Chapter 592: Siege from all sides
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Originally, there was a domed building here, which was a landmark of the Xinjiadi, and you could stand on it to see the emerald green buildings of the Umaiyed Mosque in the distance.
Unfortunately, the building was destroyed during the first battle for Aleppo and turned into rubble.
After the war, a large number of homeless people gathered here, and they built many wooden houses with local materials.
Over time, more and more people came here to beg for a living, and the flow of people in this area was even greater than before the war.
Tonight, however, all the wanderers in the area were driven away, leaving only a few lonely buildings standing in the night, looking desolate and deserted.
In one of the timber-paneled rooms, a makeshift light illuminates everything as if it were daylight, but a thick curtain blocks all light from escaping.
More than a dozen Black Dead apostles gathered around a large table with a map of the Umayyad Mosque, marking something on it from time to time, and four telephones were placed on a row of tables next to it, and the four masked men answered the phone nervously.
This is the temporary command post of the Black Death in Aleppo, where Qusay, Chen Tao and others gathered to direct the battle for the Umayyad Mosque.
Fifteen minutes into the battle, the first of which was a surprise attack on the outer positions of the east gate of the mosque by armored units of the Guards Division from south to north, easily knocking out two firing points.
Bashar's troops stationed at the Umayyad Mosque had no choice but to abandon their front-line positions, retreat 300 meters, and rely on the fortifications of the second line of defense for defense.
Since losing control of the Anais Bridge yesterday, government forces have known that the Black Death side has acquired a large number of heavy weapons, and they have immediately adjusted their firepower accordingly. The Umayyad Mosque, a strategic landmark in Aleppo, has added a reinforced company to its reserves.
Therefore, when the Black Death's tanks broke through the first line of positions and continued to advance to the second line, they were immediately hit by a concentrated fire of the government forces.
At least three rockets hit the Type 69 main battle tank in the head, the tank's turret was lifted off, one of the tracks was broken, and only one of the four crew members escaped from the tank alive.
The attack was thwarted, but the Black Death's armored forces had no intention of retreating, and continued to rely on the ruins of tanks and buildings to entangle with government forces, heavy machine guns on the roofs of armored vehicles roaring, and from time to time there was a short-range tentative charge.
In the face of the Black Death's strong attack, the government forces once again increased their forces to the second line of defense, and the two sides soon formed a stalemate.
In fact, it was only a feint, and the Black Death did not even think of using tanks to storm the Umayyad Mosque.
The fire of the tanks is so fierce that a true Muslim would never fire a cannon + projectile at the Umayyad Mosque.
Fifteen minutes later, a brigade of the Aleppo Division joined the battle, and from east to west, they raided the back door of the Umayyad Mosque.
However, the Black Death's attack was once again thwarted, and the government forces actually set up at least seven firing points in the direction of the back door, and seven machine guns fired cross-fire, completely blocking the street in the direction of the back door.
The fighters of the Aleppo Division, who used small arms, tried two attacks, but did not even reach the middle line of the street, except for leaving more than 30 corpses on the street.
When the attack failed, the fighters of the Aleppo Division also changed their tactics and retreated to the buildings across the street, constantly firing bullets at the defensive positions of the government troops.
The Black Death's forces attacked the Umayyad Mosque from both southeast and southwest directions, but all of them were blocked, and a stalemate appeared to have formed. If this continues, the Black Death will be defeated once government reinforcements arrive from the north, or if they delay until dawn and government planes come to bomb them.
The battle lasted from nine to ten o'clock, and both sides seemed to have adapted to it, you shoot twice, I shoot twice, and the intensity is getting lower and lower.
"Master Qusai, I think I can act!" At ten o'clock, Chen Tao suddenly picked up a black arrow and indifferently placed it outside the wall on the north side of the Umaiye Mosque.
Kusai looked at the time, nodded, and ordered loudly: "Three flares!"
"Yes, three flares!" the Signal Soldier immediately repeated.
"Bang bang bang!" Three hundred meters away, three orange-red signal flares suddenly rose in the dark night, like festive fireworks, instantly lighting up the night sky of Aleppo City.
"Boom!" Almost at the same moment, two rockets flew out from behind the destroyed tank, knocking out one of the government's machine-gun positions in an instant.
"Boom!" the sound of heavy tracks and concrete roads grinding came, and two more Type 69 main battle tanks appeared in view, with huge gun muzzles with the breath of death, indifferently pointing at a building on the left side of the second line of defense of the government army.
Before the cannon could be fired, seven or eight government soldiers burst out of it with an exclamation.
Under the bombardment of tank guns, the solid cement walls of this house could no longer provide them with cover!
"Holy war, al-Baghdadi!" The battle at the back gate of the Umayyad Mosque also entered a white-hot stage in an instant, and hundreds of Black Dead men howled out of the building across the street, rushing at the same time on the street more than two hundred meters wide.
