Ballistic Silence of Special Years

Chapter 302 Luck
luck?

Sometimes it's all about luck on the battlefield.

This is especially true in special operations where victory is sought in danger.

How much do careful planning, awesome commandos, and strong logistical support account for the success factor of the operation?

Sorry, it can only be 50%.

And the other half, you really have to look at your luck.

If you are lucky and well-prepared, you can fight everything smoothly, and you can do everything easily; if you are unlucky, no matter how careful the design is, no matter how elite the team is, once you take action, you will hit the head and shoulders.

This kind of incident is not uncommon in the history of special operations. The most typical one is the beginning of Yingjiang and YL's feud. In that year, YL broke out in a revolution and the Pahlavi Dynasty was overthrown.

Since the eagle sauce has always been a supporter of the Pahlavi dynasty, after the revolution, the Pahlavi king fled to the United States for political asylum on the grounds of medical treatment.Taking in Pahlavi made the newly established YL government extremely dissatisfied with Ying Jiang.

On November 11th of that year, a group of radical student soldiers, with the support of the YL government, occupied Yingjiang's embassy and took 4 Yingjiang people in the embassy as hostages.

Since you are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous.The angry eagle saucers decided to resort to force, so the Pentagon proposed: sending the famous Delta Force to raid the embassy, ​​rescue the hostages, and come to a perfect special operations operation.

After much deliberation, Delta's special warfare experts came up with a complete rescue plan:

First, the special operations team led by Colonel Beckwith flew secretly to Egypt, and then transferred to three C-3 transport planes to fly to an area called "Desert One" 130 kilometers southeast of Tehran.

This is a detection blind spot of the YL air defense radar group, where the transport plane landed and unloaded the special forces.

At the same time, eight RH-8D "Sea Stallion" large helicopters took off from the "Nimitz" aircraft carrier moored in the Arabian Sea, and went to "Desert One" to join the special forces.

Then, the Special Forces took a helicopter and, under the guidance of the informant, came to another hidden location "Desert [-]" on the outskirts of Tehran.The special forces will take a rest here, check equipment and ammunition, hibernate and wait until dark before acting.

When night fell, the Special Forces quickly attacked and went straight to the embassy.The helicopter group is divided into two teams: one team operates with the special forces to provide air fire support; the other team is responsible for controlling a football field near the embassy, ​​where it waits and receives the hostages.Subsequently, the commandos and the hostages returned to the "Desert One" by helicopter, and then changed to a C-130 transport plane to leave YL.

The whole plan was meticulous and detailed, not only dispatched the aircraft carrier, but also dispatched 160 special aviation regiments, which can be described as a lot of elites.

In order to ensure the safety of the operation, Colonel Beckwith also proposed to send two tankers to the "Desert One" area to refuel all the helicopters there to ensure that the helicopters have sufficient fuel.In addition, due to the difficulty of this operation and the many arms involved, Colonel Beckwith required the high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and reconnaissance satellites to closely monitor the battlefield situation, and notify the special forces as soon as possible in case of emergencies to prevent accidents.

The entire rescue operation was code-named "Blue Light".

It should be said that the "Blue Light" operation can be described as meticulous and meticulous.Helicopters can fly at ultra-low altitudes, avoid radar detection, and can land directly around embassies, but they are not as fast as transport planes.Therefore, Colonel Beckwith asked the team members to take a transport plane to enter YL, change to a helicopter during the operation, and finally use the transport plane to evacuate, so that they can complement each other's advantages and save time.

In addition, the use of the anti-submarine type RH-53D instead of the transport type CH-53D is to paralyze the opponent.Because CH-53D generally does not appear on aircraft carriers.

If YL learns that CH-53D has taken off from the aircraft carrier, it is likely to become suspicious.But as an anti-submarine RH-53D, it is quite normal for it to take off and land from an aircraft carrier.In order to allow the RH-53D to perform this mission, the U.S. military has made many improvements to it, removed its sonar and minesweeping devices, increased the cabin space, installed auxiliary fuel tanks and night flight systems, so as to perform missions at night.

At first glance, this plan sounds perfect!
Of course they do!
In a word, the bigwigs in the Yingjiang family have forgotten one thing, Delta has always had bad luck.

On the evening of April 1980, 4, Colonel Beckwith summoned the special forces, read out the order, and the rescue operation officially kicked off.

On the 24th, 3 transport planes and 3 refueling planes successfully landed on the "Desert One" in the dark.

Afterwards, the "Nimitz" aircraft carrier parked in the Persian Gulf immediately released 8 modified RH-53D helicopters to the "Desert One". Each group of 8 helicopters flew into the hinterland of YL quietly, keeping an altitude of 30 meters and flying at an ultra-low altitude to avoid radar surveillance.

