Chapter 2418 Frontline
The car rolled off the road. ?Bayi Chinese?W?W?W． 81ZW. COM
It was less than twenty kilometers away from the border. After climbing over a stretch of low mountains, almost ten kilometers away on the Shah's side of the border was Najran, where the Shah's 30,000-strong army was stationed.
Although the Shah's army is stationed near Najran, which is still more than 30 kilometers away, this is still an extremely dangerous distance, because it is impossible for the Shah not to deploy outpost troops on the border, and the Shah has even crossed the border secretly. It is also very possible, not to mention that Shah is very likely to use drones for aerial reconnaissance continuously. Therefore, Satan is not only dangerous during the assembly process, but also quite dangerous.
Fortunately, Satan's heavy equipment is still small, only five self-propelled artillery. As for the logistics convoy, it can be completely dispersed and left the road. The situation of a large number of vehicles and personnel gathering together can be easily avoided.
Leaving the road to the west is a very wide river valley, but this river valley has only a very small chance of becoming a real river. Most of the time, this river valley is just a dry river valley.
Vehicles with light weight can completely pass through the river valley and enter the shallow mountains along the border. Only the trailer carrying the self-propelled artillery cannot pass through the flat but soft river valley, and the self-propelled artillery needs to be unloaded on the highway.
Fortunately, we have arrived at the war zone, and the next short journey can be completed entirely by relying on the self-propelled artillery's own maneuverability.
All vehicles were under light control during the entire assembly process. In the darkness, the trailers were directed off the road. Then the artillery commanded by Rebrov entered the self-propelled artillery. After the people with night vision goggles Pulled off the trailer under command.
All members of Satan are equipped with night vision devices, and so are the artillery. Of course, the artillery only uses relatively cheap low-light night vision devices, but it is enough to bring great convenience.
Technology has improved combat effectiveness. Gao Yang only had about thirty artillerymen at his disposal, and he didn't mind spending a small amount of money to equip the artillerymen with night vision goggles.
Gao Yang got out of the car. He was wearing a white robe and a turban on his head. From a distance, he looked no different from a Yemeni. Only the night vision device on his head showed that he was different from ordinary Yemenis.
Quietly watching the other side of the river valley, Gao Yang was waiting for the artillery to gather.
Whenever a self-propelled artillery completes the unloading work, it will immediately leave the road and enter the valley, and then quickly pass through to the foot of the mountain on the west side of the valley to hide. The progress is very smooth, and the five self-propelled artillery can quickly complete the unloading work.
The last self-propelled gun also left the road and entered the valley.
And after a bumpy long-distance transportation, no self-propelled artillery malfunctioned and everything was normal. This is a good start.
After gathering, it's time to march, and it's time to enter the mountains.
The mountains along the border are not very high, and there is an extreme lack of rainfall all year round. As a result, there are neither mountain rivers that are common in rainy areas, nor shrubs that obstruct the view. They are all bare stone mountains. These conditions are extremely unfavorable for concealment. But the advantage is that it is convenient to open up simple dirt roads in the mountains, which is enough for off-road vehicles to travel in the mountains conveniently.
What needs to be confirmed now is the road. Mountain trails lead in all directions. To reach the scheduled assembly area accurately and quickly, we cannot use combat maps, because these trails will not appear on combat maps at all. Only by using GPS and satellite maps can we reach the planned assembly area as quickly as possible. Arrive at your destination.
The border between the Shah and Yemen in this area is drawn on the top of a small mountain range.
The mountain is not high, with an altitude of several hundred meters. It is impossible for the Shah's mechanized troops to climb over the top of the mountain and enter Yemen. However, the city of Najran is built on both sides of the valley of the Najran River, and the entire urban area is in a flat low-lying area. In the desert, this desert is actually the sandy land accumulated when the Najran Wadi occasionally overflows. There is another large sandy land to the south of the urban area at the western end of Najran City. Following the sandy land all the way south, the flat sandy land closes. The narrowness shows the original appearance of a river valley, and this flat valley will pass through the mountains directly into the territory of Yemen.
For the Shah's army, the dry valley south of Najran City is a natural high highway. As long as it passes through the mountains from the valley into Yemen, individual hills can no longer attack the Shah's mechanized army. A geographical barrier has been formed. Whether it is tanks or vehicles, they can pass freely on the flat land at the bottom of the mountains.
If the Shah's mechanized troops leave the city of Najran, there are even high roads that can be used before reaching the Yemeni border. They only need to leave the road when entering the narrow valleys in the mountains and use the valleys to drive. In terms of time, , the Shah's army can reach the border from Najran City in ten minutes at most. The time is so fast and the distance is so short.
Therefore, what Gao Yang has to do is very simple, which is to monitor the river valley that can go directly south. If the Shah Army wants to enter the river valley, then it will have to fight.
The Shah will definitely use that river valley, and Yemen will naturally try its best to defend it. Therefore, in recent times, the Houthi armed forces have deployed a large number of troops to the border, and the Shah will certainly not relax on the extremely important river valley passage. Be alert, both sides now have a large number of infantry deployed on the mountains on both sides of the valley.
The infantry on the Shah's side only plays a warning and preventive role, but the light infantry on the Houthi armed side has to bear the heavy responsibility. They have to prevent the Shah's army on the Najran line from entering Yemen through the river valley, and this task It was not supposed to be the light infantry.
However, the two sides in the confrontation can only monitor and alert each other. In Gao Yang's view, the Houthi armed forces, which are extremely lacking in heavy firepower, should at least lay a large number of landmines in the river valley, which can effectively delay the assault of Shah's mechanized troops. , but the Houthi armed forces have no intention of laying mines at all, even though the Houthi armed forces can obtain a large number of landmines from Iran.
As for the Shah, he did not send infantry to seize the valley first, nor did he intend to clear the high ground on both sides of the valley.
Both sides deployed a large number of troops on an extremely important passage, and then just watched.
Because of concerns about unsafe roads caused by air raids, Satan's time to enter the border mountains from Sana was delayed for a full week. Originally, Gao Yang began to feel that there was not much point in going to the border again, but now the Shah and the Houthi armed forces are at the border. After being in a dazed state, he felt that he should come here because he was worried that the northwest defense line of the Houthi armed forces would be completely destroyed with a slight poke.
What Gao Yang wants to do now is to see with his own eyes what is going on on the border. If possible, he hopes to lead the Houthi armed forces to delay the Shah's offensive as much as possible. It is impossible to fight to the death for the Houthi armed forces. It's good to be armed and look at the door. It's good to resist for a while.