Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 501 It begins
The next morning Tiffany got up like clockwork...

Today she did not accompany Mountain Eagle to run in the mountains. Instead, like Miranda before her, she began to walk around the cabin and marked sniping positions at various locations.

The Tiffany family’s wooden house is quite old, but logs with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters are still reliable. As long as some protection is added inside, the need for a shelter can be met.

Sandbags were piled under the front and back porches of the cabin, making it a decent fortress.

However, defending to the death is definitely the stupidest option, so it is necessary to set up fire points on the periphery to form cross-fire with the interior of the wooden house. At the same time, these fire points can also be used as cover for rolling evacuation.

With a mission in mind, Tiffany swept away the restlessness and decadence of the past few days, and pulled the butcher and others to act as coolies...

Protection was added to the interior of the cabin, and positions were established outside with sandbags and wood. Everything went on in an orderly manner, and the project was completed in less than 8 hours.

While everyone was busy, Shanying replaced all the bullets with armor-piercing bullets with better penetration. He then packed the magazines into bundles and placed them in every position that could be used for external sniping.

Others didn't know, but Mountain Eagle had seen through the crows that a group of people avoided the FBI team hiding at the foot of the mountain near the highway, entered the uninhabited mountain area in the north from another direction, and were approaching the cabin.

This group of people were very familiar with the FBI's personnel deployment, and seemed to be well aware that the FBI was ready to attack at any time, so they arranged more than 40 people, hoping to eat Shanying and his men in one bite before the FBI attacked them from the rear.

The crow's bionic state allowed the mountain eagle to observe these people up close many times...

They all wore heavy bulletproof vests and used military-grade Christmas trees, with everything from automatic rifles to light machine guns, and smoke bombs and grenades were standard.

Moreover, each of them has an extremely expensive four-eye night vision goggle on their helmet. The equipment is absolutely luxurious, more advanced than a seal and more advanced than a delta.

When Shanying saw this situation, he didn't know whether he should feel grateful for the enemy's attention to him. Except for the lack of helicopters, the team that raided Ben La D was like this.

So while Tiffany was directing the butchers and the others to work around the cabin, Mountain Eagle entered the nearby woods carrying a large bag.

Restricted by the agreement with the FBI, Shanying and his men could not use weapons of mass destruction such as Broadsword mines at will, so he could only use plastic explosives and miscellaneous debris to create a dozen simple remote-controlled IEDs.

By the time Shanying placed the remote-controlled bombs and returned to the cabin, the sky had gradually darkened.

Because everyone might have to travel separately for a while, Shanying took the initiative to cook and put all the remaining good ingredients into the pot...

Several kilograms of roast beef, a pot of high-calorie beef with potatoes, a vegetable salad, and a pot of vegetable soup.

The butchers knew Shanying very well. When they saw him cooking without saying a word, they knew that their boss was in a nervous state.

Even Daria, who loved to stick to her boss, put away her coquettish behavior and changed into combat uniform. She kept her gun on her back while eating and left her tactical backpack at the door so she could pick it up and go at any time.

We finished our delicious dinner in silence, then gathered on the porch to drink water and chat...

By this time the sky had become completely dark. Due to the weather, it was going to rain tonight and not a single starlight could be seen under the dark clouds.

The darkness brought tremendous pressure to people. The big trees around that looked lush and green during the day, at this dark moment, those branches swaying in the breeze gave people a terrifying sense of oppression.

Tiffany was very uncomfortable with the oppressive feeling of impending storm...

Looking at Shanying, whose expression was slightly solemn, Tiffany said in a deep voice: "Did something happen that I don't know about?"

The mountain eagle looked up at the sky, then nodded his ears and said, "Listen carefully, what can you hear?"

Tiffany looked up at the dark sky, then listened for a while, shook her head and said, "Except for the sound of the wind, I didn't hear anything..."

The mountain eagle made a buzzing sound with its nose, then said with a smile: "It's a drone, someone is spying on us.

I don’t know if it’s the FBI or our enemies, maybe both!”

Shanying looked at Tiffany, who was shocked. He smiled and nodded his tactical glasses, saying, "Our tactical glasses can perform multi-mode observation...

The two drones were not flying very high, and their batteries would heat up when they were flying, and you could tell if you looked carefully."

During this period, drones were not yet the mainstream of warfare. Even top teams like HRT only tried out the equipment briefly and did not list drones as their main tool.

But not being familiar doesn't mean not knowing...

Tiffany held the frame of her tactical glasses and kept trying to adjust the observation mode. Soon, she used the infrared mode to find two small dots with a faint red light about 300 meters from the ground.

After confirming the news from Shanying, Tiffany said solemnly: “They can see us, which means they are very close to us.

What do we do next?

Shanying raised his hand to check the time, then glanced at the sky and found that a drone had already left to the north...

"It's only 9 o'clock now. If the enemy wants to launch an attack, they have to wait until the FBI slows down...

I'll take a break. I think they will attack around one or two in the morning."

As Shanying looked at the anxious Tiffany, he smiled and said, “Don’t be nervous, I have placed a warning device in the north, as long as the enemy approaches, we will know it immediately.

