Ballistic Silence of Special Years

After adjusting the reconnaissance angle at an altitude of more than 7000 meters, the mortar positions on the ground can be seen at a glance.

Although the mortar weapon is a curved artillery, which has the advantages of fighting cattle across mountains, it also has disadvantages.

Due to the influence of the curved shooting angle, shooting behind the mountain must be a certain distance away from the foot of the mountain, otherwise the shells will easily hit the mountain in front of you.

In this way, it is necessary to build a gun position in a relatively open place at the foot of the mountain. The gun position is easy to do, especially for small-caliber 60 mortars. The mortar does not need to be disassembled. It is directly connected to the small seat plate to carry the gun. Not too big, one person can move the back, and three people can form a launch team.

At this time, the SFF tactical unit chasing 270 had the strength of a company, carrying three such small mortars.

SFF units of this nature knew their combat purpose at the beginning of their establishment, which was the snow-covered plateau, so they were considered lightly armed special operations units, and the weapons they selected were mainly small and light.

Three mortars were deployed at intervals of 20 meters, hiding in a depression behind the foot of the mountain to form an artillery position, and fired wildly at the concealment where the 270th unit was located, while the accomplices hiding on the top of the mountain provided corrections for the landing point.

As a result, the 270th team suddenly suffered.

In just 10 minutes, 4 more people were injured and had to retreat to some places with mounds of soil or stones on both sides for concealment.

But it's not a long-term solution.

The shells of the curved artillery are dropped from the sky. Even if you hide in the middle of two mounds, even if you hide in a trench that has been dug, as long as the cannon is fired accurately, you still cannot escape.

boom--

With an explosion, Zhao Chuan, who was behind the stone pestle, felt countless gravel and dirt fall from his body.

My face suddenly felt hot and painful.

Stretching out his hand to touch it, a gash was cut on his right cheek by the flying stone flake, and blood gushed out immediately.

"Old Lu, gather your troops and leave here, or you will all die!"

Over there, I couldn't hear Lu Yi's answer.

But another team member's voice came: "Captain, the vice-captain is injured!"

Zhao Chuan's heart tightened, the current situation was extremely critical.

As the team commander of this mission, he must come up with countermeasures, not to let the brothers be suppressed here alive, and eventually be blown to pieces.

"All the machine gunners obey my command. The assaulters are ready to attack from the right, and the machine gunners are covering. Since they can't withdraw, they have to pull them back!"

After yelling, he shouted again: "Release the drone and see how many observation points they have on the mountain. Their observation points must be destroyed!"

"The drone is out of battery!"

Sad news soon came from the drone pilots in the squad.

"Find a way to make it fly!"

Since I have used drones before, the battery power is not much. In addition, the power loss is too low at low temperature. In addition, the high altitude here and the thin air affect the lift. In fact, Zhao Chuan himself is not sure what the team will carry. Whether the small UAV can fly to the opposite mountain.

It's just that there isn't any choice now.

If you can't do it, you can do it.

After the bunker, the drone operator has quickly assembled the drone. He has removed all unnecessary mounts, leaving only the camera system.

He muttered in his mouth: "Be sure to live up to it, fly up for me buddy!"

The drone seemed to understand human speech, staggered and struggled in place, and then really flew.

The drone pilot was so excited that he almost shed tears.

Glancing at the battery display, it has bottomed out.

He hurriedly controlled the drone and flew towards the mountain hidden by SFF.

Seeing the drone take off, Zhao Chuan felt a burst of joy.

He yelled at the drone pilot: "Good job, old Wu!"

The drone pilot didn't answer, and all his energy was focused on the remote control device in his hand.

The picture returned was a bit unstable, and the signal was also strongly interfered.

Fortunately, the distance to fly is not far. This kind of careful drone that does not need satellite relay signals can still resist certain interference within a short range.

If there is no accident, this drone should be the last mission.

There is no chance of flying back.

But if you can conduct a reconnaissance on the hill and determine the location of the firepower point and the artillery observation point, the task is considered complete.

Just when everyone saw a glimmer of hope, suddenly, the picture of the drone disappeared.

