Chapter 1279: 1280 Successful retreat
Chapter 1279 1280 Successful Retreat
“Helicopters! Shoot those helicopters!” In the darkness, the commander of the Qin Army pointed at a Tang Army helicopter suspended in mid-air in the distance and shouted loudly.
Beside him, the soldier responsible for loading the Bofors anti-aircraft gun was desperately inserting the magazine into the gun.
As long as you look at the scene, you will know that these planes are definitely not here for a casual fight. They have a purpose. All the soldiers of the Qin Army cannot let these planes leave calmly no matter what.
"There is a plane landing! There is a plane landing in the yard! Damn it!" On a machine gun position not far away, another Qin soldier saw a hazy black shadow slowly descending through the moonlight.
He really needs a flare, but this is Qin's Central Cluster Headquarters. Where can such things as flares be prepared?
So the Qin commander could only pray that the surrounding Qin troops who were aware of the problem could react and fire a flare at them, thereby reversing the situation on the entire battlefield.
Unfortunately, no one answered his prayer. The surrounding Qin troops had no idea what was happening. They only knew that they were being attacked. They didn't know exactly where the enemy came from.
There are almost no anti-aircraft guns in the city. Most of the anti-aircraft guns have been moved to the retreat route to deal with the Tang Army's aircraft.
What's more, those anti-aircraft guns have not played any role at all. From the beginning to now, not even a Tang Empire plane has been shot down.
Their best achievement was to damage a Thunder attack aircraft. However, although the opponent was hit by a bullet, it calmly left the battlefield with a section of its wings knocked off.
Because of this situation, there are very few anti-aircraft guns deployed in Dongqing City, and they are of little use anyway, so most of the anti-aircraft guns and other anti-aircraft weapons have been transferred to field positions outside the city.
There are two 40mm-caliber Bofors anti-aircraft guns here at the headquarters, which is already a very good air defense firepower density.
Unfortunately, as soon as the fighting broke out, a Bofors anti-aircraft gun position was completely silenced. Two rockets hit the anti-aircraft gun position, and now there are only corpses and the wreckage of the anti-aircraft gun left there.
The remaining anti-aircraft guns had just run out of ammunition. Unfortunately, the Hind helicopter gunship was too flexible. It easily dodged a series of tracer bullets and disappeared behind a building not far away.
Everyone knows it will come back, but no one can guess when or where it will come back. Taking advantage of this precious time, the soldiers on the only remaining anti-aircraft gun position were desperately loading ammunition.
"Hurry up! It's coming back soon!" the gunner said nervously. Through the moonlight in the sky, he could see the dark shadows of some aircraft. It was obvious that the entire sky was now full of danger.
Just now, a searchlight that finally turned on emitted a beam of light that swept across the entire sky. The Qin Army saw several Tang Army armed helicopters and some Black Hawk helicopters.
Some Black Hawk helicopters have machine guns installed on the sides, which are being controlled by members on board and are firing wildly at the ground.
Tracer bullets fell on the Qin Army's position like raindrops. Those Qin Army soldiers who had little experience in anti-aircraft shooting were knocked upside down by the dense bullets.
This kind of battle has never happened before, and the Qin army was completely passive. What made them even more crazy was that they were passively beaten at the core of their own military formation. "Ammunition! I need ammunition!" Behind the bunker made of sandbags, a Qin Army machine gunner waved his arms and shouted loudly to his companions in the distance.
He was very brave, because in the next second the Tang Army's tracer bullets swept over him, and he was directly beaten into a sieve by the bullets. The sandbags around him and the MG42 machine gun were also riddled with bullet holes.
This kind of warning position will not store a large amount of ammunition at all, because this is a group headquarters, and under normal circumstances, large-scale battles will not break out at all.
The truck filled with fuel nearby was hit several times by tracer bullets, and finally it was ignited and exploded. Huge flames shot up into the sky, illuminating half of the sky at once.
At this time, the commanders of the Qin Army saw clearly that there were more than a dozen Tang Army helicopters hovering above their heads.
"Hello? Hello!" In another building next to him, the garrison commander holding the phone shouted angrily into the phone.
Unfortunately, no matter how many times he fed her, there was still a busy signal on the phone. His phone lines had all been cut off, and it was impossible to get through to any phone outside.
"I saw the general headquarters of the cluster being attacked! Yes! General Headquarters! Reinforcements! We need reinforcements! Send reinforcements to the General Headquarters immediately! The enemy is attacking us! They are attacking the General Headquarters!" The troops stationed on the periphery not far away In the headquarters, an officer looked at the flames in the distance and called for reinforcements on the phone.
The Qin army still had good fighting qualities, and soon the surrounding troops also responded. But they really didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of them.
Obviously, the Tang Army's planes were retreating. After suppressing all the surrounding Qin Army's firepower points, the opponent only stayed briefly and then prepared to retreat.
The Black Hawk helicopter parked in the garden has been pulled up, and the Tang Army's special forces carrying out the invasion mission have already sat in the cockpit of the helicopter.
More special forces just hung the latches around their waists directly on the ropes dropped from the plane. Then they were pulled up into the sky by the winch, and then the crew members on the plane pulled them into the open space from the left and right sides of the plane. aircraft cockpit.
The operation would have been almost perfect were it not for a Hind attack helicopter being hit by Bofors anti-aircraft gun fire.
As a helicopter trailing flames crashed into a nearby street, the Tang Army's operation to capture Ying'an came to an end.
Helicopters flew away one after another, and the Hind attack helicopters behind them fired all their rockets in retaliation at the position of the Bofors anti-aircraft gun that had just shot down a helicopter.
The entire central cluster headquarters of the Qin Army was full of fires and explosions. Fallen communication antennas and tents with dense bullet holes were everywhere. The gasoline barrels piled together were ignited by the raging flames, and they emitted One crisp explosion after another.
Before the arriving Qin troops could ask what happened, the Tang army's long-range rocket launchers covered them. Countless cluster bombs were scattered in Dongqing City, and the entire city was submerged in a sea of fire in an instant.
(End of this chapter)