Chapter 7: Fire Burns the Wicked Son (Part 1)

  The village was eerily quiet, with no villagers in sight.

  Laim felt uneasy, there should be more than 400 people hiding in the village, now over 200 were killed or injured, where did the other 200 go? Burissa was also nowhere to be found, nor was the head of Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch. Just as he thought about this, suddenly a loud explosion came from a mud hut, it was the sound of a grenade exploding. Just before that, two US soldiers had gone into that room for searching and never came out.

  At this time, two people with tattered clothes and covered in soot emerged from the two collapsed houses. One was a lame man with a thick beard, leaning on a wooden stick, walking towards an armored vehicle; the other was a woman wearing a headscarf, seemingly crazy, staring wide-eyed, letting out a strange laugh, revealing a row of white teeth, stumbling towards the US soldiers.

  No good, human bomb! Laim shouted: "Get down!" Before he finished speaking, two loud explosions sounded, smoke and dust filled the air, one person's body was blown up against the armored vehicle's tracks, another person's body turned into a piece of flesh flying horizontally in mid-air.

  At the same time, an armored vehicle was blown up and couldn't move, and two U.S. soldiers also fell down.

  The Americans were stunned.

  Colonel Duncan wiped away a clot of blood that had splattered onto his face, still shaken.

  This scene seems all too familiar.

  Lai Mei remembered the self-defense counterattack before crossing, initially suffered a big loss, the Vietnamese army learned China's tunnel warfare to be out of this world, digging holes and tunnels everywhere, although the position was flattened by my artillery fire, but when my troops rushed over, the Vietnamese army would come out of the hole to counterattack, causing not small casualties for my troops.

  At that time, he was the head of the military intelligence department. To obtain the firepower deployment points of the Vietnamese army, he personally led a company of special operations troops to infiltrate the enemy's rear. The Vietnamese army division headquarters was set up in a village house. They launched a surprise attack and destroyed the Vietnamese army division headquarters, capturing the division chief of staff and obtaining the enemy's firepower deployment map. Finally, they captured the enemy division commander in a thatched hut. Just as they were taking the enemy division commander out, an old woman suddenly rushed out with a package of explosives, which exploded, killing the enemy division commander. However, one of our deputy company commanders and five soldiers also sacrificed their lives... Laim thought about this and ordered: "Stop the infantry search, armored vehicles and tanks charge in!" Dozens of armored vehicles and tanks played the role of bulldozers, smashing into the earth-built walls and houses.

  In the thunder-like roar of motorcycles, building after building collapsed with a loud crash.

  In less than an hour, Bayaz village was completely flattened into a pile of rubble, with even the few remaining walls of the mosque being knocked down.

  However, Briza was still nowhere to be found.

  Not a single member of Al-Qaeda was found.

  When the Apache helicopter came to attack Baya Chi village, Hashib led his troops in a hasty retreat.

  Hashi was in his thirties, he joined the Republican Guard at an early age and served as a junior lieutenant platoon leader. He shot and killed his superior officer over a woman and fled.

  He fled to Afghanistan, joined the Ben Laden organization, received terrorist training, and returned to Iraq a year later. He gathered more than 20 street hooligans, organized an armed organization called the Iraqi Holy War Army according to the original doctrine, robbed, trafficked, killed and looted, and the business they did was basically the same as that of the old Chinese bandits, and it can be said that they were evil and lawless.

  In 1997, Haseeb led his Mujahideen forces in an attack on the village of Bayaziz, killing all the men, elderly and children, leaving only women who were distributed as spoils among his followers.

  Outwardly, Baya Zy was still a village, but in reality Hishab had transformed the village into a base and fortress for carrying out terrorist activities.

  Although Hashish was a cruel bandit, he also had some military talent.

  Bayaji area belongs to hilly area, near the Euphrates River, with complex terrain and crisscrossing gullies. He organized manpower to dig many tunnels and trenches, connecting these natural gullies and trenches into a four-way underground network, and set up shooting points and hidden forts at some narrow passes and main road sections, making Bayaji village a military base fortress.

  This tactic is similar to the "tunnel warfare" in Chinese movies, Saddam's regime had also repeatedly besieged and swept through, when government troops arrived, they would dig into tunnels, leaving only a few people disguised as villagers in Bayaz village, while the rest disappeared without a trace.

  Over the years, his Holy Warrior Army has grown in strength and now boasts a force of six or seven hundred armed men.

  The "Desert Rats Operation" he planned was also a perfect and flawless plan to annihilate the enemy.

  Bremer is the candidate for Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Iraq, who has gained the trust of the US military. With Bremer as the frontman, Salem was sent as a "messenger" to report and lure the US military to Baiji, which would not arouse any suspicion from the US military.

  As soon as the US military enters Bayazic village, one hundred will die if they come one hundred, and one thousand will die if they come one thousand. Because of the strong firepower of landmines and bombs, the battle will be over in less than half an hour. By the time the US military comes to their senses, they will have been blown to pieces and seen the true Lord.

  But how did the US military uncover this plan? Breeze's betrayal was unknown to anyone, and Salem was a loyal fighter of the base organization.

  Hashi thought hard but couldn't figure out where the problem lay.

  He knew that once the plan went bankrupt, what awaited was the crushing revenge of the US military.

  The US military counterattacked, and more than 200 holy warriors were killed in the Apache bombing and strike. Only half of them escaped into the tunnel. As they entered the tunnel, a confusing situation occurred again - the ditch was filled with crude oil, and as soon as they stepped on it, a large amount of oil pollution was brought up.

  An hour ago, some people in the Holy War Army also saw an oil tanker parked nearby, which broke down and caused crude oil to leak.

  At that time, he didn't think much of it because oil tankers often passed by and sometimes broke down on the road.

  Something unusual happened today, according to the statistics of personnel scattered at various intersections and sections, a total of five oil tankers were stranded, with a large amount of crude oil leaking into the ditch.

  Now that I think about it, things are not good. An oil tanker can hold more than 20 tons of crude oil, and these five tankers have over a hundred tons of crude oil.

  If this was an intentional act by the US military, then there may be even more oil tankers anchoring and hundreds of tons of crude oil leaking into the ditch. Why would the US military want to leak so much crude oil into the ditch? Fire! Hashi suddenly thought that if a spark fell into this ditch, it would be over, and this ditch would become a fire ditch.

  Hundreds of tons of crude oil are burning, and the village will be surrounded by a sea of fire! On the ground, it's the US military's iron cannons pounding away, while underground, there's the possibility of an oil-fired inferno - if that happens, then we'll truly be in a desperate situation.

  The more Hashi thought about it, the scarier it became.