the world is at stake

The resistance of the Iraqis was unexpectedly tenacious. The battlefield was scorched and the casualties turned into numbers.But several rounds of thermobaric bombs did not shake their will, let alone make them flee.

Once the storm becomes a stalemate, it will be bad.

"How many people do we have?" Lieutenant Hassan counted his men and found that only one of his full-staffed reconnaissance company was in front of him.The others either died in battle or disappeared.

In the process of counting the number of people, another 'Red Arrow 73D' was fired from two kilometers away.Although it didn't hit anything this time, it scared the small army enough.

"Spread out and take cover in the terrain. The Iraqis are far better armed than the Palestinians."

Hassan jumped into a bomb crater, lay down on the soft floating soil and raised his binoculars to observe the surrounding area.The intelligence department's judgment was correct in one thing. The landing point of the airborne assault was indeed where the Iraqi army was weak.

"Bring the laser irradiation gun." Hassan ordered, "Send coordinates to the rear artillery battalion for laser guidance, and first kill the anti-tank position that is aiming at us."

The Israeli military equipment is good, and Hassan and others took the military GPS with excellent anti-jamming ability, and first determined their own coordinates.Then a laser beam is fired towards the opponent's position two kilometers away, and the device automatically gives new coordinates according to the reflection distance and angle.

The coordinates were sent to the rear artillery battalion through battlefield communications, and within two to three minutes, GPS-guided shells landed on the firing position of the 'Red Arrow-3D'.

Confirming that the target was destroyed, Hassan couldn't help but whistle.He felt that the Iraqis on the opposite side didn't know how he died.

But Hassan was obviously too young, and the anti-tank position on the opposite side did not stop, but attacked them again.The distance between the two sides was two kilometers, and ordinary rifles and mortars could not reach it. The 'Red Arrow-73D' was too slow and easy to dodge.

then……

A "Qianwei-2" individual anti-aircraft missile hit from the opposite side - the anti-aircraft missile was changed to a ground-to-ground missile, and it was also an infrared staring, fragmented warhead. Twice the speed of sound.

With a distance of two kilometers and only three seconds, Hassan and the others were searching for other targets in the night vision goggles when they suddenly found that the opponent's missile hit them in front of them.

The moment the warhead exploded, Hassan and his men clearly felt the difference—such a high flying speed was definitely not for hitting tanks.

Nima, the prodigal son of Iraq, used the plane to beat our infantry.

The warhead of 'Qianwei-2' does not have much charge, and it is powerless to fight light armored vehicles, but it makes the infantry in front of it scream.

Hassan himself jumped over the wall in a hurry, and fell into the deepest part of a crater.And his subordinates screamed continuously, and four or five people were killed or injured.

"Why didn't the guided shell just kill those Iraqis?" Hassan was puzzled, "The coordinates we gave are obviously very accurate."

The communicator contacted the rear artillery group again and asked to bomb the coordinates just now to cover the shooting.The Israeli artillery thought that the scouts had discovered some big target, so they dispatched a battalion to fire half a base number of shells.

Under the vigorous shelling, the anti-tank position on the opposite side finally became inactive.

Hassan and others found an airborne motor vehicle on the battlefield and drove over to confirm the results of the battle.

No special target was found at the scene, only two bombed corpses, about seventeen or eighteen years old, were found.They were dressed in local villager costumes, and one of them was a girl, who appeared to be siblings.

As for why the first round of shelling failed to kill them, it is probably because the console of the 'Red Arrow-73' was separated from the launcher.The two sides can be separated by more than [-] meters.

Looking at the dead and injured subordinates, and knowing that the only people killed were locals who were not even counted as militiamen, Hassan could be said to be cursing.He ordered to search for equipment from the destroyed armored reconnaissance vehicle and picked up a set of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

This thing made the Israeli scouts overjoyed, and quickly launched it into the air, using the infrared lens to find high-value targets on the battlefield.

The lieutenant himself squatted in a bomb crater to use the control terminal, staring at the LCD screen and intending to indicate the target to the superior.He gave priority to flying the drone towards the river bank to see if the armored forces had a firm foothold.

From the perspective of the Israeli army, as long as each ferry can have a company of 'Mekava 3' rushing over, the Iraqi army will be helpless.

