British military base military airfield in Freetown.
On the runway, two "Bobcat" helicopters with "Hellfire" anti-tank missiles, two "Little Antelope" helicopters with "Holt" anti-tank missiles and 2O mm machine guns slowly turned their propellers, four CH47 Chinook heavy transport helicopters roared, and 13O heavily armed SAS special forces members divided into four squads and began to board.
Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, the SAS commander in charge of the "Dawn" operation, stood by the runway, with no expression visible on his face covered in oil paint.
"Lieutenant Colonel Taylor" A military jeep flew to the side of the runway and stopped, and a Navy intelligence officer jumped out of the car and waved at him with a document.
"What's the matter" Taylor suddenly had a bad premonition, as soon as the mission assessment meeting was completed, the troops were about to come out, and it was not a good thing that the intelligence officer suddenly appeared at this time.
"There is an order from headquarters, your operations are temporarily stopped, and personnel are on standby."
The intelligence officer handed the document to Taylor.
Taylor cursed secretly in his heart, sure enough, nothing good, this is not a good sign I scanned the document, and sure enough, it was a military order from the military command.
"What the hell is going on, my troops are about to come out, why should you be on standby" Taylor slapped the document back into the intelligence officer's hand, "I hope you have a good reason" The intelligence officer pointed to the radio station in the jeep: "General Hammond is waiting for you online." ” Taylor quickly ran to the jeep, picked up the radio headset and put it on, and said into the headset: "General, I'm Taylor, the operation is about to begin, why stop" "Lieutenant Colonel Taylor" General Hammond's voice came from the airwaves: "There is a sudden information from i6, according to our tip, someone smuggled ten Tunguska air defense systems from Liberia into Sierra Leone three days ago, and it is believed that they were handed over to the rebels, all indications indicate that it is very likely to be deployed near Freetown, according to the assessment, it is too risky to take off to rescue now, the operation must be temporarily stopped, you are on standby, waiting for the new order to be issued." ” "What" Taylor couldn't believe his ears, "why didn't the intelligence officers at i6 tell me about this at the assessment just now?"
"This is the latest information, you must obey orders" Hammond's tone was non-negotiable.
Taylor exclaimed: "We have been contacted by Lieutenant Jack of the pathfinder platoon among the captured soldiers, they have now escaped from the rebel base camp with the help of a mercenary team, and are currently retreating to the swamp west of Chaobo Town, the rebels have come out to hunt them down, the situation is very critical, if the people are still detained by the rebels, it is okay to wait, but in this case, they will be killed" "People must be saved, and Operation Dawn will not stop, but according to the situation, the operation must be temporarily stopped There is intelligence that the rebels have recently received help from a mysterious force, and our intelligence agencies have not yet been able to assess the danger of this force, so they can't act rashly" Hammond was a little dissatisfied with Taylor's verbosity, "Your planes are within the range of the Tunguska air defense system, we can't take this risk, if we lose a Chinook, it will be a disaster for the military" The Tunguska air defense system is a Soviet-made anti-aircraft system with integrated projectiles and artillery, equipped with a 3o mm double-barreled anti-aircraft gun and 9311 anti-aircraft missiles, which can hit various low- and medium-altitude targets of 2oo8ooo meters, and the maximum tracking distance of its tracking radar can reach 13 kilometers.
The practical ceiling of Chinook is only 29oo meters, and it cannot escape the pursuit of the "Tunguska" air defense system, and Chinook's own defense is very weak, and it is generally accompanied by armed helicopters, and this time two "Lynx" and "Little Antelope" are responsible for air fire support, but they are somewhat weak in the face of the "Tunguska" composite air defense system. i6 can figure out their deployment, we can get around" Taylor was reluctant to just stop the operation, his comrades fled for their lives in the jungle hundreds of miles away, and his elite fighters, who were known as one of the world's most elite special forces, could not do anything.
"If there is an exact location for them, won't I let you go around," Hammond said unhappily, "No one knows where they are deployed."
