The first update

The U.S. soldiers who broke into Baghdad finally realized what a nightmare was. When they were confronted with RPG-armed bazookas or elusive snipers in the alleys of Baghdad, Baghdad's vanguard felt like a hornet's nest. After nightfall, Iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian clothing took advantage of the cover of darkness to carry out sneak attacks and strikes on US military convoys and fire positions.

The front line is constantly feeding back the latest information, the Republican Guard in Baghdad has set up a powerful anti-aircraft fire network, the US AC130 gunboat air support is not effective at all, and the other side uses detour and interspersed tactics to divide the US military from the whole into a quick encirclement, and the air support is simply unable to distinguish who is the enemy and who is the friendly army.

The flames lit up the sky, and the city of Baghdad was filled with burning flames, and although the members of the death squads and Republican Guard knew that they were isolated and that the American troops continued to break into the city, they would not give up the fight against the invaders as long as their leader's orders remained.

General Binford looked at the information fed back from the front with a solemn expression, although the support that continued to rush to Baghdad in the back alleviated part of the pressure on the defenders in the city, but in the face of an unknown number of "guerrillas" who were good at sports warfare, the US troops equipped with advanced electronic communication equipment lost their advantage in this hand-to-hand combat. Because the enemy did not show that he wanted to occupy the street pass, in order to destroy the living forces of the American army to the greatest extent.

And Saddam's counterattack plan is still a backup plan formulated for him by the Soviet high-brass, that is, once he fails to intercept the advance of the US invaders from a large-scale battle. Then using street fighting in civilian areas would be the best option for Saddam Hussein's elimination.

"It's a repeat of a Somali nightmare, how long has it been since we've had such a fierce encounter? From Okinawa, Nagatsu to Keizan Mountain. We have never lost to any powerful armored force, and Saddam's so-called Fourth Army is like a piece of tissue paper that can be split in front of us. But who can tell me why the United States loses to the other side every time in terms of guerrilla tactics? ”

Binford's fury made the staff present hold their breath and dare not answer, the so-called most advanced US military combat system has been repeatedly defeated by troops inferior to him in equipment and strength in the past 50 years since 1945, Binford can't figure it out.

"Immediately send the air force to support the besieged troops and rescue them from the enemy."

Binford issued an order that changed everyone's faces. The staff officer beside him whispered with some embarrassed faces. "But Washington will not allow us to carry out air-to-ground strikes over the city of Baghdad, and if civilians are harmed, our delicate position will be even more questioned."

Washington hoped that General Binford would be able to control the war and annihilate Saddam's armored forces on the plains. Try to minimize large-scale street fighting in the city. If there are large-scale civilian casualties, then Washington will face public pressure from all sides.

"I don't care if the Iraqi people live or die, and I don't care what Washington thinks, I just want to say that the order is carried out. Soldier. "Binford's tough attitude made the others look at each other. They didn't know how to refuse a command from the commander to forgive them.

"I say, carry out the order, soldier. I am alone responsible for the results of heavy civilian casualties, and now immediately launch gunboat air strikes on Baghdad, do you hear clearly? Binford accentuated his tone, and the people around him finally began to carry out Binford's orders, using A-10 attack aircraft to fire support and strike at any suspicious targets on the ground from above.

The whole city seemed to be in purgatory, with explosions and artillery fire everywhere. The attitude of the US military has also changed from trying to keep the situation in Baghdad to the smallest possible to destroying all existing enemies no matter what the cost. At the risk of being locked by SAM missiles, the A10 attack aircraft searched for targets over the dark city, and once they found a suspicious target, they immediately released their artillery from the sky to the ground.

But the U.S. clearly got one thing wrong. The battlefield success brought by the A10 attack aircraft in 1991 led the US military to believe that in an area like Iraq, where the air defense fire network was weak, there was no need to worry about being locked and shot down by SAM missiles, after all, their planes still had such things as hot decoys. But the United States thought about one thing wrong, that is, when the Soviet Union helped Saddam Hussein draw up this plan, it sent almost as many SAM anti-aircraft missiles as it sent RPG bazookas.

Before the A10 attack planes that arrived over Baghdad could deploy support, the radar heard a warning sound of being locked by an anti-aircraft missile. When the SAM missile was detected approaching him, the pilot did not hesitate to drop the thermal decoy bomb.

The missile exploded in its own tail and managed to escape, and after the first anti-aircraft missile exploded, the next second, third seemingly endless anti-aircraft missiles were aimed at them.

"Didn't you tell us that there were only a small number of anti-aircraft missiles? Why are there so many? "The pilot's choice to evacuate is over, and now Baghdad is like Somalia in 1992, as long as enough RPGs are launched, they can hit several Black Hawk helicopters by faith.

Two of the five A10 attack planes sent on the mission were shot down, and the remaining one fled back with a damaged tail, so that even air support was cut off, and the ground attacking armored forces could only rely on the slow advance of the armored forces attacking on the ground to rescue the besieged troops.

It was not just the anti-aircraft fire network of MANPADS that became a nightmare for Iraqi soldiers, the bomb-vest-clad suicide squads loyal to Saddam, elite personnel selected from death squads to raid armored vehicles and Humvees while the US military was unsuspected, with bombs strapped to seriously injure half a city of people. The tactics of not entering the stream, which Saddam's army completely disdained before, were all used to inflict maximum damage on the US military.

Saddam's army, which had been defeated in the desert operation, showed its toughest side in Baghdad, so strong that the top command of the US military suddenly thought that they were facing the terrible communist army in Hue in 1968, not Saddam's army, which was defeated in mid-1991 before the war began.

"General Binford, our air support has not been able to get into the designated area, and the enemy's anti-aircraft fire network is stronger than we thought. While our reinforcements have routed the outermost forces, the besieged forces are being weakened. "Colonel Benny used the purpose of weakening rather than annihilating, in order to accommodate General Benford's mood at this time.

"Dawn is coming, so our opportunity has come, increase the intensity of the offensive, I don't care if there are a large number of casualties in the civilian area, I just need to rescue my troops from the siege, and then I will bear the accountability of Washington."

In the absence of air cover, the advance became slow and bloody, and almost every step forward cost blood, while the Iraqi guerrillas, who also suffered heavy casualties, did not flinch until they were wiped out.

After daybreak, the gunfire began to thin out, and after a night of fierce fighting, the American support forces eliminated the vast majority of the attacking troops, and the besieged troops were rescued one after another. Those or others kissed the cross on their chests with palpitations, and said slowly, "Thank God for ending this nightmare." ”

However, the battle did not make the Americans smile in victory, because the situation in Baghdad became more severe, and a small number of people abandoned their guns and turned into civilians to hide in residential areas, and because of the indiscriminate attack of the American army, the indignation of the civilian side was aroused, and the idea of driving the American invaders from the land became ingrained in their minds.

Only the Soviet Union, hiding behind the scenes, smiled at the fruits of victory, and the tactics of the plan, which were almost adapted from the experience of the American military in Iraq after 2003, were proposed by the top leader of the Soviet Communist Party. At that time, the Soviet military leadership did not believe that Yanayev's plan would have much effect, and the Soviet army, accustomed to crushing everything with a torrent of steel on the European plains, really could not understand the essence of guerrilla tactics and urban street fighting.

The U.S. military has opened a hornet's nest in Iraq and ignited the momentum of war, and all it needs to do now is to drag them into the quagmire and abyss of burning war funds. (To be continued.) )