October 6, 1973, the Jewish "Day of Atonement".
In order to show reverence for God, people do not eat, drink, or even speak on this day, but kneel in the temple to pray all day long. Nearly 30 years of war with the surrounding Arab world have made the vast majority of this nation unbearable. On the "Day of Atonement" year after year, people look forward to peace coming soon, but the Israelis never imagined that what they were looking forward to was not peace, but a star of revenge from the Arab world.
The coming of this star is well deserved for Israel, because they planted the bitter fruit themselves.
In the "Six-Day" War that broke out in 1965, the Israeli armored cluster swept across the Sinai Peninsula, sweeping away the fallen leaves like the autumn wind, driving the unprepared Egyptian army from its own territory. From that moment on, the Suez Canal, the transportation chokepoint connecting the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and the most important "golden waterway" in the world, transformed from an inland river in Egypt into the wartime dividing line between Egypt and Israel. The usual fleet of ships can no longer be seen on the river. Instead, there are dense mines and cannons with live ammunition in the chamber.
As the master of the Grand Canal, Egypt has since lost its annual river tax revenue of 1 billion Egyptian pounds. The humiliation of losing power and land has made every bloody Egyptian full of anger. The whole country of Egypt shared the same hatred of the enemy and was determined to regain the lost territory and reopen the canal.
In August 1972, Damascus, the capital of Syria, Egyptian President Sadat and Syrian President Assad. They met secretly in this historic city and signed a top-secret document, the Damascus Agreement. They decided to join forces with nine other Arab countries to simultaneously counterattack Israel on the Day of Atonement.
At 2 p.m. on October 6, the Arab coalition forces, dominated by the Syrian and Egyptian armies, suddenly launched a full-line attack on Israel on the east and west fronts of the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights.
220 MiG supersonic aircraft of the Egyptian Air Force took to the skies and carried out devastating bombings on Israeli command posts, troop assembly areas, airports and communication hubs in the Sinai Peninsula. The air strike lasted 20 minutes, and the Egyptian Air Force destroyed 90% of Israeli military targets at the cost of losing only 5 aircraft.
Next, more than 2,000 artillery pieces of various calibers deployed by the Egyptian army on the west bank of the canal poured more than 3,000 tons of artillery shells into the Israeli army positions on the east bank of the canal in dozens of minutes of firepower. 8,000 Egyptian death squads rode in 1,000 rubber assault boats and amphibious tanks, and under cover of artillery fire, fought bravely along the front of the more than 10-mile canal to cross.
The Egyptian death squads faced the dense weaving and rain of bullets shot by Israel's "Bar-Lev Line of Defense" on the east bank, and marched forward bravely, one after another. Half an hour into the battle, the Israeli army successfully climbed onto the 17-meter-high sand bar on the east bank of the canal, the first line of defense.
Victory in the first battle, the Egyptian army successfully crossed the river!
According to the pre-arrangement, the following engineers immediately used high-pressure water cannons to open a gap in the river dam and quickly set up a pontoon bridge on the river. Under the cover of air and ground fire, a large number of Egyptian tanks and missiles rumbled through the canal and entered the Israeli army's deep defense line.
The "Barlev Line of Defense" that Israel has worked hard for 8 years has been breached across the board!
In just 24 hours, the Egyptian Second and Third Armies all crossed the canal and recaptured the towns of Kantara and Shat. On the third day, the Israeli army mobilized three armored brigades to counterattack across the board and suffered a heavy blow from the Egyptian army. During the battle, Israel's ace army, the 190th Armored Brigade, was completely wiped out, and the brigade commander, Colonel Yagouri, was captured by the Egyptian army.
At this time, the Egyptian army's landing force on the east bank of the canal had increased to 6 divisions, firmly controlling an area 100 kilometers long and 10 kilometers deep along the canal. After losing 1/4 of its tanks and 1/3 of its combat aircraft, the Israeli army fell into a great passive position.
At the same time, the Syrian army on the northern front launched two elite paratrooper commandos in the Golan Heights to launch a surprise attack on the radar center on the top of Mount Hermon, which Israel calls the "national eye". The armored division and three infantry divisions launched a fierce attack on the Israeli positions in the Golan Heights in three directions.
