() Colonel Mike of the Basra US military base was distressed by the lack of news from Lieutenant Thomson, and that officials at all levels in Basra province and the commanders of several combat battalions, Jǐng Cha, had been summoned by him several times, and they had captured many Shiites but ultimately found nothing, although CIA intelligence officers provided some information that Lieutenant Thomson might be hiding in the Chinese company building

But after thinking about it, Colonel Mike thought that this was worthless information, and everyone knew that the Chinese did it, but they were suffering from no evidence, and General Petraeus had been fooled last time and was now being tried by a military tribunal

He was worried that this was another Chinese scheme, so he did not believe the information provided by the CIA intelligence officers at all, and the intelligence network in the military was also very sparse, since the new president formulated the evacuation plan, most of the personnel from the Defense Intelligence Agency also followed the evacuation, and only the CIA personnel operated in this area

"I'll give you a week, a week, if there is no clue, don't blame us for not helping you in the next congressional election," Colonel Mike gave an ultimatum at the meeting, and he was also helpless and forced by the pressure of public opinion in the United States

The governor of Basra province, Chilam, and the top head of the Basra security forces, Lieutenant General Kud, looked embarrassed, and if it were not for the help of the Americans to deal with the Shiite armed Badr brigade, I am afraid they would not have been so quiet

Although they knew that it was the Shiites who were playing the trick, they had captured so many people, but it was of no use at all

"A week is too short, these days our people have helped you arrest so many Shiite sheikhs, who have long been dissatisfied with the Shiites, and in Basra, the Shia are very powerful, and when the conflict is caused, it will be difficult to end," Chiram worried

Kud also followed suit: "The security forces, several combat battalions, are also panicking, and there are Shiite soldiers in them, and if this continues, we may not even be able to control the army."

"You tell me now that you can't control the situation, but who will be responsible for the killing of my people in Iraq," Colonel Mike said coldly, "If we withdraw from Iraq, you will wait for the Shiites to ride on the head, I don't care what method you use, you must find Lieutenant Thomson for me"

After the meeting, Kurd and Chiram left the U.S. military base, their faces ugly all the way, preferring to submit to the side of the Americans rather than letting the Shiites take power

"We're going to negotiate with the Chinese ambassador and put pressure on them to hand over the people," Kud said coldly, "if they don't hand them over, we're not going to let them exploit the oil."

"This is a good way," Chiram nodded, "it is much easier to offend the Chinese than to offend the Americans, at least the Chinese will not send troops to us, while the Americans can at any time"

When they agreed, they returned to Basra, and when they arrived in Basra, it was already night, and the city was supposed to be dark, and it was lit everywhere, and in the cars they saw many people lighting candles and lining up to the mosque, and the people were chanting words as if they were praying for something

Originally, this situation has become commonplace for them these days, and they don't care what prophets come and what dreams, after all, this is people's faith, but yesterday this kind of assembly will not be held at night, today is different, for the people of Basra, candles are very precious things, because Basra has not yet restored the power supply, so at night they can only rely on candles for lighting

Chiram immediately asked his assistant to check on the situation, and after a few minutes, the assistant returned to the car and told Chiram and Kud: "The people in the street say that the Prophet will come to Basra tonight, and that he will lead the army guarding the Prophet to expel the enemy and save lives."

The two frowned, and Kurd immediately prepared to call the headquarters, he must stop such behavior, and if it is used, it will be a chaos in the whole city

However, the assistant told him: "Not only Shiites, but also our Sunnis, both sides are praying, even jǐngcha and soldiers are involved, and the whole of Basra is now waiting for the Prophet to come, and if it is suppressed by the security forces, it will cause a lot of uphea."

"We can't suppress the Kuds now, but we should support them, this must be Assad's trick, but no matter what, as long as there is no prophet after today, the people will not believe it, and the second time is mainly to maintain law and order in the city, and not to cause any sāo," Chiram Jǐng tied

Kud put down the phone, and the two went their separate ways, one to the Basra Security Forces Headquarters and the other to the Provincial Zhèng Fǔ Building

But as soon as the two men were separated, they heard an explosion coming from outside the central area of Basra, when they were groaning in their hearts, and Kud immediately rushed back to the headquarters, but the chief of staff told him that the Basra airport, the air base of the security forces, had been attacked by militants on a large scale

"Massive" Kud was stunned "How many people are on a large scale"

