Chapter 13: The Kidnappers
"How? How's it going? Just as we were about to board the helicopter with the two gangsters, Commander Zhang asked on the walkie-talkie, "Won't it be tricky?" Be sure to pay attention to hostage safety, know? β
"This ......" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, and it took a while to realize that Commander Zhang didn't know that the battle was over.
"Report to the Commander!" I replied, "The battle is over!" β
"What? The battle is over? So fast! My answer obviously surprised Commander Zhang, and then he went on to ask, "How was the result?" How many casualties are there? β
"Report to the Commander!" I replied: "Only two of the hostages were slightly wounded, and there were no casualties among our troops." β
"You mean......" Commander Zhang couldn't believe it: "Our army has zero casualties and the hostages are safe, so we killed two gangsters?" β
"Yes!" I answered, and then realized that I had answered incorrectly, so I hurriedly corrected: "The gangster was not killed, but we captured him alive!" β
Commander Zhang on the other end of the phone couldn't help but be stunned, and then laughed and said, "Good fight, good fight!" Now let's see what those cool guys have to say! I see that Lao Wang is afraid that his face will be green when he hears your victory, so he fought well! It's a bad breath for me. But...... You have to keep up the good work, you know? You can't just your tail into the sky after a good fight, or those guys will say that your fight is just luck! β
"Yes!" I answered, thinking to myself that the old Wang that Commander Zhang said might be the representative of the armed police company I trained to have problems. At this time, I had an impulse, and I wanted Commander Zhang to tell this "old king" in a fit of anger, if I think I didn't train well, then let him try. Or simply he also trained an armed police company. See who can do this better.
It's just that I know it in my heart. The person who can be called "Lao Wang" by Commander Zhang, his rank in the army will definitely not be low, and it is better for a small battalion commander like me to be less assertive to his superiors, otherwise it will be difficult for Commander Zhang to do it.
But then again, now I'm more concerned about how to make these two troops better adapt to modern warfare, and as for what the above says, I don't bother to fight with them.
Later, I learned that there was no need for me to say anything about it, because there was actually more than one unit like the Armed Police Company...... The meaning of the superior. Originally, I thought that if only one army was established, there would be no great reference, and it would not be possible to make horizontal comparisons, so it was necessary to establish several more. On the one hand, these armed police companies can form a competition, and on the other hand, they can exchange experiences with each other and sum up their experiences, and only then can these experiences be promoted to the whole country.
The reason why I still don't know about this is entirely because the armed police companies of the various units have only just been formed, the training time is not long, and they rarely go out on missions, and because of the secrecy between the troops, they don't know each other.
But it's clear. In the training of the armed police company, I left the other units far behind. Later, according to Commander Zhang, when the other troops heard about the Cheng DΓΉ reached by the armed police company trained by the synthetic battalion. I can't even lift up the armed police I have trained at hand...... I'll never be able to catch up with others, so I'm still training a fart.
Of course, it's not enough to just fight this battle, as Commander Zhang said, it's easy for others to think it's our luck.
In fact, this is also the case, the tasks to be carried out by the armed police force should be said to be seven points based on ability, three points according to luck, the reason is that the gangsters we have to face every time are different, the situation is also different, and there are too many accidents.
For example, in the battle just now, we can say that most of our hopes are pinned on a flashbang, what if this flashbang is a dud? Or maybe the seats in the car happened to isolate the power of the flashbang so that the gangsters were not affected? Or as long as there is an emergency, it will lead the already nervous gangsters to kill the hostages, which means the failure of the operation.
However, it should be said that our luck is not bad, perhaps because we have worked the "seven-point skill", or maybe some of the methods used by the armed police company we trained should not have been stored in our country in this era, so the criminals are unable to guard against us, so we have been carrying out the task very smoothly in the future.
Criminals have never seen such a method of attack, you must know that these criminals do have a lot of military knowledge, as I said before, either trained militiamen, or they themselves are veterans, or they have learned military knowledge from soldiers and militiamen.
However, in their military knowledge, there is no such way as using flashbangs and tear gas as cover, and using electronic equipment to reconnoiter positions and carry out precision strikes.
The most classic mission, which is also the one that the armed police company is most proud of, is a ticket kidnapping case that occurred at the end of the year.
