In the high command of the US military in Iraq, everyone did not dare to breathe, and the face of the supreme commander Sanchez was so gloomy that water was about to drip out.

It was supposed to be a victorious arrest and the intelligence was correct, but it turned out to be an incredible trap.

Over the past week, U.S. troops in Iraq have been attacked by snipers.

Over the past week, tens of thousands of US casualties have come from these snipers, of which as many as 8,000 US soldiers have died directly, and more than 1,000 of them are officers at the grassroots level of the US military.

On this night, a commander of the Fourth Division, a dignified major general, died, and was shot in the head next to his own soldiers.

There are also hundreds of special forces, which are the trump card in the hands of Sanchez, who was sent to Dawar Town to capture Saddam, but as a result, hundreds of elite special forces, in the face of Iraqi snipers, are also bleeding.

The number of American casualties in Davar Town kept soaring, and the total number of casualties was more than half, and Sanchez had no reason to let the Fourth Division continue to hold on.

And as the commander of the whole system, what was most unacceptable to Sanchez was that there were reports of attacks everywhere in Tikrit.

All U.S. troops searching for Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, without exception, were attacked by Iraqi snipers.

And every time Iraqi snipers are dispatched, there will inevitably be reports of American soldiers killed.

This kind of death is not a number that can be easily erased, nor is it an accident, but a real casualty report.

This kind of casualty report can only be a small number among the US military, because the US military has a special casualty statistics system.

It must be killed on the spot when he is directly hit by enemy artillery fire during a head-to-head exchange of fire with the enemy.

It must be in the course of the battle, and once it is out of the combat environment, no casualties have anything to do with the death.

Hit directly by enemy fire, even indirectly! On the battlefield in Korea, there have been cases of GIs in bunkers being killed by bullets fired in, and in Somalia there have also been cases of people being crushed to death by walls that have been bombarded by guerrilla artillery.

Ask to be killed on the spot, and you can't breathe every once in a while! Even if you die just after being on a stretcher, you will be counted as "death from other causes".

If you are shot by the enemy while fighting on a frontal battlefield, and you have all the documents, you can be "killed" now, right? Wait, who can prove it? What about witnesses? This is also an important condition, and someone has to prove that you meet the above conditions. But then again, the fate on the battlefield is determined by heaven, and if you can't do it, the team sent will be wiped out, and no one can come out to prove it, so you can only be included in the missing list.

Different battlefield records determine the second half of a fighter's life. If they are recorded as killed in battle, their families receive large pensions, and the martyrs are honored with additional honors, such as the coffins covered with the national flag that were shipped back to China.

And if it is counted as a dead in battle, the treatment is very different, not only the pension is small, there will be no honor, and even the record will be questioned by people. From the point of view of saving government spending, the quantity and quality of casualties are, of course, strictly controlled.

In the first half month of the outbreak of the Iraq war, the number of such casualties was only more than 100 people, but in the face of a large number of snipers in Iraq, the number of US soldiers killed in this kind has increased to more than 3,000 now.

In fact, more than 8,000 U.S. soldiers have died on the battlefield in Iraq, and 5,000 of them are not considered to be killed in battle.

But in just one week, such a huge casualty figure and the pressure from the Pentagon have made Sanchez almost out of breath.

Coupled with the number of killed tonight, the number of US soldiers who died at the hands of Iraqi snipers is very likely to exceed 10,000, and he can also be the top commander.

"Convene an emergency meeting."

Sanchez roared and shouted to everyone around him.

In the conference room next to the headquarters, high-level US military personnel in Iraq arrived quickly, as well as the head of the CIA in the Middle East and the head of military intelligence.

As soon as the meeting began, everyone was depressed by Sanchez's roar.

"The Pentagon is planning to send someone to replace me, but before I leave this post, I will also send some of you to a military court. Sanchez roared angrily:

"Kill a few inconsequential Iraqi militias, you can tell me that the Iraqi snipers have been hit hard, that's the answer you guys gave me, look at what happened tonight, Odieno was shot in the head by an Iraqi sniper, the fourth division is in Tikrit, more than a thousand people were killed or wounded because of Iraqi snipers, the Pentagon is going to hold me accountable, who am I going to blame?"

All the military commanders in the conference room lowered their heads, only the few people from the intelligence department, the old god on the side, didn't seem to care about Sanchez's words.

This made Sanchez even more annoyed, pointing at the CIA intelligence officers and scolding: "And you dogs. Mother, Saddam's intelligence was provided by you, but in the damned town of Davar, there is no Saddam, but there are thousands of snipers in ambush, dozens of machine-gun positions, waiting for our people to get into this huge trap and encirclement, and your intelligence department must take full responsibility for what happened tonight. ”

"General, our intelligence has been cross-verified, absolutely not wrong, Saddam must be near Dawar Town, and the overreaction of the Iraqis tonight also happens to prove this, I suggest that we should immediately increase our troops, form an even greater encirclement around Dawar Town, control all places, and prevent Saddam from escaping." The head of the CIA in the Middle East said to Sanchez without showing weakness.

"Alright, let your CIA operatives surround you, my troops' first mission is to eliminate those damn snipers." The anger in Sanchez's eyes quickly turned into substance, and he put down this sentence, and walked out of the conference room is tent, but just when Sanchez walked out of the tent, a bullet came at him.

Sanchez, a four-star general in the U.S. Army, had his head smashed like a watermelon, and his body still maintained inertia and took two steps forward before collapsing in a spouting of blood.

The Supreme Command of the US Army in Iraq was in chaos in an instant, and 3,500 meters away from here, the sniper hero wearing an optical stealth cloak, General Wen Donghao of the Red Police Corps, withdrew unhurriedly with his specially customized sniper rifle.