514. Chapter 37 (2) Confirm the target
After the base commander, General Lead, gave this order, Lieutenant Vincent had already led his men over the hill, and at this time, the battle below the hill was nearing its end, and looking down from the top of the hill, some people could be seen rapidly approaching the village.
"The base, the action group is in place, and the target is being confirmed."
Vincent and the others, who had lurked on the spot, relayed their location information to several commanders waiting in the integrated command center of the air service base.
"Captain, the group of armed men I just mentioned has taken control of this village, we have observed that some people have withdrawn from here, these evacuees should be the escorts we are tracking the target, and we have not found that they took the suspicious box we are looking for when they evacuated, so you must find and confirm the location of this box as soon as possible."
The reconnaissance plane, which had been hovering over this mountainous area, clearly transmitted every movement in the village back to the big screen in the command center.
"Lead, isn't it normal that these people haven't moved since they got there early this morning? There's nothing strange about that, right? ”
Although Bryant knew that the convoy had been deliberately avoiding the surveillance of satellites in the sky, he couldn't help but express his concern to Lead.
The commander, General Lead, looked at Kobe Bryant and smiled, and said:
"You know better than me, old man, if you had just been hit by a missile at midnight, would you still be swaggering around the streets? No, you will be more careful on the road after that, these people are in this state now, but if you are a smarter commander, he will definitely guess our strike method, which is one of the reasons why they quickly peel off the locator from the main equipment after they perceive it, and at the same time, our strike will also make him clear that removing the threat of the locator will not make him safe, and the reconnaissance satellites that fly over this piece of the sky from time to time are also a huge threat to him, This is also one of the reasons why he has been deliberately hiding his whereabouts for the rest of the trip, after dawn, he did not dare to venture forward again, because after dawn, the threat to him should not be limited to us hiding in the shadows, attack forces, large and small local armed forces in that area are all threats to him, which is also one of the reasons to prevent them from moving forward. ”
After Leader finished speaking, he patted Kobe Bryant on the shoulder, and then made it into a wide back chair, his eyes continued to focus on the big screen in front of him.
"Let's hope so, there really won't be any more forks, the longer the delay, the more frequent the other party moves, the greater the possibility that we will lose our target, and then trying to find these things is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and I hope those things are still in this village."
"Suspicious targets found, repeated, suspicious targets found."
Vincent's voice over the loudspeaker brought everyone's attention together again.
At the foot of the mountain, a dozen armed men who had attacked the village first found the off-road vehicles that were hidden, and through high-powered binoculars, Vincent, who was hiding on the top of the mountain in the distance, found the wooden box in one of the vehicles, which was relatively large.
The reconnaissance plane cruising at high altitude also transmitted the image of this scene back to the screen of the command center in real time.
"The shape and size of the box we captured from several locations are consistent with the box found here, and the measured volume data is completely consistent."
With little delay, Major Henry gave a rough confirmation of the shape.
On the screen, it can be vaguely seen that these vehicles moved out of different hidden positions began to move slowly towards the mountain road at the edge of the village, and some of the armed men who had just attacked the village and searched everywhere gradually gathered in front of the vehicles, and another group of armed personnel who had been staying in the middle of the mountain now began to move down the mountain, and these people wanted to drive away from here.
Two or three armed men standing in the carriage tried unsuccessfully to move the box, and then they began to try to open the box.
"Set the attack parameters, order the fighter to take off, lieutenant, quickly lock on to the target, and confirm the relevant details as much as possible."
"Roger, targeted, confirming."
Through the binoculars, Vincent could see that the lid of the wooden box had been opened, and he could clearly see the slightly surprised expressions of the people standing around the wooden box.
The task force member next to Vincent turned on the individual laser pointer and shone a laser beam onto the roof of the car.
The soldiers in the car rummaged through the box, and soon pulled out a dark, torn piece of skin from the box, and the men examined it, then set it aside and leaned in to rummage through it.
