Another U.S. A-6 fighter was hit, and although the pilots tried hard to pull it up and fly away from the battlefield, it didn't go far before it plunged headlong into the sea, and the violent explosion caused a splash several feet high.

The other pilots were so frightened that no one dared to bomb or shoot any more, no one dared to make aiming movements, and they slammed on the throttle valve and pulled the rudder at the same time, and shouted in horror: "Run!" Come on! Elevated! Elevated! ”

The A-6 and A-7 are carrier-based attack aircraft, and they are fast and fast, not only quickly leaving behind relatively bulky aircraft such as helicopter gunships and AC130s, but also freeing the pilots from the pursuit of short-range anti-aircraft missiles aimed at them with their excellent deeds and equipment such as decoy bombs.

Seeing an anti-aircraft missile grazing past the plane and then self-destructing and exploding in the distance, the pilot couldn't help but shout: "Great, thank God!" ”

When the US planes were hit one after another, the US military command was in a panic, and the combat staff officers kept asking about the situation on the front line, the weapons and equipment of the defenders, and the quantity.

"Report to the commander, the defenders have emerged from hiding place under the pressure of our bombshells, precision-guided bombs, and ground-penetrating bombs. At present, it has been found that they have weapons such as short-range anti-aircraft missiles, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns. Our fighters can only leave or rise. Because there are still our soldiers on the ground, at this altitude, our pilots can only carefully look for bombing targets, and it is difficult to destroy the other side in a short time. "A senior staff officer hurriedly ran into the command cabin after gathering the relevant materials and reported to the commander at the front.

The front commander rubbed his eyebrows and asked: "How many of our soldiers are still on the position?" ”

The operational staff officer thought for a moment and said, "There are about thirty more. There were more than a dozen of us who were able to get in touch with us, and some that we couldn't, but the pilots could see them. ”

"More than thirty?" The front commander asked again.

"They are still dwindling under the blows of the defenders." The operational staff hesitated. Said.

Obviously, the two were very confused when they asked this.

There are anti-aircraft missiles of the defenders below, and it is impossible to lower the altitude for fixed-point bombing, and bombing at too high a height may kill your own soldiers. Now the soldiers who stayed on the ground and did not die have become a stumbling block for the US military to launch a full-scale bombing.

Not to mention the difficulties of pilots and operational staff officers, even front-line commanders are also in difficulty.

The commander of the front called several senior officers together to inquire about countermeasures, and at the same time reported to his superiors what was happening here.

A few minutes later, the top brass finally agreed: order the American soldiers at the airport to find cover and hide on their own. The air force dispatched all its planes to intensify the bombardment of the airfield, and the warships carried out artillery bombardment as close to the coast as possible, which was bound to completely destroy all resistance forces at the airfield and the surrounding barracks within three hours.

He took the paper that the staff officer handed over and asked him to sign. The front-line commander also hesitated and looked up at the staff officer in front of him.

The staff officer bowed his head weakly.

For he knew that the first sentence of this command was a complete self-deception. Not to mention whether this order to let those soldiers find cover on their own can be passed to those soldiers who have been beaten by the defenders, because those soldiers have no structure, and they are all officers who cannot find soldiers, and soldiers who cannot find officers. Even if they find their radio communication equipment, it is not necessarily completely normal. Even if the radio was really good, and the order reached every American soldier at the airport, where would they find cover for a while? The ready-made bunkers are all for the defenders, and they are hiding inside, hoping that you will go up and kill you.

Eliminate the defenders in the bunker and take possession of the bunker? Just kidding, if there was such a thing, they would have occupied the airport long ago.

The most likely thing these people to do is dig bunkers on the spot. Or use the craters created by bombs. However, don't forget that the next bombing by the US army was extremely tragic, with the aim of destroying all the defenders hiding in bunkers. Other words. Even the defenders hiding in strong bunkers have to be wiped out and blown up, and you hide in bomb craters, hiding in your own makeshift bunkers? The first to die must be them, the American soldiers.

In other words, this order is actually to abandon those airport soldiers who are still alive, but the intent of the order is not obvious. Nor did anyone dare to blatantly order indiscriminate bombing. It's not that they're worried about court-martialing, it's not that they have a troubled conscience. In such a big battle, so many people made a collective decision, it was not a wrong order to indiscriminately bomb dozens of soldiers.

They are mainly worried that the media will know about it, that they will be stabbed by the media to the Warsaw Pact led by the Soviet Union, and that their allies will even know that they will do everything they can to fight a small country, and as a result, they will even blow up their own soldiers in order to fight for the airport, and the US military is too incompetent and cruel.

