“Roger-that！ ――‘Skulls’-are-ready！ (Roger!) - The 'Skeletons' squad is ready! ）

Sitting in a folding chair in the UH-60 helicopter, the lead officer raised the M4 carbine in his hand and roared loudly to order the GIs to check the equipment.

With a few rough shouts from the officers, the sound of magazines bumping and pulling bolts sounded in the engine room, and the busy soldiers tightened their boots, buckled their Kevlar helmets, checked that the battlefield communication equipment was working properly, and soon sat in a row with their guns nervous.

While the GIs were nervously preparing, the landscape outside the helicopter was no longer a large green rolling field, but a continuous series of buildings and roads, and it was clear that the assault group had reached the sky above the city of Kutaisi; With the evasion of the UH-60 "Black Hawk" maneuvering, the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground has become more and more intensive, and the tracer shells of anti-aircraft guns and portable missiles dragging white smoke have swept past the line of sight from time to time, and explosions and fires in the sky have come and gone, reflecting flickering bright spots in the tense and contracted pupils of the soldiers.

The rumbling explosions echoed in the air, the screaming stray bullets hit the fuselage from time to time, and the soldiers in the helicopter were all sweating with their hearts and palms, and the time for real swords and guns to compete with the Russians was coming!

Seeing that in the sky not far away, a dark black UH-60 "Black Hawk" suddenly burst into flames, and then suddenly turned into a dazzling fireball, Rao is a black corporal who is a veteran of the battlefield couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he firmly grasped the iron handle on the side of the fuselage, and shouted to his companion who was also blue beside him:

“Sh、Shit――！ Tommy. Is that the helicopter that the 'Cheyenne' squad is flying into! ”

"What a hell of a life. - The Ivan guys reacted pretty fast! ”

Witness the smoke of the fiery wreckage falling from the sky. The commandos inside were obviously dead, and the "thump" firing on the ground was almost non-stop, and the gray-faced Sergeant Tommy Sherlock first cursed and then spit out the gum in his mouth, at this time he already felt a little mentally numb.

At this moment, there was a piercing horn in the plane, and the cabin indicator turned green, and the time for the plane to land and assault arrived!

The Black Hawk hovered across from a building in the main city, stout rappelling ropes tossed into the air, carrying Christmas tree-like M16 rifles, M249 machine guns and a missile launcher. The bloated commando division soldiers rushed down one by one, and the sergeant major shouted and waved his arms by the cabin door:

“Move、move！ Go-down-and-find-some-cover！ (Hurry, hurry!) Pay attention to cover up after landing! ）

The sound of gunfire was heard in his ears, and with the air flow of the helicopter rotors, the dust and debris on the ground flew in all directions, and one by one the commando division soldiers staggered onto Georgian soil, loosened the sliding ropes in their hands, and trotted in all directions.

After jumping off the ground, they immediately formed a formation, and the guns scattered around the corner of the building, and the GIs relied on something that could be used as cover and bullets fired from a distance to hide and seek, and when they looked up, they only saw the sky obscured by smoke and fire, and the sight of almost no light of day made many veterans feel a little trance for a while, feeling that they were back in war-torn Iraq.

Compared with the Basra landing five years ago, the fire around it is obviously more intense!

As expected by the American soldiers. Unlike the Iraqi Defense Forces, which were scattered and poorly equipped, the mobile unit stationed in Kutaisi, the 46th Motorized Infantry Division of the Soviet Ninth Army, which had been attacked by the raid, quickly moved into action. After the initial anti-landing operation, groups of ground troops that had penetrated the main city from all sides immediately took up favorable terrain and began to clear the city of enemy troops, and exchanged fierce fire with the American assault vanguard that landed in the city of Kutaisi.

Suddenly attacked by airborne, the defenders of Kutaisi were not many in themselves, but after months of combat mobilization and evacuation, this important city in Georgia has been semi-militarized, and there are many regular Soviet troops and armed militias active in the streets, and the sound of gunfire and explosions soon resounded around the streets and buildings.

On the side of the road in the city, where gunfire and smoke were flying, and the commando commander Major Michael Richard leaned against a low masonry building, he unfolded the paper map and glanced at it a few times, confirmed the correct landing location of the commando plane, and then ordered the signal corps to call the squads to launch an immediate attack and raid and destroy the communications, radio, television, and power transmission facilities in the city of Kutaisi according to the plan made before the battle:

"Have the 'Skeleton' team immediately penetrate the Highland communications station and disrupt their unified communication!" The Cheyenne squad is tasked with ambushing the defenders and taking up buildings in the 'Sigma' area - hell, where are they at this time? ”

"Boss, the 'Cheyenne' team has all been killed, and Tommy just reported it!"

"-What!"

Hearing the bad news that "all killed", the major frowned and began to curse, when what appeared to be a mortar shell or something exploded on the opposite side of the street, and a large cloud of rubble and dust flew everywhere; Feeling the earth trembling violently, Richard shrank into the building with a little fear, "Hell, let the 'Wolf Claw' team go up and let them move quickly, and don't let the Russian tanks run around the streets!" Call me air support now, we need the heaviest fire coverage! ”

"Understood, Chief!"

Hearing the Major's roar, the Signal Man immediately patted the Soldier next to him on the shoulder and shouted to convey the Major's order to cross the narrow road covered in smoke and dust and convey the order to the commandos on the other side of the block.

According to Richard's meaning, he was about to call the helicopter in the air, but was knocked on the helmet by the major:

"Donnie, what about the radio beacons? - You idiot, why don't you find this thing out of nowhere, do you want us to blow up with the damned Russians! ”

"Oh-yes, yes! Sir! ”

Richard said that he had a chill down his spine, thinking of the terrifying sight of the "Apache" helicopters hovering in the air, the indiscriminate bombardment of Hellfire missiles and rocket nests, and the communication soldier's head was excited, and he quickly shook his rope and took out the identification beacon of friend or foe. (To be continued......)