They may be powerful and advanced, but they are also human beings and they will die if they are shot!
If you have any instructions, you'd better tell me now..."

Tiffany believed in Shanying's judgment. She took a deep breath and said, "We can't just sit there...

The drones have limited battery life, and I need someone to monitor them from a high point after they leave."

Pigeon carried VSS on his back, held the 'waypoint shotgun' in his arms, smiled and raised his hand and said, "I'll go..."

Seeing that Pigeon was so respectful, Tiffany turned to the butcher and said, "We need at least three people to serve as a distraction..."

The butcher nodded and said, "The pirates and the mailbox will go to the position north of the cabin..."

Shanying raised his hand at this time and said: "I'll go to the attic, the location there is good, and my shooting skills are also good.

The butcher will stay on the first floor with you and Dahlia..." Tiffany nodded solemnly and said, "We don't know how many enemies there are. I would rather believe that they are very well prepared, so we need to be ready to move at any time.

Do you remember the evacuation route I marked during the day?"

Tiffany looked at the people who nodded as she spoke. She took a deep breath and looked at Shanying and said, "My idea is to hold on until the FBI comes to support us, but I guess you have a different opinion..."

Shanying nodded as a matter of course and said, "If I meet with the FBI at this time, there will be many things I cannot do later.

No matter how many enemies there are, we must kill them all and then evacuate before the FBI arrives.

This is an important step in building deterrence and mutual trust between the FBI and the public..."

Tiffany nodded with a heavy expression and said, "It depends on the situation..."

Tiffany placed a hand-drawn topographic map with the positions marked on it on the table and said, "Everyone must remember the locations of these positions. They are our basis for evacuation.

If I were the attacker, knowing that the FBI was monitoring the perimeter, the best and fastest way would be to surround us from three sides and force a surprise attack, drive us to flee to the north, and then ambush us there.

We can't let them succeed..."

Shanying was very satisfied with the clear thinking shown by Tiffany...

At times like this, it would be right to imagine the enemy as being stronger and more cunning.

Moreover, the movement directions of those guys monitored by Mountain Eagle through crows also confirmed that Tiffany's judgment was basically correct.

Shanying gave Tiffany a thumbs up and nodded, saying, "The best way is definitely to withstand the three-way siege and launch a counterattack...

The number of enemies may be large, but like you said, they can't afford to drag, so they need to keep attacking.

This will give us the opportunity to kill them.”

Shanying stood up and stretched his body, then said with a smile: "I'll go to the attic, you all put on your bulletproof vests and helmets, and then find a place to rest...

Don't worry, we are better prepared, so we will win!"

………………

Just when Shanying and his men separated and headed for their respective positions, the enemy had already arrived at a position only about 2 kilometers away from them.

This group of people did not rush to attack, but spread out to form a semi-encirclement...

Except for a group of people who stayed in ambush near a small path below the northern hillside, the rest of the people formed a claw and gradually moved towards the wooden house from the east, south and west directions...

In a tree hole under a big tree on the north side, a middle-aged man with a bowl-cut haircut and a cold expression looked at the faint light on the top of the mountain. He held the radio and said, "Team one, take position. Everyone, take cover on the spot...

We will launch the raid at 1 a.m. sharp, and not let anyone go."

As soon as Pot Coverhead finished speaking, his companion's voice rang out over the public channel...

"Boss, there are only seven of them. Are you being too cautious?"

"Yes, Boss. There are only seven of them, and intelligence shows that they don't have heavy weapons. There is no need for us to waste time here..."

"Yes……"

Hearing the echoing voices on the public channel, the pot-covered man shook his head with a serious expression and said, "If you knew what the guys inside did a week ago, you wouldn't say that...

A rich guy offered 1000 million dollars to those money-conscious bastards at Samo International Security Company.

Have you ever seen a $1000 million mission?
The four terrorist leaders we captured in Iraq are not worth 4 million in total.

I don't know who these guys are, but the first day they landed in California, they killed more than 40 people...

The gunmen of the Haitian gang are terrible, but I have accurate information. The second wave of people they killed were a group of retired rangers who worked for the gangs. The third wave of people were the tracking team of Titan International, and the leader was that bastard Maltose...

They didn't even have a chance to fight back, they were beaten to death like wild dogs, and that bastard Malt Sugar was even made into barbecue."

The pot-covered man's words made the public channel lively...

"That son of a bitch Maltose was actually killed?"

"Oh shit, that guy and his buddies used to be from Delta, and they just got wiped out?"

"........."

Sensing his companions' restlessness, the pot-covered man said in a deep voice, "Quiet, one o'clock in the morning..."

………………

Shanying lay on the floor of the attic, resting his head on the magazine wrapped in a towel and closing his eyes to rest...

Around midnight, the alarms of crows and pigeons sounded in his ears at the same time...

"Attention, it's coming..."

Shanying grabbed the VSS, turned over and half-crouched on the ground, then raised the VSS and pointed it out the window.

"500 meters, poor range, bring them closer, wait for my signal..."

(End of this chapter)