Chapter Eight: Flying Up to Heaven
At this moment, the people on another helicopter also arrived. Seeing the situation, they consciously hid behind another large rock. They knew that excluding landmines was very dangerous and might result in no survivors.
At this time, it is right to minimize casualties.
Seeing others had hidden, Shalyov lit another cigarette and said to Ilyich: "Lift your butt slowly, carefully, very slowly."
Having said that, Shalyov lay down beside him, his eyes could see Ilyich's buttocks, and at the same time, he stretched out his arm and reached inside.
Ilyich knew this was the most dangerous moment. He felt for the position of the safety clip on the grenade, where it had to be released last.
Il'ich was very successful; when his buttocks had completely left the ground, he turned around and saw that Shcherbakov had already pressed down the safety catch of the grenade.
Although he was caught, Ilich didn't move.
"Look around on the ground and find the pull ring of the grenade," Shcherbakov said.
Sherlov remained in this posture, watching Ilich search around, at this time Sherlov had some admiration for this cunning and resourceful person, who really knew a lot!
This is a common Soviet-made F-1 hand grenade, which was designed and produced by the Soviet Union during World War II. However, the development and improvement of this weapon did not progress as quickly as other weapons, so even though it's now the 1980s, it's still in use, and has been widely disseminated to Third World countries.
The outer casing of this grenade is a pineapple-shaped iron lump, which is designed to split into many pieces after explosion, with a killing radius of 30 meters. The standard action is to throw and immediately lie down, otherwise the throwing hand may be injured.
At this time, the safety pin of the hand grenade has been pulled out and the handle is pressed down. If this state continues to be maintained, it will never explode, which is also the reason why the two unlucky tank soldiers are still safe until now.
Until release, the grip lost external force, the internal striker spring drove the striker to pop out from the tail of the grip, while striking down to ignite the delay fuse, after a few seconds, it would detonate the hand grenade.
This is also the normal process for using a regular grenade: press down on the handle, pull out the safety pin and then throw it away.
If so, for Shalof, the simplest way is to throw this grenade away and let it explode by itself.
But it wasn't that simple, Shalyov knew. The one who had set this trap was waiting for him to make just such a foolish move.
Because this hand grenade can change the delay time by rotating the spiral on top, now this hand grenade has been adjusted to a delay time of zero.
That is to say, as long as the handle of this grenade is loosened, it will explode immediately. Even if Shalyapov picks up this grenade, if he holds it unstably, it will explode immediately.
In reality, no one who uses hand grenades does so in this way. Hand grenades are for blowing up the enemy, not oneself. So, ordinary soldiers generally forget about this particular feature of hand grenades.
Sherlock didn't forget.
Pressure-activated landmines? Afghan guerrillas, where would they get pressure-activated landmines from? If they had these hand grenades, that would be a rich guerrilla force. The other day, they defeated a guerrilla force that was using curved knives as weapons.
"Found it." Just then, Ilich came over with a pull ring in his hand.
"Give it to me." Shelev took it and then reinserted the ring into the grenade.
This fuse was set to zero seconds, and the grenade would explode immediately. To defuse it is also very simple, just plug the safety pin back in. Generally speaking, when people use grenades, they pull out the safety pin and throw them away, they won't keep them, and usually, they will casually throw them aside.
Sure, here is the translation:
As expected, Ilich was found soon enough.
Sherlov finished all this, completely relaxed, then picked up the grenade from the ground with his hand, and there was a small pit underneath, burying half of the grenade inside.
Afghan guerrillas are really good at deceiving people, can they just bury landmines like this?
Sherlock thought as he reached for it, but to his surprise, the hand grenade seemed to be propped up by something, and then he heard a crisp sound.
"Clang." The sound was not loud, but it was a harbinger of death. It was the sound of the safety clip on a hand grenade being released.
Sherlock looked at his hand, the grenade that had already been picked up, with a broken thread hanging from it.
Damn it, under this hand grenade, there is another hand grenade! This hand grenade was just a decoy. When this hand grenade was picked up by itself, it pulled the thin line below, and on the thin line, another delayed hand grenade that had also been set to zero and had its safety pin removed was hanging!
Everyone was just attracted by the hand grenade above, thinking that the hand grenade above was all, but unexpectedly, the one below is the real tricky bomb!
