Tikrit, the capital of Salah al-Din province, is located on the banks of the Tigris River, 140 kilometers northwest of the capital Baghdad, and is a city of about 300,000 people.

The city is not famous, there are no places of interest, it is not a tourist attraction, so it is not very famous in the world, but it is a holy place in the minds of later generations of Iraqis.

Their legendary leader, Lao Sa, was born here, and even in 2017, there were still a large number of staunch supporters of Lao Sa, but in the early days of the war, the resistance here was not strong, but later it became a mecca for guerrillas.

Iraq in 2003 was much more prosperous than Iraq in later generations, and the Iraqis did not have much disgust with the US military.

Sitting in a bulletproof Humvee, Yu Yang slowly drove into the outskirts of Tikrit with the US Army's A Company, and after the bombing by the Americans, some important military targets in the city had become a ruin.

At this time, the Americans had not yet bombed indiscriminately, most of the people's buildings were very well preserved, and although Iraq was in the midst of war, the people's lives were still going on.

There were no Iraqi defenders around the city, two tanks at the head, followed by five armored personnel carriers and five Humvees, and Company A drove directly into the city of Tikrit with such a swagger, no gunfire, no resistance, no army or guerrillas except for the crowds of onlookers on both sides of the road.

"Report to the command, this is Company A, it is going well, we have successfully entered the city without any resistance, repeat, here is Company A, it is going well, we have successfully entered the city without any resistance!" Olosa sat next to Yu Yang, holding a communication device, and began to report to John.

Although the American army was very conceited, it still made careful arrangements, Company A was only the vanguard, and at the same time, there was a company of American troops entering the city in all four directions of Tikrit, and behind them there was a battalion of reserve troops, and once there was resistance in any direction, reinforcements would be immediately thrown.

After about half an hour, Company A successfully arrived at the expected target location, a former landmark building in the city of Tikrit, and also the entire Tikrit government building.

Yu Yang didn't know what the name of this building was, but it formed a U-shaped shape with the two slightly shorter buildings around it, so Yu Yang called it a U-shaped building.

"It's going well, our task now is to start purging the resistance people hiding in the city, Yu, Shet, you still have this antique gun in your hand, sorry, I'm sorry Yu, I think this weapon is the one you used in Mogadishu, right?" I think he's a bit outdated, Yu, what do you think of the M4! At this time, Olosa was a little surprised when she saw the weapon in Yu Yang's hand.

The U.S. military has begun to update, the M16 has been changed three times, and Yu Yang is now using the first generation, in the words of Olosa, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an antique, but compared to yesterday, there were still people with Garand rifles, Yu Yang's weapons are not bad.

"Of course, I just don't have a better choice, otherwise, I don't like to use this weapon, is there an M4A1? Give me a handful! ”

Yu Yang wanted to change his weapon before, but he didn't have time to drink yesterday, and he set off immediately after coming out of John's room today, and he didn't have time to change it, and it's best to change his weapon now, at least, he can bring it into any battlefield without restrictions.

After replacing the weapon, a brand-new M4A1, Yu Yang put it in his hand and played with it for a while and was very satisfied, at least much more satisfied than the M16 used before, and now he only needs to come to Iraqi guerrillas and government forces to let himself try the weapon.

Yu Yang didn't notice that this time when he entered the battlefield, Yu Yang didn't have a sense of disgust in his heart, but was vaguely excited, as if he was looking forward to the arrival of the killing.

The Iraqi government forces and guerrillas did not let Yu Yang wait too long, when Yu Yang and Company A occupied the U-shaped building for about an hour, some suspicious people began to appear around the building, pointing at the building occupied by the United States, at first there were only one or two people, and then the number of people increased, and after about an hour, several pickup trucks stopped far away at the far end of the building.

More than a dozen Iraqis, armed with various weapons, began to gather together, but instead of attacking directly, they took out their mobile phones and began to make phone calls, as if they were calling friends.

Then a large number of Iraqi militias gathered, this time in large numbers, about a hundred people, armed with all kinds of weapons, and gathered from all directions like patty.

The American GIs had already spotted the armed men who had gathered, but they did not choose to shoot at the first time, and Olosa kept reporting the situation on his side to the command, and Company A was now acting like bait for fishing, seducing the Iraqi fighters in the city of Tikrit.

There are not many people who fish for bait, and if all the regiments are driven in, it is estimated that all the Iraqi government troops are hiding and do not dare to show their heads at all.

The strength of four companies in a medium-sized city is scattered around the city, and the number of people in each area is not large, only a hundred people, and this number is a big cake for these Iraqi government troops hiding in the city, tempting them.

The number of people gathered had exceeded 200 people, and these Iraqi soldiers had no organization or discipline at all, as if they did not care that their whereabouts had been exposed, and they swaggered around, appearing from time to time to wander around the US troops, as if they were visiting the Americans, not to fight.

"The latest information! We were confronted with the remnants of the Iraqi Mountain Division, some 2,000 of whom had retreated to Tikrit, and the intelligence we had intercepted indicated that they were preparing to attack our troops entering the city at 6 o'clock this evening, as well as Company C, which also found traces of Iraqis activity around Company E and Company. In the company's command room, a communications soldier reported the latest information.

Originally, Yu Yang was not qualified to participate in this kind of combat meeting, but due to John's special care, Olosa closed her eyes and brought Yu Yang in, and no one asked too much.

And Yu Yang also knew now that John was now a regimental commander, and the place where they met yesterday was only the headquarters of John's regiment, and John's men were scattered around Tikrit.