CHAPTER XXXI

"Is Task Force 16 going to catch *** again?"

Hearing the report from Afghanistan, a staff officer on duty checked his mission log suspiciously.

"They're catching *** every day." Another staff officer replied disapprovingly. "And every time he passes by ***, will the Americans not be able to catch him or will they not want to arrest him at all?"

The staff officer on duty who had spoken earlier laughed. "How can this war on terror be fought without ***, the Americans are still 'very' smart. I'm going to inform my superiors of this movement of U.S. troops, and you're here to continue to listen in. ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to use an internal phone to let me know?" The other was unimpressed.

"This is a task directly notified by our chief of staff, and it must be handled according to the most urgent situation."

He jotted down the data on a piece of paper and excitedly went to his chief of staff. In the past two days, all the big men in the department have been working on the spot, and the junior staff officer is very hopeful that he can have a chance to get ahead, but now there are frequent movements in the Iraqi listening room, and several of his classmates have already made meritorious contributions, which has further 'stimulated' the ambition of the young staff officer.

As soon as he went out of the 'door', he almost bumped into a person in the corridor, and when he saw the person coming clearly, the little staff officer hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"I'm sorry, ***!"

"***" smiled and waved his hand. "I know you, what's the rush to be so flustered?"

The little staff officer raised the piece of paper in his hand. "Report ***, I found that there is a transfer of US troops in Afghanistan, I am going to report to my superiors."

"***" looked at the little staff officer a little suspiciously. "What's going on?"

The little staff officer stood straight. "This is an ad hoc order from Chief of Staff Lin this morning."

"***" seemed to understand something, smiled and stretched out his hand to the little staff officer. "It just so happens that I'm going to Lin Yongquan, I'll relay the information on your behalf."

The little staff officer was still a little hesitant, and "***" patted him on the shoulder affectionately. "What? Can't trust me? Lin Yongquan is still my old subordinate, what's the matter? Can you trust him but not me? ”

The little staff officer scratched Xinli's flat head and laughed embarrassedly. "It's not that I can't trust you, but this is an order, and it's also a confidentiality provision, and I have to send it myself."

"***" face 'complexion' changed slightly, but the little staff officer was nervous and 'excited', where did he notice this, saluted "***" and walked quickly to Lin Yongquan's office. "***" I waited in front of the listening room all day, but I didn't expect that the young staff officer had a strong discipline and didn't intercept this information.

However, he had to intercept this information halfway. Looking at the back of the little staff officer, he also followed quickly.

In Pakistan's air bases, what worries Wei Han the most is the problem of foreign 'diplomacy' caused by the failure of the operation. He was not worried about the combat effectiveness of Unit 128, although it was not a field force, it was more than enough to raid guerrillas without armored units, and the Pakistani security forces could take over at any time. It's just that this is the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and regardless of the extremely complex environment, what he is most worried about is that the US military will also be involved if the operation fails. The presence of US troops in Afghanistan in the name of counter-terrorism has the authority to attack terrorists on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and to stop terrorist acts by force.

Wei Han connected with the intelligence gathering center of the General Staff Headquarters and asked for a report on the movements of the US troops stationed in Afghanistan every half hour, and special situations at any time. On the command radio, Teams A and B are in position and are informing them of the progress of their respective missions. There is also an encrypted message coming from the "home", "the wind and waves in Afghanistan are calm".

Wei Han looked at his watch, and if this situation remained for another two hours, it would be too late for the US troops to be mobilized.

The 128 Special Logistics Support Unit entered the Suleiman Pass at 22 o'clock and sneaked to its destination an hour later.

After compiling reconnaissance reports from snipers and spearheads, and then making brief observations at the destination, both Ro' and Lai Chun Lei realized that the information provided by Pakistan's Ministry of Security was not as reliable as they had promised.

