Chapter Seventy-Four: Confrontation
But John didn't just retreat, his reputation in the mercenary world was not for nothing. While the two sides were at a stalemate, John had already figured out what might happen and how to deal with it. So when he noticed that the Russians were coming at him, John decided to take the Russians with him and let them walk after him.
So where to go? It was the crack in the mountain that Colin had just walked on. To be precise, John intended to retreat through the crack to the other side of the hill. The advantage of this was twofold, firstly, according to Colin, the crack was so narrow that it was only large enough for one person to enter and exit at first. As long as you act quickly, this kind of place is completely a good place that can contain the opponent well, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Second, it is its own purpose. Now that Colin has found his goal, there is little point in staying here. Of course, it would be best if Colin could come with the goal, after all, he could get out of here the way he walked. But if you can't walk, it's nothing, at most it's just a detour. There are also Russians on that side, but there are certainly not as many of them as here. But even so, it was necessary for me to go to Colin and make sure that the goal was in my own hands.
So after Ashraf commanded his men to attack, John quickly retreated after a little contact. And they followed the route Colin had taken towards the crack in the mountain.
For such an action of the Yankees, the Russians who came with great momentum were like a punch on the cotton, and there was nowhere to focus and a feeling that they couldn't do it. But these did not surprise Ashraf. His opponent is an old fritter, which can be clearly felt after the fight. And as for the opponent's intentions, Ashraf also estimated that they just wanted to lean directly towards the people on the other side who had already exchanged fire with the raccoon team. It's not a hard move, but it's a good move. So Ashraf didn't hesitate, since he had an advantage at the moment, he had to know how to make full use of it and make the most of it. So he immediately accelerated the pace of the attack, and since the opponent didn't want to fight here, he repeated his old tricks, and quickly dispatched a team of people to quickly intersperse the direction of the opponent's retreat, trying to force the opponent to fight hard here.
Compared to John's unpredictable life and death here, Pete's situation on the other side is rapidly improving. Because after Colin launched an attack, although Chinnikov and the raccoon team he led were desperate, there were few people after all, and they were exhausted after half a day of continuous fighting. They were among the first to fight the Man-Shark Squad and the Georgians. Therefore, after being suppressed, it is difficult to have a good way to change the passive situation, and can only report the situation here to Ashraf while trying to bite the other party, so as not to let them disengage and escape smoothly.
And with Pete, Colin first came to Pete's side after leading his men to repel the Russian attack. He quickly glanced at Pete and Eric, who was still unconscious, and then spoke, "009 squad? ”
"Yes! Pete, Pete Wong. Pete replied immediately.
Colin didn't actually have any doubts about his identity, but it was just a way of doing things or a routine inquiry, so as not to really make a mistake. So he didn't hear exactly what Pete said after nodding, and turned to look at Eric and said, "Is he still alive?" ”
"Alive." Pete nodded immediately, "It's just that I've been unconscious." But it didn't stop breathing. ”
Colin immediately nodded and said to a person beside him, "Cook." You come with this guy on your back. After saying that, he looked at Pete and said, "Can you still use a gun?" ”
"Of course." Pete nodded immediately. I saw Colin turn to Cook, who had already come over and was about to carry Eric, and said, "Give him your rifle." ”
The man, Cook, did not speak, but immediately unloaded the rifle he was carrying and handed it to Pete, as well as the other two magazines on his tactical vest.
While Pete took the rifle and bullets, Colin added, "You follow me in a moment." Fight and retreat. ”
"Understood." Pete slung his rifle on his back as he agreed, and quickly helped Cook carry Eric on his back.
And after seeing Cook on his back, Colin immediately looked at the others and said, "Cover shooting!" ”
Chinnikov watched as a figure with a man on his back flashed through the trees and quickly disappeared from view. He had no choice, they were completely suppressed at the moment, and could only barely make some counterattacks. But none of this makes sense for the whole situation. He had to report the situation here to Ashraf again, looking forward to Ashraf making arrangements on the other side.
Ashraf, who received the report, did not get angry this time because of the unfavorable operation of Chennikov, as he had done before. At this moment, he has a deep understanding of the difficulties faced by the raccoon team, and more importantly, he has put hope on his side, which means that the raccoon team led by Chennikov has played a small role. So Ashraf didn't say much to Chinnikov, but while informing Chinnikov about the situation here, he instructed him to be cautious in order to reduce unnecessary casualties.
Just as Ashraf gave the order. John commanded his mercenaries to attack the Russians who had penetrated behind his flank.
The attack was so fierce that the Russian, who had only been interspersed, was a little caught off guard and was unable to parry it for a while. The reason why it was beaten like this is not because of how well John commanded, or how good these Yankees were, but in fact, the two sides were not much different, and even the GRU led by Achraf was even more powerful. It's just that John's luck was better at the moment, and when the Russians were interspersed, they were not able to penetrate far enough away because of the terrain. So just as they were starting to intersperse, Helmet's mercenaries discovered their actions and immediately reported them to John.
The rapid interspersion of the Russians made John break out in a little cold sweat. Because he originally thought that when he contracted his defense and began to retreat, the other party would definitely hesitate a little, and he would not be able to follow again after changing his strategy and arranging again.
But I didn't expect that the other party would start interspersing immediately after he contracted, and he was interspersed on his own retreat. It gave him the feeling that the other party was fully aware of his intentions. If it weren't for the quick discovery of this by his own people, the consequences would have been unimaginable. But that's all the trouble it caused John, who, as Ashraf believes, is indeed an old fritter. Moments after receiving the report, he made a decision, which was to concentrate his forces on the onslaught of the Russians, and take them by surprise while they were still in position.