An Iraqi girl smiled and waved to American soldiers armed with M16 and A4 rifles, while soldiers waved in friendly greeting. The soldier Riddle, who narrowly escaped, shouted and was fooled, and then quickly set up a gun to prepare to return fire, and the achievement of a headshot made his comrades praise one after another. But at this time, Riddle was not happy, because this was the first time he shot and killed.
At this time, Riedl's Red Platoon was trapped by Iraqi militia in a civilian house in Sadr City, and the US First Cavalry Division immediately entered the first level of combat readiness to rescue them.
At the same time, several M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks of the Crusader Rapid Reaction Force had also set out for the rescue. However, at this time, the tank movement had long been expected by the Iraqi militia.
Subsequently, the headquarters of the US First Cavalry Division received information of the attack on the rapid reaction force. They were ambushed by militia in the middle of the support, and at the cost of wounding four soldiers and one killed, they had to retreat to the base in panic, and all the burden of rescue fell on the lieutenant colonel's shoulders. He immediately ordered the battalion to be divided into three rescue groups and immediately go to Sadr City in a number of Humvees and a small number of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
However, as everyone knows, the Iraqi militia at this time has already calculated all their rescue routes. The militia's strategy of encircling and providing assistance is already being realized step by step. At this time, the first rescue team had crossed the wall of fire to reach the crossfire area, but they were blocked by a bus. The other path is clearly a trap set by Iraqi militias. However, if the same way is returned, the rescue operation will be delayed by an hour.
After much deliberation by Denomi, the leader of the First Rescue Team, he finally informed the lieutenant colonel that he had decided to risk diverting and continue the rescue mission. And his decision with a fluke mentality is also destined to lead his subordinates to death. The premeditated militia immediately blocked the road entered by the first rescue team with a bus and set it on fire with Molotov cocktails.
At the same time, the second rescue team in the other base began to set out for the target area under the personal leadership of the lieutenant colonel. At this time, the first rescue team was ambushed by the militia unexpectedly, and for a while the entire street was full of bullets and dust. At this time, several M240B general-purpose machine guns loaded by the US military played a huge role with a rate of fire of 650 rounds per minute. All the outcropping enemy troops were mercilessly shot, bombed, bombed! Faced with another ambush of the First Rescue Team, the operational command already understood that this rescue operation was about to turn into another "Black Hawk Down". The whole battle has entered a state of anxiety, and the two M2 infantry fighting vehicles behind carry a 25mm M242 chain cannon, but because they are in a narrow street, they cannot see the close-range target has become a decoration.
At this moment, a soldier was shot in the thigh, becoming the first wounded soldier in the rescue team, and the soldiers anxiously waiting for rescue in the red platoon on the other side began to be soldiers. A soldier armed with an M16A4 rifle immediately shot a piece of clothes that was drying out. At this time, the second rescue team had entered Sadr City and came to the location of the bus, and the road to convergence with the first rescue team was no longer passable, and the lieutenant colonel had no choice but to choose to part with the first rescue team and go to the target place.
Since then, three U.S. squads in Sadr City have been successfully divided and surrounded by militia.
