Chapter 767: Razing Tikrit
The Wasteland, the capital of Salah al-Din province, is a sprawling Tikrit lying along the Tigris River, with a twelve-lane highway running through the city towards the eastern city of Samarra.
One of the major cities in Iraq in the Tikrit Wasteland, among all the cities in Iraq, it is definitely one of the top five large cities, compared to Erbil and Mosul.
It is the throat of Iraq's east-west transportation, and has become an important economic link between the east and the west, and is the main heavy industrial city of Iraq in the wasteland, with a large number of industries concentrated in the east of Tikrit, located on the Tigris River.
The prosperity here once brought great development to the city, with high-rise buildings, no less than any prosperous European big city.
But now, like every wasteland city, this city has become a world of mutants.
Today, the city has become the biggest obstacle to the Red Police's eastward advance, and it has always been a key point between the Red Guard and Baghdad.
Cai Ruichen has not had much contact with the Baghdad security base so far, mainly because the city is intercepted between the two places.
If it is only a small number of people, it is completely possible to detour, but it is impossible to rebuild the road when a large army moves.
Tikrit became a city that was bound to be recovered.
According to intelligence, the Baghdad security base is located between Baghdad and Samarra, and as long as Tikrit is successfully recovered, the Red Guard Corps can communicate with the Baghdad security base and launch a direct attack on Baghdad.
Under the protracted military operations of the Dongxia Division and the Shaxi Division. At present, the largest provincial capital is left in the entire province of Salah al-Din.
On the other side, the inevitable offensive line from Lake Cersar also advanced all the way to the edge of the big city of Fallujah.
It's just that some counties and cities that were once more populous are left. Wait for the main forces to come back and deal with it.
At this point, the Dongxia Division and the Shaxi Division didn't have many goals. The Iraqi side is the core of the country, and from the east of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf, unlike the northern provinces, you will only encounter towns from afar.
Further east, the population is also quite dense. The density of the city is also high.
Originally, according to Cai Ruichen's plan, the troops were to take the lead in bypassing these big cities and continuing all the way to the east.
However. Chizuru's words made him stop this plan immediately, otherwise, no matter how many troops were sent to the eastern region of Iraq. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back safely.
Subsequently. The main forces of the Red Police Corps, the 1st Heavy Division, the Erbil Division, and the 2nd Heavy Division, the Mosul Division, immediately moved to the side of Tikrit.
The fierce city attack was immediately launched, and Cai Ruichen had only one idea for this city, that is, to directly push it over with absolute firepower.
Chizuru had already given him some information about the mutants, and through this information, he got a message that made him break out in a cold sweat. He felt that he could not wait at all now.
Give the Red Guard the same amount of time to develop as the mutants. And the strength of the mutants will surpass the strength of the Red Guard Corps faster.
Just as Chizuru suggested, Cai Ruichen is now bent on launching an attack on the mutants in Baghdad to see how powerful that king is.
The two reloaded divisions that were ready, with the cooperation of the Dongxia Division, launched the most fierce attack on Tikrit at the first time.
In the first wave of attacks, more than 100 self-detonating trucks were dispatched to this land covering an area of more than 300 square kilometers.
The mutants in Tikrit, without even a chance to escape out of the city, turned most of the city into high ruins.
Almost all of the destroyed cities were reduced to powder, no less than a direct blow from a nuclear weapon, and the explosions and dust and smoke that rolled up high lasted for nearly an hour before dissipating.
In order to open the passage to Baghdad as soon as possible, Cai Ruichen has no time to think about preserving the wealth of the city, compared to the overall strategy, those things in the city of Tikrit can be discarded.
The powerful power of the self-detonating truck was once again displayed in the wasteland world, and most of the entire Tikrit was directly gone.
Most of the city was completely razed, leaving behind hundreds of deep crater-like artillery craters.
Before the remaining mutants in the city could react, all the peacekeeping bombers of the Red Alert Air Force in the sky were dispatched at the same time.
The carriages of a large number of self-detonating trucks behind them were all hoisted above the ruins of the city, but the mutants in the city were not sitting still.
Under the strong electromagnetic interference, almost all the peacekeeping bombers swayed in the sky, barely maintaining a flying attitude, and then threw the bed of the self-detonating truck into the city center of Tikrit.
Once again, a huge explosion was heard, and Tikrit was once again covered in countless clouds of dust under the dense explosion.
In the city, umbrella-like explosions and fires covered the last part of the city of Tikrit.
The height of more than 6,000 degrees Celsius, coupled with the powerful impact of the explosion, ruthlessly destroyed everything, even those buildings that were dozens of stories high, under such a powerful explosion, everything would cease to exist.
The lethality of the self-detonating truck has increased the lethality of conventional gunpowder to the limit, and the lethality is no less than the power of a bomb of tens of tons exploded under water, and it is at least 800 times more powerful than the power of the explosion of explosives of the same mass.
This lethality is like the effect of a truckload of high-explosive gunpowder exploding underwater.
In fact, the self-detonating truck has such a powerful explosion power by simulating the environment of an underwater explosion, and before the explosion, the surrounding air density is strengthened to the surface of the underwater environment through special devices.
At a time when the density of the air is 800 to 1,000 times that of normal air, the power of the explosion is increased to the same times the power of normal air under tremendous pressure.
It's just that this process is too short, so short that even the people around you will not feel it obviously, because the air density is instantaneous, and you can feel the heat of this change, and when you feel the tightness in your chest, the explosion of the self-detonating truck has destroyed everything.
As for how the self-detonating truck instantly increased the density of the surrounding air to a thousand times the normal one, Cai Ruichen did not understand this technology, and no one in the entire Red Police Corps knew about it, and even the base did not have this technology. (To be continued.) )