Chapter 577: The Blend of Fire and Snow
In the sky, snowflakes are as big as goose feathers, falling one by one. Mountains and forests begin to turn white in just ten minutes, and black is becoming less and less.
At this time, whether it was the team members who were running wildly, or Dong Ku, who was checking the situation on the top of the border line, they were all shocked by the sudden falling snow. Heavy snowfall, early and late, but a few hours after the action, the moment the wildfire formed, is this really caused by the wildfire, the cold and hot convection caused by the sea of fire?
The team members don't understand, and they don't feel anything, Dong Ku knows how the snow is formed, he doesn't think it's a mountain fire, the snowfall caused by the fire, maybe it has something to do with it, let the heavy snow fall a few hours earlier, or a day or two, but it shouldn't be that bit of cold and hot convection, which attracts such a big snow, and their temperature can't make enough humid air appear in the sky.
He has lived in the Northeast for many years, and he knows that such a goose feather snow will fall at least half a meter, that is to say, the mountains and forests have entered the season of heavy snowfall.
In fact, Dong Ku's guess was right, although the sky was cold in the past two days, there was no wind, and the sky was heavy, it was the phenomenon of low pressure, snowfall, just brewing, maybe the fire was the reason for the snowfall in advance, perhaps, the heavy snow should have fallen.
At this time, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, but the location of the wind is strong at the points where it is on fire, and the rest of the place is getting smaller and smaller, and only large snowflakes are falling quietly.
Liu Zhong led the team to run wildly, and on the way, he didn't care about a few small towns that were not attacked, these were not along the traffic route, just villages and towns in the mountains, even if there were reserves, it was just the amount of daily winter.
And Soviet Russia, after the first hour or two of chaos, telegrams, phone calls were intensive. In less than half an hour, the high-level received countless ignitions, and in several places they exchanged fire with the enemy, but they could not retain the enemy, and they could not find a trace in the panic.
After aggregating this information, the top management. To his horror, he discovered that this was the result of an enemy attack, not an accidental fire.
The ignition points were all oil depots, refueling points, and granaries. None of the other ammunition depots, arsenals, were attacked, and the enemy was clearly trying to destroy these supply points. This trick is too vicious, and the enemy is purely drawing money from the bottom of the kettle!
Zhukov was attacked in several places on the army's food, baggage and oil, and most of the other things were safe. Urgently arranged, the army spread out to the border line to catch the enemy who was attacking.
Great armies elsewhere are also on the move, trying to find those who attacked. However, most places are busy fighting fires and evacuating areas where the wildfires are about to spread, but the capacity to collect and arrest them is weak.
Dong Ku stood on the top of the mountain, and in just ten minutes, his body was covered with snowflakes. He watched silently at the firelight in the distance. He didn't know if the heavy snow would be able to extinguish the fire, but he believed. If the snow is heavy enough, the wildfire will be extinguished, at least not spreading, until the burning area is burned and finally extinguished under the cover of heavy snow.
Tomsk there. The magma-like stream of fire rolled down the cliff and down the ramp, igniting everything along the way, and the entire mountain was burning, but exploding. It's stopped, it seems, those oil drums have all been blown up, and there is nothing left to blow up.
Above the oil depot, although the entire mountain has not been lifted off, in the huge cracks, the top of the mountain, where the tongue of fire has been extended, burns violently in the form of eruptions, and occasionally shakes due to the lack of oxygen inside, but there is not much movement.
The mountains and forests have been completely burned, and the roaring fires and whining fires have made the residents and soldiers of Tomsk, which is only a dozen kilometers away, have no intention of putting out the fires, and the magma-like fires are surging down the low-lying places towards Tomsk, and it will not be long before they flow into the city.
Even if they build a dam to block the fuel, they can't stop the burning of the surrounding mountains and forests, and they are bound to burn to death if they don't run.
So, at the moment when the fire on the top of the mountain formed, everyone gave up fighting the fire and began to flee for their lives. On the highway, the lights of the cars are weaving, people shouting horses, children crying, and adults shouting, all in chaos. In the turbid water droplets that keep falling, in the night sky like rain, flee into the distance.
The high temperature, which melted the falling snow, bathed Tomsk in a dripping rain at this time. And the raindrops, as the temperature rises, as the snow is dense, more and more heavy, and there is a great tendency to pour down.
