Chapter 449: Wow, Hero!
Thanks to his experience in Africa, Gao Yang is no longer familiar with the use of bows and arrows, but the bows and arrows he has used are very small, not very powerful, and the accuracy is not very good, the use method is to ambush, or quietly close to the prey and shoot at close range, so Gao Yang's archery is no problem, but if the distance is far away, the accuracy is not guaranteed.
If you want to touch the whistle, you don't have to have a long range, and the quiet approach is the key, so Gao Yang asked Ivan to help him buy a sports recurve bow, plus dozens of target arrows.
Generally speaking, the recurve bow shoots more accurately than the pulley bow, and the modern archery competition is basically the world of the recurve bow, because to use it at close range, Gao Yang wants an entry-level quasi-recurve bow, only 30 pounds of pull, and some auxiliary accessories are not needed, but a bare bow is left.
Lucica could use blowguns to feel the whistle, but in Bogotรก, blowguns were harder to buy than recurve bows, and it was not easy to buy ready-made blowguns.
The hotel they were staying at was in the middle of Bogotรก, so they certainly couldn't leave the hotel in broad daylight.
When it was getting dark, Ivan's convoy took Gao Yang and them from the hotel to a manor in the suburbs.
In one room, there were four people who were already fully armed, two of them were bodyguards who had been following Ivan, Gao Yang had seen them several times, but Ivan had never introduced his two bodyguards to Gao Yang, and the other two Gao Yang had met for the first time.
All four of Ivan's men wore black combat uniforms and carried an AK74 on their backs. On the helmet there is a very large night vision device. What's more special is. There are two separate lenses on the night vision devices, and they are both armed with an Ak74 and a gun with a silencer.
Usually there is no problem if you don't know each other, but if you are going to fight together, you can't even call your name, Ivan pointed to a bodyguard who was with him at all times and said: "Ram, let me introduce you, Antonov." Out of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you can call him a shield. โ
"Sergey, you can call him a barrel, like Antonov, he also came out of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but they are not a unit."
"Samuel, you can call him Hammer, he is from Alpha, I guess you all know this unit."
"Bretinvsky, you can call him a bear. The GRU units of the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff came out, the Airborne Forces. โ
Ivan introduced four of his men one by one. And these four of his subordinates are really from extraordinary backgrounds, all of them are from the special forces.
The composition of Russia's special forces is very complex, basically belonging to three categories, one is the FSB special forces of the Russian Federal Security Service, that is, the former KGB special forces, which are famous for including Alpha, Veuflag, Barrier, Beta and other commandos, of which Alpha is mainly active in Russia, and Samuel is a former member of Alpha.
The second is the GRU special forces of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, that is, the special operations brigades of the army and navy, and the special operations brigades of the airborne forces that belong to the independent arms also belong to this list, and the combat missions of this kind of troops are similar to the special operations brigades of the military regions in China, or the military special forces such as the green berets of the United States.
The third is the MVD special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is similar to the special forces of the armed police in China, and the tasks of this kind of special forces are varied, and one of the key ones is to be responsible for the security work of political dignitaries and executives, and the personal bodyguards of high-ranking officials are also selected from this kind of special forces, and Antonov and Sergei are from this kind of troops.
Antonov is not too tall, nearly one meter eight or so, but very stocky, in his forties, usually standing next to Ivan looks like an ordinary middle-aged man, neither powerful nor conspicuous, belongs to the kind that can't be separated from the crowd, and Sergei is the same, although he is slightly taller than Antonov, but he is also an ordinary person, not inconspicuous, and after hearing Ivan's introduction, Gao Yang understood that it was always Antonov and Sergei who accompanied him. Because these two people must have been responsible for the security of dignitaries.
The person who serves as a bodyguard must have excellent personal strength, but more importantly, when the object of protection encounters danger, the first thing to consider is not to kill the enemy, but to stand up and block the bullet for the object of protection, so Ivan asked Antonov and Sergey to be the bodyguards are also professional counterparts.
As for Samuel, who came from the Alpha Army, and Breginvsky, who came from the GRU Special Forces, it is certainly no problem for them to conduct offensive operations, but it is not possible to take on the job of personal bodyguards.
