Chapter 066, Badr's Discontent
"What do you say, he doesn't see me," Basra's envoy from the Baath Party thundered at a large hotel reopened, "You are so arrogant, I will convey all your arrogant attitude to the commander-in-chief, General Simon, and the party leader, His Excellency Hussein"
Badr had a bad face, but he still comforted the envoy Ferham: "The Prophet has a strange temper, and it is difficult for us to convince him, but please forgive me"
"Prophet, you actually call him a prophet, it's ridiculous, except for the great Muhammad, no one can become a new generation of prophets, there is only one prophet in the Islamic world, Badr, don't you have no blood" Fersam was angry, "I used to think that you were a very bloody Iraqi soldier, but I didn't expect that I was wrong"
Hearing this, Badr's face was extremely ugly: "What can I do, Sheikh Assad is the most influential person in Basra, everything in Badr Brigade is under his control, and now the Chinese has become the son-in-law of Sheikh Assad, and now he is half Iraqi"
"Won't you convince Sheikh Assad to let such a fertile land as Basra fall into the hands of outsiders?" asked Fersam
Badr was silent for a few minutes before he said, "Do you want me to betray Chief Assad?"
"He's not a pure Muslim anymore, he's a Muslim with a heart toward outsiders, you should stop his Badr, you've turned your back on your faith, you're a hypocritical believer, your heart has begun to be corroded," Ferham sneered
"Hehe" Hearing this, Badr couldn't help it, "Could it be that the Baath Party, which has oppressed Iraqis for decades, is very pure, if this is really the case, General Simon would not have fled Iraq and gone to Iran with the most sharp mechanized infantry division of the Republican Guard during the Iraq War."
Fersham was suddenly blocked and lost his temper, during the Iraq War, many Republican Guards disappeared without a trace, and Badr was also a member of that collective disappearance, but he was not a general at that time, and after the establishment of the Badr Brigade, in fact, this general was also self-appointed by him
However, Simon is indeed a famous general in the Republican Guard, participated in the Iran-Iraq War, fought two Gulf Wars, and in the history of Saddam's rule, Simon climbed from a pawn to the position of general, and his troops were used as trump cards in any war
It's a pity that this trump card was not favored by Saddam, just like the former Iraqi Air Force, just because Simon is not Saddam's descendant, so he was almost removed and imprisoned by Saddam many times, but every time war comes, Saddam will use Simon again
It can be said that Saddam Hussein loved and hated Simon, but apart from the troops, basically the people did not know that most of the credit for General Simon was assigned to the supreme commander of the Republican Guard, Qusse Hussein, who is now the second son of Saddam, the actual controller of the Ba'ath Party
Despite this, in many wars, Simon never disappointed Saddam, so in the Republican Guard, all soldiers have high respect for General Simon, even more than the Supreme Commander and Saddam himself, but in the life-and-death Iraq War, General Simon never let Saddam down, let him down
Badr vaguely remembers that he was just a minor officer at that time, and when the American troops landed in Iraq and broke through several important border towns in Iraq, the Republic of 300,000 was deployed outside Baghdad, and everyone's faces were full of despair, and more of them were generous, and they wanted to fight the last battle for this country, even if they died on the battlefield
But no one expected that Simon did not give the order to fight to the death that night, but gave an order that no one could imagine: "When you receive this order, it may seem incredible, but after careful consideration, I decided to give all my friends who have followed me and shed their blood for this country a choice."
