Chapter Twenty-Five: Rescuing the Hostages

  "We can only act at night, during the day our target is too big and we will be shot as targets."

  Xiao Shuai immediately gathered everyone and formed a circle, beginning to deploy tonight's action.

  "After dark, Jumping Snake, you take the thermal imager and find out the location of the hostages first. Then we'll slowly move over from this small river to the edge of the small lake, and I'll command Winged Snake to circle around in the sky, pretending to be conducting a search mission, to distract their attention. Dark Snake will clear away obstacles for us. After that, we'll rush into the place where the hostages are being held, Explosive Snake will conduct directional blasting, and then we'll charge in to rescue them. After successfully rescuing the hostages, Winged Snake and Dark Snake will cover our retreat. That's about it, be extremely careful during the operation, this time is for real, not a single mistake can be made, or lives will be lost." Xiao Shuai warned everyone.

  "A bit nervous, didn't think I'd have a killer one day, this came too suddenly." Li Gang said.

  "Stop thinking about those useless things, think about how to survive later, don't pee your pants when bullets fly by." Xie Xiaoshuai's tone was a bit heavy, this is the first time he has scolded someone since becoming captain.

  "Killing someone, what's there to be afraid of? As long as you don't treat him like a human being, then nothing's wrong, and you won't have any psychological burden either." Chuihuashi said disdainfully.

  "You make it sound like you've killed a lot of people. Look at your frail little body, without any weapons, can you even kill anyone?" Li Gang retorted.

  "You can come and try." The cauliflower snake's language was always so concise.

  "Don't think that just because you're an officer, I'm afraid to hit you. I've been looking at you with disdain for a long time, always putting on airs and acting like nobody owes you money. What skills do you have that make you act so arrogant? People who don't know you would think you're some kind of big leader. If it weren't for the captain's face, which one of us brothers would be willing to bother with you?" Li Gang immediately chimed in.

  "That's enough, stop arguing. The battle hasn't even started yet and you're already at each other's throats? I didn't know your verbal sparring skills were so sharp! And you, Caihua Snake, you're usually so calm and collected, what's gotten into you today? Don't you know that on the battlefield, disrupting internal unity and stability can affect morale, it's punishable by summary execution!" Xie Xiaoshuai, normally calm and composed, was furious. He loved seeing the Sha Huo squad members united and friendly, and this infighting had ignited a strange fire in his heart.

  Li Gang lowered his head, while the cauliflower snake turned its face away, with an expression of indifference, its nostrils pointing towards the sky.

  "Chrysanthemum snake, I know you were dissatisfied when you were assigned to Sha Hu's team at first, but now we are a team and must unite in the face of the enemy. You have a strained relationship with your brothers, who would be willing to turn their backs on you? How can you take care of yourself?" Xie Xiao Shuai stood in front of Chrysanthemum snake and said sincerely.

  "Hmm!" was all Chrysanthemum Snake responded with to Xie Xiaoshuai.

  "Alright, forget it. This time you don't have to participate in the action, just return to base first. After the task is completed, we'll have a good talk." Xie Xiaoshuai was very helpless and could only choose to stand on the captain's standpoint of what he thought was the right choice.

  Caihua Snake Head walked away without looking back, riding a four-wheeled motorcycle and disappearing into the dust.

  "Captain, it's not that I want to have a falling out with him, but look at him, what is he? He doesn't even put you, the captain, in his eyes. You can imagine how he behaves when he's with us normally." Li Gang said indignantly.

  "Alright, I've got it in mind, I'll handle it. Now isn't the time to discuss that matter, our top priority is to rescue the hostages first. Okay, let's all take a rest for now and prepare for tonight's tough battle." Xie Xiaoshuai didn't want to dwell on this issue.

  But Xie Xiaoshuai lay there, thinking in his heart: It seems that the cauliflower snake is a big problem and must be solved. If it can't be done, I'll have to change people. What should I do? Slowly, Xie Xiaoshuai closed his eyes and fell asleep.

  Night fell, the temperature dropped sharply, and several people who were sleeping were directly frozen awake. Zhang Jialin quietly moved towards the target, returning in less than twenty minutes with the exact location where the hostages were being held. Xie Xiaoshuai put on night vision goggles and made a forward gesture with his hands, and several people quietly moved towards the riverbank.

  The members of the Sha Fox team had just crossed the river and felt a chill run down their spines, but no one made a sound, silently enduring the cold as they moved forward. When they arrived at the small lake, the water had already reached their necks, and several people felt that their blood vessels were about to freeze, and their movements also slowed down.

  A beam of strong light accompanied by the roar of an engine came from afar, illuminating every corner of the base.

  Those militant organization personnel thought it was a military search party, they had dealt with them before. They all pretended to rush back to their tents, and several sentries also hid quietly in the darkness.

  The Desert Fox squad also started to act, and a sentry standing with his back to the lake on the lakeside suddenly fell down. The Desert Fox squad quickly climbed out of the water, and several people crossed over to cover each other as they advanced in a tactical formation. Wherever the Desert Fox squad went, as long as there were sentries in front, the sentries would fall down and die without warning. Needless to say, this was the credit of Hei Yanjing, the Dark Snake King. The first time he killed someone, he didn't feel any discomfort, and the more he fought, the more exhilarated he felt. What a strong heart he had!

  Several people successfully reached the back of a house that looked like an earth mound, and Chen Hongjun set up directional explosives on the wall. After the explosion, several people threw a flash bomb into the room and quickly entered the room in an orderly manner, quickly shooting and killing the holy warriors inside.

  Within a few seconds, the only person left alive in the house was a man sitting on a chair with his hands handcuffed behind him. He was wearing a white shirt and had a flat head. The man was shaking his head vigorously, apparently also temporarily blinded by the flash grenade.

  The helicopter was hovering in the sky, and the leader of the holy warriors also felt that something was wrong. He immediately rushed out of the tent and ran towards the earthen house. After running a few steps, a large piece of blood splashed onto his head, and he fell to the ground, motionless. Seeing their leader killed, everyone grabbed their weapons and frantically rushed out, firing at the helicopter.

  Gong Mao shifted the machine head and pressed the switch on the control handle. The six-barreled machine gun on the WZ-10 began to spit out flames, and a large number of holy warriors who ran out of the tent fell down instantly. Gong Mao did not stop until he had swept all the tents with gunfire. Zhang Jialin took out the thermal imager and life detector, and checked each one outside the tent to see if there were any survivors or people pretending to be dead. However, everyone in the tent was killed, not a single one survived.

  As several people were preparing to return to the earthen house with the rescued hostages, the life detector picked up a sound, which was located on the other side of the earthen house, in Wang Jizhen's blind spot.

  Several people habitually stood up straight, holding their guns tightly and moving slowly forward. Xie Xiaoshuai made a throwing motion with his hand, then a gesture to reload the gun. Several people nodded in agreement. Just as Chen Hongjun's hand was about to throw the flash grenade, a strong smell of feces wafted over from that direction, accompanied by the sound of crying. Xie Xiaoshuai waved his hand, making a stopping motion, and then changed the command, gesturing for several people to surround the area from different directions.

  The desert fox members rushed over to take a look, and one of the holy warrior members was sitting on the ground with his hands covering his head, wailing away. There was also a puddle of dead water on the ground. Several people burst out laughing at once - this guy had actually been scared into wetting his pants! How embarrassing! You have to know, that last batch of people's craziness was really scary - they didn't even dodge when they saw bullets flying towards them, just kept charging forward. This brother, on the other hand...