The battle between the mercenary brigade and the Viper Canyon fighters broke out unusually suddenly, when a group of mercenaries stepped on a militant sentry that had buried his entire body in the sand while scouting on foot. Both sides pulled the trigger almost as fast, and after two sharp gunshots, the battle inevitably broke out.

I thought that with scheming or unintentional, those militants in Viper Canyon who couldn't even do unified command would never be able to stop the well-armed and experienced mercenary brigade. But within minutes of the outbreak of the fighting, dozens of large-caliber mortar shells fired from Viper Canyon, as if they had eyes, blew up the mercenaries who had already taken up the position to launch the attack.

The ensuing counter-impact really made the mercenaries who were caught off guard suffer enough. Relying on the strength of the crowd, coupled with the suppression of mortar fire that had obviously been marked for shooting Zhuyuan, the armed men who poured out of Viper Canyon made a beautiful counter-charge. If it weren't for the frantic suppression of heavy machine guns and heavy mortar fire, I'm afraid that the losses suffered by the mercenaries would have been even greater!

Relying on the night vision equipment equipped with almost everyone, the mercenaries quickly seized the initiative after recovering from the initial fire strike. Accurate shooting and relatively skillful tactical coordination allowed the mercenaries to quickly contain the militants' counter-attack.

The snipers who ventured to infiltrate multiple vantage points acted as a timpani on the battlefield at this moment. The mortar positions in Viper Canyon were cleaned up by snipers in the first place. The local absolute firepower superiority formed by the highly mobile vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns even pressed the militants who rushed out of the canyon to the point that they could not raise their heads, and could only retreat into the canyon amid frightened shouts and curses.

The one-sided slaughter began as the night grew darker. Relying on the cover of each other's firepower, the mercenaries scattered into dozens of combat teams quickly interspersed and sneaked in the darkness, dividing the militants who tried to rely on the inherent fortifications to block the attack, and annihilated them one by one like a civet cat catching mice.

Under the deliberately oppressive attack, the armed men in Viper Canyon quickly began a panicked rout after a little resistance. Some of these armed men, relying on their familiarity with the terrain, took advantage of the tunnels and caves in the canyons to hastily hide in the reckless mountains. Others, who had seen the opportunity earlier, scrambled to jump into their vehicles and gallop along the winding roads of Viper Canyon in the most familiar and premeditated direction of escape......

Looking at the time displayed on the military computer, Tang Guoming said to himself with some emotion: "From the start of the battle to the control of the initiative on the battlefield, it only adds up to more than two hours. The combat ability of these mercenaries is really good......"

Looking intently at the road in front of him, Bao Lei replied: "The people who can eat this bowl of bloody rice are basically retired members of the elite troops of some countries, and some are simply active soldiers with the title of early retirement, and everyone has enough actual combat experience." Coupled with the absolute superiority in weapons and equipment, a group of rabble will definitely be able to win, just depending on the length of time? ”

Constantly changing the pictures sent back by different drones, Tang Guoming suddenly fixed a picture on the military computer: "I found the target!" ”

Busy squinting at the picture on the military computer screen, Bao Lei asked with some confusion: "Confirmed so soon?" Boss, there must be more than one large transport in Viper Canyon, right? ”

Switching the screen to thermal detection mode, Tang Guoming pointed to the truck that was moving forward and said: "This car is full of people, most of them are basically squatting or lying on a rickety figure, and everyone's arms are twisted behind their backs. If it were the militants fleeing Viper Canyon, they wouldn't look like this! ”

Peeking at the picture of Tang Guoming constantly changing and monitoring the movement of a truck full of hostages, Bao Lei muttered thoughtfully: "The marching speed of the big truck will definitely not be able to keep up with the Toyota pickup, even if they choose the route that we set up ambush equipment, they will definitely be beaten into a hornet's nest by seeing the Toyota pickup truck at the head first, so they can only take a detour...... Boss, we have plenty of time. But I still haven't figured it out, how can we fully ensure the safety of those hostages? ”

