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1517 The 3rd Infantry Division in Dilemma

"Blow off the ground firepower!" Seeing that the air defense firepower shot from the ground actually exploded a fighter plane, the commander of the formation was furious.

In his opinion, the US military does not have medium and long-range air defense firepower, and even their fighter jets cannot arrive in a short period of time, so there will be no losses.

As a result, just now, a Su 22, who had been in service for more than ten years, was beaten up in the air.

How can you not be angry?

Several Russian-made ground-to-ground missiles mounted under the wings of MiG23 fighter jets began to fly towards the area on the ground where the flames were spewed out.

The ground was already filled with smoke, and the US tanks and armored vehicles were still desperately spraying smoke bombs into the surrounding environment. The sand and dust on the ground were stirred by the high-speed tanks, rising even more violently, and it was impossible to see the situation of the tanks on the ground clearly.

On the entire ground, tanks no longer break through to the outside, while hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles make the area within a radius of dozens of square kilometers extremely low visibility.

In such an environment, the visibility of US tanks and armored vehicles is also not very good. Tanks and armored vehicles that operate at high speed can sometimes not see the surrounding environment clearly. When turning, they will collide with the surrounding tanks or armored vehicles. The tank is hit. If it’s okay, just go back a little further and solve the problem.

The armored vehicle was hit by a tank weighing more than 60 tons at a speed of more than 70 yards, and soon overturned to the ground.

"Move, don't stop. All units, launch all the smoke bombs and stir up the dust!" The commander of the US military obviously discovered this situation and kept issuing such orders to all units in the entire team.

From a long distance in the sky, it is impossible to see these tanks and armored vehicles that are looming in the smoke and dust.

The fighter jets in the sky obviously did not have the fierce attacks as before at this time. They could not quickly find the target and lock in the target, and then dropped air-to-ground missiles.

Su22, used for ground bombing missions, has dropped all the bombs and is ready to return.

MiG in the air is still looking for a target.

"Pay attention to the smoke rising from the ground, where the smoke rising..." The commander obviously discovered this situation.

The other parts of the fighter jet group had already begun to bomb. They reached the target first, but they had no way to complete the attack at this time.

"Swish!" An air-to-ground missile rushed from under the wings of MiG23 towards a huge ball of smoke that had just risen.

"Boom!" A smoke and sand and dust that looked like a mushroom cloud exploded in an instant.

When the smoke of gunpowder becomes sparse, no smoke or dust rises in that place.

At the place where the explosion was originally exploded, black smoke emanated from behind a tank, but could not move, and the track on one side was blown off!

"We need reinforcements, where are the reinforcements? Where are our Air Force?" The commander on the ground asked the Ministry of Defense in the command vehicle for support.

The headquarters is gone, and the air command plane has returned to the United States.

They can only connect with the Ministry of Defense and the President through satellite systems.

At this time, everyone didn't know what to do.

"Order nearby fighter planes to go for rescue! Where are the fighter planes we patrol?" Bush almost roared and asked his men.

The Ministry of Defense has no such plan. The powerful US military is facing bombing from the weak Iraqi Air Force in their eyes at this time!

"Our Air Force patrols the southern region, with only 23 fighter jets in the air, and the fastest one will take half an hour to arrive!"

"Order them to go to rescue!" The president's face turned pale. "Touch Cheney again, our troops need him to command!"

"Minister Cheney is not suitable for commanding the entire war. Before that, he had no experience in commanding large-scale troops..." Someone refuted the president.

The US Secretary of Defense has always been a civil servant.

This is a tradition.

But now, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committed suicide in the war, and their front-line commander was at this time, and at this time, he had been bombed by Iraqi missiles and had not even found his body...

"Negotiate with the Iraqi government and temporarily cease fire..." Someone made serious suggestions.

The president was stunned.

"We first conduct a ceasefire negotiation with the Iraqis, rebuild our command system, and then beat them up. In the current situation, if we have no way to rebuild the entire command system, we will fall into infinite passiveness!"

The person who proposed this plan was not someone else, but Admiral David E. Jeremiah at this time, just the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell died and he was the supreme person in charge.

"David, our troops are now facing a blow from the Iraqi army and you need to command!" Seeing the vice chairman of the joint meeting, the president seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. "Even if he negotiated a ceasefire with them, he had to wait until the end of this battle..."

