At the U.S. military base in Basra, Colonel Mike was distressed by the lack of news of Lieutenant Thomson, who had been called several times by officials at all levels in Basra province and the commanders of several combat battalion police battalions, and they arrested many Shiites, but in the end found nothing, although CIA intelligence officers provided some information that Lieutenant Thomson might be hiding in the building of the Chinese company.

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

He was worried that this was another Chinese conspiracy, 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 ** of the Defense Intelligence Agency also withdrew, and only the CIA personnel operated in this area.

"I'll give you a week, and if you don't have a clue a week, don't blame us for not helping you in the next parliamentary election." At the meeting, Colonel Mike gave an ultimatum, 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 commander 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 doing the ghosts, 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 chiefs, it has long caused dissatisfaction among the Shiites, and the power of the Shiites in Basra is very strong, and it is causing conflicts, and it will be difficult to end up at that time." Chiram worried.

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

"You're telling me now that you can't control the situation? But my people were killed in Iraq, who is responsible? Colonel Mike said coldly, "If we withdraw from Iraq, you just wait for the Shiites to ride on their heads!" I don't care what you do, I'm sure to find Lieutenant Thomson for me!" ”

After the meeting, Kud 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 let the Shiites take power.

"We're going to negotiate with the Chinese ambassador and put pressure on them to hand them over." "If they don't hand them over, we won't let them exploit oil!" ”

"It's a good idea." Chiram nodded, "It's much easier to offend the Chinese than to offend the Americans, at least the Chinese won't send troops to us, but the Americans can at any time." ”

When they had agreed, they returned to Basra, and when they arrived in the city, it was already night, and the city, which should have been dark, was lit everywhere, and in the car they saw many people lighting candles and lining up to the mosque, where they were chanting words as if they were praying for something.

Originally, they have become accustomed to this situation these days, they don't care about what prophets come, 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 when it comes to night, they can only rely on candles for lighting.

Chiram immediately asked his assistant to find out what was going on, and a few minutes later the assistant returned to the car and told Chiram and Kud: "The people in the streets say that the Prophet will come to Basra tonight and lead the army guarding the Prophet to drive out foreign enemies and save lives!" ”

The two frowned, and Kud immediately prepared to call the headquarters, he must stop such behavior, if it is used, it will be a riot throughout the city.

But the assistant told him: "Not only the Shiites, but also our Sunnis, both sides are praying, even the police 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 commotion." ”

"Yes, Kud, we can't suppress them 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 in the second time, now the main thing is to maintain law and order in the city, not to cause any commotion." Chiram warned.

Kud put down the phone, and the two men went their separate ways, one to the Basra security forces headquarters and the other to the provincial government building.

But as soon as the two men separated, they heard an explosion coming from outside the central area of Basra, and with a heartfelt groaning, Kud immediately rushed back to the headquarters, but the chief of staff told him that the Basra airport, which is the air base of the security forces, had been massively attacked by militants.

"Massive?" Kud was stunned, "How many people are there on a large scale?" ”

"I don't know, the report from the base says that there are a lot of them, there are crowds of people, there are sounds of attacks everywhere, they are all wearing white turbans, they say that they are the Prophet's Escort Corps, and they will disperse all the armed forces that collude with foreign enemies in order to welcome the arrival of the Prophet!" The chief of staff's face was very ugly.

"Connect me to the airbase!" Kud's face changed, he didn't believe that there were so many militants, even the Badr Brigade did not dare to attack the air base of the security forces easily, although there were no fighter planes in it, all of them were some 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 it has been violently attacked, and it is a request for rapid support!" The staff officer said.

"Ask for help from the US military, this could be a full-scale counterattack by the Badr Brigade and the Shiites, and in addition send the 9th Tank Battalion to the air base quickly, 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 reinforcements at the first time, and he always had a sense that there was some conspiracy involved, even though his base was not far from the air base of the security forces.

"Probably because we have recently captured too many Shia people, which has caused the wrath of Badr, and now they are preparing to attack the air base to give us a counterattack." The staff officer analyzed.

"That's it!" Colonel Mike touched his chin and pondered, "Tell Kud, let him solve the problem by himself, the Badr Brigade can really fight, but there are only a few thousand people, he has a tank battalion and an infantry battalion in Basra, the total number of people is more than three thousand, and he is still fully armed, if he can't even handle the sneak attack of the Badr Brigade, what's the use of asking him?" ”

"We really don't support it?" The staff officer asked again.

"Not supported." Colonel Mike shook his head, "I always have a feeling that the Badr Brigade has other intentions!" ”

At the same time, in the base in the mountains of Basra, Canglong is deploying everything, and this unbuilt base has finally begun its first operation.

"According to your order, I sent all the Shiite active people to the air base to attack and harass, and this Kud guy really reacted and sent the tank battalion in Basra." Badr reported.

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

"Not yet, Kud should call for help, but the Americans don't seem willing to go to the airbase!" Badr said.

"Looks like we're not attacking 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 all the bombs will be dropped at the air base, and in addition, tell Xiami that the anti-tank team can act and do everything possible to delay the progress of the tank battalion!" ”

"Yes." The snow leopard took the order and left.

"Will this work?" Badr was skeptical.

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

"He's been caught, and he'll definitely see us attacking the prison, but what are we doing with journalists? Tell the world that the Badr Brigade was responsible for the attack? Badr wondered.

"Hehe, aren't the elite troops all wearing the uniforms of Saddam's Republican Guard?" Canglong said with a smile, "So what this reporter sees is the revived Republican Guard, not our Badr Brigade, the whole world is looking for it, and it should be 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 hole, after radio guidance, and several attempts, Bai Wuchang smoothly drove the plane out of the base, and soared in the sky.

"Keep flying low, don't let the Americans' radar catch it, and after you arrive at the airbase to complete the mission, you can play as much as you like!" In the command room, Canglong kept in touch with Bai Wuchang.

"You don't need to teach, you are still responsible for commanding!" Bai Wuchang didn't care.

"You'd better not have a problem, delay my business, I'm the only one who asks!" Canglong gave a warning, and then turned off the radio contact.

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

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

"Don't wait for my order, fire freely, you can delay for a while, you really can't delay, you can drop your things and withdraw immediately." Canglong said calmly.

"Isn't it just twenty T72s? I'm sure they're all paralyzed here, and none of them will be able to get to the airport. Shrimp said confidently.