Chapter 601: U.S. troops withdraw
The moment Odieno was sniped, the soldiers of the nearby US Fourth Division and the US military officers were all stunned.
The major general of the U.S. Army who was pierced by a bullet in the temple means that the highest military rank killed since the coalition invasion of Iraq has been promoted to the rank of general.
A dignified US major general, under the protection of his own troops, was shot in the head by an Iraqi sniper at night, and it was reported that it would be another heavy blow to the US military.
However, the people on the scene, no matter who they were, did not have time to worry about the future, the town of Dawar was full of gunfire, and the Iraqi army here was definitely not a small force, but an elite force.
"Immediately order reinforcements from the surrounding forces, and we will encounter a large-scale counterattack by the Republic of Iraq." The chief of staff of the 4th Division, who took over the command at the first time, immediately ordered.
The U.S. troops in Davar Town also suppressed the firepower of the surrounding firepower points.
It's just that all the U.S. troops don't know that it is no longer Iraqi troops around them, but the elite of the Red Guard Corps, the Blue Dragon Regiment.
When he succeeded in replacing Saddam, thousands of fighters of the Red Police Regiment were quietly assembled nearby, half of whom were elite snipers who had come out of bloody battles one after another, as well as a large number of fire support personnel.
In the face of the ground armor superiority and air superiority possessed by the US military, the Red Guard Corps could not participate in the war openly, so it could only fight guerrilla warfare and use all available means to continuously deplete the US military's vital strength in Iraq.
In Fan Yize's words, if you want to completely change this war, you need to turn Iraq into a purgatory on earth, a complete Shura field, and let them bleed no matter how many American troops come.
Tonight's war can be regarded as the prelude to an all-out guerrilla war in Iraq.
In the future, more snipers will enter Iraq, and in Iraq in the future, no matter where US soldiers are in Iraq, they will always have to be on guard.
The surrounding area of Dawar Town was full of guns attacking the American troops, dense machine-gun crossfire, and the entire periphery of the town was full of holes.
In the night, the machine gun bullets dragged by the tracer kept falling on the side of the American soldiers, but the real killer in the night was the hundreds of snipers hidden in the distance.
Although the U.S. army's counterattack was very sharp and kept destroying the machine gun positions in the distance, they didn't know that there was no one on the machine gun positions that kept firing.
Programmed automatic shooting, laser aiming and positioning, friend or foe identification, no one needs to control it at all, and the computer will also accurately control the problem of the barrel and control the rate of fire of the machine gun.
Any machine gun can be controlled by this automaton, as long as the machine gun is fixed.
For the US military, it is true that they see the enemy's fire point and are being destroyed, but it is difficult for them to attack, because in the first round of attacks, their armored vehicles and tanks have been destroyed.
It will take more than ten minutes for the nearest reinforcements to come.
In the short few minutes of fighting, to the horror of all the US soldiers, a large number of US soldiers had already been killed in this short period of time.
These American soldiers who died were killed by enemy bullets at the moment of probe shooting.
On the periphery of the town, there were also a large number of wounded soldiers, carried to the back, and almost every second someone was killed or wounded.
"Damn, is this the Iraqi army? When did they get better marksmanship than we all did. ”
An American soldier looked at the moment when his comrade-in-arms next to him showed half of his head and shot, and his head was pierced by the bullet from the opposite side, and his heart was half cold.
Among the US troops, hundreds of special forces suffered the most serious casualties, and hundreds of people had already lost hundreds of people when covering the establishment of a temporary defensive line.
In the middle of the town, the American snipers who had set up a sniper position only had time to warn that there were snipers on the opposite side, but they were killed immediately.
A group of infantrymen, surrounded by a group of snipers and having lost heavy weapons, the fate can be imagined.
The headquarters of the U.S. Fourth Division, which had retreated to the town's premises, also received the extremely frustrating news that the nearest reinforcement was attacked by mines less than eight kilometers away from Davar Town, and it was difficult to reach it in time.
At the same time, the U.S. troops in Oga Town were also attacked by Iraqi snipers, and the troops of the U.S. Fourth Division, who were originally arranged in Oga Town, pretended to be searching for Saddam Hussein, in order to cover the operation to capture Saddam Hussein, were besieged in several farmhouses in the town, and they were also constantly asking for help.
Fortunately, the US Air Force was not too late, and the two A-10 attack planes that arrived at the edge of the battlefield also contacted the ground troops, asking the ground to guide the air strike, release signals, and distinguish between friend and foe.
Using a grenade launcher, a flare is fired onto the opposite machine-gun emplacement.
The whistling of fighter jets was heard in the sky, and two A-10 Warthog attack planes of the US Air Force, approaching at a low altitude, directed the firing points in the azimuth towards the ground, and pulled the firing button.
A dense barrage of bullets rushed into the sky, and the four machine guns in the target area were destroyed in an instant.
However, just as the two Warthog attack planes were about to climb and turn around, on the ground under the darkness of the night, on the ground covered with vegetation, four anti-aircraft missiles rose into the air and flew directly towards the two Warthog attack planes.
At the moment when the radar issued a warning, the missiles had already come in front of the two Warthog attack planes, and the US military pilots on the planes did not even have a second to react, and when they hurriedly evaded, the missiles directly hit their faces.
The two warthog attack planes that had just completed the attack exploded directly in the sky, and in the sky at night, two fires exploded, and the burning wreckage scattered like fairies.
The U.S. troops on the ground, after a short cheer for the arrival of the attack, did not let go of their raised arms, and they were uncomfortable one by one, as if swallowing several flies in one breath.
The most uncomfortable thing was that the pilots on the two Warthog attack aircraft did not even have the opportunity to parachute.
The chief of staff of the Fourth Division was also stunned for a long time, and then picked up the communicator and shouted to the high command of the US forces in Iraq: "This is a carefully planned and prepared murder, our intelligence is not only wrong, but we have entered the trap carefully arranged by the Iraqi Republican Guard. I ask for an evacuation, our soldiers are dying and wounded in large numbers. ”
Sanchez, the supreme commander of the US forces in Iraq, also saw the footage from the scene in Davar Town, and could only agree to the request of the Fourth Division to retreat.