King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer

The 5 terrorists in the basement had no way out. They pushed all the movable student hostages into a line, hoping to try to negotiate with the enemy. Even if that didn't work, they could take a few down to hell with them.

The female students, crammed together in panic, a few of the more fragile ones began to cry nonstop, provoking the loud cursing and scolding of the terrorists, who even fired shots at the ceiling to try to intimidate them.

The moment the gunfire sounded, the other terrorists instinctively glanced in that direction, then caught a glimpse of several shadows flashing at the stairwell entrance from the corner of their eyes.

They instinctively crouched down, resting their AKs on the shoulders of the girls, attempting to sweep fire.

But they weren't as fast as Dorian and Joe Ga!

Dorian's entire life of training was for dealing with a situation like this, and the moment he charged with his shield in hand, he pulled the trigger of his pistol.

A bullet grazed the cheek of a student and blew apart a terrorist's head.

A second bullet hit another terrorist's shoulder, causing him to fall backward and expose his upper body, where Karman shot him in the chin.

The AK74 bullet entered diagonally from the unlucky devil's chin, tumbling and tearing a huge gash, causing half of his jaw to shatter and exposing his throat and trachea.

The remaining three were fully in Joe Ga's firing range, his HK416 bullets accurately piercing through the crowd of students and finding the terrorists' bodies.

The first was shot in the head; the second, hit in the shoulder, instinctively straightened up, then another bullet struck his forehead.

The third terrorist pulled the trigger; his bullets, luckily, passed over the tops of the students, with one hitting the bulletproof shield and the rest striking the ceiling.

It was a skillful task to control an AK with one hand, and this terrorist clearly wasn't up to the task.

The moment he instinctively straightened up due to the recoil, Joe Ga's bullets found his head.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Bang"

With the last gunshot, the final terrorist's head burst open with a bloody hole and fell to the ground.

Dorian rushed forward to check and put an extra bullet into the chest of the terrorist still gasping with his jaw shattered. He then lifted his night vision goggles, lit two signal flares, and shouted to the panic-stricken girls, "Don't panic, you've been saved!"

The huddled and panicked students, especially the older ones, were in bad shape; the younger ones were now scared witless, standing in place and crying. Continue reading at empire

Watching several shabbily dressed girls drag Dorian into a corner, pointing at several girls who had been beaten and didn't have the strength to stand up, desperately pleading with Dorian in French to save them...

Joe Ga pressed his communicator and said, "The hostages are rescued. Owl, scan with the drone to see if you can find a safe exit route?

We have... damn it, there are many injured here, get 'Hemostatic Forceps' down here..."

As Joe Ga spoke, he saw a naked middle-aged woman stand up from a corner; her body had been whipped until it was covered in open wounds, barely a spot left untouched, and her lower half was still bleeding...

Yet, this woman still clung to Dorian, pleading with him in English to take all these children out.

Joe Ga didn't like this scene. Once 'Hemostat' rushed into the basement, he left a message, "Save them if possible," and beckoned Dorian and Karman to follow him up the stairs.

Joe Ga had seen worse scenes, but those people were all dead. It's the living who suffer the most, especially children!

Dealing with those eyes full of pain, pleading, hope, and longing, Joe Ga found it harder than dealing with bullets.

'Combat Diving Training' might have been the most valuable training Joe Ga ever experienced in his life, during which he learned to control, to control emotions and even his heartbeat.

But even though Joe Ga appeared calm, a voice kept telling him in his head...

"Kill all those terrorists! Kill all those terrorists!"

As Joe Ga reached the first-floor lobby, Sanderson, crouched below the window firing outside, shouted loudly, "Boss, 'Tailor' and his team are about to be overwhelmed. Can 'Cobra' give them some support, let them pull back to our position?"

Joe Ga paused for a second, ran over to the window, and took down a machine-gunner on a pickup truck. He then offered an apologetic gesture to 'Kitten,' who was glaring at him for stealing her target...

"What's wrong with them? There are two fighters, two helicopters close by..."

Sanderson, troubled, shook his head, "It's a sniper. 'Tailor' and his men were heavily hit during their move and have been trapped in a house to the south.

That guy waited until we broke in here before he spoke, FUCK..."

Joe Ga immediately understood. 'Tailor' Waters was indeed a Tough Guy; he knew what his mission was, so even after suffering heavy losses, he still used himself as bait, holding off the main force of the terrorists.

Now, with the battle at this stage, the helicopters' guns were nearly out of bullets.

Both Big Beak Birds had already unloaded their munitions yesterday; together, they had only 4 rocket pods, 80 rockets, almost half of which were used up at the first moment of engagement.

Rockets aren't very effective against enemies hiding in buildings, leaving 'Cobra' and 'Archerfish,' the two Aces, only able to provide covering fire with their cannons for the trapped Rangers, and since they needed to keep climbing and diving, the cover was good but not frequent.

