#中东战争 #
How fierce the Fourth Middle East campaign was, Israel's lightning tactics failed and it nearly destroyed the country
On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria formed a massive Arab coalition, assembling an army of more than 500,000 men and launching a massive onslaught against Israel. This day happens to be the "Yom Kippur Day" of Israeli Judaism, and Israel is completely unaware that this kind of tragedy will happen on this day. In addition to the large number of people, the Arab coalition army also had more than 4,000 tanks of various types, and there were thousands of fighter jets in the sky, and the momentum was fiercely attacking Israel.
In the Suez Canal, Israel considered itself to have an impregnable line of defense, the Barev Line. This line was a series of military operations deployed after the outbreak of the last Middle East war to strengthen the defense of the Sinai Peninsula. Under the personal command of the Israeli Army's General Staff Officer, Barev, a solid land defense line was constructed. Along the canal, Israel used yellow sand to pile up a 25-meter-high "sand embankment," meaning to keep no enemy from landing.
Their strong line of defense, the Egyptian army used the most simple method, using the most powerful high-pressure water gun spray in Europe, Israel watched their defense line, under the impact of the water, became a quicksand pouring into the sea. It took only 5 hours for the Bar-Lev Line to be breached by the Egyptian army, which Israel could not have imagined. It's all an architect's problem, sand can't be a castle, as long as a normal person knows it, but who would have thought that the military would dare to do it, this is not typical
At this time, the Israeli army was demoralized, and everyone's heart was filled with despair, and equally desperate was the entire state of Israel, an atmosphere of grief that was about to perish, spreading in Israel. Their armies really could not defeat the Arab coalition, and at this time there was a dilemma of insufficient military reserves, and if the war could not end, they were really powerless to support it, and could only declare their surrender.
Israel had long been supported by the United States, otherwise it would have been able to fight back so quickly. The US military sent a large number of the most advanced weapons to the front-line battlefield, the Israeli army can fight back, and there are US satellites, but also to help Israel find the enemy situation, they found the loopholes of the Egyptian army, so they can directly destroy the Missile Site of the Egyptian Army, and even block the Egyptian retreat, and now the situation between the two sides is completely reversed.
After realizing that the Arab countries were unable to attack, the United States immediately stopped the assistance from many aspects, and the United States did not want to expand the war, but only let the two sides stop. The United States profited from the arms, but Israel was now a bit rampant, unwilling to stop there, but began to prepare for a large-scale attack, and even quickly hit cairo, the capital of Egypt, and the United States attacked again. Directly tell Israel that if this continues, the Soviet Union will send troops to support, and then the United States will not be able to control it.
However, the Middle East has a very important position for the United States, and the United States cannot lose this land of wealth. Therefore, troops were also being mobilized to try to prevent Soviet troops from entering the Middle East. The Soviet Union, coordinated by the United States, temporarily stopped sending troops to the Middle East, but never disarmed its troops. It was imperative that the United States summon Israel's ambassador to the United States and tell the Soviet Union of its intentions, hoping that Israel would obey and abandon the offensive.
