659: Chapter 652: Never Surrender by Beating to Death 659: Chapter 652: Never Surrender by Beating to Death Raja arrived with members of the government forces by Gao Yang’s side.
Surprisingly, there were as many as twelve wounded, and twenty-five men transporting them in pairs.
There was also a commander among them.
Gao Yang was constantly focused on sniping any target from the Rebel Army he could shoot at.
Although he could talk and shoot at the same time, he could not turn his head to check on the situation with the government forces.
Thus, he was unaware that the government still had that many men remaining.
The government forces brought the wounded over to Gao Yang’s side for treatment, while Tommy went to the government forces’ side.
The government forces had mortars that needed shells, which were Tommy’s cue once they were off the truck.
An officer with the rank of second lieutenant crawled beside Gao Yang, and shortly after, Raja also crawled to Gao’s other side, translating each sentence after the officer spoke.
“Hello, you are the commander of this team, right?
Thanks for your help.
Well fought!”
While the officer was speaking, Gao Yang fired a shot and hit a Rebel Army soldier who had jumped up from the ground.
Although it was a quick movement, the soldier did not take evasive action and was still brought down by Gao Yang’s shot.
At a distance of six hundred meters, eliminating a fast-moving target with one shot led the second lieutenant to immediately praise Gao Yang after his speech, and Raja, acting as the translator, promptly translated the officer’s praise.
Gao Yang merely glanced briefly at the officer beside him, and then returned his eyes behind the scope, whispering, “Hello, please tell me about your situation.”
“We have six vehicles, one hundred sixty men.
After being attacked by Rebel Army bombs, one vehicle was completely destroyed along with all personnel inside.
Additionally, over half of the personnel in another two vehicles were killed, leaving only the severely wounded alive.
Now we have eighty-four combat-capable men remaining.
Also, our troops on the north side of the road discovered two unexploded IEDs, which have been deactivated.
Till now, we’ve encountered around three hundred rebels.
With your help, I believe we can hold out until reinforcements arrive.
But we currently have only one usable machine gun, six RPGs, but only eight rockets left.
What’s your situation?”
The combat effectiveness displayed by Gao Yang’s team earned them the right for this government commander to brief them on their situation, and certainly, Gao also had the duty to inform them about their situation.
“As you see, we have ten people capable of fighting.
We have one machine gun and two Rocket Launchers, but we have two snipers.
I believe keeping the enemy suppressed at four hundred meters is no problem.
You can position the machine gun on the other side.
Also, our Gunner has already gone to your position.
He is an exceptional Gunner, and I believe it’s worth the risk for you to unload the mortars from the truck.”
“Indeed, almost our entire artillery battalion was killed, but the mortars are undamaged.
We are temporarily assembled together, so the living do not know how to operate the mortars.
Now with the Gunner, the mortars can be effectively utilized.
Our men are already unloading them.”
After waiting for the second lieutenant to finish, Gao Yang said sternly, “Lieutenant, I must remind you.
Our medic is also severely injured; he will do his best to save your wounded, but if he cannot continue, I hope you understand.”
The lieutenant sighed and said, “I understand, alright, I need to go check on my brothers now.
Oh, well fought!”
Gao Yang once again opened fire and hit a Rebel army soldier.
After sincerely praising him again, the lieutenant moved over to Bruce’s side.
Bruce had just opened up someone’s abdomen with a scalpel.
Despite performing an open abdomen surgery in an open-air and dusty place with the patient lying on the ground, the choice was simple: without surgery, the patient would definitely die; with surgery, though there might be complications from the poor surgical environment leading to death, there was still a one-tenth to a third chance of survival.
Bruce sat there, with the wounded man lying next to him, Bruce had just opened the man’s stomach, and with blood-soaked hands, he searched through the man’s abdominal cavity.
After a few glances, Bruce waved his hand and said in a low voice, “Blast injury caused by shock wave, hopeless, lift him away, bring the next one.”
Although he did not understand what Bruce was saying, seeing Bruce’s actions, the lieutenant immediately became enraged, shouting, “You can’t just do that!”
Bruce, who becomes rather irritable during surgery, or rather, does not tolerate challenges to his authority.
After Raja translated the officer’s words, Bruce raised an eyebrow and loudly said, “Either I sew up his belly and wait for others to die, or you bring me someone who can be saved.”
The lieutenant opened his mouth, looked at the patient with an open abdomen and viscerals exposed, and was for a moment stunned.
With a serious expression, Bruce said, “It seems you know how to choose, keep quiet and step aside, don’t interfere with me, carry him away!”
Two soldiers with complex expressions carried away the soldier with an opened belly, then dragged another one over, who was bleeding from every orifice and still breathing painfully, but with each breath, frothy blood came from his mouth.
Upon seeing the new wounded, Bruce shook his head and said, “The same shock wave injury, hopeless, not even good medical conditions can save him, next.”