In northern Iran, the positions of the 1st Army Corps of the Iranian Army and the 2nd Army Corps were also hit by a surprise attack from the Russian 47th Army Corps and the 51st Army Corps. The sudden offensive threw the 1st Army Corps of the Iranian Army and the 2nd Army Corps into disarray. Before they could even react, their frontline positions had already been lost.
With no other choice, on the advice of German military advisers, the 1st Army Corps of the Iranian Army and the 2nd Army Corps had to abandon their frontline positions and begin retreating.
However, the Russian 47th Army Corps' 6th and 54th Tank Divisions performed exceptionally well in this battle. On the Western Front, Russia's T-28 medium tanks, T-26 light tanks, and BT-7 fast tanks had been fit only to be slaughtered by German military Tiger-Panther tanks. Yet on the Middle East battlefield, they suddenly rediscovered the feeling of being the leading players on the stage of war.
Although a Russian tank division had only a little over a hundred tanks, the Kingdom of Iran's frontline troops did not possess even a single tank and consisted entirely of infantry. The Kingdom of Iran did have the establishment for an Armored Division, but it lacked equipment, and its personnel were still training, so it had not formed any combat capability at all. This meant that when facing Russian tank attacks, they could only rely on those anti-tank weapons to fight back.
If well-trained German military troops had operated those anti-tank weapons, they might have made the Russian tank forces pay a grievous price. After all, the Russian tanks' defenses were weak, and a 37mm Anti-Tank Gun could easily destroy them. But unfortunately, the Iranian Army's quality was limited. They simply could not bring