Chapter 126: Black Hawk Fall (Part II)
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The once peaceful Mogadishu has now become a fierce battlefield for the militia and the U.S. military, and the B and C companies of the 57th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army are struggling under the siege of many militias. 7.62 mm or even 12.7 mm bullets are like pouring rain, constantly hitting the Humvee convoy, the armor of the Humvee can resist small-caliber bullets, but the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun bullets can not be defended, often the whole vehicle is torn to pieces by large-caliber machine gun bullets, and then the paralyzed car is blocked in the middle of the road and affects the progress of the entire convoy, the American soldiers have to brave the rain of bullets to stop, push the damaged Humvee to the side of the road, the dead or not dead but the bodies of the soldiers who are dying are carried into the moving car, fortunately the militia does not have many large-caliber machine guns, and every heavy machine gun will be subjected to intensive fire by the US militaryThe militiamen operating the heavy machine guns were suppressed and could not raise their heads, so the losses of the American troops were still acceptable.
"Whew...... Boom......!"
The first Humvee was hit in the cockpit by a rocket, and the explosion and metal jet from the rocket immediately killed the five American soldiers inside, and the Humvee also burned and caught fire, blocking the convoy again.
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin reluctantly ordered on the radio: "All the personnel get out of the car and set up a defensive line on the spot, and a few people push the car in front of them!"
More than 200 U.S. soldiers immediately got out of the car, some ran to nearby buildings for cover, and some remained in the car and fired at the roofs of the surrounding houses with M2HB12.7mm heavy machine guns on the roof. Most of the militia were squatting on the rooftops and firing black guns, and the U.S. military had to keep them at bay.
The Humvee, which was in the lead, was quickly pushed to the side of the road. The bodies of the soldiers, who had been shot like a sieve, were carried out, and a few minutes later the US convoy continued on its way under intense fire.
Ouyang Yu's villa periphery A Company also fell into a bitter battle. The militia besieging them found several armed pickup trucks welded with steel plates, which were loaded with either twin large-caliber machine guns or recoilless guns, and the front was inlaid with relatively thick steel plates, and the US rifles and machine gun bullets could not penetrate them, and although the steel plates rattled, they could not cause any damage to the militia behind.
"Jim, you take two people to the side and kill these bitches with rockets!" Captain Matt shouted as he grabbed a sergeant by the shoulder.
"Yes, sir!"
Sergeant Jim immediately led the three men bent over toward the building on the right, with the main strength of Company A stationed in the two L-shaped buildings. The symmetry on the left and right is exactly a Chinese concave character, and the opening is a square, where the pickup truck hit by the American soldiers is located.
Sergeant Jim covered each other, and then the block of the building soon came to a suitable firing position.
"Tom you shoot the first car on the left, Rem you shoot the first car on the right, Qm you shoot the second car on the right. ”
Following Sergeant Jim's order, the three American soldiers immediately put down their M16 rifles and removed the rocket launcher from their backs for aiming.
"Wait for my order to launch together, three, two, one, launch!"
"Whew......!"
Four rockets dragged long white smoke and accurately hit the pickup truck that was strafing the US troops in the square.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
AT4 eighty-four-mm rocket launcher, US military number M136. It is a disposable rocket launcher, which can penetrate 400 mm thick homogeneous rigid armor, and it is like a knife to deal with lightly armored pickup trucks, and the four pickup trucks that were hit were scattered by violent explosions in an instant. One of the militiamen, who was operating a machine gun, was even thrown more than a dozen meters high by the air wave of the explosion, and then fell heavily to the ground and did not move.
The heavily armed pickup trucks for the militia were destroyed, and their morale plummeted in an instant. Strange screams and panicked backwards, the untrained militiamen were very energetic when they gained the upper hand. But once he falls into the downwind, he runs faster than anyone else, so Ouyang Yu will not want these so-called soldiers. All of them were generously given away.
"......Whew!" Captain Matt leaned against the wall after confirming that the militiamen had retreated, exhaled a heavy breath, took off his helmet and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said to the deputy company commander, Lieutenant Hans, who came over, "Count the number of people and the remaining ammunition, and then ask the lieutenant colonel when they can arrive?"
"Yes, sir. ”
"Whew...... Dangdangdang...... Boom......!"
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin was hiding behind a Humvee, and from time to time bullets flew over his head, or sparks splashed on the hull of the Humvee, and he held the walkie-talkie and shouted, "When will it be there?" There are burning barricades everywhere, the militia has made the city like a labyrinth, I don't know where to go at all, the old men who sit in the sky and watch the play will only look at the map and command, saying that the straight-line distance between me and you is only 2.2 kilometers now, go to his straight-line distance, in short, you must stay where you are and wait for our arrival, OVER!"
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin dropped the walkie-talkie and stuck out half of his head from behind the body to observe the situation on the battlefield, the right rear wheel of a military truck was destroyed and was no longer usable, and the soldiers were struggling to find a way to push the truck away, but the ten-ton truck was not so easy to push away, and the damage to the right rear wheel made it more difficult to move, and the convoy had been stuck on this road for more than ten minutes.
