Chapter 2: The Loss of a Comrade-in-Arms (Part II)
"Heavy at seven hundred and seventy." Wu Haiyuan began to fully assist Chu Tianjiang.
The main weapons of the pirates were AK rifles with an effective range of four hundred meters, which posed little threat to snipers, and the main threat was those machine guns with a range of more than eight hundred meters.
Under Wu Haiyuan's guidance, Chu Tianjiang successively killed two pirates who tried to use heavy machine guns.
Two people were killed in a row, and the other pirates no longer dared to climb into the pickup truck to use heavy machine guns, and they hid behind the vehicles one after another, firing blindly with rifles in the direction of the snipers.
"Enemy chieftain, distance 820, take the walkie-talkie."
Chu Tianjiang had already loaded the sniper rifle and stuffed a well-polished bullet into the chamber. The enemy chief hides behind a Toyota SUV, holding a walkie-talkie, looking for targets for the gunners. When he poked his head out again, Chu Tianjiang seized the opportunity of only two seconds.
The warhead flew for less than two seconds, burrowed into the forehead of the enemy chieftain, and flew the entire skull.
By this time, the pirates had roughly determined the location of the snipers and began to use mortars. The first shell landed more than 20 meters to the left of Chu Tianjiang, the second shell landed a little closer, and the third shell landed even farther away. In the second round of shelling, the landing points of the three shells were also greatly deviated.
"What now?" Wu Haiyuan was a little flustered. "Communication is cut off, and no one will come to pick us up."
"Kill all the enemies and go back to the CIA bastards to settle scores!" Chu Tianjiang didn't panic, because panic would only make the situation more dangerous.
When Chu Tianjiang reloaded the sniper rifle, the pirates on the road were already in disarray.
Dealing with snipers with mortars is tantamount to trying your luck. The effective killing range of 82-mm mortar shells against lying down will not exceed five meters, and if a sniper is ambushed in a depression, unless it hits directly, the shells that fall nearby will not hurt the sniper at all.
Not to mention pirates, even the gunners of the regular army may not be able to hit a sniper a few hundred meters away with a mortar.
By the time Chu Tianjiang finished firing the third batch of bullets, there were more than a dozen corpses on the road, and the rest of the pirates were hiding behind the vehicles, never daring to come out again.
"Old Wu, get ready to slip away." Chu Tianjiang reloaded the sniper rifle. "Damn, those miscellaneous members of the Military Intelligence Bureau, I can't spare them."
"What are you going to do and beat them up?"
"At least knock out a few of their big teeth."
Wu Haiyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, this is not the first time. Similar situations have occurred in the rescue of engineers from kidnapped Chinese companies in Afghanistan last year, the survey team covering the construction of oil pipelines in Pakistan the year before last, and several previous operations.
Chu Tianjiang packed up his weapons and equipment and was about to withdraw from the sniper position, when Wu Haiyuan grabbed his shoulder.
In the air, there was a roar.
Helicopter!?
Both of them were startled and saw a helicopter flying out from behind the hills on the other side of the river. A SA342 "Gazelle" light helicopter with aviation machine gun pods and rocket launch nests hanging on the left and right sides, the fuselage is painted with desert camouflage camouflage, and there is no logo.
"!" Chu Tianjiang immediately withdrew the bullets from the sniper rifle and replaced them with a row of armor-piercing bullets.
"Gazelle" is a light utility helicopter developed by the French aerospace company, which is mainly used to carry out reconnaissance missions, and can also carry weapons to carry out attack missions.
More than eight hundred such helicopters were produced and equipped with dozens of countries.
The helicopter flew straight towards the sniper's ambush and fired several rockets from a distance of a thousand meters, but the landing point was very different.
When the helicopter flew closer, Chu Tianjiang fired five bullets in one go.
It is a pity that the helicopter was installed with bulletproof glass, and the distance was too far, and the 7.62-mm armor-piercing shell left only a few white spots on the windshield.
When Chu Tianjiang loaded his bullets again, the helicopter was already approaching and began to strafe with machine guns. Bullets landed in rows beside the two men, splashing a lot of dust.
"We've been discovered!" Wu Haiyuan got up and got down on one knee and fired at the helicopter with an automatic rifle.
Chu Tianjiang also got up, raised his sniper rifle and fired at the helicopter.
The bullet hit the helicopter in the belly and sparked, but it didn't pose a threat to the helicopter. When the helicopter flew overhead, Chu Tianjiang turned around and continued to fire at the helicopter. If you can get away with hitting the tail slurry of the helicopter, you can make the helicopter fall.
The helicopter swooped into the canyon behind the high ground, avoiding the range of sniper rifle fire.
"Old Wu, let's leave quickly. Old Wu ......"
Wu Haiyuan fell to the ground and did not answer.
"Old Wu-" Chu Tianjiang rushed over and picked up the dying Wu Haiyuan.
The bullet hit Wu Haiyuan in the abdomen, the blood had stained the camouflage suit red, and there was a huge wound left by the bullet on his back waist after the bullet penetrated his body.
"Old Wu ......"
"Tianjiang...... Help me...... Help me take care of ...... Take care of the ...... Guoxiong ......" Wu Haiyuan took out the photo in his breast pocket and stuffed it into Chu Tianjiang's hand.
"Old Wu, hold on, I'll take you back ......"
"Promise me...... Shine...... Take care of Kunixiong...... A......"
"I promise, I promise you, I will definitely take care of Kunio. Hold on, you have to hold on, I ......"
After receiving Chu Tianjiang's reply, Wu Haiyuan closed his eyes, and the right hand that grabbed Chu Tianjiang's arm also let go.
"Old Wu-" Chu Tianjiang hugged Wu Haiyuan to death, he didn't believe that Wu Haiyuan was dead.
