Chapter 388: Ambush
Highway 6 is the main transport route connecting Basra and Baghdad, and there is not a lot of traffic on this road.
Moreover, as a wealthy Middle Eastern country, Iraq attaches great importance to the construction of these public facilities, and as the main line of transportation between the north and the south, this road is two-way four-lane and unusually wide.
Occasionally, trucks carrying supplies flashed by, and on an unnamed high ground on the side of the road, there was already a group of people quietly staying there.
Assasin is a heretical Muslim sect that was active in the mountains from Afghanistan to Syria in the Middle Ages. Known for its secret assassination organization.
Around the 10th century AD, from the 8th century to the 14th century, the Assasin organization was at its most active, and it was a militant and militant organization that could be employed for a variety of different political or religious purposes. They were a secret organization that specialized in carrying out terrorist and bold executions or political assassinations of the Abbasid elite.
Until Genghis Khan's expedition to the west, the base camp of the Assasin organization was attacked, but they still exist in this world, only more secretively, and the organization that once specialized in assassinating important people in the kingdom has also become degenerate, as long as there is money, any business can be accepted. However, the mission to assassinate the son of the Iraqi president made them feel like they were in the past again.
The times are developing, the ancient swordsmen have long ceased to exist, the Assasin organization is also advancing, their main way of assassination is long-distance sniping, in order to ensure foolproof success, they also ambushed heavy firepower such as bazookas in the near distance, this mission, must not fail!
On a television tower next to a road, they deployed snipers. (Television was already widespread in Iraq in the eighties.) )
Alamut was silently waiting, waiting for the final moment.
As the number two person in the organization, he mobilized a large number of forces this time, and after completing this mission, when he returned to the base, his prestige would reach the highest level, and he proposed to abolish the number one person, at that time!
Alamut has long wanted to reach the top of the organization, and he wants to lead his organization to become the shocking Assasin organization again!
The power of the organization, not only in the Middle East, but eventually throughout the world!
On the road in the distance, a convoy approached quickly.
In front were several jeeps with armed men occupying them, and in the middle were sedans, one of which looked conspicuous, which was Qusay's car in the south, a German-made extended Mercedes sedan. Further back, there are several trucks.
The other party came quite a bit this time, especially the escort force has increased significantly, Alamut hesitated slightly, even if the attack was successful, it would be difficult to retreat in this open terrain.
He was still hesitating for a moment, and the man sent by Uday had already pushed him impatiently, and he knew that there was no way back.
Then let's start fighting! Kill Kusai! Alamut gave the signal.
Two members of the organization, carrying bazookas, aimed at the stretch car in the middle and pulled the trigger.
Two rockets, smoking, flew over.
At the same time, the vigilant convoy immediately spotted it, and they immediately accelerated, hoping to get rid of the attack of such rockets.
It's just that it's too late, the angles of the two rockets are too tricky, one after the other, they all hit the stretch car in the middle.
The sedan exploded into a fireball in the explosion of two rockets.
It worked! Looking at the exploded limousine, the person sent by Uday was very happy, it was so easy to do it?
However, in the next moment, all the people stared.
The two trucks in the back, the compartments on the side suddenly opened, and then, revealing something that they could hardly have imagined, a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun!
With the sound of heart-shaking bursts, the bullet chain was constantly caught in the bolt, spitting out tongues of fire, the armor-piercing incendiary shell of the 12.7mm machine gun, at a distance of 100m, the penetration rate of the 20mm thick steel plate was 90%, hitting the place where the rocket came just now, and the dust suddenly splashed.
Several people were unfortunately wounded, and immediately their limbs were shattered, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and they were simply not capable of corresponding to such a large-caliber machine gun.
Alamut's face turned pale, he had already thought that it would be more difficult to quit, but he didn't expect that it would be so difficult!
As long as you probe it, you will be crushed.
It's not so fun to be blown out of the body with a large-caliber machine gun.
Although this convoy is small in number, a few tanks can take care of them all in the face of regular troops, but in the face of sneak terrorists, they are enough.
Suddenly, a machine gun went silent.
The sniper in the distance saw that the situation was not good, and immediately began to counterattack, firing with precision, killing one of the machine gunners with a single shot.