"I don't know that the report from the base says that there are many people and people everywhere, and there are sounds of attacks everywhere, and they all wear white turbans, saying that they are the Prophet's Escort Corps, and they will disperse all forces that collude with foreign enemies in order to welcome the Prophet's arrival," the Chief of Staff's face was very ugly

"Connect me to the air base," Kud's face changed, he didn't believe that there were so many militants, even the Badr Brigade didn't dare to attack the security forces' air base easily, although there were no fighter planes in it, all of them were light reconnaissance planes and helicopters, but it was not easy to overcome

"The line has been disconnected, and the last message from the commander is that there has been a heavy attack, calling for rapid support," the staff officer said

"Asking for help from the US military, this could be a full-scale counterattack by the Badr Brigade and the Shiites, and in addition, the 9th Tank Battalion was sent to the air base quickly, and we can't afford to lose the airfield," Kud immediately ordered

The 9th Tank Battalion stationed in Basra then quickly left for the air base, and at the same time at the U.S. military base, Colonel Mike also received a call for help

"Damn, how dare the Badr Brigade attack the airfield of the security forces so rampantly," Colonel Mike, of course, would not send troops to reinforce him at the first time, he always felt that there was something wrong with this, although his base was not far from the air base of the security forces

"It may be that we have recently captured too many Shiite people, which has caused the anger of Badr, and now they are preparing to attack the air base and give us a counterattack," the staff officer analyzed

"Well," Colonel Mike pondered, touching his chin, "tell Cood and let him solve the problem on his own, the Badr Brigade can really fight only a few thousand people, he has a tank battalion and an infantry battalion in Basra, with a total number of more than three thousand, and he is still fully armed, if he can't even handle the sneak attack of the Badr Brigade, what is the use of him"

"We really don't support," the staff officer asked again

"No," Colonel Mike shook his head, "I always had a feeling that the Badr Brigade had other intentions"

Meanwhile, in the Basra Hills base, Canglong is deploying everything, and this yet-to-be-built base has finally begun its first operation

"On your orders, I sent all the Shiite activists to the airbase to harass the Kurd, and the guy reacted by sending a tank battalion in Basra," Badr reported

"Is there any movement on the Americans' side?" asked Canglong

"There's no Kud to call for help yet, but the Americans don't seem willing to go to the airbase," Badr said

"It seems that our attack strength is not enough," Canglong's face was heavy, and after speaking, he looked at the snow leopard and said, "Let Bai Wuchang drive the J-7 to attack and drop all the bombs at the air base, and tell the shrimp anti-tank team to act and do everything possible to delay the progress of the tank battalion."

"Yes," the snow leopard commanded

"Will this work?" said Badr, skeptically

"Our goal is to lure the U.S. military out of the base to support the air base, so that we can send Jīng Rui troops to besiege Qatar prison with all our might," Canglong smiled, "By the way, did the Qatar Al Jazeera reporter catch it?"

"He's been caught, he's going to see us attacking the prison, but what are we going to do with the journalists, and tell the world that the Badr Brigade was responsible for this attack," Badr wondered

"Hehe, aren't all the Rui troops wearing the uniforms of Saddam's Republican Guard," Canglong said with a smile, "so this reporter is seeing the revived Republican Guard, not our Badr Brigade, and the whole world is looking for the remnants of Saddam's Baath Party, as for us to achieve our goal, and what I want to show him is not an attack on the prison, but something about the prison."

Badr nodded: "Then why is it called "Ghost Recon""

"You'll find out soon," Canglong smiled

After several debugging sessions, Bai Wuchang slowly drove the plane out of the hangar and ran in the direction of the hollow, and after radio guidance and several attempts, Bai Wuchang smoothly drove the plane out of the base and soared in the sky

"Keep flying at a low altitude, don't let the Americans' radar catch how you like to play after arriving at the air base and completing the mission," Canglong kept in touch with Bai Wuchang in the command room

"I don't need you to teach you, I'm still responsible for commanding," Bai Wuchang didn't care

"You'd better not ask questions, delay my business, I'm the only one who asks," Canglong Jǐng said and then turned off radio contact

"Shrimp, are you ready over there?" called out to Shrimp, who was lying in ambush outside Basra, and this group concentrated all the anti-tank fire of the entire Badr Brigade

"Well, the tank battalion of the security forces is approaching," Shrimp replied

"You don't have to wait for my order, you can delay it for a while, you can't delay it for a while, you can't delay it, drop things and withdraw immediately," Canglong said calmly

"Isn't it just twenty T72s, I'm sure they will all be paralyzed, and they won't be able to go to the airport in this one," Xiami said confidently