Chapter 24 Black Hawk Down!
Early on Sunday morning, Guo Yuanshuai reminded everyone that it was the ninth shift's turn to patrol today, from 2:00 to 6:00, and that everyone should not run around in the afternoon, lest they get lost when the patrol arrives.
After breakfast, Kai Youmu pulled Xu Ge and Li Dongshui to play poker with the old deputy class teacher.
The reason for this is that Guo Yuanshuai said that the squad leader for next week must be decided before 2 p.m., so Kai Youmu needs to hurry up and practice his card skills.
The old classmate has always liked playing cards, so he naturally accepted it with pleasure.
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui were extremely reluctant and hesitated to sit at the table.
"I haven't called home yet. Today is my mother's birthday," said Li Dongshui.
Kaiyoumu raised his eyebrows: "I remember your mother just had her birthday last week!"
"That's my dad's birthday..."
"Let's talk after we finish playing cards!" Kai Youmu clenched his fists and looked at Xu Ge again, "What about you? What's wrong?"
Xu Ge: "I want to go to the military dog squad."
"You just went there yesterday! You're not allowed to go! Everyone, come over here and play cards!"
Kaiyoumu's tone changed and he said pitifully,
"I've been the squad leader for almost a month straight, and I can't compete with those four guys in other events. Could you please consider our comradeship and let me rest for a week?"
Guo Yuanshuai sat there shuffling cards with a cigarette in his mouth, not saying a word.
Seeing that Kai Youmu started to play the victim, Xu Ge and Li Dongshui reluctantly went to the table.
"Squad leader, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you can't beat them at cards!" Li Dongshui sighed, "If it were me, I'd just accept my fate and stop struggling."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I almost won last week!"
"Draw cards, draw cards!"
The four of them started playing poker. The other four veterans were too lazy to go out because it was snowing outside, so they stayed in the classroom playing games on their mobile phones.
After playing for over an hour, Kaiyoumu became unhappy: "What's wrong with you two? Are you deliberately letting me win?"
"Squad leader, your level is really amazing!" Li Dongshui said perfunctorily.
Kaiyoumu: "There's no fun in you two fighting like this!"
"It's boring, let's raise the stakes a bit."
Guo Yuanshuai suddenly said, "The afternoon patrol is four hours long, and the round trip is about 20 kilometers. So, if you two lose the next round, you'll be responsible for carrying the machine gun and the radio!"
Li Dongshui widened his eyes in shock.
Xu Ge's expression also changed: "Deputy Class Leader, there's no need to make such a big deal, right?"
"You two can't get serious unless you play big. Stop talking nonsense and draw cards!" Guo Yuanshuai sneered.
The four veterans who were playing games nearby also became interested when they heard this and gathered around to watch.
Li Dongshui looked at Xu Ge: "We can't lose. That radio and machine gun are very heavy!"
Xu Ge nodded: "Yes, fight seriously!"
The atmosphere at the poker table suddenly became tense.
After everyone played a few hands, when it was Xu Ge's turn, he suddenly shouted, "Plane!"
Guo Yuanshuai slammed the table and said, "Do you really think this is a Landlord game? No airplanes allowed. Even three with one and three with two is not allowed!"
"No, I mean there's a plane flying overhead!" Xu Ge pointed upwards, "Didn't you hear it?"
Everyone immediately fell silent, and after listening for a while no one could hear anything.
"You idiot, are you trying to distract me so you can peek at the cards?" Guo Yuanshuai said angrily, "This area of ours is a no-fly zone. There can't be any planes!"
"It's really the squad leader. There really is a plane flying above, getting lower and lower!" Xu Ge pointed at the rear window. "You should be able to see it from there now!"
"Huh? There seems to be some movement."
Su Liujun exclaimed, walked to the window and looked up, "Wow, there really is a helicopter up there."
Guo Yuanshuai was stunned, put down his cards and stood up. The others also came to the window and looked out.
Xu Ge looked up and saw a black helicopter hovering over the camp, rising and falling or turning from time to time.
Niu San looked at it for a while and said doubtfully, "That's not right. Why doesn't this look like our model?"
"It's an S-70 Black Hawk helicopter." Guo Yuanshuai said suddenly.
"Huh? Black Hawk?"
"Which Black Hawk? The one from the Eagle Country War movie?"
"Damn, you're not going to say it, it really looks like one!"
Everyone was shocked. Xu Ge subconsciously asked, "Deputy Squad Leader, how did this foreign helicopter get to our place?"
"This isn't a foreign military aircraft. Our military bought this over 50 years ago. We bought over 20 of them because we valued the helicopter's excellent plateau performance."
