Chapter 9 The Falcon Project

At the critical juncture, Yu Songyuan quickly made tactical adjustments.

He commanded through the walkie-talkie, "Blow up the machine gun and quickly retreat!" All the personnel sit on the wingman, and Gordon and I are the hosts. If there is an air battle, Guodong and I will cover everyone's retreat! ”

"Understood!" The team members replied in unison.

At this time, the team members shot while quickly running towards the two helicopters that did not stop.

Boom, boom, in a violent explosion, the flames rose into the air, the machine gun positions at the four corners of the airport were blown up at the same time, and four large red fireballs flew into the night sky.

As soon as the machine-gun fire stopped, the soldiers of the motorcycle battalion outside the airport and the commandos of the 154th separate detachment of Spetsnaz began a new round of charge. They rushed to the airport, and machine gun bullets and assault rifle bullets rained down the runway. Abdullah was shot in the leg during the run and fell to the ground with a thud. Lin Zhumin didn't care about asking, grabbed him and carried him on his shoulders, and flew to board the plane.

The two planes met the rain of bullets, and the engines roared and took off. The sound of being hit by AKS-74 assault rifle bullets and the sound of machine gun bullets bouncing on the steel plates of the fuselage on the thick armor of the aircraft was like raindrops, and the situation was precarious.

At such a close distance, if it is not at night, if the airport lighting system is not destroyed, only a five-caliber heavy sniper hitting the fuel tank of the aircraft may destroy the aircraft, resulting in the destruction of the aircraft and the death of people.

The plane was quickly raised, Liu Guodong pressed the button, and the armed helicopter and transport helicopter on the airport tarmac exploded at the same time, and the flames rose fiercely, and the airport had turned into a sea of fire, like day. At this moment, a violent explosion was also heard in the city of Jalalabad. On the horizon, several huge fireballs rose into the air one after another, and the firelight quickly reflected half of the sky.

"Rise into the air quickly, get upwind, dodge smoke, and prevent the engine from stalling!"

Liu Guodong commanded loudly to Sabusidin while piloting the plane. The two helicopters quickly rose high to avoid the billowing plume of smoke. At this time, the situation is still very dangerous, the airport is full of smoke, once the aircraft engine inhales the smoke, it will cause the air to stop, and the result is still the destruction of the plane and the death.

In the process of the plane's lift-off, two shooters, Yu Songyuan and Lin Zhumin, used the S-24 large uncontrolled rocket in the rocket nest of the two helicopters and the 30-mm cannon under the bow to violently bombard the infantry and the commandos of the 154th Independent Detachment who were surrounding, blowing them up on their backs and causing heavy casualties.

Oil depots, fuel trucks, ammunition depots, have already begun to explode.

Violent explosions have occurred one after another, the airport has been completely submerged in a sea of blazing fire, and all the helicopters on the runway and on the tarmac have been completely destroyed. The fire has burned like a prairie fire, and the entire Jalalabad airport looks like a forest fire from the air, with flames and billowing smoke everywhere.

During the bombardment of the ground infantry by the two helicopters, the team members also bombarded ground targets with assault rifles or dropped grenades into the ground crowd.

In the operational command room of the 154th Independent Detachment, Major General Kolesnik and several of his officers witnessed the entire battle painfully. A round of bombardment of the airfield and barracks area by S-24 rockets and 30mm cannons turned the entire airfield into a living hell as it was on the runway.

Two shells were also fired from the building where the war room was located, and in the violent explosion, all the glass of the doors and windows was shattered, and the wounded were wailing and crying. The three colonels surrounded the major general to the death, fearing that a stray bullet would injure him. But Major General Kolesnik stood majestically in front of the window with his arms crossed. He looked at the two small red dots in the night sky in the distance, almost crushing the steel teeth.

"General, our three planes have returned, and they can't get out of the country!"

Colonel Kryudeyev said with tears in his eyes and gritted his teeth. As the commander of the regiment, he witnessed from beginning to end that his entire regiment's helicopter group was destroyed by the attackers on the ground, a feeling that no one else could understand.

"Wonderful, professional, classic! From a purely military point of view, it was a perfect three-dimensional attack. Well-planned, resolute and clean-cut. It will be used as a negative teaching material for our army and will forever be included in the special operations textbook. ”

Major General Kolesnik looked at the red dots that were gradually disappearing in the sky in the distance, thoughtfully, and frequently admired.

It wasn't until the little red dot in the canopy of the distant night sky completely disappeared that he almost collapsed like a deflated ball. With tears in his eyes and gritted his teeth, he ordered several of his subordinates, "Order, suspend the execution of the plan to attack the fortress of Katyar." They taught us a lesson, and the GRU will give them a lesson back! ”

This cross-border attack by the brothers team deeply shocked Major General Kolesnik. He is a master of special operations, and he gritted his teeth and said that he would teach a lesson, and this is not a casual statement.

Four years later, before the 40th Army was forced to withdraw to the country, Major General Kolesnik personally led the steel brigade of the 154th Independent Detachment to go deep into the territory of the Halal country, realizing this promise four years ago and deducing another glorious legend in the history of world special operations!