72 hours later, the Syrian army broke through the ceasefire line of the "6.5 War" between Syria and Israel. The Syrian army on the northern route captured the strategic locations of Laotou Mountain and Masada. Capture Qunetda in the middle, and head straight towards the Israeli border. The southern route captured Faras and recaptured Feq. All three Israeli armored infantry brigades suffered heavy losses.
Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and other countries have increased their troops to participate in the war. The President of Iraq even dispatched the Presidential Guards Tank Division led by his brother.
The victory ahead has excited the Arab world, which has suffered repeated defeats in previous wars with Israel. The depression and low self-esteem that have suffered from decades of humiliation have disappeared with the victory of the "Yom Kippur" war. Sweep it away! From Morocco to the Arabian Gulf, all Arab countries in the vast land of North and West Africa, including Arab expatriates and students from all over the world, all rushed to tell each other with tears in their eyes.
The first batch of Egyptian soldiers to cross the canal and land on the Sinai Peninsula looked at the Egyptian flag fluttering in the wind, held the yellow sand of their homeland in their hands, and burst into tears and kissed each other.
Egyptian President Sadat declared with excitement that Israel's invincible advantage was nothing but a myth.
Israeli Defense Minister Dayan burst into tears in front of the Western media. By then, Israel was unable to get the Egyptians to take a step back, and the road to Tel Aviv had been opened.
The female prime minister, Mrs. Meir, begged the United States in a televised speech: "Save Israel!"
At every critical moment, successive Israeli governments always turn to the United States for help first. , this is not for no reason.
The United States is currently the country with the largest number of Jews in the world, generally estimated at 6 million, accounting for more than 40% of the total number of Jews and almost twice the total population of Israel. American Jews mostly live in cities, and most of them work in business, politics, and journalism. They have become an important link in maintaining the inextricable links between the two countries. Due to the influence of these people, Israel is the country that enjoys the most “US aid” on a per capita basis in the world. Several tough-minded "hawks" thought of Israel's last trump card - the 13 atomic bombs stored in the hinterland of the Negev Desert.
As a final means of retaliation, 13 atomic bombs produced by Israel's Dimona Reactor and made of titanium as nuclear material were installed on several specially modified F-104E "Phantom" fighter-bombers. .
The entire Arab world is rejoicing. Little do they know that Israel's atomic bombs have been aimed at Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad... The whole world is unknowingly on the verge of a nuclear war.
American nuclear experts have discussed these nuclear bombs in a dismissive tone. Indeed, in the eyes of Americans, who began to develop nuclear weapons half a century ago, the Israeli "nuclear weapons arsenal" is of course "very primitive."
However, in this "very primitive" nuclear bomb, each bomb contains about 5 kilograms of fission plutonium. Once it explodes, it will produce a huge destructive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosives, which has exceeded the explosive power of the two atomic bombs dropped by the US military on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. What a formidable murder weapon this is!
A more vicious plan is to attack the Aswan Dam, which is the world's tallest dam built by Egypt on the Nile River. The Israeli military and Mossad have carefully calculated the storage capacity and height of the world's tallest dam. The conclusion is that once the dam is destroyed in a nuclear attack, the unbridled flood will wipe out all the rich areas of Egypt.
Prime Minister Meir, a tough female politician, suddenly felt the dilemma of making a decision at this moment. She spent hours pacing in front of a map of Israel, complex thoughts swirling in her mind.
As one of the first batch of "Restoration Warriors", she was driven by the Resurrection motto of "Labor conquers all". After graduating from college, she returned to Palestine from the United States and endured the torment of "malaria and hunger". A "kibbutz" (a kind of collective farm with a socialist flavor) was formed on Palestinian land to reclaim wasteland.
When her husband separated from her because he couldn't stand the hard life, she persevered. For her, Israel is everything to her, and every expansion of its territory excites her. She is well aware that Israel's land is small, with an area of ??only 27,000 square kilometers, and its narrowest point is only 15 kilometers. The land is surrounded by the sea on one side and surrounded by Arab countries on three sides. The narrow territory lacks sufficient strategic buffer depth, and the military is unable to carry out large-scale strategic maneuvers to defend the country. For this reason, she has repeatedly announced: "For Israel's security, we will change all existing borders." Just for this reason. With her words, Israel blatantly occupied the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and the Golan Heights of Syria, a piece of land three times larger than Israel itself.
