Blackwater Corps headquarters building at night.
Wang Zheng, Lao Hei and others rushed back to Bana City overnight. Upon learning the news of their return, Su Tianyu immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss the relevant intelligence collected this time.
In the corridor leading to the meeting room, Wang Zheng saw Fu Zhen walking in front of him and hurriedly chased after him: "Uncle, I'm back."
"Who told you to run away?" Fu Zhen stopped, put his hands behind his back and looked at Wang Zheng and cursed: "You are in the Army University, and this is how your teachers taught you to obey orders?!"
"I... I just want to take a look at the actual situation. We have people coming later, so we have to be aware of what's going on." Wang Zheng touched his head awkwardly and replied in a low voice.
"Don't talk nonsense." Fu Zhen frowned and scolded, "I brought you here to let you feel the atmosphere of actual combat, accumulate experience, and learn, not to let you run around. Look at those two smart people, Jiangzhou and Wu Han, they wouldn't take you to the front line even if you asked them to! Because they know that if something happens to them, the impact on the battle situation will be fatal."
Hearing this, Wang Zheng grinned and responded softly: "Uncle, I am different from them. They are behind the scenes, and my future is on the battlefield. My family has a tradition that if you want fame, you should get it right away!"
Fu Zhen couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Haha, your hair hasn't even grown out yet, and you still want to get married right away. I've been trying for so many years, but I still haven't become a real prince. This is the only time, and it won't happen again!"
"Haha, I know." Wang Zheng nodded with a smile.
…
After a while, everyone was in the conference room. After greeting Fu Zhen and the others, they took their seats.
Lao Hei printed out the information he had collected into a booklet and had people distribute it. He then took out an aerial view of the city of Santa Pau and hung it on the wall in front of him. He then took out dozens of photos he had taken and posted them one by one next to it.
After everything was done, Lao Hei pointed at the photos and said, "Look, here, here, and here... Gustav has made preparations for all these places..."
Fu Zhen was sitting below. Seeing these photos, he frowned and said seriously, "Old Gustav is quite capable! He has taken into account all the factors of urban warfare and didn't give any advice at all."
"Yeah." Yu Mingyuan said with some surprise: "Even such details are taken into consideration. It's really not easy to do."
The conference room fell silent as everyone was thinking about countermeasures.
Gu Baishun broke the silence, frowned and suggested: "Since they are prepared, should we adjust the plan?"
"No." Su Tianyu, who had been silent the whole time, gave an absolute direction at the critical moment: "Even this point has been thought of by Gustav, so looking for other points may not be smooth. Now time is so tight, we don't have time to try again and again. Moreover, he is only on guard, but it is impossible to completely eliminate this hidden danger, so I think we can still try to continue to promote this plan."
Hearing this, Wang Zheng's eyes lit up and he raised his hand and said, "I agree with Commander Su's opinion. There is no way to eliminate this hidden danger, we can only prevent it. We use time to consume their energy and do our best to make them ignore this at the critical moment, then this plan is still feasible."
…
At the same time, in the southern part of Santa Fe City.
The entire southern part of the city was shrouded in darkness. There was no light around and it was very dark. Only the occasional flying shells would bring dazzling light.
Gunshots continued to ring out in the surrounding area. The platoon leader of the seventh platoon under the fifth regiment of the third division, with more than 30 soldiers, was carrying out a search and advancement mission.
The crowd surrounded an armed pickup truck, driving their automatic vehicles, and slowly moved forward while checking the surrounding situation.
At this moment, the soldier walking in the front row suddenly stepped on a booby trap.
"boom!"
The four people in the front row were blown away by the explosion of the booby trap.
"ah!!!"
"There's a minefield, be careful!"
“…!”
Shouts echoed all around, and everyone reminded each other and entered combat status.
But these booby traps were placed in a directional manner, with a very precise explosion point, which only broke the soldier's calf. On the battlefield, such booby traps were very insidious and disgusting, and both sides used them.
Four soldiers lay on the ground, wailing in pain.
Under the order of the seventh platoon leader, several soldiers around rushed over and tried to pull them back.
“Da da da!”
At this moment, a fire suddenly appeared in the building next to them, a burst of gunfire rang out, and the soldiers who were rescuing people burst into blood mist and fell to the ground.
The machine gunner on the armed pickup truck immediately turned the gun around, aimed it at the building that had just opened fire, and pulled the trigger while roaring.
The machine gun swept across, and the bullets hit the wall of the opposite building, directly penetrating the concrete wall and raising a cloud of dust.
The machine gunner continued to suppress the fire, and taking advantage of this opportunity, five or six soldiers rushed over to rescue the people, but seven or eight enemies emerged from the windows of three or four surrounding buildings and shot at them.
Gunfire rang out and the soldiers who went to rescue were shot to the ground again.
There were gunshots all around, and because the light was too dim, the soldiers of the Third Division could not see the direction of the enemy at all and could only identify their location by sound.
The platoon leader's eyes were red, and he could only lead the remaining soldiers to hide behind the armed pickup truck. Bullets kept hitting the armor of the vehicle, splashing red sparks.
"Retreat! Retreat!" the platoon leader shouted at the top of his voice.
"Platoon leader, they are not dead yet!" the machine gunner roared while shooting wildly.
"It's too late. If we don't retreat, we will all die here!" The platoon leader shouted the order again.
The remaining soldiers leaned behind the armed pickup truck and slowly retreated together, gradually withdrawing from the street.
The soldiers in the second row were nearby, and upon hearing the gunshots, they immediately rushed over to provide support.
Seeing the Seventh Platoon retreating, the Second Platoon Leader shouted, "Seventh Platoon, how are you doing?"
"You can't get through." The platoon leader of the seventh platoon told him.
"Save our brothers!" After quickly reuniting, the second platoon leader saw several wailing soldiers lying on the street and shouted hurriedly.
"It's too late to save them!" The platoon leader gritted his teeth, his voice trembling. "We don't know how many people are in the building opposite. They are hiding too deep. They don't have any lighting or reflective equipment. We can't find any of them."
As soon as he finished speaking, several incendiary bombs were suddenly thrown out from the building opposite.
“Pah, pah, pah!”
With the crisp sound of shattering, the flames merged into one, and the soldiers who fell to the ground died tragically in the sea of fire amidst wailing.
The platoon leader of the Seventh Platoon and his men watched their comrades being burned alive with tears in their eyes. With anger and unwillingness in their hearts, they slowly withdrew from the area...
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Third Division, temporary combat command room.
"Report!" A regiment commander rushed into the command room and saluted Xin Xiaodong. "The search operation was blocked and we suffered heavy losses. The enemy relocated all residents in the entire South City area and only built positions in various complex buildings to fight guerrilla warfare against us. This group of people has no specific command and combat units at all. They are all in groups of more than a dozen people. They fight and run away. After a battle, you don't even know what their firepower equipment is."
Xin Xiaodong was also very decisive and immediately said, "Let your people come down, stop advancing, and at the same time cover each other and exit the city in an orderly manner."
"Yes!" The regiment commander left the command room.
The Third Division made no progress in its first exploratory attack and lost more than a hundred men, almost no wounded, all dead.