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At six o'clock in the morning on March 3, the first rays of sunlight struggled to shine below the horizon, adding a touch of warmth to the cold morning in the desert city of Basra.

Several lizards slowly crawled out of the cave by the river onto the stones, lazily preparing to receive the warmth of the sun, but suddenly, it felt the ground shake without warning, and these poor little creatures did not understand what was happening, and they were frightened and quickly crawled back into the cave with the last strength of their cold bodies, and looked cautiously at the outside world.

In their eyes, they saw many iron-clad behemoths and many people marching towards the other side of the river in a neat line, these were the American armored units that began to attack the east bank of Basra, but the troops stopped advancing after reaching the bridge, which made many soldiers feel inexplicable.

"Hey, dude, can anyone tell me why we stopped here? Could it be that some commander suddenly found himself on the toilet and didn't wipe his ass, so let's wait here for him to go back and change his underwear?"

A soldier leaned on the tank and teased at his comrade, to which a cautious comrade speculated: "I think maybe I am worried that the Iraqi army is ambushing on the other side of the river, after all, the Desert Tiger has suffered a lot in Isra......"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by another soldier: "That's the shame of the First Armored Division of the Expeditionary Force, and it's not our First Marine Division, I think that when we faced the heavy encirclement of the three Huaxia Group Armies in Changjin Lake, we still broke through, that was the glory left to me by my grandfather, and it was also the glory of the First Marine Division, and now it's just an Iraqi army like a big lady, what are you afraid of?"

His words were echoed by others: "That's right, at least I've never seen any Iraqi army that can raise its guns to resist a little, and I see that we are coming to Basra now just to add new honor to the flag of the 1st Marine Division!"

"Who's to say it isn't? I've read the newspapers today, and the whole world is calling for me to end this fucking war as soon as possible, and I don't think we should let them down. ”

"I think maybe we should ask the chief for our orders, and we can prove to the world that there is only a bunch of women and children with guns over there. ”

These soldiers laughed proudly, not paying any attention to the Iraqi defenders on the other side, who in their opinion might not be as difficult as the Tigris River.

As the oldest Marine Corps in the U.S. Army, he has participated in many important battles since World War II, and even successfully broke through in Changjin Lake in the face of the world's peak light infantry volunteer superiority. Although the equipment and cold helped them a lot, their own excellent combat qualities should not be underestimated, for which the 1st Marine Division won many presidential commendations, and even won the honor of the president's outstanding unit.

Because of this, for everyone in the 1st Marine Division, taking Basra was simply a matter of capture, and the only thing that could not be predicted was whether the battle would end in two or three days.

And Basra is the estuary of the Tigris River, take it and empty the mines, you can let the aircraft carrier in, and then all kinds of combat ships, all the way north along the river, you can complete the ultimate strategic goal of directly attacking the capital Badina.

But such a force, which was full of confidence that it could end this desert war, was about to launch an attack, but suddenly received an order to retreat.

"My God, why is that? Could it be that our general has been turned into an idiot? Why should we choose to retreat at this time, when we have the results at our fingertips?

The 1st Marine Division, which was originally high-spirited, was very surprised by the order to retreat, because this order was completely unreasonable, but all the commanders were repeating the same order: "This is an order personally issued by the commander-in-chief of the Central Army, General Normandy, a four-star general, and it must be carried out!"

Of course, for a disciplined unit like the 1st Marine Division, since it ordered to retreat, no matter how unreasonable it was, they would carry out the military order, but everyone did not understand why General Normandy gave such an order, and he gave up the victory that was almost already in hand.

In fact, it was not only the officers and men of the 1st Marine Division who were extremely confused, but also those who followed the battle.

U.S. President Walsh was woken up by Christo's phone call before he fell asleep, and Christo directly questioned Walsh on the phone: "Mr. President, I have no intention of questioning your IQ, but I don't understand why you made the decision to withdraw the 1st Marine Division from Basra, or did you choose the wrong commander?" Or did your commander betray you?"

Walsh was very surprised by Christo's call, because he remembered that the order he gave to Normandy before going to bed was to take the whole city of Basra, why did he sleep for less than an hour now, and the order to attack became a retreat?

If it weren't for the fact that his assistant had reminded him that Christo's words were true, the 1st Marine Division was indeed withdrawing from Basra, and he would have suspected that this was a very bad joke.

Walsh had no choice but to stabilize Christo first, saying that he needed time to investigate, and he immediately asked his assistant to prepare a call with Normandy after hanging up Christo's phone, and a few minutes later, Walsh had already answered the Middle East phone in his office.

