USSR 1991

The whole city seemed to be in purgatory, with explosions and artillery fire everywhere, and the attitude of the US military changed from trying to keep the situation in Baghdad to a minimum to destroying all existing enemies no matter what the cost. The A10 attack aircraft searched for the target over the dark city at the risk of being locked by the SAM missile. Once a suspicious target was found, it immediately unleashed its artillery from the sky to the ground.

However, the United States obviously thought about one thing wrong. The success of the A1991 attack aircraft brought them to the battlefield in 10 led the US military to believe that in areas with weak air defense firepower networks like Iraq, there is no need to worry about being locked and shot down by SAM missiles. After all, Their planes also have things like heat flares.But the United States thought one thing wrong, that is, when the Soviet Union helped Saddam draw up this plan, it sent almost as many SAM air defense missiles as it sent RPG rocket launchers.

The A10 attack aircraft that arrived over Baghdad hadn't launched support, and the radar heard the warning sound of being locked by an anti-aircraft missile.When the SAM missile was detected approaching him, the pilot threw the heat bomb without hesitation.

The missile exploded on its own tail and escaped unharmed. After the first anti-aircraft missile exploded, the second and third seemingly endless anti-aircraft missiles aimed at them.

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

Two of the five A10 attack aircraft dispatched to carry out the mission were actually shot down, and the remaining one fled back with a damaged tail. advance to rescue the besieged troops.

Not only is the anti-aircraft firepower network composed of shoulder-fired missiles, but there is also a kind of person who has become a nightmare for soldiers stationed in Iraq, that is, the suicide squad who wears bomb vests and is loyal to Saddam. Unsuspecting, the team members pounced on armored vehicles and Humvees with enough bombs strapped to their bodies to seriously injure half a block.All the infamous tactics that Saddam's army disdained before were all used to inflict maximum damage on the US military.

Saddam Hussein's army, which was defeated steadily in the desert operation, showed its most powerful side in Baghdad. It was so powerful that the top US military commanders suddenly thought that they were facing the terrible communist group in Hue City in 1968. The army, not Saddam's army that was beaten back in mid-1991 before the war even started.

"General Binford, our air support failed to enter the designated area. The enemy's anti-aircraft firepower network is stronger than we imagined. Although our support defeated the outermost troops, the besieged troops are being weakened. "Colonel Benny specially used weakening instead of annihilating, in order to take care of General Binford's emotions at this time.

"Dawn is coming, so our opportunity will come, increase the intensity of the attack, I don't care if there are a lot of casualties in the civilian area, I just need to rescue my troops from the siege, and then Washington I will take responsibility for it."

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

After dawn, the gunfire began to change from dense to sparse. After a night of fierce fighting, the US support troops wiped out most of the attacking troops, and the besieged troops were gradually rescued.Those who might have lingering fear kissed the cross on their chest and said slowly, "Thank God for ending this nightmare."

However, this battle did not make the Americans smile victoriously, because the situation in Baghdad became more severe, and a small number of people dropped their guns and changed their appearances into civilians and hid in residential areas. Provoking indignation on the part of the civilian population, the idea of ​​driving the American invaders from the land became ingrained in their minds.

Only the Soviet Union, which was hiding behind the scenes, showed a smile of reaping the fruits of victory. This plan was almost adapted from the painful experience of the US military in Iraq after 2003. The tactics were proposed by the top leader of the Soviet Communist Party.At that time, the high-level Soviet military did not believe that Yanayev's plan would have much effect. The Soviet army, who was accustomed to using the torrent of steel to crush everything in the European plains, could not understand the essence of guerrilla tactics and urban street warfare.

The U.S. military has opened up a hornet's nest in Iraq and ignited the momentum of war. What it has to do now is to drag them into the quagmire and abyss of burning war funds.

Chapter 341 The Hidden Agent

The exchange of information between the Soviet intelligence agency and Saddam Hussein was not unsolicited. For example, before the war began, after providing military assistance, the KGB Foreign Intelligence Agency asked Saddam for a person, who was neither a high-level Iraqi military officer. Not a government official, but a very ordinary Iraqi civilian, even the Baghdad high-level officials felt a little strange.

After the Baghdad government found out that this person was indeed just an ordinary scholar in ordinary Samarra, they handed over this worthless Libyan citizen to the Soviet Intelligence Service despite full of doubts.When intelligence operatives in Baghdad tried to get word from the handover KGB agents, the answers they got were disappointing.

"This prey does not belong to our Soviet Intelligence Agency. He is a person whom the Moscow Central Committee asked to see by name, so we are just following the rules."

"Awad Ibrahim Ali Badri Samarai, a Sunni, was born in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, the son of a religious scholar and professor of Arabic. Besides this Men do not deserve our attention, General Secretary Yanayev."

Kryuchkov put the information on the Iraqi civilians that Yanayev named and wanted to arrest on Yanayev's desk. He really didn't understand why Yanayev felt so impressed by such an unknown little character. interest, and even sent him from Iraq to Moscow using deceitful means.

