Before the lieutenant colonel could make any more moves, he felt the pain of his arms being scratched, and his perspective shook again, and then he fell heavily on the rubble; I could vaguely hear my own heavy breathing, and several soldiers in khaki camouflage uniforms, helmets and gas masks appeared in front of me.

The fierce battle has come to this point, anyway, it is a small life to give up, and if you eat a few bullets, maybe you don't have to endure this unbearable pain anymore......

After just experiencing a stubborn resistance, he was affected by the explosion of a tail grenade fired by the ZTZ-96 tank, and the wounded Lieutenant Colonel Khatam did not even have the strength to pull the self-detonation grenade, so he simply sat with his eyes closed and waited for death.

The soldiers who had just discovered the rebel officer also had some intention of shooting directly at this time, and two or three people next to them all picked up AK-12s, intending to directly correct this Liberal Party officer who must be full of evil; But then, the company commander who led the team quickly got the news and came to stop the others, and a government captain took off his gas mask, briefly checked the situation in Khatam, recognized this person as a Liberal Party officer of no lower rank, and beckoned someone to call for the medical staff to come and deal with it.

He personally led the attack, but was soon overwhelmed by the flood of government offensives, and Lieutenant Colonel Khatam's stubborn resistance came to an abrupt end, and the so-called elite, Liberal Aleppo Garrison Independent Regiment he was in charge of, was also crushed, and soon completely lost its position, and was routed by the Damascus army and scattered for its life.

This siege battle, which broke out early in the morning, after the Liberal defenders of the outer line of defense had been routed. The fighting on the outskirts of the city is almost always the same routine as that of the rebel Independence Regiment.

Originally, it relied on a certain advantage in the number of soldiers and weapons and equipment. The Liberal regime in Aleppo is still holding on to some of it. After the simple and naïve defense plan was issued, the "capital" was defended like an iron bucket by tens of thousands of troops, and almost every fringe block was garrisoned by Liberal armed forces.

With an even distribution of troops and a reserve behind the front, the Liberal Party's seemingly simple and crude campaign arrangement, which is actually not lacking in bright spots, will probably pay a considerable price if Damascus really wants to launch an all-out attack.

However. As the saying goes, "man is not as good as heaven", in the face of the iron bucket formation of the Liberal Party, the Syrian government army that launched the general offensive has adopted-for-tat tactics, which naturally has a lot of credit for the hard work of intelligence officers, in addition, long-range firepower on the ground and air support of the multinational force are also very important.

In the early morning of the same day, the half-hour preparation of fire before the launch of the general offensive was actually just a smoke screen released by Damascus to paralyze the defenders, and the roaring batches of artillery shells and rockets were not very accurate. It was almost like a pepper noodle thrown into the city, causing some casualties among the stranded civilians.

However, after the campaign was actually launched. The government forces marched in unison with a rapid assault and quickly cleared the remnants of the Liberals on the outskirts of Aleppo, and then marched into the pre-agreed attack area.

Different from the general sense of firepower preparation, the effect of such a firepower attack is also very terrifying.

In the face of the stubborn resistance of the Liberal Party, if the siege routine in the general sense is followed, the attacking troops need to first launch one or two tactical attacks, find out the reality of the enemy in front of them, and then summon long-range fire support, and launch a charge immediately after the raging of the dense barrage or the Xujin barrage, in this case, the significance of fire support is mainly to suppress the enemy's firepower and block its tactical actions, and the real destruction of the enemy still depends on the offensive of the ground forces.

However, in today's siege battle, the Damascus army adopted another tactic, directly relying on the absolute superiority in firepower to clear the battlefield, creating an easy-to-pass "no man's land" on the Liberal defense line - so the ammunition fell from the sky, first fuel air bombs, and then a baptism of large-caliber rockets, and the follow-up attack troops were able to directly cross the rebel defense line that had turned into rubble, and then fiercely fought with the enemy forces in the city.

At this point in the war, like Khatam's independent regiment, the rebels were indeed breaking up at the speed that the government commanders had predicted, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they would collapse at the touch of a button.

The campaign deployment determined by the Joint Command Center of the Multinational Force was indeed tailor-made for the Liberal Party entrenched in Aleppo before the general offensive of Damascus was launched, and with the brutal coercion of the regime and the activities of the overseers, the uncertain Liberal forces were still able to hold on to the "capital", but once the battle began, in the face of the fierce attack of the government army, the gossip that "there was no enemy army" north of Aleppo had long been known, Once the rebels, ravaged by artillery fire, cannot support them, it is easy to guess where they will go next.

