Got it. Hassan immediately agreed. He had also suffered a heavy loss of manpower, and now he wanted to get out of here more than anyone else, and at the same time he felt more and more that the people he met tonight were not easy, and he had never encountered such resistance before. This made him very worried, so after agreeing, he said, "Captain Pence, if we go all the way to the north, and Ensign Terry's platoon goes all the way to the south, isn't this equivalent to being completely divided by the other side?" And once one side is under fierce siege, it will be very disadvantageous, and what should we do then? ”

Pence nodded and said, "This situation does exist, but it's not that easy for them to do. Don't forget that another reinforcement will arrive soon, and they won't have enough people here to besiege one side and intercept the other side, and more importantly, their purpose is not to destroy us but to delay our journey to Alsabad, so they will fight hard, but not in this way. ”

"Okay." Hassan was still worried, but he didn't have much to say about Pence's analysis. So he immediately arranged it after saying yes. And here in Terry in the south, after receiving Pence's reply, he immediately arranged for his men to stop caring about the militants who appeared behind him, and to rush south.

After all, the Americans were very strong, and when they united their minds and concentrated their forces in one place, they soon found it difficult for these militants attacking on the south side to resist being beaten and retreated back to the west. However, this did not allow them to move forward smoothly, and while the militants in front of them retreated, those who were behind them suddenly attacked.

The retreat and advance of these militants are very coordinated, and it is clear that they are prepared for such a situation. I saw that the people attacking from the rear were under the cover of machine guns, and under the cover of the night, some people quickly approached the Americans who were intercepting them, and after reaching a similar distance, they threw the grenades they carried with them at the Americans.

"Grenade! Watch out for grenades! Someone shouted a warning, but before the words could be heard, a sudden gunshot came from a room on the west side, that is, on the west side of the road where the Americans were, and the bullets first hit Terry who was heading south, and although most of the bullets hit the Humvee Jeep, some were shot and fell.

"Watch the house to the west, fight back! Counterattack! As someone shouted, one of the Americans began to fire heavily at the house with a machine gun, and some quickly leaned towards the house, and when they came to the window of the building, they pulled out their grenades and threw them inside. The grenade exploded quickly, and the sound of gunfire in the house immediately fell silent. Before the Americans could enter the house to clean it thoroughly, a rocket flew out of the path next to the house and exploded after hitting the east side of the road occupied by the Americans.

"Keep retreating. Don't be left behind. Terry, who was heading south, stopped at the incessant explosions, looked at the dozen or so people in the squad behind him who were covering the back, and immediately asked them to come over the walkie-talkie as soon as possible after seeing them getting farther and farther away from him.

The American soldiers of this squad immediately stepped back after receiving Terry's instructions, but at that moment, the pavement of the road they were on suddenly exploded. I saw that in a small courtyard about 200 meters away on the west side of the road, several militants were operating two mortars and firing shells continuously. And the shelling was obviously determined in advance to shoot Zhu Yuan, so it all fell on the street of this street.

This put the Americans in a very passive situation, only to see that the squad who was still retreating just now was responsible for covering Terry's heading south, because it was in the center of the shelling, and everyone could not react immediately, and there was no place to hide, so in an instant, people turned on their horses and killed and injured several people.

"Hidden! Shelling! Shelling! Someone was shouting and someone was reporting to Terry, who was not far away: "Second Lieutenant, we have been shelled, we have suffered heavy losses, and we need support!" Support is needed. ”

Terry heard his men's pleas for help and had to stop again, he couldn't leave some of his other people alone in order to save people, and more importantly, if they didn't care about them now, they would probably be killed by the other party if they continued to attack like this now.

In desperation, Terry could only decide to divide the next squad again and go back to reinforce the squad in the rear. He called an American to him and said, "Breton, you take your men to the north to meet Kanter and his men." Don't get too close, though, as the enemy is shelling, and as soon as the shelling stops, their men will come and your job is to fend off them for Kante. Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" As soon as the man named Breton headed north with his men, Terry contacted Pence and said, "Captain Pence, we must call for air support now. This town makes me feel that there are militants everywhere, especially in the west, where they not only hide a lot of people but also have mortars, and we have to find a way to get rid of it, otherwise the fighting here will not stop. ”

"Ensign. . . Air support has been contacted before. But for them Mosul and Al Sabad are obviously more important, and our request has been denied, at least not for now, so we have to wait. Pence responded.

"We can't wait any longer. They are attacking us with impunity. If we continue like this, we will face a great dilemma. Terry said.

"To the south." Pence couldn't care so much at the moment, and he said directly: "Second Lieutenant, your task now is to take people to the south immediately and guard the bodies of our wounded and those who have fallen in battle." I'm hurrying to attack, and it's going well so far, and I think the other side will be forced to come back in a little while, so all you have to do is go south, go south without hesitation, do you understand what I mean? ”

"Okay." Although Terry was not satisfied with such a reply, after all, here Burns was not only the captain but also the commander here, and he could only obey his command. However, he didn't want to execute it so mechanically, after all, he only had a platoon in his hand, and there were only forty people when he was full.