Raqqa City, the capital city of Raqqa Province in northeastern Syria, was once a key tourist city and economic city in northern Syria.

After the outbreak of ISIS militancy, it became the capital of ISIS, and it was in the city that ISIS also held its founding ceremony and so-called military parade.

But for the Raqqa people, the city is an indelible nightmare for all.

During the reign of ISIS, Raqqa became almost a veritable purgatory on earth.

Heinous torture, bloody beheadings, homosexuals thrown from rooftops and thrown to their deaths...... These may have been a small part of the news in the foreign media, but in fact, the situation was even worse in Raqqa at that time, and such pictures were played out in Raqqa every day.

And in a city where electricity and electricity are supplied for less than two hours a year, death and so-called punishment can be seen everywhere you walk out into the streets.

Smoking and drinking will result in severe punishment, with thieves having their hands cut off, and those who do not follow ISIS traditions being beheaded.

At that time, almost all of the Raqqa people were living in dire straits, and according to incomplete statistics, during the period when ISIS used Raqqa as its capital, more than half of them were Raqqa people, and fled to Turkey.

The remainder, each of them, has lost a loved one, and the vast majority have died at the hands of ISIS forces.

And the most heard sound every day is the sound of explosions, walking down the street, you can even see the bombs falling at any time.

Collapsed houses from explosions, and untended household garbage everywhere in the city. With no water or electricity in the scorching heat, the city is becoming uninhabitable.

After that, ISIS forces were crushed. ISIS fighters in Raqqa fled the city.

Kurdish forces took the opportunity to occupy the city, but although life was a little more stable for the people of the Pullaways, there were no unprovoked killings, and there were no falling bombs and explosions, but the living environment still did not change.

ISIS forces occupying the city. It is not taking care of the city, it is purely controlling the city's taxes, and it does not say that electricity and water will be connected. The poor outlook of life in the city continues.

And now, it has been going on for a year, and a large number of urban ruins have not been left unattended. Those who returned to the city in Raqqa. I can only watch my house collapse and live in a friend's house temporarily.

Every day, I need to travel to a long distance to fetch water, and then I can barely make ends meet.

And the Kurds who control Raqqa are simply collecting taxes and maintaining law and order, and nothing else.

Days like this have been going on for almost a year, just as the Raqqa people are gradually adjusting to this living situation.

An army emerges from a sandstorm that grazes past the edge of the city and leaves. Broke the calm here.

Outside the city of Raqqa, a sudden rise of troops. It made everyone in the entire city of Raqqa startled.

But soon, a radio rang out in the city, it was Ahmed's voice, the light in the hearts of every suffering Syrian, and following the guidance of the light, all the Raqqa people closed their doors and gambled on all the doors and windows.

Then the family hid in the cellar of the house and waited for the war to end.

All the Raqqas hate the ISIS soldiers, and they don't have any good feelings toward the Kurds.

They are more willing to believe in their inner faith, and in Ahmed's words, the time has come to save the Raqqa people.

At the same time, the Kurdish forces in Rakane were all disorganized, and a large number of armed forces began to disperse into the city, intending to resist with the help of the city's terrain.

The army outside the city does look very difficult to mess with, but there are not many of them, and they are not without a chance.

At the same time, outside the city of Raqqa, Ren Rui, a colonel of the Red Police Corps, was outside the command car, holding a telescope and looking at the city in the distance, which was almost as ruins as it were.

Compared to the city of Raqqa in peacetime, the current city of Raqqa is like a huge garbage dump, full of ruins and broken walls, and you can't see the appearance of the city at all.

Compared with the electronic map in his hand, Ren Rui turned off the map without hesitation, this map is useless at all, and the city in front of him is no longer what it used to be.

Numerous airstrikes against ISIS forces once entrenched in Raqqa have shattered the city.

Now in his hand is a hand-drawn map, on which is the current situation of the city of Raqqa.

Junctions blocked by collapsed buildings, street corners with large amounts of household garbage piled up, dangerous buildings facing collapse at any moment, and the main Kurdish strongholds and camps in Raqaneh.

Modern urban warfare has always been an important military discipline that cannot be discussed endlessly, and no soldier likes to attack cities or fight in an urban environment.

But Ren Rui is a special case, he has been studying how to fight better in the city, and he is one of the few officers in the Red Police Corps who specializes in urban combat as a key master.

And this time, the reason why he was able to lead the troops into Syria to fight was mainly because he had more understanding and command ability for urban operations, so he was appointed by Cai Ruichen as the commander of the ground operations force.

However, looking at the city in front of him, Ren Rui did not rush to attack, but asked all the troops to take a break for a while.

The two armored battalions marched more than 200 kilometers at high speed using tracks, and along the way they still flew the rhythm of tanks in the wind and sand.

He hoped that his soldiers would all be fully prepared for battle, rather than blindly attacking.

The most important thing is that because of the sandstorm, the air assault battalion under his command has not yet arrived on the battlefield, and he needs to take all the cities along the way at the minimum cost, and the air assault battalion is an important combat force.

Using the cover of wind and sand, the ground troops did smoothly penetrate more than 200 kilometers into Syria, but because of this sandstorm, helicopters could not pass through the sandstorm at all.

Only by waiting for the sandstorm to end can the helicopter enter here, and to strike these enemies in the city, he needs to quickly transport his troops to the city, disrupt the enemy's deployment, and then the ground forces are carrying out a surprise attack.

And now, the air assault battalion has departed from Mosul and is expected to arrive in an hour, which is just the right time for the troops to recuperate. (To be continued.) )