After forcing the Egyptian tank column to cross the Suez Canal for revenge, the Egyptian tank column became unstoppable. Once it entered the Etmiya Mitra Pass, Israel was unable to defend the line between Han Younis and Eilat. Once the pursuing Egyptian tanks cross the border, they can penetrate the entire territory of Israel, which is less than a hundred miles away, in just a few hours.
Israel cannot fail! Meir's heart was filled with panic. As a highly educated and well-qualified political leader, Meir knew clearly that the atomic bomb must not be used rashly, otherwise, he does not know what serious consequences and pressure from international public opinion he would have to endure.
Out of a politician's scheming and a sensitivity honed by years of international struggle, she feels that Americans will never stand by and watch Israel's current predicament. But the most critical thing now is whether her country can survive the final moments.
She answered the "hotline" number to Washington. On the other side of the Atlantic, US President Richard Nixon told her that the intelligence agencies of the United States and Israel had discovered an important sign and were beginning to analyze and study it. He predicted that in 24 hours, the situation on the Egyptian-Israeli front will be greatly improved.
The secret must not be revealed. Meir withstood the increasing pressure from his staff and the military and firmly disagreed with the use of nuclear weapons. At the same time, he issued an urgent order to "defend the entire front 24 hours a day."
Israel begins nationwide mobilization. With a complete military service organization and the most efficient wartime mobilization system in the world, Israel sent a large number of reinforcements to the endangered Sinai battlefield within a few days of the war.
After a few hours, the battle situation gradually stabilized. Mrs. Meir summoned the director of Mossad, Major General Aharon Yarif, and the Israeli Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General David Elazar. She wanted to know what they and the Americans had discovered.
Yariv handed her a stack of photos, which were sent by the US Central Intelligence Agency and taken by reconnaissance satellites, showing the situation of frontline troops and equipment on the battlefield of the Egypt-Israel Canal.
Since 1971, the United States began to launch this new generation of reconnaissance satellite "Keyhole-9" from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Foreign newspapers and magazines called it "LASP", which means "low-altitude space station" and is commonly known as "Big Bird". The camera equipped on this satellite can capture extremely small objects on the ground. After the film is automatically developed on the satellite, the film image is converted into electrical signals through laser scanning and transmitted back to the ground.
The United States and Israel have long had an information exchange agreement. At this critical juncture concerning Israel's life and death, the latest intelligence from the United States naturally reached Israel.
The Army Chief of Staff began to report to Meir on the situation studied at the emergency military meeting that had just been held.
“According to satellite photos sent by the United States and Mossad’s reconnaissance of the Egyptian army, it has been identified that the Egyptian Second and Third Army Corps are in Kantara-Suez City on the Suez Canal. After the front line crossed the canal, in order to ensure the strength and equipment of their respective main attack directions, the forces on both wings were reduced to varying degrees, and two assault groups on the left and right with Dwiswa as the joint were formed. In this way, two assault groups appeared between them. A gap area of ??about 10 kilometers wide has been discovered. According to the discovery of the American SR-71 high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Sinai battlefield, this gap is still tending to expand, and Egypt has not yet noticed this.
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The chief of staff paused for a moment, pointed to the map and continued: "We are initially considering sending an elite force from Jief Jaffa to penetrate deep into the Egyptian army's rear through this gap, so that no matter to the left or to the left, A right assault can encircle an Egyptian legion. Of course, if it develops smoothly, the results will be greater, and the entire battlefield situation will also change..."
Everything is clear. At this moment, as All that Israel's prime minister, Meir, had to do was issue an order and appoint a commander.
The military commander immediately drew up the order, and Meir quickly signed it.
Who can take on this important task? She thought of Ariel Sharon
In the Israeli military circles, Sharon is a legendary figure. He rose from squad leader to Israeli. The division commander of the highest combat unit reserve, and the highest military rank besides chief of general staff - major general. What is even more valuable is that he does not rely on his power and academic qualifications, but on his "illustrious military exploits."
Sharon was born in Palestine in 1928 and was a native Jew. After graduating from high school in 1945, he joined the squad leader training team of the Jewish underground army "Haganah".
In 1948, the sky over Palestine was filled with clouds of war, and Sharon returned. "Haganah" organization. Soon, the first Arab-Israeli war broke out, and Israel formed the "Zahar" (Israel Defense Forces) based on the "Haganah". From then on, Sharon's military career began. Due to the fierce fighting, by 1952, He has been promoted from platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander to chief intelligence officer of the Northern Military Region. During his tenure, he began to organize and prepare Israel's first regular special commando team, the "101 Force" with only 60 people.