Now we have decided to have the 16th Air Assault Brigade and the Sierra Leone Government Army form several search units to clear the rebels around Freetown and then deploy them when the threat from the ground is cleared. ” "General" "That's it, carry out the order," Hammond didn't bother to ramble with Taylor any longer, and hung up the line.
Taylor took off his headphones, threw them on the seat of the jeep, rushed like a lion, returned to Chinook, and pressed the communicator to inform everyone: "Stop, everyone will get off the plane immediately and stand by the airport" Half of the SAS team members who boarded the plane looked dazed, turned around and began to get off the plane, and for a while, everyone was talking.
A few hundred kilometers away, on a mountain eighteen kilometers west of Bocheng Town.
An explosion was heard in the distance, and a ball of fire shone brightly in the darkness.
The crosshair lowered the telescope and laughed, "These bastards have touched my treacherous thunder." ” The Ghost Team led the British soldiers over a mountain, but things soon became apparently not going well.
The car overturned just now, and the guide of the British army and a soldier broke their lower leg bones, although it was just an ordinary fracture, but it had already greatly affected the degree of retreat.
And at the most critical time, the bad news came again.
Lieutenant Jack received a notification from SAS Commander Taylor through the communication channel that the rescue team's operations had been temporarily halted due to the unknown enemy situation around Freetown, and as for when it would resume, it would have to wait for the 16th Air Assault Brigade and Sierra Leone government forces to clear the situation.
Maybe it's an hour, maybe it's two hours, maybe it's half a day.
"We can't count on SAS."
The old fish looked at his watch, the time was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was almost dawn, if he could not feel the dense forest next to the swamp and the mercenaries of Kebby and his men before dawn, the rebels would be able to quickly show the traces of their team, and when the time came, it would be easy to surround the ghost group with the advantage of numbers.
Long Yun had recovered at this time, took out the luminous compass and looked at it, and said: "It's okay, it's only a few kilometers of mountain road, everyone will stick to it and pass, as long as you meet up with Kebby's people, I believe there will be enough time to delay until the arrival of SAS." ” Everyone packed their things, and the British soldiers supported each other and planned to advance in this night when they couldn't see their fingers.
"Lying down," the crosshair suddenly shouted.
Snort A dull string of gunfire rang out in the distance, and a tongue of fire flashed in the darkness of the jungle.
A cloud of blood erupted from behind a British soldier and fell to the ground with a muffled grunt.
Lieutenant "Allen" Jack pounced and flipped his men's bodies over.
The soldier named Allen was foaming blood from his mouth and screaming intermittently, "It hurts."
The man's wife crawled over, took out scissors from the medical bag, quickly cut the camouflage suit on the mouth, first debrided it with iodophor potion, poured the hemostatic powder, covered it with hemostatic gauze and hemostatic cotton and tied it tightly.
However, it didn't seem to have much effect, and Allen's gaze began to dilute quickly, and his pupils slowly dilated.
"FCUK" Jack hugged Alan and yelled in a commanding tone: "Don't die, it's an order" Alan barely managed to squeeze out a smile, nodded, and then tilted his head and lost his breath.
The man's wife glanced at Jack, shook her head, and climbed to the side again, pointing 4a1 in the direction where the shot had come from.
Since it was early in the morning, there was no light in the forest at all, and everyone pulled down the AN\VS7 night vision devices on their helmets.
"Chief, why can't I see anyone," the poet said in the communication channel, "why did the rebels come after them so quickly" There was no figure in the night vision device, the surroundings were terrifyingly quiet, Long Yun could clearly hear his pounding heartbeat, in that darkness, he was sure that someone was lurking, but he didn't know what means were used, so that no one could see them.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if these people touched it, wouldn't they be able to assassinate themselves and their teammates one by one without realizing it Who the hell are these?
"They're not rebels."
Long Yun was very sure: "It's the person on the Mi 171":