Chapter 43: Killing Mi-24P
This is the lair of the wolves, and they will not give up.
But once they harassed, they did not achieve anything except to "send" some "meat". The team carefully cut, frozen, and stored the "gifts" sent by the wolves, ready to fight a protracted battle.
Every day, Sabusidin monitored the captives, telling them to send a report that "everything is normal" and to report meteorological intelligence on the mountaintops. Lin Zhumin, Lana and other team members cleaned up all the mines around the igloo.
But the hostile situation never appeared, and until the thirteenth day, there was still no trace of the Mi-24P.
Unable to sit still, Sandra called and asked if supplies needed to be delivered.
Lin Tao understood Shandra's thoughts, the team had been in the mountain for nearly twenty days, and there was no movement at all. Mao Yankai, the caterpillar "father and daughter" and Shandra all began to feel uneasy, but it was not easy to ask openly, so they had to ask if they needed support. So, Lin Tao called back, "There is plenty of food, patience lurking, like a fairy!" ”
This is Lin Tao's style, on the top of the icy mountain, on the battlefield of blood and fire, everyone's nerves are tense, and he still has to joke in the battle message. Sure enough, when Sandra received the telegram, she was so angry that she was about to run away. The caterpillar took it and looked at it, and the two looked at each other and smiled. After Mao Yankai saw it, he just laughed and scolded, "The stinky boy who doesn't grow up is angry with me!" ”
Xerna hugged little Ali, also rubbed over to read the telegram, rubbed her chest, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
After the team set out for the battle, they would gather in the combat command room of the Yellow Building every day, either silently waiting for news from the front, or discussing possible progress in front of the sand table. Shandra ordered the two anti-aircraft battalions in the Khyber Pass Gorge and in the Chora River valley to work closely together and prepare for support.
Lin Tao's telegram had only been coming for a while, and Moore had just come to supervise the battle. He bit his ears with Mao Yankai for a while, and the two old things didn't say a word, and began to close their eyes and recuperate. Sherna was still a little uneasy, so she whispered to Shandra, "How can there be enough food when the snow covers the mountain?" ’”
"There are animals on the mountain, and they won't starve these things!"
After Sandra explained in a whisper, Old Moore also opened his little eyes and added lazily, "There is the Valley of Wild Wolves, inaccessible to people, there are a hundred and eighty wolves, and there are many animals such as alpine wild goats!" ”
"Team leader, general, did you let the air defense battalion sneak into the mountains at night and establish defensive positions?" Sandra didn't want the team to risk it, so she whispered.
Mao Yankai shook his head, "The KGB has many eyes and ears, and if the air defense battalion moves, the 'Muslim battalion' will not come!" ”
"But ......"
Sandra was still arguing, and Moore took little Ali from Xerna's hand, and then waved his hand to Shandra, "You don't understand, the defense camp plugs this loophole, and they will come in from other loopholes." Only by hurting them and beating them terrified will they stop crossing the border! ”
Little Ali grabbed his fake beard and didn't let go, and Moore's head had to hide in Tibet, "Little thing, let's make a bet." If Uncle Kobayashi wins the battle, I will send you and your mother to China. ”
"Are you sure? Liars are camels! ”
Moore solemnly promised, "Well, if Grandpa lies, be a camel coolie!" ”
Twenty-three days after the team set up camp in the canyon on the top of the mountain, warplanes suddenly arrived.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Bilal, who was on duty, raised the alarm for battle. In the whistling mountain wind, he could clearly distinguish the faint roar of the machine.
"Prepare for battle!"
Lin Tao gave an order, and everyone in the team jumped up from their sleeping bags and quickly entered the battle position. Three people are on guard, and each of the four people is holding a "needle prick" missile to prepare for battle.
At this time, the wind in the valley is at least seven or eight degrees, and the howling of the cold wind is terrifying. Dark clouds rolled in the sky, like the bottom of a pot, and the light was dim. This kind of weather is not suitable for flying at all. But it was in this extremely bad weather condition that the two Mi-24Ps cautiously followed the bend in the valley, the navigation lights flashed, and flew over quickly.
The pilot's high-level piloting skills shocked Lin Tao and everyone in the team. They don't have Liu Guodong's expertise, and under such environmental conditions, complex and airflow conditions, they simply can't fly a helicopter to make such complex flight movements.
The two planes were about four or five hundred meters apart, one in front of the other. When the first plane flew overhead and the second plane was about to come, Lin Tao issued a battle command, "Double bomb and prepare for war!" ”
When the plane behind him was about 100 meters away from the missile position, in the roaring sound of the engine, Lin Tao suddenly ordered, "Missile launch!" ”
As soon as the command fell, two missiles took off into the air and swooped down directly on the helicopter.
At this time, the helicopter located in the canyon was flying nervously, and the pilot was trying to maintain a flight attitude. When the ground flashed and the missiles took off, both helicopters tried to evade it urgently, but they did not dare to move too much. The aircraft behind tried to pull up vertically and disengaged, while the aircraft in front accelerated forward in the valley in an attempt to escape the missile pursuit.
Both aircraft fired a string of colorful decoy bombs, but the special environment, such a close distance, allowed the missiles to be inserted directly into the fuselage. The plane in front of it exploded in the air and quickly disintegrated, like a goddess scattering flowers, and was quickly engulfed by the night. The one in the back, at the same time as the explosion, directly hit the cliff on the left, and a secondary explosion occurred. The wreckage of the plane tumbled down the mountain and scattered to the bottom of the canyon.
