Chapter 1538 No Follow-Up Plan

Washington, the White House, the Situation Room.

At a long table, sitting from left to right are the Vice President of the United States, the President of the United States, the Commander of Special Operations and Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, the Presidential Security Advisor, the United States Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the General of the Army, the Presidential Security Advisor, and the Vice President's Security Advisor. , U.S. Counterterrorism Commander, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Director of National Intelligence.

In the hut at the top of most of the United States, there was a large screen showing scenes from Kiev thousands of miles away.

Everyone's face was very serious, there were many people, but there was no sound.

The picture was taken by a helicopter's camera, and the signal sent from Kiev was almost without delay. Looking at the fleeting scenery below the helicopter, everyone was waiting, waiting to repeat the exciting scene three years ago.

The helicopter doors opened, and the upper doors of the four helicopters opened. Eight special operations team members in wingsuits jumped from the aircraft doors, flying like bats in the dark toward a house on the ground.

As the commander-in-chief, the US Special Operations Commander was a little excited. He turned his head and whispered: "Operation Sharp Blade has officially begun."

Everyone just nodded subconsciously, but no one spoke.

When the wingsuit paratroopers were about to reach the ground, a 12.7mm sniper rifle on the helicopter, which was specialized in precision shooting, opened fire, and a cloud of blood erupted from a person exposed to the thermal imager.

Blood blossomed, and eight wing-suited special forces members landed. At the same time, three helicopters began to hover above the building to allow the special forces members to land.

The people in the room were nervous, but they also had strong self-confidence. They had the most powerful troops, the most powerful country, and the most advanced technology on the planet. They had no reason to fail.

All was going well until the SWAT team entered the building.

The first fell, the second fell, the third fell, the fourth fell, the fifth fell, the sixth fell, the seventh fell, the Eight fell.

When the eight people who were the first to swing the sword and were responsible for breaking the goal and establishing the advantage all fell at the front door, everyone's expressions no longer looked serious, but turned into shock.

The army general stood up and blocked the sight of the people behind him very impolitely. He was dumbfounded, his face was red, and he put his hands on the table.

The ninth person who lowered himself to the ground fell, the tenth, the eleventh, and the twelfth. Thirty seconds passed.

"Oh, God!"

"Oh, my God!"

"Shet!"

The President of the United States does not know much about military affairs, but he does not understand military affairs either. What's more, no matter how ignorant he is, he will know what happened when he saw the people falling one after another at the door.

Those who fell are the elite of the elite, one in ten thousand, and the United States cannot afford to lose them. The equipment on these people is precious, but their lives are even more precious. The money to train them is more than ten times as much as the equipment.

The President of the United States lost his voice: "Marshall, do something!"

Marshall Weber, commander of U.S. Special Operations, grabbed the microphone in front of him. When he thought clearly about what to say, another ten seconds passed, and the people who fell at the door and around the building again Ten more.

"Retreat! Retreat! Reorganize the attack!"

Thousands of miles apart,

The call came in a split second, and the special operations team members guarding the house retreated, preparing to concentrate their manpower and reestablish superior firepower before launching an attack.

The personnel retreated, but stepped on a landmine. Looking at the continuous flashes of light on the ground, the army general yelled: "There is a landmine! Stop and don't move!"

Despair and panic quickly overwhelmed everyone in the special situation room. The presidential assistant pointed at the cameraman in the corner and shouted: "Turn it off!"

The photographer had never seen the usually gentle presidential assistant lose his temper and yell in such a panic, but he immediately turned off the machine in his hand.

When they saw that the following special operations team members lived up to the training they had received, they completed a feint attack in a very short period of time, blasted the door open at the other end, and then finally someone rushed into the building, the people in the special situation room seemed to see it again hope.

Two people came out of the building, one rushed out from the front door, and the other climbed out of the window. Then, the ground flashed continuously, and everything fell into silence.

Deathly silence.

"what's the situation!"

The special operations commander wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead and said in a trembling voice: "Unable to contact, the interference is two-way, we also received electromagnetic interference, but judging from the intensity of the counterattack in the building, I am sure that Big Ivan is there Inside, if it weren’t for the guards around him and the most powerful people in Russia, it would be impossible to cause us such heavy casualties.”

The President of the United States had a dark face. Of course, his skin color was already dark. He stood up, clenched his fists tightly, and whispered: "We failed to execute Plan B. We must carry out rescue operations quickly to save our injured people." return."

The special operations commander said with a look of despair: "There is no plan B, no rescue operation, and no follow-up plan. The Army Special Tactics Research Team is performing the mission. The option of failure is not within the scope of consideration at all. If we are based on If the information on which the plan was drawn up is true.”

The president covered his forehead and said with a painful look on his face: "Did you call me here just to let me witness a massacre? God, this picture will torture me for life. They are all the best people, but they are I was killed by your stupid plan, who can give me an explanation?"

The intelligence director coughed lightly and whispered: "Judging from what happened, Big Ivan is inside, which shows that our intelligence is accurate, and the strategy of letting Porovich go to lure Big Ivan out is also correct. Yes, the only mistake occurred in the final execution stage, which is a pity, but I think it is time to pay for the failure of the operation, and we may not be able to catch Big Ivan's tail for a long time."

The army general said with an angry look: "We don't know the result yet! Even if Big Ivan is inside, even if what we see is a failure, so what! You are the one who guarantees that as long as it is done quickly and effectively, A decapitation operation can solve the problem, but the reality is that there is an ambush inside! Where are the landmines buried, whose intelligence is wrong!"

"It was you who asked for the Army Special Operations Team to be dispatched. If it was from the Navy, it might have been a different outcome. I'm sorry, I have no intention of hurting everyone who has already been hurt tonight, but this is the fact."

