Chapter 776 Died before leaving the army

After giving the order, the airport construction site defense commander picked up the phone again and called the regional command center. He wanted to confirm whether there were any friendly troops with other tasks, either on the ground or in the air.

It is normal for troops with missions to keep their missions secret and use encrypted conversations.

The regional command center's response was very clear: "There are no other friendly forces that have not notified you. In that direction, you are the most important."

After receiving this answer, the commander took it more seriously.

"Air Defense Post No. 2, watch your direction."

The commander was very familiar with the situation. For the construction site, the north, west and east directions were almost all safe. If the person coming was the enemy he expected, then this enemy was unlikely to send out a formal air force to launch an air strike, and the consequences of that would be difficult for the enemy to control.

The biggest possibility is infiltration.

Considering the distance from the border and the natural conditions here, infiltration on foot would inevitably be too demanding for the enemy, so the most likely option left is a helicopter.

In other words, what we need to guard against is helicopters, nothing else is a concern.

However, in order to reach the north and west sides of the construction site, firstly, the enemies would need to have unnecessary friction with their enemies, and secondly, the mountains were too high, making it very difficult for the helicopter to turn over.

The east is their own hinterland, so the possibility of coming from there is not high.

Therefore, what the commander was most worried about was the southeast direction. In that direction, there was a valley about 5000 meters high blocking the river valley where the airport was located and the Xiangquan River Valley across the border. This was exactly the height that the opponent's helicopters could cross. The Xiangquan River Valley has an altitude of about 3500 meters. Combined with the altitude, this can be considered a theoretical passage.

As a construction and defense commander who was able to undertake such an important strategic node project, he had naturally done his homework long ago and quickly determined the direction where problems were most likely to occur.

The No. 40 air defense post, located about 69 kilometers south-east of the construction site, sounds like a sentry, but it is actually not that simple. It consists of three vehicles, one of which is a four-wheel drive off-road truck that serves as a life support vehicle, and two GAZ-s for mobility, which can move within a certain range around the off-road truck.

At this moment, they were right in front of the narrowest part of the 200-kilometer-long river valley. It was a narrow section less than 20 kilometers long and about 3 kilometers wide.

This 200-kilometer-long, basically straight river valley is also the biggest reason for the selection of the airport site. This 200-kilometer river valley provides the necessary clearance conditions for building an airport, which is an extremely rare natural condition in the surrounding area.

Building an airport is not something that can be done by simply finding a few kilometers of flat land and constructing a few kilometers of straight runway. Some notorious airports that are extremely difficult to fly in are caused by poor airspace conditions at both ends.

The air defense post is deployed here, firstly for air defense, and secondly for land defense. There is basically no need to worry about the high mountains on both sides. This narrow passage is the only way for land and air transportation. Anything that can smoothly cross the mountains on both sides is not the responsibility of this air defense post, but the responsibility of other units.

This air defense post is designed to defend against those who slip through the gaps, 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 at all, but excited instead.

It looks like there are guests today?

He deployed two GAZ-69 tanks one after the other, one to the south-east of him and the other to the north-west of him, forming a long snake formation about 10 kilometers long. The head of the snake blocked the 20-kilometer-long throat, while the body and tail of the snake were dragged outside the throat, controlling the outside of the throat tightly.

The comrades in the three cars all turned on the RX-61 thermal imagers on board. This thing is much better than the eyes at finding planes against the backdrop of the snowy plateau!
At almost the same time, the enemy's helicopter was crossing the valley that was 5000 meters high and less than 20 kilometers long after a series of operations and groping.

In the fog, visibility is very poor and things dozens of meters away cannot be seen clearly.

According to the navigation operation, they were about to rush out of the valley and go down to the target river valley at an altitude of 4500 meters. Suddenly, No. 1 and No. 3 heard the desperate voice of the pilot of No. 2 in the headset.

"what!!!!!!"

From a literary point of view, this voice does not contain any information, but in fact, it contains everything: fear, struggle, unwillingness, regret, despair...

Before the pilots of planes 1 and 3 could experience all the emotions, the sounds suddenly stopped. Plane 1, which was flying in the front, had no idea what had happened, but plane 3, which was flying at the end, saw a ball of thick smoke and fire bursting out of the fog ahead.

The fireworks saved the life of the No. 3 aircraft, which changed its course in advance. But for the No. 2 aircraft, this was its only contribution. It disappeared on a mountain over 2 meters high with two crew members and 13 passengers, and died before it could accomplish its mission.

