Chapter 613 Hunting with Patience
The special thing about setting up the battle site in the mountains is that, without receiving fatal damage, the defenders can take advantage of the easy defense and difficult attack, and can evacuate quickly when necessary.
The disadvantage is that once the damage caused by the attack exceeds a certain threshold, the defenders can only rely on rescue to evacuate safely.
The current situation is quite clear. After the Dongfeng Corps broke through the blockade set up in advance by Davis and CIASAD, successfully transported weapons to the mountain, and completed the first round of raids, Davis's counterattack force has completely collapsed.
However, Chen Chen will not regard this as the end of the battle.
On the contrary, this is the beginning of a truly evenly matched battle.
Blowing up the hotel does not mean that the target has been cleared. Even if the high-strength building with concrete structure collapses, it will leave a lot of living space. The survival rate of those who are fixed inside can reach at least 50%.
They still have strength. As long as they wait for rescue to arrive, they can successfully evacuate in a slightly embarrassing situation.
Chen Chen is waiting for their rescue and their chance to evacuate.
Only in this way can he accurately identify the target and completely destroy it.
In fact, at the beginning, he still had the opportunity to kill Davis directly by assassination.
For example, knowing that CIASAD had set up a large number of secret sentries for inspection, he disassembled a large-caliber XM109 and took it up the mountain, and then found a place to reassemble it.
But the problem is that once this plan is chosen, it means that you must give up all your counterattack capabilities. In case of mission failure, you can only survive the most difficult weapon vacuum period with bare hands without timely weapon replenishment from drones.
So in the end, he chose to deal with this problem in a two-stage way.
First launch a large-scale heavy firepower suppression attack, and after destroying most of the opponent's forces, give up the more difficult and more dangerous CQB operation, and retreat directly to the snow mountain to continue waiting for the second attack opportunity.
Such tactics have a unified name, called harassment and annihilation of the enemy.
In fact, its source is the hunting activities of those truly professional hunters.
With limited equipment, you can't pin your hopes on "one shot to kill". As long as the first shot hits the prey and makes it bleed, the next thing to do is quite simple.
Avoid the prey's desperate counterattack, retreat to a safe position, wait for the prey's physical strength and life to start to drain, and then slowly kill it.
After abandoning all the equipment, the Dongfeng Corps' action speed immediately increased a lot.
After simply bandaging the wounded, the whole team once again disappeared into the mountains, and they opened up the gap with the enemy in less than 3 minutes.
Three minutes after evacuating the hotel camp, the enemies who were originally trapped in the hotel also launched a pursuit at the same time.
The reason why they chose to retreat and defend was that they believed that the Dongfeng Corps would definitely fight CQB with them, and in this field, no one could beat them.
To their complete surprise, the Dongfeng Corps did go in, but came out within two minutes after entering, leaving only a few bad things that would explode.
The targeted blasting completely disrupted their defense plan, and they had to risk leaving the building bunker and return to the open ground to fight.
Their quick reaction almost delayed the unarmed evacuation of the Dongfeng Corps, and the CIASAD, which had already torn off its disguise and rushed to support, completed the encirclement of the Dongfeng Corps.
Fortunately, the number of CIA action team members deployed here was limited, and they failed to capture any Dongfeng Corps members in time.
When Davis finally climbed out of the half-collapsed ruins and saw the CIA leader in charge of the on-site control mission, he cursed.
"FUCK! I told you to be careful about their equipment delivery channels!"
"You have been guarding here for so long, and they even brought up mortars and anti-aircraft missiles?!"
"What are you doing? I just want to ask you, did Andrea die because of your negligence?"
His words were quite sharp, and even though the CIA leader on the opposite side was not responsible for operations in the Middle East, he frowned after hearing his responsibilities.
While directing his team members to disperse and search for cover, he said to Davis with a hint of sarcasm:
"No matter how negligent we are, we are not as good as you. An elite DEVGRU special forces was almost wiped out by them."
"Have you completed your mission? As far as I know, you don't seem to be here to ambush the Dongfeng Corps on the opposite side, right?"
