876: Chapter 866: Need a Good Doctor?
We Have One!
876: Chapter 866: Need a Good Doctor?
We Have One!
Gao Yang quickly formed a temporary assault team, aiming to capture the remaining few members of the Iron Madonna all at once.
When the personnel were in place and each had reached their positions to initiate the attack, Gao Yang whispered into the radio, “Go!”
Trying to be as silent as possible, the seven-person assault team slowly approached the enemy, the distance shrinking slowly, while the enemy was also on the move.
When the distance narrowed to less than forty meters, Gao Yang suddenly whispered urgently in the radio, “Stop advancing!
Hit the ground!
It looks like the enemy is laying mines.”
Four individuals, crouching or lying down, halted their movements for a moment before standing up and moving laterally at a relatively fast pace, only to reach a position in front of and to the right of Gao Yang.
Looking at the enemy’s actions and their positions, Gao Yang would never believe they weren’t laying mines, even if someone beat him to death.
Whether it was anti-infantry directional mines, bounding mines or any ordinary land mine, or even hand grenades used as land mines, as soon as it was discovered the enemy might be laying mines, one must absolutely not act rashly.
The assault had to be called off—for if the enemy had placed directional mines, just one or two could wipe out the attacking team completely, and by the time the mine threat was eliminated through mine clearing, who knows how much time would have passed.
There were two people in the Satan Mercenary Corps capable of mine clearing; Rafael was an expert with explosives and had the skills and experience to both install and disarm mines, and though Tommy was a self-taught expert, he also possessed a certain ability to clear mines.
“Worker Bee, come here.
Fork, get ready to clear mines.
Abandon the assault plan.
The rest stay in place to fire, use my gunfire as the signal for concentrated shooting.
Try to eliminate all the enemies.”
After Gao Yang issued the command again, he raised his rifle, searching for an angle to shoot the enemy.
When he felt there were no large trees obstructing his targeted aim, he pulled the trigger.
This time Gao Yang didn’t need to shoot several times; after firing the first shot, the enemy fell in response, but as others followed his rifle fire and opened fire simultaneously, the remaining three fell and quickly dragged away the enemy that Gao Yang had shot.
Gao Yang could see the enemy in the night vision device, but he could not guarantee the trajectory of the bullets; the effect of fire suppression was not very obvious.
Gao Yang fired two more shots, the bullets either blocked by trees or changing direction.
Gao Yang didn’t dare to order a pursuit because without knowing what kind of mines the enemy had used, no reckless moves could be made.
After waiting for the enemy to quickly retreat to a distance where he could no longer see them, Gao Yang pointed in a direction and said, “Fork, Worker Bee, check that way.
If no mines are found, everyone move quickly through the suspected minefield!”
Rafael and Tommy moved forward slowly, so slowly that they couldn’t cover more than a meter in ten seconds, even though it was a direction the enemy hadn’t reached.
But since the heavens only knew whether the enemy had finished laying mines in the direction he pointed, Gao Yang couldn’t issue any clear orders and could only get Rafael and Tommy to check the path slowly to ensure safety.
After a delay of twenty minutes, Rafael whispered into the radio, “No mines found.
We’ve left markers.
Everyone follow in single file through the suspected mined area, don’t stray.”
After Gao Yang waved his hand to let someone else replace Tommy carrying the stretcher, they all spaced out and quickly moved through the safe passage opened up by Rafael and his team.
Gao Yang had no interest in checking whether the enemy had actually laid mines.
He didn’t have the leisure, interest or time for it.
Being able to bypass a location where the enemy might have laid mines was already a cause for gratitude; why take unnecessary risks just to satisfy curiosity?
As long as there were no mines on the compulsory route, even if Iron Madonna had planted nuclear bombs elsewhere, it no longer had any relation to Gao Yang.
After Li Jinfang and Eileen passed through the path that Rafael had explored, Gao Yang urged urgently, “Follow with the stretcher, fast!”
After waiting for those carrying the stretcher to pass, Gao Yang, who was holding the rearguard, quickly moved through the mined area and reached the safety zone.
The so-called safety zone was actually less than a hundred meters away from where the enemy had been active.
However, Gao Yang could no longer afford to ask for too much.
Besides, he didn’t believe that a few enemies could lay out a large minefield.
Although Gao Yang didn’t know how the four people had accurately blocked their path, he believed that the enemy couldn’t have set up a second or third line of defense.
Although he hadn’t gotten the chance to annihilate all the enemies, he had created an exit path, and Gao Yang was already very satisfied.
The direction of the enemies’ retreat did not intersect with theirs; what they had to do next was to leave as quickly as possible.
After reconfirming the direction, Gao Yang said in a deep voice, “Toad and Tyrannosaurus, clear the path with machetes, retreat at the fastest speed.”
Taking turns to clear the path and carrying the stretcher was exhausting and arduous, nobody encountered any further attacks or harassment, and they moved quickly.
The rain slowly stopped, and about ten hours after they started moving, when it was Gao Yang’s turn to clear the path, as he chopped the branches and vines in front of him, he saw a wide river in his Glow Night Vision Device.
