White House.

I don't know how many times such an emergency meeting has been held, and the high-ranking officials who decided the fate of the huge country of the United States were called from their homes and hurried to the White House.

"We have received definite information that some of Iraq's troops are entrenched in the mountains of northwestern Iran, including former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom we have not found so far." The words of CIA Director William made everyone feel refreshed.

If the thief captures the king first, and if Saddam Hussein is not caught, this operation cannot be regarded as a complete victory; now, the resistance forces in Iraq are continuous, and they are certainly also being carried out under the command of Saddam, and as long as Saddam Hussein is captured, it is hoped that these riots will be quelled and the situation in Iraq will be eased.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking on their part, but at this time, such a consensus has been reached.

The news was a windfall for the CIA, reported by an informant in the Kurdish forces who were ambushed in Iran, who saw Saddam Hussein in the midst of Iraq's rout, leading them to train and then return to Iraq to fight.

So, the matter now is how to cross the border to encircle and suppress this gang of bandits!

"We have another piece of news." Hearing what William said, Cheney on the side said: "Yesterday, from Iranian territory, we launched Scud missiles again, and our two F-15 fighters crossed the border to bomb, and as a result, they were intercepted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who fired missiles at us and shot down one of our planes. ”

How dare the Iranians really do it! The faces of everyone present were suddenly full of anger, and the old and new hatreds for many years were intertwined. The news they heard afterwards made them even more angry.

"After our pilot parachuted, the search and rescue team immediately went to the rescue. As a result, in the mountains, it was ambushed by unknown armed men, except for a wounded Apache helicopter returning, the Black Hawk helicopter and a small squad of Delta Special Forces fighters, all of whom were ambushed and killed. Cheney continued.

This group of unknown armed men is very likely to be the Iraqi rout entrenched in the mountains. However, it is also possible that the Iranians did it, and after the pilots on the Apache returned home, they only reported visual detection of armed men, whether they were Iranians or Iraqis, and it was impossible to tell whether they were Iranians or Iraqis.

"We have to show our might!" "If we don't eliminate the Iraqi army, the situation in Iraq will not be calm, and at the same time, we will have to cross the border to attack them!" I think. We should demarcate the scope of the battle, target the mountainous northwestern part of Iran, and it is better for Iran not to interfere, and if they do, we will beat the Iranians hard! ”

Beat the Iranians! That area has to be attacked, and then there will definitely be a conflict with the Iranians, who also have a brain tendon, and have a feud with Iraq. Now that the United States is fighting Iraq, it should help the Iranians take revenge. Why can't they figure it out?

"Yes, we have to launch a massive attack!" Bush Sr. looked at his aides: "We want the Iranians to know that in the face of the powerful force of the United States, it is better for them to do nothing, and if they dare to resist, let them know the absolute strength of our United States!" to destroy the Iraqi rout. Including Saddam Hussein and others, they organized an army of about 50,000 people to enter the mountains of northern Iran! Organize more than 200 warplanes to guard against the Iranians' counterattack and launch effective attacks at any time. Operation Codename, Lion Zagros! ”

Zagros, the main mountain range in the border region of Iran, has a far-reaching significance.

"Mr. President, should we think about what we should do if the Iranians organize a large force to confront us militarily?" Secretary of State Baker said.

Among these people, only Baker's mind is still sober, he knows that Iran is different from Iraq and other countries, Iran has a vast land area, many mountains in the territory, and Iran has been blockaded by the Western world for many years, and the domestic industry is relatively complete, and he is not afraid to accept the blockade of the West.

And, more importantly, the people there are all tendons!

"The Iranians better do nothing, watch us wipe out the Iraqis, and then we will withdraw from Iran, and if the Iranians dare to challenge us, we will definitely not retreat!" Bush Sr. said, his eyes were full of fine light, and at this moment, his fighting spirit was exposed.

I heard Baker secretly screaming in his heart, bad, the old President Bush in front of him, he is addicted to war again! Obviously, he could also have anticipated the consequences of this operation, and at worst, a full-scale war with Iran, but Bush Sr. did not compromise, and it was clear that he had already prepared for it.