Moving the surveillance footage to the four Toyota pickup trucks in front of and behind the trucks that served as road drivers and guards, Tang Guoming replied: "What are you worried about? ”

Swinging the steering wheel around a large pothole in the road, Bao Lei said without hesitation: "Eric's militants are all murderous without blinking, and if they encounter an ambush that they can't resist, they will definitely kill all the hostages." Judging by our current firepower...... Even if we all had the sniping ability of Lao Gu's evil sect, I am afraid it would be difficult to guarantee that the hostages would not be harmed - just throw a grenade into the truck, and the hostage will be all gone? ”

Staring at the truck running wildly in the dark, the corners of Tang Guoming's mouth flashed a slight smile: "So we must leave that bridge!" ”

Exactly as Tang Guoming expected, a large part of the militants who split up chose the road that Tang Guoming and others had already set up ambushes. The two Toyota pickup trucks that rushed to the front were almost unaware of it, and were covered by a rain of bullets from the M134 machine guns that suddenly lit up in the dark!

The chain of bullets was spaced by tracer bullets, creating a strange dark green band of light in the darkness, sweeping back and forth on the not wide road like a whip of God. And those armor-piercing and incendiary bombs were in the shortest possible time, the target vehicle was disintegrated into a burning wreckage!

The whistling large-caliber mortar shells, at a rate of two rounds per minute, sounded the timpani beat of this battlefield requiem. Each shell always hits the vehicles that are crowded together by dodging machine gun bullets.

The flames produced by the detonation of a high-explosive warhead, which may not seem obvious to a computer screen. However, the shock waves and flying shrapnel that could not be seen at all showed the effect of the attack very clearly, and the originally congested roads were built into one death vacuum after another.

The various vehicles that rushed down the roadbed to avoid the attack in a hurry, some of them pinned to their tires or vehicle chassis by the rocks on the deserted beach, suddenly overturned under the terrified shouts of the armed men driving. Some were followed by a muffled sound and billowing black smoke. A series of intelligent tracking mines triggered from the wilderness swooped down on the militants who wanted to flee on foot like carnivorous spiders that had seen their prey!

Adhering to the principle of attacking as much as possible without causing death, all the mines were blown up after the tracked target jumped up to a height of one meter before a large diamond-shaped prefabricated fragment was exploded. In the storm of fragments, where there were almost no dead spots, almost none of the militants hit by the prefabricated fragments were killed on the spot. In just a few minutes, the screams converged into an aria of despair in the wasteland......

Staring at the vehicles that were busy reversing and scurrying around from the surveillance screen, Bao Lei waved his fist a little excitedly: "This is called unequal conditions of combat!" We don't even have to be on the spot, and we can complete a skirmish with a few buttons, which feels really ...... Double! ”

Switching the monitoring screen to the target truck, Tang Guoming responded: "Lao Mei fought under unequal conditions, and he had already played a little hot in the early years. Do you know how many of their drone pilots and related combatants are forced to retire each year because of mental illness? ”

Pouting with some disdain, Bao Lei raised his finger and pointed to the military computer mounted on the side of the driver's seat: "A large part of the Americans who control drones to fight have not experienced serious military training at all, and some are even video game enthusiasts, putting on military uniforms and starting to work." When they really saw the corpses that were blown up by the missile, of course they couldn't stand it one by one, and it was normal to be scared out of the way! ”

Stretching out his hand and patting Bao Lei on the shoulder, Tang Guoming straightened his face and said: "Lei Gong, I know that you look down on those soldiers of Lao Mei from the bottom of your bones, and think that they are just ordinary people wearing military uniforms, at least a large part of them are like this. But if you think about it carefully, if the US military is really so useless, where will it have the courage to fight all over the world? ”

Shaking his head in disbelief, Bao Lei shouted: "It's true that the Americans are fighting all over the world, but a large part of the fighting is contracted to those security contracting companies!" If you are really capable of fighting, why do you still outsource combat tasks? Can't you just do it yourself? ”

With a sneer, Tang Guoming looked at the faintly visible road sign in front of the road angrily and funny: "You also said that many of those mercenaries are active soldiers with signs of early retirement, where did those people come from?" ”

Opening his mouth in vain, Bao Lei snorted in silence and slammed the brakes to stop the car under the road sign......