Joe Ga nodded after listening and called out to Antar, "Found a route yet?"

Antar shook his head regretfully and said, "Boss, there are terrorists everywhere, it's not realistic to move out with so many students.

The route between the Rangers and us has been cut off, we'll have to make a detour to reach them.

I suggest we send someone to get around them, establish a safe zone, and let the helicopters land to take away the injured.

But there are a lot of snipers that popped up all over town..."

After hearing this, Joe Ga rubbed his temples in frustration and pressed on the communicator to call Team E...

"How are things over there? Why are there suddenly so many snipers?"

'Bullhorn' panted heavily and said loudly, "Boss, there are at least 40 snipers in the north district, well, they can't really be called snipers, they are Western Asians, 'Iceman' says they are 'ISIS' old gunmen, kind of like a special forces team for terrorists.

We've taken down nine, Cobra and the others blew up a few, 'Water Ghost' and 'Harelip' both got shot, thank goodness for the bulletproof vests or they'd be done for, right now we're doing our best to hold them off."

While 'Bullhorn' was speaking, he fired a rocket and then cheered, "The tenth one!"

Then 'Bullhorn' shouted loudly, "Boss, the French guys got crippled, but a squad of mercenaries defected to our side, should we trust them?"

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga was utterly confused, how had the battle descended into such chaos?

The sudden emergence of a large number of skilled Western Asian fighters turned the situation into a complete mess.

His own side was still alright; even if they couldn't break out, they could hold out until dawn tomorrow for the Nigerien Defence Forces outside the town to come to their rescue.

In terms of strategic objectives, P·B had already been achieved.

Although there were some twists and turns, they had fulfilled their contract with Niger after all.

But the severe hit on the Rangers and the crippling of the French SAS were too unexpected for Joe Ga!

Those French guys had some airs at the end, only willing to maintain contact with P·B through the snipers that were with Team E, getting crippled as soon as they got there, and then having to rely on mercenaries beside the target for lifesaving, that was just preposterous!

Compared to the French, the Rangers were very tough, which Joe Ga hadn't foreseen either.

To refuse to help them was out of the question; being looked down upon was minor in comparison to getting remembered with resentment by the US and France, which would make life difficult in the future.

Watching a large number of terrorists driving pickups back and forth along the main street in front of the mosque, conducting shooting raids as if playing guerrilla war, Joe Ga, annoyed, pressed on the communicator and said, "'Bullhorn', 'Vanguard', tell the French and Rangers to hook up all communications, I want to call in artillery to drive them all back into their houses."

After speaking, Joe Ga called 'Cobra' and 'Archerfish' and said, "Big Bird One, Big Bird Two, how much ammunition do you have left?"

Cobra: "Big Bird One still has 8 rockets and 80 rounds for the autocannon, there are too many gunmen in the north district, I have to cover those E Team guys."

Archerfish: "Big Bird Two still has 3 rockets and 50 rounds for the autocannon, those Rangers are trapped in a building, they are surrounded by enemies huddled inside, I can only do my best to cover them, to rescue them we need an armored vehicle, or give me a few air-to-ground missiles, and I can clear a path for them."

Archerfish's tone was very grim as he spoke, but everyone knew that bombing was impossible, a humanitarian disaster would be unacceptable to the US and France, not to mention P·B would definitely be in trouble.

Just as Joe Ga was about to speak, the artillery barrage arrived...

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Six shells exploded above the town, scattering shrapnel onto the ground.

One shell exploded just above the mosque, hitting two pickups full on with shrapnel, leaving the terrorists on top like rag dolls strewn on the ground.

The continuous artillery barrage then cooled down all the terrorists on the streets, and after a dozen or so of them were killed, they shrank back into their houses and didn't dare to stick their heads out again, only daring to fire in the direction of the mosque from behind windows, but this weak firepower no longer posed a threat.

However, the consequence of what Joe Ga did was making it even more difficult to eradicate the terrorists, and retreat was out of the question; retreating under the sniper fire of terrorists would definitely end up worse than the Rangers in Mogadishu.

The only benefit of the artillery barrage was that it quieted the town down, giving Joe Ga time to think of a strategy.

Just in time, the headquarters of the US and French forces had also patched their two teams' communications into P·B's channel.

To be precise, the United States Army headquarters had forcefully included Joe Ga's personal terminal and the French command communication into their channel.

How they did it, Joe Ga didn't know, but he was clear the Americans were getting anxious.

They couldn't believe that P·B, which had taken on the toughest task, was actually making the smoothest progress?

Listening to the French raging and cursing in the communication channel, expressing their dissatisfaction with the American's overbearing actions, Joe Ga scoffed and said, "My planes are almost out of ammo, which one of you has rocket pods?"