Someone saw that the drone, which was already shaky, suddenly began to descend rapidly, and finally fell to the ground.

"Old Wu, what's going on?!"

Zhao Chuan shouted.

He wondered what was wrong.

Old Wu checked the control system, and finally said in despair: "No power, out of control..."

The last ray of hope was dashed.

Zhao Chuan stabilized his mind and said calmly: "The original plan will be carried out without drones. The assault team is ready! The machine gun team is ready to cover!"

Everyone started changing magazines, checking ammo.

Next, the machine gun team will carry out suppression for a certain period of time, and the firepower must maintain a certain burst of fire. Although we don't know where the opponent's observation point is, the opponent's firepower point is roughly determined through the previous firefight.

Covering shooting does not need to be too precise, as long as one minute is bought for the assault team, they can rush to the foot of the opponent's mountain and go up from the flank.

As for going up the mountain, no one knows what the outcome of the close-range exchange of fire between the two sides will be, so each has to rely on his own ability.

The most dangerous thing is the distance from the impact to the opponent's feet, even if it is more than 100 meters away, it is a road to death.

The opponent's hidden observation point on the mountain will definitely command the mortar to carry out interdictive shooting, and use shells to explode a net of death along the way.

Zhao Chuan didn't know whether he could succeed or not, and how much he would pay.

But now, those who are afraid of death die faster.

Sacrifice was expected as early as the day when I was selected into the 270, I knew that I would face the choice of life and death on the day of failure.

Therefore, death is just a destination, not something to be feared.

"Fire!"

Following Zhao Chuan's order, the machine gun team began to fire.

Suddenly, bullets rained down on the firepower point on the opposite mountain.

While the machine gun team fired, the assault team jumped out of the cover and rushed to the open ground without delay.

The other party misfired for a while before reacting.

He wanted to open fire on the assault team passing through the open field, but was unable to lift his head due to the rain of bullets, so he could only hide behind the cover and call for artillery fire.

Seeing that there was still a distance of more than 40 meters from the foot of the opposite mountain, a mortar shell exploded about ten meters in front of the assault team.

A commando fell to the ground.

Then he got up and continued to run forward reluctantly.

Because if the speed is not fast enough, the longer you stay in this open field, the more dangerous it will be.

boom--

Another mortar shell landed.

The hidden observation post on the opposite side played a role at this time.

The mortar team hiding behind the mountain began to fire rapidly.

They probably knew that this commando team had to be stopped, because they knew it well in the battles of these veterans. There was only one team before, and nearly 30 of them were directly killed.

The assault group was attacked and suffered heavy losses.

Of the nine commandos, half were injured, and not minor injuries.

At the foot of the mountain, the firepower of the machine gun team here could not continue.

The rate of fire of the machine gun is fast, even if burst fire is used instead of continuous fire, the ammunition box must be replaced, and ammunition is also a problem.

"Captain, there is no bullet!"

A machine gunner shouted: "Whoever has spare bullets, give me some!"

Since the exchange of fire with SFF last night, there have been more than a dozen battles, large and small, lasting nearly eight hours.

The ammunition on everyone has bottomed out.

Zhao Chuan was very anxious, if it wasn't for the serious leg injury, he would have done it himself.

"Let's equalize the ammunition, and if it doesn't work, use the rifle first!"

The suppression of fire here stopped, and the enemies of the SFF troops over there became active.

After all, they are a company of troops, with abundant firepower and more ammunition.

For a while, the assault team was crushed at the foot of the mountain and could not move, and there were still half of the wounded.

And the machine guns here have run out of ammunition, and they can no longer suppress the opponent with fierce firepower to provide cover for the assault team.

The fate of the 270th team seems to have reached the most critical time.

Suddenly, there was a violent explosion from behind the opposite mountain.

The explosion was very violent, not like the sound of a small-caliber mortar shell exploding.

Zhao Chuan was shocked, and asked the team members not far away suspiciously: "Did you hear the explosion?"

Mortar fire from the opposite side appeared to have ceased.

The assault team at the foot of the mountain suddenly lost pressure.

The few remaining uninjured team members got out from behind the bunker, began to circle up the mountain from the flanks, and launched their attack. (end of this chapter)