The reason is that there are many migrant workers who want to go home with a year's income to reunite and spend the New Year, but for various reasons, they can't go home for the New Year without making money, so they choose to take risks in desperation.
This time we encountered such a case, a few idle people wanted to get some money when the Chinese New Year was approaching, so they picked up the daughter of a 10,000 yuan family from the school, and they asked for a ransom of not much, only 5,000 yuan, 1,000 yuan for each of the five people.
From this point of view, this 10,000 yuan household is really not good, but these five people underestimated the ability of the public security bureau to visit the streets and alleys in this era, and the public security bureau soon grasped the information that the five people kept the hostages in a dilapidated house in the suburbs.
The Public Security Bureau did not dare to act rashly, because it was afraid that the hostages would be in danger, and they knew that there were five kidnappers there, and unless they rushed in and killed the five in one go, the hostages would be in danger.
"There should be five people in there." When we arrived near the scene, two police officers lurking there reported to us: "We lurked for a day and night, and we didn't dare to alarm the kidnappers. β
"Hmm!" I casually responded, looked at the surrounding terrain like Daniel Zhang gestured, so the troops quickly deployed.
First, snipers in teams of two monitored the room from a distance from all directions. Of course, at this time, they are just spending, and they will not shoot unless they are absolutely necessary, for example, if the kidnappers are going to tear up the ticket.
Then we got a structural drawing of the house, which was obtained by the Public Security Bureau, and it is said that they found the original owner of the house through a visit and asked him to draw a sketch from memory.
This kind of thing is what the Public Security Bureau is good at. Of course, this was done at our request, and they didn't understand what we wanted this structural diagram for, until we and a few armed police soldiers gathered around the structural diagram to study the battle plan.
In the end, we sent a total of three squads of armed police fighters up, and they moved to the house in batches under the guidance of snipers, taking advantage of the blind spots in the kidnappers' line of sight.
This is actually an important job because the kidnappers don't realize that their location has been revealed, which means that we can be caught off guard, and if the kidnappers find out, it will quickly turn into hostage-taking, and that's when the problem becomes more complicated.
Thanks to the soldiers' usual rigorous training, I saw a group of fighters walking and stopping under the guidance of snipers...... The kidnappers quickly take cover when they pass by the window or make a move, and when the kidnappers leave the window, the sniper tells the commandos to move forward again. In this way, there is no danger lurking next to the house.
Then came the reconnaissance phase, where several fighters carefully inserted pinhole cameras into the cracks of the house or the corners of the windows from several directions, and soon understood the situation of the kidnappers in the house.
"One goal in room one, sleeping!"
"Three targets in room two, look at the hostages!"
"Room 3 has a goal, swim!"
As soon as I heard the report, I knew that the problem was more difficult, the hostages were located in room 2 in the middle, there was no door to the outside, the only window was nailed by the kidnappers, and there were three people guarding it.
Clearly, the kidnappers were prepared to react and take hostages for their own safety if they spotted someone rushing in through room 1 or 3.
It's just a pity that they ran into us......
I didn't think much of it, and immediately ordered: "Carry out a blasting raid on room two!" β
"Yes!" As Daniel Zhang replied, several commandos quickly installed explosives and laid wires in a suitable position on the wooden wall of Room 2.
The amount and distribution of these explosives we have done many times during training to ensure that they can blow a hole without harming the people inside, because there is a high probability that there will be hostages inside, as this time is.
"One set is ready!"
"Two groups are ready!"
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I grabbed the walkie-talkie and waited for a while, then ordered, "Do it!" β
"Boom!" As soon as I finished speaking, a cloud of smoke erupted in Room 2, and then each group of fighters threw the flashbangs they had prepared in their hands through the windows, the door, and the large hole that had exploded.
Bursts of noise and flashes followed, and the soldiers rushed in with their guns in hand.
"Don't move!"
"Hands up!"
"Shoot or kill!"
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The tactics are completely different, but the name is exactly the same as before.
But it was clear that the kidnappers did not give up their resistance, as bursts of gunfire soon came from the house.
A few minutes later, I heard Daniel Zhang report: "The hostages are safe, the kidnappers are two dead and one wounded, and two more have surrendered!" (To be continued......)