Chapter 572: Smoke Bombs
Three days later, a well-equipped corps of 500 mercenaries quietly boarded the ship in the thick Somali night and secretly landed in a small boat in the waters of Somalia's neighboring Kenya.
I crossed the Somali land border into Kenya with 20 sharp knives, and we were like two sharp knives hiding in the shadows, along the south-east of Kenya and straight into the north-west near the border with Uganda.
I hid in a valley with twenty sharp knives, and it was safe to set up camp in the valley because the rainy season in Africa had long since passed, and there would be no more heavy rainfall.
The communication equipment of the entire sharp knife group is a mobile encrypted radio station with strong anti-interference ability. The communication device on everyone's body is an air headset the size of earwax, and the backup is an earbud machine with a small antenna, which is carried to prevent the failure of the air wireless headset.
Two kilometres away, I lay on a tall baobab tree, with a standard camouflage net above my head and a sharp, knife-looking face beside me.
"Boss, is this gold mine as terrifying as you say?"
I nodded: "If you follow the normal strategy, this gold mine is not terrifying at all. But if there are still crusaders in the gold mines, this is the most terrifying thing about Africa. "The thought of the horrors of the Crusaders makes my heart rise with a fear of the unknown.
At nine o'clock in the evening, I secretly infiltrated the town under the gold mine with a sharp knife. It was here that I met Ralph's friend Kayali. Thinking of the past, I can't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart.
Twenty sharp knives aligned time in the night, and then vanished into the night like twenty ghosts. The entire command is still the responsibility of Team Leader 9, and I am only responsible for providing information on the distribution of electrical facilities on the gold mines, the location of weapons depots and command posts, and the distribution of troops.
The town here is like a weed on the grassland, even if it is burned by fire or steel knives, it can still grow vigorously after a while.
The searchlights on the gold mine were more and brighter than they had been before the attack, and beams of silver, thick light swept across the entire mine area. I sat on the roof of an abandoned house in the town, the flickering cigarette butts flickering in the lights and neon all around.
It was a trick to make Citibank and the intelligence agencies he hired dizzy. The owner of the gold mine was Murphy, a French high-society business tycoon who, according to information detected by the intelligence agencies of the Pharaoh's Guard of Rahman, had an affair in Europe with a notorious cult that was most likely a crusader.
After the last gold mine was attacked and slaughtered, the security of the entire gold mine was handed over to the world's leading security company, Prosaigu. As a member of the European Union, Murphy has a good relationship with the person in charge of Prosagu Security Company, and Prosagu Security Co., Ltd. also gave a very fair price to the gold mine, which can be described as a great joy for both parties.
Citibank's loss of $650 million is also a complex security project of Prosagur, and such a large amount of U.S. dollars is enough to cause huge damage to Prosagur's reputation and Citibank's stock price. In this case, both sides went crazy and activated all their forces to find clues.
The information of the captain and security team members on board was useless, and they were kept in a closed cabin, unaware of the ship's return to Somalia. And if you follow their intelligence, another force that is trying to rob also makes the whole case more complicated. The rest of the people in the know, except for the two drivers and the head of the dockyard, have turned into dead people.
The head of the dockyard only saw that we were all hooded robbers, and even if he wanted to provide clues, he couldn't provide anything of value at all, and the only people who could provide anything valuable were the two drivers. How could I possibly forget about the only two truckers who could provide clues, the two vans that left Kismayo along the road to a small town called Boliolet in Bailey, where two drivers filled up their cars with diesel fuel and walked into a restaurant for a meal and a short break.
The moment the two drivers started the truck after a full meal, two huge fireballs accompanied by explosions directly blew the truck and the nearby gas station into pieces, and the entire area was in flames. At this point, all those who knew our whereabouts had been killed.
However, according to the anti-reconnaissance course I have systematically studied, if we continue to attack the security company now, it will be like adding another layer of insurance to our operation to rob a huge amount of US dollars.
I looked at my watch, and when the minute hand was pointing precisely at eleven o'clock, there was a loud bang in the mine. With this loud noise, the power system of the entire mine suddenly collapsed, and the huge searchlight went out in an instant.