The "golden" and "red" highlands indicated by intelligence and satellite images are actually one piece, but the terrain is too low-lying at the junction to appear to be two parts. In this low-lying area, there are a large number of scattered 'disorderly' houses, which are basically impossible to pass through in seclusion. The situation is slightly better on the "green" heights, where a fairly gentle slope is connected to the "red", and there are some simple shacks on the slope, which the special forces judge to be a camp for militants. When the team approached the "green" high ground and tried to approach the destination through here, it found that there were some hidden fortifications on the "golden" high ground facing each other, and the main camp of the militants above the "red" was horned into each other, and the situation between the "red" and "green" high ground could be observed.

They had no choice but to temporarily enter the "golden" heights and hide under them.

At present, only in the "green space" can set up sniper positions, and Shen Mao's platoon and Zhao Sanhong are already in place. To monitor the two heights, they had to set their positions on the ridge line, so it was certainly not until dawn.

Lai Chun Lei inquired about the status of the "green space" and received a positive answer from Shen Maopai. Zhao Xuefeng was already in place on the "red ground" and determined the specific location where the engineers were being held.

"Let's go in now and keep a good look behind us." Lai 'Chun' Lei looked at Luo 'Men'. "No problem, right?"

In the green 'color' field of vision of the night vision device, Lai 'Chun' Lei's serious face looked a little hideous. He seemed to be a little apprehensive, and it must have been because of the rivalry that existed between them when they were still in training camp. But this is only a matter of Lai's 'Chun' Lei.

Luo 'Gate' did not speak, but held out his hand in silence.

Lai 'Chun' Lei did not immediately stretch out his hand to shake him, but looked at Luo 'Men' cautiously.

Luo 'Men' stretched out his hand in front of Lai 'Chun' Lei, and he didn't mean to retract it.

Lai 'Chun' Lei suddenly smiled and shook Luo 'Men's hand vigorously. "At least I can count on you in this matter."

Team B, led by Lai Chun, quickly disappeared into the darkness.

From where they hide, they can already see the small mosque on the "red" heights. The engineers were held here. When Lai's team appeared in the telescope's field of view, Ma Xixi returned breathlessly. He had already reconnoitred on all three heights, and as far as he had found, there were at most fifty men in the main camp. There were also camps on the high ground above them, but most of them were empty houses, and it was impossible to count the exact number of enemies.

"Go reconnoitring again, at least 'figur' figure out which houses are occupied." Ro'men commanded him.

Ma Xibei did not answer, but disappeared into the darkness again.

"As long as you don't 'make' the noise, there's no problem with the main camp." ACE lowered his voice. "This time, Lao Lai picked up a big bargain, and the set they made was useless."

Ro'mon's eyes did not leave the telescope.

"But Team B is better than I thought, they are very tacit and they are in good shape."

ACE took the infrared telescope of Ro'Gate.

With night vision gear, daggers and whispering weapons, Team B quickly carved a bloody path. This near-silent night battle is one-sided for the poorly equipped guerrillas, and the future battle is such a pattern. The importance of the infantry will not change, but the mode of combat has changed dramatically, and it is almost impossible for the infantry charge scene under the cover of artillery fire to appear again, and the sudden and accurate assigned strike mission will become the mainstream of infantry combat.

While ACE was still in a state of confusion, Team B had withdrawn from the mosque, and this time their formation was extremely large because of the presence of bare-handed engineers.

"Hummingbird, the situation has changed, the hostages have been divided and detained, and there are three more in the 'golden' 'highland'." Lai' Chun' Lei's voice was a little hurried, this was a breath after the battle. "Go and rescue the hostages."

RO'MON AND ACE GLANCED AT EACH OTHER, AND ACE WINKED AT HIM.

"No problem, Team B can withdraw." Ro'men got up from the ground. "Team A takes over."

"Hummingbird, is it really okay?" Lai Chun Lei was a little hesitant. "Otherwise, I'll send a team to support you."

"Mustang, there's really no problem." ACE took over. "Take care of yourself and withdraw as planned."

Luo 'Men' estimated that Lai' Chun' Lei's worries came from the weaponry of the support group. The support group had two 'Ting' machine guns, only the Carbines of Ma Xi and Luo 'Men' were good for close combat, and firepower was a problem. Team B's players are already struggling to take care of the hostages, let alone send someone over for at least half an hour, while Team A is closer to the evacuation site and has fewer people to pick up, so the response will be quicker.

