Ten kilometers ahead is a small town called Tikrit.

In fact, it is called a small town, but there are more than 50,000 Kurds and Arabs living there.

The houses in the town are located next to each other, and many of the houses are two-story buildings. In the middle of the town, there is a tower.

Below the tower, you can see the golden dome of the temple.

I heard that the Ming Army was going to open a road here, and I was very dissatisfied with the Ming Army's Swiss Army, so they did not shell the place.

Therefore, the houses in the town are very complete.

In order to attack this small town, the Ming army sent a regiment of troops. This made the Swiss army speechless. When attacking a small town where almost all the people were soldiers, they only sent one regiment.

And it's not the main group, but a temporary group.

Everyone in the Swiss army was waiting to see what the Ming army would do, how the Ming army would be beaten until they howled like ghosts, and then the Swiss reinforcements.

Even the Swiss officers who came to learn tactics were just watching the show.

The leader of the Ming Army was a Shaanxi native named Ma Bao. This guy joined the Liao Army very early. After more than ten years of service, he rose from being a soldier to the leader of the regiment, and entered the Army Officer School twice.

It can be seen that this guy is indeed a character.

When the regular army arrived, stragglers like Lao Houhou and Ding San were naturally summoned by higher-level officers.

Ma Bao laughed when he learned that they were guys taking advantage of their vacation to make extra money!

"You two are really promising. You have fought in Russia for three years and you haven't fought enough yet.

After all, with the military pay for the past three years and the rewards from the imperial court, you have a lot of wealth. Why come here to do this business of licking blood? "

"The adults don't know something. My family is afraid of being poor. I want to make more money and open a small factory or something when I return home."

Old monkey Pi Lai's answer.

"Young! You are still very ambitious. You want to open a factory. What kind of factory?" Ma Bao was very interested in this young captain who wanted to open a factory.

Generally speaking, officers of the Ming Army, especially the Liao Army, will enter the officialdom after retirement and be placed in corresponding positions according to the corresponding levels.

Just like the county magistrate and the regiment leader are on the same level, in many places in the Ming Dynasty, officials at this level are also called county regiment level.

Ma Bao is at this level. If he returns to the Ming Dynasty, even if he is not a county magistrate, he can still be a seventh-grade official in Futai Yamen.

It seemed like the old monkey wanted to go home and open a factory. This was the first time he had heard of it.

"Yeah! I've thought about it, and I'll open a match factory when I get home.

This thing can be used by every household. And using one less rod is a good business."

"Haha! That's a good idea, what about you?" Ma Bao pointed at Ding San!

"Go home and buy land, landowner." Ding San replied in a hopeless manner.

"Haha! You are honest, but our Ming Dynasty has banned land trading. All the land within the territory of Ming Dynasty is owned by the Ming Empire.

I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to be a landowner." Ma Bao looked at the honest lieutenant with regret.

"I want to buy land in the Western Region. That land can be sold. I've inquired about it. The government will sell it and return the title deed."

"Aren't you going back to your hometown in the Central Plains?"

"If I don't go back, there won't be anyone in my hometown anymore."

"He found a sweetheart in Russia, and was afraid that he would be looked down upon by others when he returned to the Central Plains. That's when he thought of going to the Western Regions, where no one would dare to look down on his sweetheart."

Seeing that Ding San was not telling the truth, the old monkey simply exposed the twists and turns in this guy's belly.

"Haha! It turned out to be a seed of infatuation. It's rare! It's rare!" Ma Bao waved his hand with a smile.

The Ming army found many good friends in Russia, but most of them were temporary solutions to the problem of demand.

Not many people dare to take the yellow-haired woman to the Central Plains!

The Ming Dynasty, especially the current Ming Dynasty, has a strong sense of superiority and looks down on all foreigners.

To the Koreans, Japanese people, and Jiaozhi people, they were treated like slaves.

But anyway, those people look similar to Ming people. As long as they change their clothes and learn to speak fluent Ming dialect,

It's better to invite people to see you.

There's nothing a yellow-haired woman can do!

He has yellow hair, blue eyes, and some have red hair. Doesn’t this look like the legendary ghost?