In an instant, Shalyov understood everything, but unfortunately, his life had already reached its final end.
He didn't know that he still hadn't completely guessed correctly.
He just pulled out the grenade, and at the same time, he pulled the thin rope, which was tied to the handle of another grenade on the other side. The handle was secured with a rubber band. The thin rope pulled the rubber band, opening the handle, and then the firing pin struck the detonator, following which this old F-1 grenade immediately exploded.
Pineapple-like shells burst open from the pineapple's texture, scattering and flying in all directions, flames leaping out.
Right next to the hand grenade, another sharp-headed thing was immediately stimulated and also joined in this explosion.
If Shalyapin could tear off this land at that time, he would definitely regret his recklessness.
Armor-piercing bullet!
Muhammad called a few people to complete the setup, and the remaining armor-piercing shells on the tank were not wasted. Although the warhead of the armor-piercing shell could not explode, the propellant inside the shell casing would also increase the lethality once ignited.
"Boom!" In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
The grenade was placed right on the detonator of the armor-piercing shell. When the grenade exploded, it immediately ignited the propellant of the armor-piercing shell.
The armor-piercing projectile is able to penetrate the opponent's armor because of its extremely high speed. To accelerate the armor-piercing projectile to such a speed, high-energy propellant is needed. This propellant has now ignited and immediately blew up the place where it was buried, creating a crater over one meter deep.
In this explosion, Shcherbakov, Markov and Ilyich were all killed. If only one grenade had exploded, perhaps they would have remained whole, but now the three were almost blown to pieces.
"Squad leader!" The scout squad members hiding behind the rocks, seeing this situation, were suddenly greatly alarmed, especially Milo, who was originally supposed to go and clear the landmine, but now it was the squad leader who had gone to die in his place.
He jumped up and wasn't even afraid of the exploding fragments, wanting to rush forward.
Behind another big stone, the soldiers of the other reconnaissance squad were also very anxious. They were a whole, and their comrades had sacrificed.
They all wanted to move forward, but just as they had not yet taken a step out of their own footprints, another surge of energy came up from under their feet.
With a deafening explosion, countless pieces of debris, shrapnel and even pliers flew up from under their feet.
The force of the explosion was so strong that after the explosion, a crater with a diameter of tens of meters was blown out, and even the giant boulder was blasted off for several meters.
Everyone, without knowing what happened, all flew up into the sky amidst this explosive sound.
Only helicopter pilots witnessed all of this.
After the explosion, there were no more living scouts on the ground. The best warriors from two classes of scouts remained here.
They will never understand what happened until they die.
Only then did Muhammad, who was still walking on the mountain road, feel complacent in his heart. After a few days, he would go there to take a look, and the scene must be very good.
Although the time was short, Muhammad had set up a very clever chain of traps.
Under the buttocks of those two captives, each sat a fake mine, a real mine connected by thin strings, and an armor-piercing bullet. These arrangements were enough to blow up anyone who tried to remove the mines.
If it were an ordinary person, then that would be enough, but for Muhammad, it is absolutely insufficient.
All the armor-piercing and fragmentation shells on that tank were moved out by Muhammad, buried next to those two giant stones.
The reason why the two captives were allowed to sit next to the tank was also fully considered. The distance from the two giant stones is more than 20 meters, so when one person stays here to clear the landmines, others will definitely find a shelter nearby to wait. These two giant stones are the best shelters.
Only blowing up the two captives and that one who cleared the mine was not enough, those Soviet soldiers waiting on the side were also Muhamed's target.
Alongside the armor-piercing and fragmentation shells, a hand grenade with its safety pin pulled was cleverly placed. When it exploded, the violent shockwave would travel through the ground and cause the arming pins of the grenades here to be ejected, striking the detonator and igniting the delay fuse, which in turn would trigger another explosion.
The hand grenade exploded, and the armor-piercing shells and shrapnel buried together were also detonated. As for those grenades, Muhammad still had an important use for them and couldn't bear to give them up.
To increase the lethality, Mohammed buried stones on top and also buried tools such as wrenches from the toolbox above the tank's tracks, which flew out with great force.
Muhammad, an elite from a special forces unit in the 21st century, gave the Soviets a headache.
He calculated very accurately, without any waste, and those who were killed were the best soldiers of the Soviet Union. PS: Thank you for the reward from book friend 198215dai!
