292: Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety: You Beast!
292: Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety: You Beast!
Nate Schumacher and his men had all left, and not a single shot was fired, marking the final battle for Bosaso with a strange ending.
The casualty figures for each company were also gradually tallied, with the Instruction Platoon suffering the heaviest losses.
Thirty-one dead and fifty-two injured, of which eighteen were lightly wounded and fourteen seriously.
The casualties reached two-thirds of the total strength.
Even with such heavy casualties, where other units would have been unable to continue fighting, the Instruction Platoon still maintained high morale.
As the backbone, the Instruction Platoon suffered the most, but they also played the biggest role and achieved the most glorious victory.
Although the losses were heavy, there was no doubt that the Instruction Platoon would soon see even greater development after their effectiveness was witnessed.
Apart from the Instruction Platoon, the other companies combined had just over two hundred casualties.
Overall, the losses in the battle for Bosaso wasn’t considered high, it was a decisive victory, especially since they had won with fewer numbers.
The Mokadi Faction had become a thing of the past, and the residents of Bosaso welcomed the rule of the Skull Gang very, very much.
Although they were still unaware of the Skull Gang’s methods of governance, for the people of Bosaso, any change was good.
Anyone would be far better than the Mokadi Faction.
In fact, the Skull Gang indeed did much better than the Mokadi Faction; there was no burning, killing, or looting.
Instead, many people proclaimed their principles and ideals, so the residents of Bosaso were surprised to find that they might have a chance at a better life.
Many residents had already begun to dance.
The soldiers of the Mokadi Faction had laid down their weapons and, rather than showing the dejection of a defeated army, they were all beaming with joy.
As for the victorious Skull Gang, needless to say, they were delighted.
Everyone was happy, except for Gao Yang.
He had originally planned to capture Mokadi alive and make a fortune, but Mokadi had been killed accidentally.
No matter how capable Gao was, he couldn’t make the dead Mokadi cough up his money.
Standing on the dock, Gao Yang watched intently as Mu He and his men dived in the harbor searching for results.
The water was not too deep, only about six or seven meters, and although they had no diving equipment, it wasn’t a problem for the fishermen who had spent their lives at sea to dive to that depth for a short time.
Despite the limited time underwater, the sheer number of people made up for it.
The sea surface was dotted with heads as people took turns diving down to salvage things from the sunken yacht.
The easily movable items on the yacht were gradually salvaged, and the bodies were also brought up.
But there was still no valuable discovery.
While Mu He was still leading people to dive and salvage, the Skull Gang’s subsequent work for entering Bosaso was also unfolding in an orderly manner.
As Gao Yang was monitoring the progress of the salvage, he had to issue commands every now and then, for although he was quite concerned about the results of the salvage, his main reason for staying at the dock was the eagerness to see the supply ship arrive.
Finally, as he watched the supply ship enter the port, Gao Yang immediately said into the walkie-talkie, “Test Tube, the logistics ship has arrived, and the medicine can soon be sent over to you.
Also, how many doctors have been found now?”
“Test Tube received.
There are already six doctors at the emergency station, and more are said to be on their way.
Most have brought the medical equipment needed for surgery, but they hardly have any useful medication.
We don’t have too many wounded, and it looks like the emergency resources are sufficient.
What’s missing is medicine; have them send it over as quickly as possible,” came the reply.
After formally announcing the takeover of Bosaso, Gao’s first order was to have all the city’s doctors report to Bruce.
Bosaso was a city, after all, and there were certainly doctors and clinics, though most were severely lacking in medicine.
But the Skull Gang had the medicine, so Bruce had begun to gather all the wounded and had asked the doctors to help treat them.
If a doctor’s skills were passable and they could participate in treating the wounded, each person would receive a payment of one hundred US dollars.
The doctors of Bosaso were quite enthusiastic, especially with the promise of compensation.
Thus, upon hearing the news, they rushed to the emergency station, which had the most concentrated number of wounded.
Moreover, even if they were unwilling, it wouldn’t be up to the doctors under the threat of guns.
The supply ship docked as quickly as possible, and as soon as the ship steadied, Gao Yang immediately shouted, “Unload the medicine and take it to the emergency station as fast as you can, quickly, quickly!”
Medicine was being moved off the ship, box by box, and Gao Yang personally carried a box of medicine and started running toward the emergency station.
The emergency station was established in an open area, and due to a lack of sufficient medicine, only a handful of people were being treated at any given time.
Most of the wounded were either lying or sitting around waiting.
When Gao Yang and a group of people finally brought the medicine to the emergency station, Bruce saw Gao Yang and loudly ordered, “Bring the medicine here, open the boxes.”
After dropping off the medicine, Gao Yang had nothing else to do.
Bruce pushed him aside.
After walking a few steps, Gao approached the waiting wounded.
Upon seeing Gao Yang, a soldier sitting on the ground excitedly stood up and snapped a military salute to Gao Yang before saying loudly, “Good day, officer!”
All the wounded who could stand were getting to their feet.