When Ivan introduced the others one by one, Gao Yang also had to introduce all the members of the Satan Mercenary Group, and when he introduced Grolev, Grolev nodded to Brekinvsky and said: "You are an airborne soldier, and the original unit is subordinate to the GRU, so are you from the 45th Special Regiment of the Airborne Independent Guards?" โ
Brekinsky's eyes lit up and said: "That's right, I came out of the 45th Regiment, but when I served, the team number was the 45th Independent Reconnaissance Regiment, and in the year I retired, the number was changed back to the 45th Special Regiment of the Independent Guards of the Airborne Forces, why, you also came out of the 45th Regiment?" โ
Grolev smiled and said: "That's right, I am from the 218th Special Operations Battalion of the Independent Airborne Forces, and since the merger with the 901st Battalion to form the 45th Regiment, I have been a member of the 45th Regiment." โ
Brekinsky can be said to be in awe, and he said with a look of disbelief: "You are from the old 218 battalion? Then you must have participated in the war in Chechnya, right? What is your military rank? โ
Grolyov seemed to be in a good mood when he met his comrades from the same unit, he nodded and smiled: "That's right, I participated, Chechnya arrived on December 2, 94, returned to Moscow in 95, and then immediately joined the mixed squadron, went to Chechnya, stayed in Grozny for a while, and then, in the second Chechen war, I went to Grozny, and in December 1999 I entered Grozny, and after recovering Grozny in February 2000, I quickly withdrew from the army, well, When I retired, I had the rank of warrant officer platoon commander. โ
Brekinevsky snapped a straight upright, and then raised his hand to salute, and then raised his head and said: "Sir, the 2nd Assault Brigade of the 45th Independent Reconnaissance Regiment, Sergeant Brekinvsky salutes you!" โ
Grolev returned a military salute to Bretinvsky very seriously, and then chuckled: "I have been out for many years, and it is the first time I have met someone from the old army, so I am very happy." โ
Grolev was very happy, but Brekinvsky was worried and expectant, and after Grolev finished speaking, he said cautiously: "Sir, the 45th regiment participated in two Chechen wars, and participated in the war as soldiers or junior officers, it seems that there are only seven people, I remember that only one of these seven people retired from the position of platoon commander, that person is called Yuri?" Grolevsky? Ivanov, I wonder if that person is you? โ
Grolev was silent for a moment, then finally nodded and said, "That's right, that person is me, hmm, how did you know about me?" โ
Breginvsky was short of breath, he looked at Grolev with adoring eyes and said: "My mother, I have seen a living legend, I know you for what I know, because your photo and name are hung on the wall of honor of the 45th regiment, in order to avenge the death of your comrades in the first Chechen war, and you insisted on retiring after the end of the second Chechen war, you were alive and received the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, received the Order of the State of the First Degree, received the Medal for Bravery, a legend like you, I don't think it's easy not to know you, sir, as your junior comrade-in-arms, I greatly admire your deeds, but I don't understand, why did you not get promoted to senior officer, why did you insist on retiring? โ
Listening to the bunch of titles that Bretinvsky said, Gao Yang and these people who boasted that they were extremely familiar with Grolev were stupid, and after Breginvsky asked the most difficult question, Gao Yang They wanted to know more than Breginvsky that if Grolev was promoted to a senior officer, it would definitely be 10,000 times better than being a mercenary, and even if he retired, these merits alone would be enough for Grolev to lie on the merit book and eat for a lifetime.
After being silent for a moment, Grolev shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "I really don't know that I can still go to the wall of honor of the 45th regiment, as for why I insist on retiring, this reason is very complicated, if I didn't want to avenge my dead brothers, I retired at the end of the first Chechen war, and I avenged my brothers in the second Chechen war, so I retired immediately." โ
Gao Yang couldn't help but say: "Fack, you told us that a big man gave you a medal, and then you retired, but you didn't say that you are a Hero of Russia." โ
Grolev's experience and the honors he received are too different from the first time he met him in Gao Yang's memory, when he first met Grolev, he was a free mercenary, and he was a free mercenary who could enter a battle for five hundred dollars, a Russian hero to be the lowest cannon fodder mercenary, although there were friends at the time, but this contrast was still too strong.
Grolev shrugged his shoulders and said: "I have nothing to be proud of in this heroic title, no, there are not a few people left who died in one of our commandos, and everyone's merits, but I was awarded the medal at the end, is there anything to be proud of." โ
After saying a few words lightly, Grolev smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Okay, don't talk about my past, we still have tasks, don't waste time, let's get down to business first." (To be continued......)