gnovel Chapter 74 Operation Begins
Chapter 74 Operation Begins
Lu Ye sat by the cabin door and, using the red light, carefully examined the six members of the Gray Wolf Squad.
Everyone was armed with AK-15 assault rifles equipped with silencers and holographic thermal imaging sights;
The heavy gunner "Giant Bear" even had an RPG-30 anti-tank rocket launcher hanging on his back; all of them had night vision goggles folded up on their helmets.
Vasily was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying an AK-15 assault rifle, but his other equipment seemed rather meager.
Lu Ye held the modified SVCh high-precision sniper rifle in his arms and closed his eyes to rest.
Before DVL-10 left the hospital, he had already stuffed it into his storage space.
Lu Ye's doubts grew stronger.
We're about to take off, but the mysterious "real contact" still hasn't shown up.
Does this mean that intelligence exchange doesn't require a face-to-face interaction? Or is the contact person already lurking at the destination?
"Boom!"
The roar of the helicopter rotor suddenly increased, the fuselage shuddered violently, and it lifted off the ground, quickly disappearing into the dark night sky.
In order to evade the Ukrainian army's air defense radar, the helicopters adopted extremely dangerous ultra-low-altitude tactics.
Lu Ye could feel the aircraft frantically weaving between the treetops and hills, and the violent turbulence made him feel slightly nauseous.
The only sounds coming through the headset were brief Russian coordinate announcements from the helicopter pilot.
After flying for a full hour.
"Approaching the target landing zone, prepare for rappelling. Five minutes to prepare," the pilot's voice came through the headset.
After confirming that the firearm was loaded and ready to fire, Lu Ye immediately pulled down his goggles, stood forward, and waited to grab the rope and rappel down.
Just then.
A fully armed figure emerged from the helicopter cockpit, wearing a tight-fitting combat suit and a bulletproof helmet.
Russian Army 6B48 high-cut bulletproof helmet, matte desert camouflage paint.
The adjustable, lightweight tactical mask covered only the bridge of the nose, and Lu Ye could tell it was a woman by only seeing her eyebrows and eyes.
Wearing the Russian Army's lightweight modular tactical carrying gear, designed for special operations command.
He has a military quick-draw holster on each side of his waist, and each is equipped with a Stechkin APS fully automatic submachine pistol.
He carried a military-grade encrypted walkie-talkie and a tactical multi-functional folding knife on his waist.
Lu Ye then realized: "So the person I was supposed to meet was on this plane all along!"
She gave the Gray Wolf squad a tactical signal to "begin operations".
The helicopter suddenly hovered in mid-air, and the cabin door was pulled open with a "whoosh," instantly letting in a blast of icy wind.
"Go! Go! Go!"
The hatch was pulled open with a "whoosh," and Captain Gray Wolf took the lead.
Then came "Giant Bear" and "Iron Hammer" in that order, and Lu Ye was preparing to follow them down.
But the female officer beat her to it. As she gripped the rope, turned around, and prepared to rappel down, she made eye contact with Lu Ye.
Lu Ye's pupils suddenly contracted.
That's the female officer!
But he had no time to think. He grabbed the rappelling rope and slid down to the ground.
The nine men landed without making a sound and quickly dispersed into a standard tactical defensive formation.
The helicopter quickly ascended, skimming the treetops and disappearing into the thick darkness of the night.
Everyone pulled down the low-light night vision goggles on their helmets, and a slight static sound came through their headphones, followed by the voice of an intelligence officer from the command center.
"Grey Wolf, this is Sky Eye. Sea Eagle-10 UAV is in position, infrared sensors activated."
"Two kilometers directly ahead of you, there is a six-man patrol team moving east along the road."
"Received." Gray Wolf lowered his voice, raised his right hand, and clenched his fist.
"Sky Eye, plan an evasion route," Gray Wolf whispered.
"Cut into the depression on the right and advance 1,500 meters along the dry riverbed to avoid their sight."
"Note that there is a fixed Ukrainian bunker on the high ground to the left of the riverbed, about 400 meters from your planned route. Pass through in silence."
"Understood. Take action."
The gray wolf gestured for them to move forward, and "Pioneer" led the way to scout ahead, followed closely by "Giant Bear," "Detonator," and "Iron Hammer."
Lu Ye and Vasily were sandwiched in the middle of the group, with the female officer following closely behind Vasily on the side, and "Hawkeye" and "Lynx" bringing up the rear.
The group moved quickly and silently through the darkness.
As they passed beneath the bunker indicated by the command center, the squad slowed down.
A faint red light emanated from the high bunker, indicating someone was smoking.
Subsequently, the Grey Wolf signaled "change course" and "flank to the right".
After bypassing the bunker, the group began climbing along the ridgeline on the side, avoiding the checkpoints and patrols in front of the village, and successfully reached the cliff area behind the village.
Ahead lies the highest point of the cliff, and below lies the village of Socolinoe, its lights twinkling in the distance.
"Iron Eagle, launch the miniature drones," Gray Wolf commanded from behind a rock on the cliff.
"Iron Eagle" pulled a palm-sized black rotary-wing drone from his tactical backpack and tossed it into the air.
Less than half a minute later, "Iron Eagle" looked at the tactical terminal screen on his wrist and reported in a low voice: "Captain, there is an enemy sentry post on the high point of the cliff. It's 120 meters away from us. The heat source indicates there are two sentries and a military dog."
Gray Wolf poked his head out and surveyed the terrain: "We have to take them out. Eagle Eye, Lu, you two are responsible for dealing with the sentries on the cliff top."
"Understood." Hawkeye immediately set up his silenced sniper rifle.
Gray Wolf glanced at the four-legged heat source moving back and forth on the screen, and his brows furrowed.
"I'll take responsibility for the dog too," Lu Ye said calmly, lying on a rock two meters away from Eagle Eye.
He understood what the gray wolf meant.
Gray Wolf was taken aback, then turned to stare at Lu Ye: "Are you sure? You can kill a moving human target and a military dog in one second? How confident are you?"
"hundred percent."
The female officer, who was lying on the side and behind, turned her head and looked at Lu Ye, seemingly surprised by his confidence.
Ignoring everyone's gaze, Lu Ye directly propped up the SVCh sniper rifle on the rock.
The [Precision Shooting LV2] skill operates automatically, making a distance of 120 meters a piece of cake for him.
He didn't even need to activate the night vision function on the scope; the [Low Light Vision (Passive)] combined with the low light night vision goggles on his helmet had already locked onto the target.
"Target locked. Fire." Lu Ye said softly, his finger on the trigger.
This sentence caused Hawkeye's hand gesture to pause slightly.
As an elite GRU sniper, he was still fine-tuning his position when Lu Ye locked onto it without even calculating?
Two seconds later, Hawkeye reported to his superior in a low voice: "Target locked."
"Wait for my command." Gray Wolf stared at the tactical terminal.
On the cliff, two Ukrainian soldiers were chatting while wrapped in military overcoats, and a Caucasian military dog was sniffing something on the ground.
"three."
"two."
"First, fire."
"Pfft! Pfft!"
Two extremely dull firing sounds rang out almost simultaneously.
The sound of gunfire, equipped with a high-grade silencer, was barely perceptible in the howling wind.
At the top of the cliff, the heads of the two sentries exploded instantly, and they collapsed limply without even uttering a sound.
The instant the first bullet was fired, Lu Ye flicked the muzzle of his gun slightly to the lower right and pulled the trigger again.
"puff!"
The third shot rang out.
The military dog that was about to raise its head never did.
Its neck was pierced by a bullet, and it could not make a sound.