The wind howled in the canyon, and in an instant, the smoke cleared, and everything returned to calm.
"Clean up the battlefield!" Lin Tao ordered.
During the attack on the open sea, after the CH-47 was directly hit by a missile and exploded at a high altitude, Major Green, a veteran soldier of the Navy SEALs of Country M, miraculously survived. In the end, it is a seal, so far, this tough seal elite has not confided why he survived. But a miracle is a miracle, and if it happens, you have to guard against it.
Although the two planes exploded in the air, Lin Tao did not dare to be careless. He led the team, carefully examining the wreckage of the two planes, as well as the corpses scattered everywhere, to make sure that none of them were alive, and the team buried the remains of the Spessnaz fighters before retreating to the igloo.
As soon as the battle ended, it snowed heavily, and the snowflakes were dense and flew away.
The victory in the first battle made everyone very excited. More than 20 days were the exhaustion of the hard work on the top of the mountain, which disappeared in an instant, and it was difficult for everyone to sleep in the second half of the night.
Lin Tao ordered Lazak to send a telegram to inform Mao Yankai and Sandra of the news of the victory in the first battle. "Shoot down two Mi-24Ps and eliminate about two dozen commandos."
In the war room of the Yellow Building of the trading company, Mao Yankai and Moore couldn't hold their breath anymore, they hugged their arms and walked around the sand table in circles. The caterpillar was annoyed, "Two old things sit down for me, and your heads are dizzy!" ”
Sandra lay on her side on the couch, her head propped up in her right hand, thoughtfully, and the words in her mouth, "Twenty-third day, twenty-third ......"
At this moment, Buna held up the telegram and ran in frantically, "Commander, great, telegram!" ”
Sandra took a look, covered her mouth and handed it to Moore, Mao Yankai and the caterpillar already knew the content from their expressions. Moore was so excited that he jumped up and down indoors and shouted, "Get the wine!" ”
Xerna had already come in with a tray, and everyone was toasting in celebration. The good news came, the mountain top was victorious, and Moore didn't care about the canon and the ban on alcohol. Anyway, with the Chinese, there are no outsiders.
The caterpillar said, "After the big battle, the position should be quickly transferred to prevent the Mi-24P from querying and attacking!" ”
Both Moore and Sandra nodded, and Mao Yankai calmly ordered, "Prepare a report, 'Congratulations on the victory, transfer positions, and ambush again!'" ’”
After receiving Mao Yankai's telegram, Lin Tao asked for everyone's opinions.
Lin Zhumin said, "Don't be dogmatic, it's common sense." But now the situation is special, the canyon is too windy, and it will snow at any time, and the wreckage of the helicopter will definitely be buried by the snow by tomorrow morning, and there will be nothing to see from the air. I recommend staying put, the terrain here is too easy for ambushes! ”
Major Khatib also said, "As long as there are planes entering the snow valley, even if they fly here to find the wreckage, there is no time to escape, and I think it is completely feasible to defend in situ!" ”
Only Lana was convinced that Mao Yankai's order was absolutely right. But most people insisted on defending in place, so Lin Tao decided to adopt the majority opinion, disobey the order, and stay put.
Lin Tao will decide to telegraph to Mao Yankai, "The terrain is favorable, and we plan to ambush on the spot!" ”
Mao Yankai received the telegram and discussed it with Moore, Caterpillar, and Shandra, and since they were determined to ambush them on the spot, there must be their reasons. Although Mao Yankai's heart hangs in his throat, as the coach, he still supports the ad-hoc decision of the soldiers in front.
But just in case, he still ordered Sandra to lead the ISI commando team, quickly go to the border area, brave the snow to climb the mountain, and prepare for the reception.
Moore also ordered two air defense battalions on both sides of the Khyber Mountains to send capable squads to dispatch in advance and prepare for support......
The battle that took place the next day proved that Lin Tao's decision was correct.
The Great Cold Snap is raging, and there are small snowflakes floating in the sky, boiling and intermittent. The next day, the wind carried the snow particles, the wind was stronger than at night, and the visibility was stronger than at night, but it was not conducive to flying. Supposedly, having just been attacked at night and losing two helicopters, it should have been safe during the day. Moreover, they ordered the captives to report regularly, "Everything is normal in the canyon!" ”
However, Lin Tao disobeyed the order and ambushed on the spot, which was a heavy responsibility, so he had an extra eye and strengthened his observation and observation.
At noon that day, the sky was faintly filled with the roar of machinery.
Lin Zhumin, who was on duty, thought it was a whisper, so he walked outside the hut and listened carefully, and after confirming that it was an aircraft attacking, he quickly issued a combat alarm.
Lin Tao jumped up from the campfire and commanded in a loud voice, "Prepare for battle!" Beware of concealment! ”
With the help of the cover of the dwarf trees, the two missiles were ready for battle.
The roar of the machines grew louder and louder, and it turned out to be two more helicopters, but they flew slightly higher than the planes.
Is it here to verify? Lin Tao had doubts in his heart. It had snowed heavily in the early morning, and the wreckage of the plane that was shot down at night had already been buried in the snow, and he was not afraid of exposing the target. In such weather conditions, the target from 200 meters away, looking down from the plane, is full of small snowflakes, and absolutely nothing can be seen clearly.
The plane is getting closer and closer, and amid the roar of the engine, the team members are hidden in the grove, ready to launch at any time!