Chapter XVII: Counter-Raid
On the outskirts of Medellín, deep in a lush primeval forest. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIn this supposedly off-the-beaten-path area, there is a busy group of people alive. This is one of the Medellín syndicate's drug production workshops, which escaped the last government clearance because of its concealment. And it was this clearance that doubled the price of cocaine in North America. Moreover, some small suppliers are coveting this suddenly vacated market, and the once powerful Medellín group is targeted by the government and has no time to sit still.
The Colombian police are not idle at the moment, because the last crazy retaliation operation in the Ministry of Justice building, the Colombian government, which was originally in the upper hand, was once again slapped in the face. The Deputy Minister of Justice, Lara, was killed on the spot, and the abducted judges and military police were sentenced to tie sentences. Escobar and his bravado, asserting his power in the country. Colombia's Department of Justice hopes to launch a successful raid with the U.S. military to further combat the strength of Escobar's Medellín group.
The intention of the Ministry of Justice is simple: to completely destroy the production capacity of the Medellín group. So recently, with the help of the United States, the Colombian military police began to use helicopter gunships to carry out a carpet search of the drug production factory hidden under the dense jungle.
Listening to the sound of the helicopter propeller coming from afar, Escobar's men felt a wave of excitement. Because they have a big gift for the Americans in their hands.
"Look over there, there seems to be a simple shed under the tree, we better take a look!" The observer, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the plane, pointed to a piece in front of him that had leaked out of the ground.
"Roger!" After answering, the pilot began to lower the altitude of the plane and flew in the direction that the observer had just pointed.
When the altitude of the plane was reduced to about 300 meters, the military police on the plane finally saw traces of human activity. There were blue buckets piled up in the clearing between the trees, but it was impossible to tell if this was a poison factory or not.
"Can it be lower, I'm still not sure if this is a poison factory or a lumberjack's hut!" The observer used his binoculars to peer through the gaps between the trees, but his vision was mostly blocked.
At this moment, Escobar's men were already planning to make a move. A drug dealer who had been hiding on the top of the tree for a long time locked onto the target with the launcher of the Stinger missile, and then did not hesitate to detain the launching plane.
"Whoosh!" The Stinger missile rushed towards the gunship like a fire dragon, but in a few seconds, the helicopter that was still in the sky instantly turned into a large fireball, and after a burst of explosions, the fireball began to smash to the ground.
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An hour later, Colombia's Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Defense both received reports from the front that a friendly U.S. helicopter gunship had been shot down by drug traffickers, killing all the crew. As for what kind of weapon it was shot down, the reason is still unknown.
Just when Colombia's Ministry of Justice thought it was just a random incident, they were soon surprised by another piece of news. An A-10 attack plane that had struck the drug dealer who had found the trail was accidentally shot down again, and before it was shot down, it was known from the pilot's conversation with the command that the drug dealer had an anti-aircraft missile in his possession, and that the plane had been chased by a missile before it fell.
"Hurry up and get all the planes back as soon as possible, there's a new situation on the drug dealer's side!"
"MD, the intelligence services are all rice buckets, don't they know that drug dealers have anti-aircraft missiles in their hands?"
"Quickly send out ground troops, and don't let the pilots sent by the United States fall into the hands of drug dealers!"
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Under the sudden change, the command of the US-Colombian joint operation has fallen into chaos. The planned follow-up armed operation had to be stopped. The United States is extremely angry that a US pilot was killed in this operation.
The Colombian government soon risked the risk of sending a ground search team, and the roads were not good because the crash site was in the mountains. And the drug dealers have anti-aircraft missiles in their hands, so this time the search force began to face even more trouble.
The drug traffickers quickly engaged the Colombian government forces in a quick and decisive battle with the Colombian government forces, who were desperately trying to recover the bodies of the pilots of the two crashed planes at the cost of more than a dozen lives.
No one knows exactly what happened, and no one knows why drug dealers have anti-aircraft missiles. It took a lot of effort for government forces to take control of the jungle around the crash site. In order to find out the truth, the United States quickly brought in experts from the mainland to analyze the reasons for the downing of the plane, and the conclusions reached made the US intelligence organizations feel unbelievable and incredible.
Intelligence shows that the anti-aircraft missiles used by the two downed planes are both individual anti-aircraft missiles, and they are also produced by different countries, the missile that shot down the helicopter is the Stinger missile of the US military, and the missile that shot down the A-10 attack aircraft is the Sam-16 anti-aircraft missile from the Soviet Union, the Soviet code name Pin-1, and the NATO code name Hand Drill.
The fact that the Medellín bloc was able to obtain the main individual anti-aircraft missiles of the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union was unimaginable to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which participated in the operation. Could it be that the Medellín Group bought the Needle missiles from the Cubans? And what about the stinger?
The CIA has always boasted that it knows everything about the backyard of the United States, but this time, it actually feels that it is impossible to trace the anti-aircraft missiles that have flowed into the hands of drug traffickers, and a very small number of gangs in the United States may get Stinger missiles, but who is it?
While the Americans were still bewildered by the sudden military growth of the Medellín bloc, Escobar was already celebrating his hard-won victory with his men.
Escobar sighed in his heart: "Nikolai is really a reliable partner, as long as you need it, even missiles can be obtained for you, what else these Russians can't do!" Now it's up to the man named Valentin, if he can get tanks and armored vehicles and the like, then Lao Tzu will turn these drug dealers under his command into an army, Lao Tzu has money, even if it is the Colombian government army, it will not be my opponent at that time! ”
Escobar looked at the only four missiles left, and suddenly felt a little remorseful, why didn't he order more arms from Valentin?