Chapter 60: The Battle of Guantanamo (3)
Arlington County, Virginia, USA, inside the Pentagon. After receiving a call for help from Guantanamo, the Pentagon was completely in chaos. They could not have imagined that anyone would dare to attack the military bases of the Americans. And until now they did not know who their enemies were?
Secretary of Defense Weinberg and President Reagan were aware of the incident, and they were in contact on the phone in the conference room to discuss countermeasures. At first, Pentagon officials thought that Cubans had done the work, but it was only after contacting the Cuban authorities through various channels that the Pentagon realized that it had made a mistake.
"Come in, Mr. President, I want to know what's going on!" As the door to the conference room opened, a group of senior generals were called in to report to President Reagan over the phone on the progress of the matter.
"Okay, I wonder how our rescue went?" President Reagan asked with a serious look on his face.
"Report to Mr. President, our fighter plane has taken off and will arrive at the combat area within an hour, but according to the information given by the Guantanamo base, there is a large amount of crude oil burning, so the air contains a lot of carbon particles, and if the fighter flies at a low altitude, it is very likely to encounter danger!" A brigadier general of the US Air Force reported to the president.
"What about the Navy, when will the nearest ship of the Navy arrive?" President Reagan heard that the Air Force could not count on it, and quickly asked about the Navy.
"Mr. President, our closest missile cruiser to Guantanamo is still in Haiti, and in addition to this, the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier battle group has also rushed to the area where the accident occurred, but the oil and hull wreckage from the oil tanker attacking the Guantanamo base have blocked the shipping lane, and our ships cannot enter Guantanamo Bay!" An admiral of the Navy replied ashamedly.
"Gentlemen, how do I explain to the taxpayers that your soldiers are in dire straits, that Congress has poured a lot of money into you every year, and that you are touching your conscience...... President Reagan was unhappy with the fact that these rice buckets of the Department of Defense were so shirking. He knew that if things were allowed to continue like this, he would suffer the biggest political crisis since he took office.
"Mr. President, we Rangers are willing to go to the place of battle and do our best to rescue our comrades!" At this moment, the door to the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a brigadier general walked into the conference room. His appearance looks very resolute, and he doesn't look like a person at all like these white-faced scholars in the Ministry of Defense.
"Who are you?" It definitely takes a lot of courage for someone to volunteer to stand up at such a time, because he has to withstand a lot of pressure! President Reagan did not intend to blame the soldier, on the contrary, if the man did not speak loudly, Mr. President was willing to give him this opportunity.
"Brigadier General Hamon of the Ranger wants you to report, Mr. President, my subordinates are in Haiti right now, and we can airdrop them to the rear of the enemy!" Harmon said firmly.
"You're crazy! That is under the control of the Cuban government, do you want to declare war on Cuba? As soon as Brigadier General Hamon's suggestion came out, it was immediately questioned. The guy who was silent in the venue just now began to attack Harmon in a swarm at this moment. Harmon's expression did not change, and he just stood there and let his colleagues ridicule him, he didn't care what these people thought. To fight a war is to take it by surprise, and there is absolutely no way to do it now except to land on Cuban soil.
"Brigadier General Harmon, I approved your request, let it go!" President Reagan probably thought for a few seconds before agreeing to this suggestion, it would be unwise to start a conflict with Cuba, but if things are allowed to continue like this, the longer it drags on, the more people will die, which is unacceptable to the president himself and the American people.
Hamon, who had been authorized, immediately left the conference room. In fact, long before Harmon entered the conference room, he had already ordered his men to go to the area of the exchange of fire at Guantanamo.
While the Americans were in full swing of deployment, Boris also organized this ragtag unit in his hand to start landing. At this moment, Lebed was already feeling the proximity of the most intense delivery of the freighter. He and Boris will each lead people to start the search from the bases on both sides of the play.
The Katyusha rocket artillery destroyed most of the defenses on the Cuban side of the Guantanamo base, and now it is no longer impossible to attack with infantry. But the scope of this base is too large. According to the map, the area is about 170 square kilometers. Lebed's cruise ramming tactics simply destroyed the docks of the base and part of the airfield. In addition to this, there are large blank areas that are still unscathed. In Lebed's view, the danger of landing operations was still extremely high.
However, Lebed's tanker tactics blocked Guantanamo Bay at the same time, he also blocked his own way of life. The attack of the tankers was carried out without the knowledge of the members of these guerrillas. Now that the red eye is red, few people think about the problem of retreat.
Now Lebed had only two paths in front of him, either to surrender to the Cuban government or to rush out of the land with the corpses of American soldiers. In fact, everyone does not have to choose at all, and everyone knows exactly how the Cuban government treats drug traffickers.
Everyone disperses, do not get together, do not get together, pay attention to the enemy's points of fire. Lebed covered his face with a balaclava, revealing only his eyes and mouth! It looked exactly like the Chechen Ingushetia partisans in the Soviet Union.
As Lebe's troops moved faster, the front finally met resistance from the garrison at the base, and after a few gunshots, Lebed and the Americans' troops were tangled together.
"Don't dwell too much on it, use the flamethrower to get out of the way!" At the sound of Lebe's order, several guerrillas armed with flamethrowers lined up and fell on the spot, and then a wall of fire rushed towards the American troops who had come to build a defensive line. At this time, the air is rich in flammable volatiles. Flamethrowers can do more with less. It was just a charge, and the American troops rushing towards each other turned into burning men.
Lebed anxiously looked at the watch on his wrist, forty minutes had passed since the attack was launched, and the longer the time dragged on, the more detrimental it would be to Lebed. Lebed couldn't help frowning and shouted to his men, hurry up, hurry up, we must find Ivankov before the enemy's reinforcements feel it, and then escape from here.