The Soviet offensive was much more cautious than I thought...... After several helicopter squads had suppressed the surrounding mortar positions, they did not immediately attack the large mortar positions, more precisely...... It's that they didn't put all the main forces into it in the first place!

I think...... Perhaps this is because the Soviets have been designed by me so many times in the past battles that they have begun to be cautious by now. Like now...... The two large helicopter formations have a total of ten Mi-8s, that is at least a hundred people.

The real carrying capacity of the Mi-8 is actually 300 people...... The Soviets actually have a reason to use so many helicopters to carry these 100 people, on the one hand, of course, because the number of people on board is smaller, the weight of the helicopter will be lighter, and the ammunition will be more...... Things like airplanes, especially fighter jets, tend to weigh in a "calculating" way.

On the other hand...... It was for the protection of the infantry...... It doesn't matter if it's an ordinary infantryman, a large number of people on board means strong combat effectiveness, and the helicopter can put them down and don't care whether they live or die...... When a few were killed, the space was naturally wider.

But now the Soviets are participating in the operation, but the Alpha special forces...... Although I don't know how the Alpha was trained, there is no doubt that they must be an asset to the Soviet army, and everyone's sacrifice and injury will be a loss for the Soviet army, so from the perspective of better protecting the special forces...... It must be taken into account that there are more helicopters, and there are more strengths and directions that can provide fire cover for special forces. Meantime...... Even if a few helicopters are destroyed in battle, there will not be a situation where helicopters have no space to recover the special forces, and the combat is also very flexible, and the infantry can be placed wherever they want in units of ten......

Just like now, under the cover of helicopter gunships, two Mi-8s, one on the left and one on the right, approached the large mortar positions of our army, and then in a matter of minutes each put down ten infantrymen...... This is another advantage of the small number of infantry carried, and the speed of the rope infantry is ...... It is important to know that when the Ludao helicopter hovers in the air to lower the infantry, this period is the most likely target for the enemy's air defense equipment.

But...... If the infantry is well trained, the whole rope descent process will only take a few minutes...... Then the enemy's anti-aircraft equipment may lose its target again before it even has time to aim!

"There are only twenty people...... Zhao Jingping couldn't help frowning.

Obviously...... These twenty people are just a kind of fire reconnaissance. Or it can also be said to be an attempt by the Soviet army...... They wanted to see it under the synergy of the powerful air force. Twenty special operators had no way to take this large mortar position.

I just smiled...... If the Soviets can take down our mortar position with only twenty men...... Then don't mess around!

But there is really some reason for the Soviet army to fight like this...... The 10 Mi-8s and four Mi-24s used machine guns and rocket launchers to illuminate the mortar position from different angles and directions...... Only the mortar positions were full of snow powder and gunsmoke, and there were almost no people to show their faces...... At this time, if the 20 special combat team members rushed forward again, they would rely on a high degree of air-step coordination and strong combat effectiveness. It's really possible to storm this mortar position!

But......

This is the old tactic of running an army to attack mortar sites. The only difference is that now there are a lot more helicopters...... So I've been prepared for that. The way to do this is to dig some hidden fortifications in the snow...... It was not difficult to construct these secret individual fortifications, as it was snowy and only needed to put a cover on top of the ordinary foxhole. Then wait for the snow to cover the cover.

The helicopter firepower is strong, and the viewing angle is not limited, but when you look down from the sky, it is a piece of white flowers, and it is really difficult to find such a fortification, and because of the background of this snow, the smoke from the gun is white...... Helicopters are still difficult to find, and they are very scattered among each other, so helicopters have no good way to take such fortifications!

This kind of covert fortification came into play when the 20 special combat members of the Soviet army, under the cover of air power, covered each other and alternately advanced to the mortar position...... With the sound of a "da-da-da" gunshot, several of the 20 special combat personnel immediately fell without warning, and the helicopter formation was a little chaotic for a while......

It's not the special forces that are messing up...... After all, they are well-trained special forces, and they often train for such emergencies during training, so they stopped the attack at the first time and then dragged the injured down to rescue.

It's the helicopters in the air that mess up...... They were anxious to find the firing points on the ground that were firing at the special operators, but they couldn't find them in a round-the-clock way...... The reason is that those firing points have stopped firing at this time, and this is our tactic...... Hide after a few shots have worked, try not to expose yourself, and only then will you have vitality under the enemy's air power!

