Mercenary's War

The enemy has begun advancing under the cover of helicopters, and their speed is very fast.

One of the main characteristics of mountain warfare is that while you can see each other, you can’t reach each other; to enter the range where you can inflict harm, you have to traverse mountains and ridges.

A straight-line distance of two kilometers means shooting is meaningless; this distance requires artillery, and the team taking the back route through the Three-leaf Jungle has already started to advance.

The people from the Three-leaf Jungle have also landed on the mountaintop. To attack, they have to descend the mountain and then climb up again, so even though they have been moving for twenty minutes, the distance hasn’t closed much. On their way down, they can’t proceed in a straight line; with the twists and turns, they have actually moved farther away.

Then, the people from the Three-leaf Jungle have to climb up the mountain too. When the Three-leaf Jungle starts ascending, they will naturally face the disadvantage of attacking from below, but they don’t mind because they have helicopters above them. Truly occupying the height advantage is something that only they possess.

The distance is getting closer; they have entered the one-kilometer crucial range, and the enemy is attacking upward. Satan is overlooking from the heights; if the fight starts now, they’d have absolute terrain advantage.

Unfortunately, the helicopters in the sky remain there, and they hold back greatly, not responding to Peter’s provocation at all, just waiting for the ground forces to enter the final assault to open fire, to avoid exhausting their ammunition early.

Gao Yang watched anxiously.

"The lead troops of the enemy at the rear are 1,400 meters away from us in a straight line!"

Cui Bo reported the distance to the enemy at the rear, Gao Yang took a measurement with a laser rangefinder and then said quietly, "The enemy in the front stopped advancing, distance 640 meters, they’re waiting to launch a simultaneous attack."

Glolov looked up at the helicopters, helplessly saying, "The enemy’s full-scale attack is about to begin."

"Rear enemy on the west side, distance 1,000 meters! East side, distance 1,200 meters, about forty people advancing toward my position at a distance of 1,000 meters!"

"Distance 800 meters!"

"Distance 500 meters!"

"Dagger Force open fire, Turtle Unit begins to engage the enemy, Cobra Corps has no reaction!"

The enemy entered within a straight-line distance of 500 meters, and Peter finally ordered to open fire, then the gunfire suddenly became intense.

Under Peter’s command, the Dagger Force took the lead. If it weren’t for Peter, the battle should have started a long time ago; those Houthis Armed Forces soldiers, if not suppressed, would open fire as soon as they saw the enemy, regardless of whether the bullets could reach, but speaking of which, actually the soldiers on the Saudi Arabia side do the same.

Peter’s side occupied the height advantage, at a distance of 500 meters, shooting from above, the bullet trajectory would hardly change significantly, whereas shooting from below, the bullet trajectory of small-caliber rifles changes too dramatically.

At this time, the helicopters in the sky still haven’t opened fire much; the enemy attacking from below launched a frantic counterattack but, before the Dagger Assault Team possessing the height advantage, Saudi Arabia’s ground forces could no longer advance.

"The enemy’s helicopters are about to take action!"

Two helicopters suddenly approached Peter’s position, then began rhythmically shooting with autocannons and rockets, quickly destroying several strongholds of the Dagger Force.

At this moment, Peter’s position suddenly began to fire a series of anti-aircraft missiles.

Anti-aircraft missiles are very, very expensive, one set costing tens of thousands of dollars, even at Grand Ivan’s friendship price; but at this moment, anti-aircraft missiles were fired mercilessly, as if they were free.

You must use the word "frantically" to describe it, because launching twelve anti-aircraft missiles simultaneously is incredibly rare in Yemen, and rare in any battle worldwide.

Firing simultaneously not only looks spectacular but also very intimidating, even though the four helicopters were at different distances, they all reacted simultaneously in every possible way.

Large maneuvers, frantically throwing decoy flares, and in a seeming thrill situation, all four Apaches avoided damage, quickly lowered altitude, flew for a while extremely low, and then returned again.

Despite varying distance and height, all four helicopters turned their noses toward Peter’s position, then, from the weapon mounts under the wings, a flash of fire appeared.

The helicopters certainly have communication, and they can also share intelligence, allowing them to initiate coordinated attacks to instantly neutralize all threats, without worrying about launching two missiles at the same target.

There was no activity on Vorvitsky’s position.

But when four helicopters were either hovering or flying slowly at low altitude, finally Vorvitsky’s position showed some reaction.

A sudden simultaneous burst, it’s hard to tell exactly how many missiles were fired; all one can see is that Vorvitsky’s position was even enveloped in dust stirred up by launching the missiles.

"Wow... Cobra is really..."

Gao Yang didn’t know what to say; Vorvitsky’s strike was truly surprising. He might have expended all the anti-aircraft missiles at hand simultaneously.

The helicopters realized something was wrong too late.

The decoy flares were already exhausted; they were hovering in the air, carrying out laser guidance, when many many missiles suddenly approached, the four Apaches had very limited options left.

Extremely intense maneuvers evading missiles; if it hadn’t been Apaches, but another type of helicopter like Black Hawk, they would have likely crashed even without missile hits; but the Apaches managed evasive maneuvers nonetheless.

However, the missiles kept exploding one after another near the helicopters.

Finally, the first helicopter began to drop like a stone, although the rotor was still spinning, one Apache quickly hit the ground. The rotor was instantly shattered completely, but the fuselage remained roughly intact and did not explode.

The second Apache began to smoke, then wobbled forward, but didn’t fly far before losing control completely, finally crashing into the hillside and immediately exploding intensely.

The third helicopter crashed with no flair, simply plummeting like a kite with a broken string.

The fourth helicopter started smoking, wobbled and struggled for a while, but ultimately stabilized and began to quickly leave the battlefield, then Vorvitsky’s position fired another missile.

The missile quickly caught up with the last surviving helicopter, exploded, and then that helicopter also began to descend until it landed.

No explosion, no crash, but the last helicopter landed on the hillside; when it touched down, its fuselage tilted, the rotor hit and shattered, and the helicopter miraculously rolled down the mountain without exploding.

It was indeed a super surprise, Gao Yang excitedly shouted: "Four kills! Perfect four in a row!"