Just as he was about to aim for the second heavy, he saw a scene in the scope that made his heart tremble, and he immediately escaped from the TV tower in the fastest way.
The machine gunners were well trained, and just as the first man was shot down, they had already discovered where the sniper was hiding: that TV tower in the distance!
Suddenly, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, the machine gunner's frenzied revenge had come, dragging the rays of tracer bullets and countless bullets on the TV transmission tower.
Although it is an all-steel structure, however, the launch tower can not block the opponent's shot, every bullet hit it, it will be a hole, and soon, the honeycomb steel plate can not support the weight, and the TV tower collapsed.
The sniper who has just escaped from danger is in no mood to fight again at the moment, although he is a sniper who has undergone strict training, although he is a good hand in an organization that is not afraid of death, but when death is really close to him, he still shows the primitive instinct of the surname and runs away!
As a tradition of the Assasin, before each mission, they would enjoy life for a few months, with good wine and women, and then they would be told that if they were killed on a mission, they would be treated in the same way in the other world.
Even so, the sniper did not hold on, he chose to run away.
The soldiers in the jeeps in front of them also turned around at this time and participated in the operation of encircling and annihilating these sneak attackers.
The most elite fighters who had been on the Iran-Iraq front and had already fought in the rain of bullets were not at all a problem for this level of fighting, and they surrounded it under the cover of machine guns.
At this time, the sneak attackers behind the high ground who were too pressed to raise their heads found that the situation was not good, and if they did not think of a way, they were afraid that they would be completely annihilated.
"Up, rush up! Bazooka, aim for those trucks! Alamut said. We are all warriors of Assasin who are not afraid of death! ”
Encouraged, these people were hot-headed and began their final desperate revolt.
Just as they rushed out and were fired up by machine guns, no one noticed that Alamut and a few others were already retreating desperately.
Although they were beaten badly by the opponent's counterattack, they also completed the task, because that Kusai was finally killed by them!
They didn't know that in the middle car, there was nothing but a driver who died in the line of duty.
Bright plank road, dark Chen Cang!
When Zhang Feng sent a convoy to swagger in the direction of Baghdad, he was already flying towards Baghdad at an ultra-low altitude in a helicopter.
The convoy had to resist violently in order to show that it was carrying out its duty to protect itself, and at the same time, it had to let a few people back in order to get the message to Uday and let him know that it had succeeded.
Otherwise, Alamut and a few people would not have been able to escape at all.
The CH-47 helicopter, carrying Zhang Feng and his squad of Sidewinder special forces, flew to Baghdad.
The altitude of the helicopter is very low, and although Baghdad is a key city for Iraq to defend, the air defense network has always been a blind spot for ultra-low altitudes.
When he got the news that Qusay had been blown to ashes, Uday was very happy.
In the eyes of the simple-minded Uday, now that Qusay has been killed and his father's life and death are unknown, in this case, he is of course the natural candidate for the president of Iraq, and he can't wait to prepare to officially take office.
At the same time, he was ready to send one of his henchmen to the Southern Military District, where he was ready to purge the people loyal to Qusay in the Southern Military District.
In the eyes of later generations, Uday is a good-for-nothing person, his surname is extreme, he doesn't use his brain, he likes to use violence but can't control it, he is a complete fool.
Uday would have been naïve enough to think that Adnan would be on his side.
"What? Qusay was attacked? Saddam Hussein was very surprised when he heard the news.
After listening to Barzan's account, Saddam finally knew that this was completely directed by himself, and he allowed Uday's actions to be done, and Uday sent killers to rob and kill Qusay halfway, and Barzan's intelligence agencies knew it clearly.
It is completely certain that Uday murdered himself first and then Qusay, and he had only one idea, that is, he wanted to become the president of Iraq!
It's finally time to collect this net! It's just too much to pay. Saddam Hussein, who was furious, felt extremely angry because he lost Qusay, and he immediately asked Adnan and Rashid to order the army to enter Baghdad and start quelling the rebellion!
Uday's approach has exceeded the bottom limit that Saddam can bear, and at this time, Saddam no longer has any illusions about Uday.
Qusay, the successor that Saddam Hussein has been deliberately cultivating, is now such a result, Saddam Hussein has declined, he said: "Take me to the place where Qusay was attacked." ”
(To be continued)