Chapter 527 Who Is the Opponent?

Chen Chen certainly would not do the stupid thing of having a "frontal conflict" with the other side. In fact, the Dongfeng Corps had already formed an almost standardized three-pronged strategy in combat.

Mortar bombing, automatic grenade bombing after mortar bombing.

Automatic grenade bombing, automatic grenade bombing after RPG bombing.

RPG bombing, smoke bomb bombing after RPG bombing.

After these three-pronged strategy, the enemy's manpower can be basically cleared by more than 50%, and most of the solid bunkers and strongholds can also be pulled out.

At this time, the infantry can use the advantage of thermal imaging night vision goggles to observe and lock the enemy's position through the smoke, close the distance and kill accurately, and then achieve a very high combat loss ratio. Even when facing a relatively low-level opponent, 0 casualties is not impossible.

This set of tactics is very stable and very unsolvable.

If you want to crack it, the enemy must have almost the same firepower delivery capability, battlefield situation awareness capability, and individual combat capability as the Dongfeng Corps.

But obviously, the enemy in front of him does not have it.

After a round of procedures, three 12-man assault teams had already approached the point less than 50 meters from the center of the battlefield.

The Dongfeng Corps used the infantry-artillery coordinated tactics to the extreme. When the last grenade exploded, the smoke bombs thrown by the assault team had blocked a large area of ​​the battlefield.

"UAV, lower the altitude and lock the high-value target!"

"Find their missiles! They are not ordinary JD elements!"

"Understood!"

Chen Chen's instructions were quickly executed, the altitude of the drone was lowered, and then the operator's reply came from the headset.

"No high-value targets were found, and no missile launch positions were found!"

"No?!"

Chen Chen looked puzzled. At this time, his eyes had locked on an armed element 30 meters ahead who was knocked down by the explosion and was struggling to get up.

Raise the gun, aim, and fire, all in one go.

Within a second, the bullet had penetrated the head of the armed element.

Then, Chen Chen quickly pulled the gun to the left, and a short burst of fire knocked down the enemy who was trying to escape the battlefield.

At this time, it was meaningless to pursue the so-called "hit rate". All he could do was to knock down all the active targets in front of him with the highest efficiency and the fastest speed, and then quickly complete the identification!

"Bang bang bang bang--"

The gunshots came one after another, and all the team members were like whack-a-mole, accurately harvesting the militants who popped up from time to time, and at the same time began to search and advance forward in a dispersed four-four formation.

The battlefield was completely surrounded, and the enemy fled very quickly, but the Dongfeng Corps pursued faster.

From the first gunshot to now, less than two minutes have passed, but the enemy's resistance has been almost completely eliminated!

This was originally good news, but Chen Chen felt more and more wrong.

How could this be possible? !

The militants who accurately destroyed two vehicles with two portable individual missiles would not have the ability to resist at all?

Even if they really couldn't beat them, it couldn't be such a one-sided situation.

Where are your missiles?

Where are your RPGs?

Where are your machine guns?

It's totally wrong.

"Have you found the enemy's missile position? Where is it?!"

"No!"

The drone operator's tone was also a little nervous. Compared with Chen Chen, the situation he saw was more "complete", and it was this "complete" presentation that made him feel an indescribable weirdness.

The enemy was too fragile and their fighting spirit was too low.

Of course, it was normal for them to be afraid after two consecutive rounds of large-yield bombing.

But in any case, they shouldn't behave like this. They shouldn't even resist and run away like headless flies!

Most of the equipment was abandoned. Overall, the enemy's "equipment utilization efficiency" was probably not even 20%.

What went wrong?

At this time, due to the tense situation, Camel had directly connected to the radio communication of the Dongfeng Corps, and just when Chen Chen completed the final cleanup of the entire area and eliminated the last enemy in sight, his voice also reached Chen Chen's ears.

"The helicopter has set off and is expected to arrive in 15 minutes."

"The Turkish border is 120 kilometers away from me. How can they get there in 15 minutes?"

Chen Chen questioned.

"They have been flying for at least five minutes! We have lost sight of them. You can only make your own judgment next."