The Army General blushed and would have pumped his fist if he had not been spoken to by a senior general.

You take the blame and I take the blame. If you succeed, everyone claps and celebrates. If you fail, you quickly find a scapegoat. This is a universal truth, but Westerners are more direct.

A man walked out of the building, and everyone immediately shut up. But when he saw the man starting to shoot every special forces member on the ground with a pistol in the head, the President of the United States turned around, with a look of pain on his face. Said: "That's enough, the action failed, take all measures to deal with the consequences immediately."

"If we still have any available manpower in Kiev, let them go immediately to rescue... and pick up the fallen."

"We have a lot of manpower available in Kiev, but all the people qualified for this level of operations are already gone."

After the director of national intelligence finished speaking slowly, he rubbed his face in pain and said helplessly: "The people who followed this case are all dead. They were supposed to identify Big Ivan and then catch him, but Now, there is no such person, this failed operation ruined everything, and all our previous efforts were in vain."

The President of the United States turned back and looked at the big screen. The man who had just come out of the room gave them a middle finger, and then quickly launched a rocket launcher or missile on his shoulder.

Looking at the person who appeared on the screen, the whole room was silent, and then the army general gritted his teeth and said: "Damn Russians! Damn Russians, these Russian sons of bitches!"

After the helicopter made a quick evasive action, the screen began to vibrate, making people feel dizzy.

"The crew evacuates, evacuates!"

When the special operations commander issued the order, things were completely irreversible, and the failed operation came to a humiliating end.

"Is there no follow-up plan available? No backup on the helicopter?"

"No more. All members of the Army's Special Tactics Research Team sent to Kiev have already gone into battle, and only the crew members are left on the plane."

The President of the United States smashed his fist on the table, then tapped the table with his index finger a few times, and said in a deep voice: "Right here, hold an emergency meeting, lest I need to invite you one by one, sir. Ladies, I repeat, I need an explanation!"

The intelligence director coughed and spoke loudly and quickly: "Big Ivan has gone into hiding. There are too many people willing to provide him with shelter. He seems to appear everywhere, in South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. , he is everywhere, but he always disappears quickly. We lost traces of him, so we took a series of measures to find him. We began to clear his wings. The first one to kill was his person in charge in Europe. Andre, the reason why I chose Andre is because Europe is too important to Ivan the Great. This is his foundation. If Andre is killed, Ivan the Great will have to personally preside over his affairs in Europe, especially Eastern Europe. , he cannot afford to lose Europe."

The army general said with an angry look: "I don't know what you are thinking, and I don't know whether your intelligence is correct. I just want to know that since you are going to deal with a Russian arms dealer, why won't this arms dealer Hide in Russia, we can’t attack him in Russia, as long as he’s not an idiot he should understand this!”

"It's very simple. Ivan the Great has more enemies than friends in Russia, and there are certainly fewer Russians who want to kill him than we do."

After a brief answer, the intelligence director continued: "Our plan was successful. Andrei died, but Big Ivan's activities in Europe did not decrease. He shrank his power, and then used a more capable small team to The power began to react, and our inside line lost its effect, but this also shows that Ivan the Great appeared in Kiev. The reason is that it is absolutely impossible for him to hand over a huge power to just anyone, so since his power in Europe If the system is not in chaos, it can only mean that Ivan the Great came out of the water. Then, Porovich from Asia rushed to Kiev. He met Ivan the Great, and our people followed him, and then there was tonight's action. It's just that It's a pity that the operation failed, which is a tragedy."

If you want to get rid of the blame, you must speak first and throw away all the things that are not good for you. As for the fact that the intelligence itself is wrong and the enemy's strength is insufficiently judged, you can slowly talk about it in the future, but now, At this moment, when everyone is depressed and angry, the blame must be thrown out.

Who is the best person to take the blame?

Of course it is the person responsible for the specific actions.

The special operations commander is commanded by an army general. Whoever likes it can take the blame. If he doesn't like it, just let the two of them talk about it slowly.

"There are obviously a lot of people ambushed here, and they are the most elite enemies in the world. Gentlemen, you have all seen what happened just now. That is the Army's Special Tactics Research Group. One minute, just one minute, who can defeat them?" ?Other than the Russians who are equally elite and must be more numerous? Who else? I think there are at least a hundred people inside, but why is there only a small-scale enemy of more than twenty people in my intelligence?"

The special operations commander, who was also the commander of this operation, responded not to the enemy on the screen, but to the enemy right in front of him. He temporarily regarded the Army general as an ally because of the impeccable strength of the Army's special tactics team. , no one dares to deny their powerful combat power, even if a tragedy just happened.

The Army Special Tactics Research Group can fail, because there is no truly undefeated army in the world. However, the Army Special Tactics Research Group must have been defeated by an ambush and by an enemy whose number exceeded its own several times, so , this must be an error in the intelligence, it must be.

The army general said with a painful look on his face: "This was a premeditated and prepared ambush. What went wrong? I don't want to think about this problem now. What I think about is how to bring home the brothers who died in the battle. Those Russians I won’t have too much respect for the remains of the deceased.”

The Secretary of State coughed lightly and said urgently: "Gentlemen, I think how should we explain this matter to the Kiev side? This failure damages our dignity. I think the news needs to be blocked. In addition, I propose to immediately remove satellites in nearby orbits." Transfer over there and closely monitor everything that happens there.”

"The Ukrainian army should be sent immediately, and our people should be sent there. Now is not the time to consider the confidentiality level!"

This tragic failure made all those who witnessed it feel confused. Although they were originally the most powerful people in the world, listening to the impatient discussions or quarrels among his colleagues, the president covered his head and said loudly: " Stop bickering, now is not the time, and let’s discuss how to inform the Ukrainian authorities about this.”

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[To be continued']. 】