.”

“It has been communicated that they want 40 million US dollars of assistance from us. They will dispatch 10,000 soldiers to fight in Iraq.” Morkin, director of the First General Directorate, replied immediately, “The situation there is relatively tense. Hope we can give some support.”

   “Little money, as long as Iraq can be eaten, this amount of money is not a problem. Give it to them and let their soldiers board the ship immediately!” Shelov simply agreed in full, and in this case, it should not be too hard.

  The fierce fighting in Iraq spread to the whole world almost instantly. Compared with the deep quagmire of the United States in Vietnam, the Iraqi Communist Party has achieved such great results in just a few days, which can almost be described as overwhelming. In contrast, the Polish and Romanian newspapers even had optimistic predictions that a new socialist state would soon emerge, saying, “We can see that in countries that have always hated us, democracy is growing. Booming development, even their own people don’t trust their own government and accept our proposition.”

   “We can optimistically estimate that a great wave of world revolution is imminent, and maybe our generation will see America, and what he calls the free world, come crashing down.”

  January 20, the day when US President Richard Nixon was sworn in. When he was sworn in in Washington, Nixon’s heart was full of haze, especially the news from Iraq made him very upset. When such an incident broke out when he was changing, even if he was a veteran politician, he could not assume that nothing had happened.

   It seemed that Nixon was going to mobilize the U.S. Fifth Fleet to intervene in the Persian Gulf right away, but when he thought of the protesters squatting outside the White House gate every day, he dismissed the idea. He came to power through anti-war elections, just as the Warsaw Pact countries said, and now the free world, including the United States, has reached the point where people don’t believe anything the government says.

Even Nixon suspected that if the Soviet Union attacked the United States tomorrow, countless people would lead the way in the United States, just like the situation in Iraq in the past few days. There were only 10,000 people at the time of the riot, and it was less than a week. The armed forces attacking Baghdad in each direction have approached 200,000.

   “Where’s the Baath Party? Where’s the Shiites? Where’s the Sunnis? What about the tribal forces?” Nixon really wanted to know, where have all the forces that have fought with the government forces in recent years gone? In this regard, Abdullah Rahman said that these people are often the first to be eliminated, and those under him were trained by the KGB and received the Cheka training model.

   The entire force of the Iraqi Liberation Army’s Western Military Region, more than 40,000 troops, has arrived outside the city of Fallujah, and Fallujah’s defenders have received a death order from Baghdad to stop these rebels here.

In the face of the huge Iraqi Liberation Army, the government forces in Fallujah were not idle and actively prepared for the battle. Their main tactics were: placing a large number of booby-trapped mines and improvised explosive devices on the road leading to the city; placing gunmen at the commanding heights of the city Guarding; dense tunnels, trenches, spider holes, minefields and roadside bombs are installed in the city, and government troops can transfer between defense points and ammunition depots through tunnels; a large number of explosives are placed in some buildings in the city, and through leads Control, once the Communist Party enters these bomb houses, they will be caught in one pot; booby traps and grenades are placed on the doors and windows of buildings, and if the Communist Party tries to push the door, the bomb will be detonated; in order to prevent the Communist Party from seizing the commanding heights, a large number of buildings will be installed. The stairs were blown up or blocked; a road was deliberately opened, and intensive cross-fire was ambushed on both sides, attracting them to enter and attacking them, etc.

This battle is of great significance to both sides. Once Fallujah is captured, it seems that Baghdad will be surrounded from three directions. Both sides know this, and the government forces release two divisions of troops. Defend here. (To be continued~^~)