In the past nine years, Wu Haiyuan has blocked three bullets for Chu Tianjiang, two of which were seriously wounded, once spent seven days in the intensive care unit, and the doctor issued a critical illness notice five times, but he persevered and returned a month later. Chu Tianjiang always believed that Wu Haiyuan would not die on the battlefield.
The helicopter rounded the high ground and flew back from the other side of the valley.
Putting down his partner's body, Chu Tianjiang ran a few meters away and picked up the M200 high-precision sniper rifle hidden under the camouflage net.
The gun was a trophy captured by Chu Tianjiang in Afghanistan last year.
According to the rules of the LTTE, the spoils of war obtained in the execution of secret operations that are not officially recognized are in the possession and custody of individuals.
Helicopters are climbing high, ready to strike again.
The sight is mounted on a Picatinny tactical rail, which has long been debugged. Chu Tianjiang did not aim at the pilot, but at the helicopter's pulp shaft. The first shot hit the intake tract of the engine, the second missed, the third hit the rotors, and the fourth above the cockpit.
The helicopter was approaching rapidly, and Chu Tianjiang did not have time to adjust the scope.
After taking a deep breath, Chu Tianjiang fired the fifth shot.
It was the last round in the magazine, it took a few seconds to reload, and the helicopter had reached the desired altitude and was about to fire.
When the bullet hit the shaft, a blinding flash of fire erupted.
The helicopter emitted black smoke and began to shake from side to side. The two pilots scrambled to shake the joysticks in an attempt to control the helicopter climb.
It's just that these efforts are useless.
As the three pulp leaves fell off, the helicopter crashed into the valley with black smoke coming out.
Chu Tianjiang didn't stop there, he returned to the sniper position with an M200 sniper rifle. On the road, the pirates who had witnessed the helicopter fall were already in a state of confusion and trying to flee in their cars. Chu Tianjiang didn't give the pirates a chance, and began to use the M200 to name the pirates' vehicles.
Compared to the Remington 700, the M200 is much more powerful.
Although the M200 is a standard high-precision long-range sniper rifle, all designed to improve long-range accuracy, even the table ammunition is a single metal bullet to reduce the disturbance caused by uneven warhead material during long-range shooting, but as a large-caliber sniper rifle, it can use special ammunition such as armor-piercing incendiary explosive shells. After seizing this sniper rifle, Chu Tianjiang made a batch of special ammunition.
Compared with ordinary bullets, the accuracy of special ammunition is reduced, but it is mainly reflected in the distance of a thousand meters.
Against targets within a kilometer, especially large targets such as vehicles, the impact of the difference in accuracy of special ammunition is negligible.
For pirates, Chu Tianjiang will not have the slightest mercy.
If it weren't for this group of pirates who hijacked the freighter, they wouldn't have come to this ghost place, and Wu Haiyuan wouldn't have sacrificed.
In less than fifteen minutes, dozens of pirates on the road were either killed or wounded, and those who did not die did not live long. Decades of war have made Somalia one of the poorest and most backward countries in the world. In the absence of modern medical conditions, a shot is equivalent to death.
After killing all the pirates, Chu Tianjiang saw the unmanned reconnaissance plane flying from the north.
The reconnaissance aircraft flew at an altitude of less than a thousand meters and was very slow, presumably because the personnel of the Military Intelligence Directorate wanted to figure out the outcome of the battle.
Exercise! Chu Tianjiang cursed secretly. Damn that gang of bastards from military intelligence!
The distance is more than two kilometers, but the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flies at a constant speed along a fixed channel, and the wind is relatively weak, so the impact is very weak.
Chu Tianjiang raised the M200 and aimed at the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
To avenge Wu Haiyuan, Chu Tianjiang has to go back alive, and he can't let others know about it, at least not let the bastards from the Military Intelligence Bureau know that he is still alive.
At this time, the ballistic computer of the M200 played a key role.
The first shot failed to hit the target, but a small Doppler radar controlled by a ballistic computer measured the ballistic error, and then combined the data obtained by the laser rangefinder and the weather environment sensor, corrected the trajectory, and displayed the adjustment data on the scope.
The second shot, an accurate hit.
The bullet hit the fuel tank of the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and the leaked fuel was sucked into the engine, which burned out.
Seeing the unmanned reconnaissance plane dragging black smoke into the valley, Chu Tianjiang put away his sniper rifle.
His home is on another continent, and Chu Tianjiang can't leave with his partner's body, all he can take away is the identity tag and the photo stained red with blood.
This is a family photo of Wu Guoxiong when he turned two years old four years ago. Zhao Shuyun hugged her son, and Wu Haiyuan stood behind.
Because they were about to go on a mission, they didn't go to the photo studio, but asked Chu Tianjiang to help them take this family photo. In that mission, Wu Haiyuan blocked a bullet for Chu Tianjiang, and after coming back, he lay in the hospital for more than a month. During Wu Haiyuan's hospitalization, Zhao Shuyun had to take care of both her son and her husband. Early one morning, Zhao Shuyun was driving to the hospital when she was too tired to notice a large truck coming from the side. Chu Tianjiang clearly remembered that after learning the bad news, Wu Haiyuan was grief-stricken.
For four years, Chu Tianjiang has been blaming himself.
If Wu Haiyuan hadn't blocked the bullet for him, Zhao Shuyun wouldn't have been overtired, wouldn't have gone to the hospital every day to take care of her husband, and wouldn't have suffered a car accident.
The partner sacrificed, and all Chu Tianjiang could do was to take care of his partner's orphans, which was to avenge his partner!
The crimes of piracy are heinous and unforgivable, and those personnel of the Military Intelligence Agency who abandoned them must also be responsible for Wu Haiyuan's death and pay for Wu Haiyuan's life!