Chapter 38: A Lesson
Caucasus.
It was almost dusk, and the high-altitude climate made the wind in the mountains unusually cold, blowing on the face like a knife.
On the rugged mountain road, a squad of lightly armed rebels with weapons crawled with difficulty, their faces full of exhaustion and their eyes blank, mechanically following the steps of the people in front of them.
Suddenly, one of the people in the team fell to the ground and lay on the ground and fainted.
The scene was like dominoes, and the others collapsed to the ground, sighing and saying nothing, refusing to get up and continue walking, and no one moved even though the officers beat and scolded.
Soon the officer also gave up, because he had no strength left.
The whole team was exhausted, they had been walking all day.
From the moment they received the order in the morning to begin the pursuit of an infiltrated special forces, they did not know that this was the beginning of a nightmare.
The special forces tore open the encirclement with lightning speed, and the rebel soldiers were run over in the face without seeing each other clearly.
The high-level quickly gave the order to pursue, and many of the rebel soldiers were natives, good at climbing mountains and mountains, familiar with the terrain, and originally thought that this was a one-sided pursuit, and the rebels were in a very relaxed mood.
But they soon realized how wrong they were, and the situation was indeed one-sided, but it was not the other party.
The rebel soldiers watched as they walked on the rugged mountain road, leaving them behind.
Sometimes the other side will stop on the opposite hill, wait for the rebel soldiers, occasionally fire a few shots, and then walk away slowly.
As the saying goes, looking at the mountain runs a dead horse, in the Caucasus mountains, there are often people who can clearly see the opposite mountain, but you need more than ten kilometers to run over, and when you rush over, people will run to the next mountain and wait for you.
This special forces unit has extraordinary mobility, and instead of playing hide-and-seek with rebel soldiers in the mountains, they play long-distance marathons with them.
Even if the rebels were chased by cars, they still couldn't catch up with each other's footsteps, and they dragged down the chasing rebels with their feet.
In response to this, the PVA fighters said, that's it?
We've only been running for a day, can you rookies be a little more wasteful.
Seeing that they could not catch up, the rebels immediately called helicopters, and three Mi-17 helicopters joined the pursuit.
It was already getting dark, and the searchlight on the nose of the Mi-17 sent out a huge beam, searching back and forth over the mountains for enemy tracks.
At this time, Qin Rongshuai and the PVA fighters stayed in a valley, eating self-heating hot pot while commenting on the enemy's technology today.
After spending two minutes commenting, the food in the self-heating hot pot was still not cooked, and the PVA fighters were a little impatient, and some of the fighters' chopsticks were stretched into the pot.
Before the meal could be served, the roar of the helicopter engine was heard in the distance, and a helicopter appeared in the night sky against the mountain beam.
Qin Rongshuai didn't raise his eyelids, and shouted, "Platoon leader, knock down that bird in the sky for me!" ”
A platoon quickly swallowed a piece of meat, wiped his mouth with his cuffs, picked up a Stinger anti-aircraft missile, carried it on his shoulder and aimed it at the helicopter.
The sound of the radar-locked siren frightened the Mi-17 pilot into throwing out a jamming bomb in an attempt to turn around and escape, but it could not escape.
Two anti-aircraft missiles sprang out of the valley, trailing a long tail flame over the ridge and crashing headlong into the helicopter.
The flames of the explosion were particularly conspicuous in the night sky, and they could be seen within a radius of tens of kilometers.
"Hurry up and eat, and I'll give them a big gift later!" Qin Rongshuai quickly picked up a piece of fat cow and stuffed it into his mouth, biting it hard.
By the time the PVA fighters arrived at the crash site, the rebel rescuers had not yet arrived, but they met Price and the others, who had been separated earlier.
"Qin, it's great to meet you." Price was a little excited, the rebels searched the mountains on a large scale, and he was tired enough, and he hid with people for a long time, and finally took a breath, and a helicopter fell from the sky and hit them on their heads.
Qin Rongshuai enthusiastically distributed some water and food to Price and the others, so that they could have a good meal, after all, not everyone has a plug-in like him.
Price was grateful for the food and suggested that the rebels should get out of here soon, or the rebels would rush over.
However, Qin Rongshuai didn't want to leave, it was just the right night tonight, and he was going to give Zakayev a big gift.
The PVA fighters spread out on both sides of the valley and quickly built up positions, and with the blessing of grandmaster-level earthwork skills, foxholes were quickly connected, crisscrossed by wide and sturdy communication trenches, machine gun positions, observation posts, anti-artillery holes, and field health stations.
Although they are used to the miraculous operation of this army, this scene still makes Price stunned, they have never seen this kind of earthwork, and it is not over, the PVA soldiers have already begun to dig the mountain, looking at the posture as if they are going to drill a big hole in the mountain.
Of course, Qin Rongshuai quickly stopped this kind of burrowing, and he didn't want to beat this place into Shangganling, just to do an ambush.
After the PVA fighters entered the position and lurked, Qin Rongshuai fired three signal flares into the night sky.
The red flare gave the rebels a clear direction in the night, and soon a rebel squad not far away was approaching the area.
As soon as the squad approached the wreckage of the helicopter, it was knocked down by a dense rain of bullets, and more than half of them were killed or wounded in one minute.
The rebels who got the news began to converge here, and reinforcements continued to arrive, and in nearly an hour, more than 700 rebels gathered in the valley.
Qin Rongshuai carefully observed the movements of the rebels through the reconnaissance eagle, counted the number of people several times, and was still not satisfied.
But this may be the upper limit of the number of people that can be assembled tonight, Qin Rongshuai glanced at the time and made a gesture towards the PVA warrior.
"Let's get to work!"
The sparse gunfire on the original position instantly intensified, and the squad began to fire cheerfully with machine guns and heavy machine guns, and in the dark night, tracer bullets pulled out brilliant ballistics, and the entire valley seemed to have erupted as if a volcano had erupted.
The whistling shells were overwhelming, and the flames of the explosion filled the entire valley.
The PVA fighters created a greater momentum than the rebels, and instantly suppressed the rebels' firepower.
Random, shocking bugles echoed through the valley.
In the darkness of the night, PVA fighters in exoskeleton armor rushed out of the position, rushing through the valley and jumping into the rebel position like a grim reaper.
A minute after the charge was launched, the rebels collapsed as a whole, and the mountains were full of deserters, who even abandoned their weapons and ran for their lives in order to run faster.
But in front of the PVA fighters, where these people could run, they were quickly caught up.
In less than half an hour, a rebel unit was completely annihilated.