Chapter Thirty-Nine: Rainy Night Raid
After dinner, it began to rain, and after the shift, Richard was drunk, lying on the bed snoring with an empty wine bottle. The entire airport was lit except for a few searchlights, the barracks and the conning tower were pitch black, and the Christmas Eve revelry exhausted everyone. Laswood Airport was built three years ago, the British army was stationed here in a 2,000-man guard force, the war has been on the other side of the Channel, so the defenders here slowly relaxed their vigilance, no longer as cautious as they were stationed here at the beginning, the area of Laswood Airport is not small, there are more than 500 aircraft of all kinds stationed here for a long time, so it is built very strong, and it is also the focus of defense, 2,000 defenders are divided into 10 teams, each shift has 2 teams on duty, especially at night, A team of soldiers also made rounds around the airport. Due to the large size of the airport and the large number of buildings, the patrols had to make detours, so there would be a gap between the patrols, which was the weakest link in the defense of Rasswood Airport, which was known to the infiltrators and Krim gangs who had arrived in the UK early.
On a rainy night, a few British soldiers standing guard at the airport gate gathered in front of gasoline barrels burning wood to keep warm. The flames flickered, and the occasional beeping sound was heard, making it unusually quiet. Suddenly, dozens of black shadows appeared in the blind corner of the sight of the British soldiers standing guard, each of them holding a long and short blade in his hand. One of them, apparently the leader, gave a low order, and after a few breaths, everyone split into several teams and moved separately.
The first to be attacked was the sentry at the south gate of the airport, two secret sentinels hiding together to smoke were the first to be killed, one of the mouths were covered, and before he could react, the blade colder than snow had already cut his throat, he wanted to scream, but he only heard the sound of "snoring" from the blood in his throat, his eyes stared ahead, and he couldn't see who was behind him until he died. Another secret whistle was gagged almost at the same time, his head was twisted by the ** force, and his cervical vertebrae were instantly broken, and there was no more breath.
The tall black shadow heard a slight snap in his ear as he slit the sentry's throat with his dagger, and he pursed his lips to show his disapproval, and it was better to use a short knife than to break his neck with his bare hands. The black shadow wiped the blood on the short knife on the corpse, and immediately made a gesture to the companions waiting on the periphery, and as soon as he received his signal, dozens of black shadows quickly rushed into the airport's tarmac and hangar, and in order to avoid making a sound from stepping on the muddy water, they even wrapped their shoes with soft fur.
There are a total of 20 fixed guards at the south gate of the airport, 2 of which are hiding in the corner of the south gate, and the rest are in the wooden houses built at the south gate of the airport. After the dark sentry was solved, the remaining bright sentry was no different from a dead man in the eyes of the sturdy attackers, but only a dozen seconds later, another group of attackers rushed into the wooden house at the south gate, and after holding their knives, all the defenses at the south gate of the airport had been exposed to the attackers, and they were simply vulnerable.
According to the route and speed of the patrol, there was only half an hour, that is, the time when the two patrols met at the south gate, and the black shadows who had just attacked the defenders of the south gate did not stay in the wooden house, but ran out of the south gate of the airport reflexively, hiding in the dark rainy night. The two flashlights in the opposite direction were getting closer and closer, and the searchlight at the south gate did not shine on them as usual, these were the two patrols that patrolled to the south gate.
"Kala" Just when the two patrols were able to walk to the bright place of the south gate, a sound of pulling the bolt suddenly sounded in the rainy night, and without waiting for the patrol team to react, a barrage suddenly shot from the rainy night outside the camp gate, and the two staggered patrols were instantly shrouded in the barrage. It was an unequal battle, and although the two sides were about the same in numbers, they were defenseless on the one hand, and well-trained and superior on the other. The south gate soon returned to calm, except for the corpses of the dead British soldiers, only the hot blood slowly melted into the muddy water, quietly dripping on the ground.
Gunshots rang out at the south gate of the airport, and the hangars and barracks in the airport suddenly caught fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, and soon engulfed several surrounding barracks. The defenders of the airport noticed something strange and ran out of the house, crying and shouting, so more and more people were alarmed, and everyone hurriedly copied all the rules they could find to extinguish the fire, and the noisy sound quickly drowned out the faint sound coming from the tarmac, and no one noticed anything strange there.
