247: Chapter 245 Chaos 247: Chapter 245 Chaos Gao Yang managed to evade before the enemy opened fire because, after stepping onto the beach, he always had a weird feeling he couldn’t quite describe.
He didn’t know why, but he just felt a bit uneasy.
As Maide was speaking, Gao Yang realized that the discomfort he felt was anxiety, and it was growing stronger.
So, while talking to Maide, he looked around, trying to pinpoint the cause of his anxiety.
At that moment, Gao Yang was about to switch on the low-light night vision device on his helmet.
However, he didn’t get a chance to turn it on because an abrupt heart palpitation made him immediately abandon the idea of observing through the night vision, and he lunged forward instead.
The three years on the Sudanese Grasslands had honed Gao Yang’s acute sense of danger.
The instant he agreed to return to Bosaso with Maide, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up and his heart seemed to be gripped tight.
The last time he felt this way was when a leopard hiding in the bushes was poised to pounce on him, and if it weren’t for the Chieftain’s loud shout that scared the leopard away, it might have been his neck in the leopard’s jaws.
Gao Yang took his instincts seriously.
He trusted his sixth sense but didn’t simply attribute this feeling to intuition.
He believed something out of the ordinary must have happened that he had detected yet did not consciously register, causing his subconscious to sound an alarm while his logical mind hadn’t yet discovered or deduced the anomaly.
That’s why he experienced the inexplicable palpitations.
Trusting his sense of danger, Gao Yang didn’t hesitate to throw himself forward.
He wasn’t afraid it was a false alarm, which would have at most resulted in Maide teasing him.
But his leap not only saved him, but it also inadvertently saved Maide’s life.
After taking out a six-man combat team, Gao Yang quickly ran over to Maide and then dropped to the ground to check his wounds.
Maide was between Gao Yang and the sniper, so Maide was the sniper’s initial target.
However, the bullet missed Maide’s back heart area as Gao Yang dragged him down.
Instead, it hit Maide’s left shoulder joint.
There was a large hole in Maide’s shoulder joint, which was pretty much mangled, with his left arm almost completely severed, hanging onto his body by only two layers of skin.
The distance between the sniper and Maide was about four hundred meters.
Seeing the extent of the injury, Gao Yang was certain that it was a 7.62 mm caliber bullet that could cause such damage.
Despite the severe injury and heavy blood loss, Maide didn’t lose consciousness.
When he saw Gao Yang beside him, Maide gasped urgently, “I’m done for.
Can’t stop the bleeding.
I’ll die soon.
If you can’t take me with you, just run for it.”
Gunfire was ringing everywhere, as if shots were coming from all directions.
It was uncertain how many enemies had arrived.
Gao Yang couldn’t just leave Maide on the beach alone.
Ignoring Maide’s plea to leave, and after confirming that Maide’s injuries were not immediately fatal and could be saved if acted upon swiftly, Gao Yang immediately shouted, “Test Tube!
F**k, hurry the hell up!
On the beach, quick!”
“Test Tube here, on my way!
I can’t see your IR light!
Damn it, turn on your IR light!”
Only then did Gao Yang remember he hadn’t turned on the IR light on his helmet.
After he switched it on, he immediately heard the anxious yell of Cui Bo in his earpiece.
“Ram, behind you!
Enemy!”
Gao Yang spun around immediately and then saw twelve people sprinting towards him, only about three hundred meters away.
As Gao Yang turned to fire at the target leading the pack, the person he had aimed at suddenly burst into a cloud of red mist.
After a moment of confusion, Gao Yang realized that the man had been hit by Cui Bo’s large-caliber sniper rifle.
Gao Yang quickly shifted his aim to another target, but before he could pull the trigger, he saw his new mark stagger and fall.
Gao Yang understood his chosen target was shot first by someone else.
After two successive hits within the group, the team running down the beach suddenly dropped down and the majority of them began firing in the direction of Cui Bo and his team.
At the same time, two of them aimed at Gao Yang.
Gao Yang fired immediately, this time no one took his target, and his bullet hit home.
The two men aiming at him fell silent at the same time.
Gao Yang had only fired once, so the other must have been taken out by someone else.
Realizing staying on the beach meant becoming sitting ducks for snipers, the enemies who had dropped down rushed up and ran toward the fishing village.
Gao Yang fired two shots, killed one person, and the remaining seven dashed into the village.
The fishing village was right by the beach and very close.
Once someone started sprinting, it wouldn’t take long to reach the village and find cover among the buildings.
Moreover, there were already people who had entered the village.
