Chapter 776: Die before departure
After issuing the order, the airport construction site defense commander picked up the phone again. It was to the regional command center. He wanted to confirm whether there were friendly troops with other tasks, whether on the ground or in the air.
It is normal for troops with missions to maintain secrecy and use encrypted calls.
The reply from the regional command center is very clear: "There are no other friendly neighboring forces that have not been notified to you. In that direction, you are the most important."
After receiving this answer, the commander paid more attention to it.
"Air defense post No. 2, pay attention to your direction."
The commander knows the situation very well. For the construction site, the three directions of north, west and east are almost safe. If the person coming is the enemy he expected, then it is unlikely that the enemy will send out serious attacks. When the air force launches an air strike, the consequences are difficult for the enemy to control.
The biggest possibility is penetration.
Considering the distance from the border and the natural conditions, the requirements for infiltration on foot are inevitably too high for the enemy, so the most likely option is helicopters.
In other words, what needs to be guarded against is helicopters, and nothing else is a concern.
But if you want to reach the north and west of the construction site, firstly, the enemy needs unnecessary friction with their enemies, and secondly, the height of the mountains is too high, making it very difficult for helicopters to climb over.
And the east is our own hinterland, so the possibility of coming from there is not high.
Therefore, what the commander is most worried about is the southeast direction. In that direction, between the valley where the airport is located and the cross-border Xiangquan River Valley, there is a valley about 5,000 meters high, which is exactly the height that the opponent's helicopter can climb. The altitude of Xiangquan Valley is about 3,500 meters. Combined, this can be regarded as a theoretical passage.
As a construction and defense commander who can undertake such an important strategic node project, he has naturally done his homework and quickly determined the direction in which the problem is most likely to go wrong.
The No. 2 air defense sentry, which is about 40 kilometers south-east of the construction site, sounds like a sentry. In fact, it is not that simple. It consists of three vehicles. A four-wheel drive off-road truck is regarded as a life support vehicle. In addition, there are There are two GAZ-69s as mobile vehicles, which can move within a certain range around the off-road truck.
At this time, they were directly in front of the narrowest part of this 200-kilometer-long river valley. This was a narrow section less than 20 kilometers long and about 3 kilometers wide.
This roughly 200-kilometer-long, basically straight valley is also the biggest reason for choosing the location of the airport. This 200-kilometer river valley provides the necessary clearance conditions for the construction of the airport, which is an extremely rare natural feature in this nearby area. condition.
Airports are not just a matter of finding a few kilometers of flat land and building a few kilometers of straight runways. Some notorious and extremely difficult airports are caused by poor clearance conditions at both ends.
The air defense posts are deployed here, firstly for air defense, and secondly for ground defense. Basically, you don’t have to worry about the mountains on both sides. This narrow passage is the only way for land and air to pass through, and can smoothly cross the mountains on both sides. It is not the responsibility of this air defense sentry, that is the responsibility of other units.
This air defense sentry protects those who slip through the cracks, such as infantry and helicopters.
After receiving the reaffirmation from the command post, the captain of the No. 2 air defense post was not worried, but became excited.
It seems we have guests today?
He spread out two GAZ-69s one after the other, one to his south-east and one to his north-west, forming a long snake formation about 10 kilometers long. The head of this long snake tightly blocks the 20-kilometer-long throat, while the snake's body and tail are dragged outside the throat, tightly controlling the outside of the throat.
The comrades in the three cars all turned on the vehicle-mounted RX-61 thermal imaging cameras. This device is much easier to use than the eyes for finding aircraft against the background of the snowy plateau!
At about the same time, the enemy's helicopter was passing through the 5,000-meter-high and less than 20-kilometer-long valley after a burst of maneuvers and groping.
In the fog, visibility was very poor, and things dozens of meters away could no longer be seen clearly.
According to the navigation operation, they were about to rush out of the valley and descend into the target valley at an altitude of 4,500 meters. Units 1 and 3 suddenly heard the desperate voice of the pilot of Unit 2 coming from their headphones.
"Ah!!!!!!"
In a literary sense, this voice does not contain any information, but in fact, it contains everything, fear, struggle, unwillingness, regret, despair...
Before the pilots of Unit 1 and Unit 3 could taste all the feelings, the sound suddenly stopped. Unit 1 flying in front didn't know what happened, but Unit 3 flying at the end saw the fog ahead. A ball of smoke and fire exploded.
