11:23 p.m.!

Six Pakistani peacekeeping tanks, 20 Malaysian armoured vehicles, nine bulletproof Humvees from the U.S. Joint Operations Base, and two observation helicopters for guidance were gathered at Newport.

A thick-skinned tank was formed to open the road in front, with the Humvee convoy in the center and the armored vehicles in the last convoy to cross the final section of the security zone into the chaotic city of Mogadishu.

The first half mile of the outskirts of the city was relatively peaceful, and the harassment of small groups of Aideed's militia did not affect the huge convoy.

But after entering the city center, the number of Somalis and Aideed militia gathered by the alarm began to increase dramatically, and various heavy weapons such as armed pickups and RPGs also began to appear in the battle.

The fighting became fierce, the progress of the convoy began to slow down, and there were also some casualties among the machine gunners on the armored vehicles and the Humvee convoy.

When the convoy turned left and entered National Street, a large number of Somali militiamen who had carried many heavy weapons in advance and secretly set up ambushes here poured out.

All kinds of RPG rockets, recoilless guns, heavy machine guns, and smashed into the convoy like no money.

In this ambush battle, because the convoy is composed of three countries, there are three different languages communicating, and the battle situation in the ambush circle is too intense, resulting in the convoy pulling back and forth for a long time, like a long dragon walking through thorns.

In the end, it also caused the rear half of the armored car in Malaysia to have the problem of steering error.

The armored convoy that was supposed to be following the Humvee convoy north turned out to be hit by an RPG in the center of an armored car, causing the driver to missteer in a panic and enter a street to the east.

In this dark night, coupled with the intensive gunfire around him, the armored car's missteering directly caused the nine armored vehicles behind him, all of them following his ass to the wrong street to the east.

Due to the lack of a tank car to open the way, and the fire suppression network formed by the entire large convoy, when this half of the armored convoy approached the old presidential palace, the damaged armored car in the lead was hit by the RPG again, two drivers died on the spot, and three Malaysian peacekeepers in the car were injured to varying degrees.

This time, the half of the Malaysian armored convoy that ran the wrong way is completely out of play!

The road ahead was blocked by their own vehicles, and the remaining nine armored vehicles were unable to join the main convoy in a short time.

In order to avoid further losses to the armored convoy, the nine armored vehicles had no choice but to abandon the rescue operation, put the wounded and dead in the car, and retreat outside the city along the same road as they came.

The main convoy lost ten armored vehicles that could carry personnel, which meant that there were more than 70 Rangers, Delta soldiers, and dead corpses left in the city, and there was no way to retreat in relatively safe vehicles.

However, adhering to the principle of saving as much as possible, the main convoy did not retreat, but continued to follow the helicopter road guidance, and continued to advance towards the city center in the face of the crazy attack of the Somalis.

There was an accident on the convoy's side, and the Rangers were also uncomfortable!

Aideed hears that a large convoy is entering the city to pick up the American troops they are trapping, which means that the ducks are flying out.

Faced with this situation, Aideed naturally would not agree so easily!

So, he gave a death order overnight, and all the armed militia poured out, some to block the route of the convoy, and the other part to go to the second crash site to kill or capture the American troops in the city first.

Somali civilians, who had been quiet for several hours at night, heard the gunfire in the city ring out again and joined the frenzied fighting.

Armageddon has begun!

"Dada......"

"Boom!"

"Bang ......"

Automatic rifles, bazookas, heavy machine guns, mortars, recoilless guns, the rooftops and interiors of every house were filled with deafening sounds of battle.

The entire second crash site within a radius of several hundred meters was "illuminated" by the firelight of the battle.

In particular, where the fourth team was located, hundreds of Somalis poured in from the periphery, and they climbed onto the rooftops, burrowed into the dark alleys, occupied the windows of the building, and launched a frenzied attack on the fourth team.

"You four hold this corner, the others follow me to the other side, Gorm, leave the front to you to guard......" There were so many Somalis coming from behind that there were so many people in the back that there were fires from the shooting, and in order to wait for the convoy to come to the rescue, Iversman could only do his best to hold the building where the fire was not gathered.

"RPG, be careful! I went to the roof to knock out their bazookas and needed a couple of guys to help. Before the words fell, the torture wind had already rushed to the roof of the building.

"Sanders, you take someone upstairs to help him, and I'll call for support from the base."

After giving the battle order, Hute ran to the fourth squad's internal communications officer and called over the radio: "C-2, this is Juliet 25, we need support, we need support." ”

"C-2 received, two Little Bird gunships are rushing over, it is expected to arrive in 20 seconds, the ground situation is too complicated, please talk to them directly, I will help you turn the line over, over!"

The vision at night was too poor, and the battle broke out too intensively, Colonel Mattis, who was in the command center of the base, could not control the battle situation in real time, so he could only let Hutt come to command the helicopter gunship at the moment.

20 seconds passed in a blink of an eye, two Little Bird helicopters came to the sky above the fourth squad building, and the main pilot saw through the low-light night vision goggles the white fire on the green ground, like the lights of thousands of homes blooming, and said in disbelief: "God, this is crazy." ”

After sighing, he called over the radio: "This is star42, Juliet 25, can you see us?" ”

"Let's go, let's go to the second floor."

Hute took the communications soldier to the second floor, and through the window, he quickly saw two red flashing lights in the air, "42, I see it, you are above our left front, please fire at the opposite house immediately, over!" ”

"Juliet 25, the situation on your ground is too chaotic, I can't distinguish between enemies and allies, repeat, I can't distinguish friend from foe, over!" Said the main pilot.

"I'm going to mark the enemy's location with the infrared survival lamp now!" Hutter came up with a solution.

"Roger, the machine gun is ready, over!"

Hearing the main pilot's answer, Hutter took out an infrared transmitter, opened it from the second-floor window and threw it towards the two-storey flat top building opposite, where Somalis were most densely populated.