Watching the remaining attackers run into the village, Gao Yang shouted, “Big Dog, organize the thermobaric RPGs to strike at them, Toad, take the Instruction Platoon into the village for a sweep!”
“Big Dog copies, thermobaric RPGs to support Instruction Platoon in battle.”
“Toad understands, attacking immediately.”
It had only been two or three minutes since Gao Yang and his group were attacked.
The Instruction Platoon was able to respond so quickly upon hearing gunfire, which was quite fast for them.
After issuing two commands, Gao Yang used the thermal imaging night vision on his rifle to scan the surroundings.
There was no one to be seen on the beach, but the gunfire from the village was intense.
Most of the sounds were from small caliber rifles, distinct from the village’s mainly AK47 gunfire; clearly, the villagers hadn’t had the time to fight back.
Gao Yang was anxious.
He aimed his rifle at the village but could not find a target, as the tightly clustered round huts completely blocked his line of fire.
Gao Yang didn’t dare to take Maide rashly into the village as it would be even more dangerous.
He urgently said, “The enemy must have come from the sea.
Big Dog, rocket launcher, get the rocket launcher ready to fire at the sea.
Mortar, launch a flare, fire a flare above the village to let the villagers get into action.
Right now, they can’t see anything and can only take hits.”
“Big Dog understands.”
Glolov had actually already given the order to fire flares, so as soon as Gao Yang finished saying that flares needed to be launched, mortar-fired flares had already begun to fall from above the village.
As the flares, attached to little parachutes, began to slowly descend, the village, which until now was only visible by the flashes from gun muzzles, suddenly lit up, and the distinctive sound of AK47 gunfire exploded.
After another two minutes, Li Jinfang finally arrived with the Instruction Platoon.
“Toad is about to enter the village, going in as squads.
First Squad has gone to support you, go!”
The last “go!” was spoken to the Instruction Platoon by Li Jinfang, but it was transmitted over the automatic earphone system.
With the arrival of the Instruction Platoon, gunfire near the village in the direction of the Platoon’s camp suddenly intensified.
After a short wait, Gao Yang saw a group of people sprinting towards him.
Thanks to the flares, he immediately recognized that they were from the Instruction Platoon.
Although the flares brought light to the villagers, they also exposed Gao Yang and Maide on the bare beach, visible to everyone.
However, since the attackers likely all had night-vision equipment, it didn’t matter whether they could be seen with the naked eye.
The men from the Instruction Platoon looked in disarray.
Most of them weren’t fully dressed, some only wearing a shirt or just a pair of pants, and nearly all were barefoot.
Thankfully, they carried all their weapons.
It was the First Squad of the Instruction Platoon that arrived.
Once they reached Gao Yang and Maide, they immediately gathered around Gao Yang.
At that moment, Gao Yang was covering Maide’s wound with his hand.
Seeing that he was surrounded, he immediately shouted, “Spread out, spread out!
Do you want to get hit by a rocket launcher?
Scatter and lie down, form a circular defense!”
Once those surrounding him dispersed, Gao Yang then saw Bruce sprinting in a serpentine pattern toward them with a first-aid kit on his back before he threw himself next to Maide.
After lying down beside Maide, Bruce said, panting heavily, “We met with enemy resistance; I’m late.”
While speaking, Bruce rapidly took out medications from the first-aid kit, administered several injections around Maide’s wound, then pulled out a military knife.
With one hand he grabbed Maide’s arm, which was barely connected by skin, and with a swing of the knife, cut it off at the wound and tossed the arm aside.
Gao Yang’s mouth fell open in shock, but Bruce didn’t even glance at him.
It was as though he knew Gao Yang would be shocked and said sternly, “His arm couldn’t be saved, and it was in the way.”
Gao Yang turned his head away to avoid looking at Maide’s mutilated wound and asked in a heavy voice, “How is he now?”
“It’s critical; there can be no more delays.
He needs emergency treatment.
He’s lost a lot of blood, and the arm is entirely severed.
There are too many blood vessels that need to be dealt with.
I’ll use hemostats on a few of the major vessels first.
Then we need to get off the beach.
He needs a cleaner place to clean the wound.”
“How’s the battle situation?
What do you know?”
“We can’t tell who the attackers are from their gear; they’re all professionals.
We don’t know the enemy’s numbers yet.
The Instruction Platoon has started to counterattack.
Toad is leading all equipped RPG shooters with night scopes.
Big Dog is trying to make the mortars and rocket launchers effective.
But the enemy is mainly in the village now.
We can’t use heavy weapons; our firepower advantage can’t be utilized.
That’s the situation for now.” (To be continued.
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