Ouyang Yu quietly brought her heavily armed vampire maids to this battlefield, and whenever they saw her black uncles' morale suddenly soaring, and their leader also brought the guards to the battlefield in person, the militia became as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
The vampire maids were sent down by Ouyang Yu, all of them were armed with the same SVD sniper rifles as Ouyang Yu, and they would participate in the battle as precision marksmen, and their targets were mainly non-commissioned officers and officers of the US army, machine gunners and signal soldiers.
Ouyang Yu found a suitable sniper spot, set up a sniper rifle and aimed it at a machine gunner. The quadruple optical scope allows you to see any detail on the heavy's face.
"Bah!" a crisp gunshot rang out, and the machine gunner was holding the machine gun and strafing it. A small bloody hole appeared in his forehead and fell limply to the ground.
Ouyang Yu immediately turned his gun and aimed at a sergeant who was commanding, who was hiding behind the Humvee. Only half of the head with a bulletproof helmet was exposed, and Ouyang Yu pressed the muzzle down slightly and then pulled the trigger.
"Phew!"
The 7.62x54mmR rifle bullet was much more powerful than the AK-47's 7.62x39mmM43 round, and the bullet shot lightly penetrated the bulletproof helmet on the sergeant's head, burrowed into his brain, and then rolled violently, causing the cavity effect to turn the sergeant's brain into tofu brain, and finally a fist-sized hole was broken on the other side of the brain, and the blood and white brains splashed the face of a soldier near him.
"There are snipers!"
The large number of casualties of machine gunners and junior non-commissioned officers and officers quickly attracted the attention of other American soldiers, and snipers were definitely the spokesmen of death on the battlefield. The rest of the soldiers did not dare to shoot boldly for fear that they would become the next target, and they shrank back and fired indiscriminately without a single shot, and the firepower of the entire US army was greatly reduced for a while, which shows the power of snipers on the battlefield.
The morale of the militia was instantly boosted, and the accurate shooting of the US military made them dare not poke their heads or bodies out to aim, and only dared to stick out their weapons to shoot indiscriminately, such a waste of bullets is naturally not accurate, and now the US army is suppressed by Ouyang Yu and the vampire maids she brought, and the militiamen dare to rest assured and boldly carry out more accurate shooting. The hit rate has skyrocketed, and the US troops who have been fighting are miserable.
"A1 calls for birdies, for fire support, for fire support, for fire support and to cover the houses above immediately!" shouted Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin, hiding behind a wall, holding a radio for the man. How could the Americans have less air support, and several AH-6 Bird helicopter gunships, which had been on standby, immediately circled downward, with two M134-7.62mm six-barreled machine guns and 70mm rocket launchers mounted under the wings on both sides. If this firepower is nothing on a regular battlefield, it is a very powerful weapon for the militia in Mogadishu.
The six Little Bird helicopter gunships were divided into three formations on the left and right sides and flew lightly over the battlefield. A barrage of rockets blew up the roofs on both sides of the street, followed by repeated strafing of the roofs with six-barrel machine guns. The sudden attack caused heavy casualties to the militiamen who were fighting, and those who did not die found a place to hide and did not dare to show their heads again.
Ouyang Yu and her vampire maids were naturally fine, she had already noticed that the US army's helicopter group was approaching, but she didn't alert her militiamen, but only withdrew with the vampire maids herself.
With the help of helicopter gunships, the U.S. military regrouped and quickly pushed the broken down truck aside, and then the entire convoy continued to drive towards Ouyang Yu's villa.
Ouyang Yu had achieved the goal she wanted to achieve, to inflict a certain amount of damage on the American troops and consume a lot of their ammunition, so she ordered Hussein Muhammad Aideed to let go of the blocking of the American troops, no longer set up roadblocks, reduce the intensity of the attack, and let the B and C companies of the first battalion converge with A company.
The U.S. military, who did not know the reason, thought that the air raids on their side had achieved good results, and they did not know that they were moving towards the encirclement.
After more than ten minutes, the two teams of American troops finally converged, and the convoy drove into a safer place behind the constructed defensive line under the cover of Company A.
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin stepped out of the car and shook hands with Captain Matt, who had arrived to greet him, and then asked, "What about the losses of Company A?
Captain Matt replied gloomily: "Of the twelve killed, thirty-one were wounded and could no longer take part in the battle, and twenty-seven were slightly wounded and could still fight, and almost a third of the ammunition was consumed. ”
After listening to Captain Matt's report, Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin frowned, A Company suffered one-third casualties in just two hours of fighting, which is not a minor injury, if you also count it together, it is half of it, I can't imagine that the small mission that was originally planned to end in just half an hour has now become a big task with many difficulties and high casualties.
"Sir, what about the casualties of Company B and Company, C Company?" asked Captain Matt.
