Chapter 1038: Retreat
I sent the coordinates of the position of the artillery position that I had tested to the headquarters, which immediately confirmed the target with a satellite, and then fired a Tomahawk cruise missile at the Kandahar airfield base 80 kilometers away.
The effective attack distance of this big guy reaches 2500 kilometers, and it is mostly used to destroy large buildings, such as airports, military bases, etc., and it is indeed a bit overkill to attack a field artillery position, but at the moment there is no choice in this situation, long-range artillery may also be possible, but the power is much smaller, and the enemy artillery is hidden behind the mountain, and the shells may not be able to explode.
"Colonel Reis, the missiles have been lifted into the air, the Air Force has taken off to carry out a bombing mission in Area 17, and a team of Canadian special forces closest to you is reinforcing your position, and the British special forces have been parachuted from the Pakistani base to the rear of the enemy to form a two-sided attack with you and eliminate this group of Taliban forces."
Sure enough, the U.S. commander not only sent our unit, but also two special forces into the mountains, which was obviously premeditated, and it was to take this opportunity to launch a clean-up operation against the remnants of the Taliban armed forces, and we became a pawn on someone's chessboard in a daze.
"That's the price we're paying, right?" After interrupting the call with the base, the wolf asked unwillingly in our own channel.
"There is no such thing as a free lunch." Death's faint voice came.
"I'm afraid that the Americans don't know the whereabouts of Cabal at all, they just want to use us." The monkey sneered, he had experienced a lot on the battlefield, and he had seen a trick like this countless times.
"The Yankees made such a big move, they shouldn't be untrustworthy!" I'm not sure in my heart, but I think that after all, it's the US military, so it shouldn't be able to use this method to calculate us, after all, the base is a multinational joint force, so you have to save some face for yourself, otherwise what the armies of other countries will talk about, the pressure of international public opinion is quite large.
"Okay, it's already like this, it's useless to say anything, what we have to do now is to fight this war well and get out of the battlefield alive, understand?" After all, the captain is an American, and it is a little uncomfortable to listen to us talk about it.
"Understood!" Everyone agreed and shut up, the captain was right, it was the most important thing to get out of the battlefield alive, otherwise even if Cabal stood in front of him, we would not have killed him.
In this short period of time, more than 100 enemy reinforcements have entered the battlefield, and the artillery behind the mountain is still bombarding us indiscriminately.
The artillery fire had already begun to extend, so that our side was safe, but the captain's side was covered by artillery fire, and the American GIs had been completely blown up, lying on the ground with their hands holding their heads and praying to God, and they didn't know what else to do.
There are constantly unlucky people being torn apart by shells, and the number of dead is rising, but our people are not very good, they are all experienced masters, they know how to protect themselves, and even if they are wounded, they are slightly injured by shrapnel.
Taking advantage of this brief opportunity, I re-set up my sniper rifle and began to snipe the remaining Taliban soldiers in the position, the artillery fire muffled my gunfire so that no one could see my location until the last bullet in the magazine was fired, and a sharp sound of breaking the air was heard overhead.
Everyone looked up, including members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, as a flaming missile cut through a perfect parabola in mid-air and plunged headlong behind the mountain.
Tomahawk cruise missiles are subsonic missiles, low flight speed, particularly easy to be shot down by anti-aircraft fire, in the Kosovo War in 99, the United States and Britain launched a total of more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, of which 328 were shot down, with an interception rate of 30%.
It is a pity that in this mountain, the enemy has no anti-aircraft fire to intercept it except for 82mm mortars, which means that the missiles will land unhindered, and as long as the explosion sounds, they will be wiped out.
A moment later, with a loud sound like the sky cracking and the earth cracked, the ground under his feet shook violently, and several surrounding mountains trembled, feeling like a ball falling to the ground, and the whole person kept bouncing.
The mountain in front of me was suddenly covered in gunsmoke, and when black smoke rose like a mushroom cloud, I saw half of the mountain collapse, which reminded me of the nuclear explosion on Hiroshima, Japan, decades ago.
The loud bang rolled away in the distance with the explosion as the center, and countless mountains roared as if in response, echoing far away among the mountains and valleys for a long time.
After the explosion, there was silence, silence, deathly silence, and even the enemies who came to support were stunned, and the surviving American GIs on our side got up from the ground and stared at the smoke that filled the air behind the mountain.
"Is it over?" An American GI asked stunned.
"Are all the enemies killed? Are we victorious? It's unbelievable. Someone looked excited.
"I survived, oh my God, what I went through, thank God, I'm still alive!" A female soldier began to cry with her head in her arms.
"We've won, yay!" One guy jumped up excitedly.
"Bang!" A single bullet shattered their dreams of victory, and when the American GI fell to the ground with only half of his head left, everyone kept their mouths shut.
"It's a sniper!" The goddess was right next to that guy and immediately reminded everyone.
"Damn, that unidentified force is already close." The captain cursed in a low voice.
"What about the captain?" I looked down at my watch, it would take at least fifteen minutes for the Air Force to arrive, and as for the support units that the base said they were, the devil knows where they were, and it would definitely not be possible to count on those guys.
"The back road on our side is blocked by that unknown force, and we can only retreat from the cliff on your side." The captain glanced back, and with this kind of terrain without even a tree, he would definitely be named by the snipers one by one when he walked back.
"You guys retreat first, we'll take cover!" Pandora really dares to say big things, just the firepower of the five of us is with more than 100 people, it would be good to be able to save her life, and cover a fart.
"Grizzly bear, put some smoke on them!" I knew that Pandora was not arrogant enough to fight against more than 100 people, and sure enough, there was a back-up move.
"Understood!" Grizzly agreed, concentrated a dozen smoke bombs, and shot them out in one go with the grenade launcher on his body.
There was not much time, the battlefield was filled with thick smoke and smoke, and the bottom of the mountain was completely covered in smoke, and the view of the enemy troops who rushed over to support was blocked, and it was impossible to organize an effective attack.
Taking advantage of the short time, the captain and the others with the American GIs who were not dead, ran towards our side of the hill as fast as they could, and a few of us hid behind the rocks, staring at the smoke below, and if anyone rushed out, we would be killed with one shot.
By the time I killed the third man, the smoke had almost cleared, and I looked back to see that there were still a few wounded GIs climbing up with the help of my comrades, and the others had already crossed the hill to the edge of the cliff.
(End of chapter)