The CIA leader looked past Davis and looked behind him. In that direction, Davis' former colleagues and his men had regained a favorable combat position and formed a three-way confrontation with DEVGRU and CIA.
Davis took a deep breath and continued:
"You don't need to change the subject here. In fact, you know very well what is going on."
"At this time, internal strife is meaningless."
"They are still outside. They still have the ability to continue attacking. We must kill them first and then deal with our own problems."
"Don't touch them. They are the most direct support we can get at present."
"If we take action at this point in time, that will be the situation that the Dongfeng Corps wants to see most!"
Davis' voice was slightly lowered, and the CIA leader looked at the people behind him with complicated eyes, then took a deep breath and continued to say to Davis:
"You know, the mission must be completed."
"I have my own plan."
Davis answered without question, and then immediately turned to Robin and said:
"Robin, now is the time to use your connections."
"Arrange support as soon as possible to withstand the next wave of attacks."
"Georgia's support is not that fast, we"
"It's not that fast, it's almost impossible for them to come."
The CIA leader interrupted Davis again, and then said:
"Before they launched the attack, one of their demolition teams at the foot of the mountain blew up the SSSG's base."
"Now the streets are full of corpses and broken limbs."
"Next, even if the Georgian military intervenes, the focus will be on maintaining law and order in Mestia, and it is impossible to spare energy to help us."
"What are you kidding? Is it that serious?!"
Davis was stunned.
He did see the explosion at the foot of the mountain, but he always thought that the explosion was just a "harassment" action against equipment, that is, it was just loud and should not cause too many casualties.
But obviously, he was wrong.
"What explosives did the other party use? Why is it so serious?"
Davis continued to ask.
"Very primitive ANFO combined with a large amount of TNT, which exploded the effect of a thermobaric bomb."
"In short, this is a complete terrorist attack on official institutions. They are probably crazy."
"They are willing to do anything to take your life."
"You'd better hide well. Maybe there is a gun pointing at your head now."
Davis subconsciously shrank his head and turned his eyes to the higher snow-capped mountains.
There were no footprints on the mountain after the avalanche.
He didn't know where the enemy was, but he knew that he had been dragged into a dead end by the enemy.
From now on, this snowy mountain is their final battlefield.
No one can leave here before the victory is completely decided.
Under the heavy snow, Chen Chen gently moved his fingers to keep the blood flowing.
After evacuating, he had been hiding in this snow nest for 20 minutes, and in just 20 minutes, his body began to stiffen and was about to reach the edge of hypothermia.
Fortunately, the reconnaissance force dispersed by CIASAD quickly withdrew after the first round of search failed, which gave him the opportunity to move.
Carefully crawling out of the snow, Chen Chen hid behind a large rock about 600 meters away from the hotel, using a narrow gap to cover and carefully observing the situation outside the hotel.
As he expected, the support from Georgia did not arrive in time, and the isolated and helpless, supposedly opposing parties, unexpectedly joined together magically.
Their actions were quite professional and their cooperation was quite tacit - after all, the people on both sides were really taught by the same master.
If a surprise attack is launched now, there is almost no chance of winning - even if there are still six people among the 11 who have relatively sufficient ammunition, but with the close cooperation of nearly 20 people on the other side, these six guns are completely not enough.
We can only wait until the drone organizes the next round of airdrops, and then launch a decisive attack.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen exhaled lightly, then he turned on the radio and asked Shi Dakai, who was in charge of unified command at the foot of the mountain:
"Dakai, what is the situation now?"
"The enemy is assembling and may come down the mountain in a short time."
"When will the third batch of delivery arrive?"
"The situation in Mestia is very chaotic now."
Shi Dakai's voice was a little hoarse, but frighteningly calm.
"I just blew up the SSSG base. The TNT mixed with ANFO was too powerful."
"All police officers have been dispatched and are looking for suspicious persons."
"We just dealt with it, and the first hiding place has been exposed."
"There may be a direct conflict next. I will arrange for pilots to launch drones before the conflict begins."