So this presented the Soviet army with a difficult problem...... It was obviously impossible to take this mortar position with a small force, and at the same time, ...... Their fire reconnaissance also seems to have discovered something wrong, that is, there is still the existence of this kind of hidden individual fortifications!

The choice now before them is ...... Either retreat, or send the main forces down to take this large mortar position!

What choice will the Soviets make?

That's something I can't estimate...... As the saying goes, "it is up to man to make things happen", I can't be sure of the prophet's intentions of the Soviet generals!

But I believe...... The Soviets will choose to attack more likely, on the one hand, because they have fought too smoothly in Valley 01 before, so it is believed that this large valley is nothing more than that. On the other hand...... There is a first time in everything, and this time you can choose not to attack, so what about the next time you encounter this large mortar position? If they have always chosen not to attack, then the Soviet army will simply withdraw!

So no matter what way you think about it...... The Soviet generals all had a reason to let the Alpha troops give it a try, not to mention...... The Soviet generals also believed that they had such a strong air force to cover them, coupled with the super combat effectiveness of the Alpha troops...... The likelihood of something going wrong is almost non-existent!

As I expected...... Immediately after that, there were six Mi-8s in motion...... Six Mi-8s are about the same, and the helicopter groups of these two large formations have a total of ten Mi-8s, two of which have landed before, and now six more have flown up...... That's a total of eight planes went up...... The remaining two planes of twenty people should be used as a reserve for the Soviet army!

The six Mi-8s are further divided into two directions...... Three on the left and three on the right flew forward to reinforce their troops...... Then I saw that the special forces quickly slipped off those Mi-8s...... So I was relieved, and now...... We're almost halfway there, so let's see how Scar performs!

The Alpha forces soon launched an offensive towards the mortar positions...... It should be said that the Alpha troops are still quite good, and each group of ten has a Mi-8 above them to cooperate with them to provide them with long-range firepower, and the task of the Alpha troops is ...... It seems to be a matter of finding the target as it goes, and then guiding the helicopter to the target......

This style of play seems to be very effective...... On the other hand, helicopters can also report the reconnaissance situation to the ground troops, so that after mutual exchanges and close contacts, the air force and the ground forces will form a whole, and the effect of learning from each other's strong points and complementing each other's weaknesses will be achieved!

So it was very ...... Several hidden fortifications were destroyed by the Soviets' air-mounted strikes, and the Alpha troops were rapidly leaping forward, preparing to discover and destroy the next target......

The battle looks like it's going well...... The Alpha troops themselves are strong in combat, and now there are more of them...... With a total strength of 80 troops, combined with the powerful air force, the troops in both directions were directed at our mortar positions like bamboos, forming a pincer offensive on the left and on the right......

When the Soviets were about to attack mortar positions...... Suddenly a burst of mortar shells came from the air......

Of course, these shells were not infantry anti-personnel shells, but smoke grenades...... Almost at the same time, rows and rows of smoke grenades were thrown off mortar positions...... Because the position was condescending and the wind was blowing in the direction of the Soviet troops, the smoke bombs were quickly effective...... After a gust of wind, the entire position turned white in the blink of an eye......

But in fact, it was originally a white expanse, but it was because of the heavy snow on the mountains before, and this time it was because of the smoke!

I think...... At this time, the Soviets should have known what our idea was, and their helicopters had begun to urgently call for the Alpha troops to withdraw from the smoke area and leave the battlefield......

It was clear that in this case the helicopter could not descend to pick up the Alpha troops, not even with a rope ladder, because the pilot did not know whether it was his own man or an enemy who had climbed the rope ladder, and the helicopter's view was blocked by smoke...... This means that they have lost contact with the ground forces, which is really fatal to the Soviet army!

But...... It was too late to know that it was too late, and there were soon bursts of gunfire, shouts, and screams from the smoke...... Needless to say, what was going on there, our special service company had been lurking in the snow all night, and while Soviet helicopters were firing indiscriminately at our positions...... Even if someone is hit by a stray bullet, they are ordered not to speak out and not to save themselves!

This is the moment they were waiting for...... (To be continued......)