They were all looking at Gao Yang with excitement and happiness.
For a moment, the sound of “Good day, officer!” was endless.
In addition to the Skull Gang’s soldiers, the emergency station was waiting to treat volunteers who helped the Skull Gang and a few injured civilians.
These injured people outnumbered the Skull Gang soldiers; when they saw the Skull Gang soldiers begin to salute excitedly, once they realized that Gao Yang was the highest commander, some even started to cheer, and the volume of cheers grew louder.
Many of the wounded lying on the ground couldn’t stand up, but those who could still move saluted Gao Yang while lying down.
Gao Yang’s saluting hand had not been lowered the entire time.
Then a soldier lying on the ground shouted, “Officer, we won, didn’t we?”
The speaking soldier had bloody messes where his legs should be, and he couldn’t stand because he was lying down.
It was not hard to imagine the pain he was enduring, but when he spoke, his face bore a satisfied smile.
Gao Yang squatted down and said loudly, “Yes, we’ve won.”
The soldier smiled even more joyfully, showing a mouthful of white teeth as he grinned, “Officer, our Instruction Platoon is the best, isn’t it?”
Gao Yang nodded firmly and said, “Yes, the Instruction Platoon is the best.”
After the soldier laughed contently and proudly, he spoke out loud, “Our Instruction Platoon is always the best, Officer.
We haven’t let you down, and we haven’t let Toad Officer down, either.”
Gao Yang felt a touch in the softest part of his heart.
He addressed the soldier loudly, “You are the best soldiers I’ve ever seen.
I am proud of you, really, very proud.”
Gao Yang’s words were not at all empty; in a few months, he had trained a team that, despite suffering casualties of over two-thirds, still maintained their fighting spirit.
While proud of their achievements, Gao Yang was even prouder of these students.
“Ram, this is Toad.
There’s a situation here; you’d better come over.”
“Ram received.
I’m on my way.
What’s the situation?”
“Well, you should see for yourself.
I don’t know how to describe it.”
“Understood.
On my way immediately.”
After receiving the call from Li Jinfang, Gao Yang couldn’t stay any longer.
He patted the wounded soldier on the shoulder, chuckled, and said, “Heal up.
You’ll recover soon.
After you’re healed, you’ll need to teach more people what you’ve learned, to make more people stronger.
Alright, I have to leave now.
Goodbye.”
After nodding at the cheerful soldier, Gao Yang stood up.
The soldier then shouted, “Thank you, Officer.
We all appreciate it, and please thank Toad Officer for me, even though he always beat me up during training.”
Gao Yang smiled faintly and after saluting the people watching him, quickly left.
As for saying something to these wounded soldiers, Gao Yang didn’t have the time and truly didn’t know what else to say.
Li Jinfang had taken people to search the residence of Mokadi.
Although Gao Yang didn’t know what exactly had happened there, it probably wasn’t anything dangerous because Li Jinfang’s voice didn’t sound very urgent, just very shocked.
When Gao Yang found Li Jinfang, he was standing in front of a house with a blue corrugated iron roof, and the soldiers he had brought were standing around with odd expressions, occasionally glancing into the large house.
“What’s the situation?
What happened?”
Upon hearing Gao Yang’s question, Li Jinfang gestured towards the back door of the house and said with a puzzled look, “Just go in and see for yourself.
There’s no danger.”
Gao Yang immediately entered the house and saw the large room inside had been divided into small compartments with plywood.
Since Li Jinfang said there was no danger, Gao Yang pushed open a compartment door and was immediately astonished.
There was a large bed inside the small compartment that nearly filled the entire space.
A black woman, naked, sat on the bed; upon seeing Gao Yang, she just stared at him woodenly without moving.
Gao Yang immediately stepped back out; going to the compartment next door, he pushed the door open to find basically the same situation, except the woman lying on the bed had a few strips of cloth draped over her.
Gao Yang took a few steps back, looked around, and saw at least three rows of such small compartments in the large room.
Roughly estimating, there had to be at least forty compartments.
Gao Yang immediately stepped out of the doorway and, after hesitating, asked in a low voice, “Are they all the same inside?”
Li Jinfang shook his head and said, “They’re not the same.
You didn’t go further in.
Some of the rooms deeper inside have people who’ve been tortured beyond recognition.
Damn, it’s unspeakable.
I can’t bring myself to describe it.
There’s a guard here; after I questioned him about the situation, he told me that some of Mokadi’s men enjoyed torture.
Forget it, it’s better that you didn’t see it to spare yourself any mental scars.”
Gao Yang said angrily, “They’re beasts.
If that dog Mokadi isn’t dead yet, I’ll make sure he regrets being born into this world.”
Li Jinfang looked troubled and said, “Brother Yang, what do we do?
We can’t just leave them, but how do we handle this?
I don’t know what to do.”
Gao Yang shook his head and said, “We obviously have to let these people go, but as for the specifics, let’s leave it to Maide to handle when he arrives soon.” (To be continued.
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