Yanayev looked at the round-faced man with brown eyes in the photo, and said to Kryuchkov, "A person should not look at what he has done in the past, but what value he can create for the Soviet Union in the future. Do you think Is it a headache for Americans in the Middle East? Then this guy is the best choice."

"The best choice? Isn't the best choice Saddam Hussein?" Kryuchkov's eyes widened. He really couldn't understand how terrifying this short-haired man's strength was, which gave Americans a headache.But Yanayev understood what a brutal ruler this man could become in the future.

"Saddam Hussein is already the afterglow of the sunset, not to mention we don't know whether he is still alive after the air strike in Baghdad. Now we need to support a loyal anti-American agent in Iraq."

Only Yanayev knew that this man would later be called Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of the Islamic State and the most ruthless and notorious terrorist leader.However, Yanayev considered more deeply, that is, to make this person a loyal pawn of the Soviet Union in Iraq.The best weapon against the US military.

"Yes, the KGB Intelligence Agency will train him to be a loyal pawn from the moment he takes over, and then release him to Iraq. Believe me, this person will create incomparable value for us. Compared with Saddam Hussein , he will become our more valuable voice in the Iraqi region."

"What are we going to do? Train him into a loyal KGB agent? Or train him into a killing machine." Although he had some doubts about Yanayev's words, Kryuchkov respected his choice. Nayef told everyone with success after success that his choices were often correct.

"To do so would be outrageous. We want to train him to be the spokesperson for Iraq in the Middle East. Since he is a religious man, why not train him to be a red religious man."

Kryuchkov also considered other influences, "Once the pawns in places like Iraq no longer want to be controlled by us, what should we do?"

"As long as he is still an anti-American regime, we don't need to worry about it. Even if it is a dog, as long as it can be used by us, it is worth supporting. And you really think that a force that affects the interests of the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time, Is it possible to live peacefully in this world?"

Samarai was summoned to Lubyanka, the headquarters of the KGB.It was not the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service who received him here, but the chairman of the entire KGB department, Comrade Kryuchkov.Apparently, the KGB specially provided an interpreter for the professor who could only speak Arabic.At the beginning, Samarai was still a little uneasy, not knowing whether it was good or bad to be targeted by the world's most vicious intelligence organization.

Apparently, Kryuchkov didn’t talk nonsense at the beginning. He directly asked if he would like to be loyal to the Soviet intelligence organization. As long as he was willing, he could get both political and military assistance. The Soviet side only asked him to build an anti-American armed force. Force, no U.S. military strikes in Iraq.

"why me?"

The first sentence Samarai spoke was exactly what Kryuchkov thought, but the powerful figure in the intelligence department could only give him an ambiguous answer in the end, "Why you? Let me change the question. Why can't it be you?"

"What merits do I have that your intelligence agency should look at? I am just a university professor, and I have nothing worthy of your support." Knowing that he would not die, Samarai finally plucked up the courage to ask Kryuchkov chairman.

"I can't answer this question for you either. Since the top officials in Moscow have chosen you, you must have value that we value. Now I give you a chance to choose. Are you willing to choose to serve the KGB? You only need to answer whether you are willing or not." .”

"What if I say I don't want to?" Samarai tentatively asked the other party. He wanted to know where the bottom line of the Soviet intelligence agency was, so that he could bargain with the Soviet government.

"Then you will never get out of Lubyanka, I swear." Kryuchkov said very lightly, Yanayev has given him an order, if the other party is unwilling to cooperate, he will be killed directly.I would rather lose a pawn than let it become a lackey of the Americans.

It seems that if he refuses to agree, he will not be able to leave this office alive. Samarai believes that there are a group of KGB agents waiting to kill him outside the door.There was no other way but to choose to cooperate with the Soviet Union, so he had no choice but to agree to Kryuchkov, "I am willing, but I want to know what you can give me? You can't promise a blank check, right?"

"We can give you the guns, the money you need to start an armed faction up front, and you just have to organize an anti-American regime in the chaos of Iraq and attack the US troops in Iraq. I don't care if you use sniper rifles or roadside Bombing, as long as it achieves our goals."

"If you can ambitiously establish the backbone of an anti-American regime in Iraq, then the Soviet Union will consider giving you more military assistance. This is our request and condition."

Kryuchkov looked at the silent Samarai. Obviously, no one could refuse such a generous request. He asked again, "What do you think?"

Samarai returned to Iraq after the Soviet Union signed a series of confidentiality agreements. According to the Soviet Union's instructions, he wanted to establish his own armed force in the most politically unstable north.And this carefully planned force will become a hidden agent for the Soviet Union to control Iraq in the future.

Chapter 342 Armament Reform, Mao will be dead

After experiencing the nightmarish massacre in Baghdad, the U.S. military finally took control of this very important target city for their strategy. Next, they only need to slowly clean up the remaining government armed forces participating in all parts of Iraq. , and then fostered a Western-oriented American regime, then for President Mario, half of his goal of deploying in the Middle East has been achieved.

