131: Chapter 130: Desperate Situation 131: Chapter 130: Desperate Situation Harris fell to the ground, not only failing to bring his men back but also getting himself involved.
Seeing blood gushing out of Harris’s abdomen, Gao Yang felt there was no hope for him.
The greatest sorrow for a mercenary is having no backup and no reliable supplies, and even an elite small mercenary group is not suited for this kind of positional warfare.
In fact, what small elite mercenary groups should be doing, just like special forces, is infiltration, reconnaissance, raids, and even assassinations.
These are the tasks most special forces and elite mercenaries should be handling.
Using elite mercenaries to defend a bunker is a colossal waste of their capabilities and resources.
In this outdated mode of warfare, reminiscent of World War I, mercenaries might perform better than ordinary soldiers, but only slightly better.
Mercenaries are not immortals, they’ll die just the same if hit by a bullet, and ordinary soldiers are not fools; basic training ensures that even if their aim is off, they can still produce a concentrated barrage of fire.
In the face of modern warfare’s intensive firepower, a small group of elite soldiers facing a large encirclement of infantry only has one way out – death.
Take Hamis as an example, even if he can destroy an armored vehicle with a single rocket, how many rockets could he possibly fire under the barrage of heavy fire?
The sorrow of Gao Yang and Hamis was that either Gaddafi or Hamis had put them in the worst possible place and forgotten about them.
Then, when they remembered there was a group of mercenaries in Azzizia, they casually used them as cannon fodder.
The opposition still had two armored vehicles left, and their infantry kept flooding in.
The few remaining members of the Black Fire Mercenary Corps wanted to rescue Harris, but they had exhausted their rockets.
In despair, they could only shoot desperately at the armored vehicles with their rifles while trying to drag the prone Hamis back to safety.
The rescue operation launched by the Black Fire Mercenary Corps was a suicidal one.
As foolish as it was, it brought no result other than the loss of more lives.
And even if they could bring someone back, it would only be a corpse.
But that’s precisely what the men of the Black Fire Mercenary Corps did.
In fact, if Gao was in Harris’s situation now, Cui Bo and the others would make the same choice as the Black Fire Mercenary Corps.
In many people’s eyes, the bond between brothers or comrades in arms transcends life and death.
If they could save someone, they would live together; if not, they would die together.
It was really that simple.
All Gao and his team could do now was to eliminate all the infantry following behind the armored vehicles as best as they could.
As long as Gao spotted a target, he would never let the target he had aimed at survive.
The thirty or so opposition infantry following behind the armored vehicles were quickly wiped out under the fire from Gao and the flanking bunkers.
But the remaining two armored vehicles were closing in on the bunker where Gao and his team were stationed.
Gao vigilantly watched the tops of the armored vehicles, as it was likely someone would pop up to fire a rocket launcher.
Sure enough, when an armored vehicle got close to within a hundred meters, someone emerged from the top.
Gao was quick to react.
As soon as a head stuck out from the vehicle, he took a shot, but his first shot missed the bobbing head.
Patiently waiting, Gao aimed again when the person had climbed halfway out and just managed to get the rocket launcher on his shoulder, hitting him in the chest with a bullet.
The person who intended to launch the rocket was rendered motionless on top of the vehicle, but Gao Yang still didn’t dare to relax his vigilance.
Meanwhile, Glolov, having finished three belts of ammunition, took the opportunity of a brief pause in infantry assault to hurriedly change the gun barrel.
Li Jinfang fired a grenade with the launcher attached to his rifle, which hit the armored vehicle accurately.
However, the slow-moving grenade, lacking armor-piercing capability, exploded after being deflected by the armor, causing no damage to the vehicle.
Just as Gao Yang focused all his attention on the approaching armored vehicle, he heard Cui Bo shouting, “AT4CS, the flank is breached, we have no overlapping fire support anymore!”
On their other side, the opposition’s armored vehicle pivoted, launching an AT4CS rocket from the firing port on its hull, quickly destroying two machine gun bunkers on Gao Yang’s flanks within a very short span of time.
Ordinary rocket launchers emit back blast upon firing, which can cause severe injury to the shooter if they are against a wall or inside an enclosed space.
The so-called AT4CS rocket launcher, equipped with saltwater at the rear, neutralizes the back blast, allowing it to be used in confined spaces.
After demolishing two bunkers, two soldiers carrying rocket launchers jumped off the opposition’s armored vehicle.
This time they fired standard AT4 rockets, and after destroying two machine gun bunkers spewing flames, they were able to calmly launch rockets to obliterate the remaining bunkers.
Meanwhile, three soldiers from Sirte carrying rocket launchers failed in their effort to destroy the armored vehicle under its machine gun barrage.
Watching the armored vehicle draw closer, the machine guns in the bunkers around Gao Yang had fallen silent.
In their excitement, the Sirte soldiers had wasted all their bullets on the armored vehicle, and now, although they were not short of ammunition, the overheated gun barrels rendered them unable to continue shooting.
Learning that the flanks had been compromised and only the group of bunkers where he was remained fighting alone, Gao Yang felt no significant emotional fluctuation.
What was bound to come had eventually arrived, and by now they had lost all hope of breaking out.
Gao’s thoughts were still on top of the armored vehicle, but as it came closer, he suddenly noticed a surveillance camera mounted on the front of the armored vehicle.
The opposition’s homemade armored vehicle was very crude; they had covered the body entirely with steel plates, including the driver’s section, and the driver had to rely on a camera mounted on the vehicle to monitor the outside situation, which fed the image to a display inside the vehicle, thus providing a field of view for driving.
The camera on the armored vehicle was very small; it was just an ordinary surveillance camera.
However, for a sharpshooter, a distance of fifty meters made the surveillance camera far from a small target.
Although it was moving, Gao Yang decided to try his luck.
Gao took aim at the camera and fired a shot, missing the target.
The armored vehicle’s motion, moving up and down, caused Gao to aim for too long and miss the target when he fired.
After taking a deep breath, Gao observed the terrain in front of the armored vehicle and saw it was moving onto flat ground.
He almost didn’t aim at all and just raised his gun to fire.
ps: After some thought, I decided to code and update through the night.
It’s tiring, but at least I’ll sleep soundly.