The sound of gunfire in the mine was clearly audible in the silence of the night, and orange-red muzzle flames could be faintly seen firing from automatic rifles.
Five minutes later, the backup power was activated, and a terrible alarm sounded throughout the mine. The sound of the sirens was accompanied by the huge roar of the propellers of the helicopter gunships as they lifted off.
After the Apache helicopter gunship lifted off, it fired a barrage of light bombs from the mine's fixed artillery that lit up the night sky. After the light bomb was issued, the distribution of fire on the mine was also instantly exposed. Looking at the location of the projectile, it is obvious that the firepower distribution on the mine has changed, and it is not the firepower distribution I saw before.
The Blade's mission is to destroy the power system, and after the backup power is activated, it will continue to destroy the backup power supply and assassinate the mine's security personnel. Of course, Gehry would always communicate with them about the direction of the bombardment.
The self-propelled guns towed by pickup trucks at the bottom of the mountain immediately locked onto the area where the bullets were fired, analyzed their location, and entered them into the self-propelled guns' computer attack program after analysis. Two minutes later, the SPG let out a deathly roar, tilting the ammunition towards the set coordinates.
Because of the stable environment in China and the cautious attitude of the top leaders towards the war, even a top-level agent like me has no chance to really devote himself to the confrontation of this low- to medium-intensity war. I quickly moved to a hidden hillside with a low probability of being hit by stray bullets, and carefully observed the confrontation between such a large corps-level force.
The self-propelled gun with the attack coordinates set directly extinguishes the fire of the gun that fired the light bullet, but it also reveals its own coordinates. At this time, the artillery hidden in a higher position in the mine had already confirmed the position of the self-propelled guns on the Gehry side, and a series of shells directly blasted the two self-propelled guns into scrap metal.
After the Apache helicopter gunship took off, it did not rush to attack the ground. This highly advanced gunship has night vision and over-the-horizon combat capabilities, and a total of eight hardpoints are fully hung*. According to the normal requirements of lift-off operations, four Hellfire anti-tank* and four Reaper air-to-air tactics* should be hung on the eight hardpoints. With a range of eight and twenty kilometers, respectively, they are the absolute kings of the skies over Africa.
The cannon is located under the co-pilot--shooter's seat, and more than 700 rounds per minute of high-velocity-piercing armor-piercing double-burst anti-personnel shells can penetrate the armor of light armored vehicles. Once the 12-tube rocket nest locks onto the target, it can directly blow up armored vehicles except for the main battle tank.
I didn't have such actual combat experience, and it was the first time I saw two armies facing each other on a real steppe. Once these weapons of mass destruction attack each other, even if they are an indestructible sharp knife group, the sharp attack power under such an attack is infinitely weakened to close to zero, which is the personal power that can be ignored more and more in modern warfare.
Gary and the mine commander first tried each other to destroy the artillery of both sides, and then, with the help of the projectiles and the Apache who had already lifted into the air, the artillery located on the high ground quickly locked onto the artillery position of Gehry's regiment below.
Higher-altitude artillery meant longer range and greater down-range power, and in such a situation, the Gehry Legion, which had been completely exposed by the light of the projectiles at the foot of the mountain, seemed to be wiped out.
But they didn't know that the sharp knife group that I had trained myself had already locked on to the position and touched it when the first salvo of the main mine artillery position was fired. What these knives are best at is this kind of small-scale infiltration and decapitation behind enemy lines.
There was a brief silence at the self-propelled gun positions on the hill, followed by an explosion, a secondary explosion that even dyed the night sky red.
These guys are really ruthless, they actually dismantled and modified the ammunition of self-propelled guns in a short period of time, detonating the entire self-propelled artillery position. The absence of gunfire from the position proves that the knives were quietly assassinated, and the explosion was carried out after gaining control of the position in the shortest possible time. Watching them grow, I feel a sense of honor as a teacher.
Just after the artillery position was destroyed, a huge propeller roar suddenly came from behind the mine. Two more Apache helicopter gunships took to the skies!