Israel’s first Prime Minister Ben Gurion attached great importance to the construction of this force. He authorized Sharon to select personnel from the entire Israeli army, which laid a good foundation for the development of Israeli special forces in the future.
Creating a group of people is as important as creating an era. Sharon firmly believed in this.
Under Sharon's strict training, "101" troops captured the Mitra Pass, the "heart" of the Sinai Peninsula. After that, the "101" unit became famous and became famous in many battles.
In 1967, the third Middle East War broke out. Sharon, who took office as Director of Military Training of the General Staff, was urgently transferred to the combat unit as division commander. Under the cover of the air force, his division galloped through Sinai and conquered important towns, laying the foundation for the victory of the Israeli army's southern front.
"They are an evil force that is invisible and intangible, but can kill people in an instant," a senior staff officer at the Egyptian Army General Staff sighed worriedly at the scene in 1965. During the Six-Day War, the reinforcements led by this company were confused by the radio of the Israeli special forces and mistakenly entered the Israeli minefield. After several hardships, when they were about to drive out of the minefield, they were attacked again. The Israeli army attacked with heavy artillery and suffered heavy losses. Although he survived the disaster, he lost his authority and was demoted to a staff member.
In order to prevent low-altitude sneak attacks by Israeli military aircraft, Egypt established a number of new radars along the Suez Canal after the Third Middle East War. Sharon believes that these new radar stations that can detect low-altitude targets "hinder the Israeli Air Force."
On December 25, 1969 (Christmas night), Sharon personally led a commando team composed of airborne troops, engineers, and electronic technology experts to sneak across the Egyptian border by helicopter and secretly sneak into the facility. A new radar station at Cape Ghalib on the Egyptian side of the Gulf of Suez. After the battle started, Sharon directed the Israeli army to snipe the Egyptian defenders who came for reinforcements, and at the same time ordered the technical experts accompanying him to guide the disassembly of the radar station equipment. In just half an hour, all electronic equipment weighing 7 tons and worth millions of dollars was stolen and transported back to the country by helicopter.
A few days later, on January 22, 1970, Sharon repeated his old trick and sent a sea and air commando team to attack Shadwan Island at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez and robbed the island of A radar station built with British aid.
In the bloody battles in the surrounding Arab world, the Israeli special forces continued to expand at an extraordinary speed. By the early 1970s, the earlier small forces with a somewhat guerrilla flavor were established for the purpose of undertaking certain coordinated tasks. The organic team disappeared and was replaced by a powerful special force that included land, sea, and air advanced technological weapons and powerful strategic assault capabilities. Its training level and overall ratio ranked first in the world.
As the founder of the Israeli special forces, Ariel Sharon’s status within the Israeli army has risen rapidly. In the early 1970s, at the suggestion of the prime minister, Sharon served as commander of the Southern Military District, Israel's most important strategic region.
But the good times did not last long. Just three months before the war broke out, his brutal and bloody suppression of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip under his jurisdiction aroused strong opposition from the world's public opinion. In the Israeli cabinet At the unanimous request of most cabinet members, Sharon was dismissed and took a job at home.
The military transport plane landed at a field airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and Sharon was picked up in a bulletproof car.
The messenger handed over a document and said softly: "The Prime Minister's Letter."
Sharon quickly scanned the document. The main message of the document is: There are signs that there has been a gap in the frontal battlefield of the Egyptian army. The cabinet and the general staff are studying a new combat plan. Please return the special forces to prepare for war immediately and dispatch according to the order.
Nothing exceeded expectations! There was an imperceptible sneer at the corner of Sharon's mouth. Having experienced many battles, he knew that the opportunity had come again. An extremely bold, almost absurd plan had been hatched in his mind.
He wants to cross the Suez Canal and completely control this most important international strategic channel in the world today. For this, he will do whatever it takes!
By purely military standards, Sharon is undoubtedly a shrewd soldier. He believes that since war is a continuation of politics and economics, the most effective way to make an opponent submit politically is to control its economic lifeline. For Egypt, this lifeline is the Suez Canal.