To transport the felled timber by waterway, the logging site was very close to the Jufari River, a tributary of the Rio Negro River, and Gao Yang and his team were rescuing Friends of Nature not far from the Rio Negro River either—the direct distance was less than ten kilometers.
After a ten-hour trek, the Satan Mercenary Corps finally reached the banks of the Rio Negro River a little after one in the morning.
After checking the GPS, Gao Yang discovered they were over two kilometers away from the agreed-upon extraction point, but this wasn’t an issue— the vessel coming to pick them up just needed to head upstream to reach them.
The Friends of Nature’s plane had long since run out of fuel and flown away, but Gao Yang had the radio frequency to contact the support boat.
He adjusted the radio’s frequency and urgently said, “This is Savior, this is Savior, respond if you hear me.”
“Savior, I’m Truck Driver, and I’m glad to receive your call.”
The code words matched, and Gao Yang heaved a sigh of relief, urgently saying, “Please pay attention to receive coordinates.
We’re waiting for your vehicle to arrive.”
After repeating the GPS coordinates to the responder twice, the person coordinating Gao Yang and his team’s pickup cheerfully said, “Very close, please wait a moment, the truck will be there shortly.”
After waiting for almost ten minutes, Gao Yang saw a flatboat, a common sight on the Amazon River, slowly approaching through his night vision device.
The boat wasn’t very big, with a displacement of, at most, about twenty tons.
In this section, the Rio Negro River’s channel was very wide, full of shallows and sandbanks.
A larger displacement would have made it impossible to get close to the shore to pick people up, but this small boat was just right.
As the flatboat approached Gao Yang, the light at the bow flashed three times.
Seeing the signal from the boat, Gao Yang also flashed his headlamp three times to guide the flatboat to their location.
The boat quickly reached shore, its hull running aground on the riverbank’s shallows.
After laying down two wooden planks, Gao Yang immediately turned to the people hiding behind him and urgently said, “Quick, get on.”
Once everyone was aboard, covered, Gao Yang and Li Jinfang were the last to use the ramp to climb onto the boat.
After pulling in the ramp, the small boat slowly turned around and began sailing at maximum speed.
The small boat was originally for transportation of goods.
Apart from a cabin at the front for sheltering people from the wind and rain, the back half was just a large shell, and Gao Yang and his team sat in the open-air cargo hold.
After they had moved away from the riverbank, Bruce exhaled a sigh of relief and immediately urged, “Turn on the lights; check on the wounded.”
Gao Yang and the others stepped aside, watching Bruce and Andy He examine the three seriously wounded people.
Just as the boat started up and reached the middle of the river, a burly man with a full beard came out of the cabin.
Seeing the seriously wounded person Bruce was examining, Big Beard’s face grew serious, and after a slight shake of his head, he spoke softly while holding a satellite phone, “May I ask who is Ram?
My boss would like to speak with you.”
Gao Yang raised his hand, and after taking the phone, he heard the heavy voice of Friends of Nature, “Thank you; you saved five people.”
Gao Yang spoke softly back, “We couldn’t bring back one dead body; we didn’t have the manpower to carry it.
Also, did you find out about the matter you were checking?”
Friends of Nature spoke with gravity, “I couldn’t find out where the captured individuals were taken, but I got some information from the Commercial Alliance.
According to Justin’s analysis of the intelligence, the Commercial Alliance has decided to wipe us out in one go.
If nothing goes wrong, those captured will be handed over to the Brazilian authorities.
Let’s not talk about this now.
How are the wounded?
Can they survive?”
Gao Yang pulled away from the phone and asked Bruce, “How are they?”
Bruce smiled and said, “They’ve made it, all of them.”
Gao Yang grinned, picked up the phone again, and happily relayed, “Good news, they will all survive.”
“Thank God!
That’s the best news I’ve heard recently.
Ram, thank you.
The speedboat that will rendezvous with you will arrive soon.
After you switch to the speedboat, it will only take a little over two hours to reach Manaus.
I’ll wait for you in Manaus.”
Gao Yang glanced at his watch and asked, “When will the transfer to the speedboat happen?”
“Once you’ve left the shallow area, it will be fine.
There are too many sandbanks in the shallow area, and the speedboat can’t pick up speed there.
I think it will take you approximately forty-five minutes to reach the safe waters.
But we can’t stay in Manaus for too long.
The medical facilities here are not very good, especially the doctors are poor.
I’m planning to fly to Rio de Janeiro or Saint Paul as soon as possible.
Is that necessary?
If so, can the wounded hold on until then?”
“Okay, understood.
Our medic will tell you shortly what preparations are needed.
If you can’t find a good enough hospital, then just find a well-equipped surgery room and medicines; that should suffice.
No need to go to Rio because we have not only the best battlefield medics but also the best surgeons.”
Manaus is not big, so whether there are good enough doctors could be an issue, but this was not a problem for Satan.
Gao Yang wasn’t bragging—before joining Satan, Andy He had made his living as a doctor.
Friends of Nature was overjoyed, “That’s fantastic!
Ram, you are amazing!”
Gao Yang handed the phone to Andy He, letting him tell Friends of Nature what preparations were needed.
Just then someone ran out of the cabin, urgently saying, “Boats!
Lots of boats!
They seem to be intercepting us!” (To be continued.
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