Of course, it will not be himself or the mercenaries under his command who are calculating, these people are the most ordinary soldiers from the perspective of war, and they are not of much value. The only people who can be counted are the ones they are protecting. The most important thing is that since Abkhazia has done it, it is impossible for this most valuable target to be missed in Tskhinvali's Eric. In other words, the 009 Man-Eating Shark Squad, which has now lost contact, is in great danger and has even fallen into a difficult situation.

Thinking of this, John decided to change his previous plan to wait in Znauri, that is, instead of passively waiting, he wanted to actively enter the mountains north of Znauriri to search. If the Man-Eating Shark Squad gets into trouble there, then a fierce battle is bound to take place. And as long as there is an engagement, with his knowledge of Donovan's abilities, it will be difficult for the other side to eliminate the entire squad plus a platoon of Georgians in a short period of time. In this case, when you lead people into the mountains, you should easily find them through the sound of gunfire. After all, Znauli is not far from Tskhinvali in total, and there is not much place in total. Of course, it is also possible that after entering the mountainous area, there is no movement, which is likely that they have passed through the mountainous area safely, or they may not have taken this road, or they have not had time to leave the city before they have been destroyed by air raids. However, such a possibility is very small, and according to the previous information from Tskhinvali, they did not travel there for long, and from the information available so far, there were no large numbers of Russians in this area, let alone large-scale air strikes or artillery shelling. In other words, it is unlikely that they will change their course at the last minute due to special circumstances, or that they will not be mistaken after leaving Tskhinvali. So at the moment they probably have only two possibilities: the first is that nothing is happening there, and they are coming to Znauriri as planned. And the second is when they are in trouble, stuck in one place at the moment or trying to get out of each other. Then what you have to do is to deal with this second possibility.

So John looked at the man around him after looking at the map: "We can't sit in Znaurigan. Gotta take the initiative to find them. ”

"Looking for them?" One of John's side looked at him and said, "Do you want to search separately?" ”

"Nope." John thought for a moment and said, "No need to disperse. We don't know exactly what it looks like here. If there really is a large number of Ossetians or even Russians operating here, the dispersion of the meeting will cause us great trouble for ourselves. We cannot change ourselves from being on the rescue side to the one who needs to be rescued. Let's gather together, let everyone bring more ammunition, and be ready for battle at any time. ”

Just as John reached Znauriri and headed north into the mountains, Ashraf and his men were led by Chennikov towards the Man-Shark Squad at a rapid pace. They were moving at a fast pace, and in about half an hour they were already southeast of the direction the man-eating shark team was traveling.

"They should be around here. According to the location sent to us, we are very close to Chinnikov. Achraf gasped as he paused, "Contact Chinnikov, halftime is over, let him try to attack the opponent." Gunshots, I need to hear them. ”

Moments later, about a kilometer away, Chinnikov, who had received Ashraf's instructions, immediately picked up his speed, quickly shortened the distance between him and Pete and Jeff, and soon appeared in their field of vision.

Jeff's condition was getting worse and worse at the moment, the constant bleeding and pain made it more and more difficult for him to concentrate, and his reflexes were slowly becoming dull. So he did not see at all when the figure of the Russian flashed through the woods. Fortunately, Pete, who had been keeping an eye on the movement in the rear, quickly spotted them, and after a quick scan back and forth, he raised the muzzle of his gun and said to Jeff: "Go and inform the sir, the Russians are going to do something." ”

Jeff nodded immediately, looked tired, turned around and sped out. And just as he ran out, Pete aimed at a figure and pulled the trigger.

The bullet didn't hit the other side, and as Pete was not trying to kill them, but wanted the Russians not to catch up so quickly, because he had to buy time for Donovan and them to react.

Chinnikov, who had caught up with someone, hid behind a tree and sneered, he looked at the man who had been carrying a satellite phone: "Tell the moose that we are ready to attack." ”

Achraf, who was a kilometre away, of course, heard the gunshot. Judging from the sound of the gunshot, he was very close to where he was, so he followed the place where the gunfire came, and took the telescope and looked carefully into the distance. But the vegetation was dense and the terrain was undulating, so he didn't see what he wanted from the direction where the gunshots were coming from. And while he was observing, the person behind him whispered, "The raccoons report that they are ready to attack." ”

Ashraf lowered his binoculars and said, "Let them keep following and wait for us to shoot before they do it." With that, he picked up his gun and beckoned to his men, and then quickly headed northwest.

At the same time, Donovan, who also heard the gunshots, stopped and made everyone crouch. After hearing Jeff's report, Donovan seemed to realize something. Instead of letting Jeff go back, he quickly made his way to the back of the group and found Pete.

At this time, Pete hid under a tree after a shot and continued to watch the movement behind him, and as soon as Donovan came to his side, he said, "These people in the back are a little weird. I looked like I was going to attack, but after I fired a shot, I didn't move. ”

Donovan quickly looked behind him, but there was no movement in the woods. He whispered to Pete, "Are you sure you didn't shorten the distance with the other party because we were slow?" ”

"It's not." Pete shook his head and said, "They suddenly picked up speed. These guys have been hanging behind us, I can't be mistaken. ”

Hearing Pete say this, Donovan thought for a moment and said worriedly, "It seems that their people have arrived." After a firefight, keep an eye on Eric, protect him, and don't worry too much about anything else. Do you understand? ”

Pete quickly understood Donovan's concern, from this moment, the other party would definitely not approach suddenly and inexplicably put on a posture of attacking but inexplicably did not move, the only explanation was that his team had entered the position of their attack, and they were just putting up a posture and waiting for their companions to take position.