"Retreat or not, it's up to you."

"FA-18 will soon be above your head. You don't have much time!"

"Understood!"

Chen Chen gritted his teeth and ordered:

"Check the battlefield and search for the target!"

"If we can't find it within 5 minutes, we will retreat directly!"

"Understood!"

Everyone immediately dispersed, and scattered gunshots continued to ring. Chen Chen ran to the center of the bombed convoy, trying to find his target near the so-called "high-value vehicle". At this glance, he immediately saw the man who made the old Americans "think about it day and night".

Big beard, white robe, iconic golden AK.

At this time, his body had been torn into pieces by the shock wave of the explosion, but fortunately, the precision-guided bombs falling from high altitude did not directly hit the vehicle, which left him with a barely recognizable "remnant".

"Suspicious target found!"

Chen Chen shouted loudly.

Several team members immediately gathered around, quickly picked up the items next to the body and threw them directly into the back seat of the pickup truck that had arrived.

"Retreat!"

Chen Chen waved his hand, and the convoy started quickly and drove onto the road.

Their first evacuation point was 4 kilometers away, where there was a rugged canyon with many religious historical relics inside the canyon. To some extent, it was the best place to avoid possible air strikes.

The Americans were reluctant to bomb cultural relics, and it was difficult to cause effective casualties under the terrain cover.

As long as they could delay the time, they would have the opportunity to abandon the vehicle and disperse after confirming the identity of the target, and then retreat after the support of the Suhail Tiger Corps arrived.

At this time, 4 minutes had passed in the 15-minute countdown mentioned by Camel, and the sonic boom of the fighter formation had been heard in the air.

Chen Chen was ready for an air strike, and even ready to abandon the vehicle on the spot and evacuate on foot.

But what he didn't expect was that the air strike that was theoretically inevitable did not happen at all.

Instead, two giant bombs fell from the sky.

——

The target of the bombs was in the small courtyard in the battle area.

"Buzz——"

The ground behind him bulged up an arc visibly with the naked eye. Chen Chen's heart moved and he suddenly realized what the other party was doing.

MOP.

Made of nickel-cobalt steel alloy, it can drill 60 meters deep into general reinforced concrete, 40 meters deep into hard rock, and 8 meters deep into super reinforced concrete.

With these two bombs dropped, the underground fortifications of the entire small courtyard will be completely destroyed!

In other words, the real target may still be underground?

Then what is this body that I have snatched back?

Chen Chen suddenly felt a huge sense of powerlessness. He picked up the radio and asked:

"Can you confirm his identity? Is there any credible identification?"

"Everything is there, but the face is ruined!"

Pingchuan's voice came from the radio, and then, before Chen Chen asked, he continued:

"This is most likely not the target we are looking for."

"The appearance is very similar, but his teeth have signs of repair!"

"The enamel is too thin, he just had his teeth cleaned."

"Wait, I have to cut open his chest and give me the knife."

"The lungs are wrong, does Bin Laden smoke?"

"No."

Chen Chen answered immediately.

"That's not right, there are obvious brown deposits in his lungs, which should be the residue of incomplete metabolism after quitting smoking in a short period of time."

"This is a stand-in! The person is not here!"

"Damn!"

Chen Chen couldn't help but swear.

After all this time, this is just a mistake?

But this doesn't seem to make sense. It's okay if I was deceived, but is the CIA also deceived?

They can't tell the difference between a stand-in and Bin Laden's preparations?

Judging from the resolute action they launched, they must be quite confident in the results.

How could they miss such details? How could they not even make this preparation?

Underground fortifications, this is the only blind spot.

Is it possible that the convoy on the ground is just a cover, and the real target has already evacuated from underground?

This can also explain why, after pushing over, I clearly felt that there was a serious fault in the strength of this group of militants.

Maybe the real elite, after eliminating what they thought was the "biggest threat", had already evacuated with the target?

Thinking of this, Chen Chen immediately said:

"Raise the drone!"

"See if there are any targets with abnormal activities around."

"The range is about two kilometers in radius!"

"No, you can't take it back once you release it."