This kind of thinking is logical. Israel has poor human resources and a small land area. The cost of directly occupying other countries' territories and exercising jurisdiction is too high and it cannot afford it. This problem could not be made clearer than through the Israeli occupation and resistance to the Arab-populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In contrast, controlling the strategic link between raw materials and the market is a matter of great benefit.
Sharon studied Eurasian history at Tel Aviv University in Israel. When the Persians invaded Greece, the first thing he encountered was the need to pass through the Dardanelles Strait in Constantinople; from the beginning, the British Empire regarded the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Cape of Good Hope as " "The Lifeline of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" recognizes that in order to realize the dream of "Greater Israel" in the future, Israel must gain effective control of the Suez Canal.
Sharon’s arrogance is not without any basis. In today's world, anyone with a little bit of military knowledge knows that there is a powerful force in the powerful Israeli army, and this powerful force was formed and personally commanded by Ariel Sharon.
Surprise attacks are often associated with deception. This has been a historical rule.
After emergency discussions, Israel’s war cabinet approved Sharon’s plan.
On the tenth day after "Yom Kippur", the "Star of David" fell on the Egyptian territory on the west bank of the Suez Canal.
Tel Aviv, the combat command room of the Israeli General Staff, on the one-hundred-thousandth military map, the staff officer has based on the intelligence provided by the US spy satellite, the Second and Third Corps of the Egyptian Army in the Sinai Peninsula. A gap about 20 kilometers wide is marked at the junction near Dwisva, north of the Great Bitter Lake, and a huge black arrow is extending from this gap to the Egyptian territory on the west bank of the canal.
This is Israel's most top-secret combat plan. The Israeli war cabinet authorized General Ariel Sharon to personally lead a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces to carry out this mission.
The Israeli armored assault column galloped across the Sinai desert at dusk. The Jewish soldiers carried on the Tucker waved their arms and sang loudly in the face of the wind and sand.
Sharon is dressed in military uniform, with fierce eyes and a serious expression. Behind his command vehicle were 13 Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks, 10 armored vehicles and more than 200 battle-hardened special forces soldiers.
The tracks rattled, leaving deep tracks on the sand dunes. This "Egyptian convoy", tasked with the mission of sneak attack on the canal crossing, sped forward in the night, leaving behind the bushes, sand dunes, dry river valleys, and the long line of lights of the Egyptian transport convoy in the distance.
During the march, Sharon stretched his head out of the command vehicle and looked back. Hey, what a spirit! Under the half-dark night light, dozens of tanks painted with the "Egyptian military emblem" were connected end to end, chasing each other like a fast-moving steel python. The brown-green camouflage on the tank body glowed with green light under the moonlight, making it look cold and threatening. This situation greatly satisfied Sharon's rapidly expanding vanity; before long, the whole world would know that it was me who led a strange force, went deep behind enemy lines alone, won by surprise, and reversed the crisis. For all this, he was determined to make a desperate move and fight to the end.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!" A small red light on the upper side of the indicator board turned on, and the urgent voice of the lead vehicle commander sounded in the salon's headphones.
"General, the front is approaching the canal terminal. The Egyptian army's security post has discovered us and is using the Egyptian army's internal light communication signal to inquire about our intentions!"
"Tell them, The Egyptian 2nd Army Armored Task Force returned to the west bank to perform its mission."
Using the Egyptian army's contact signal, the Israeli army drove towards the canal ferry at full speed while answering the Egyptian inquiry.
"Salute! Salute our comrades from the east bank!" An Egyptian second lieutenant platoon leader guarding the canal ferry ran out of the guard box and shouted loudly towards the approaching convoy.
He may have never dreamed that an Israeli surprise force had marched hundreds of miles and got under his nose from the junction of two Egyptian armies.
"Thank you for your hard work! God bless you for your safe return." Several sentries on duty put down their guns and lifted several buckets of water from behind the bunker. The water in Sinai is as expensive as oil, and the comrades must be thirsty.
"Cack!" The two 7.62mm parallel machine guns on the front of the T-55 tank suddenly spurted out flames. The Egyptian soldiers threw away their buckets and "danced" in the rain of bullets.
