I was up on some terraces that had some scattered trees with two other dudes while everyone else was looking about everywhere or sitting in one of a few trucks looking around. About half an hour earlier my truck had blown up from an IED and we were waiting for some explosive experts to get there. Suddenly, there were five loud explosions the shook the earth as the taliban opened an ambush with rpgs shot at the trucks and people on the ground. Then machine gun and ak fire was everywhere as they shot at us from three different directions. The trucks started shooting machine gun and grenade fire in one direction towards a tree-line while most of the people on the ground took some cover behind an old broken wall and started shooting back. The three of us on the terraces pretty much hit the ground and then started shooting out. Then about 100 meters to the south of me a machine gun opened up at some people down on the ground. I don't think they knew we were there because our two groups couldn't see each other through a little bit of trees or we probably would have been the ones shot at. One of the dudes I was with fired a rocket (LAW) at them while us other two laid waste to the place with our assault rifles. There were still a lot of rpgs and explosions rocking everything the whole time and after we fired our LAW someone decided it was a good idea to shoot another one up at us on the terraces. It hit close enough that I took some shrapnel from it but it didn't kill me so I kept fighting on and eventually an hour and a half later they were either all dead or ran away so we went home for the day.