"Nineteen men were killed in Company B. Twenty-one were seriously wounded, and twenty-one were killed in C Company. Twenty-nine were seriously wounded. ”
"How can it be so high?" exclaimed Captain Matt in surprise, but immediately shut his mouth when he realized that doing so would shake the morale of the soldiers.
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin sighed and said, "There are snipers in the militia. Most of the casualties of B and C companies were inflicted by those damn snipers in just a few minutes. ”
"Oh my God, how can these militias who don't even know how to use guns have snipers?"
"How do I know, but these are not the things we should be concerned about now, we should think about how we can get our lads out of this damn place, if the militia still play the way they did before, even if we can get out, at least half of them will die. Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin walked around worriedly.
Captain Matt's eyes rolled and whispered into Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin's ear, "Sir, haven't we already captured the warlord girl named Catherine, why don't we order her and ask her to order the militia outside to retreat or let us go?"
"This ...... It's not a gentleman's demeanor to blackmail a woman?" Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin hesitated a little, don't think that only Chinese people have good faces. In fact, Westerners are just as good-looking, and if Lieutenant Colonel Gatling had done this and the media had known about it, I don't know how ugly it would have been.
Seeing Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin's hesitation, Captain Matt continued with some anxiety: "Sir, please think about the hundreds of soldiers here, if there is anything in the future, I am willing to bear it with you!"
Lieutenant Colonel Gatling's words were impressed by Captain Matt's words, "Okay, let's go to the villa and get that woman out, and then ask her to order her militia to retreat." ”
"Yes, sir. This is the most pleasing order I've heard today!" Captain Matt happily led people to carry out the order, but the reality played a big joke on him, Ouyang Yu couldn't even find a figure in his villa, and the vampire maids had already left here with the captured Delta team members.
"Sir. No members of the Delta team were found on the first floor. ”
"Sir, I didn't find anyone on the second floor. ”
"Sir, we searched the surroundings and found no entrances to the tunnels and underground passages. ”
"Damn it. Damn, we've been fooled!" Captain Matt, who was furious, realized that the whole operation had changed dramatically and did not dare to delay. The situation was immediately reported to Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin.
Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin was immediately dumbfounded, and now his troops were surrounded by thousands of militia regiments. I still want to escape by taking Ouyang Yu as a hostage, but the people are gone, there is no bloodstain in the villa, no bullet casings, and no traces of battle or fighting, Captain Smith and more than 20 of his subordinates who announced on the radio that they have captured Ouyang Yu are all gone, even a fool will find the problem at this time, but Lieutenant Colonel Gatling can't think about it now, in fact, when Captain Matt came to the news, he was in charge of guarding in the sky. The reconnaissance helicopter sent a report that the outside road had been blocked by the militia with barricades, and more and more militiamen were pouring towards the villa, with at least 5,000 people, which meant that the first battalion had been made dumplings, and there was basically no possibility of rushing out, so in desperation, Lieutenant Colonel Gatlin reported the situation to the commander Brigadier General Gallison by radio and asked for reinforcements.
Brigadier General Gareson and a group of staff officers at the base command were also dumbfounded, reinforcements? Now there are no reinforcements to give to the first battalion, because the second and third battalions that attacked the weapons warehouse also sent a report just now, all the warehouses are empty, even the weapons that have been transported in yesterday have magically disappeared, and at the same time, tens of thousands of militiamen under Ouyang Yu appeared outside the warehouse, and they were also surrounded in the warehouse, a large number of roadblocks and fortifications blocked the escape routes of the second and third battalions, and also planted mines, although the militia repelled several charges after a firefight, but the second and third battalions also suffered heavy casualties and sent a request for reinforcements。
Brigadier General Gallison now only has four battalions left at the base as reserves, and these 500 people can only send a maximum of 400 people in addition to staying at the base, but the number of these 400 people is too small, whether it is to go to Mogadishu or to the weapons warehouse, it is useless, and it is possible to trap himself, so Brigadier General Gallison is very embarrassed and does not know whether to send it, and if so, where to send it.
Just when Brigadier General Gareson was extremely entangled, the news from the scout kept him from struggling.
"Report, it was found that a large number of Catherine's militia were approaching the base, and they were riding hundreds of armed pickup trucks, numbering no less than four thousand!"
"What?!, damn it, immediately sound the alarm at the base, everyone take up arms and prepare for battle, immediately ask Washington for reinforcements!"
More than 5,000 militiamen under Ouyang Yu outside the US base in Somalia quickly completed the encirclement of the US military base, but did not immediately attack, but dug trenches on the spot to prevent US troops from escaping.
This made Brigadier General Gallison breathe a sigh of relief, but new worries rose again, and he didn't know what Ouyang Yu was planning to do? Because by doing so, she was tantamount to slapping the United States, and even if the 57th Infantry Regiment was wiped out by her as an organization, did she think that with these rabble of people under her command armed with AK-47s and RPGs, she would be able to stop the American army that had a comprehensive counterattack by land, sea, and air? (To be continued......)