Three Lions Surrounding the Prey

  The "toxic needle" missile dragged a bright tail flame, leaving a colorful mark like a plate snake in the night sky, and finally exploded about three meters below the helicopter's tail beam. The high-energy explosive scattered the metal rod inside the warhead at a speed of over 2,000 meters per second, destroying not only the helicopter's tail beam but also breaking off three blades of the upper and lower rotors.

  In the blink of an eye, a single soldier portable air defense missile weighing over 10 kilograms shot down a ship-borne helicopter weighing over 10 tons!

  Under the threat of MANPADS, another Ka-27 sent away special forces and immediately flew south to leave the battlefield, unable to let two air machine guns play their due role.

  At this time, Kang Xiaoting had just loaded the second magazine for the PSG-1 sniper rifle. In the first twenty bullets, Kang Xiaoting knocked down eighteen enemies, and two more fell behind a building, their lives or deaths unknown. Kang Xiaoting did not change positions because up until now, he hadn't discovered any enemy snipers or heavy weapons. Against armed personnel with only ordinary firearms, an 800-meter distance was the best security guarantee.

  As the PSG-1 sniper rifle fired again, the MG4 light machine gun next to it stopped firing.

  With about twenty rounds left in the box, Su Ming carefully replaced the new cartridge case for the light machine gun. Compared to Kang Xiaotang's "point kill" with no empty shots, he was completely wasting bullets. After consuming nearly two hundred rounds, only four enemies were hit, and the efficiency was indeed very low. However, Kang Xiaotang's battle results had to be divided in half with Su Ming, because without the dense bullet rain from the light machine gun driving the enemy out of their hiding place, Kang Xiaotang wouldn't have gotten so many opportunities.

  Lao Kang is our helicopter.

  "It's our helicopter!" As he spoke, Kang Xiaoting pulled the trigger and hit an armed man trying to cross the empty space outside the construction site gate.

  "Want to go take a look?"

  "It's not time yet, we need to cover for Lu and his team to enter the construction site."

  The helicopter crashed about 250 meters in front of Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjian, perhaps with survivors waiting to be rescued. However, Kang Xiaoting and Su Mingjian could not leave their position at this time, as the comrades who had just arrived were advancing towards the construction site and needed their support.

  When the MG4 spat out flames again and fired with a very rhythmic gunshot sound, all armed personnel who tried to break through the construction site retreated. In the hands of an experienced shooter, the effective range of a light machine gun supported by a bipod can reach one thousand meters, while the effective range of the M4 carbine in the hands of the armed personnel is less than four hundred meters. The distance of eight hundred meters became an unbridgeable chasm for both sides of the conflict.

  Kang Xiaoting emptied his second magazine when the fight was basically over.

  Under the pincer movement of dozens of special forces, within just five minutes, nearly a hundred armed personnel inside the construction site were killed. Although there were still more than ten armed personnel who continued to resist desperately, it was only to vent their dissatisfaction before death. In such special battles, unless the victor needs living captives, only the victor can survive, and the defeated side will be deprived of the right to survive.

  When Kang Xiaoting ejected the empty magazine, Su Ming suddenly stopped firing and covered his ears with his left hand.

  "Yes, understood, I'll go right away."

  "What's up?" Kang Xiaoting smoothly loaded a magazine into the sniper rifle and pulled the bolt back.

  "Lu Team, let's go to the helicopter side and look for survivors." Su Ming said as he pulled down the camouflage net on his body. "I'll go first and cover you."

  Kang Xiaoting didn't say much and immediately pointed his gun at the worker.

  At this time, two special forces troops entered the construction site from front and back, surrounding and annihilating the remaining armed personnel.

  Su Ming carefully crouched down, and in a flash of smoke, rushed to the side of the helicopter. When he had set up the light machine gun, Kang Xiaoting burst out of the bushes and ran at top speed for 250 meters.

  "How is it?"

  "I don't know, go check."

  After slinging the sniper rifle behind his back, Kang Xiaoting drew out the MK23 combat pistol holstered on the outside of his right thigh and carefully made his way around to the other side of the helicopter, quickly scanning the surroundings. Only after confirming there was no danger did Kang Xiaoting open the severely deformed left cabin door of the helicopter and crouch inside.

  About half a minute later, Kang Xiaoting came out again.

  "Is anyone alive?"

  "Three are dead, the captain is still alive, but the situation is not good." As he spoke, Kang Xiaoting took out a first-aid kit, "Give me the morphine and the first-aid kit."

  Su Ming immediately took out a first-aid kit and threw it to Kang Xiaoting.

  Kong Zhi Gao is indeed alive, but the situation is not optimistic. A piece of glass hit his right chest, causing bleeding in the lungs. In addition, a several-centimeter-deep cut was made on the left thigh by a sharp object, and since both legs were stuck under the damaged dashboard, Kang Xiaoting could not determine whether the femoral artery had been severed.

  Morphine took effect quickly and Gong Zhi Gao's consciousness slightly cleared up.

  "Captain, hold on, we'll get you out of there."

  "You... you are..." Kong Zhi Gao suddenly grabbed Kang Xiao Ting's arm, and pulled out an unsealed letter from the right chest pocket. "Help me... help me deliver... this letter..."