Before the gunshots rang out at the south gate, the black shadows who appeared outside the airport earlier cut the barbed wire and quietly sneaked into the airport, and when the defenders of the airport were busy putting out the fire, these black shadows with backpacks had already sneaked to the tarmac, and their targets were all kinds of planes on the tarmac. Under the cover of the plane, the shadows took their backpacks, took out time bombs and placed them on the plane, and then fled on a rainy night.
Although the gunfire at the south gate was only heard for a while, it was still heard by the defenders of the airport, and while they were busy fighting the fire, four patrols rushed towards the south gate of the airport, but all they were left with were corpses, and the attackers who had hidden in the rainy night had long since disappeared. "Boom" "Boom" Just when the British patrol who rushed to the rescue searched for no result, the planes on the tarmac suddenly exploded, and the planes were engulfed in fire one after another, and the commanders of the airport defenders were so panicked that their hands and feet were cold.
The hangar in the "boom" fire also exploded, dozens of soldiers who were busy fighting the fire disappeared into the ruins, and the startled soldiers carrying fire extinguishers retreated one after another. But under the hoarse voice of the officer, there were still a large number of soldiers who were not afraid of death rushed towards the fire, in the end, there were many people and great strength, after they joined, the fire was gradually suppressed, "Da Da" A few tongues of fire suddenly rushed into the chaotic firefighting British army, after knocking down dozens of British soldiers, the gunfire that suddenly burst out in the dark night suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared.
The little confidence that the defenders of the airport had just gathered was instantly shattered, and the veterans in the defenders quickly understood that the airport had been attacked by a premeditated attack, and the attackers who could not see clearly in the dark night made them instinctively frightened, and some timid soldiers simply screamed and fled in all directions, throwing down the fire-fighting tools in their hands, ignoring the raging fire, and running away in groups. The continuous explosions of the planes on the tarmac made the veterans of the defenders even more hesitant, except for the burning fire and those few searchlights, the airport was completely dark, and they had no idea how many attackers had come.
The experienced veterans did not immediately disperse, but gathered back to back in search of cover, and those soldiers who fled helplessly did not have such a good life. The black shadows who had long been hidden in the darkness of the airport held their sharp short knives high and stared at them like hungry wolves, and once they found a lone British soldier, these black shadows cooperated to pounce on them and strangle them, and many of the scattered British soldiers were so confused that they did the knife ghosts. But there are also those who react, and they don't have time to call for help and quickly fight with the sneak attackers, and the sound of flesh colliding is particularly harsh in such a silent night.
The British soldiers who smeared the attackers soon discovered that something was wrong, these attackers did not look like people at all, but a pack of wolves, just a face, many people lost their lives, some desperately blocked the stabbing blades with their arms, but as soon as the screams for help came out, they were cut in the neck by the next knife. The attackers who had hidden in the rainy night came and went as fast as they could, but after they left, they were left in place covered with the corpses of British soldiers and blood mixed with the muddy water.
Under the command of the officer, the surviving soldiers shot at everything that looked suspicious, and the gunfire rang out for a long time before it gradually stopped. The fire was still burning at the airport, the tarmac was already a mess, and the wreckage of the bombed-out planes was scattered everywhere, but the flames that were whirring on the wreckage provided light for the terrified defenders.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The other buildings in the airfield began to explode one by one, and the few soldiers who were close to the barracks were pushed away by the explosion. "Fire, fire" The British soldier held his gun and fired another burst of fire, which did not stop until they emptied the bullets in the gun, but by this time there was not a single intact building left in the Laswood airport, and all the planes parked here were reduced to wreckage, including fuel and spare parts stored in the hangar. The surviving defenders were shivering in the drizzling night, but these people were just too worried, and the attackers would not stop for them, their targets were only the planes and fuel, and at most the pilots who were sleeping and roasted by the fire.
The shrill whistle pierced the rainy night, and the trembling defenders naturally heard it, but they did not dare to chase it, and they rushed out to the south twice in a row, and were pushed back by dense machine-gun fire, although they still had more than a thousand people gathered together, but they did not know how many enemies would hide in the rainy night. "Retreat" watched as the last man retreated, Salen, who had been lying in the muddy water, touched the rain on his face, and disappeared into the darkness with his machine gunners.
Ruswood Airport was the target of Salen's team, and it was also the airport with the largest number of planes stored in the entire airport clearance plan, so Zhao Zhi sent a 30-man mercenary team to Salen. It was Zhao Zhi's mercenary squad that had just attacked the South Gate sentry, and organizing machine gunners to shoot the British patrol was purely an itch for Salen's hands, and half an hour was enough time for his sappers to plant bombs for those planes.