This ball of fireworks saved the life of Plane No. 3. It changed its course in advance, but for Plane No. 2, this was its only contribution. It disappeared with 2 crew members and 13 passengers. On a mountain of more than 5,000 meters, it is said that he died before leaving the army.
Everyone on Unit 1 and Unit 3 knew what happened, and the atmosphere was extremely low for a moment.
The two helicopters were shocked and continued to move forward. Rescue? Can't be saved. If we want to use an analogy, this is a more complete gift than Calabash Baby saving grandpa. Calabash Baby can save grandpa with two gestures, but when they go to save Unit 2, they don't even have the chance to gesture twice.
Finally, the fog suddenly dispersed in front of them, and what appeared in front of them was a river valley that stretched from left to right with no end in sight.
The people on the two helicopters felt lucky for a while, and even felt like they had narrowly escaped death. At this time, an idea came to each of their minds.
"How about we stop going, turn around and go back, and just say we run out of gas?"
Although everyone has this idea, no one dares to say it.
This is the unsolvable part of the prisoner's dilemma. Everyone will make the choice that is most beneficial to themselves.
At this time, the most beneficial option for them is to wait for others to propose it first, and then pick the peaches themselves, which can save their lives without being punished.
In the end, no one brought it up. They followed the terrain map provided by Lao Maozi and flew north-west along the river valley.
"Continue flying for 50 kilometers, which is the narrowest and most complicated part of the river valley. After passing there, we will almost reach our destination. When passing there, we must pay attention to the terrain and don't be like No. 2."
Unit 1 reminds Unit 3.
"Rogerthat!" Unit 3 replied.
At this time, the command post at the airport construction site once again heard an encrypted communication signal with the same frequency and characteristics as the signals received twice before. This time the signal was clearer than the previous two times.
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"Attention all free posts, the unknown target signal appears again, and the distance is approaching."
Now that it is clear that there are no unknown friendly troops around, there must be something wrong with this signal. What's more, the signal is clearer now, which means that the signal is approaching, and the command post once again reminded the free posts.
After a series of "understandings", the radio station fell silent again.
At this time, the No. 2 sentry has covered itself with white camouflage cloth based on the terrain. From the air, it is completely white and cannot be distinguished at all.
The three thermal imaging cameras on the three vehicles sealed the sky ahead tightly.
No matter which car, the soldiers began to prepare for action. Judging from the report from the command post, there may indeed be guests today, but I don't know how many tables there are.
The soldiers moved boxes one by one from the car and took out a long and thin tube. The tube looked a little funny, with a cylinder holding a square box on top.
Then they took out another thing that looked like it had a scope and a trigger, and attached it to the slender projectile body.
That's right, what they have in hand is the portable anti-aircraft bullet that has just been improved and is being tested.
Although it is still being tested, the superiors have taken into account the special situation of the western airport, and the air defense is slightly weak. In order to maximize the air defense capability, even if this thing is still being tested and has not been installed, or even pre-tested, it is better to first The Institute of Guidance and Research was asked to urgently install a batch and sent it to the West Line Airport Project.
According to our core concept of "if you are poor, you can use tactics, and if you are good, you can blow me up". Now that we have weapons, we must adhere to the attitude of "it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten of them." On the three positions at the second post, There are three missiles, two ready for launch in the hands of the shooter and one assembled spare.
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The observer searches the sky with visible light (×) naked eyes (√) and thermal imaging camera, while the shooter holds the missile and waits for the fighter plane.
Just as they were making all these preparations, more than ten minutes had passed since two enemy helicopters entered the river valley.
The pilot of aircraft No. 1 called aircraft No. 3: "Attention, we are about to enter a narrow valley. Pay attention to the flight attitude and terrain. After passing 40 kilometers through the canyon, land and release the combatants."
For them, the mission requirements from their superiors are also very clear. If there is a problem, the people can be left there, but the plane cannot and must fly away. Therefore, the early release of combat personnel has become an inevitable choice. In Lao Maozi's photos, anti-aircraft weapons positions are vaguely visible, so it is better not to take risks.
As for why they came to kill them even though they knew they were being defended, I can only emphasize once again, "I can kill 100 people with one person." They were serious.
"Rogerthat!" Unit 3 replied again to confirm.
At this time, each free post received another notification from the command post.
"The unknown signal distance is approaching again! The free posts continue to strengthen the alert, the fixed positions at the construction site increase their combat readiness level, and the construction site air defense forces enter the gun positions!"
Everyone has an account of what the unknown signals that continue to approach mean. It seems that we really have a guest today, and a bad one at that!
(End of chapter)