Looking at the bridge sign on the road sign, Tang Guoming jumped out of the car neatly and waved his hand at the heavy truck that was following. With Tang Guoming's waving motion, the heavy truck stopped abruptly a few meters in front of Tang Guoming.

Holding the MK11-0 sniper rifle that was regarded as a treasure in his heart, Gu Weisu jumped out of the truck first. After glancing at the terrain around the road signs, Gu Weisu nodded towards Tang Guoming: "The commanding height of about 200 meters on the left side of the road belongs to me!" ”

Looking at the corner of the anti-infantry directional mine exposed from the combat backpack Gu Weisu was carrying on his shoulder, Tang Guoming responded: "Are you sure you can do it alone?" Once the fight starts, if the armed elements who can't cross the bridge stare at you, it will take us twenty minutes at the fastest to get to your position to reinforce you? ”

Flipping his hand and patting the anti-infantry directional mine on his back, Gu Weisu turned sideways and stretched out a slap towards Harba, who had just jumped off the heavy truck: "Give me another assault rifle!" ”

Seeing Gu Weisu's heavy weapons and equipment disappear into the darkness, Bao Lei came to Tang Guoming's side a little impatiently: "Boss, how are we going to fight?" If we don't blow up the bridge, the existing weapons and equipment of the five of us really can't stop those armed personnel who want to flee for their lives? ”

Turning his head to look at Bao Lei, who was carrying a heavy explosive backpack, Tang Guoming smiled and pointed to the bridge guardrail that was faintly visible not far away: "Then you will blow it up!" But...... Take a blasting professional question - how can you block the traffic of the bridge while ensuring the stability of one section of the bridge? ”

With a flash of light, Bao Lei quickly turned around and grabbed a climbing rope from the Humvee, and rushed straight for the bridge in the darkness.

Raising his hand to signal Pan Guanxian to drive the Humvee to the other end of the bridge, Tang Guoming and Halbara worked together to remove two sets of fragmentation kill module components from the heavy truck, and buried them about 100 meters away from the bridgehead. When all these preparations were completed, a clear partridge cry could be heard from the commanding heights not far away.

Jumping neatly into the heavy truck, Halbara shook his head helplessly as he drove towards the other end of the bridge: "I still don't trust electronic equipment...... Obviously, everyone is equipped with individual communication equipment, but he still likes his set? ”

Seeing that Bao Lei, who had already laid out the explosives, quickly jumped into the back compartment of the heavy truck, Tang Guoming grabbed the AKM automatic rifle resting in the cab of the truck, pulled the bolt and loaded it: "There is no doubt about the advanced nature of electronic equipment, but the old way of contact is used in the right place, and it is also a good way - how many heavy weapons do we have?" ”

After skillfully parking the heavy truck at a mound at the bridgehead, Halba stretched out his hand and opened the door: "Two M134 machine guns, a rotary-wing drone with an attack system, and two automatic launchers of individual gun grenades!" ”

After turning on the military computer, Tang Guoming skillfully controlled the rotary-wing drone equipped with an attack system and flew out of the back of the truck: "Arm!" Staring at the landing point of the point grenade, this thing can only be used for blocking shooting, don't recklessly detonate the fragmentation module assembly we buried, let alone hit the bridge! ”

Several heavy boxes were removed from the truck, and Halbara and Pan Guan worked together to assemble the book-like bulletproof plate modules in the equipment boxes, and in a matter of moments, several bulletproof plate bunkers were set up on the two mounds at the head of the bridge and in the middle of the road.

After busily distributing the ammunition in the heavy truck to the various bulletproof plate bunkers, Bao Lei and Tang Guoming each wielded a folding sapper shovel and dug several foxholes for hiding in the positions that could not be covered by the various bulletproof plate bunkers. When everything was almost ready, in the darkness in the distance, there was already a slight roar of the engine......