The Iraqi town of Mosul is Iraq's main oil production base and the most important town in the whole of northern Iraq.

After the invasion of Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom, it was firmly controlled by the coalition forces.

At this time, only two battalions of the US military are defending, and thousands of US troops, coupled with air support that can be reached at any time, control a Mosul that has no threat, and the number of troops is completely sufficient.

Today, as always, Lieutenant John, with his own troops, patrolled the city of Mosul.

Eight Hummer vehicles, slowly driving down the streets of Mosul, early in the morning, seem to be quite close.

There are only a few shops along the street opening, the city looks desolate and depressed, you can see the buildings on both sides of the city, many with the wounds of war, occasionally passing the neighborhood, you can see the collapsed buildings, the roads are also potholes, covered with bullet marks.

The routine patrol every day, for John and the American soldiers under him, the scene in front of him has been numb.

In the Hummer, one by one, American soldiers were excited and excited to discuss the good news that they could take turns to rest and return home to reunite with their families in another ten days.

From the beginning of the war to the present, they have never returned since entering Iraq, and have not seen their families for more than half a year.

"I wish these ten days would pass quickly, but God, we still have ten days of patrol, and when will this boring day pass?"The gunner behind John said with regret in anticipation.

“You’re thinking of your love... oh my God, what’s that...” The driver next to John just opened his mouth, and suddenly exclaimed, because in front of the Humvee, there was a T-72 tank full of explosive reactive armor, which was coming towards them from the far side of the street.

Lieutenant John in the co-pilot's cabin, also saw the T-72 tank on the distant street for the first time, and the moment of the throttle, he reacted for the first time and shouted: "Prepare to fight, damn, how can there be a tank here?"

No one could answer John's question, the T-72 main battle tank in the distant street, the gun barrel had already aimed at the Humvee convoy, and suddenly the main tank gun spewed a dazzling fire, and the streets on the side of the tank were dusty, and the huge vibrations were transmitted to the ground, so that the nearby streets were trembling.

“Avoid it!”Lieutenant John shouted in haste, and in fact the cannonball had been rubbed from the side of the Hummer, because the driver in John's car, when he saw the tank in the distance, could be avoided in the first place.

But there was no such opportunity in the other Hummer behind them, and the second Hummer, which hit directly behind the shells, under a huge explosion, was instantly disintegrated, and the several American soldiers inside, were naturally spared.

Get out of the car and avoid it.”John quickly commanded his men to avoid the frontal tanks, so that the T-72's main gun was not effective enough to give them enough reaction time.

“Why is there a tank here?”

Many American soldiers who got out of the car, sheltered in the corner, looked at the tanks in the distant streets and exclaimed.

“Call headquarters, call headquarters, we are in block 3, at intersection 8, encountering a T-72, with the death of a soldier, requesting air support, requesting air support.”John also asked the command for help for the first time, and his troops only came out to patrol, so he carried only an anti-tank missile launcher, but unfortunately, the Hummer with anti-tank missiles was the second position, the Hummer that had been destroyed.

In the face of the armor of the main battle tanks, they could not be destroyed by the fact that they had 30 infantrymen, and without destructive heavy weapons.

This T72 on the street in the distance, after the attack, quickly approached them.

At this moment, John also received a response from the headquarters, and the air support arrived within three minutes, and John calmed down and ordered the other soldiers to "tighten it, knock down its periscope."

The best way to make a tank lose its combat effectiveness without an anti-armored infantry is to knock down the periscope of the tank, so that the crew in the tank will become blind.

However, the small periscope, want a shot to break, is not an easy thing, not to mention the tank itself has a powerful heavy machine gun and coaxial machine gun has a tank main gun.

Firepower is much stronger than a rifle.

In the streets, there was a fierce exchange of fire, and a large number of bullets fell on the tank's body, and the long machine guns and coaxial machine guns on the tanks also began to suppress these US troops.

It was a straight street, and seven Hummers, all of them had been turned into the open and alleys on the edge of the street, and used the building to cover it so as not to be destroyed by tanks.

The American soldiers who got out of the car, using the buildings on both sides of the street, used as cover to shoot the tanks.

Just this kind of attack, unless it is lucky, will basically not be effective, but it is better than doing nothing.

And just as John was carrying his men on the tank, across the straight street, a T-72 main battle tank appeared, and a tank gun directly penetrated the corner of the two American soldiers to avoid, and the two American soldiers behind the corner were killed in the explosion.

The sudden shelling made John look back and see another T-72 tank in the street behind him, and instinctively exjected: "Damn, there's a T-72 tank, what the intelligence officers are doing, why it's so important intelligence, I don't know."

The American soldiers present, one by one, their faces are extremely ugly, for them, such patrols have been for many months, these last ten days as long as the end, they can go home for a month or two, and just talk and laugh about the comrades, has fallen six, which makes them each and every one of them are covered by the haze.

Two tanks hit back and forth, the scene is very headache.

And the real headache is the many armed men who come out of the streets, armed with weapons, and follow the tanks, all armed men in Iraq, each wearing the camouflage uniforms of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

This made the remaining two dozen American soldiers on the street, all nervous.

“Call headquarters, call headquarters, we encounter the Iraqi Republican Guard, they have two tanks, and many armed men in the uniform of the Republican Guard.”