Don’t doubt it, Russia used to be called the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Now that we are friendly with Russia, we changed it to Russia.

Folks are more willing to call them Lao Maozi.

If you bring a yellow-haired woman back to the Central Plains, maybe the whole village will drive them out together. Who wants to stay with a ghost!

From this, it also shows how valuable Ding San’s infatuation is.

In fact, after experiencing the war, life on Maozi's side was quite difficult.

The number of casualties of the Russian army was much greater than that of the Ming army. Many times, the Russian army was risking its lives.

Unlike the Ming Army, where the ground was often washed away by artillery shells. The positions attacked by the Ming Army were basically plowed by artillery shells.

Even the soldiers of the Ming Army often finished a battle without firing a few shots.

The reason is very simple. The artillery behind them was killed by planes not long after the battle started. The tanks on the ground began to charge recklessly, as well as the machine guns and artillery on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as anti-aircraft machine guns.

All have a longer range than rifles, and can bombard enemy troops point-to-point from a distance of one thousand meters.

Before the infantry could charge, the local defenders were already suppressed in the trenches and unable to move.

Many enemy troops even need cats in the anti-gun holes to avoid howitzer strikes.

In this case, the more suitable weapon for infantry is actually grenades.

Before jumping into the trench, throw one into it. When you reach the corner of the trench, throw one into it.

When you encounter the entrance to the underground bunker, throw a grenade into it. Then, wait for the attacking engineers to come and use explosive charges to blow up the entrance.

Many coalition soldiers were actually buried alive.

After the whole battle, the sniper was probably the one who fired the most shots.

These guys equipped with scopes can easily shoot enemy soldiers at a distance of 800 meters with a 12.7mm sniper rifle.

These guys' strikes are more accurate and more deadly.

Because of the existence of these guys, enemy soldiers did not even dare to show their heads in the trenches.

On the battlefield, those guys whose Tianling Caps were blown away were all the fault of Ding San and his group.

Most of the guys that Ma Bao collected in Baghdad were snipers with extremely high killing efficiency.

The army marched toward Tikrit in a mighty manner. What surprised the Swiss was that the Ming army stopped and set up camp fifteen kilometers away from Tikrit.

The tank was deployed forward as a fixed fortress, with an artillery position at the rear to provide fire support. There were aircraft warning in the sky, and the infantry formed a skirmish line to search the nearby area.

There is nothing wrong with this, but the advance base is too far away from the enemy.

Fifteen kilometers!

But the Ming army didn't seem to feel embarrassed, and dozens of large construction machines began to work.

There are excavators with big claws, forklifts with big shovels, bulldozers and road rollers.

It only takes an hour to dig a large underground bunker. It only takes ten minutes to dig a foxhole!

Compared with the Swiss army, this efficiency is simply outrageous.

On the first day, the Ming army built countless foxholes for soldiers to stay in and spend the night.

Sure enough, the Kurds came for a sneak attack at night. After a few mortar shells fell, the infantry immediately launched a charge.

The Ming army's flares soared into the sky, and the scattered charging Kurds were all exposed in the clearing field of fire.

The sounds of machine guns, machine guns and Aka rifles rang out, and the Kurds were torn to pieces by the hot steel.

The remaining people saw that the situation was not good and ran away without looking back.

For this unsuccessful sneak attack, the Kurds dropped dozens of corpses.

The next day, the Ming army still had no momentum to attack.

Instead, they continued to dig trenches. With an artifact like an excavator, digging soil was not easy.

One day, the trenches were dug forward for three kilometers.

During this period, there were sporadic exchanges of fire, each ending with the Kurdish snipers being torn to pieces by the Ming army's tank guns or howitzers.

At night, there was still no movement from the Ming army. The Kurds did not launch a night attack like they did last night.

The Kurds know that even launching a night attack will only waste human lives in vain.

The Ming army's trenches were approaching step by step, but the Kurds had no choice. Tikrit was their hometown and they had no way to move away.

Moreover, they basically had no heavy weapons, and the few artillery pieces they had were blown up by the Ming Air Force.
To be continued...