Guo Yuanshuai explained, "But all of our military's Black Hawks were eliminated more than a decade ago!"
"So what's the situation with this one now?" Niu Sanxian asked, pointing above.
Guo Yuanshuai looked up and thought for a moment. "Since it can fly here, it means it has the authorization from our brigade. Otherwise, it would have been shot down by the anti-aircraft artillery battalion long ago. Judging from its posture, it should be conducting flight tests."
"Test? Test what?"
“Test performance.”
Now everyone is even more confused.
Guo Yuanshuai seemed to have thought of something and waved his hand: "Alright, stop looking. It has nothing to do with us. Let's continue playing cards."
Xu Ge turned around and saw Kai Youmu peeking at his cards. He immediately shouted, "Fuck! This one doesn't count!"
Li Dongshui was stunned: "Ah? It doesn't count? I named four kings!"
Xu Ge: ...
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At 1:30 p.m., after everyone in Class 9 had dressed neatly, they went downstairs to collect their weapons.
Considering that it was a foot patrol, Guo Yuanshuai did not let everyone wear military coats, but instead added an extra layer of fleece inside. After all, they also had to wear bulletproof vests and tactical vests, and wearing coats would be too bulky and affect their movements.
When receiving the bullets, Xu Ge noticed the difference between patrolling and standing guard. Each person actually had two magazines of live ammunition.
In addition, Squad 9 also has a Type 201 general-purpose light machine gun, which is from the same series as Wang Lin’s high-precision sniper and is also equipped with two drum magazines.
And a backpack radio that can communicate remotely.
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui lost the card game in the morning. The light machine gun was handed over to Xu Ge, and Li Dongshui carried the radio on his back.
Kai Youmu, the original machine gunner, carried Xu Ge and Li Dongshui's guns and said with a smile, "You've lost the bet. Don't worry, I'll carry them for the rest of the journey."
"Each person will receive two more grenades. Old squad leader, you will also bring a grenade launcher with two smoke bombs and four grenades."
Company Commander Liu Guoping walked in and said, "This is the equipment requirement for combat readiness!"
Guo Yuanshuai nodded: "I have no objection, then take them all!"
After everyone has put on all their belongings, go downstairs and head towards the door.
The snow had just stopped, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, so white that it was dazzling.
Xu Ge suddenly stopped halfway and shouted to the front: "Watch out, there's a car coming!"
Guo Yuanshuai, who had just walked out of the door, paused for a moment and looked around curiously: "Where is the car..."
Boom boom boom!!!
The ground suddenly began to shake, and even the newly fallen snow was shaken and scattered.
Under everyone's shocked gaze, a convoy of fully armed armored vehicles rushed past the gate of the Sixth Company, stirring up a cloud of snow.
"Oh shit! It's our regiment's heavy armored battalion!"
"Look, those all-terrain mountain buggies behind are from the same company!"
"It's the battalion commander. I saw our battalion commander in the last car!" Xu Ge suddenly said.
The last few troop carriers were filled with soldiers armed with live ammunition, and there were a few familiar faces among them.
Guo Yuanshuai looked at Liu Guoping, who had rushed to the door after hearing the noise, and asked, "Why did the battalion commander take the fourth and fifth companies out? What's going on? Where's our sixth company?"
"They received orders from their superiors to go to the border and participate in the armed standoff!" Liu Guoping explained. "Each battalion must leave one company behind for maneuver."
"Armed confrontation? There's even a machine gun mounted on the vehicle in front. It's such a big show, it seems they want to lure all the troops from the Tiandu border defense!" Guo Yuanshuai said in a deep voice.
Liu Guoping nodded: "I guess so. It seems that the people from the brother unit who went out on a mission are coming back!"
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As usual, the military vehicle stopped at the foot of the mountain. Everyone in the ninth squad got off the vehicle. After a brief tidying up, Guo Yuanshuai called the company duty room, and the border patrol officially began.
Everyone walked in a column along the foot of the mountain in the snow, Niu Sanxian and Kai Youmu in the front, Wang Lin at the end, moving north at a constant speed.
Xu Ge observed his surroundings as he walked. At this time, everyone was in a narrow valley. On the right was the snow-capped mountain where our side stood guard at night, and on the other side of the cliff on the left was the area controlled by Tiandu.
The smell here is rare and simple. Apart from the smell of everyone's bodies, the air is filled with the smell of cold and dampness.
Earlier on the road, everyone curiously asked Battalion Commander Guo Yuanshuai what the meaning of their armed confrontation at the border was. Guo Yuanshuai's answer was that the people from Hidden Wolf and Heavenly Wolf were probably going to withdraw. In order to be on the safe side, they needed to lure the enemy's border defense forces out of a gap here.