Once this matter is exposed, not only will the strategic purpose of boosting the morale of the allies come to naught, but the purpose of deterring the Soviet bloc will come to naught, and even the image of the United States itself will be damaged, and it will be condemned by the people at home, and it is very likely that it will lead to anti-war demonstrations in the country, and the political situation may be unforeseen chaos.

That's when I really shot myself in the foot.

However, the U.S. military could not afford to wait. It has been almost five hours since the battle began at three o'clock in the morning, and neither advance position has been taken, and it is not known when it will be until the army is sent to pick up those soldiers, or wait for those soldiers to be eliminated by the defenders.

It is obviously impossible to get out, the army roots can't get in, let alone withdraw, if they can get in, they would have gone in a long time ago, and they still bombed with such effort? Those soldiers who can come out have already come out themselves, and they will not be beaten there.

It will be until they are eliminated or surrendered, and I don't know when. There are those who are afraid of death but do not come out, and there are those who are not afraid of death and are high, and they can fight the defenders while protecting themselves, and it is possible for these soldiers to survive on the battlefield for half a day or a few days. Besides, judging from the pilot's observations, the defenders were not in a hurry to kill these soldiers, they just wanted to use these American soldiers, who did not have much danger, as shields, as meat shields, and as US soldiers' throwers.

People are just as weird.

Thinking of this, the front-line commander was even glad that so many soldiers became prisoners of the defenders so quickly, although these prisoners smeared the face of the American army, but alleviated his heartache.

"Young man, we have to deal with you." The front-line commander pursed his lips and picked up a pen to quickly sign his name.

With the command order, groups of fighters and bombers began to take off from the aircraft carrier at a rapid pace, taking off from the airfield in Barbados, and roaring towards the two airfields in Grenada. Huge warships also headed towards the coast, and huge naval guns were aimed at military targets on the coast.

While waiting for the planes from the aircraft carrier to fly over the Pearl airfield and the Salins airfield to drop bombs, the planes flying from the Barbados airfield were also approaching their destination.

The defenders had long been prepared, directing the radars of various anti-aircraft missiles to power on and on, while shedding their original camouflage and starting to lock onto the target.

And the ground-based anti-ship missiles were also pushed out of the bunkers on the coast, aiming at warships that could see the general outline without the help of binoculars in the distance.

"Oh no, we're radar locked!" First, a pilot exclaimed.

Many, such screams became more and more frequent, and even the pilots flying from Barbados exclaimed, and from the warships came panicked screams: "Oh no! They launched missiles! Aimed at me......"

"Report! They are not launching shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles! It's a medium-range anti-aircraft missile! ”

"My plane was shot, help—"

"God, the missile hit the bow! What kind of missile is this? The guns of the ships are flying......"

"James, dive!"

"Ahh

……

There was a mess on the radio in the sky, but there was dead silence in the command room. The intelligence staff officer was already sitting on the deck trembling, looking out the window in horror.

An operational staff officer hurriedly came from the communications room and was about to report, but the front-line commander waved his hand and said: "Order, all fighters and warships participating in the battle are withdrawn, and the aircraft carriers are withdrawn for a hundred nautical miles." ”

"Ah-" the combat staff officer cried out in a lost voice, "we won't fight?" ”

Several other high-ranking officers also turned their frightened gazes from the distant sky and looked at the Supreme Commander in disbelief.

What it means to retreat across the board, everyone here knows: it's to really admit defeat, and it doesn't make sense to cover up that the first blow is going on. The face of the US military will be swept away and it will become the object of ridicule by all countries in the world.

The commander of the front again shouted: "This is an order!" ”

"Yes!" The operational staff officer hurriedly straightened up, quickly wrote down the order, and handed it to the commander for signature.

After the operational staff officers left, the front-line commander smiled bitterly and said, "I will explain my dereliction of duty to the Secretary of State and to the President." ......, as you know, we have failed because we have all despised our opponents too much, thinking that our opponents are only Grenada, just small opponents raised by Cuba, and that without the support of the Soviet Union, they would have no means and weapons to deal with us. We have all forgotten that there is also a most cunning opponent - China. ”

"China? Aren't Grenada and Cuba both allies of the USSR? They have a hostile relationship with China. Although they can now do business with any country in order to make money, they will not fully support their enemy countries militarily, right? The commander of the aviation forces glared and asked, "Could it be that those anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles are all Chinese, and not Soviet?" ”

The front-line commander did not answer his technical questions, but looked at the sky in the distance and said to himself: "The Chinese have an idiom called cranes and mussels compete for fishermen and profits." It is said that the foraging white crane met the river mussel on the beach by the river that was opening two mussel shells to bask in the sun, so he went up to peck the meat inside the mussel shell, the river mussel was painfully tightened, and the mussel shell clamped the white crane's beak fiercely. Neither animal wants to let go of the other, so they are deadlocked......"

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