On December 7, 1987, Gorbachev took the Il-62 special plane to New York in country M and was warmly welcomed by the government and public in country M. Gorbachev, who was in the limelight, then signed a treaty with President Negan at the White House on the destruction of intermediate-range missiles. The treaty commits Polar Bear to destroy 1,752 missiles, while Country M only needs to destroy 859.

It's a sign that the polar bear president has made up his mind to send his country and his army to the grave. This unequal treaty, the traitorous treaty, caused the Red Army generals to feel extremely humiliated. When Gorbachev returned from a visit to the United States in a "beautiful and unlimited" manner, no one from the Ministry of Defense or the General Staff went to the airport to greet him.

The discontent of the military did not prevent the "president" from burying the army and the country.

On December 19, 1987, for the first time, the Polar Bear State Television broadcast the "live fighting" of the 40th Army in the Shanren Islamic Republic to the people of the whole country. The film is meticulously edited, with bloody footage, flying stumps and broken arms, the painful wails of the wounded, endless explosions, the disgraced Red Army soldiers and their curses, and the destroyed tanks and planes......

The bloody television images strongly shocked the people of this country, and the anti-war wave quickly swept the country.

After the public opinion offensive played a role, Gorbachev then ordered Foreign Minister Shevardnadze to make a special trip to Kabul and publicly announced to the Najibullah government of the Shanren Islamic Republic and the 40th Army of the Red Army that the polar bears would withdraw all troops from the Shanren Islamic Republic within one year.

Then, Shevardnadze took Najibullah to Tashkent, where he met with Gorbachev in secret. Immediately, the two sides issued a beaming statement. The core content of the statement is twofold: First, the government of the Shanren Islamic Republic asked the Soviet Union and the two countries to serve as guarantors of the Geneva agreement. Second, even if the Afghan and Baba Geneva talks break down, the 40th Army will still withdraw as originally planned.

This unusual statement is tantamount to openly announcing to the world that the polar bear is a unilateral withdrawal of troops, and there are no more strings attached or political preconditions. In other words, the polar bears have completely abandoned the Islamic Republic of the Mountain People and completely admitted the complete defeat of the military occupation!

At this point, the Polar Bear Army, the great army that had defeated fascist Germany and the Japanese Kwantung Army and won the Great Patriotic War, was completely betrayed by its own "head of state".

In any army in the world, retreat is always a more arduous and serious subject than attack.

Before Lieutenant General Gromov left Moscow for Kabul, Marshal Akhromeyev, Marshal Sokolov, and General Valennikov repeatedly told him that the Red Army was withdrawing in an organized and orderly manner, not a defeat and an escape, and that it could not cause unnecessary casualties.

At this time, in Jalalabad, which is located in the southernmost part of the Shanren Islamic Republic, in order to ensure the safe retreat of the troops, the 154th Independent Detachment and the 159th Motorized Infantry Regiment, with the cooperation of the Air Force, carried out a bloody encirclement and suppression of the armed base Atta Village and razed it to the ground. The 154th Independent Detachment destroyed the resistance's military warehouses, supply villages, transit points, etc., and seized and destroyed large quantities of weapons and ammunition.

At this time, the GRU obtained reliable information that the Hekmatyar faction, an extremist "mujahideen" organization funded by country M, was meeting in Peshawar to organize and launch a tail-pursuit attack on the retreating 159th Motorized Infantry Regiment.

Lieutenant General Gromov, General Valennikov and Commander of the 40th Army, immediately ordered Major General Kolesnik, head of the Special Reconnaissance Directorate of the GRU Reconnaissance Directorate, to personally command the 154th Independent Detachment ("Muslim Battalion") to cross the border deep into Peshawar to carry out a decapitation operation and destroy the old nest of Hekmatyar armed forces.

Major General Kolesnik rushed to Jalalabad with the deputy head of the commission, Colonel Kharbayev, to join up with Colonel Sakhatov and Colonel Klyudeyev to restart the "Demon Hunt Program". It's just that the target of this attack is no longer the Katyar Fortress, but the lair of the extreme "Mujahideen" armed group Hekmatyar.

On 14 April 1988, the "Peace Agreement" of the Shanren Islamic Republic was signed in Geneva by representatives of the Governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan. On the morning of April 15, a press conference was held on an independent estate on the outskirts of Peshawar. Hekmatyar arrogantly and openly declared, "The date of the withdrawal of Soviet troops is the date of the armed attack, and the armed forces did not participate in the signing of the Geneva Agreement, so they do not assume the obligation of a ceasefire!" ”

In the afternoon, more than 400 leaders of the Hekmatyar faction, the most radical extremist religious organization in the Islamic Republic of the Shanren, were holding a meeting in this manor to study the tail pursuit of the 159th Motorized Infantry Regiment that had withdrawn from Jalabad.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was rarely clear.

A thunderous roar of the engine was faintly heard, and the guards on the corner towers and bunkers around the manor suddenly found that under the continuous white clouds, a group of silver helicopters swooped down on the manor.