ACE watched as Ro' assembled the Mk18 carbine sprayed in camouflage from his backpack.

"I knew I should have brought an M4 with me."

"Soldier Ant, what did you find?" Instead of answering the ACE, Ro' called Ma Xibei.

There was silence on the northwest side of the horse. "We're in a bit of trouble here, call the 'praying mantis'."

Luo 'Gate' cursed lowly. Ma Xibei must have found the kidnapped engineer, "praying mantis" is Xu Kawai's call sign, he is the medical officer of the team, and he is called over to explain that someone in the hostage is injured, and the injury is not light.

"We cleaned up the scene first, and then the 'praying mantis' followed up." Ro'men made a decision.

When he found Ma Xixi in the middle of the camp, he was huddled behind a pile of debris, using the scope on his M4 to observe a shack made of iron sheets, receiving a signal from the radio, he made a "don't make a sound" gesture to the approaching Ro' and Ace, and then motioned for them to pay attention to their feet, there were many discarded metal parts on the ground, and the smell of gasoline wafted in the air.

"There were seven in the house, three outside the house, and fifteen more in the shack next to it."

ACE whispered the sign language of Northwest Ma. Luo 'Men' looked around as Ma Xibei had instructed him, and found that Ma Xixi had been too close to the shack for the sake of observation, and was actually surrounded by three patrolmen, so he was huddled there in that ridiculous posture and could not speak.

"Do you want us to get you out of there?" ACE asked Ma Northwest in a low voice.

Ma Xixi raised a middle finger at him.

"What do you say? I can't hear you. ACE struggled to control the urge to laugh. Please repeat. ”

Ma Xibei ignored him and continued to observe the situation inside.

By this time Ro'men had quietly approached a patrolman from behind, killed him with a pistol and caught him before the body fell, avoiding a sound, and approached another careless patrolman in the same way, killing him with a tactical knife.

As if thinking that Ro' and Ace were too 'wavering' to take time, Ma Xibei himself got up from behind the pile of clutter, solved the last one with a pistol, and then retreated back into his corner.

"He's clever enough to ask us to deal with the fifteen." ACE whispered through the intercom.

"There are too many people, just separate them from the hostages' huts." Ro' replied in a low voice. "Let's just attack the hostage huts."

Through the crack in the hut, an engineer could be seen lying on the marching 'bed', one of his 'legs' dripping with blood, and moaning in a low voice. The other two sat in the corner, and the seven partisans were lying or sitting, none of them having yet fallen asleep. According to the information at the time of departure, the identities of the three people were confirmed, and Luo 'Men' informed Xu Ai that he was ready to dispose of the open 'sexual' fracture, and the folding stretcher that Xu Ai had always liked came in handy.

Ro'men opened fire first, knocking out two guerrillas through the cracks in the huts. The rest of the people were in a 'chaos' and 'chaos', Ma Xibei caught up with the rhythm of Luo 'Men' in time, and also knocked down three guerrillas from his direction, and one of the remaining people wanted to shoot at the hostages, and the other wanted to find cover for himself, but they were all killed by Luo 'Men' who rushed in like a whirlwind. In a matter of seconds, before the engineers knew what was happening, a large man dressed in black and wearing a ski mask appeared in front of them, and made a silent gesture with his finger at them.

There was no movement in the shack not far away. Even if someone comes out, they will be knocked down by Luo 'Men' and Ma Xibei, who 'touched' it, with 'crossing' firepower. At this time, Luo 'Men' seemed to hear the roar of a helicopter in the sky. It is possible that this was his delusion, and the helicopter would not fly in without receiving the signal that their mission was complete.

Xu Ai had already taken care of the wounded's injuries, and asked the two engineers to follow him on a stretcher, and returned the same way under the cover of ACE. At this time, Shen Maoplatoon informed them that Team B had entered the slope between the two high grounds, and asked if the sniper position could be moved. Romen told him that only they could cover the whole team now, so they could not be transferred until all the personnel had evacuated.