This is the experience of wars in the Middle East for many years, and the Arabs only have blood and courage.Once their brains are hot, they dare to do great things.But as long as it takes a few shots, it will be 'the tree falls and the monkeys scatter'.

After all, Iraqi tanks have long been outdated, and their firepower and armor are very poor.

Judging from the pictures sent back by the drone, although the ferry was just attacked by a wave of submunitions and terminal bombs, there was still a platoon of 'Mekava' who successfully crossed the river.

Hassan immediately relaxed and laughed happily.As long as the river is successfully crossed, the follow-up Israeli army will continue to kill, and there will be no obstacles on the way to Baghdad.

A great victory is at hand.

It wasn't long before the laughter sounded, and there was a bang on the tidal flat battlefield at the ferry, even Hassan and others could hear it from a long distance away.

The results of the shelling were shown in the footage sent back by the drone. The turret of a 'Mekava 3' was hit directly - this tank appeared frequently in the Middle East, and there were many pictures of its damage, but the ones that were destroyed were Very rare.

The 'Mekava 3' has a dish-shaped turret with multiple layers of composite armor inside. It is very effective against Palestinian rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles, and it is difficult to penetrate even if it is hit.

But this time, the composite armor that was ridiculed by military powers as "three plywood" showed its original shape.It failed to withstand the impact of the high-speed core, and was directly penetrated after hitting.

Although it did not trigger a secondary explosion of the internal ammunition, the tank suddenly stopped moving.Its internal members are absolutely dead.

Hassan was startled, it was different from the anti-tank missile that hit the armored scout vehicle just now.The flight speed of individual anti-tank missiles is relatively slow, and it definitely does not have such head-to-head power.

It is an armor-piercing projectile, and it must be a high-velocity armor-piercing projectile.This is not what the old Soviet T-series tanks of the Iraqi army can shoot. It must have a heavy-duty anti-tank gun with a large caliber.

What made Hassan even more horrified was that this unknown anti-tank gun fired extremely fast.It fired again a few seconds later, and five consecutive shots were heard within half a minute.

Even in an extremely noisy battlefield environment, the sound of the cannons was like thunder, shaking the surrounding fields.And every time it shows its power, there must be an Israeli tank at the opposite ferry.

After knocking down three Merkava 3s in a row, the remaining Israeli tanks sought refuge in the low places on the river bank.The gun probably couldn't find the target, and instead bombarded the field pontoon bridge being repaired.

The pontoon bridge was hit by a 155mm shell and broke in two.Two dozen Israeli engineers removed the broken parts and reconnected the pontoon bridge with spare parts.

The work was about to be completed, and two large-caliber armor-piercing projectiles directly penetrated the surface of the floating bridge.Thousands of fragments were blasted from the metal bridge deck, and the flesh and blood of the engineers standing on the bridge or under the bridge were blown away.

The water under the bridge was instantly red.

Hassan looked at it furiously, maddened by hatred.He immediately noticed a detail. The footage captured by the drone was real-time, but it took a few seconds for the sound of the artillery to reach his ears.

Considering such a high burst rate of fire, Hassan came to a conclusion after simply estimating the time and direction: "This is a self-propelled anti-tank gun. It is one kilometer south of us."

Such a highly threatening artillery, certainly cannot sit idly by.

Hassan's team immediately set out to find the cannon.When they moved hundreds of meters, they were intercepted by an Iraqi infantry, and the two sides exchanged fire immediately.

Within three minutes of the fight, Hassan confirmed that he had encountered a mob.Some fifty or so armed men came from nowhere, all with light weapons, not even a mortar.

These scumbags can only fight each other in silence, with no tactical coordination, let alone battlefield coordination.Hassan divided his subordinates into three small teams, and was able to suppress the opponent with precise shooting.

The only praiseworthy thing about these guys is that they are not afraid of death, they dare to stick to one position and keep firing until they die.

Among their equipment is a small grenade, similar to the M406 rifle grenade of the US military.At a distance of two hundred, it can accurately hit the air above the heads of the Israeli army.

Hassan himself was at fault for the grenade, as one flew past his scalp and exploded behind him.Shrapnel exploded and lodged in his thigh.He felt as if his flesh had been pierced by a branding iron, and he screamed in pain.