Next, as long as the U.S. government uses the Middle East as a springboard to continuously incite the anti-government forces in Syria and Iran to carry out revolutions, then if conditions permit, the U.S. can even send troops to the remaining two countries to overthrow the pro-Soviet regimes and establish a A group of Middle Eastern allies was formed to deal specifically with the Central Asian region of the Soviet Union.

Americans are very considerate, but they forget that the goodwill they accumulated in the Middle East disappeared after the Gulf War in 1991. The displacement caused by the war made people in the Middle East generally believe that their misfortune came from the United States. Anti-American and American-hating sentiments are growing and spreading. Samarai chose the right soil for his regime and the spread of teachings, gathered those young people who hated the United States, and trained them to become armed soldiers loyal to him.The main energy of the United States is still concentrated on Saddam's remnant armored forces. They have no interest in those small fish and shrimps that are slowly growing in war-torn areas. For the Americans, as long as they control the army and oil fields, the entire country All belong to the United States.

The hidden forces planted in the Middle East have already laid the groundwork. For the time being, Yanayev has no spare time to pay attention to Baghdadi's future growth. He hopes that this ambitious guy who wants to grow and develop will one day become a behemoth that the United States has to face up to The giant, baring its fangs without the opponent noticing, bit the person fiercely.

Yanayev focused on the carrying equipment and firearm accessories of Soviet soldiers. Most of the soldiers used the old-fashioned carrying equipment designed during the war in Afghanistan in the 80s. Although the Soviet Union’s combat thinking has changed from large-scale simple production to Improve high-tech and battlefield survivability conversion, but no one realizes its importance in terms of portable equipment.

As for things like Picatinny rails?Previously, the huge army of Mao Xiong could not afford the same huge expenditure of AimpointComp reflex sights for each person, but Yanayev had a tentative plan to popularize the Kobra reflex sights on a large scale with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Kobra, which was used on a small scale during the Chechen War, was not a reflex sight in the form of a rail later, but an ingenious use of a side mirror bridge.However, in a series of subsequent battles, it was shown that the guide rail did play an important role, so Yanayev wanted to promote this gadget in the internal affairs department.After all, the conservative forces in the army are still quite strong, and they will not consider innovative equipment unless they see the effect.

Of course, Comrade Yazov cannot be found for such a matter, so Yanayev found Kryuchkov and Pugo and explained his point of view to them.

"Modular light-weight load equipment is a freely assembleable carrier. The item is equipped with a ladder-shaped sub-package attachment system nylon webbing on the surface, which can be combined with other devices to form a personalized carrier, so that the individual tactical system components can be combined with each other. The whole is coordinated with each other, including strengthening the tactical load-bearing vest. In this way, soldiers of the Ministry of the Interior can use different combinations when performing different tasks. For example, the current equipment is a combination of RD54 carrying equipment and R22Z tactical chest strap. However, after using the modular vest, we can freely match different combinations, and no longer need to use different carrying tools according to other tasks. Convenience, this is the great innovation."

Yanayev explained to them why they had to replace the previous carrying equipment. The Molle system was a personal portable equipment developed by Special Protection Systems for the US military in 1998. Obviously, the Soviet Union planned to develop ambitious individual equipment ahead of the Americans. Front end.

"This is indeed a very novel method, but it is difficult for us to carry out equipment innovation based on a novel idea when there is no entity yet." Pugo looked a little embarrassed, and they could not rely on Yanayev's words Just go out and get the modular lightweight load vest that Yanayev said, and is this kind of thing really necessary for the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

"I have ordered someone to sit down on the matter of equipment innovation, and the results will probably come soon." Yanayev also tried every means to promote his idea in the military and police department, so everything has been arranged long ago.He chose the vest shape of 6094, which happened to be used for testing in a small area of ​​the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"There is also the matter of tactical rails that are also planned to be promoted among the soldiers of the Ministry of the Interior. As we all know, our rifles do not have the habit of installing rails at all. If you want to equip accessories, you can only add side mirror bridges, so I envisage promoting pickups in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tinney tactical guide rails set an example for the future promotion of the army."

Picatinny rails, tactical vests of the molle system, and only a fine-spotted camouflage pattern and a tactical helmet are missing. Maozi's internal affairs troops are no different from the special forces of the US Empire in the future. In the long run, Mao will be nothing.The trend of future development is elite, so why not improve the details of soldiers and increase their survival rate on the battlefield.

Of course, Yanayev believes that after years of large-scale armored group combat ideas, in the eyes of some generals, soldiers are machines that can shoot and property that can be sacrificed, but in Yanayev's eyes, everyone is worthy He respects life, so he will choose to do something to improve the survival rate of those soldiers on the battlefield.

"There is no problem with the small-scale test and promotion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but how did General Secretary Yanayev persuade the Army to adopt this new type of equipment? I think the price of these things must be high. I am used to everything and can be mass-produced As far as the army with a lot of equipment is concerned, they are certainly not willing to pay a penny more for soldiers."