Chapter 4 Metamorphosis into the armpit
The blocking attack launched by the Toyota pickup truck that followed the mercenaries of the soldier can almost be described as boring.
The reverse fire blocking line spread by two individual grenade launchers blocked the retreat of the Toyota pickup trucks at the first time. After that, the two powerful heavy machine gun muzzles were sprayed with bullet links, like the legendary God of War Whip, cut back and forth on the fragile Toyota pickup truck.
Several Toyota pickup trucks that were lucky enough not to explode in the first wave of attack turned desperately to escape, but the 12.7mm caliber M90 Barrett sniper rifle perfectly interprets what nowhere to escape.
There were no prisoners, and no survivors. In just one minute, the originally aggressive pursuers became burning remains and broken limbs on this arid land.
Pei Nan, who almost never found a chance to shoot, was not surprised by such a result. However, the mercenaries following Pei Nan saw the hellish scene in front of him, and they really looked a little palpitations. When looking at Tang Guoming and others, there was a little more fear in their eyes.
It was precisely because of this feeling of fear that after Tang Guoming issued an order to clean the battlefield and evacuate as quickly as possible, Peinan and several other mercenaries accelerated their actions a little faster than usual. In the following itinerary, several mercenaries also really woke up and responded to the instructions given by Tang Guoming as soon as possible.
Seeing the outline of a building appearing on the horizon in front of the vehicle, Pei Nan, who was driving, turned his head excitedly and looked at Tang Guoming: "Tang, we will be safe at most half an hour!"
Listening to Peinan's excited yelling, several mercenaries squeezed in the armored vehicles rushed to Peinan, staring at the increasingly clear contours of the building on the horizon and shouting: "God bless! Finally, I can lie down and sleep in a room with hot water and air conditioning!"
"I smelled money! And the best pure malt whiskey!"
"I just want to get a ticket from the Frenchman as soon as possible... It's the best season in Hawaii, and the beach is full of hot and hot beauties, and they are waiting for me..."
Also staring at the outline of the building exposed on the horizon, Tang Guoming frowned slightly. He reached out and grabbed a monocular telescope that Peinan threw beside him. Tang Guoming stared at the building complex with obvious military fortress style and said, "Is this the camp you mentioned that the acquirer built? It seems that he is indeed rich and powerful!"
With a little excitement, Peinan spoke a little louder: "Oh... it wasn't exactly his work! This building complex was originally built by an American security contractor. After they messed up that job, the building complex was almost abandoned and became a garbage dump for locals to choose freely for building materials. But just a year ago, several different security contractors actually returned here and jointly renovated the place. The buyer we were looking for was just renting an office here."
After glanced at several extremely excited mercenaries, Tang Guoming said inadvertently: "It seems that the safety factor here is very high?"
Peinan nodded: "Many of the employees of those security contracting companies are retired U.S. soldiers who have experienced actual combat. So when rebuilding this complex, the security measures used were almost all applied to the US military's set up. Oh... Don, you should know that the green zone set up by the US military during the occupation of Iraq? This is almost as safe as the green zone, so there is also a nickname - Oasis!"
A disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and Tang Guoming responded casually: "It is the so-called highly secure area? The US military and civilians who stay in it and the civilians related to military operations can enjoy everything in accordance with the American lifestyle. In addition to the less satisfactory weather conditions, the US military has almost moved a small American town to Iraq. But Penang, you should also know that in addition to the green area established by the US military, there is a wider range that surrounds the green area? There is also a brown area here that Americans never recognize?"
He opened his mouth in surprise, and Penan laughed dryly at the ground silently, and drove toward the complex called the oasis...
Although the US military never admits that the so-called brown zone exists, almost all military personnel from countries around the world know that the so-called highly secure zone established by the US military relies on a wider range, blocking all external attacks by the brown zone surrounded by green zones.
Those who serve as the guards in the Brown District are basically pro-American Iraqi natives. Among these natives, some are deserters of the Iraqi army, while others are local civilians who are extremely lacking in basic military training but have a great impression of the United States.
In terms of combat capabilities alone, these pro-US Iraqi natives who are responsible for the defense of the Brown Zone are almost worth mentioning. However, the US military does not require high demands. These pro-US Iraqi natives are only required to be able to discover first when the attack comes, and provide the US military with sufficient reaction time to defend or counterattack.