"But this is the last airdrop. We can't continue to provide support. We must evacuate."
"Understood."
Chen Chen nodded subconsciously, and then ordered:
"Evacuate immediately after completing the next round of delivery."
"How many drones are available?"
"8, all in safe house No. 2."
"Enough."
Chen Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the specific action has deviated from the plan, fortunately, the plan has a high tolerance rate. Even in such an extreme situation, the team still has a chance to continue fighting.
After a short pause, he continued:
"You evacuate to the Russian side according to the original plan, and someone will pick you up there."
"After completing the connection, find a way to turn around and pick us up."
"Whether the mission is completed or not, we can't go down the mountain from the original route, we must go over the Ushba Mountain and move north."
"If there is no support, we may not reach the border."
"Understood, the drone will take off in 10 minutes and bypass the front and airdrop from the north."
"I will lead the team to pick you up in 40 minutes. You only have 40 minutes. Whether the target is cleared or not, you must evacuate immediately."
"Understood."
Chen Chen replied briefly, then raised the telescope again.
At this time, the enemy's defense line outside the hotel had been fully formed. The key figures retreated into the bunkers that had been confirmed to be safe, and the remaining personnel began to search and advance in the direction of the Dongfeng Corps' withdrawal in groups of three.
They did not intend to withdraw.
Chen Chen frowned, then turned on the radio and ordered:
"Everyone confirm the hidden position, the enemy reconnaissance team is searching."
"Avoid conflict as much as possible and wait for the drone airdrop."
"Understood."
"Received."
The radio came back intermittently, and at this time, the enemy team closest to Chen Chen had already discovered the traces he left on the snow.
With a distance of less than 400 meters, the three-person team immediately became alert.
Chen Chen watched them call for support from other teams, and then the other two teams began to converge towards the center.
Their actions were quite professional. From the time they found the traces, they never put down their guns.
The three members of the team pointed to three different directions. After the other two teams joined, they continued to search forward with a control angle of about 30 degrees per person.
Each bunker was used in the most reasonable way. If they were attacked, they could immediately gather several fire output points to form a rapid counterattack.
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, Chen Chen's heartbeat began to accelerate gradually.
He still had half a drum of ammunition in his hand, less than 40 bullets.
This was the result of the rapid redistribution of ammunition during the evacuation process. If he had not taken the drum of ammunition from other team members, he might even be unarmed now.
There was no protective equipment on his body, and there were not enough bullets in his gun, let alone throwing objects.
Once the opponent approached, his counterattack ability was quite limited.
At this time, continuing to evacuate backwards seemed to be the best choice.
But the problem was that once Chen Chen gave up his current position, he would have given up the position to launch a subsequent attack.
He planned to take a gamble.
Bet that the opponent's search and advance speed could not keep up with the speed of the drone airdrop.
Since Shi Dakai said ten minutes, it would be ten minutes.
At this time, the enemy reconnaissance team was less than 200 meters away from Chen Chen. Chen Chen set up his gun and switched to single-shot mode. He had already made plans in his mind.
If the airdrop fails, these 30 bullets will take away all 9 enemies.
Accept fate? Die together?
Not possible.
Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, Chen Chen must survive.
At a distance of 150 meters, the crosshairs in Chen Chen's sights have locked the head of an enemy.
As long as he pulls the trigger, he can immediately harvest the first life.
But the time is not up yet.
Chen Chen patiently half-pressed the trigger, and his originally stiff hands became flexible again because of the effect of adrenaline.
100 meters.
This is the final decision distance.
At this time, from behind Chen Chen, a dense buzzing sound suddenly sounded from far to near.
Then, a package that was not considered "huge" fell from the sky and landed on the snow with a bang.
Airdrop, here it comes!
Chen Chen turned over and pounced on the still-rolling package, while the drone flew past his scalp and pounced on the enemy 100 meters away.
Chen Chen unfastened the quick release with one hand, and at the same time, he fired the MG36 in his right hand against his shoulder.
Continuous gunshots rang out, and the two enemies facing Chen Chen fell down!
In just less than an hour of respite, the battle started again!