"No! Just take a look!"

"Understood."

The order was issued and the operator executed it immediately.

A minute later, the drone climbed to a height of about 150 meters, but at this height, it was still a bit too much to complete the reconnaissance of a too wide area.

"No abnormality is seen."

"The signal is unstable, the plane is going out of control."

"Fly to the limit, and it will crash if it loses control!"

The "unmodeled" drone used by Chen Chen does not have the risk of leaking secrets. Since it was given to him, the North has been prepared for losses.

So when it is really needed, there is no need to be fussy.

And it was Chen Chen's persistence that finally paid off this reconnaissance.

"About two kilometers to the east, active targets were found, more than 20 people! No vehicles!"

"Not sure if there are related targets that disappeared!"

"That's right."

Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

The lack of vehicles is the biggest problem.

Although most areas of Resafa are not uninhabited areas, the distance between each residential area is very far.

In the desert, a distance of 1 kilometer is considered long. If you really want to travel, even if you don't have a car, you must at least have a donkey cart, right?

If you don't have any, then the person will probably not go out.

And they appeared two kilometers to the east, and there was nothing worth going to at that location!

"Turn around and get ready to chase them."

"Don't get too close. I think there are people chasing us overhead."

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Before Chen Chen finished speaking, two consecutive explosions were heard outside the car window.

When he turned his sight to the direction of the explosion, he saw two FA-18s flying at low altitude, launching ground-to-ground missiles at the position just discovered by their own drones!

As expected.

There was no chance.

Chen Chen sighed, he knew that in this situation, he had no need to fight.

The American plan was indeed very thorough, and the error tolerance rate was frighteningly high.

They did not make no mistakes, but after making mistakes, their highly robust system immediately corrected the deviation caused by the mistakes, and pulled the mission back on track at a very fast speed.

Now, whether it was the sudden appearance of the Dongfeng Corps or the obstacles created by Bin Laden himself, they had been completely eliminated, and their route of action had returned to a very simple trajectory.

Keep an eye on the militants who appeared in the desert, suppress them with air firepower, limit the opponent's range of action, wait for the helicopter to arrive, and the special forces to enter the field to harvest, and return quickly with the target's body.

All this can be done within 15 minutes, and under the suppression of the JSTARS system, the Syrian military is simply unable to make any effective interference.

"No need to go, find a place to watch the show."

Chen Chen said.

".Understood."

"Understood."

Everyone answered in turn, and the convoy turned to the evacuation point as planned, and then stopped on a relatively high sand dune to disperse and hide.

At this time, the Dongfeng Corps was about 3 kilometers away from the target location, and the target's location could still be clearly seen using a large-power telescope.

The explosion continued to occur. As Chen Chen expected, the American air firepower steadily suppressed the target in a very orderly rhythm, completely restricting the target's actions.

At this time, 11 minutes had passed, and the helicopter that Chen Chen had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared in the air.

MH-X, MH-47E.

Exactly the same as what he remembered.

But what was different from his memory was that this time, the number of helicopters dispatched by the other side was a full 8!

Is it that exaggerated?

Chen Chen even felt that the other party was overreacting. After all, the most difficult part of this "hunting" mission was not the "killing" process, but the "searching" process.

As long as the target's position can be accurately locked, it seems that not so many people are needed to complete the mission, right? ——

However, Chen Chen soon found out that he was wrong.

The expected scene of "heavenly soldiers descending and descending on the wind" did not appear at all.

The American air assault team encountered strong resistance, and Chen Chen even saw smoke and dust from the explosion of anti-aircraft shells in the air!

What a joke? !

This is not a portable equipment!

How did they predict the American action plan, accurately avoid the first round of attacks, and launch a targeted counterattack?

Something is wrong.

Who is my opponent, the American opponent? !

Chen Chen's mind was a little confused, and at this moment, a missile shot from nowhere dragged smoke and dust towards the MH-47E that had just entered the hovering state.

There was a loud bang and flames rose.

Chen Chen was stunned.

He subconsciously said:

"Damn it."

"I feel like the Americans are going to suffer a big loss this time."