In other words, what the US military needs is not the combat effectiveness of those pro-US Iraqi natives, but the desire to make those pro-US Iraqi natives play the role of human shields. During the years when the US military occupied Iraq, at least a dozen suicide bomb attacks were blocked within the brown zone, and even the explosion shock waves could not touch the green zone.
Over the past few years, almost no one in the US military was injured or killed in these suicide bomb attacks, but the number of pro-US Iraqi natives who were responsible for the defense of the Brown Zone was still vague. Finally, they turned against each other and completely denied the existence of the Brown Zone.
Seeing the outline of the building becoming clearer and clearer, Tang Guoming hesitated for a moment and turned to look at Peinan who was concentrating on driving: "According to the safety standards of the green area, everyone entering this area must undergo a safety inspection?"
Having shrugged his shoulders habitually, Pei Nan reached out to find a hard plastic card with a bar identification code from his arms: "Those who often go in and out and those who have contact with an office in the area will be issued such passes. However, those who enter for the first time will undergo strict safety inspections."
After a little hesitation, Tang Guoming reached out and grabbed the communicator in the wheeled armored vehicle: "Pan Guan, follow us and drive in. After entering, you and Dagong will leave separately!"
Turning his head and glanced at Tang Guoming, Peinan shook his head with some laughter and crying: "Tang, isn't your caution a little redundant? We are now sitting on the same boat..."
Gently putting his finger on the needle-like object beside the slit of the pants, Tang Guoming narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the peripheral fortifications built with steel mesh sandbags at the entrance of the building: "Unfamiliar places, people who are not very familiar will always make me feel a little nervous!"
Sighing slightly, Peinan slowed down his speed and drove slowly to the outer fortification, which was nearly one kilometer away from the entrance of the building complex.
The engine was extinguished in a normal manner. Peinan held it high in front of the driving window of the armored vehicle with one hand, opened the DIY movable metal curtain bed on the side of the armored vehicle with the other hand, and slowly handed out the hard plastic identity card: "Fernandez, is it you, the guy who is serious about it?"
One left and one right, they approached the DIY metal curtain bed on the side of the armored vehicle. The two strong men with obvious Mexican blood and wearing MARPAT Desert Digital Camouflage combat uniforms knew Peinan, but they still slightly raised the muzzle in their hands and pointed it at Peinan, and drove with full alert.
After confirming that all the vehicles had turned off the engine, a strong man who was in a state of alert reached out from behind his waist to take out a civilian version of the code reader and scanned the identity card outside the window of Peinan. After the green light on the code reader, he relaxed the tense muscles on his arm and showed a slightly stereotyped smile to Peinan: "You are late to come back, and there is still one car missing?"
Sighing helplessly, Peinan nodded with a wry smile: "I encountered a big trouble and I almost couldn't come back!"
He turned his face and looked at the mottled bullet marks on the wheeled armored vehicle. The strong man with a hideous smile took a few steps back without a doubt, and waved his hand to a bunker diagonally on the fortifications: "Good luck!"
As the strong man who served as the guard gave the order to release the order, the anti-collision-proof spike roadblock that was originally crossed in front of the wheeled armored vehicle quickly fell down. Several armed personnel who pointed their guns at the wheeled armored vehicles in the fortifications also hung their muzzles.
In the two built-in towers not far from the fortifications and two independent ring fortifications, the armed personnel who controlled the double-mounted anti-aircraft guns were re-directed to the original warning direction. And further afield, the reflection of the sniper rifle sights flashed quickly, no longer staring at the wheeled armored vehicles that wanted to drive into the complex.
Driving slowly along the detour route deliberately isolated with steel mesh sandbags after the fortification, Peinan seemed to notice that Tang Guoming, who was sitting beside him, focused on the construction and defense situation near the vehicle, and simply slowed down the speed of the vehicle considerately, so that Tang Guoming could carefully see the defense situation around the building complex: "Tang, is this your professional habit? I understand that you have the quality of a professional soldier, but is this ability to maintain a combat mentality at all times really good for you? Will you Chinese soldiers never learn to relax?"
Turning his head and showing a faint smile at Peinan, Tang Guoming responded in a harmonious voice: "Of course I will relax, but that can only be in my country. And here... do you think I can relax in a country where buying AK is easier than buying food? What's more, there are at least six snipers and two machine guns around who are not hiding well, always pointing their muzzles at us?"
