Chapter 392: Rescuing the President's Stand-in (2)
The air currents stirred up by the helicopter's rotors blew the weeds below, the hatch opened, and the rope was lowered, and then the members of the Sidewinder Special Forces slid off the rope with great speed, and immediately spread out in the surrounding area, forming a fan to protect the landing area.
Then, the members of the Crescent Special Forces also slid down, although their main means of transportation was cars, and this kind of airborne training was also carried out.
The landing site was still more than 10 kilometers away from the hill where the target was located, and they came down from here so as not to startle the snakes.
There are not many trees on the mountain, but with the arrival of spring, the trees begin to spit out tender shoots, showing a spring mood.
After all the personnel disembarked from the helicopter, they regained their vitality and began to move forward according to the predetermined course of action.
In the distance, the mountains were becoming more and more hazy, and the sky was getting dark.
Touching the opponent's base at night is the most suitable time, and the success rate is much higher than during the day.
The mountain road was rugged, and the team members were agile, but soon, the Sidewinder special forces began to move to the front, because, after dark, they all wore night vision devices.
For this device, which allows you to see everything around you clearly in the dark as in the day, the members of the special forces have already used it very skillfully, and the fighters of the Crescent special forces are very experienced, and now it is not very dark, they can also advance smoothly, but the progress is slightly behind.
Although the night is not very dark at this time, however, night vision devices allow them to see more clearly as during the day, so the Sidewinder special forces are active in this regard.
Observing this, Warish immediately slowed down the speed of the team, and the two sides had to move forward in tandem, because this time it was a joint operation.
Moreover, training in such a mountainous jungle is not the strong point of the Sidewinder special forces.
The crescent special forces in the back caught up, and the members of both sides advanced together.
"Be careful." Suddenly, a member of the Crescent Special Forces at the front whispered.
In the darkness of the night, he discovers a hidden danger: a set of traps for hunting.
On the ground was a firing device covered with dead grass, and through the vines, several large stones in high places were entangled, and if they accidentally touched the mechanism, the big stones would come down and smash them into meatloaf.
Looking at the large rock high next to them, the members of the Rattlesnake special forces had a lingering heart, and they carefully walked around without touching the mechanism.
This primitive hunting device can take them out!
Some of the members of the Kurdish partisans, who were hunters, were skilled in this way, and set up some traps close to their camps.
The Crescent special forces often fought against Kurdish partisans and knew all about their tricks.
Bypassing several artificial mechanisms, the special forces gradually came to the periphery of the opponent's base, and the first thing that needed to be killed was the hidden sentinels.
If you follow the Crescent Special Forces, they will use experience to determine where the sentinels are hiding, and then, eliminate them one by one, but if the opponent hides relatively hidden, there may be misses.
And now it's all solved by the Sidewinder special forces.
In the night vision device, I glanced around, and the sentries hiding in the grass and behind the big trees were all exposed.
The funniest thing for the special forces members is that in the grass, there is another bright spot that flashes and disappears, and that is the sentry hiding in it and smoking.
When they were sentry, they were so careless, which shows that the defense of this base is also very lax, or rather, they never thought that anyone would be able to touch here.
Now that you know where the other party is hiding, the next step is very simple.
Skilled members of the special forces, in pairs, slowly walked around, and they leaned very slowly, very slowly.
The sentries were still smoking, and almost all those who were sent out to guard were unlucky, and they were just waiting for time to hurry over, poured a cold breeze on their stomachs, and drank hot wine when they returned.
Suddenly, there was a sound behind him, and before he could come back to his senses, he felt a pair of powerful hands covering his mouth, and then, his throat was cold, and his throat had been cut by a dagger.
He fell to the ground, clutching his throat with his hands, trying in vain to block the leaky throat, but his lungs could not react, he had no strength to struggle, and in this way, in the weaker and weaker breathing, consciousness disappeared into the infinite darkness.
After dealing with the sentry, they proceeded to reach inside the base.
This base is built on a hill, and there are probably hundreds of Kurdish militants who are trained here, who are engaged in guerrilla warfare with the political axe army, and, more recently, have received outside weapons assistance, and have captured a big man, and all the militants are very happy.
Although this is their base, there is almost no formal base construction, and they only live in tents in order to hide, except for the sentinels outside, the people inside are very poorly vigilant.
The surrounding Kurdish villages are all their own people, and if the Iraqi political axe army had come, they would have been reported in advance.
