Chapter 56: Midnight Crisis

  Zhang Jialin took out the rope hook he was carrying and threw it into the wall, confirming that the hook was secure before climbing up. After confirming that there were no situations inside, the other members of the Sha Huo team followed him in along the rope.

  When the sand fox team approached the construction command center, a large number of workers and management personnel gathered here, all looking at the armed personnel outside in horror. Among them, several security guards who maintained order only had rubber batons in their hands, and if the people outside really rushed in, they would be like fish on a chopping board waiting to be slaughtered.

  A leader-like figure stood on a bench, comforting the workers and telling them not to panic. Due to his good location, he saw the approaching sand fox squad at a glance. The man hurriedly shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone, our reinforcements have arrived!" After finishing speaking, he jumped off the bench and ran towards Xie Xiaoshuai and others.

  Xie Xiaoshuai stepped forward, and the man stretched out his hand to tightly grasp Xie Xiaoshuai's hand. His emotions were slightly agitated: "Hello comrades from the troops, I am Wen Long, the president of Fugang Group, responsible for the construction of this power plant. Now that you've arrived, it's good. The workers' emotions are very excited, and I'm about to lose control of them. By the way, why are there only a few of you?"

  Xie Xiaoshuai withdrew his hand: "We are the vanguard, and the people behind us are still on the way. What's going on here?"

  "I don't know, this afternoon when I just got off work, a large group of people suddenly came outside, all carrying weapons. They didn't say what they were here for? We negotiated with them, but they didn't respond. I saw the situation was not right, so I quickly contacted the UN peacekeeping force headquarters to let them communicate with the local government. As a result, our communication was soon cut off and we couldn't contact the outside world. So we just kept waiting for the rescue team, fortunately you arrived in time, otherwise if they really attacked us, we wouldn't even have the strength to resist." Wen Long said.

  "Alright, leave the rest to us. You take the workers to a safe place and hide them. We can't afford to have extra people to take care of when we're fighting." With that, Xie Xiao-shuai began to assign tasks to the Sand Fox squad to set up defensive fortifications.

  At this time, the sniper observation room Liu Yuxin lost its effect. She and Wang Jizhen each carried an 88-style sniper rifle on their backs, with one person responsible for one gate, aiming the muzzle at the outside. Xie Xiaoshuai and Duan Ge each led two people to hide in defensive fortifications fifty meters away from the gate, waiting for the opponent's action.

  The crowd was dispersed, and the lighting facilities in the field were also closed under Xie Xiaoshuai's instructions. In the darkness, it suddenly became quiet, and sweat dripped from the eyes of the Sha Huo team members wearing night vision goggles, but they didn't dare to wipe it away, fearing that people outside would suddenly rush in at any moment.

  Just as the emotions of a few people were slightly anxious due to the hot weather, the people outside seemed to have received instructions and began to gather loudly. From Xiaoshuai's professional perspective, these people were just a mob, not coordinating with each other at all, and their tactics were in disarray, but they had an advantage in numbers. Moreover, there were still people outside who continued to send people over in pickup trucks.

  After about two or three hundred people gathered outside, the pickup truck sped towards the entrance. Xie Xiaoshuai waited until the car tires pressed against the warning line before ordering to open fire, because only at this time was their attack legal.

  The Sha Fox team had been brooding over the morning's events, eager to find an opportunity to retaliate against the anti-government forces. They had long been simmering with anger. After receiving Xie Xiaoshuai's attack order, Liu Yuxin and Wang Jizhen took turns opening fire, knocking down the opponent's handheld rocket launcher, then hitting the driver's brow through the glass. The car lost control, and due to excessive speed, it fell onto the road, rendering the heavy machine gun on the car useless.

  The people behind surged forward in a swarm, fearless of death. When Xiaoshuai and his team opened fire, they didn't even bother with simple aiming, and a single burst could sweep away a group of people. Some people hadn't even raised their guns before falling to the ground, and those behind trampled over their comrades' bodies to charge forward. Although Xiaoshuai's accuracy was very high, a magazine could only hold thirty rounds, and during the brief moment it took them to reload, the people outside had already crossed the gate. If they were allowed to rush in and scatter, surrounding the Sand Fox team, the situation would become perilous. The AK-47's power was indeed great, and the concrete blocks that protected them from bullets began to crumble when hit, and it wouldn't take long for the bullets to penetrate the concrete and strike the hidden Sand Fox members behind.

  Xie Xiaoshuai gave up reloading and threw his main weapon to the ground, throwing a hand grenade towards the door. The hand grenade landed in the middle of the crowd, its powerful force instantly blowing five or six people away. Duan Ge and the others on their side also followed Xie Xiaoshuai's example, using hand grenades to block the advancing footsteps of the group outside.

  But the crowd outside was too numerous, and the hand grenades were just a drop in the bucket. The Sand Fox team threw out all their hand grenades, but it only slightly impeded the enemy's advance. As soon as the explosions stopped, the people outside regrouped for another round of charging.

  Xie Xiaoshuai saw that the opponent's footsteps could no longer be blocked, so he abandoned his defensive stance. He took out his secondary weapon from behind: a foldable 56-1 tactical assault rifle, jumped out of the defensive fortifications and began to skirmish.

  Xie Xiaoshuai successfully attracted the enemy's attention, and a large number of bullets flew towards him. Xie Xiaoshuai irregularly ran to the shooting position and knocked down the armed personnel who had already rushed into the gate. Because it was a secondary weapon, Xie Xiaoshuai only had three magazines with ninety rounds of ammunition. The accuracy of moving shots was indeed a bit lower, but still made fifty or sixty enemies lose their combat effectiveness.

  Seeing that almost everyone outside was about to be annihilated, Xie Xiaoshuai jumped back to his original hiding place in a few leaps, picked up his main weapon, replaced the magazine, and prepared to wipe out the remaining personnel. Outside the vast wilderness, a large number of car lights approached from afar, and the enemy's reinforcements arrived at this time.

  Xie Xiaoshuai saw this scene, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley, with a bitter smile on his face. This was probably an insoluble dead end already.

  The remaining personnel did not continue to charge in, but waited for the reinforcements that had arrived to gather together and continue the charge. The Sand Fox team checked their ammunition situation, which was very pessimistic, with basically everyone having less than a hundred rounds of bullets, stuck outside the formation, and the people who came to support were probably no less than a thousand.

  The people outside seemed to be starting to organize an attack, and Xie Xiaoshuai's team had no choice but to defend themselves to the death. There were still hundreds of compatriots inside the power plant. If they gave up, the fate of these people would be very tragic. At this time, a large number of car lights also lit up in the direction where Xie Xiaoshuai and his team came from. Judging by the time, it should be the arrival of the follow-up troops.

  The anti-government forces outside saw that they could no longer gain any advantage and withdrew from the area after leaving behind a large number of corpses.

  When the team leader got off the car, he was shocked by what he saw on the scene. The large holes of various sizes were all over the cement blocks on both sides of the gate and inside the gate. The road to the gate was filled with corpses everywhere, and it was clear that the Sand Fox team had just gone through a fierce battle.

  This is, Wen Long led the workers and management personnel out of their hiding place, seeing the situation outside was also surprising, but what surprised him even more was the combat power of the Sha Hu Xiao Dui. Only eight people, they actually left behind nearly two hundred corpses, what kind of people are these? This was the only thought in Wen Long's mind at this moment.

  Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Xie Xiaoshuai led the desert fox team back to their base to rest. Today, they had been through too much and were now physically and mentally exhausted, only wanting a good rest.