Simon used a friend, not a subordinate, or a soldier, and Badr remembered it clearly, and he would never forget it for the rest of his life
"You can stay and fight, or you can lay down your arms and surrender on the spot, if you still believe that I can follow me to Iran"
This order caused an uproar in the entire Republican Guard at that time, General Simon was actually about to defect, and almost at that moment, the despair on the faces of those who received this order was even thicker, everyone knew that General Simon was a rare kind of general in the Republican Guard, but no matter how Saddam tortured him and imprisoned him, he was loyal to the Baath Party without complaint
In his own words, he was loyal to Iraq, not to any one person or one party
"Is even General Simon going to abandon Iraq?" was the common thought of everyone at the time
In just an instant, the entire Republican Guard collapsed, and Badr vaguely remembered the scene of that night, everyone had no fighting spirit, as if they had lost their souls, some put down their weapons and prepared to surrender to the American troops on the spot, some followed General Simon and left, and some felt that they stayed and continued to fight
You must know that at that time, Saddam Hussein let Simon serve as the deputy commander of the Republican Guard, and Simon only used a brief order to make 300,000 Republican Guards, whom Saddam was proud of, his last bet fell apart, and after Simon left, Saddam Hussein was furious, but he had no other way, because many of Jīng's sharp troops were scattered, and they were not the same at all
It was precisely because of this that the US army attacked Baghdad surprisingly smoothly, and it took only one advance battalion to occupy the whole of Baghdad, and even the top commander of the US army could not believe it at that time
The war in Iraq was much smoother than the war in Afghanistan, first of all, from the beginning of the war to the end of the war, the entire Iraqi air force did not send a single aircraft, which made the coalition very confused, and thought that they were all frightened
The second is that the attack on Baghdad was almost bloodless, which is a fact, although they later paid a high price for the occupation of Iraq, these miracles were written into the history of American warfare as a textbook for military schools
After the war, no one said that Simon was a traitor, which was almost recognized in the army, and it was because of his order that the Republican Guard was indirectly preserved, and when the Iraqis Saddam Hussein fell, the Americans were only for the oil on their land, and then they finally began to fight back in desperation
Badr was one of them, he belonged to the kind of surrender on the spot, but suddenly one day he realized that the Americans were not saviors, they were not here to solve the poverty of Iraq, and the American mín zhǔ could not save the country, but made their old lives completely collapse
The Iraq War was a land of millions of dead and wounded, hundreds of thousands of widows and orphans, who in the future launched a counterattack against the Americans, who used their bodies as a cover for explosives to attack the American army, and attacked everyone who carried the American flag
"I'm sure Khusse didn't want to follow in the footsteps of the Mahdi army to bring General Simon back," Badr said with a sneer, "Without General Simon, you are just a bunch of villains who only oppress your fellow citizens, and you are not qualified to insult the Prophet at this point."
If Badr had a lot of dissatisfaction with Canglong before, now all his dissatisfaction is gone, just because Canglong gave something, Saddam Hussein and the Americans can't give it
"Badr, you are already a heretic, you have betrayed the country, you have betrayed your faith, you are not going back, and then you will have the crazy revenge of the whole Baath Party and the whole of Iraq" Ferham was furious, "We will retake Basra, and then we will send you to the gallows"
"Isn't it war," Badr suddenly drew his scimitar, "If you dare to invade here, I will beat you to the ground."
Al Faisam was taken aback by Badr's murderous appearance and ducked away a little before saying, "Then you wait and see if your prophetic army is powerful or our Baath Party's revival army is strong, see if General Simon is strong or you are more powerful."
The knife of the "bell" was slashed on the table, but Fersam sat on the ground in fright, seeing him like this, Badr pulled out the knife and walked in front of him, grabbed his collar and said coldly: "Don't be afraid, I will cut you right now, but since the Prophet came, I have not done such a thing easily, now you can go back and tell Qusse the same and tell my respected General Simon, if you are going to invade Basra, you will be greeted first by Badr's knife, and secondly by the entire Prophet's army and all the people of Basra."
Faisam was so frightened that he peed his pants directly, and Badr did not embarrass him, but sent him out of the country in the best possible condition
"This General Simon is really interesting," at the same time, Canglong was looking at the information presented to him by Su Su, and the conversation between Badr and Fersam in the hotel almost word-for-word entered Canglong's ears, and Simon's information was also collected on his desk
"It's really very capable," Su Su couldn't help but admire, "How do we deal with Badr, he obviously has a tendency to be dissatisfied with you"
"Deal with" Canglong shook his head, "Do you know why I held a meeting for you to discuss?"
Su Su looked puzzled, and suddenly realized: "You already knew that Badr was dissatisfied, so you magnified this dissatisfaction, and then"
"Yes, I want the envoy to tell him what I gave them, Saddam Hussein can't give them, and the Americans can't give it, it's actually a kind of jǐngti," Canglong smiled, "Now that he has come to his senses, why do you have to deal with him, now we have to see if his knife is as sharp as he said."
"yīn sinister and cunning black" Su Su immediately saw Canglong frowning, Su Su quickly gave a thumbs up, "Wise"