"Don't go near the convoy! Watch out for enemy fire! ”

"Leave them alone, we have to retreat first!"

"Roger!"

Everyone in the Dongfeng Corps immediately replied, and then everyone began to maneuver in echelons on the desert, leaving the battlefield as fast as possible.

That's right, Chen Shen didn't intend to intervene in this battle at all.

Searching for artillery reconnaissance and covering convoys, that's what Suhail said.

Why should they meddle in what they can do?

Being able to fire two shots to force back enemy artillery reconnaissance is already the limit!

You know, at this time, there are still American planes flying in the air, if they identify their own identities and drop a few aerial bombs from the head under the pretext of "clearing suspicious weapons", then who will they talk to? ——

But when I think about it, the situation at this time is also extremely strange.

Secondly, for NATO and the allies who have already participated in it, the two sides have already reached a gentleman's agreement, even if you want to frame it, you are not in a hurry, at least take your own people back first, right?

In the end, only the rabbits from the north remained.

"I saw fragments of the tail on the ground. Isn't this your invention? How can it be in Syria too? ”

As a result, the convoy that remained in the handover area fell into bad luck.

And when he looked at the center of the handover area, he found the gas tank fragments on the ground that had obvious characteristics left after the explosion!

"It's a lot of fun."

Chen Shen shook his head lightly and continued:

"We've only used it once in Syria, almost a month ago."

"At that time, we had already started to add tail fins to gas canister shells and use wheeled adjustable gun mounts."

Of course, what surprised him was not that someone "could" carry out an attack, but that someone would "will" carry out an attack.

The white dog, who had always followed him closely, also followed his line of sight, and then frowned.

"Hell cannons? Advanced?! ”

"You mean, this attack has nothing to do with them?"

My black gloves are so easy to use, is it necessary to start another game?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Gas canister cannons.

Chen Shen gasped.

But this distance.

Seems a little too close!

Chen Shen raised the telescope, and the laser ranging data showed that the target of the rocket was only 2.6 kilometers away from his own position, which means that the distance between the shelling position and the handover area was less than 1.5 kilometers!

The early warning aircraft in the air have begun to search for the enemy, but the two sides do not communicate with each other radio, Chen Shen cannot report to the other party in time the location of the artillery reconnaissance he discovered, and the other party cannot quickly search for the artillery reconnaissance personnel who use anti-infrared shielding like the Dongfeng Corps from the air!

Seeing the casualties of the Free Army personnel in the transfer area, the helicopters in the air finally began to move.

Immediately afterward, Chen Shen saw a series of huge fires rising from behind the sand dunes in the distance, and the continuous shelling stopped.

Under the premise that there are fighter planes and early warning planes in the air, armored vehicles and infantry on the ground to defend them, and helicopters at low altitudes to maintain fire output, it is completely unexpected that the handover personnel can still be shelled.

"There is a good chance that the information has leaked - either there are internal ghosts within the Syrian government army, or there are geniuses among the enemies we attacked last time."

In an instant, a terrifying thought flashed through Chen Shen's mind.

Under his leadership, more than a dozen members of the Dongfeng Corps quickly moved away from the original lurking position, dispersed for hundreds of meters and re-hidden, while Chen Shen himself selected a relatively high sand dune and continued to observe the situation at the handover site below.

"I'm more inclined to the latter, though."

"Syria is where this stuff originated. But we've certainly facilitated it. ”

Chen Shen frowned, but at this time, he couldn't think too much.

"Do they need it?"

"Now it looks like they've almost completely copied our design."

The artillery group was knocked out?

Chen Shen sighed softly and replied:

First of all, for Maozi, the airfield they want has not yet been deployed, and the power projection here is completely not up to the level of NATO.

Are you kidding?

Even if it's Maozi, how can they not act like this?

Really tear your face into S3 ahead of schedule?

After the first round of cold artillery fire for calibration, the second round of shells landed in the center of the field accurately, although the Free Army had organized personnel to get out of the car to take shelter in a very short time, but the blast wave that swept through still overturned several people, and the last two people were even directly covered by the overpressure zone at the center of the explosion, and exploded into a cloud of blood mist!

