Chapter 578 [We can be the vanguard, or we can cover the back!" 】
"Quick, quick, get closer to the convoy, everybody get closer to the convoy." After fighting for more than eight hours, hearing the news that the team was coming, the team leader Iversman was also very excited.
"The machine gunners cover them, the others get out of the car to help pick up the wounded, Auston, you take the tools to the helicopter and bring the driver's body to the car."
Lieutenant Colonel McNay gave the order, stepped out of the Humvee, which had been battered again, and strode towards the house where the fourth squad was located.
More than 20 heavy machine guns opened fire in unison, and the astonishing lethality was suddenly revealed, and the heavy bullets suppressed at 360 degrees rained down on the surrounding houses, and the Somalis who were crushed here had no chance to raise their heads.
Lieutenant Colonel McNay came to the outside of the building, just in time to meet Eversman, who was leading the team to prepare, and stretched out his hand with a smile and said, "Sergeant Eversman, I heard that you are going to take a ride?" ”
All the fraternal units have now been received, and the danger of getting out is at hand, and it is not normal for Lieutenant Colonel McNay to be in a better mood.
"Yes, sir!" Seeing this powerful convoy, Iversman was also very excited, and his answer was trembling.
"Very good, you go and organize the personnel to get on the bus now, the wounded first, go." Lieutenant Colonel McNay, who had never fired a shot or been shot in the battle, except for a bruise on the neck, patted Eversmann on the shoulder and walked towards the downed Super 64 helicopter.
At this time, Auston, who was holding the cutting equipment, had already entered the fallen helicopter!
But what made him very helpless was that the helicopter's flight cockpit was made of bulletproof steel plates, and the cutter couldn't cut it at all, and the cockpit was pressed on the pilot's body, and there was no way to directly rescue people.
There are only two ways to get the body out!
The first is to cut the body into several pieces and take it out, which is very fast, and the cutter can do it in minutes.
But does this work?
Obviously not!
The second method is to cut the entire nose shell and pull the person out from the side, which is more time-consuming but the only feasible solution.
General Garrison, who was more and more worried about the critical moment, saw through the observation helicopter that the convoy had not moved, so he cut into the convoy channel and shouted: "Lieutenant Colonel McNay, what's going on?" Why did the convoy stop for so long? ”
Lieutenant Colonel McNay had already understood the situation at this time, and determined the second way to rescue, and after receiving an inquiry from Lieutenant Colonel McNay, he took off the communicator and said: "The driver's body has been stuck in the cockpit, and we are disassembling the cockpit around the corpse." ”
"How much longer? I want you to answer me truthfully. ”
The entire Erin operation has been a complete failure so far, even if the target task of the operation is captured, it is a failed operation, and as the person in charge of the entire operation, General Gallison is under more pressure than anyone else.
This is also the reason why he was directly removed from his post and left the army after returning to China after this incident!
"I can't say exactly when." Lieutenant Colonel McNay said.
"Danny!"
General Gallison rubbed his brows, called out Lieutenant Colonel McNay, and said in an unusually heavy tone: "You must not abandon your compatriots, not any of them, understand?" ”
Forever halting his life in a foreign land, bringing his body back to his homeland was the only thing Gareson's goal could do for his brothers.
"I understand!" Lieutenant Colonel McNay nodded in reply.
"I know you're in a dangerous situation, but ...... I hope you can do everything you can. ”
"Yes, sir!" Lieutenant Colonel McNay, who had never seen his commander before, spoke in such a low and depressed tone, and his face, which had been somewhat relieved by the imminent success of the rescue, also became solemn again at this moment.
In this battle, they lost too many brothers, and it was a difficult thing to bear.
Nearly twenty minutes passed, and the cockpit demolition was complete!
"Hurry up, there are more and more Somalis gathered, carry him out and send him to the car, it's time for us to go."
Seeing Auston and the others pull the body out, Lieutenant Colonel McNay secretly breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the position of the Humvee convoy.
At this time, several ranger captains who had sent all the wounded to the car, as well as a dozen people including Xingfeng and Delta Hute, were negotiating with the Pakistani general, the leader of the joint convoy.
"What's wrong?" Lieutenant Colonel McNay walked over and asked.
"There's no room in the car." The Pakistani general's answer was succinct, and the meaning was obvious.
There is no place in the car, so you can only run away with the convoy!
The number of vehicles originally planned was enough to transport everyone back, but the Malaysian armored fleet was unreliable, and half of the chain fell in the middle, which led to the current situation of not having enough cars.
"We'll be able to get out soon, can we squeeze in as much as we can?" Lieutenant Colonel McNay asked.
"It's ...... that our 10th Mountain Division has sent tanks and armored vehicles to protect your evacuation from enemy areas."
"The Tenth Mountain Division protects us?"
Before the Pakistani general could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Shrek, the commander of the Ranger company, "No, our Ranger people can be the vanguard, or we can protect the rear." ”
Speaking of which, Shrek looked at the dozen or so Rangers here and said, "Are you OK?" ”
This difficult battle has been going on so far, and although the Rangers have suffered heavy losses, there is not a single deserter, everyone is fighting bravely, and they are the best fighters.
Now the convoy came to pick them up and leave, just a retreat after completing the mission, and every ranger should be respected.
Protected to leave?
No, it's an insult to their honor.
"OK, we can get out there even if we don't have a car." Xing Feng nodded and said.
After Xingfeng answered, the other rangers also expressed their attitude, preferring to die on the way back rather than carrying the stain of being protected before leaving.
The Rangers of Xingfeng completed their statement, and six Delta Special Forces, including Hute, also responded.
Seeing the bravery of the group of soldiers in front of him, also as a soldier, the Pakistani general seemed to be infected, and took the initiative to say that he would reduce the speed of the car and let them evacuate under the cover of armored vehicles.
"Heavy guns, hold their fire, we're leaving."
"GOGOGO, LET'S GO."
"The vehicle can't sit down, use the armored car as a cover, go quickly, keep up."
Under the orders of the commanders of the various units, the "Erin Plan" operation, which started at 3:32 and originally took only half an hour, finally began the unified assembly and evacuation at this point in the middle of the night at more than 1 o'clock in the evening after 10 hours of ordeal.
Half an hour and ten hours, in the lives of ordinary people, are just a time to sleep, but in this "meat grinder" city, it is destined to make all the members who participate in the action remember this interruption for a lifetime.