Chapter 220: Without a Trace
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After parachuting from a height of 5,000 meters, the commandos did not immediately open the parachute, but freely descended more than 4,000 meters, opened the gliding parachute for special forces when they were less than 500 meters above the sea, and then slowly slid towards the ships loaded with flammable and explosive cargo with the help of night vision devices.
It must be admitted that the Rangers are a special forces unit with excellent qualities.
Although not as famous as the "Navy SEALs", as the best special forces unit in the U.S. Air Force, the Rangers are able to do some things that other special forces cannot.
For example, when parachuting, use a rifle equipped with a muffler to kill an enemy within 100 meters.
During the assault on the LNG freighter, the three rangers led the team easily took out several targets on the deck, and then quietly landed on the deck. After the other eight commandos landed, the eleven special forces were divided into three groups, one group controlled the deck and monitored the situation on the dock, one team entered the cargo hold and searched for the explosives planted by the attackers, and the last team went directly to the bridge of the cargo ship and controlled the cockpit.
The assault went very well, and the Rangers captured the bridge in only three minutes.
To be precise, the bridge was controlled, because the Rangers did not find the enemy on the bridge or in the cabin, except for the few suspicious targets on the deck before.
The officer who commanded the assault was not surprised, and even Robert did not feel anything wrong.
The attackers were engaged in a fierce battle with the 4th Infantry Division north of Central Park, and it was certainly unthinkable that the U.S. military would send special forces to raid the freighters in the harbor, so there would be no need to leave many men behind.
To Robert's surprise, the Rangers found a remote-controlled bomb in the ship's hold that was large enough to sink the freighter.
Apparently, the attackers had long planned to blow up these freighters, but for some reason did not do it immediately. According to Robert's judgment, the attackers must have intended to blow up the freighter before retreating, so that the American army had to draw forces to open a breakthrough in the American front.
Even if you can't open a breach, you can create enough chaos.
As long as the attackers want to leave Manhattan alive, they will have to do something earth-shattering so that the American military has no time to care.
In any case, the most dangerous freighters were finally controlled.
As soon as the Rangers succeeded, Admiral Robert put the 101st Air Assault Division, as well as the Marine Corps assault units, which had been on standby on the periphery, into battle.
The Ranger is not a crew and can't fiddle with those behemoths.
In addition, oil tankers and LNG freighters must be tugboats and barges to leave the port after docking, so they must occupy the port before they can leave.
The air assault force was the most rapid, arriving at the port within five minutes, and was the first to take control of the key facilities in the port.
The marines then arrived, and after disembarking in the port, the tanks and fighting vehicles opened the way and quickly crossed the line of air assault forces to establish a new line of defense on the outskirts of the port.
In less than fifteen minutes, the Marines were deployed.
The U.S. forces moved very quickly, mainly without resistance, and civilians in the city were evacuated without any trouble along the way.
The last to arrive was the crew sent by the Navy.
In order to send these time bomb-like freighters away as soon as possible, the navy specially dispatched a group of experienced sailors, and also temporarily recruited several retired soldiers to work on merchant ships.
The crew arrived with tugboats and barges requisitioned from nearby ports.
The towing process began quickly, and half an hour later, the first tanker left the dock at the mouth of the East River and headed for the standby site in Lower New York Bay, accompanied by a Coast Guard patrol vessel.
The LNG freighter, loaded with highly toxic solvents, also left the dock forty-five minutes later and was escorted south by a Navy frigate.
According to Robert's arrangement, after these "high-risk" ships gather in New York Bay, they will be divided into several fleets according to their type, displacement and other conditions, and go to the Chesapeake Bay to the south for a more comprehensive search. After confirming that there are no attackers hiding on board, they will be escorted by Navy ships to a suitable port, unload the ship's cargo, and wait for relevant arrangements from the US federal authorities.
Of course, that's all for later.
The point is that these ships must be allowed to leave Manhattan in time, out of the danger zone.
The attackers have done a lot of unexpected things, and no one can guarantee what will happen if these ships are left in New York.
As the freighters left the dock one by one, Robert stopped paying attention to the matter.
The 4th Infantry Division's vanguard has reached the north side of Central Park and is clearing the buildings at Columbia University. To his surprise, at this point, the attackers still did not launch a large-scale counterattack, but continued to blow up buildings and create problems for the US military.
Robert can't care so much anymore, he must arrive at the "Future Soldier" experimental center as soon as possible to rescue the scientific researchers trapped inside. Although he had realized that the erroneous bombing was likely to kill all the scientific personnel inside, the U.S. military still had to use it as a primary purpose before arriving at the scene. This is not just an account to the president, but also a protection of the vital interests of the United States.
No matter what happens in the future, those scientific researchers will be "national treasures" of the United States.
