Chapter 80: Misrata
Misrata, Libya's third-largest city, has been besieged by government forces since it was captured by the Libyan opposition, and after negotiations with NATO and the opposition broke down, Gaddafi finally decided to attack.
Gao Yang and the others set off early in the morning and arrived at the outskirts of the city of Misrata in the morning, Gao Yang thought that it would be some time before they entered the battle, but what he did not expect was that the 32nd Brigade had already launched an attack.
The 32nd Brigade, as the most elite unit in Libya, is equipped with tanks and artillery, as well as a small number of missiles in the aircraft box, but these heavy equipment do not have much effect on street fighting, and Khamis does not want to throw his biggest trump card into street fighting to send him to death, so the 32nd Brigade is just bombing and besieging Misrata, and almost all of those who want to enter the city for street fighting are mercenaries.
By the time they arrived, the already deployed mercenary army had already entered Misrata, only a few hours before them, but the mercenaries who had entered early had been very slow, and by the time they arrived, the government line was still on the outskirts of the city.
Gao Yang's troops have a total of one hundred and sixteen people, which are configured according to the size of a company, mainly composed of two mercenary groups, and in the entire company, plus Gao Yang, they have a total of four sniper teams, but Gao Yang's number is small, and there is no need to cooperate with the other two mercenary groups, so the degree of freedom is the highest.
Led by an officer with the rank of captain, after they were taken down a street, the captain gave a big order.
"We're in charge of this street, do your best to move forward, you can discuss how to assign tasks yourself, I'll come back in the afternoon and pay according to your progress, well, good luck to you."
After finishing speaking, the captain trotted away without looking back, looking at the captain's back, Gao Yang was stunned and said: "Sure enough, the degree of freedom is very high, but is this also called war?" β
Grolev smiled and said, "The war of mercenaries is normal, you can't really listen to his command, and he knows this, so it's good that our three mercenary groups divide their respective areas of responsibility." β
One of the two mercenary regiments that they formed into a company with Gao Yang was called Sandstorm, a little more numerous, with sixty-five people, all of them were Tuaregs from Mali, their weapons were relatively rudimentary, but they were said to be fierce and very brave, so they were regarded as elite.
The name of the other mercenary group is very interesting and legitimate, it is called Coleman Security and Defense Company, but it is not actually a mercenary group, but a combat team sent by Coleman Company.
Forty-seven people from Coleman's company came, although there were slightly fewer, but the combat effectiveness was a little stronger than those Tuaregs, their weapons were better allocated, and the quality of their personnel was higher, and the blacks and whites were basically half apart, and it was said that most of the blacks inside were from Tanzania, while most of the whites were from Belarus and Ukraine, and they were all veterans.
As for the Satanic mercenary group that exalted them, although it claimed to be a mercenary group, there were only four people, so it was directly regarded as a combat group.
Taking advantage of the fact that they had not yet fully entered the war zone, the commanders of the three mercenary groups walked out, and after the three of them shook hands, the person in charge of Coleman Company first said: "Hello, my name is Green Mamba, let me say my point of view first, because it is the first time to cooperate, so we still act separately, I plan to take my people to be in charge of the left side of the street, and the people of Sandstorm are in charge of the right side of the street, we can support each other in the battle, and then move forward after both sides of the street are controlled, The main task of us and Sandstorm snipers is to provide support, so the task of solving the opposing snipers is mainly left to Satan, and at the same time, Satan is responsible for monitoring the situation on the road, and notify us in time if there is any situation, is it okay? β
The Coleman Company commander's proposal was very fair, and Gao Yang and the person in charge of Sandstorm had no objections, but Gao Yang thought for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "I need a commanding height, when you act, I can cooperate with you to suppress it, provided that you have to notify me, so I suggest that the frequency of at least one walkie-talkie be set to the same, so that it is also convenient to communicate." β
Gao Yang offered to help suppress it, but of course Coleman and Sandstorm would not refuse, the only problem was that the Sandstorm mercenary group did not have a single walkie-talkie.
There are more than a dozen walkie-talkies in Coleman's company, so Green Mamba lent one to the Sandstorm mercenary group, and after adjusting the frequency of the walkie-talkies responsible for communication between the three mercenary groups to the same, the three of them are ready to lead their own people to prepare for action.
Coleman was going to attack first, they were targeting a six-story building 150 meters away, the building had been occupied, and now it seemed that there were at least five firing points, and Coleman had to capture the building before they could carry out the next attack.
There are only a few small bungalows on the right side of the street where Sandstorm is responsible, and it seems that there is no firepower, so Sandstorm only needs to cooperate, and their attack target is farther away, and they don't need to shoot for the time being.
After identifying the target, Gao Yang and the others quickly entered combat mode, Gao Yang and Cui Bo opened the scope cover on the gun, and together with the other three snipers, began to search for the target that could be shot in the building that was about to be attacked.
Gao Yang's white light sight has been adjusted, he first searched with the telescope, and immediately found a few targets that could be shot, after putting down the telescope, Gao Yang and several other snipers discussed the targets they were responsible for, plus Cui Bo, a half-hanger, a total of five snipers quickly entered the firing position.
Although they don't know each other, since they are going to fight side by side, the three mercenary groups must do their best to support each other, unless they are all crazy, they will go to harm their comrades, so although they are all strangers, no one doubts that they can get the best kind help from other teams.
Gao Yang felt that in the street fighting, the field of vision would not be too far, and the firing range should be mainly concentrated between 200 meters and 400 meters, so he adjusted the main firing distance of the scope to 300 meters.
It turned out that Gao Yang's assumption was correct, and his current shooting distance was less than 200 meters, at which distance his scope could be aimed directly without adjustment.
Gao Yang aimed at an enemy who was firing with a machine gun, wearing a red and white checkered Arabic turban and sunglasses, and was shaking his head as he shot and looked funny.
Because Coleman's men were going to attack, Gao Yang had to cooperate with Green Mamba's command to fire, so that after shooting at the same time and instantly solving the attack point in the building, Coleman's men would be much safer to attack again.
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Finally, after hearing the green mamba's shout, Gao Yang pulled the trigger.