"Boom - boom -—— boom -——"

"The situation is getting more and more complicated-—— how do I feel, this time Lao Mei has also been put on the table??"

The white dog groaned for a moment, and subconsciously said:

"Isn't it what thieves shout to catch thieves that they do best? Is it possible that they are deliberately trying to exacerbate the contradictions? ”

Exactly 30 seconds after the shelling began, the first round of rockets was fired.

Explosions rang out one after another, and everyone, including the captives, scattered, but the shells followed.

Judging from the current intensity of artillery fire, this is definitely not an offensive that can be fought by small forces, this is completely a cluster of heavy artillery bombardment!

Chen Shen was completely stunned.

But if the north really wants to make trouble, why not go through yourself?

This is not a heavy artillery group!

"It's not difficult to just make a gas cannon, but it's hard to use this thing to carry out such accurate intermittent shelling."

What exactly is the picture?

Judging from the current situation, there is no reason to attack in the few countries that have the ability to launch intermittent artillery strikes.

"Either way, what is certain now is that the deal has been completely broken."

"Next, the situation will inevitably develop in an unstable direction."

"In the most extreme case, the entire Middle East could be dragged into the water."

"But there is also the possibility that the civil war in Syria will come to an abrupt end."

"Truce? Why? ”

The white dog couldn't understand the deep meaning of Chen Shen's words at all, and Chen Shen didn't want to explain too much at this time.

He just silently looked at the junction area in the distance, observing the movements of the two sides.

By this time, it was clear that the government forces had made contact with the Free Army and reached a basic consensus.

When the ground forces of the Free Army were unable to come to support, government forces on standby from a distance entered the battlefield and began to rescue the wounded.

This round of shelling caused at least 30 casualties, and the Free Army suffered heavy losses, but the STS prisoners, who were already relatively quick to react, escaped the shelling and had an astonishing survival rate.

The center of the site was littered with severed limbs, and government military medical personnel had to carry severed arms under their armpits.

At the same time, there were people who were frantically digging into the floating earth that had been stirred up by the explosion, trying to dig out the wounded who had already been buried.

At this moment, the warring sides temporarily put aside their opposing positions and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the rescue operation.

Because they have all realized that this thing has happened beyond everyone's plan.

If we fail to remain calm and exercise restraint, the situation that both sides will face will become more difficult than ever.

The rescue lasted a full two hours, and Chen Shen also watched for two hours.

During this period, according to the intelligence guidance of the Free Army, the government army sent ground troops to the enemy artillery positions to organize interceptions, and after their arrival, Chen Shen finally received the latest information.

It was confirmed that it was a gas canister and that it was related to extremist forces.

But they didn't catch it alive.

All the extremist militants who did not have time to retreat committed suicide by swallowing their guns, and there was not even a chance to capture them for the government troops!

This is not something ISIS can do.

Although their thinking is extreme, they definitely do not have this kind of ruthlessness that would rather be broken than destroyed.

And most of the JD organizations that can do this kind of thing are not in Syria.

Iraq?

Chen Shen's mind suddenly seemed to have a thunderbolt flashing.

Yes, in 2011, the biggest change in the situation in the Middle East as a whole was, without a doubt, the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

Now, at the end of April and the beginning of May, the large-scale evacuation operation has begun, various armed sects in Iraq have begun to be active, and a large amount of weapons and equipment left behind in US military bases have also begun to flow into the "civilian" market.

The conflict is intensifying, and in such a situation, it is likely that the factions that have reached a stalemate will find ways to find other breakthroughs.

Syria is the best breakthrough at present.

But here comes the problem again.

Even if they want to find a breakthrough on the Syrian side, they will provoke the United States to do chicken feathers?

Chen Shen felt that his brain was about to explode, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

And it was at this moment that the order to evacuate arrived.

The group quickly packed up their equipment and began to evacuate along the predetermined route.

