In the eyes of the armed personnel who watched the fire burn, their comrade, who was about to turn around with a box of shells, was instantly swallowed by the fire. Accompanied by a shrill scream, he ran forward a few steps and then fell to the ground.
The burning wooden ammunition box on his shoulder fell to the ground, and the wooden cover was smashed off. Under the illumination of the fire, a few slender mortar shells inside fell out of the box. One of them bounced on the ground and rolled to his feet.
Just as the armed men opened their mouths wide and were about to scream in horror, a ball of fire suddenly exploded in front of them. Following the explosion, sticky flames shot out in all directions, followed by several more balls of fire, instantly forming an even larger scale of explosion.
The countless explosions converged into a continuous rumbling sound. With the continuous explosion of fire, small black shadows continued to shoot out from the raging fire, and then the range of the explosion began to expand.
The forest in front of them, the open space around them, and the artillery positions behind them …
The "combustion engine", which used thermite and viscous gasoline as the warhead, could emit a high temperature of 3,000 degrees after it was detonated. In an instant, it burned through the wooden ammunition box and acted on the mortar shells inside.
In less than two seconds, the explosion occurred. The shells that continuously shot out not only razed the artillery positions 20 meters away to the ground, but also affected the armed personnel in the forest. In just ten seconds, nearly 30 people were killed by the explosion and debris.
The originally orderly formation in the forest immediately scattered. More than three hundred armed men ran all over the forest in a short while.
An Jingzhe quietly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the frightened armed personnel fleeing in all directions. In the beginning, when he saw these armed personnel wearing old-fashioned grass-green uniforms and equipped with AKMs, he was worried that they were an organized force.
Now, at most, they were a group of bandits wearing the same uniform and holding the same weapons.
(AKM, an improved version of the AK-47. It was more practical than the AK-47 and more in line with the requirements of modern assault rifles. Later models are still used by the government forces, guerrillas, and terrorist organizations of many countries.)
"Damn!" After the explosion completely subsided, An Jingzhe looked at the scene of devastation on the monitor and couldn't help but mutter.
"Report the situation ~" Qu Sen whispered in An Jingzhe's ear.
"Oh!" An Jingzhe habitually slapped his head. His hand hit the helmet and made a "poof" sound as he shouted, "Radio!"
"Here!" By the time the signaller finished speaking, he had already run to An Jingzhe's side and handed over the walkie-talkie.
"Hu Shan, this is Hound. Please answer if you hear me."
"Hound, please speak!"
"The enemy's reinforcements have arrived. There are about 350 to 400 of them. About four minutes ago, five 82-millimeter mortars were used in an attempt to clear the front of the battlefield with artillery fire.
Our side used drones to launch an attack. The incendiary bomb hit the storage point of the mortar shells, and then the ammunition exploded. The enemy's artillery position has been destroyed by the exploding shells. At the same time, the enemy suffered about 50 casualties (including the mortar operators). "
An Jingzhe was halfway through the report when he tilted his head and glanced at the monitor in Qu Sen's hand. "Now the enemy's armed personnel have begun to regroup. They are about three kilometers away from us."
"Evacuate all the wounded as soon as possible. You have to be flexible and defend. The reinforcements are about 50 kilometers away. If you can't defend, you must destroy all the drugs in the wooden house before you evacuate. "Yue Jianjun's order was immediately issued.
"Yes! Be flexible and defend! "An Jingzhe didn't mention the topic of evacuation at all.
"They're coming!" After An Jingzhe ended the call, Qu Sen looked at the monitor and said.
The local armed forces were not too disorderly. Although their performance during the explosion of the cannonballs was extremely bad, it was still not enough. But during the time when An Jingzhe was reporting, they had finished regrouping and began to approach the wooden house.
An Jingzhe looked at the image sent back by the drone and pressed the call button. "Bao Guohua, take your men and assist the engineer platoon in evacuating the wounded. The rest of you, prepare for battle! "
"The evacuation personnel have been arranged. We still have 17 people left who can join the battle." Bao Guohua's voice sounded.
"Okay!" Faced with a force ten times their own, An Jingzhe didn't dare to be careless and agreed to Bao Guohua and the 17 lightly injured armed police soldiers to stay.
Seeing that the lightly injured soldiers and the engineer platoon soldiers began to evacuate with the heavily injured soldiers, An Jingzhe pressed the call button. "Hong Nan, take people and guard the safe passage for me!"
"Yes!" Hong Nan's firm and short answer sounded in the earpiece.
"Captain, an unknown radio station has made a call on the public channel. It says it wants to speak to the commander of the Chinese troops." The signalman reported.
An Jingzhe took the walkie-talkie and put it to his mouth. "I'm the commander of the Chinese troops. Please identify yourself!"
"My identity is not important. But the goods beside you now originally belonged to me." A man's voice that didn't sound young and was somewhat hoarse sounded from the speaker. He spoke in Chinese and his pronunciation was quite standard.