After half an hour of fighting, Hassan wiped out this small group of useless militia at the cost of five or six casualties.But he was not happy at all—the scouts of the Israeli army were all elites who had been trained for many years, and it was a shame that they died at the hands of a group of illiterate people who came from nowhere.

After the simple explosion, Hassan limped to the middle of the opponent and found the thing that could continuously fire grenades—it was a six-shot grenade machine gun, made in China.

More than half of the casualties were caused by this shit.

Hassan cursed angrily: "This thing is more annoying than the [-] mortar. It can shoot fast and accurately, and it can also explode in the air. If we see it in the future, we must kill it first."

There were originally more than 30 people in the team, but after the two losses, there were only a dozen combatants left, because the wounded had to be taken care of.But the good news is that Hassan doesn't need to look for that damn heavy anti-tank rear.

Half an hour ago, a 'Jedam' guided bomb dropped from the sky, blowing up a hidden bunker to pieces.

After Hassan and the others killed the militiamen blocking the way, they ran out of breath to complete the 'target damage assessment', and simply reported 'the target has been destroyed'

It's a PTZ-89 in pretty good disguise.It hides next to the destroyed anti-aircraft missiles, and the charred camouflage netting makes it easy to judge it as non-threatening.

After firing, it did not intend to move, but continued to stay in place and bombarded the pontoon bridge.As a result, the heavy pontoon bridge on the opposite side was completely useless, and it was quickly locked in place.

The bomb dropped by the F-16 sent it to heaven.

"Why doesn't it escape?"

"Maybe it's because there's no escape."

"Didn't you find it, this gun should be the only resistance firepower in the nearby positions."

'Jedam' is very powerful, and the hit is very accurate, basically blowing up this bicycle chariot.The turret was completely gone, and only the engine and other large parts remained on the car body. The tracks and road wheels flew hundreds of meters away.

The battlefield near 'Zaidan' gradually became quiet. Except for the bomb crater and corpses, Hassan and others did not find any targets that needed to be killed at the scene.

They aimed their guns for a long time, searched in the night vision goggles, and announced that the forced landing site was completely safe.

But it doesn't make any sense.

The pontoon bridge of the Israeli army at this point disappeared, and the engineers who erected the bridge suffered heavy casualties, and the armored troops that did not cross the river were scattered to other crossing points.Those who have crossed the river will make a roundabout outflank.

Hassan and the others suffered heavy casualties, and they were ordered to stay where they were, and a transport helicopter would come to pull them away.

After waiting for a short time, there was a burst of humming footsteps on the battlefield.An old local man appeared in front of Hassan and the others with a bag full of scones and four or five jugs filled with water.

The old man probably came to deliver food to the front line.He had trouble seeing at night, and thought Hassan and others who were hiding were his own.

But when he got closer, he found that the PTZ-89 had fallen apart, and when he saw the enemy pointing the gun at him, the old man's hunched back suddenly straightened.He was not excited, but cursed in a low voice: "Despicable Jew."

chug chu...

Hassan's thigh hurt badly, and angrily shot and killed the old man, just like killing a child in Palestine.Not long after, the Israeli army sent helicopters to take away these elites and put them into other attack directions.

By daybreak, the flames of war gradually subsided.

Women in black robes walked out of the village one by one and walked along the dirt road to the battlefield full of bomb craters and gunpowder smoke.They could not sleep and prayed all night amidst the sound of gunfire, and after dawn they went to look for their husbands and children full of sorrow.

But the fields are gone, the homes are broken, and only the crawlers of the invaders are running over.The cruel war destroyed all illusions.Few family members can be reunited, and most of them can only find the dead body.Some of them couldn't even find their bodies.

Several women found the old man's body next to the wreckage of the artillery, and cried on the ground for a while.Then they picked up scones and jugs scattered on the ground, and collected some guns and ammunition on the battlefield.

The battle is doomed to continue, endlessly.

Chapter 40

For nearly half a month, Iraq was in full swing, but Zhou Qingfeng spent his time with Yilan.

As soon as there was a war in the Middle East, Yilan's spirit became obviously abnormal.Especially after North Korea played a trick of "Saddam killing his son to prove the truth", she was in a daze from time to time.

Curled up in a man's arms at night, Yilan would weakly ask: "Victor, can you replace Saddam? Come and save the Iraqi people.