Two hours later, the group returned to Aleppo, and Suhail was already waiting in the operational command room.

From his expression, Chen Shen had reached the point where things were more complicated than he imagined.

And sure enough, after the door of the command room was closed, Su Haier's first sentence made Chen Shen directly stunned in place.

"We have found clues about the attackers."

"Who is it?"

Chen Shen immediately asked.

"Iraqi Naqshbandi Order Army."

“？？？ Are you sure?! ”

Chen Shen's eyes widened, he would never have thought that Su Haier would say such a name anyway!

The so-called Nakshbandi Order Army is actually an "armed group" active in western and central Iraq, and the reason why they are not called "JD Group" is because their predecessor was actually Saddam's Republican Guard.

They are a group of "losers" who have been resisting the puppet government supported by the United States in various forms since the Saddam Hussein government stepped down, and have indeed caused quite a number of "quasi-terrorist attacks", and even in the later period, they also cooperated with ISIS to attack cities near Mosul and Salah al-Din.

But the problem is that the concept of this organization is still fundamentally different from ISIS, and their contradictions and conflicts have always existed, and after ISIS officially developed and expanded, the two have also completed the separation and finally parted ways.

In essence, they actually have only one goal, and that is to "restore the country".

All their actions are premised on this big goal, and they have never intervened in matters that have nothing to do with it.

This has determined that their area of activity is basically limited to Iraq.

But now, Suhail said conclusively that they launched the attack this time?

What about the evidence?

"What about the evidence?"

Chen Shen then asked.

Su Haier handed Chen Shen a stack of photographs, which recorded the details of the destroyed artillery array in all directions.

Chen Shen saw at a glance what Su Haier wanted him to see - a batch of M4A1 assault rifles.

Specifically, the focus is not on the gun, but on the sights on it.

AN/PEQ-5 laser sight.

This thing is quite common, and most of the green lasers that shoot everywhere in the American blockbuster are fired from this thing.

However, if it is placed in the Middle East and mounted on the M4A1, then it has a very special significance.

Most of the time, there is only one team that will use it.

Green berets, or the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion, formed under their direction.

Chen Shen instantly understood, so he asked:

"This batch of weapons is being followed?"

Suhail nodded and replied:

"According to the Free Army — or the United States, yes."

"The guns were originally eliminated from the Green Berets and later resold to a Kurdish businessman, who in turn distributed the weapons to a number of different customers."

"Most of these customers are still under the CIA's surveillance."

"The only thing that can't be monitored is the Nakshbandi Order."

"Now that these weapons have appeared in Syria, it basically means that the Nakshbandi Order has arrived in Syria."

"We don't know exactly why they did this, but one thing is certain-—— they took this action as a retaliation against the United States."

"The brain was kicked by a donkey."

Chen Shen couldn't help but scold.

"It's true that they've put us in a completely passive position without getting anything out of it."

"Of course, it can also be said that we don't know what benefits they can get yet."

"But one thing is certain-—— if we don't catch those behind this operation, our negotiations with NATO will break down completely."

"All the efforts made in the early stage will come to naught, and the situation that has been so stable will collapse immediately."

"So."

"You want us to do this?"

Chen Shen interrupted Su Haier and asked bluntly.

"Yes, this will be included in the scope of the contract we agreed on."

"Of course, we will provide additional compensation."

"Understood."

Chen Shen nodded and didn't say much.

It's just that, looking at Su Haier's slightly tired expression, a sadness has risen in his heart.

That's right, a weak country not only has no diplomacy, but even basic survival is a luxury.

It is clear that he is the party that occupies reason, but he still needs to rely on the handouts of the big country that is the enemy to have a way to live.

——

But fortunately, this has nothing to do with Chen Shen.

At the end of the day, he's just a mercenary.

Even as a black glove, it represents the position of the stronger side.

Thinking of this, Chen Shen patted Su Haier's shoulder, and then said:

"Help me get my intel and equipment ready."

"We'll leave as soon as possible."

(End of chapter)