Chapter 288: Sneak Attack on Fallujah

The battle for Samarra came to an end very quickly, beyond the expectations of the whole world.

In just one day of fighting, ISIS's long-standing image in Iraq has come crashing down.

After the entire battle, tens of thousands of ISIS fighters were killed and wounded, and there were three or four thousand captives.

But as the winning side, Cai Ruichen also discovered a fact that made him very helpless.

The Islamic State has indeed shifted its target. It seems that knowing that Samarra is no longer able to stop the attack of the Marin Division, the Islamic State troops are quickly gathering towards Fallujah.

And a large part of the main force of nearly 20,000 people has already mixed into the city of Fallujah.

Almost immediately after the fighting in Samarra ended, the Iraqi government forces in Fallujah were suddenly violently attacked by the Islamic State government forces.

At the same time, Cai Ruichen also knew that the more than 10,000 Islamic State armed forces faced by the Red Police Corps were really all recruits.

There are more than 10,000 recruits, some of whom have even joined the army for less than a month.

The reason why the Islamic State put these people in Samarra is purely to hold back the Marin division.

Then provide cover for the main force to attack Fallujah, because the eyes of the whole world are almost gathered here in Samarra, including the Iraqi government forces.

No one would have thought that the armed forces of the Islamic State actually came to a Mingxiu plank road to cross Chencang secretly.

First, let the whole world see the information that they mobilized the main force to Tikrit, and then quietly dispatched the newly recruited soldiers to Tikrit, and then the civet cat was replaced by the prince.

Just like the various guerrilla warfare faced by the U.S. military in Iraq, these Islamic State armed forces are soldiers when they take up arms, and they are the best civilians when they lay down their weapons.

Saddam's hundreds of thousands of National Guards disappeared in Baghdad in that way, and in the following nine years, they caused more than 4,000 casualties to the US troops stationed in Iraq.

Now, the Islamic State is up to the same trick. The soldiers who took advantage of those new recruits were still unfamiliar faces. Replace those veterans.

Then let those veterans pretend to be ordinary people and approach Fallujah.

I am afraid that such a tactic is a change made helplessly after seeing the powerful artillery attack power erupted by the Marin Division.

And those recruits.

They are all just cannon fodder, used to hold back the Marin division. Even if all of them are wiped out, there is not much loss for the Islamic State militants.

Because it also involves a cruel current situation in the occupied areas. That was after the Iraqi government cut off the power supply.

To prevent the Islamic State from providing basic social life guarantees for the people in the occupied areas, in order to stabilize the situation. The Islamic State has to come up with a solution, which is large-scale recruitment.

Every soldier can enjoy various benefits and high salaries, although the mood is stabilized in a short time. And recruiting restless young men into the army reduces the risk of armed rebellion.

But the rigid expenditure of military expenditure is also rising steadily. If this factor is combined, then these people were actually sent to Samarra deliberately by the Islamic State to die.

The more cruel truth is. The weapons in the hands of these recruits are all junk weapons that are as cheap as twenty or thirty dollars each, and the bullets are all cheap bullets produced by small workshops that have been reloaded many times.

Even so, the number of bullets in the weapon magazines of these recruits on the battlefield is only five rounds.

Using those weapons that can explode at any time, there is no logistics, let alone their life or death.

If this is placed in the armies of various countries, they will be accused of murdering soldiers by military courts, and military laws must be enforced.

Because if it is not good, it will cause a mutiny, but this is a very cost-effective deal for the Islamic State armed forces. If these people go to die, they can reduce part of the expenditure.

The military expenditure has been reduced again, and there is no need to pay pensions like those veterans, which can be called the cheapest cannon fodder under the conditions of modern warfare.

Of course, if these soldiers, in the eyes of the Islamic State, are led by more than a thousand veterans, they should have no problem thinking of blocking the Marin Division.

However, the speed at which the war ended was really unacceptable to the top leaders of the Islamic State.

In their view, even if there are 10,000 goats, there are only a few thousand people in the Marin Division. It is very difficult to catch all of these goats in such a large area.

But the result was that their troops didn't last even a day.

And it also directly exposed their purpose of attacking Fallujah. In order to prevent the Iraqi forces from reacting, the Islamic State forces had to start operations in advance.

However, even if it is fully prepared, the opponent is still the ace division of the Iraqi government army, but the Islamic State quickly occupied many important areas in Fallujah when the surprise attack began.

The ace division of the Iraqi government army in Fallujah was bombed with hundreds of armored vehicles in the sneak attack. Among them are more than a dozen old T-72 main battle tanks and three M1A1 Abrams.

Compared with the surprise attack by the Islamic State, the Iraqi government forces reacted several times slower. It was not until a few hours later that they organized themselves and blocked the attack and sneak attack of the Islamic State on some streets in Fallujah.

Moreover, this is the result of the urgent dispatch of the U.S. Air Force to assist, otherwise, I am afraid that the situation in Fallujah will embarrass the Iraqi government forces even more.

Still, many economic institutions in Fallujah were captured, and the first step in ISIS's wealth-grabbing tactic was completed.

Even if the Iraqi government forces react, the money in Fallujah may have been looted.

Even so, the Iraqi government did not ask for help from the town of Marin, which is only 40 kilometers away from Fallujah.

Instead, troops were mobilized from elsewhere to support Fallujah.

However, if the Iraqi government forces asked Cai Ruichen for help, at most Cai Ruichen would give them some artillery support.

Because he doesn't have the energy to manage the battle of Fallujah now, but he is very happy to accept the city of Samarra in an all-round way.

Although the city, strictly speaking, has almost been wiped out on Iraqi soil.

But Cai Ruichen is still very confident that a more developed city of Samarra will be rebuilt soon.

And now that the Red Police Corps has achieved its current strategic goal, he still hopes that the Islamic State will fight the Iraqi government forces in Fallujah.

Lest the Islamic State continue to look at Samarra and want to use this passage to enter Baghdad.

Therefore, even if the Iraqi government army asks for help, it is impossible for Cai Ruichen to actually send troops to help them.

As the saying goes, people don't kill the world for themselves, and Cai Ruichen has a lot of things to do in the wasteland, so he has no time to take care of the Iraqi government forces. (To be continued.) Enable new URL