  "Captain, don't talk, we will definitely rescue you." Kang Xiaoting did not go to receive the letter because he knew that the letter was the captain pilot's only motivation to survive. If he agreed to the captain pilot's last request, the other side would immediately lose the will to live. Even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance of hope, Kang Xiaoting would not abandon this soldier who was unfamiliar to him but wore the same uniform and fought on the same battlefield.

  However, when the helicopter crashed to the ground, the left side of the rotor hit first, and then the fuselage rolled over several times, causing the instrument panel in front of the captain to be severely deformed, pinning the captain's two legs tightly, making it impossible for him to move. To rescue Captain Yu, the deformed instrument panel had to be dismantled. It was impossible with one person's strength alone.

  Kang Xiaoting bandaged the wound on the right chest of the pilot and crawled out of the cockpit again.

  Bang!

  As the last gunshot faded away, the vast grassland quickly fell silent.

  Kang Xiaoting quickly slipped to Su Mingjian's side after being stunned for a moment.

  "Is he still salvageable?"

  "There are no fatal injuries, just excessive blood loss. Hurry up and find Captain Lu, let him send medical soldiers over. Remember to bring more plasma, the wounded need a blood transfusion immediately."

  Su Mingjin didn't ask any more questions and picked up his submachine gun, rushing towards the construction site like he was flying.

  Next to the moving house, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Chengwen of the "Lion" special forces held a remote-controlled detonator, with a Western man in a suit lying at his feet in a pool of blood. The bullet had entered from the forehead, definitely the work of another sniper hiding nearby. Several team members who were experts in explosives were using instruments to scan the bottom of the house, probably searching for explosive devices.

  "Lu team..."

  Lu Chengwen turned his head back. "Little Su, how's the situation on your side?"

  "The co-pilot and two other crew members were killed. The captain is still alive but seriously injured, requiring military medical attention and serum."

  Without any hesitation, Lu Cheng heard that more than 20 meters away, the special soldier squatting next to the armed personnel's corpse whistled and then gestured towards the falling helicopter. Then, he dispatched two special soldiers to assist Dr. Su in treating the wounded.

  After examining Kong Zhi Gao's injuries, the military doctor first gave him a physiological saline drip.

  "The injury is not serious, the wound on the right chest was stopped bleeding in time and did not affect the left lung. The wound on the thigh did not damage the main artery, and the blood loss is not severe, so there is no need for a blood transfusion for the time being." The military doctor shook his head and said, "The dashboard is made of high-strength alloy, it can't be broken by human force, if you want to save him, amputation is the only way."

  "Amputation!?" Kang Xiaoting was startled.

  "Is this yours?" The military doctor stuffed an envelope stained with blood into Kang Xiaoting's hand.

  "No, it's not." After hesitating for a moment, Kang Xiaoting still took over the envelope.

  "We don't have any demolition tools, not even a big pair of pliers, so we can't dismantle the dashboard. If we don't amputate, he'll die here for sure. Besides, Captain Lu said that we need to retreat in 15 minutes and it's impossible to compromise the entire operation for his sake."

  "Wait." Kang Xiaoting stopped the military doctor. He knew how important legs were to pilots, and if they amputated the captain's leg, it would be better to kill him now. "Little Su, go find Lu Dui and ask him to give us a little more time. You two, follow me to the construction site, there must be some demolition tools there!"

  After finishing speaking, Kang Xiaoting took two special soldiers and ran towards the direction of the workshop.

  "Is Captain an old acquaintance of Kang's?"

  The military doctor suddenly asked this sentence, Su Ming was very disgusted. "Of course not, Lao Kang doesn't have many relatives of the same age. You take care of the wounded here, I'll go find Lu's team."

  At this time, the door of the mobile room has been opened.

  After going in to check, Lu Chengwen and two special soldiers carried out a half-person-high, all-black object from inside. The two special soldiers waiting outside took down the folding metal box they were carrying, preparing to put the object inside.

  "Ten more minutes until the helicopter comes back and we can withdraw."

  "Lu team..."

  Upon hearing Su Ming's loud shout, Lu Chengwen nodded to the communication officer and turned around to welcome him. "What's the situation? Has Captain Ji been rescued?"

  "The wound has been controlled, but the deformed dashboard cannot be dismantled and needs more time. Also, Lao Kang is leading a team to find demolition tools."

  "More time?" Lu Chengwen immediately furrowed his brow, "Let's go take a look."

  He ordered the communicator to contact the helicopter and asked the blaster to load the goods as soon as possible. After that, Lu Chengwen followed Su Mingjian to the crash site.

  Before long, Kang Xiaoting and two teammates arrived with a portable welding gun and a small electric saw.

  At this time, the helicopter that flew away earlier returned to hover over the construction site.

  "Give me ten minutes, just ten minutes."

  Lu Cheng nodded slightly after a moment of hesitation. "We'll wait for you on the helicopter, bring the wounded over in ten minutes. Also, you and the second team's members will retreat according to the backup plan. Remember, you must arrive at the backup evacuation point within five days, otherwise, you're on your own getting back home, got it? Before leaving, take all identifying items from the helicopter, blow it up, don't leave any traces. Kang Xiaoting, you're fully in charge, if anything goes wrong, I'll hold you responsible."

  "Yes!" Kang Xiaoting immediately agreed.

  Because a helicopter was lost, half of the special forces had to withdraw by land.

  In fact, for special forces who took a helicopter to leave, the road behind will not be smooth either.