It's a pity that the U.S. military arrived too late.
Inside the renovation center, the collapsed ground crushed most of the passages and rooms, and the scientific researchers who were not crushed or burned to death were suffocated to death due to the fire.
This result was expected by Liu Wei.
After entering the transformation center wearing an oxygen cylinder, Liu Wei encountered all corpses, all kinds of corpses.
According to the layout of the experimental center brought back by Mobei Wolf, Liu Wei quickly found the transformation room.
There were several corpses outside, all of them suffocating, and at a glance they were scientific researchers from the experimental center, and one of them was an older one, perhaps a senior scientific researcher. Inside the renovation room, the collapsed beams smashed four renovation pools, and the commandos in one of the transformation pools were smashed into meat sauce. Of the two remodeling pools that were not smashed, there was also one in which a commando lay inside. Although he was not stoned to death, after the power was cut off, this guy couldn't live, but he didn't die so ugly, and it wasn't too painful.
Liu Wei didn't care so much, his purpose was to get the experimental materials of the "Future Soldier".
It didn't take long for Kotone Takeuchi to find the control center of the renovation room.
The central computer used to store the experimental data had been scrapped, and Liu Wei had to use brute force to dismantle the storage equipment on the computer.
Regardless of whether it is bad or not, there must be a way to restore the data inside.
After doing these things, Liu Wei asked Takeuchi Kotone and the others to look for explosives and combustibles.
It won't be long before the U.S. military arrives and finds that someone has taken the experimental materials first. The data center had to be blown up before leaving, completely destroying the computer so that the U.S. military didn't know what was missing. Although this may not be useful, after all, the US military will search the place thoroughly, and sooner or later it will be discovered that the computer storage has been taken, but it will always delay some time and prevent the Yankees from immediately tracking down.
For this reason, Liu Wei and they have spent a lot of effort.
By the time they had done this, it was already dark outside.
Because the blasting devices installed by Zhou Yulong were detonating one by one, the experimental center exploded again, and the US military did not notice it.
The power of the explosion was also not very great, and there was only a slight shock on the ground.
When he came to the ground, Kotone Takeuchi asked, "Brother Liu, where are we going now?" ”
"Get out of here." Liu Wei glanced in the direction of the port and said, "It seems that the Yankees have already reacted, and we have to leave through other channels." ”
"Go to the Sea and Air Museum and swim across the Hudson River." Miyuki Takahara gave her opinion.
"It's a port over there, and there must be a lot of U.S. troops, so we'd better not provoke them." Liu Wei smiled, "You haven't exercised for a long time, right?" ”
"Workout?" Takeuchi Qinyin was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Liu Wei meant.
"Swimming is the best way to get some exercise." Liu Wei patted her on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to the East River, find an opportunity to get close to the US warship, hitchhike out of here, and then swim to the nearest beach." If all goes well, we'll be back in Las Vegas in two days. ”
Seeing that Liu Wei had a plan, Takeuchi Kotone and the others didn't say anything more.
Not far to the north, after Robert's order, the 4th Infantry Division had already organized an assault force and was ready to enter Central Park.
By this time, many US officers and men had relaxed their vigilance.
Along the way, apart from the occasional exploding roadside bombs, and the resistance encountered in the north in the afternoon, the American troops did not encounter any trouble, not even a single attacker.
While front-line commanders still called on the attacking forces to be vigilant, nearly all U.S. troops believed that the attackers had left Manhattan or were mixed with civilians.
In this battle, they have no opponent at all.
Since there is no enemy, there is no need to continue to be vigilant.
For the American officers and men, who had been fighting in a tense atmosphere for a day, they were exhausted by the night, and everyone wanted to stop and breathe, but Admiral Robert did not give them this opportunity.
Although Robert still believed that there were thousands of attackers hiding on the island, the facts told him that the attackers were not on the battlefield at all. This led him to believe that the attackers had either left Manhattan or were mixed in with civilians and had not been detected by the U.S. military.
This result is unacceptable in any way.
If such a big thing happened, if we didn't even know who the enemy was, even if it was just a corpse, the US federal political axe would not be able to explain to the people at all, and the US military would lose face.
What's more, Norris will definitely put the blame on the military, believing that it is the army's ineffective fighting.
Either way, Robert needed a result, one that would be acceptable to the president.
Before the battle on the island was over, Robert ordered Copperfield, who commanded the National Guard, to immediately halt the evacuation and keep strict watch over civilians who had left Manhattan. Subsequently, Robert contacted the CIA and the FBI, asking for assistance from intelligence agencies to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth identification of civilians who matched the characteristics of the attackers and to identify the attackers hiding inside.
There is no doubt that this order is beyond the purview of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(To be continued)