Chapter 104 - Rescue and Escape (2)

29 December, Terrorist Camp, South of City K

Observing the two sentries collapse at the entry, Joseph and the rest of the team carefully made their way towards the entry watching carefully for any other terrorists. A couple of minutes later, four more men came to the entry looking at the collapsed bodies, and they came further out of the entry looking to see what had happened. Ben Pang clicked on the communications equipment twice to signal to his other sniper unless there was a threat not to act.

Hearing those clicks, David Dang understood the signal to remain in place as some resistance was being met at the entry. He moved to see the medic in another vehicle, who put two thumbs up to signal he had heard the same signal.

Joseph Wang and the other soldiers, carefully moved themselves through the shadows to place themselves in position to grab at least two of these men, and then kill them. As them moved further from the entry, to David and Joseph, let alone the rest of the men it was obvious that they had some basic weapons training.

Observing the movements of the men, for Ben and Joseph it immediately indicated that there was a minimal likelihood that there were landmines or improvised explosive devices (IED's) in the area. Landmines, they could deal with as they all worked in a particular way, but IED's were unpredictable, and that was their worry coming in.

As soon as they had moved their way into position, four men, quickly moved, and grabbed one of the terrorist each, and incapacitated them before killing them. Both Ben and Joseph knew taking them captive would be the best option to gather exploitable intelligence, the limited number of men they had and the unknown inside the facility meant that this was impossible, as sacrificing a man to guard the prisoners risked everyone's safety.

After pausing for a few minutes and no one else coming out of the entry, Joseph Wang clicked three times with the communications equipment, paused clicked four times, paused and clicked eight time, to signal for Ben to leave his snipers perch, leaving only one sniper and for David Dang and the medic to slowly make their way into the location.

When Ben reached the rest of the group, they carefully made their way into the entry of the facility now knowing that this was the start of the dangerous part to the mission. Close quarters, limited visibility and they had no idea what they would encounter all added to this. What was worse was that they could only use tear gas and other non-lethal options on a limited basis as they had no idea where Matthew was, let alone any other civilians in the room..

At the door, Joseph opened a tear gas canister and tossed it in the entry door shutting it, moving back to wait and see how many people were driven out. Within two minutes, thirty men came streaming out of the door, all demonstrating levels of pain and panic from the tear gas. As each man came out of the entry, they were grabbed by one of them, and dealt with them, rather than using weapons fire.

Waiting five minutes after the last man came out, they carefully made their way into the entry of the facility, slowly moving in, ensuring that they were carefully clearing areas before proceeding. Reaching a staircase, two soldiers paused to guard the staircase while the rest continued to move along the corridor clearing room after room, dealing with any terrorist they came across.

When they all returned to the staircase, Ben turned to Joseph, quietly saying "This seems too easy at the moment."

"It does, but it makes sense that they have those who they are willing to sacrifice easily at the outer levels."

"True. Which way shall we clear?"

"The stairs only go up two levels, but there are at least four levels below us. We will clear up, then work our way down. That way when we find the Colonel, we do not risk being attacked from behind."

Signalling to the soldiers, with two remained on station at the staircase, while they quickly moved up to the top level. Only finding two rooms, they quickly cleared that level. While there was a computer in one room, not being aware of the how the system was set up, they secured it as well as they could before heading down one level to clear that.

Meanwhile, the Devil and his minions had been set up outside the escape tunnel exit for ten minutes awaiting the arrival of the ideologs. The plan was they would carefully watch the exit until the ideologs came into view, and at his signal they triggered the final part of the explosive circuit, before his men opened fire quickly killing the ideologs in front of them. As the explosive circuit completed, it collapsed the far end of the tunnel and then the end right in front of them. Any ideologs that were able to escape the shooting and the wives, if not killed by the collapsing tunnel would suffocate to death in any pocket they were in.

As soon as the explosion was set off, The Devil signalled to his men, and they quickly shed their clothes changing into more appropriate attire to move carefully towards City K, to blend in with the population for a few weeks, before joining forces with their new allies.

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