"Oh my God!" The Egyptian second lieutenant put down his saluting hand and prepared to draw his gun. It's too late! A tank at full power rolled in sand and dust and drove towards him like lightning, and mercilessly rolled him into the tank tracks. The poor second lieutenant saw clearly just when the steel body of the tank had touched him. It was a Soviet-made tank that he was most familiar with. The Egyptian army emblem on the turret was clearly visible in the dim light of dawn. At this moment, the soldiers at the Egyptian outpost were awakening from a dream and hurriedly fired back. But due to the disparity in strength, resistance is futile. As the Israeli tanks rolled past like an iron whirlwind, all the soldiers on the Egyptian guard position were killed, and the position fell into the hands of the enemy.
"General, there seems to be an interception convoy at the core position of the Egyptian army ahead. Anti-tank missiles and rockets have started shooting. Two of our tanks were hit by bullets and caught fire!"
Salon probed Look, the sound of gunfire has been heard in front of us. The two hit Israeli tanks burst into flames, but the entire armored convoy did not stop at all and was running through the Egyptian positions at full speed. Behind his car, the bodies of Egyptian soldiers lay scattered on the roadside.
"004, 004, aim at the anti-tank firepower point and shoot!" There was a lot of noise in the earphones, and the anxious commander began to call his subordinates in clear code.
With a bang, a shelling armor-piercing high-explosive artillery shell quickly and accurately hit the target, detonating the ammunition depot inside the firepower point. The firepower point was engulfed by the flames soaring into the sky in an instant.
Sharon looked at his watch. It was less than 6 o'clock, and there was still an hour until dawn. "Break through the center, make detours on both sides, and quickly annihilate the Egyptian defenders!"
"Swift victory. We must not let the Egyptian defenders tell their superiors our whereabouts, otherwise the entire smuggling plan will be in vain.
"This is the last sentence of Sharon's instructions to all the commandos at the departure assembly area before the war.
Time! For this small but elite army, the most precious thing is time.
The 700-horsepower tank engine roared furiously, and the huge energy drove the tracks and wheels to rotate repeatedly.
In the fight between fire and blood, steel and flesh, the Egyptian army's desperate resistance finally came to an end. Disintegrated.
30 minutes later, the tanks of the Israeli special forces advance team reached the east bank of the Suez Canal.
“Cross the river! "Sharon spat out two words fiercely through his teeth. The first batch of smuggled soldiers began to cross the river on rafts. Soon, Sharon's command radio received a report that they had successfully crossed the river.
Sharon started from December 12 Through his telescope, he saw that dozens of Israeli soldiers had climbed onto the embankment on the other side and were waving the Israeli flag with a blue hexagonal star of David printed on a white background. Sneered. Behind him, an Israeli armored division was preparing to cross in the morning wind.
“We have successfully crossed the river, and Jewish soldiers have set foot on African soil for the first time! "Salon sent a telegram to Meir.
Ten minutes later, the nuclear bomb mounted on the F-4E Phantom fighter jet was unloaded and transported back to the nuclear weapons warehouse in the Negev Desert. A nuclear war was averted, and humanity was once again spared from death.
On October 16, Golda Meir took to the parliamentary rostrum and delivered a special speech on the current military and political situation. Here's a statement: Right now, as we gather in the Knesset, the Zakhar (Israel Defense Forces) are fighting on both sides of the canal! This speech shoots through the thick, dull air of the Knesset hall like an electric current.
At this time, the situation was extremely urgent for the Egyptian army. Once the Jews crossed the canal and landed on the west bank, the Egyptian army, which was fighting tenaciously on the east bank, would be attacked from both sides and fall into despair.
Like magic, Suez. On the wide river surface of the canal, two crossing bridges composed of Israeli military boat bridges appeared overnight. Israeli armored columns rumbled on the bridges, like two strange snakes squirming on the chest of the canal.
Before dawn, a reinforced armored division of the Israeli army had sneaked across the river and was hiding in the Dwiswa orchard on the east side of the Great Bitter Lake.
On the night of October 19, the Israeli special forces. The pontoon bridge unit also erected two pontoon bridges near the Abu Sultan Station north of the Great Bitter Lake. The Israeli armored forces that originally confronted the Egyptian army in the Sinai battlefield passed through these two bridges and quickly moved to the west bank of the canal to outflank the Egyptian army.
The Egyptian High Command did not launch a decisive and concentrated attack on the Israeli special forces who smuggled into the West Bank. Sharon took advantage of this mistake and in just a few days, conquered the West Bank. The front and depth of the landing site were expanded to 15 kilometers.
