Chapter 44: Rivals

Thick black smoke rose from the valley and rose straight into the blue sky. From afar, it looks like a black tornado.

Lu Chengwen quickly checked the coordinate information displayed by the Beidou navigator, patted the Pakistani captain on the shoulder, and drew a gesture to land in front.

The "Lynx" helicopter began to slow down, and the special forces in the cabin began to check the weapons and equipment. After Kang Xiaoting inspected the PK-8 assault rifle he carried, he also checked the special bomb stuffed in Su Mingjin's backpack.

The helicopter hovered five meters above the ground, and a strong downdraft kicked up a cloud of sand and dust.

Within half a minute, twelve special forces slid down the ropes that had been lowered from the hatches on both sides to the ground.

"Fifteen-minute countdown." Lu Chengwen was the last to get off the plane, holding a radio signal positioning system in his hand. "Kang Xiaoting, I'll leave it to you here, and the others will search north with me."

Ten special forces dispersed into a search formation and marched towards the north of the valley.

Their mission was to find the downed pilot and bring the pilot back to Pakistan.

Kang Xiaoting and Su Ming stayed, and they shouldered a task that was more important than rescuing the pilot.

The downed J-10 fighter was about 150 meters to the east, its fuselage broken in two and burned beyond recognition by the remnants of aviation fuel. Because it disintegrated before it hit the ground, and it exploded after it hit the ground, there were parts of the fighter plane all around.

When Su Ming used the detector provided by the Air Force to look for the "target", Kang Xiaoting carefully observed the surrounding situation.

After the completion of the search and rescue work in the port of Gwadar. Lu Chengwen led the experimental special forces to Lahore. Responsible for search and rescue parachutive pilots.

A few days down. They rescued five Pakistani pilots who had fallen on Indian territory.

Today. The place they were going to rescue was a Chinese pilot.

Besides. They also had another extremely important mission: to blow up the J-10 fighter jet that had been shot down and was originally equipped with the Chinese Air Force.

Why blow up a plane that has crashed to the ground?

Kang Xiaoting didn't understand. Su Mingjin didn't understand either. After the fighter was hit by a missile. Before it reached the ground, it was turned into broken copper and iron. The precision instruments on board the fighter plane were either burned or smashed to pieces. If it is the destruction of evidence. Also very far-fetched. Because it is impossible for the special forces to find all the scattered parts in a very short time. It is even more unlikely that the wreckage of the warplane will be brought back to Pakistan.

The most curious thing is that the Air Force not only provided a special bomb, but also had strict requirements for the method of placing the bomb.

To this end, Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin received several hours of "professional" training, and a technical officer from the Air Force taught them how to use the instruments and how to plant bombs.

The two had to believe that it was not the fighter plane that they were going to blow up, but some kind of critical equipment on the fighter.

As the readings on the instrument jumped a few times, Su Mingjin stopped.

"Did you find it?" Kang Xiaoting also stopped.

"It's nearby." Su Mingjin adjusted a few knobs on the instrument.

The readings jumped more pronouncedly, and the upper hand swung a few times, pointing to the left front.

"Eleven o'clock, about twenty meters." Su Mingjin still can't change the habit of being a sniper.

Kang Xiaoting glanced at the left front, and twenty meters away, it was the rear fuselage that had been burned and deformed.

As you get close to the wreckage of the plane, the LED light on the instrument glows red.

"That's it." Su Mingjin put away the instrument and peeled off the charred aircraft skin, revealing a ring-shaped piece of equipment attached to the front end of the air intake in the engine compartment, and behind it was the "Taihang" engine that was shattered. "My dear, what is this? fell from a height of 10,000 meters, and burned for more than ten minutes in a high temperature of thousands of degrees Celsius, but it was not deformed at all. Could it be the legendary black box? ”

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and load the bomb." Kang Xiaoting took out the bomb in Su Mingjin's backpack, "Team Lu, they're coming back soon, I don't want to stay here for too long." ”

"Lao Kang, did you say that the bastards in the Air Force have eaten too much and have nothing to do?" Su Mingjin muttered as he started to load the bomb. "We came all the way to blow up the black boxes on the fighter planes? Could it be that there is something in here that cannot be seen? ”

Kang Xiaoting rolled his eyes, not bothering to pay attention to his mother-in-law's partner.

After Su Ming loaded the bomb, Lu Chengwen and the rest of the team rushed back with a pilot with a wounded leg.

"How's it going, has it been handled?"

"The bomb is loaded," Kang Xiaoting glanced at his watch, "and it will detonate in seven minutes." ”

Lu Chengwen nodded and whistled at the signal corps.

Two minutes later, the "Lynx" helicopter flew back. Let the team members and the pilot get on the helicopter first, Lu Chengwen glanced at the wreckage of the plane again, and then boarded the helicopter.

The Lynx flew less than two kilometers to the west, and a pale blue mushroom cloud rose in the valley to the east. In the powerful shock wave and dull explosion, the helicopter shook violently, as if it might fall apart at any moment. The officers and men all looked shocked, and the Pakistani pilot even cursed in Urdu. Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin also looked at each other. They installed only a directional shaped bomb with two kilograms of TNT, which could not have been so powerful.