The group took a break every half hour and soon walked out of the valley, where the view became wider.
Guo Yuanshuai pointed to a rocky stretch of Gobi Desert ahead and said, "That area ahead was a disputed area two years ago, but after a few battles with those bastards from Tiandu, it's now ours!"
"Awesome!" Xu Ge praised while panting.
I have to say that although the light machine gun has the word "light" in its name, it is actually incredibly heavy.
The radio on Li Dongshui's back was not light. When he heard that they had to rest on the spot, he immediately sat down on a rock and gasped for breath.
"Deputy Squad Leader, isn't everything computerized now? With drones flying everywhere, why do we still need human patrols? Wouldn't it be enough to just send a few drones?"
"Do you think drones are omnipotent?" Guo Yuanshuai pointed at the towering snow-capped mountains overhead, "Do you think a drone can fly over this terrain?
Putting aside the signal issue, the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature. How long do you think a drone battery can last here? There are places where even helicopters can't get through!"
Li Dongshui was speechless after being confronted.
Niu Sanxian was holding the walkie-talkie and whispering something.
Others may not be able to hear it, but Xu Ge can hear it clearly.
"Hey, Cuckoo Cuckoo Bro, are you there?"
"We're on patrol. I'll wave to you when we get to the front. Remember to look at me through the binoculars!"
"Niu Sanxian, what are you doing there? Chatting with the sentry from Zhan Niangshe again, right? Don't let the battery of your walkie-talkie run out." Guo Yuanshuai reminded.
"Deputy, didn't we bring a radio..."
"I'll smash you to death!" Guo Yuanshuai picked up a stone and threw it. "Get in line, and keep going!"
"yes!"
At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone arrived at the end of the patrol route more than ten kilometers away, a ridgeline covered with ore and snow.
Niu San first ran to a big rock and waved at a high and steep snow-capped mountain about six or seven kilometers away. After shouting a few words into the walkie-talkie, he started jumping around again.
"Damn it, you're not afraid of altitude sickness!" Guo Yuanshuai cursed, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.
Kai Youmu came over and took the light machine gun from Xu Ge's back. Guo Yuanshuai signaled Li Dongshui to take down the radio as well, and Niu San would carry it first.
After resting there for fifteen minutes, Guo Yuanshuai tried to call the company duty room twice with the intercom, but after finding the signal intermittent, he was too lazy to call again and waved his hand: "Get down the mountain!"
The group began to return along the same route.
After walking only a few dozen meters, Xu Ge suddenly stopped. He heard an unusual noise coming from the air ahead.
"What's wrong?" Guo Yuanshuai, who was walking beside him, asked immediately.
"Deputy squad leader, I hear a plane coming!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone subconsciously dispersed their formation and quickly squatted in the snow, holding their guns.
This is the border, and hearing the sound of airplanes is not a good thing.
"Where is it? Are you sure you heard it right?" Guo Yuanshuai looked around and asked.
Xu Ge pointed to the southeast: "You heard right, it's over there."
Guo Yuanshuai was stunned: "That's our direction. Are you saying our own plane is coming?"
This is a military restricted area and civilian aircraft cannot enter without permission.
"It's coming, it's coming, it's really coming!"
Li Dongshui pointed his finger, and everyone immediately saw a black helicopter turning out from behind a snowy mountain and heading straight for the Tiandu territory opposite.
"Holy shit! It's that Black Hawk again!" Niu Sanxian was shocked. "What the hell is it trying to do? Is this guy even from our army? Why the hell is he flying around like that?"
This area is already a sensitive one, and if a helicopter suddenly crosses the border, the consequences can be imagined.
Guo Yuanshuai frowned as he watched the helicopter fly over everyone's heads and cross the border. He immediately shouted, "Niu Sanxian, contact the duty room immediately using the radio!"
"yes!"
"Oh shit! It exploded!" Wang Lin suddenly exclaimed and raised his head from the sniper scope.
Everyone looked over quickly and saw that the Black Hawk had black smoke coming out of its tail as it crashed into the other side of the snow-capped mountain and then disappeared.
"Wang Lin, what happened? Did you hit the rocks on the top of the mountain?" Guo Yuanshuai asked hurriedly.
Wang Lin shook his head: "I don't know, I didn't pay attention!"
"Who else saw it clearly?"
"I see it clearly!"
Swish, swish, swish, everyone looked at Xu Ge.
"What did you see? What happened just now?" Guo Yuanshuai asked immediately.
"I saw that the plane was shot down by a missile from the opposite side!"
Xu Ge said in a deep voice, "Besides, someone just parachuted out of the plane!"
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