The oil that was rolling down, when it met the water, the fire became more violent, flowing, and seemed to be a lot faster, and the crackling trees exploded, and the living trees were ignited effortlessly along the way, only to blow up and fly wildly.
On the way to escape, the rain kept falling, and there was still water on the ground and potholes, but the bottom had become frozen against the ground, making the soles of the fleeing people slippery, and people kept falling and getting wet.
The clothes on their bodies are also freezing, although they are not completely solid, but the places that do not move, such as the back, are already a shell.
In the mountains and forests that are not on fire, a layer of ice is forming in the rain falling, and in the crystal, the trees are turned into crystals, and tiny ice cubes on the branches are forming.
The dead leaves on the ground are also the same, drenched by the rain, slowly frozen, like the Northeast Slow Freezing Plow, wrapped in a layer of ice, and gradually thickened.
Wildfires elsewhere have not stopped burning because of the heavy snowfall, and near the sea of fire, the falling snowflakes have turned into water droplets, adding moist steam to the thick smoke, and the fog is foggy, and the light of the fire has been blocked out clearly.
The snow fell very quickly, in less than an hour, half a foot of snow fell on the ground, and the mountain fire, also because the dead leaves were covered with snow, although it could be roasted, but the melting snow also made the dead leaves wet and no longer dry.
The tongue of fire, due to the lack of a fast-burning medium, began to slow down, and it was no longer a tongue of fire that was tens of meters or hundreds of meters away, but it still did not stop.
Zuo Boyang looked up at the sky, and sighed secretly in his heart, Shi is also fate, such a timely snow, it seems to be the favor of God, it is a foregone conclusion that the mountain and forest fires are not easy to spread, looking at the current degree of heavy snowfall, this first snow will not be too small, at least more than half a meter deep, maybe it will be big.
Sun Tao and the others also stood silently in the snow, letting the falling snowflakes turn them into snowmen, and no one spoke.
Standing still, Dong Ku suddenly came back to his senses, and his heart sank. shouted loudly: "Contact all the detachments, let them report the coordinates, the helicopter is close to the border, ready to respond!" ”
Everyone was awakened by Dong Ku's shouts, and they forgot that there were still Huya warriors and members of the Flying Tigers who had not been able to retreat, and the enemy. At this time, they must be all over the mountains to collect them, although they retreat fast enough, but after all, the snow will leave traces of their movements, which is easy to track.
With the shouting, No. 5 and No. 6 quickly took out their walkie-talkies and gave orders to the confidential department to contact all the detachments so that the helicopters that had gathered in Challan were ready. The transport aircraft partially carries fuel, auxiliary fuel tanks, ready for remote pick-up.
The soldiers who were close to the border had already entered the mountains and forests on the way back, and in the snow, the target was advancing straight to the border, and Ran Tu, except for the Soviet and Russian troops stationed on guard, most of them did not encounter interception.
But not everyone is lucky. There were times when they had fierce battles, and the battles were very fierce. The opponent's numerical superiority forced the retreating warriors to abandon their original retreat route and make a detour in other directions.
Several squads came together in the assault to form a regiment-level combat unit, and they rushed all the way, but they were not surrounded.
And domestic. The army was already in position, and after receiving the position of the evacuation team, helicopters and troops were dispatched one after another, rushing to the predetermined receiving location to pick up the withdrawn team members. Block stalking enemies.
Zhukov didn't bother with the burning ignitions in the heavy snow, and he kept ordering to catch these despicable yellow-skinned monkeys and let them taste the torture of the world, so as to eliminate the hatred in his heart.
The army, with no direction to pursue, could only cast a net and go straight to the border, laying ambushes along the way, waiting for the enemy to hit the muzzle.
Liu Zhong is still running in the mountains at this time, he is in the depths of the mountains, the possibility of being found is almost zero, for the time being, he is not in danger, in the three days after returning to the border, he will be followed, it is estimated that the possibility of finding him is not large.
However, there are traces, but the snow is still falling, and the location they have walked through, after ten minutes, the traces will not be obvious, and at most half an hour, the traces will disappear.
During the march, Liu Zhong asked the team members to change into the snow-white cloaks they carried, so that they could blend into the silver-white world world in the falling snow.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the squads returned safely to the territory and returned to a safe area amid the fierce gunfire that was answered. Before dawn, the squad close to the border returned.
