Chapter 14 Abandoned Son

Sergey and Battalion Commander Vasily, who were frantically fleeing for their lives in the hail of bullets, have been suppressed by the enemy's artillery fire at this moment. On the bumpy pickup, Battalion Commander Vasily, who has accurate shooting skills, has been unable to aim. Chang and Sergei shot based entirely on feeling.

What should have been a one-rocket solution turned into an endless chase as Hafizola Qasim Wardak demanded to capture the Soviets alive. Yakov, who has excellent driving skills, is doing his best to get out of the current desperate situation.

Sergey, who was suppressed by the firepower of the guerrillas, lying on the car and unable to lift his head, suddenly felt the sound of propellers ringing in his ears. Seryozha carefully adjusted his posture in the car to prevent being shot by stray bullets. He was lying on his back on the truck, his eyes looking in the direction of the back, and a Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter was flying towards them quickly. Sergey and Vasily were refreshed. Not only Sergey and Vasily, Yakov, who had been observing the enemy behind him through the rearview mirror, also saw the plane, and he immediately told the good news to Everyone in the car felt saved.

The planes in the sky are flying closer and closer, and the pilots always pay attention to the altitude of the flight to prevent the enemy from rocket attacks. The plane soon came to Sergey and the others, and the crew shouted to Sergey and the others through the loudspeaker: "The armed personnel below, show your identities."

Listening to the friendly Russian language, Seryozha felt infinitely comforted. He tried his best to shout loudly to the plane, but unfortunately the sound was all blown away by the propeller. It was Battalion Commander Vasily who had experience. He threw away the Afghan robe on his body, tore open the sea soul shirt inside, hung it on the AK-74 in his hand, and held it high. Needless to say, nothing can explain the problem better than the sea soul shirt.

The tradition of the Soviet airborne troops wearing sea soul shirts originated from the former commander of the airborne troops, General Margelov. General Margelov was a naval officer in the early days of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War and served as the head of the first regiment of the Soviet Marine Corps. In the defense of Leningrad, Margelov led the Marine Corps of the Baltic Fleet and fought fiercely with the German invaders. During the battle, the marines wore sea soul shirts and bravely and tenaciously fought hand-to-hand with the enemy. The sea soul shirts have since become a symbol of bravery on the battlefield. After the Great Patriotic War, Margelov was transferred to the Airborne Forces, and later became the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces. But he has kept a bullet-riddled sea soul shirt to commemorate the marines who died in the Great Patriotic War.

The sea soul shirt hanging on the AK-74 fluttered in the wind, and the Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter immediately turned around, aiming its guns at the enemies behind Battalion Commander Vasily and Seryozha, taking on the task of blocking the enemy. The pilot of the helicopter began to lower the altitude, risking being hit by the rocket. The crew members on the plane poured the bullets from the machine gun on the plane on the enemy, and at the same time slowly lowered the rescue rope ladder from the plane.

The driver of the Mi-8 multipurpose helicopter has to ensure the simultaneous movement of the aircraft and the truck at this moment, and also worry about the enemy's rockets. Sure enough, as soon as the chasing guerrillas saw the rope ladder lowered from the plane, they immediately fired two rockets through the RPG-7, and the helicopter pilot, who was always vigilant, quickly raised the plane. Seryozha almost caught hold of the hanging rope ladder. The rocket flew over the top of the truck and landed just on the road ahead. The explosion blocked Yakov's way, and he had to drive the car onto a side road that went uphill.

Seryozha was very annoyed that he was almost saved just now. He stared at the rope ladder hanging from the plane, ready to jump on it again. While Seryozha was still anxiously waiting for the plane to land again, the Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter code-named Firebird-2 received the latest order from the Falcon.

"Tell us to return to the flight immediately? But what about the comrades below,

He is our comrade! "The helicopter pilot questioned the order of his superiors in the microphone.

"There is no other way. This is our only hope to break through. In the worst case, we may face double the number of enemies!" Grachev explained to the pilot in shame.

"Commander, let me try again, even if I save one, how can I just throw our comrades to the enemy?" The pilot asked Grachev to try again with tears in his eyes. His faith and conscience do not allow him to abandon his comrades in arms.

"I can understand your feelings, but there are more than 160 comrades waiting for you here. If you don't fly back now, I won't be sure to take them home? Can you understand?" Grachev said on the phone Zhong said emotionally.

"But!"

"Nothing! There is only one chance to break through. If you don't come back, we will all die here." Grachev said with a heavy tone during the call. Under Grachev's repeated orders, the pilot finally chose to obey the order. He flew the plane over Sergesha, and said to Sergesha and Vasily through the loudspeaker: "I'm sorry! We have received a new order and can no longer rescue you!"

The voice from the loudspeaker was full of shame and helplessness. At first, Seryozha thought he had heard it wrong, but as the plane gradually rose, and the rope ladder was slowly retracted. Seryozha was completely angry. They were abandoned and thrown to the enemy by their comrades. Also angry were Vasily and everyone in the cabin. Seryozha roared to the sky in despair: "Bastards, you bastards flying in the sky, you are murder! Murder!"

The returning helicopter frantically strafed the vehicles of the guerrillas below it, as if making up for its own sins, Sergesha was completely desperate. What lies ahead for Seryozha? Captured? or death?

Looking at the densely packed enemies behind the car, Vasily grabbed the M2HB heavy machine gun on the car again, and said to Sergei Sha, "I didn't expect to die here today, I~~" Yakov, who was blasting the accelerator, stepped on the brakes, and the huge inertia caused Battalion Commander Vasily and Sergei to fall to the ground unprepared. The car left long brake marks on the ground.

When Seryozha finally stood up and wanted to ask Yakov what was going on, everything in front of him made him understand why Yakov did this. There is no road ahead, only a canyon that cannot be crossed. The bridge that originally connected the two sides of the canyon was blown off from the middle.