"Target confirmation, target confirmation, found a piece of tail wreckage, on which there are two incomplete spray marks, should be two incomplete English letters 'FW', and the tail of our fighter plane, after the serial number are sprayed with 'TFW' markings, it can be confirmed that this is a small part of the tail wreckage of an F117, but it is impossible to confirm the specific identity of the following armed personnel, and now it is impossible to identify whether they are friends or foes."
Vincent's voice was a little excited.
"We don't need to confirm the identities of these people, we just need to confirm the target, Lieutenant, you did a good job."
The sound of the pilot spotting the target and locking on to the loudspeaker for launch was heard.
"Kids, wipe them out of my eyes."
General Leader gave the order to attack.
Near noon, an attack team of nearly thirty men sent by Gru arrived here, led by the same Ionov.
In a rocky ravine behind the mountain, a scout sentry who had been waiting here met Ionov and told him about the situation for most of the day.
"Captain Io, we have been following the whereabouts of this team since we found out in the early hours of this morning, those people have hidden those cars in the village, and those people who came with the cars have also hid nearby, and there are observation posts in ambush outside the village, but the strange thing is that after they have been arranged in the village, there is no other action, occasionally one or two people have hidden actions in the village, but most of the time, the village is as quiet as a pool of stagnant water."
"You mean, they've been hiding in the village since they entered the village early in the morning and haven't moved?"
Ionov asked, staring at the observation sentry beside him with a somewhat puzzled look.
"There was no movement, I can confirm that."
The Scout Sentinel swears a frank assurance.
"Let's go, I'll go to the front and have a look, and the rest of you will spread out on the spot, on standby."
Ionov instructed his men to follow the scout sentry to their observation point on the other side.
"There is a car under the plant on the left, one under the roof of the almost collapsed tent on the right, and another under the tree in the center of the village, and if you look closely, the cars are still there, and they haven't moved since they came here in the early morning."
Following the sentry's gestures, Ionov saw cleverly camouflaged off-road vehicles under the tents and plants.
After staring at the village several times with his glasses up, Ionov sensed that something was wrong:
"No, no matter how good they are at disguising themselves, they won't hide in here and stay still, are you sure there are still their people in this village?"
Ionov asked the two surveillance sentries in a suspicious tone.
"At least after the two of us arrived here, we haven't seen anyone in and out since then, when we were observing from a distance, we saw two or three people scattered outside the village to serve as guards, and when we arrived at this location, we also confirmed the location of those peripheral observers, and it was only during the time you came that we lost the monitoring position of those people."
"As for your suspicion of the village, we also feel a little strange after monitoring for a period of time, and we wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but after we asked for instructions, the commander told us not to get too close, and we will wait until you arrive here to do further inspection, so we really can't say what the specific state of the village is, and when it is just dawn in the morning, our long-distance tracking is indeed unable to probe in detail."
The alternating narration of the two observation posts also revealed a lot of helplessness in their words.
After looking at it for a while, the village was as quiet as ever, and Ionov could not stay any longer.
"No, I'm going to send someone down to take a look."
Before sending the team, Ionov first contacted the commander-in-chief of the operation, Lodi.
"They are hiding here for fear that they will be discovered during the day, and the deserted neighborhood of that village is a good place to hide."
On the other end of the phone, Lodi, who had already rushed back to the city, was in his command post in the city, listening to Ionov's description while staring at the map in front of him.
"Io, there is one more thing I want to tell you, just this morning, a group of reconnaissance team members sent by Gelug, when they rushed to the primeval mountainous area that was attacked by the air at night, they met a special operations team of the Mi Army at the site of the air raid, it is obvious that those people came for a purpose, which also indirectly proves that the inexplicable air strike that occurred in the middle of the night was not a miscalculation or miscalculation, but an intentional one."
Ionov's head was a little dazed, and he listened to Lodi continue:
"After the attack team arrived there, they searched around the bombed position for a long time, and only left there after dawn, but those people did not go back to their own base, but continued to go deeper, and after our reconnaissance personnel followed up the search, they found nothing unusual in that position, only a bombed-out military vehicle, and our reconnaissance team found some clues, someone escaped from the bombing position through a hidden passage in the dense forest."