Everyone on Unit 1 and Unit 3 knew what had happened, and the atmosphere became extremely low for a moment.

The two helicopters were still in shock and continued to move forward. Rescue? No way. If we were to make an analogy, this was even more complete than the story of Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather. Calabash Brothers could at least gesture a few times to save their grandfather, but when they went to save helicopter No. 2, they didn't even have the chance to gesture a few times.

Finally, the fog in front of them suddenly dissipated and what appeared before their eyes was a river valley that stretched from side to side with no end in sight.

The people on the two helicopters were relieved and even felt like they had escaped death. At this moment, an idea came to everyone's mind.

"How about we not go there, turn back and say we're out of gas?"

Although everyone had this idea, no one dared to say it out loud.

This is where the prisoner's dilemma becomes unsolvable; everyone will make the choice that is best for themselves.

At this time, the most advantageous option for them is to wait for others to bring it up first, and then pick the peaches themselves, thus saving their lives and avoiding punishment.

In the end, no one suggested that they follow the topographic map provided by the Russians and fly northwest along the river valley.

"Fly for another 50 kilometers, and you will reach the narrowest and most complex part of the river valley. After passing through there, we will almost reach our destination. When passing through there, you must pay attention to the terrain and don't be like No. 2."

Unit 1 alerts Unit 3.

"Roger that!" 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 previous two signals. This time the signal was clearer than the previous two times.

"Attention all roving sentinels, the signal of the unknown target has appeared again, and the distance is approaching."

Since it has been confirmed that there are no unknown friendly troops around, there must be something wrong with the signal. Moreover, the signal is now clearer, which means that the signal is approaching. The command post once again reminded all the independent posts.

After a series of "understands", the radio station fell silent again.

At this time, the No. 2 post had covered itself with white camouflage cloth in accordance with the terrain. When viewed from the air, it was all white and impossible to distinguish.

The three thermal imagers on the three vehicles completely blocked the sky ahead.

Regardless of which car they were in, the soldiers began to prepare for action. Judging from the report from the command post, there might really be guests today, but they didn't know how many tables there would be.

The soldiers unloaded boxes from the car and took out a long, thin tube from them. The tube looked a bit funny, with a round cylinder supporting a square box.

Then they took out another thing that obviously had a scope and a trigger and put it on the slender body of the projectile.

That’s right, what they have in their hands are the portable anti-aircraft missiles that have just been improved and are being tested.

Although it is still under testing, the superiors took into account the special situation of the western-line airport and its slightly weak air defense. In order to maximize the air defense capability, even though this thing is still under testing and has not been put into service, and even has not been pre-tested, they still asked the Guidance Research Institute to urgently install a batch and send it to the western-line airport project.

According to our core concept of "tactical infiltration when necessary and bombing when successful", now that we have weapons, we must adopt the attitude of "it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers". There are three missiles on the three positions of the No. 2 post, two of which are ready to be fired in the hands of the shooters and one assembled spare.

What is the value of everything being three?
The observer searches the sky with visible light (×), naked eyes (√) and thermal imager, while the shooter holds the missile and waits for the fighter plane.

While they were making all these preparations, more than ten minutes had passed since the two enemy helicopters entered the valley.

The pilot of aircraft 1 called aircraft 3: "Attention, we are about to enter a narrow valley. Pay attention to the flight attitude and terrain. After passing the valley for 40 kilometers, land and release the combat personnel."

For them, the superiors' mission requirements were also very clear. If there was a problem, the people could be left there, but the planes could not be left there, and they had to fly away. Therefore, releasing the combat personnel in advance became an inevitable choice. In the photos of the old Russians, the anti-aircraft weapon positions were vaguely visible, so it was better not to go there and take risks.

As for why they came to get killed even though they knew there were defenses, I can only emphasize again, "I can beat 1 people by myself", and they are serious.

"Roger that!" Unit 3 replied again to confirm.

At this time, each roving outpost received notification from the command post again.

"The unknown signal is getting closer again! The roving sentries continue to strengthen their vigilance, and the fixed positions on the construction site have increased their combat readiness levels. The construction site's air defense forces are in their gun positions!"

Everyone has a clear idea of ​​what the approaching unknown signals mean. It seems that there really are guests today, and they are bad guests at that!

(End of this chapter)