Chapter 313 Beheading Tactic (5)
Commander Carnell was dragged by his guards and went behind the secret door. As soon as the door closed, he immediately jumped up and shouted, "F*cking b*stard! What is he doing? He's trying to kill me! What does he think this is? A movie?"
Commander Carnell was outraged. He did not expect for someone like the commander of the Polarlys Legion to assassinate him. It was beyond his imagination. He thought that only the underlings would do these things because usually, the leaders just ordered the people around.
"Kill him. I wanna see him die, right now!" Commander Carnell shouted to his guards. As soon as his office quieted down, he immediately rushed his guards to check out the situation.
In the luxurious office, the sound of gunshots had died down. Zhou Qingfeng was holding an HK41K rifle. He walked across the room and knocked on the iron secret door. Zhou Qingfeng estimated the thickness of the door by the sound it emitted. The iron door was at least thicker than two centimeters and normal bullets would not be able to get through it.
"What a coward. I guess only bombs would work," Zhou Qingfeng collected the grenades from the dead guards and saw the two guards and four Korean maids trembling in the corner of the room. They used to work together with Zhou Qingfeng. Thus, Zhou Qingfeng helped them out of pity.
"Listen to me carefully if you don't wanna die. Stay here and wait for an hour before you leave. Get away from Miami. Don't go to any big cities. It's only going to get harder in the future. Good luck guys."
Whether or not they understood, Zhou Qingfeng walked towards the oak door. The door was so thick that the people would not be able to hear from outside. Normal bullets were not able to penetrate the door. However, the guards out there were most probably alerted.
Zhou Qingfeng opened the door slightly. At this moment, a grenade was thrown into the office. The guards outside were quick but Zhou Qingfeng was even quicker. Without thinking, Zhou Qingfeng grabbed the grenade and threw it back out. As the guards exclaimed, the oak door was closed again.
A few moments after the explosion, Zhou Qingfeng smiled and opened the oak door. It was his turn to throw the grenade.
The two grenades killed five of the guards. There were more than ten guards out there but most of them had already run away. When Zhou Qingfeng rushed out, all of them did not have the guts to stay.
Meanwhile, the sound of a bark rose from the other end of the corridor. Again, the guards started to fire. Soon, DogMeat appeared with a few bullet holes in it. The blood on his mouth showed that the numbers of people it killed was not little.
Sisters, Ellie and Eileen, were following DogMeat. Both of them were carrying backpacks. As soon as they saw Zhou Qingfeng, they called out his name.
"How is it going out there?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.
"The Cuban guards can't get in. Li Cha's action group somehow blocked the routes around the town hall. The Vulture is on their way here. They should be here in around eight minutes. We've planted a few Claymore mines at the entrance and they will be activated by infrared. They will be killed as soon as they get closer!"
This is the first time Ellie and Eileen participated in this kind of mission. They were very excited. Even though they had to cross over tons of corpses along the corridor, they were not afraid at all. While they walked, Ellie stepped on someone's fingers and the people shouted.
"Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me, Mr. Hugo! I'll give you back all the gold and I'll tell you where the gold storage is. It isn't just gold, there are tons of valuable things collected by Carnell, the numbers are unestimated."
It was McGrady shouting on the floor; he did not manage to escape. Meanwhile, he could not do anything but surrender.
Zhou Qingfeng gave him a pat on his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Mr. McGrady. I'm not gonna hurt you. You're a real problem-solver. I have a question now, where does the secret pathway lead to?"
"The underground garage."
"There must be another way to the underground garage. Please bring my two little sisters there, is that alright?"
Looking at DogMeat with the titanium teeth behind Zhou Qingfeng's smile, Mr. McGrady had no choice but to obey. Zhou Qingfeng let Ellie and Eileen use an alternative route towards the underground garage. On the other hand, Zhou Qingfeng got some bombs from the sisters and returned to the secret door in the office.
Meanwhile, behind the bullet-proof door, Mr. Carnell was confident that Zhou Qingfeng was already dead. Also, he was confident that no one was going to break through the two point five centimeters thick door. He was trying to contact and organize the guards around the town hall to fight against the Polarlys Legion.
However, the actual situation was different from what he thought. The town hall was under attack, there were more than hundreds of deaths and dozens of vehicles destroyed. The rest of the guards had no choice but to withdraw to the other streets.
The situation in the town hall was even worse. No one was able to answer Carnell. After a few moments, someone knocked on the secret door.
"What the hell, is he still alive?" Commander Carnell could not believe it. He regathered the guards around him and camped in front of the door. Everyone stared and aimed at the door silently. However, nothing was happening. "I think he's dead, there's no way so many of us can't kill just one of him."
As soon as Commander Carnell thought he could relax, the wall beside the door exploded. The shock from the explosion hit the guards and they were all sent off by the wave.
An explosion right in front of the face could destroy someone's will. Commander Carnell was hit by the broken wall pieces. With the smog from the explosion, he could not see anything. He was just crawling on the floor and had no idea where he was headed. When he arrived at another room, he heard the explosion from the control room. Obviously, someone was trying to destroy the control room.
"Damn it! Where did he get those bombs? And he went for the wall instead of the door." Carnell was terrified by the sound of the gunshots, screaming, and explosion. He could not be bothered about Zhou Qingfeng anymore, he just wanted to get out of that place.
"Get out of here! Take me out of here! Let's go the underground garage. Gather all the soldiers in the city, we're gonna beat that b*stard hard!" Carnell led his guards and ran away from town hall. He was getting further away from Zhou Qingfeng.
However, he was one step closer to death.