With no objection, Peinan drove into the entrance of the complex. Looking from the rearview mirror, Pan Guan and Harbala jumped out of the Hummer quickly and quickly integrated into the crowd in the complex. Peinan smiled bitterly and drove into a relatively closed courtyard built of heavy containers.
Facing Peinan who jumped out of the armored vehicle, a middle-aged man with pink skin and blond hair laughed exaggeratedly and opened his arms: "Ah...my dear Peinan, I'm glad to see you again! Oh...you have you brought me a new friend?"
Going sideways away from the hugging posture of the overly enthusiastic middle-aged man, Penan looked back at Eric who was pulled out of the armored vehicle by his companion: "Mr. Pierre, let's go into the house and talk? I've brought you a small surprise, of course... we also paid a heavy price!"
Scanning the wheeled armored vehicle with mottled bullet marks, Pierre's sweaty face suddenly showed a look of surprise: "Oh... it seems that you are indeed in trouble? Then, go to my office to talk? Gentlemen, please come in too? There are some cold beer in my office, which may moisten your dry throat..."
As he was chatting, Pierre turned around and walked into a container-constructed house in the courtyard. Without waiting for Pernan and others to escort Eric to set foot, Pierre had already pushed a heavy large ammunition box in front of Pernan and others: "Drink a drink first...my God!"
Looking at the hood and cloth stuffed in his mouth by Peinan, revealing his original face, Pierre's face changed drastically, and he almost rushed to the door with a quick step and closed the door of the room: "Where did you find this guy?!"
Shrugging at Pierre, whose face suddenly turned pale, Penan bent down and opened the huge ammunition box, and took out a bottle of beer from the ice water in the ammunition box: "It doesn't matter anymore! What I care about now is - how much is this guy worth?"
Swallowing hard, Pierre's voice trembled clearly: "My dear Mr. Penan, strictly speaking, the goods you brought... are very valuable, so valuable that I can no longer buy them immediately. From another perspective... the goods you brought back are not only valuable, but also have a huge trouble!"
With the cold beer that was coming to your mouth, Penan burped loudly: "This is not the answer I want! Mr. Pierre, I collected goods according to your request, and you now tell me that you cannot fulfill the reward promised at the time? What does this mean, I think you should be very clear?!"
As Peinan's eyes became cold, the other mercenaries following Peinan also looked bad, and the sweat beads on Pierre's face suddenly became dense: "My God! My dear Mr. Peinan, things are changing, do you understand? It is no longer a simple problem of goods collection and acquisition... In the few days you left here, something happened, making the original procurement plan... not so simple!"
With a gloomy face, Peinan put his hand on the handle of the self-defense pistol on his legs: "But I have always liked to solve the problem in the simplest way!"
Standing behind Pei Nan, Tang Guoming quietly looked at Pierre's extremely embarrassed appearance, and suddenly spoke in English and said to Pierre: "What are you referring to - the huge trouble that comes with valuable information, what exactly do you mean?"
He looked at Tang Guoming who had never met in surprise. Pierre carefully looked at Peinan's face and said hesitantly: "Just the next day after you left here, Eric's men kidnapped some workers and ordered the companies that hired those workers to pay the ransom! But we all know that Eric once executed all the hostages immediately after receiving the ransom. So... before those hostages were confirmed to be safe, no matter who caught Eric, he had to take on the personal safety of those hostages indiscriminately. You know, this is a big trouble..."
Suddenly, Eric, who was handcuffed with his hands, smiled sinisterly, turned his head and looked around everyone in the room: "You... are all dead! I have ordered my subordinates to execute those hostages in two days! This order cannot be changed, even if I don't do it! Even if I let you go, you will be regarded as a scapegoat to calm the anger of the bigwigs who are pursuing this matter! You... are all dead!"
Ignoring Eric's intimidating words at all, Tang Guoming quickly analyzed Pierre's rather confusing words and slowly spoke to Pierre: "You said just now - no matter who catches Eric, you will be forced to bear the safety of those hostages. So can I understand this way - once the hostages are rescued, the troubles attached to Eric will disappear, and the only value is left?"
Lamping his head as if a chicken pecked at rice, Pierre hurriedly agreed: "It's true!"
Turning his head to look at Peinan with a gloomy face, Tang Guoming whispered in Chinese: "You said just now - are we sitting in a boat?"
Looking at Tang Guoming with a calm expression in surprise, Peinan responded in surprise: "Tang...what do you want to do?"
Tang Guoming: "Solve the trouble!"
Chapter completed!