Chapter 82: Raid on the Chemical Plant
The night sky in Africa is very clear, with bright stars twinkling in the sky. From time to time, sparse gunfire can be heard in the war-torn city.
If it weren't for the occasional flying tracer bullets and the fires caused by the explosions, it would be hard to believe that you are in the middle of a battlefield full of artillery fire.
The commando convoy did not go directly to the west of the city where the hostages were located, but followed Li Dongsheng's instructions to bypass the anti-government forces in the west and turn to the south, so as not to arouse the enemy's alarm.
The convoy of five off-road vehicles encountered several roadblocks set up by government forces in the city to intercept them, and each time Yu Zhensheng took out the relevant documents to negotiate before letting them go. It took more than 40 minutes to travel six or seven kilometers before the convoy left Nancheng.
The convoy soon entered the Sahara Desert as it headed south. The desert is endless and vast, and the rolling sand dunes are like waves in the sea. The vast desert is still steaming in the heat waves at night, after the sun is steaming during the day.
After about 10 kilometers, Li Dongsheng instructed the convoy to drive in the direction of the chemical plant's outfall to the west.
Under the instructions of the satellite locator, the convoy quickly came to a stop 5 kilometers away from the outfall.
"Get out of the car and assemble!" Li Dongsheng gathered the team members around him and looked around, and ordered: "From now on, keep the radio silent, and don't shoot unless you have to." Check the equipment again", then turned to Yu Zhensheng and said, "You are on the spot to pick us up, and you can contact us at any time if there is any emergency."
Seeing that the team members were ready, Li Dongsheng quickly disappeared into the desert with the team members. As with every mission, Wan Lin walked at the front of the queue with Xiaohua, and the rest of the team members followed more than ten meters behind them.
Xiaohua ran ahead, seemingly unaccustomed to the heat of the desert, sticking out her tongue as she ran. Seeing Xiaohua's state, Wan Lin quickly took down the kettle and poured some water into its mouth, patting its head. Xiaohua finished drinking the water, wagged her big tail at Wanlin, and continued to run forward.
Xiaoya and Lingling carried more than 20 kilograms of equipment on their backs, and kept wiping their sweat while running. Temperatures in the African desert reach 40 to 50 degrees Celsius during the day and drop to more than 10 degrees Celsius in the middle of the night, but at night, the temperature is still around 30 degrees.
The assault team advanced about two kilometers, and Xiaohua, who was running in front, suddenly slowed down. Wan Lin turned around and whispered to Li Dongsheng, who came up, "There is a situation!" ”
Li Dongsheng raised his hand to signal the team members to hide, and walked up to Lingling by himself: "Check if there is a radio signal ahead?" ”
Lingling quickly knelt down on one knee to open the information countermeasure box, "Report, there is a radio signal in the state of power on about two kilometers ahead."
"Detect at any time" Li Dongsheng confirmed that there were indeed enemy guards at the sewage outlet ahead, and immediately ordered all team members to turn on the silent radio intercom and prepare for battle.
"Wan Lin took Xiaohua up to reconnoitre, and the rest of the team members were on standby", "Yes" Wan Lin promised to bow down and take Xiaohua to touch it slowly.
After about a kilometer, Wan Lin and Xiaohua came to the back of a large sand dune, Wan Lin signaled Xiaohua to be careful, and then slowly climbed up the sand dune.
Coming to the top of the sand dune, Wan Lin took out his night vision goggles and lay on the sand dune to look forward. I saw a military tent behind a small sand dune eight or nine hundred meters ahead, and two sentries near the tent were sitting on the ground smoking, and the fire of the cigarette butts flickered brightly and dimly in the night, which was particularly eye-catching.
After the observation, Wan Lin shrank behind the sand dunes and whispered into the intercom in his ear, "Leopard head." Two kilometers in front of you, you will find a military tent, which is estimated to hold a dozen people and about a platoon of troops. Two open whistles were found, but no dark whistles were found."
Li Dongsheng quickly rushed over with his teammates. He came to Wan Lin's side, carefully observed the situation on the other side, and then called Lingling to "block the other party's radio signal, and don't let them pass on the attack information", Lingling quickly replied, "The signal shielding is complete". Li Dongsheng immediately ordered Wan Lin: "Quietly kill the two sentinels and act."
After receiving the order, Wan Lin took out a small bow and two arrows from behind him, and quietly climbed under the sand dunes with Xiaohua. Approaching 300 meters from his target, he simultaneously mounted two arrows on his bow and aimed them at the necks of the two sentries outside the tent. "Whoosh", two arrows were inserted into each other's necks accurately, and the two sentinels fell backwards silently.
Wan Li pulled out his pistol and installed the silencer and waved his hand, Xiaohua took the lead in rushing towards the tent, followed by Wan Lin with a pistol. Li Dongsheng also rushed down with his teammates.
Wan Lin's rapid running on the sand made a "huh" sound, a man who came out of the tent wearing pants to urinate, heard the sound and suddenly looked up to see Wan Lin running with a slip of sand and dust, opened his mouth and was about to shout, just in time to arrive Xiaohua jumped up and tore his throat with a claw, and the enemy turned and fell backwards.
The sound of the corpse falling to the ground woke up the commander in the tent who was guarding the outfall, and he opened his eyes to see Wan Lin getting into the tent with a gun, rolling over and grabbing the radio intercom next to his pillow and shouting "Attacked" in French.
There was no echo from the radio intercom, and the radio signal had long been blocked by Lingling. It is impossible for a radio signal of this frequency to be sent within a radius of 5 km.
The commander's shouts woke up a dozen sleeping soldiers, and the first six or seven soldiers jumped from their beds and threw themselves on AK47 rifles on the weapons racks across the bed.
Wan Lin's pistol with a silencer in his hand quickly shook at the soldiers who got up, followed by a few screams on the bed, and the five or six soldiers who had just woken up and didn't get up were torn off by Xiaohua on the bed.
When Li Dongsheng rushed in with his teammates, there was no one alive in the tent. Xiao Ya and Lingling, who came in at the end, saw the corpses lying upside down and the blood gushing out from their heads and necks, and ran out directly with their mouths covered.
Wan Lin and Cheng Ru walked over and patted Xiao Ya and Lingling, who were bent over and vomiting, respectively. After Li Dongsheng walked around the tent to make sure that there was no live mouth, he easily put the enemy's walkie-talkie into his pocket. Then he came out of the tent, looked at the two female team members, and said, "It's okay, just do two more missions." Pack up and get ready to go".
When the group walked to the outlet, they saw a thick pipe with a diameter of 3 meters leading straight to the chemical plant four or five kilometers away, and a deep pit was under the outlet, from which a pungent smell came from the pipe.
Everyone took out their gas masks and put them on their faces, and Wan Lin looked down at Xiaohua and found that it was wrinkling its nose and retreating, knowing that it hated the smell. He thought for a moment, took off his gas mask, pulled out a filter sponge from it, and tied it to Xiaohua's nose with a strap.
Xiaoya and Lingling saw the strange-looking little flower, and laughed out loud. Xiaohua raised her right paw at them, turned around and followed Wan Lin into the sewage pipe first.
Soon, the assault team came to a fork in the road, and three thick pipes were connected to the pipes that the commandos had come from, in three directions.