David did not refuse and accepted the president's authorization.

He soon began to fulfill his accusations.

First, through the domestic command system of the United States, the 3rd Cavalry Division of the US military around the Calabar area was mobilized to rescue the north, and ordered the 10th Mountain Division, which was the same as the 3rd Infantry Division and the 18th Airborne Army, to enter this area for rescue.

Iraqi tanks were frantically surrounding this side and carrying out large-scale ground battles, which the US military did not want to see, but it was no longer possible at this time.

The air force also has a large number of air fighters and ground attack aircraft taking off from various airports in Saudi Arabia.

Powell is communicating with Saudi Arabia now and can't control too much.

War is continuing on Iraq's territory.

The Dragon Guard tank troops of the Tikrit Army and their cooperative armored troops were less than twenty kilometers away from the battlefield. The bombing in the sky continued, and the Iraqi army was also rushing towards this area frantically.

The Third Cavalry Division, which had not received the order, knew that the friendly troops were being beaten, but they could not move at all!

"Shet! Order our troops to rush north! Beat the Iraqis!" The commander of the Third Cavalry Division kept receiving help from Brian, the commander of the North Third Infantry Division.

The contact with the Air Force Command is not very stable.

At present, the front-line command is gone, and the air force can only command domestically at various bases. Where is it still time? The Iraqi air force is conducting an orderly bombardment of armored troops on the ground, while their fighter jet fleet is still hundreds of kilometers away. It is unclear whether it has taken off.

"General, we have no orders! This is a very troublesome thing..." The Chief of Staff persuaded the commander. Although he also hoped to go to rescue at this time, the problem is that for them now, without air support, they would not be able to face the integrated air-ground operations in Iraq.

"The 24th Mass Division has been annihilated by them. If we do not react now, it is very likely that the 3rd Mass Division will be eaten by them! This will be a shame for our entire US Captain!" The Third Cavalry Division is about to withdraw its established troops, and the division commander Major General Pershing did not care about the bureaucrats of the Ministry of National Defense at all. "What's more, it's easier to explain to the superiors after the war than to persuade the bureaucrats above before the war!"

The commanders of the US military have always had personal heroism.

During wars, there are definitely not a minority of military commanders who do not obey commands. This is caused by the characteristics of the US military, because their army pays more attention to the so-called "human rights".

Without the Third Cavalry Division, they had no meaning at all. It was completely unimaginable for them who were from military backgrounds.

The 10th Mountain Division, which had not yet arrived in Nuhaib, was at this time when they knew that the Third Infantry Division on the front was surrounded by Iraqi troops. They began to speed up their progress. Originally, their mission was to clean up the wreckage of the 24th Infantry Division soldiers of their friendly forces, put them in body bags, and then rescue the wounded...

Now, all these tasks are handed over to the division command and logistics department, and the combat troops are mobilized and are moving forward quickly.

This is a light infantry division, just like the annihilated 24th MBA Division, which is surrounded by the 3rd MBA Division, and is also under the 18th Airborne Army. The Army Command is now ordering them to quickly rescue the 3rd MBA Division.

Once the Third Infantry Division is also killed by the Iraqis, the only army that the US military can deploy globally quickly will be killed or killed.

The three divisions, the 101st Air Assault Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the 10th Mountain Division, have far less offensive capabilities than the 3rd and 24th Massive Divisions.

On the battlefield, fighter jets have been dropped and bombs have been filled with gunpowder.

The Iraqi MiG25 is carrying out a reconnaissance mission and feedbacks the battlefield situation to the rear.

The US Air Force still did not appear on the battlefield at this time.

With the order from David, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US fighter jets began to take off at major Saudi airports.

The coalition's air force will not be under the command of the US Department of Defense at this time.

They even asked the U.S. troops to withdraw from the Middle East.

"The air bombing effect in the report center is not ideal. The number of US military tanks and armored vehicles that have become scrap iron is not very large..." The pilot of the MiG25 used the high-resolution camera carried by the fighter to capture the situation on the entire battlefield while reporting the situation to the command center behind.

And on the battlefield in the south, the war continues.

The US armored forces on the ground are very chaotic...
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