Chapter 314 Mission Accomplished
A Bradley combat vehicle was traveling at high speed. It knocked off a few vehicles that blocked the road and headed towards the town hall. Behind the Bradley, there were dozens of heavily armed and anti-tank vehicles. The entire road was shaking; the fleet was incredibly intimidating.
On Bradley, a Cuban officer received direct orders from Commander Carnell. He shouted to the other members in the group, "Kill all the Americans at the town hall, suppress all the resistant forces."
Li Cha, who was at the top of the building, saw the high-speed armored vehicle team coming towards the town hall. However, the mortar and sniper could not do anything to those heavily armored vehicles. He panicked and pleaded in the wireless radio, "Vulture, hurry up! We can't hold on any longer!"
"Give us three minutes." The commander of the Vulture replied coldly, "You have to hang in there."
"Damn it!" Li Cha cursed. He understood that Bradley would be arriving in three minutes. By that time, it would only take a few minutes to destroy the building that they were in. "Take out the smoke shells, we have to hold them. Get the Javelin anti-tank missiles out. We'll be killed when they are here."
The seventh action group did not have many smoke shells with them. The officer on Bradley went back into the vehicle. Through the infrared scope, he was still able to see the people on top of the building.
As time passed, more and more armed Cubans calmed down. They were coming from all directions and firing with either pistols or rifles at the top of the building. A cannon was launched from the Bradley combat vehicle. The building was nearly destroyed.
Meanwhile, at the town hall, Carnell at the underground garage received back-up. A platoon of guards of gold storage found him. They were armed with grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.
"Put your eyes on this entrance. Fire if anyone comes in," Commander Carnell was exhausted from running. He pointed at one of the entrances that Zhou Qingfeng might use to set up the defence.
As expected, Zhou Qingfeng was here. As soon as the guards saw someone coming, the heavy machine gun started to roar. The narrow entrance and walls were demolished. At the same time, the guards launched grenades from behind. The entire platoon focused on the entrance.
The underground garage was shaking and it filled with flare and smoke. After around one minute, they stopped firing. The broken pieces of bricks, cement, and the wall covered the floor. Carnell searched the ground and tried to look for Zhou Qingfeng.
While everyone was focusing on Zhou Qingfeng, DogMeat silently came closer in the dark with a Claymore mine in his mouth.
The Claymore mine was already connected to the activator. It was placed on the ground and faced the direction of the enemies.
Meanwhile, Commander Carnell pushed a few soldiers and said, "Go. See if that Victor Hugo is dead."
The soldiers immediately moved. They covered each other and slowly moved towards the entrance. They tried to find the body of Zhou Qingfeng but they could not find anything. As one of the soldiers was going to return to report, he saw DogMeat.
"There's is a dog!" The soldier snapped.
Carnell and the rest of the guards were stunned. Following that, they heard the sound of DogMeat running away. As soon as they turned around, they saw the Claymore mine on the ground.
Before anyone could react, the mine was activated by Ellie and Eileen, who were not far away from Carnell. Again, seven hundred bullets exploded from the mine, all the Cuban guards twenty meters away from the mine were killed instantly.
Carnell was lucky that he was right behind a pillar. At that moment, he felt the wave from the explosion. The sudden change in pressure made his ears hurt and temporarily deaf. He immediately closed his eyes, covered his head with both his hands and took cover.
A few moments after the explosion, the Commander had no idea what was going on. He only felt the pain from his injuries. When he opened his eyes, he saw the corpses of his guards around him. There were a few people and a dog standing in front of him.
The underground garage was filled with silence. It was terribly silent. After Zhou Qingfeng cleared all the obstacles, finally, he was standing in front of the final target.
Meanwhile, the red-faced Commander Carnell was embarrassed. He lost everything. He yelled at Zhou Qingfeng, "Victor Hugo, you got me! But I don't understand, why are you doing this? You're not even American, why are you working for them?"
"I don't work for anyone, I only work for myself. I want everything that you have, they would be very helpful for me to get through the cataclysm." Zhou Qingfeng finished talking, turned around, and walked away. DogMeat barked and followed.
Ellie and Eileen looked at each other, gave each other a high-five, and cheered, "Yay! We did it!"
"Dumb*ss, the cataclysm is over. It's a new century, a world-changing new century!" Carnell shouted, "Where are you going, dumb*ss? Aren't you going to kill me?"
Zhou Qingfeng continued to walk and his voice reverberated in the underground garage, "Mr. Carnell, you made two mistakes. First, this is only the beginning. Second, you're already dead."
At this instant, Carnell realized the pain in his chest. As the pain grew, he lowered his head and saw the bullet hole in his chest.
Meanwhile, outside the town hall, the seventh action group led by Li Cha was still struggling. Two of the Javelin anti-tank missiles did not work on the Bradley combat vehicle. The building was nearly destroyed and it could fall apart anytime. The seventh action group could be eliminated anytime.
"Damn it, Vulture, we can't hold on any longer. You're watching us die, aren't you?" Li Cha was stressed out by the bullet rain. His wife and his son were beside him. All three of them were in huge danger.
"We're here." Great news came out of the wireless radio. The Lockheed AC-130U gunship arrived at the top of the town hall. As soon as the guns on the aircraft fired, the enemies' vehicles were all destroyed.
A laser-guided artillery shell was launched and it directly hit the Bradley combat vehicle. Following that, five of the V-22 Osprey military aircraft arrived and another five streams of bullet rain were created.
The news was being spread with the radio system, "Now I announce, Commander Carnell from the Cuban North America Strategy Committee has been confirmed to be dead. The other eleven key targets were destroyed. The beheading tactic has achieved a complete success."