In the air base in the desert, the airfield in the dark night, like a giant beast in the desert, exudes a dim light.

In the hangar of the Intruder fighter jet, air-to-air missiles were removed from the hardpoint of the aircraft, and next to the fighter, on an artillery trailer, a huge bomb nearly three meters long was parked next to it.

Next to the intruder fighter with the number 10002, Zhao Yunlong was already fully dressed, waiting for the shells to be loaded onto the fighter.

It was an eight-ton penetrating bomb that penetrated the ground to a depth of up to 60 meters and penetrated a full 60 meters of reinforced concrete.

Compared to the twelve-ton Stronghold Smasher, this bomb is only a small one, but if it is used against ordinary underground bunkers, the damage is absolutely explosive.

However, the target of this attack is not so easy to destroy, if it is not for the intruder who simply cannot carry the fortress smasher, it will not retreat.

The eight-ton penetrating bomb, the intruder fighter can barely carry, because of the size of the bomb, the fighter also needs to be loaded with only half of the fuel, otherwise the bomb will directly cause friction with the ground.

With the dimensions of an Intruder fighter, carrying such a bomb, the range is already limited.

And such a bomb was not intended for a type of aircraft like the Intruder fighter, and the real suitable bomb for this kind of bomb should be a peacekeeping bomber or a larger bomber.

In order to achieve the purpose of the operation, the intruder fighters could only barely make it difficult.

In fact, if it weren't for the size, with the intruder's nine-ton bomb load, such a bomb would have been carried. It's no problem at all.

Two connected attachment points under the fuselage. It is also possible to hang on similar large weapons.

Even nuclear cruise missiles can be mounted. The only limitation is that the bomb itself is not a thin man, but a slightly chubby body.

The air-to-air missile fuses on the plane were all turned off, and then the interface connecting to the fighter was unlocked, and the ground crew carefully unloaded the missiles from the fighter and placed them on the missile's small trailer.

In order to guarantee the altitude of the aircraft to be able to carry bombs to take off, everything did not have the necessary weight. All need to be mitigated.

The four air-to-air missiles and the nine joint strike bombs were all dismantled, and then the bombs were moved by trailers under the manpower of the ground crew, and came under the belly of the fighters.

The frame of the trailer began to rise, and the bomb slowly rose up under the elevation of the hydraulic system, and the series attachment points under the fighter plane smoothly connected the raised bombs.

The base of the trailer slowly descended, and then everyone saw the load-bearing device on the three wheels of the fighter. It all sank deeply.

The height of the fighter from the ground was at least lowered by more than half a meter. The bomb was less than half a meter from the ground.

At such an altitude, if the fighter did not release this bomb, there was no way to even land easily.

This is much larger than the size of those auxiliary fuel tanks, and the eight-ton penetrating bomb is indeed not many fighters in the world that can bring such a big guy.

At the same time, in the other hangars, there are a total of eight fighters, all of which are equipped with external weapons, and this time they will be on a mission-focused ground strike.

There is no need to conduct air combat at all, and there are no ground-based anti-aircraft weapons that can threaten them, all mission targets, all accurate to one point.

While the fighters were busy changing ammunition, more than two hundred kilometers from Samarra to Tikrit were on the Gobi.

Outside the villages gathered along the Tigris River, some swaying figures in the night, under the cover of night, approached these villages.

A special operations squad in one village, and a sniper team have set up sniper points several hundred meters away from the Gobi.

The assault group began to approach the village, and the fire team also occupied the commanding heights outside the village, ready to provide them with cover for fire at any time.

This time, Zhang Xuchen sent a full thirteen assault teams, all of which were special operations elites of the Red Guard Corps, for the purpose of serving all the armed strongholds of the Islamic State forces from Samarra to Tikrit.

These strongholds, all built in the villages along the way, are usually disguised as ordinary villagers like these residents.

In fact, some of the people in these villages are all ISIS soldiers.

If you don't know people very well, you can't develop these armies that hide their troops among the people, and the result is often very tragic.

Because although these people are all outsiders, they live with the ordinary people in the village every day, work together, eat and sleep together.

It is impossible to distinguish the identities of these people, and without the right intelligence channels, it is almost impossible to silently dismiss these people, or to send troops to Tikrit without anyone discovering it.

The road from Samarra to Tikrit was built along the Tigris River, and although there were no towns along the way, there were quite a few villages along the way.

These villages are the best outposts, and if you want to send troops to Tikrit, these outposts need to be eliminated first.

Now that the entire Islamic State is under al-Baghdadi's control, these arrangements are not just a matter of words.

Now, the intelligence about the Islamic State is no secret to the Red Guard.

After almost a month of waiting, the dispatch of troops was imperative, as almost five months had passed since the eight months required by the base.

The weather in the wasteland has also begun to warm up a little recently, and the temperature has gradually dropped to minus 50 degrees, as long as the cold is enough, you can barely go outside.

This also means that the cold winter of the wasteland is gradually coming to an end, and it is expected that it will only take a month for the temperature to drop to the level of minus 20 degrees, and the temperature of minus 20 degrees will allow the troops to start large-scale operations.

After all, as long as the temperature does not fall below minus 30 degrees, the dispatch of troops is still barely possible.

Cai Ruichen didn't have time to wait, through the analysis of the phased array weather radar, the weather and temperature of the wasteland in the next month can be basically determined.

In this life, in the next month, he will fully occupy Salah al-Din Province, and then focus his main energy on the wasteland, striving to complete the tasks required by the base within eight months.

Until then, he did not demand that al-Baghdadi withdraw all troops from Salah al-Din province, because such an approach would attract too much unnecessary suspicion. (To be continued.) )