This speed is also thanks to the helicopter, the helicopter night flight is much better than the airplane, he can fly close to the treetops, and the area is extremely difficult to walk, although their movement is a little bigger, but the Russian army can not find what kind of plane this is, the heavy snow, so that the night is no longer so invisible, but it also makes the line of sight stay within a few tens of meters, no matter how far away, even the big trees can not be seen clearly.
Even if the helicopter has to look for a signal to ignite, it will take a while. Fortunately, there was a walkie-talkie, and under the guidance of the fighters below, they could still see the burning signal very quickly. A group of team members boarded the helicopter in the snowflake roll, and they were all excited and did not feel hard, this is special warfare, one blow is far away, and such a sharp attack on the camp makes them understand special operations more thoroughly.
During the successful evacuation, the wildfire was still burning, but the spread basically stopped, very slowly.
The snow is already a foot thick, and the fire must first roast the snow on the dead leaves, dry the dead leaves, and then burn, which slows down the burning speed not a little bit, and the burning power is also weakened by the continuous falling water droplets in the sky, although the fire has no signs of extinguishing, but the flames are no longer whining.
At this time, the team that evacuated from the burning area began to hesitate, to withdraw, or not to withdraw? They didn't know if the heavy snow would be able to stop the fire, but the fire in the mountains and forests in the distance was less violent.
Tomsk, at this time, is a sea of fire, the magma flow in the rain does not delay the burning, the fire is still raging, and it is still flowing forward.
On the ground, the rain that continues to fall has made the fuel float, and the cold water surface, lacking the burning temperature, makes the drifting flames flicker and sway, and when they go out, they are no longer so violent, only the lava flow behind them is still burning fiercely, swallowing all the buildings in Tomsk, and the fire is still raging.
Tomsk has been destroyed, and it is expected that in a few hours, the fuel will run out, the area of the flames will slow down, and finally stop, and the middle area of the fire will burn everything out, including some of the troops' baggage that will not have time to be transported.
The roaring explosions constantly sounded in the sea of fire, so that the people who had evacuated Tomsk frequently turned back, they did not dare to stay in the rain, here, doomed to have no homeland, they had to move to Novosibirsk, to go there, to resettle home.
In the mountains and forests, Liu Zhong and the others will lose the direction of travel, and in the heavy snow, although there are various ways to determine the direction, they can make the speed of travel deviate from the real route.
Although the general direction has not changed, they have been more than ten kilometers away from the original direction of travel, and gradually deviated to a position with lights.
The helicopters that will meet them are already in position at the border, all carrying auxiliary fuel tanks, and the distance is expected to exceed 300 kilometers.
But Liu Zhong and the others never passed back the information for the plane to pick up, because Liu Zhong and the others were never able to find the location where they could land, and they did not know where they were now. In the reckless forest, they would not be able to get on the plane without an open field. Without a general direction, even if the plane is more than ten kilometers away, no sound can be heard, let alone a burning signal can be seen.
Except for more than a dozen detachments that rushed to Central Asia, the rest of the detachments were already lurking, and the rest were rebuilt one after another in a few hours, and the combat damage was there, but it was not large. In the heavy snow, the enemy's pursuit was also affected, coupled with the heavy machine guns carried by the helicopters, they were dispersed by the dense bullets in the sky before they could see the shadow of the aircraft, so that the intercepted team could easily jump out of the interception with a surprise attack.
The strange plane made all the Soviet Russian soldiers who were hit by a rainstorm of bullets wonder, so when can the plane hover overhead? When can a plane stop overhead and strafe wantonly, instead of whistling and skimming? But they couldn't see the shadow of the plane above the treetops, so naturally they had no way of knowing.
The huge roar confused many of the mountain-searching troops, but their own planes could not take off in such heavy snow, and it was obviously unrealistic to intercept the other side. So, these troops followed the roar of the planes in the back, trying to shoot down, or get a closer look, what kind of plane was so daring and weird, and could fly at night in such heavy snow.
By the time they followed the sound to the place where the plane stopped, they saw nothing but the snow was gone, the dead grass underneath was exposed, and a few comblammaries smelled of gunpowder. And after searching, the fleeing enemy detachment was also gone, which made them even more confused, and even their footprints were gone.
Could they just get on the plane and leave?
This is the voice in the head of all Soviet Russian soldiers who have encountered a similar situation. (To be continued......)