174. Hostage incident
When Petrojevich received a call from Andrei, he was in the office looking at documents, and at first he thought that his boss had returned from abroad, but it turned out that Vladimir had been assassinated by a group of hitmen on the outskirts of Mosko.
Petrojevic was very angry, he didn't expect that someone would dare to do something in Mosko, isn't this equivalent to breaking ground on Tai Sui's head.
He was able to make the leap from mayor of a border city to the mayor of an important city because of Vladimir's help to him.
Petrojevich knows very well that Vladimir is only in his twenties, and according to his ability, he does not know what big things he will do in the future, so he has already firmly regarded Vladimir as his backstage.
"Mr. Andre, don't worry, I will immediately order the police in the whole city to arrest me."
After Petrojevich came to power, a number of important posts were successively replaced by his own people, and naturally, the chief of police was also his person.
After receiving the call from the mayor, the police chief did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately organized the police to chase in the direction where the group of gunmen fled.
There were even two helicopter sorties.
However, the group of gunmen were very experienced, and after they drove the car into the downtown area, they got out of the car and immediately fled, and soon disappeared into the sea of people.
The Mosco police were dumbfounded, and they didn't know how to pursue them.
"Seal off all within a two-kilometer radius." Without hesitation, Petroevich ordered, "All the police are dispatched tonight, a carpet search, and the criminals must be caught." ”
Tens of thousands of Mosco police officers have enclosed the two square kilometers of land from all sides, and thousands of professionally trained police dogs are constantly searching the corners of the place.
As the manhunt progressed, the gunmen were hiding in smaller and smaller areas, from two square kilometres at the beginning to 1.5 square kilometres and one square kilometre until three o'clock in the morning, when only one shopping mall remained.
Petrojevich came to the scene.
"Mayor Peter, we've locked up the gunman's hiding place in this super shopping mall, but according to our investigators, there are probably more than 130 civilians inside," the police chief reported. ”
"How many gunners are there?"
"About a dozen, they have divided more than a hundred civilians, and they have sent people to talk to us."
"The elder already knew about this matter just now, and I heard that the elder meant to catch all of them alive." Petrojevich conveyed the instructions of the elder in a rather complicated mood.
"It's not realistic." The police chief said with a sad face.
Peterjevich smiled bitterly: "Man, I know it's not realistic, but we don't even understand the identity of the killers in it now, so we have to catch them alive." ”
The elder's instructions weighed down the police chief like a mountain, he knew that he had done this matter by himself, and there would definitely be no problem with promotion and salary increase, on the contrary, if this matter was messed up, then he would also be very likely to be dismissed from class.
At the same time, he also knows better that the probability of this kind of thing being done is too small.
"Mayor Peter, is there a bottom line for the elder?" The police chief asked after thinking for a moment.
Petrojevic was silent for a while, and then said slowly, "If there is really a bottom line, it is civilian casualties, but this is just my personal speculation." ”
"Okay, I see."
"What are you going to do?"
"Release anesthetic gas."
"That thing must be used well, otherwise it will ......" Petrojevic also knew very well in his heart the consequences of the use of anesthetic gas, the amount of use was calculated, and it would not be difficult to complete the task, and vice versa.
However, before he finished his words, he suddenly changed his words: "No, man, there are many reporters on the scene, and there are many foreign media, if you rashly use anesthetic gas at this time, I am afraid that it will leave a false pretext." ”
The raging fire that the police chief had just burned in his heart was immediately doused by his words......
This task is difficult to accomplish without the use of anesthetic gas, mainly because it is not known what weapons those guys still have in their hands.
If they still have explosives with them, in the event of improper disposal, the news effect is absolutely no less than the use of narcotic gases.
"Would you like to ask for advice? Chief. "The police chief is still reluctant to give up the idea of using narcotic gases.
Peterjevic smiled wryly, he had felt more of the power that came with being mayor, but now he was also feeling a lot of pressure.
If it weren't for Vladimir, he probably wouldn't have made such a big fuss about it.
However, if Vladimir, Petroevich's backstager, is killed, then it is foreseeable that he will most likely end abruptly in the position of mayor.
"Think again." Petrojevich felt that it was really not a last resort, and he did not dare to order the police to use narcotic gas.
"Otherwise, I'll take care of it, boss." The police chief also saw his difficulties, as a director, his rank was far inferior to the mayor, so it was not bad to sacrifice himself at this time to be able to protect the mayor.
Police Chief Mariav was brought to Mosco from the border city by Petrovich against all odds, so he is also a true confidant of Petrovich.
"Think of another way, and hold off that group of militants for now." Petrojevich said after a lot of thought.
For now, he can only hope that the elder's decision can be changed.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to keep the civilian casualties tolls in the single digits while keeping the gunmen alive.
Under his orders, Mosco's police surrounded the gunmen in the building.
The minister also hurried to the scene after the meeting.
When the minister saw that the police were surrounded but not killed, he was very angry, and immediately gave Petrojevich and Mariav a bloody lecture.
"If it's not difficult for the two of you to be in this position, then both dogs on a leash can be your position. Now that the elder has given the death order, the tragedy of the Grand Theater more than ten years ago cannot be repeated, civilians can be injured, but they must not die, and terrorists can die, but not all of them. ”
Undoubtedly, the minister's order is the elder's bottom line on this incident.
"I'll wait for your results in the command car, and you'll have to do it within an hour." Throwing this sentence, the minister, accompanied by his subordinates, got into the command car.
After being reprimanded by the minister, Petrojevic and Mariav were silent, and the two were thinking about how to break the situation.
At this moment, Vladimir also rushed over with bodyguards.
As soon as Petrovich saw Vladimir, it was as if he had seen a ray of hope.