That night, as the new Saddam Hussein said to the old Saddam, the Americans went into action.

In fact, it was not easy for the Americans to find Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein had dozens of hiding places across the country, and only his closest chauffeurs and cooks knew where he really was.

Sometimes, Saddam Hussein would not have been hiding for more than five hours in a certain hiding place.

Often the Americans got some intelligence, but Saddam Hussein had already left.

This time, if it were not for the presence of the Red Guard, the Americans would not have missed.

At night, the power supply in Davar Town was cut off by the U.S. military, and the U.S. Fourth Division, which was in charge of the operation, prepared night vision devices, the process of arresting, and hundreds of U.S. special forces assisted.

Outside the town, Apache helicopter gunships and M1A2 main battle tanks are assisted.

The US military's operation, codenamed Operation Red Limin, was also closely followed by the top commander of the US military in Iraq.

The Fourth Division of the US Army dispatched more than 1,000 troops, hundreds of US special forces, and a special forces unit of the Kurdish Patriotic Front.

The arrest work can be said to be foolproof, and the two pieces of information obtained by the US military also directly point to these two farmhouses in the small town of Davar, as long as Saddam Hussein is inside, it will be impossible to escape.

The U.S. forces soon surrounded the grove at the edge of the farmhouse, with special forces on the innermost floor, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division armed with light weapons in the middle, and M1A2 tanks on the periphery. Kurdish special forces are on guard duty around the perimeter to prevent the target from escaping.

At 8:10 p.m., the U.S. military began to move, and searchlights illuminated an area of about 1 square kilometer as bright as day.

More than 100 special forces rushed into the two farmhouses, but there was no one in the farmhouses.

Is the intelligence inaccurate? Or has Saddam Hussein already fled from here?

The Americans, who were not reconciled, began to search the vicinity, and soon found the hole and signs that Saddam Hussein had existed in it.

But sadly, Saddam Hussein is no longer here.

This made the commander of the Fourth Division of the US Army, Major General Odieno, very unwilling, and the two timely intelligence cross-corroboration, but still did not find Saddam, which was no different from several previous operations.

Originally, Odieno was still very confident in this operation, after all, there was no such accurate information before, and there were informants who saw Saddam Hussein entering the farmhouse, how could he miss?

Audino, who did not believe in this situation, immediately gave an order: "Even if Saddam Hussein leaves, it is impossible to leave too far, immediately block the surrounding 100-kilometer area, control all places, and be sure to find him." ”

Just as this order was delivered, there was a sudden sound of explosions outside Davar Town, and in the distant sky, several missiles, pulling long tail flames, rushed towards the Abrams main battle tanks around the town.

It was the moment of the anti-tank missile attack, the missile had already locked onto the tank, and it rose into the air to attack vertically.

Although the U.S. Abrams tank armor protection is very good, it cannot withstand the empowerment attack of anti-tank missiles.

At the same time, a large number of anti-tank missiles appeared, and under the exclamation of a large number of US soldiers, eight of the twelve Abrams main battle tanks participating in the operation were directly destroyed, and four tanks also lost their combat effectiveness.

In the sky, the four Apache helicopter gunships hovering also quickly maneuvered, trying to find the enemy lurking around the perimeter to launch missiles.

However, just as the four Apache gunships were in action, the warning system inside the helicopter sounded, which was an alarm signal locked by guidance radar.

On the ground, eight anti-aircraft missiles emerged from the yellow sand on the ground, and four Apache helicopter gunships hurriedly made evasive maneuvers and released jamming bombs.

These pilots of the US military are indeed elite, and when the warning sounds, they evade it as soon as possible, and at the same time release jamming bombs, which has a good chance to avoid missile attacks.

However, instead of one missile, there were eight of them, and the four Apache themselves flew very low, almost within the range of the missiles that could not escape.

Anti-aircraft missiles have an almost impossible range of attack, within this range, the probability of the destruction of the target by the anti-aircraft missile, more than 98 percent, almost no air targets can escape from this area.

One missile was avoided, and there was another.

Under the shocked gaze of the US military on the ground, these four Apache helicopter gunships were hit by anti-aircraft missiles one after another, falling in smoke. Fall to the ground.

Shouts for help rang out, and the attack had just begun.

The Kurdish special forces in charge of perimeter guard patrols, which have long been secretly trained by the Americans, have not been slow to respond at all.

At the same time as the U.S. troops were attacked, they also quickly surrounded the direction of the attack point.

Every Kurdish special forces is wearing equipment similar to that of the US special forces, and they also have night vision devices.

But when they arrived at the site of the attack, they saw deep pits, which had already been dug and carefully covered.

Inside these craters, there are also launchers that have been fired after the missiles have been fired.

When these Kurdish special forces approached, the launchers in the pit suddenly exploded, and the huge explosion power directly lifted the Kurdish special forces five meters away from the pothole, and those who were closer were directly engulfed by the explosion.

In these firing craters, powerful artillery shells have already been planted, all of which are 155mm howitzers commonly found in the active artillery of the Iraqi army.

At the time of the defeat of the Iraqi forces, a large number of the Iraqi army's arsenals were looted, and much of the equipment disappeared from the general view, including a large number of artillery shells and artillery.

The huge movement of the explosion made the US military quickly surround it, and the scene was already a mess, dozens of Kurdish special forces, more than a third of the dead and wounded.

This made the special forces of the US army and the soldiers of the fourth division of the US army grit their teeth with hatred one by one.

This is another shame that is difficult to wash, and the two ace pieces of equipment, Abrams and Apache, have once again collapsed in Iraq.

But the war was far from over, and the commander of the division, Audino, a major general in the American army, was about to ride in a relatively safe command vehicle, and he seemed to regret leading the team personally, but just as his legs were about to step into the command vehicle, a bullet came and pierced his head.