"You should be very clear about our government's attitude towards drugs and people who are involved in drug production and drug trafficking. And I want to remind you that you and your people have illegally invaded our territory. "An Jingzhe said in a low voice.
"I don't want to fight with you. I just want my goods back. And as far as I know, this is an area with blurred borders. It can't be considered your territory. "
"I can tell you very clearly that in the 1990s, our side reached an agreement with the Vietnamese side. You, your people, and your goods are now in the territory of the Chinese People's Republic.
The goods have already been detained by our side. If you and your people don't immediately leave our territory, there is only one outcome, and that is to be destroyed on the spot! "
"Hahahaha ~" A hoarse and unpleasant laughter sounded from the speaker, and then the laughter suddenly stopped. "Don't talk to me about negotiations and agreements. I don't understand, and I don't want to understand. Even if this is your territory, so what?
I only know that you don't have many people, and it will take at least five or six hours for your reinforcements to arrive. As for me, I have four hundred people right now, and there are even more people coming from behind.
As long as I want to, before your reinforcements arrive, I can easily destroy you. You have to understand that the mortar just now could have hit your head. At most, I would have lost some goods. "
"You can try!" An Jingzhe said coldly, and then directly cut off the call. Then he gave orders in the tactical channel. "Explosives team, open up a new safe passage on the two sides of the front of the wooden house, as well as behind the side as an extended defensive position."
"Yes!" After Wutu and the other soldiers received the order, they immediately carried the mine-clearing rope left by the engineer platoon and jumped out of the wooden house through the back window.
"After the mine-clearing operation, team two will enter the wooden house. Team three will be on the left wing. Bao Guohua will take your people to be in charge of the right wing. Use the newly opened safe passage to spread out the formation and prepare for echelon defense."
"Yes!"
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Even though the previous mortar bombardment had only lasted for about three minutes, it was still not enough. But with the extremely high firing rate, they still opened up a large open area in front of the wooden house.
In addition, during the day, the electric detonator on the right side of the front caused a large area of landmines to explode. Now, there was a relatively safe area in front of the wooden house that was about fifty meters wide and nearly three hundred meters long.
Although there would definitely be landmines that had not been detonated in this area, the density would definitely not be as high as before. And after the fierce bombardment and a large number of landmines, the landmines that had not been detonated were most likely duds.
If the enemy's armed personnel used the dense craters to launch a strong attack. The special forces were gathered in the wooden house, and it would definitely be very difficult to defend. Therefore, An Jingzhe ordered to open up a horizontal safe passage on both sides of the wooden house, as well as behind the side.
On one hand, they could form a firepower net to suppress the enemy's possible attacks. On the other hand, if the enemy had subsequent reinforcements and used long-range firepower to bombard the wooden house without caring about the loss of drugs, the special forces would not be completely wiped out.
"Captain, I should have found the owner of the goods." Qu Sen stared at the monitor screen and said.
"Where?" An Jingzhe immediately moved his head over.
"It's about three and a half kilometers away from us. Just now, the owner of the goods talked to you. Almost everyone is approaching in our direction. Only these five people have been standing there without moving."
As Qu Sen spoke, he adjusted the height and focus of the drone to make the target more conspicuous in the screen.
Because of the cover of the forest, only five incomplete human thermal reaction points could be seen standing there. Just as Qu Sen spoke, a person began to move and jogged to catch up with the large group that was advancing forward.
Qu Sen confirmed the distance again and said, "As long as the remaining four people come forward more than a hundred meters, I can use the high-explosive machine to shoot them down."
"Can the drone get closer?" An Jingzhe looked at the screen that only showed the thermal reaction points.
Qu Sen shook his head. "There's no gunfire cover now. I'm worried that if we get closer, it'll be easy for them to hear the movement and the working sound of the propeller."
"Can we change it to 'Nightingale'?" An Jingzhe really wanted to take a picture of the facial features of the enemy leader.
"The distance is too far now. When they're about two kilometers away, we can give it a try." Qu Sen looked at the direction of the mountain on the electronic map and evaluated his answer.
"Okay, when the time comes, we'll find a way to take a picture of his face. This situation is very important to us. Also … "An Jingzhe hesitated for a moment before continuing," Let's not kill him first, lest the group of shrimp and crab soldiers run away without a leader.
We'll hold them back and wait for the reinforcements to arrive. Then, we'll kill them one by one. It'll also be a good example to other dishonest people and tell them that China's territory is inviolable! "
"Okay!" Qu Sen nodded heavily.
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More than three hundred militants quickly advanced to an area less than one kilometer away from the wooden house. The speed of their advance began to slow down and the formation became more and more scattered.
It was obvious that they were very familiar with the distribution of landmines in the nearby minefield. The team spread out like a fan but did not touch any landmines.
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