At this time, in the desert, the special forces with camouflage grease on their faces were moving boxes of equipment and ammunition from the transport plane.

As long as the helicopter arrives on time, they can proceed to Desert Two.

Unfortunately, they only waited for six of the helicopters after waiting to see through.It turned out that not long after departure, the helicopter formation encountered a sandstorm. One of the helicopters returned due to a propeller failure; action.

However, Colonel Beckwith was the leader. Although the start was against the wind, he believed that the strength and equipment of the Eagles could still turn things around, so he decided to use 4 planes to carry special forces and hostages, 1 plane to provide fire support, and 1 plane to carry the rest. equipment, continue to perform follow-up tasks.

It's a pity that when the god of luck no longer favors them, the special forces in Niubai will also eat sand.

Just as the special operators moved boxes of equipment and ammunition to the helicopter and were about to board the plane to continue the mission, the captain of the No. 2 helicopter reported to the operation commander Colonel Beckwith that the oil pump was damaged and the plane began to leak oil!
WTF!

Hearing the bad news, Colonel Beckwith almost fainted on the spot. The 5 helicopters were unable to complete the mission anyway, and it seemed that the operation could only be suspended.No way, he had to send electricity to the Pentagon, requesting to suspend the operation.

Minutes later, the Pentagon called back agreeing.At this time, Colonel Beckwith had mixed feelings, so he could only board the plane and retreat with the Delta team members in embarrassment.

You thought this was the end of it?

No!

People are so unlucky that they can hurt their heels when they fart.

Colonel Beckwith, who was about to board the plane and evacuate, suddenly found that a helicopter that had just taken off in the formation was still unable to stabilize its attitude, and staggered drunkenly towards another transport plane that was refueling it.

Before he ordered the two planes to separate quickly through the radio, the two unlucky planes had already collided with each other, turning into two huge fireballs and hitting the ground hard.

The two planes quickly turned into blazing iron coffins, 5 special forces members and 3 crew members were engulfed in the fire, and 5 others were injured.

This cursed operation finally declared a failure before it even started, and became the most classic failure in the history of American special operations, and of course, it was also the most unlucky one.

But now this actual confrontation, the luck of the first team can be described as lucky compared to the unlucky Delta players back then. Mom opened the door to luck-lucky!

They really can be described as a blind cat bumped into a dead mouse.

The soldiers, including Li Zheng, didn't know that the "catfish" squad that was thrown into this actual confrontation by their brigade commander was an elite drawn from the blood wolf brigade's commando.

However, it is precisely because these people are elites that everyone does not pay attention to the commandos of the Tiger Brigade.

How awesome can a special warfare brigade that has been established for less than a year have?

It's like a boxer who has practiced professional fighting for more than 20 years goes to a match and finds that his opponent is a beginner who has only practiced for a year.

According to the estimation of the "Catfish" team, those novices will swarm towards the target from the very beginning, use the fastest speed to rescue the VIP, and then take it away with the fastest speed.

fast.

This is one of the essence and principles of special operations.

But not all the time.

There happened to be a group of this weirdo around, and after a group of people sat together and discussed it, they adopted a strategy of deliberately lagging behind to be a wee bird.

And they ran to chase the rabbit when the "Catfish" team passed by, otherwise they would definitely be discovered by the "Catfish" vanguard.

The encounter between the two sides, with the current combat level of the first group, it is difficult to be the opponent of the "Catfish" team, and they can only leave the field in a defeated defeat.

Look!
People favored by the god of luck are so worthy of embarrassment.

The first class is now considered to be the real oriole in this actual confrontation.

But the problem is, this oriole is not easy to be.

Soon, a class finds itself in a dilemma - food and water.

Originally, according to Hou Jun's idea, the three-day ration was cut into six portions. Anyway, if you don't rush to travel, you can last six days if you walk slowly.

But things are different now.

They set their sights on the "Catfish" squad.

And the speed and agility of this small team in the mountains made the first group unexpected.

Even if they just tried to bite each other, they found it very difficult to bite.

And they didn't know one fatal thing - the "Catfish" unit was not short of food and water, and each of them carried enough food and water, which was different from the soldiers in the first company.

In this way, only three days had passed, when the team gradually approached the target area, the worst situation appeared.

There is only the last ration left, and there is almost no water left.

In order to keep an eye on the "catfish" team, they didn't dare to spend time looking for food, so they could only eat whatever they saw in the mountains. After a few days, they were almost disabled.

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