Thus, just after the general offensive of the government army, as soon as the attack front broke through the outer defense line of Aleppo, the rebels in the city began a complete and disorderly rout.

Seeing the artillery fire in front of them, the government soldiers quickly rushed in, not only the first-line rebel troops stationed in the outer circle of the city fled, but even the second-line troops and reserves who got the information also made their own small calculations, although there were no shells and missiles flying overhead for the time being, the soldiers and officers of the Liberal Party still began to retreat to the north, their goal was very clear, that is, to flee all the way to the north, and it was best to travel 40 kilometers and flee directly into Turkey!

Originally flaunting their might in Syria, but now suddenly suffering a catastrophe, the rebels naturally want to go to Turkey, which has long secretly supported the Liberal Party, and even old Europe, in Aleppo, not far from the northern border.

"Rather than fighting with the government army, it is better to retreat into Turkey", anyway, all the rebels are now thinking like this, and the situation in the "capital" city is naturally completely out of control.

The siegers were bound to win, the defenders had no fighting spirit, and the simple strategy of "encircling three and putting one" had miraculous results, and the battle situation in the vast city of Aleppo soon evolved into a sweep by the government army, and the Liberal regime that had been talking about turning Aleppo into Stalingrad was destroyed overnight, although many high-ranking officials fled, its substantial existence has been completely shattered.

From early morning to noon, and then to the evening when the sun was setting in the west, the city of Aleppo, where the cold wind was howling and the snow was falling, the rumbling artillery fire and shocking explosions had gradually stopped, and a battle with a hot start and a somewhat sloppy ending was also coming to an end.

In war-torn Aleppo, an ancient city in Syria, most of the citizens who survived the disaster, or rather the refugees, were homeless, and many were shivering in the snow, but seeing the teams of government soldiers patrolling with guns on the streets and the steel chariots parked on the streets, these yellow-skinned and malnourished people were still very happy, even if the relief supplies were still limited for the time being, not enough to ensure food and clothing for everyone, and the hope of returning to normal life still came.

After a short and fierce battle, a violent and bloody baptism had just passed, and a winter snow that happened to arrive at this time also seemed to herald the rebirth of the devastated world; However, just as falling snow cannot hide a single qiē on the earth, even in this almost sacred and cold atmosphere, there are still some people who are rushing to the mission.

Two BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles were driving along the main street in the snowflake-filled city of Aleppo, littered with one or two bomb craters, to a government headquarters two blocks away.

In the city where the battle was almost over, the distance between the armored vehicles was quite close, and the turrets were aimed left and right at the scattered and dilapidated buildings on the high ground on both sides of the road, and the roar of the engines spread far away; Operating in the chaotic city of Aleppo, where the situation is chaotic and the road conditions are even more chaotic, the tracked vehicles still have better communication, and the infantry fighting vehicles carrying several members of the special team soon arrived near the headquarters, and the interrogation of the temporary guard post entered the intersection.

"Good evening, everyone; - Oh, everybody's busy, Major, so let's cut it short, what do you think? ”

"All right, please come here, gentlemen."

They were busy in the tent, and after receiving a report from the guards, they met a cadre of the special team, and the strong major in the beret invited them to another tent, and asked everyone to sit down on folding benches and rest for a while.

The impromptu meeting in the former enemy headquarters was a bit hasty, but it was very important for the current situation.

This evening's visitors, several members of the so-called "special team", were in fact MFN commissioners who had followed Syrian government forces into Aleppo that afternoon.

Dressed in the same khaki camouflage uniforms as the Damascus Army, but with a dazzling array of weapons and equipment on their hands, these task forces from several major countries each shoulder a secret mission entrusted by their superiors, but the principle of action is the same, that is, according to the action resolution of the secret consultations of China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, each of them sent personnel to form a nominal "Security Council Special Investigation Team" to participate in the Syrian government army's attack on Aleppo.

Sending people into the Syrian battlefield, these elite military elites from several major countries are obviously not to help Damascus or serve as battlefield observers for the civil war, and the task of the special investigation team is actually only one. (To be continued......)