Iran, an evil country in the eyes of the Americans, if it can stay honest this time, the United States will naturally leave the territory of Iran after the defeat of Iraq and the capture of Saddam, if Iran dares to stop it, it will mean war!

In addition to the previous grievances, what is more important is that if it controls Iran, it will control a country that produces more than 10% of the world's production, so that together with Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, which is already friendly with the United States, the United States will control the world's major crude oil producers, and can firmly protect the dollar oil system and continuously obtain benefits.

This is also one of the reasons for Bush Sr.'s tough attitude, the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown by the current Iranian government, and if the United States solves the Iranian problem, it can also send the Pahlavi royal family back to Iran and continue to rule Iran.

Although the war is risky, through the current Iraq War, Bush Sr. has gained tremendous prestige, and domestic newspapers have praised Bush Sr. as a great man like Roosevelt. After all, in this century, the United States has only been attacked twice, the first time was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as a result, the United States declared war on Japan, and finally the Japanese surrendered.

This time, Iraq launched a war of terror and acted even worse, and the United States also hit Iraq and overthrew the Iraqi government.

The U.S. military is an important force in protecting its own country! The army, which is fed up with taxpayers' money, naturally has to serve the interests of the country!

Except for Baker, the rest of the people don't seem to see the crisis, at this time they all have the same idea, and now there are good reasons, first solve the rout in Iraq, if the Iranians dare to do it, it will mean war!

With the order of the White House, the huge American war machine continued to function.

After the United States occupied Iraq, it withdrew part of its troops, but it still maintained a military strength of nearly 200,000 troops in Iraq, and now, it is not difficult for the United States to transfer 50,000 troops to cross the border and invade Iranian territory to solve the rout there.

Groups of military vehicles, constantly transporting supplies from Kuwaiti ports to northern Iraq, were ambushed by small groups of Iraqi resistance along the way, and the two sides exchanged fire, and these scattered resistance forces were quickly crushed.

Naturally, the huge troop movements of the United States did not hide from the eyes of the native-born Iraqis, and Saddam received the news before the Americans began to act.

"The United States expects several divisions to participate in the battle, along with tanks, helicopters and infantry fighting vehicles." In a tent set up, Saddam Hussein listened to the analysis of the leader of the instructors sent by Shostakovich, and the man in front of him quickly gained all his trust.

Mahmoud is a fairly common name in the Middle East, but as everyone knows, it's just a code name.

The person in front of him is actually Massoud, the commander of the famous Afghan guerrilla known as the Panjshir Lion, and now he has been sent to the Iranian side to train the Iraqi guerrillas.

If it were in Iraq, in those desert areas, Massoud might be a little timid, but now it is in the mountains, but Massoud is the best fight! At the beginning in the Panjshir Valley, Massoud played the Soviets around, and the Soviets who died at the hands of Massoud were enough for a battalion.

"The terrain here is complex and the mountain roads are difficult to walk, so we expect that the invading US troops will march in three ways from the canyon area on the border." Massoud continued to analyze: "Their heavy equipment is difficult to move in the mountains, and there will not be too many M1 main battle tanks, but the air power of the American army is very strong, as long as it encounters an attack, their helicopter gunships will arrive in a very short time." Our main threat will come from heaven. ”

Saddam Hussein listened very carefully, and while listening, he nodded: "Then how should we arrange this battle?" ”

"Resist lightly, retreat gradually." "The further they go into the mountains, the more dispersed their ranks become, and when they disperse to the company, we concentrate our firepower and kill them in the company, and at the same time, we send enough shooters to set up air defense positions at high places, and when we encounter their helicopter gunships, we destroy them with MANPADS!" ”

I also have to thank Mr. Xiao, this time I got a lot of MANPADS, all of which were Soviet goods, and the helicopter that was killed last time was contributed by this kind of MANPADS.

This tactic has been used a lot in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan, and in order to avoid decline, the Soviets organized several large-scale encirclement and suppression of this kind of situation, all of which were crushed by the Afghan guerrillas.

"And what if they don't disperse?" Panzer Ali, the once chubby officer of the Iraqi Panzer Corps, who had finally lost weight after some time in the mountains, asked Massoud questions.

"Then we'll draw them here!" Massoud pointed to a point on the map, and everyone looked at it and immediately froze. (To be continued.) )