I can't help but be impressed by the security strength of Prosagu, why is it so unlucky to encounter a sharp knife group equipped with personalized weapons when it can take off two helicopter gunships in the mine?
As expected, just as the Apache on the back hill lifted off to move towards the mine's explosion location to check the situation below, two surface-to-air bombs with blue tail flames suddenly shot out from the artillery position*. The two helicopter pilots were high enough to take off and be wary of ground attacks, so they hurriedly continued to lift off and pull the rudders, dodging the two surface-to-air* attacks.
I stood on the high ground of the hidden town and looked at the Apache and sneered, if these two Apache did not rise into the air, it was really unlikely that the sharp knives would touch the back hill to find them, it seems that the commander mistakenly thought that the firepower and weapon deployment on the mine had been explored by the troops below the mountain.
After the two * were fired, the sharp knives did not give the Apache a chance to react and counterattack, and two more * with blue tail flames were fired from the ground, and the two expensive Apache turned into fireballs in the air. This is the surface-to-air* attached to the Power-type Knife weapon, and these knives are tactically very cautious, firing two ground-to-air jammers to disrupt the opponent and then two deadly*.
The two Apache placed in front of the mine were actually used by the opposing commander to defend against enemy tank forces. Helicopter gunships are the nemesis of tank cluster units and are called tank bottle openers. Once hit by an anti-tank* gunship, the turret will be blown away as if the cap of a beer bottle had been opened by a bottle driver. Moreover, the elevation angle of the rotating turret of the tank cannot hit the gunship at all, and once the tank encounters the gunship, it is a complete moving target.
It's a pity that Gehry didn't mean to use a tank cluster to capture the mine, and his cross-border strike had only one purpose: to hit the Baosaigu security company and provide cover for the $650 million he received.
The two Apache planes appeared to have received orders from the mine's commander to turn their noses around and prepare to fly in the direction of the mine to provide support. At this moment, a cloud of anti-aircraft with a blue tail flame appeared from the mercenary position led by Gehry, and made a whistling sound and went straight to the Apache, who was turning the nose of the plane.
The Apache seemed to have been prepared for it, and immediately released jamming bombs around his fuselage, and the first shoulder-fired anti-aircraft bomb* was destroyed by the jamming bombs.
However, it was only a tentative anti-aircraft * by Gehry, and eight anti-aircraft engines* were fired from the ground almost simultaneously as the two helicopters completed their turnaround and began to accelerate away from the battlefield.
Two volleys of fireballs exploded like brilliant fireworks, lighting up the town at night. All four Apache that lifted off were shot down, and the gold mine lost air supremacy above it.
Gehry's self-propelled gun position continued to advance, and the pickup truck with the self-propelled gun was full of heavily loaded soldiers. Every time the self-propelled guns marched, they would stop and bombard the mine for five minutes. Communicating with the sharp knife in advance about the attack coordinates avoids the occurrence of accidental damage to the artillery.
Until dawn, the entire mine was blown to pieces. Gehry destroyed the self-propelled guns that had run out of ammunition directly on the spot and began to attack the mine hill with a large force.
Now Gary has a lot of money, and these old self-propelled guns have long been in the stage of upgrading, and they will be destroyed on the spot after they are exhausted, which meets the current development requirements of the legion.
On the road to the attack on the mines, more and more dense gunfire and the roar of flat-firing machine guns of armored vehicles began, accompanied by downward fire from tanks in advantageous positions, and for a moment dust flew up.
Gehry's strategy was very clear, after knocking out the enemy's air supremacy and self-propelled artillery positions, he made a feint posture, and then the sharp knives on the hill that had been in a state of concealment and destruction were targeted to eliminate the destruction.
Sure enough, violent explosions were heard one after another from the tank, armored vehicles and bullet-spraying bunkers on the mountain. Half an hour later, all the heavy weapons were muted, except for the sound of automatic rifles.
"Kill everyone in the Bolsagu uniform, then blow up the production equipment in the mine, and prepare to evacuate in twenty minutes. ”
In the communication channel, Gary gave an unfazed order.