It's just that none of them know that this time Iraq is coming, but not by road, but by sky!
It was not a large force that came, but only a small special forces, who did not fight head-on with the partisans, but quietly rescued people.
There are also advantages of fewer personnel, and such infiltration, more people are cumbersome.
There is also a troublesome question: where is President Saddam Hussein, who he is looking for, being held? There are more than 20 tents here, but which one is it? Or is the president not being held here at all?
Warich carefully looked at the tents with night vision devices nearby, and found that there was a difference, most of the tents were white, that is, the tents were burning wood for heating, and it was still relatively cold at night. And there are several, and there is no white light, and inside, either a warehouse where food and ammunition are stored, or a place where the president is held!
Quite simply, they will never give a prisoner the rank and light some firewood to keep the person they hate the most in the place where they are held!
Let's start searching from those tents!
The fighters of the special forces are very experienced in night combat, and they quietly reached into the tents without alerting the Kurds in the nearby tents.
What's very troublesome is that there are sentinels guarding the outside of those tents, and the only way is to quickly kill these sentinels as before!
In the darkness, it was as if there was an invisible maw quietly devouring the lives of the Kurdish sentinels.
After killing the sentry, Warih's team reached into the tent.
Looking through the night vision device, there are boxes inside, which should be weapons and ammunition.
Warich picked up the detonator he was carrying, set the time, and placed it on it.
At the same time, Captain Heidler and his men also quietly approached a tent.
After killing the sentry, Heideler felt inside the tent, and by the faint moonlight, he finally saw the person they were looking for, the president, who was sleeping on the weeds!
Mehail was waiting for death, and he knew that if he refused the other party's request, there was only one way out.
Thinking about it, he slept peacefully.
While he was asleep, he was woken up by a large hand.
"Your Excellency the President, we are the Republican Guard Special Forces, and now we are here to get you out." Captain Heidler of the Special Forces shouted in a low voice, he had only seen the president twice, and he didn't know if the president still knew him.
Mehail woke up and suddenly found that there was one more person in front of him, the whole person, it was a fighter of the Republican Guard in Iraq!
You're not dreaming, are you? Mekhail couldn't believe his eyes.
"Your Excellency, we must leave immediately." Heidler whispered.
"Who's there?" Suddenly, there was a Kurdish sound outside.
Then, several gunshots rang out.
Oops, found out!
Heidler couldn't care so much at this point, so he grabbed the president and rushed outside.
A member of the Kurdish partisan who had gone to the outside of the tent, after a drowsy retreat, suddenly noticed that the situation around him was abnormal, and saw that the sentry outside the tent closest to him was gone!
Then, when he looked down, the place where he had just solved was the corpse of his own person!
He immediately shouted loudly, and his shout was only greeted by a tongue of fire, which killed him in an instant.
At the same time, his shouts and gunshots also alarmed many people.
When Warih heard the voice, he couldn't help but want to scold, this crescent special forces have messed things up!
Fortunately, then he saw the guy in the tent next to him, protected by Heidler, and they found the president!
"Retreat!" Warich shouted: "Alternate cover!" ”
The Kurdish partisans, who had just woken up and were in disarray, were just in time for them to escape.
A small group of special forces, just infiltrating, assassinating, kidnapping, and rescuing hostages are suitable for such operations, no matter how well-trained they are, no matter how skilled they are, they will definitely not be able to defeat hundreds of Kurds, and they must retreat now!
The special feature of the special forces is that they also have the ability to respond to emergencies very quickly, and after they were exposed, they immediately began an orderly retreat according to the original plan.
The terrain to the west is the best place to retreat, and once you're in the jungle, it's easier to escape.
At this time, suddenly two tongues of fire flashed from the west, and the Kurds were there, and they actually arranged two machine guns!
The two special forces members were caught off guard and were immediately swept down.
"Go up to that high ground to the south!" If they don't make a quick decision, Heideler says, they will soon be surrounded by each other, and it will be difficult to escape.
The Crescent Special Forces were in front, and the Rattlesnake Special Forces were behind, and together they retreated to the high ground to the south.
Having paid the price of one more wounded, they finally retreated to the high ground.
However, they gasped, they didn't realize just now that the back of this high ground was a cliff! They are on a dead end!
In front, countless Kurds have already surrounded them, and if they want to break through, I am afraid it will be difficult.
(To be continued)