The Egyptian army, eager to resolve the battle on the east coast, broke out from under its own missile umbrella and used missiles on the front of the Sinai battlefield without sufficient preparation. Several tank divisions launched a large-scale attack.
The Egyptian tanks, which had lost air cover, passed through continuous assaults by the dominant Israeli aviation. By nightfall, they brought about 240 troops with them. The loss of one tank was pushed back.
A dramatic turn occurred.
On October 19, Sharon, who was smuggling across the canal, took advantage of the frustration of the Egyptian army on the east bank and was unable to move westward. Seizing the opportunity, Sharon stepped up the expansion and reinforcement of the original landing site and directed the Israeli army to attack the Egyptian defenders on the West Bank in a fan shape from the north, northwest, and southwest.
The Israeli special forces that Sharon ordered to attack extensively used small group tank tactics. , that is, a tank company with a special team team and an anti-tank missile team riding in armored assault vehicles. These small groups of tanks maneuver on the ground, trying to find weak points in the Egyptian army's defense and destroy and eliminate Egypt's cover of the east coast. The army's anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery positions, command posts and large bases in the rear targeted the gaps in Egypt's weak defense and launched dozens of assault teams to attack them. Egypt's SAM missile base on the west bank of the canal.
Dozens of missile sites above the Megatron Canal, which terrified Israeli pilots, were all destroyed. The tall "SAM" missile collapsed and sank into the sand, leaving corpses lying in the wilderness.
Since the beginning of the war, the "air barriers" built by Egypt on both sides of the canal using Soviet-made missiles were torn open by Sharon's tiger and wolf troops with a width of 30 kilometers.
Batches of Israeli fighter jets roared in, swooping down on Cairo, Suez, Ismailia and other Egyptian cities like hungry eagles. In an instant, these cities turned into a sea of ??flames.
The success of the Israeli special forces on the west bank of the canal has greatly changed the previous unfavorable situation of the Israeli army. As the Israeli troops crossing the river cut off the Egyptian army's retreat, the Egyptian Second and Third Army Corps fighting on the east bank immediately fell into a critical situation of cross-strait fighting. However, in order to regain their territory, the Egyptian army on the east bank was not afraid of the danger and continued to fight to the death.
Under the cover of air strikes, the follow-up Israeli troops crossing the river carried out a major assault on the city of Suez and surrounded the city, cutting off the Suez-Cairo highway.
The Egyptian army was fighting hard in the hinterland of Sinai. Under the unfavorable situation of fighting with its back to the water, it neither dared to boldly return troops from the east coast, nor could it mobilize enough troops to block the Israeli breakthrough, causing the war situation to take a turn for the worse.
On October 22, more than 20,000 people and 200 tanks of the Egyptian Third Army on the Suez City-Fayed front line were surrounded by the Israeli army on all sides, and the Egyptian army was forced to go on the defensive across the board.
Just as Israel's victory in the Third Middle East War was largely due to air force surprise attacks, the turning point of the Fourth Middle East War also began with air strikes - the difference is that this time it was on the ground and led by an air force. A special forces unit is completed.
At this time, Sharon, who appeared as a winner, was extremely arrogant. Amidst the continuous artillery fire, he did not even wear a helmet. Riding in an armored command vehicle, he personally led the charge along the Ismail-Cairo highway.
At this moment, Kissinger, the Jewish Secretary of State of the United States of America, finally issued a warning to his Jewish compatriots. The Israeli cabinet was informed that due to the great military success of the Israeli army, especially on the west bank of the canal, the threat to the Egyptian capital Cairo has been posed. In response to President Sadat's urgent request, seven Soviet airborne divisions have been put on alert and are about to be airlifted to Egypt.
Things can change in an instant. Direct military intervention by "superpowers" in the Middle East is already looming as a realistic possibility.
80 kilometers away from Cairo, Israeli Defense Minister Moses fired three "gold medals" on the order of Prime Minister Meir, finally blocking Sharon.
In the early morning of October 22, 1973, at the United Nations Security Council in New York, Resolution 388 on mediating the ceasefire between Egypt and Israel was adopted and came into effect. It brought an end to the Fourth Middle East War.
This war that shocked the world and alarmed the "superpowers" the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for 16 days and finally ended. The Jews, who had suffered so much, had once again turned the corner. Of course, their savior - Sharon and the Israeli special forces led by him received the highest honor!