Chapter 576: Surrounding the United States and Fighting Britain
It is in a square about three kilometers away from the center of Baghdad and about four kilometers from the station of the US military on the east bank of the Tigris River.
An armored battalion sent into Baghdad by the British immediately heard the sound of firefighting in the distance, but they did not know what was happening, after all, they were still very quiet here.
The ensuing coalition order, the British armored battalion, also moved quickly.
The troops were assembled, and the tanks were at the forefront, moving rapidly towards the station where the American troops were located.
At the same time, Fan Yize has moved from the west bank of the Tigris River to the nearest steel bridge lying across the Tigris River.
This bridge was the only way for the British to rescue the American troops, and in the whole of Baghdad, there were not many coalition troops, less than a thousand people.
The closest distance is the British armored battalion, and the attacked American army, together with the armed forces in Baghdad.
As long as the bridge was controlled, the British would not be able to support the American troops who were still being besieged.
Here on the bridge, another group of lurking secret troops have already prepared the power to intercept them.
The British came in a hurry, probably because they had received urgent orders, and they did not send anyone to check whether the bridge was safe, and the troops drove directly to the bridgehead.
On this steel bridge that is more than 300 meters long, there are a large number of mechanical insects on the steel structure of the bridge.
This small unmanned combat weapon, which has the ability to attack and identify autonomously, has long locked on the convoy of British armored battalions coming from afar.
When the long British troops entered the bridge, the mechanical bugs did not attack, and the intelligent combat program had already set the best attack tactics.
This attack was to inflict bloody damage on the coalition forces, and the attack tactics that had been set were to annihilate the British armored battalion as much as possible.
When a third of the British armored battalion passed the bridge, a series of explosions sounded on the west bank of the bridge, where the British armored troops had entered the bridge.
It was the demolition group, the high explosives that had already been arranged.
The huge force of the explosion exploded the two British Challenger main battle tanks at the back of the team into two large fireballs.
The power of the explosion directly destroyed the chassis of the tank, broke the tracks of the tank, and the explosion that penetrated the tank's armor also killed the British tank crew in the tank in an instant, and the inside of the tank burned violently.
The exploding tank also cut off the retreat of the British, and at the same time, a violent explosion occurred at the east exit of the bridge.
The two British armored vehicles that happened to be driving here were also directly blown into scrap metal by the explosion, and the British soldiers of two squads of the armored vehicles were also killed at the same time.
The sudden attack plunged the British armored battalion into chaos, and this was just the beginning, the mechanical bugs on the bridge quickly pounced on the British vehicles on the bridge, and dense explosions continued to sound from the bridge.
This little-known bridge across the river became a terrible grave for British troops.
Two-thirds of the strength of the British armored battalion fell victim to the intensive explosion on the bridge.
A large number of vehicles burst into flames in the explosion, and many soldiers were killed before they could leave the armored vehicles they were riding.
The quality of the bridge is not bad, and it is still very strong after withstanding such a violent explosion. Lying on the Tigris River.
Of course, this is the result of the special pursuit of the demolition team, and the explosion points where the explosives are placed are carefully designed, so that the explosion can ensure the power of the explosion while avoiding damage to the bridge as much as possible.
But the layout of this explosion point is also to kill the living forces on the bridge as much as possible.
These British people were not given any chance at all, and the prolonged explosion did not even take five seconds before and after, and two-thirds of the strength of the British armored battalion was wiped out.
The British tanks that had already left the bridge all stopped.
The British armored battalion has twelve Challenger main battle tanks, and after deducting the two tanks that were blown up in the back, there are still ten Challenger tanks left.
When these ten Challenger tanks instinctively wanted to rescue their comrades, on the west bank, the demolition team that had already been ambushed took a second round of attack.
Anti-tank missiles, already prepared, quickly locked on to these British tanks.
One after another, the anti-tank missiles rose into the air, not directly running parallel to the British tanks, but directly rising to an altitude of 100 meters, locking on the tanks, and then attacking vertically.
The ten Challenger main battle tanks that stopped were attacked at the same time.
The anti-tank missiles that came down from the empowerment attack easily penetrated the top armor of the tank, and there was no chance to resist, and the ten Challenger main battle tanks exploded one after another, burning from the inside.
The demolition team, which had completed the attack, did not confirm the success of the attack or re-fire the surviving British soldiers, and immediately withdrew from the ambush site, and then spent the night in the streets of Baghdad.
On the other side, the American troops on the east bank of the Tigris River, under a series of attacks, the number of survivors was not much, more than 200 American soldiers were killed and wounded, and the number of killed exceeded the number of wounded.
And the sniper teams that completed the attack have also withdrawn, and they will not stay here for a long time.
When the sniper teams retreated, fighter jets and helicopter gunships supported by the United States also carried out merciless fire coverage on the west bank of the Tigris River.
As for whether it will have an effect, Americans naturally do not know, but there must always be a goal to vent.
By the time the U.S. rescue helicopter arrived, the fighting basically stopped.
Such a huge movement could be heard throughout Baghdad, and many Iraqis living nearby, also filmed the attack and uploaded it to the Internet.
When the U.S. military tried to cover it up, it was too late.
The coalition forces that entered Baghdad in the afternoon paid the price of blood that night, losing more than 30 tanks, destroying nearly 100 armored vehicles of all kinds, killing more than 400 soldiers, and wounding more than 200 people of varying degrees.
Such huge losses cast a shadow over the coalition forces, and also greatly encouraged the Iraqi troops who were resisting in various parts of Iraq, and at the same time deeply encouraged many Iraqi soldiers who decided to fight a decisive battle in Baghdad.
As for who caused such an astonishing attack, the Iraqis don't care, in their opinion, it must have been a great victory for their own people.
That night, Saddam Hussein used the radio to celebrate this great victory and called on more Iraqis to take up arms to resist the invasion of the British and American forces.