"Mr. President, since I gave the order to the 1st Marine Division to retreat, I have been waiting for your call. Normandy said first.

Walsh was a little surprised by this opening remark, but as an old politician, Walsh certainly didn't show any emotion easily, he just asked very calmly: "This is the most important reason why I got up from bed and called you, I want to know what made you make such a decision." ”

"Because the whole battle of Basra was a conspiracy designed by the enemy for us, but we were unaware of it and fell into it. Normandy said.

"I think you can be a little more clear. Walsh suggested.

"At the same time that I was giving the order to the 1st Marine Division for an all-out attack on Basra, the Rumaila oil field, which, according to intelligence, was a giant oil field controlled by the Hussein family in Iraq and the oil supply oil field for the oil-for-food program. Normandy said.

This answer made Walsh feel his head grow instantly, because the oil-for-food program was not just a humanitarian aid, but a humanitarian aid kidnapped by domestic public opinion.

The oil-for-food program was launched under the auspices of the International Red Cross (ICRC) because the media exposed the lives of civilians in Iraq, and public opinion in the country said that ordinary people should not be repaid for the war started by Salm.

Walsh is not unaware of who is behind the so-called oil-for-food program, nor does he not know what kind of wealth these leading consortiums can make from this plan as oil prices continue to rise, but the problem for him now is that the public opinion of the whole country is staring at this plan, and he can only carefully ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, otherwise he will be labeled a "tyrant".

But at this time, Iraq's oil-for-food oil fields were attacked, which was undoubtedly a big blow to itself.

"Have you found out who did it?" asked Walsh.

"Not yet, it's just speculated that the Kurds are probably armed from the north, but the problem is that they are using American-style weapons. Normandy said.

Normandy's answer undoubtedly smashed the last bit of luck in Walsh's heart, because if it was Soviet-made weapons that attacked Rumaila, then they could still put the blame on the Iraqi government and say that they themselves were thwarting the plan, but it is clear that the enemy did not make such a low-level mistake and would leave them with such a big flaw.

After thinking about it, Walsh praised Normandy and said: "General, you have made the right decision to give up and continue to attack Basra, and then immediately start investigating the attack on the Rumaila oil fields, if you can, we will send our troops to protect these Iraqi oil fields, no matter what the final outcome of the matter, we will always have to give an explanation to the media." ”

"I'm already doing it, Mr. President. Normandy replied, and then he thought about it again and asked, "There is a question, are these things all influenced by that person?" That's why you ordered me to intercept him at all costs, the Chinese man named Zhou Ming. ”

"To tell you the truth, I was actually pressured by some consortium to intercept that day, otherwise they would have refused to pay for the military. Walsh said helplessly, "Originally, I only thought it was an extremely bad joke, or a harsh personal vendetta, but I didn't expect that the Chinese man could actually do this, persuade the Kurds to join the war with arms, use public opinion to launch an oil-for-food program, and constantly create trouble for us......"

In the end, Walsh couldn't say any more, so he had to sigh heavily.

"Mr. President, I think the issue of Iraq is probably more complex than we think. Normandy made a new point to Walsh, "In fact, judging from the recent interception of that night by the General Staff, perhaps it is not a coincidence that Zhou Ming's plane of the Chinese man was able to break through the interception of hundreds of planes and finally reach Bardina smoothly, but is the result of man-made." ”

"Because yesterday, when investigators investigated the two fighter jets that crashed that night, they found that they did not crash because of the weather, but were destroyed by their own missiles. Normandy said.

Walsh frowned at the news, and after a long moment asked, "What does this mean?"

"The investigation team came up with an interesting conjecture that one of the planes destroyed the other, then launched the missile, and at the same time manipulated the plane to overtake the missile by flying at supersonic speed, and finally destroyed itself, creating an accident scene where the missile exploded due to weather conditions. Normandy said.

Walsh didn't rush to make any comments, but asked in a deep voice, "Is this feasible?"

"Theoretically possible, but it requires great flying skills from the pilots, but unfortunately, due to the sudden sandstorm that night, all the pilots who were dispatched were quasi-ace pilots, including the two wrecked Cavender and Harman. Normandy said.

Walsh, who had received the answer, fell silent again, and after a while, he said to Normandy very seriously: "This is the end of this investigation, I don't want anyone else to know about it, understand? Maybe it will be related to the stability of the Union." ”

"I understand, Mr. President, that's why I said that maybe the issues behind this war are far more complex than the war itself. Normandy said.

"Perhaps," Walsh let out a sigh, "perhaps I should find an opportunity to have a good conversation with that Mr. Zhou Ming from China." ”