To the east of the valley, a Sea King helicopter is flying west.

Seeing the mushroom cloud rising from the valley, Major Beckett on the helicopter was also secretly startled.

When "Aquaman" came to the sky above the valley, Major Beckett immediately saw the large crater with a diameter of more than twenty meters and a depth of five meters. The Indian Navy pilot on the helicopter was also stunned, it would take at least a thousand-pound bomb to blow up such a large crater!

No sooner had his feet touched the ground than Major Beckett felt the heat coming from the soles of his shoes.

The explosion was so shocking and terrifying. The grass, trees, sand and gravel within a radius of 100 meters were all gone, and thousands of cracks spread from the center of the crater to 100 meters away. This is a crater, it's a crater on the moon.

"Major, no wreckage was found." A special forces soldier walked over and threw a piece of metal to Beckett. "All that's left is these metal fragments."

Beckett gritted his teeth and looked around.

Three days ago, they came to India, in the capacity of special forces under the Joint Investigation Agency, hoping to find some kind of special equipment on the downed J-10 fighter. For three days, Beckett found the wreckage of four Pakistani warplanes, but failed to find that equipment. Obviously, those four fighters were all "Thunder" fighters sold by China to Pakistan, not J-10 fighters of the Chinese Air Force.

Although it was impossible to confirm whether it was the "Thunder" or the J-10 that had just been blown up, the major had a hunch that this was the J-10 they were looking for, and that it must have the kind of equipment he was looking for. They were late, only a few minutes late.

Were the Pakistani special forces who arrived first?

The Major sneered, he didn't think so. Before coming to India, he spent three years on secret missions in Afghanistan, taking out more than a dozen Afghan Taliban leaders; Then he traveled to Pakistan to deal with the Taliban terrorist group in Pakistan and dealt with the Pakistani special forces. Although the officers and men of the Pakistani special forces are very powerful, they are far from being the opponents of the American special forces, and they do not react so quickly.

There is only one possibility, and it was the Chinese special forces that arrived before.

Thinking of this, the major touched the wound on the right side of his neck. It was a wound from a sniper rifle bullet three years ago when he was on a mission in Afghanistan. After recovering from his injuries, Beckett learned from his superiors that he had encountered Chinese special forces during the operation, and that it was most likely a Chinese special forces sniper who wounded him.

Since then, Beckett has regarded the Chinese special forces as his most formidable opponent.

"Major, I've searched all around, and nothing else has been found."

"Wrap up." Beckett let out a sigh and looked at the western sky.

For three years, he has always wanted to compete with the Chinese special forces, but he has never encountered the right opportunity. Perhaps, soon, he will be able to get his wish!

When the Sea King helicopter returned to the Indian Air Base, the Bobcat helicopter also returned to the Pakistan Air Base.

As soon as he got off the plane, Lu Chengwen received a call from Xiang Linghui.

"The United States sent special forces over?" Lu Chengwen was startled at first, and then calmed down, "We will deal with it carefully, do we want to avoid clashes with American special forces as much as possible?" ”

"Quite the opposite." On the phone, Xiang Linghui's tone was very firm. "What the boss means is that if there is a chance, he will try to catch a few American special forces, and he will stay alive."

"Tongue grabbing? Team leader, this is not an easy order. ”

"Do your best, I know your situation." Xiang Linghui's tone softened a little, "I just conveyed the boss's meaning, what to do, you know what to do." Anyway, no one can confirm whether you have encountered American special forces, and I heard that those 'seals', 'deltas', 'rangers' and so on are all unfatal. It's important to complete the mission, and it's even more important to bring my soldiers back alive, you know what I mean? ”

"I understand very well, thank you team leader."

"That's it, there's news, notify me immediately."

"Yes, Team Leader!"

After hanging up the phone, Lu Cheng let out a sigh of relief, this is indeed an order to "die".

He is not afraid of the American special forces, but they are on a search and rescue mission, fast in and out, and must not stay in India for too long. In addition, if they enter the war as mercenaries, if they fall into the hands of the enemy, not only will the Republic not recognize them, but even international law will be powerless.

It's just that the boss directly gives tactical orders, which must be very important.

After thinking about it, Lu Chengwen called Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin over.

"Team Lu, you're not making fun of us, are you?" Su Mingjin's reaction was very big.

"This is a voluntary action, you can refuse, I will not embarrass you." Lu Chengwen took out a cigarette, "I don't want to send someone over either, after all, there are only so many people in the team, and no one can do without them." It's just that the task was directly arranged by the boss, and Boss Xiang also called me. If you don't go, I'll arrange for someone else to go. ”

"No, let's go." Kang Xiaoting replied firmly, "In terms of latent ability, the two of us are the most powerful, and I don't feel at ease when others go." ”

Lu Chengwen nodded, he looked for Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjin, which was also the reason.

"Is there any compensation?" Su Ming smiled solemnly, "Since we are mercenaries, we can't do it for nothing, right?" ”

"Come on, you kid is not short of money." Kang Xiaoting kicked his partner and said to Lu Chengwen, "Team Lu, when are we leaving?" ”

"You guys prepare first, I'll contact you when there's news."

After sending off the two team members, Lu Chengwen sighed secretly, he didn't know if it was right or wrong to do so