Chapter 45 MiG Falls
The morning sun had just revealed a glimmer of light from the distant mountains, and a car with the Soviet flag slowly left the embassy and headed for the Pagman Mountains. The plan of the Soviets to capture Hafizollah also started.
Only one battalion of Lebed participated in this operation. The frontline commander was Lebed, and the commander-in-chief of the operation was Grachev. As combatants, Seryozha and the others had to wait for the personnel of the Soviet embassy to mark Hafizola's location for them. So far, the Paghman forces have not specified where they will meet. After the personnel of the Soviet embassy arrive in the Pagman area, the local armed personnel will take over their next itinerary, so the only thing everyone can do now is to wait.
After passing through most of the city of Kabul, the car of the Soviet embassy finally drove into the Paghman area, and armed men immediately blocked their way. The two embassy staff involved in the negotiations were politely invited to another car and continued to the destination. At this moment, Lebed also received the order to start. A total of more than 150 fighters participated in this operation, including Seryozha and his brother whom Grachev had nominated to go.
Seryozha watched his men get into the plane one by one, and he was the last to go in. Seryozha, who got into the plane, was obviously a little out of his mind, not because he was worried about the danger of this mission now, but because he just had a big fight with Eva yesterday. The reason for the quarrel was very simple, that is, Eva wanted Seryozha to give up this task and go shopping with her the next day, but Seryozha disagreed, so the two had a big fight. Seryozha has never figured out why Eva, who has always been considerate, suddenly became so unreasonable.
"Hey, Seryozha, would you like one?" Mikhail asked Seryozha, taking out a cigarette.
Seryozha took the cigarette and put it in his mouth. Mikhail took out the lighter and lit the cigarette for Seryozha. Seryozha took a deep breath and spit it out, feeling a lot better in his heart.
"Sometimes I really don't understand what women are thinking?" Seryozha complained to Mikhail.
"Ah! Sweet distress! Ever since I came to this ghostly place, I have forgotten what a woman looks like!" Mikhail said to Seryozha with some envy.
"Attention all! Attention all! The target has appeared, and the meeting place is in a small two-story building in the old city of Pagman." With Lebed's voice coming from the earphones, Seryozha and Mikhai Er stopped the conversation just now.
The car carrying the two staff members of the Soviet embassy finally stopped. They were led out of the car, and someone removed the black cloth covers from their heads. The eyes of the two who had been in the dark all the time felt a little uncomfortable.
Before they had time to observe the surrounding environment, the two were brought into the house. This is a two-story building with a patio. There is a table and a few chairs in the middle of the patio. The two were arranged to sit on the chairs. After a while, a thin middle-aged man came out of the room, and the two looked at that guy in unison.
"Haffizola!"
That's right, he finally showed up. Having identified the target, one of them pressed a button on the watch, a covert signaling device that signaled Hafizola's presence directly to Grachev.
Grachev gave an order, and the helicopter that had already been waiting in the air quickly rushed to the negotiation site. In less than ten minutes, Hafizollah heard the roar of the helicopter overhead. He smiled contemptuously at the two Russian diplomats, and then said: "I knew that the Russians have always been unreliable!"
The two Russian diplomats also looked at Hafizola contemptuously, as if he was already a prisoner at the moment. They don't understand where Hafizola's confidence comes from. The Red Army's troops are about to arrive, shouldn't they be captured without a fight? It's a pity that before the two of them could answer Hafizollah's words, the guerrilla soldiers behind them had already stabbed their backs with long knives.
The severe pain in the back made the two of them can only make a sound of "heh~~heh", and the two of them fell to the ground as if their bones had been pulled out.
Hafizollah was not at all interested in the painful struggle of the two of them. He explained a few words to his subordinates and then turned and went back to the house. Several guerrillas tied the bodies of two Soviet diplomats with ropes and hung them high on the patio.
The paratroopers descended to the ground one by one, and Seryozha quickly led his men to set up a simple line of defense at the crossroads to prevent enemies from the other three directions from obstructing the operation. Several other intersections were also heavily guarded. Lebed took the rest of the staff and smashed open the gate of the courtyard, and rushed up aggressively, but the scene inside was beyond Lebed's imagination.
At this time, the house was empty, and the two poor Soviet diplomats were hanging in the courtyard like fish that had been disemboweled. The corpses were spinning back and forth with the change of the center of gravity, and the blood was falling drop by drop. On the ground, the small courtyard has been dyed red.
"Commander, there's no one here!"
"Battalion Commander, a tunnel was found in the room!"
As the soldiers reported back one after another, Lebed already knew that he had been fooled, and the top priority now was to leave here as soon as possible. At this moment, a huge explosion sounded through the sky. Then there was another loud explosion. A panicked voice came from Lebed's earphones
"Report Commander! A MiG was shot down, repeat, a MiG was shot down!"
"Report to the commander! A large number of assemblers are found in the distance, and they are rushing towards you with weapons!"
"Boom~~~! Boom~~~!"
"Another MiG has been shot down. Repeat again. Another MiG has been shot down. What the enemy is holding is not an RPG, but a heat-seeking missile. All planes quickly pull up, quickly!"
Lebed knew he had been tricked, but he didn't understand how the guerrillas could have heat-seeking missiles. After a moment of silence, Lebed finally issued his order after deliberation: "All ground armed personnel move closer to me, hide in the building, pay attention to saving ammunition, save ammunition!"
Seryozha, who was guarding the intersection, saw the battlers rushing from three directions. At this moment, not only Seryozha, but everyone was frightened by this scene. Seryozha never dreamed that there would be so many the victor. At this moment, everyone didn't need Lebed's order, and they already started to retreat involuntarily. Everyone moved closer to the two-story building.
Just when Seryozha was about to run into the building, "Boom~~!" The air waves generated by the huge explosion pushed Seryozha directly out of the door, and when Seryozha stood up, he looked at the building again. when this building. All that was left was a ruined wall.