Most of the Arabs in the Middle East are not bad, they are simply ignorant, and they need a great man to lead them out of their shackles and into modern times.

It's like... Taizu led the Chinese people to make a revolution. "

Only then did Elayne remind others that she was an Iraqi Kurd.Her father also joined Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard as an ethnic fence.

Zhou Qingfeng could only smile wryly at this, but he couldn't refuse it, and he couldn't just reason, and he couldn't talk about it as a diversion.Because his relationship with Yilan is even closer than that with Qin Qing, more like a lover.

"If I were to become the leader of a certain country in the Middle East, I'm afraid there would be a lot of heads to be killed, temples would be demolished everywhere, and all imams would be forced to raise pigs."

"There's nothing wrong with raising pigs. To demolish temples, just leave a few big ones."

Yilan replied softly, "The Qur'an still stipulates that alcohol is not allowed, but there are many Muslims who drink alcohol secretly. Things that were more than 1000 years ago should have been discarded long ago.

I have studied Chinese history carefully.In the past, China was also divided, with great ethnic conflicts and many extremely backward habits.But the Communist Party said it would be abolished, and it didn't seem to be difficult. "

Yilan has really carefully studied Chinese history, especially modern history.

Dare to say that many university professors may not know as much as she does.After all, the object of her discussion is either Xiao Jinlang or someone who "engages in the party and government", or at least a theoretical expert from the Central Party School.

Occasionally, those who "engage in the party and government" are good teachers, and like to chat with Yilan about history.He often scolded Zhou Qingfeng for being ignorant and simple-minded, and if Yilan was his daughter, he would never marry a reckless man.

But the innocence of the woman made Zhou Qingfeng smile bitterly again, and he whispered: "Before all the bad habits were abolished, China experienced a hundred years of war.

Counting from the Opium War in 1840, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Boxers, the Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains Chaos, and the Japanese invasion of China followed.

The series of catastrophes were miserable, but they completely destroyed all the cultural shackles of old China, and shoveled out one crop after another of the vested interest groups of the old era, just like washing a pair of graffiti into white paper.

Middle Eastern society is still a dark graffiti, and all kinds of messy forces are smeared on it.If you want to paint on this kind of paper, it will only get darker and darker.

From my personal point of view, the Middle East should be chaotic a few more times, so that everyone finds that the conventional path in the past is completely unworkable, and the chaos is so chaotic that all possible trials and errors must be put aside, so that there is a chance to start again.

Not enough people are dying now.

Even by absorbing part of the achievements of modern civilization, the old ideas are stronger and more stubborn.Vested interests are hard to return, and they will find ways to maintain the old system, which is the biggest enemy. "

Zhou Qingfeng is reckless, but when he looks at the problem, he hits the nail on the head and goes straight to the essence.

Every time I say this, Elayne just ends up crying.She is an extremely strong woman, who dared to drive a tank to fight on the battlefield, and dared to travel thousands of miles to serve as a mercenary for Zhou Qingfeng.

But the more she knew, the more powerless she felt.

"Sigh... If Saddam Hussein really put aside his personal honor and interests and would rather die than submit to Baghdad, I am willing to abandon all prejudices and die for him."

When Yilan learned that Saddam was determined to kill his son, she, who had always been a lady, screamed excitedly in the office.

But as much hope, so much disappointment.When she found out that the North Korean comrades were acting in all this, she threw the glass down on the spot and cried angrily.

Yilan usually knows the rules and never blows pillows.It's just that she sobbed for a while today, lying on the man's back and asking in a low voice: "Victor, can I..."

Zhou Qingfeng flatly refused: "This is a war that has never happened before, there is no way I would let you go to the battlefield."

"Then can you help?" Yilan asked pitifully: "Punish the despicable Jews and let them remember a lesson forever.

A lesson that the chosen Jewish people will never forget even if the reverse flow of time and space ends. "

Sigh... Zhou Qingfeng didn't want to get too involved in the bad debt in Iraq. The 'Holy Light' team is also assessing what impact this 'unexpected war' will bring?

The biggest possibility is that the space-time countercurrent will end immediately.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Qingfeng agreed to his woman's request.He first called Lao Xiao and the 'party and government' people.After internal discussions and a decision, he called Martha in Murmansk, Russia.

The two sides discussed how to maintain coordination on the issue of the Iraq war.