"Boom!" With a dull thud, Li Yulong, who had closed his eyes to rest because of the darkness, was startled awake.
He opened his eyes and listened carefully, trying to determine what had made the sound just now.
"What is this...?!" The staff mber who was also kidnapped nearby heard the sound and seed sowhat unsure and suspicious.
"What’s the matter? What is that sound?" Li Yulong noticed the staff mber’s unusual behavior. Although he couldn’t see his expression, he could hear the surprise in his voice.
The staff mber hesitated a bit but still explained uncertainly to Li Yulong, "It sounds like an explosion. I’ve heard this kind of sound before when I was on the aircraft carrier. Could it be that the fleet is sending soone to rescue us?"
While the two were talking, two more dull thuds ca.
Because they were confined underground, the two couldn’t hear clearly, but the thuds that penetrated into the basent were obviously loud noises.
"Sounds like explosions! Soone must be coming to save us! We’re going to be saved!" The staff mber got excited, wriggling his body to stand up to hear more clearly.
But with his hands and feet bound, he could only keep writhing on the ground, managing after a while just to move to the door and press his ear against it.
Li Yulong was also watching the staff mber with great focus. Although he couldn’t see in the pitch darkness, he could still determine the other’s position through the sounds.
He, too, beca excited and hopeful, longing for soone to actually co and rescue them.
However, after the initial three thuds, no other sound ca through, and the silence that resud made Li Yulong’s heart sink as if it had fallen to the bottom of a valley.
The staff mber lying at the door, however, still held hope. He seed to faintly hear so sounds, soone outside cursing in German.
This made him very curious about what exactly was happening outside and why the explosions had ceased.
Aside from these, he was most concerned about when the people coming to rescue them would find them and get them out.
As for the possibility that those coming weren’t their rescuers or that no one would co to save them, that was not even within his range of considerations.
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"Team A, suppress the enemy! Team B, search for hostages!" At this ti on the ground, the infiltrated special forces had already taken over a building. They were split into two groups: one group was fending off reinforcents of the ard militants, while the other group entered the building, searching for the kidnapped hostages.
Earlier, they had captured two live captives during their infiltration into the city, and after a round of interrogation, they confird that the hostages were locked in the building’s basent. That’s why they contacted the Titan squad outside the city to initiate an attack, drawing away the bulk of the militants’ forces, and then took over the building.
To the special forces’ commander, this mission wasn’t particularly difficult. Even without the Titan squad’s assistance from outside the city, they could complete the hostage rescue mission.
After all, these were just a group of ard militants without even heavy weaponry. Calling them a faction of separatists was putting it nicely; otherwise, they were just a bunch of bandits and robbers. Resisting a well-equipped special forces team, including military exoskeletons and other advanced equipnt, was simply a pipe dream.
However, since support was available, the commander naturally wouldn’t let it go unused.
At least with the Titan squad’s diversion, the ard militants’ reinforcent forces were very limited, allowing them to suppress easily.
To the commander, these militants were already like candles flickering in the wind.
Once the hostages were rescued, whether they launched an attack, or the Titan squad from outside the city ca in, or it was done more simply with the Guardian Land Ship conducting a cleanup, they could easily crush these audacious militants.
The only difference might be considering appearance, as well as the Fla Country military’s long-standing tradition of minimizing killings and casualties.
However, these militants were indeed bold, daring to kidnap citizens of the Fla Country, and their end has never been good.
In the past, even if the Fla Country soldiers abided by military discipline and didn’t do anything to them, there would still be other forces wanting to curry favor with the Fla Country that would do the job, as a goodwill gesture towards the Fla Country.
But now... the commander aid his red-dot sight at a returning militant and shot him down before sentencing these terrorists to death in his mind.
At any ti, the safety of people’s lives and property had always been a priority for the Fla Country, and threatening the safety of the Fla Country’s citizens’ lives and property was equivalent to opposing the entire country.
As Fla Country soldiers, their only job was to eliminate the enemy.
With a team sent to search, they quickly found the kidnapped Li Yulong and two staff mbers, along with a local driver they hired, in the building’s basent and rescued them.
"Hostages have been successfully rescued, we are evacuating, requesting fire cover!" Seeing the hostages had been rescued, the commander didn’t waste any ti, reporting to his superior while directing his soldiers to fight and retreat, advancing towards the designated evacuation point.
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"Hostages have been successfully rescued! No casualties!" Within the bridge of the Guardian Land Ship, a communicator quickly inford everyone of the good news.
"That’s great! Order the special forces to ensure the safe evacuation of the hostages, Titan squad provide cover, make sure the hostages remain safe." The Captain quickly issued the instructions, a smile appearing on his face.
With the orders given, a staff officer on the side hurried to arrange for helicopters to pick up the special forces. They had already completed their task, and as long as they brought the hostages back, they would have successfully completed the rescue mission.
However, at this ti, Chen Xin suddenly spoke, "Have the Titan squad attack, and after the special forces escort the hostages to safety, support them in clearing out the city’s militants."
"What is this about, Chen?" The Captain and several staff officers looked at Chen Xin a bit confused, not understanding why he suggested this.
Facing the Captain and several staff officers’ confusion, Chen Xin explained, "The higher-ups allowed the use of the Titan squad to test their combat effectiveness through actual combat. Earlier was just a feigned attack to divert the enemy; now it’s ti for them to unleash their true power."
Upon hearing this, the Captain realized that the military agreed to deploy the Titan squad to assess how much they could achieve on a conventional battlefield.
So far, they had only demonstrated basic firepower suppression capabilities, but their real coordinated combat abilities had not been showcased. Ordering the attack and letting them fully unleash their combat power was what they should do.
After all, this was actual combat, and there was no better testing opportunity.
Thinking of this, the Captain nodded and issued the command: "Titan squad, advance; after the special forces escort the hostages, assist the Titan squad to clear out the city’s militants."
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