......Before the government troops could fire, seven or eight tongues of fire suddenly appeared in the building across the street that kept roaring, and immediately suppressed some of the government troops' firepower.
It turns out that the Black Dead also had a machine gun, but they just didn't use it!
The government forces were stunned, and the counterattack was not only weak, but also disorganized.
The Black Death's stormtroopers seized the opportunity and quickly made their way through the open area to converge behind the mosque.
In less than twenty seconds, two-thirds of the more than 100 Black Dead Apostles who participated in the charge passed through the open area and approached less than thirty meters from the back door of the mosque.
It was only at this time that the government forces reacted, and all kinds of light and heavy fire were fired at once, barely suppressing the Black Death stormtroopers in the trenches on the side of the road.
However, although it was suppressed, the distance of thirty meters was no different from hand-to-hand combat, and the Black Death men hiding in the trench kept throwing explosives such as hand + thunder, incendiary + bottles, etc., and the explosions continued, and the gunshots rang out even more, and the defensive positions of the government troops immediately showed signs of collapse.
Fortunately, the government army still had the last reserve, and seeing that the back door was about to be lost, the commander did not hesitate to order the reserve to go up.
The battle situation can be said to have taken a sharp turn in an instant, and the front and back doors of the Umaiyeh Mosque were attacked by a strong attack, and the position was almost lost.
Due south, in order to prevent the Black Black Dead attack, government forces had razed all the buildings to the ground a few days earlier, forming an open belt up to 100 meters wide.
However, at this time, several vague figures suddenly appeared in the building 100 meters away, and they took advantage of the height difference between their position and the mosque wall to continuously shoot at the government soldiers moving inside the mosque.
The marksmanship of these men was so accurate that they could be shot almost as soon as they were within a few seconds of government fighters being within their range.
As a result, government forces had to change their tactics and move their forces from underground tunnels.
At the same time, a squad of government soldiers was also deployed due south, relying on the walls of the mosque to return fire on snipers from a distance.
The east, south, and west were all attacked, but the north was as quiet as death, because this direction was the area controlled by government forces.
But is this really safe direction?
Suddenly, more than thirty meters outside the north wall of the Umayyed Mosque, the manhole cover of a sewer was slowly lifted, and a foul smell came out of it.
Immediately, a head blackened by sewage appeared under the manhole cover, and its bright eyes stared indifferently at the wall dozens of meters away.
After a few seconds, the man, convinced that there was no government guard on the wall, immediately emerged from inside.
One by one, the men in black appeared, and soon there were thirty, and they quickly came to the walls of the mosque like ghosts.
Lying under the wall, Commander Ikram looked at the wall at least five meters high, and couldn't help but let out a groan: "God, how can this go up?"
Ikram is now the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Guards Division, and controls more than a hundred Black Death elites under his command.
This afternoon, Iklam received an order to send fifteen of his best fighters and fifteen other Quds Guard soldiers to form a death squad to secretly approach the northern wall of the Umayyad Mosque and take advantage of the network of sewers that crisscross the city of Aleppo.
The order to attack had been given, but when Ikram arrived at the attack position, he realized that it was not easy to climb over a wall more than five meters high!
The preparation is so inadequate, why didn't you think of bringing a ladder?
"Stupid, look at us!" the commander of the Holy City Guard glanced at Iklam, suddenly retreated more than ten meters, and then accelerated towards the wall.
At a distance of more than ten meters, he almost reached the speed of a 100-meter sprint.
Just as he was about to hit the wall, another member of the Holy City Guard suddenly held his hands on the wall, forming two steps with his back and hips.
The commander of the Quds Guard placed his left foot on his companion's hip, stepped on his companion's shoulder with his right foot, and suddenly lifted his body up, his right hand easily touching the edge of the wall.
It's that simple?
Ikram was amazed to see that not only did the commander of the Holy City Guard go up, but the same scene was played out in seven places along the wall, and within a few seconds, eight people had their hands on the wall.
The eight people who went up first did not rush to turn over, but leaned on the wall with their hands, and their bodies hung straight down.
The eight members of the Holy City Guard below immediately jumped to their feet, grabbed the ankles and belts of their companions above, and even used their companions as human ladders, and easily grabbed the edge of the wall.
This is a real soldier!
Ikalam didn't have time to sigh and made an upward gesture to his men, then jumped to his feet, trying to grab the ankle of the nearest member of the Holy City Guard.
However, Ikram threw himself into the air, and just as his hands were about to grab the man's ankles, the man retracted his feet and climbed over the wall.
In the blink of an eye, the sixteen people on the wall were gone, and they had already entered!
Ikram was so angry that he stomped his feet, damn it, he even looked down on us, who is the commander in the end?
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