After discussion, the captains of the Seventh and Eighth Squadrons decided to report to their superiors to request reinforcements.
But he got a reply: No reinforcements yet!
To reinforce, the armed forces need to deploy additional soldiers.
It was already nearly noon, and not only was it time-consuming to deploy manpower from outside, the manpower transferred would encounter the Allied forces coming to support them. In this case, the armed forces had no power and could only choose to retreat.
But the reply also said that no matter what they did here, the armed forces would wipe it out.
The seventh team leader looked thoughtful, trying to figure out what the officer meant by "smoothing it out".
Captain Eight of Team 8 grinned and said, "He dropped into the sea like water, but we just can't find him in these few hours!"
"But we can find a group of survivors here and threaten him with these survivors..."
The Eighth Squad Captain's proposal was directly interrupted by the Seventh Squad Captain, "He will never be soft-hearted. He just needs to quietly hide in a dark corner and wait until the Allied Forces arrive to escape from here smoothly."
Maybe they will also laugh at their whims, stupidity and naivety.
He is the one in power, and leaders cherish themselves the most and will not sacrifice themselves for...
Moreover, their actions this time also showed limitations.
Including his appearance in Inner Asia, it is all a secret matter, and this kind of thing cannot be openly announced to the public.
Then if they coerce him to take responsibility for the survivors and smear his reputation, they won't get what they want.
The Eighth Team Captain put away his smile and glanced coldly at the Seventh Team Captain, "We have no better way to find him!"
The informant doesn't know which side he is leaning in, let alone his life or death.
Without the guidance of an informant, they are like headless flies running around, only stepping into the traps "he" ambush for no reason.
If nothing happened to the other six teams of soldiers, they might still unite together and form a search blockade to search for him area by area.
It's a pity that they believed too much in the informant who did not know whether to live or die, and they also trusted too much in their own force, so they entered the traps deliberately set by others and were defeated one by one.
Captain Seven kept his mouth shut. They really had no effective way to deal with him.
He only said, "It's up to you to decide what to do."
The Eighth Team Captain sneered, as if he was fighting for the Seventh Team Captain's slight psychological reluctance, and also seemed to be laughing at his hypocrisy.
But he still quickly accepted the team rights given to him by the captain of the seventh team, "All of you, follow me! Find the survivors in Inner Asia!"
He rallied the two teams and headed in the direction where he had previously found traces of the survivors.
Zhou Tang and the others also found the priest team first.
Aiha chose to avoid me at the last moment. In his words, not seeing me was another way to protect them.
The armed forces are good at interrogating people. An untrained person will soon be exposed and reveal everything regardless of whether he or she wants to.
He said he was protecting ordinary people, but he was also protecting himself.
Zhou Tang glanced at him with a half-smile, "Whoever believes this high-sounding reason is a fool!"
If Aha wanted to protect the people as he said, why not sacrifice the individual to preserve the greater self at the last moment?
Besides, there is another saying, belated affection is worse than grass! It was only at this time that he thought about the people, which further revealed his previous ruthlessness.
Zhou Tang nodded, "Then you find a place to hide first. We will negotiate with the priest and he will come forward to comfort the survivors and let them disperse and hide."
Aiha nodded, but when Zhou Tang turned around, he added, "There's no need to tell the priest about me."
Zhou Tang obeyed casually, "As you wish."
The two of them also took off the guns on their chests, leaving only their personal pistols and grenades before striding away.
The priest watched Zhou Tang disappear around the corner of the street. He only stood still for a moment, and then hid in the nearby houses.
Zhou Tang and the two quickly approached the team. When the people in the team saw them again, they had no ups and downs. On the surface, they were just dispensable people. They did not have leadership spirit and were not the spiritual support in everyone's hearts.
Leaving or appearing is normal. What the survivors are more concerned about is can they survive? If we can't survive, everyone will turn into a piece of loess in a few days.
The two quickly came to the leading priest.
The priest turned to look at the visitor with tired eyes, but his eyes lit up the moment he saw Zhou Tang.
"you!?"
Zhou Tang put her index finger on her lips. After the priest calmed down a little, she said softly and quickly, "Find a place for everyone to take a rest. We have something to discuss with you."
The priest couldn't hold himself back, "Did you find him? I..."
Zhou Tang looked around and shook his head slightly.
The priest gave her a look, immediately turned around and came to the nun's side, whispered a few words, and then said loudly, "Let's take a rest here before going on the road."
The team actually took a break an hour ago. According to the original plan and the practice of the previous two days, they should take a break every two to three hours.
Only now, even though the interval was too short, no one raised any objections.
The priest asked the nun to check on everyone's condition, and then he turned around and came to Zhou Tang and the others.
Zhou Tang said softly, "We found 'him'. He calls himself Aiha!"
The priest looked a little strange.
Zhou Tang wondered, "Don't he have this name? Did he deceive us?"
The priest rubbed his cheek, "No! Aiha is the name of his youth! It has been so many years... I just didn't expect him to tell you this name."
Zhou Tang copied and pasted the priest's previous strange expression, as if to ask why the priest knew "him" so well.
The priest realized that he had made a mistake and turned his face away as if to escape.
But there is no time to waste on such trivial matters now.
Zhou Tang ignored the priest's subtle emotions and said straight to the point, "The armed army has sent a team here to look for him since last night."
"We used our advantage to frustrate them, but they would not pass up this golden opportunity to kill Aha."
"I think they can't find Aiha. In desperation, they will find us!"
The priest failed to understand what Zhou Tang meant by "we".
She explained to him empathetically, "The armed forces want to use the survivors to coerce him into showing up."
The priest blurted out directly, "How is it possible? How could he appear?"
Zhou Tang nodded in agreement, "Yes! He won't show up, not because..." She raised her head and looked at the people slumped on the ground and resting against the wall, "None of us are worthy of him giving up his life, including you. Guilty. Right?”
The priest shut up immediately because he clearly understood that Zhou Tang didn't say anything wrong.
He is such a cold-hearted person. Ever since he has been climbing up and sitting in a high position, his whole person is no longer what he used to be.
He was a little panicked and couldn't bear it. He asked himself, "Then what should we do? Wait to die? Will everyone here have to die for him?"
Zhou Tang reached out and placed his hand on his shoulder.
The priest's shoulders were so thin that the bones protruded...
In the past ten days, I have been under tremendous pressure not only materially but also mentally, and I was already a different person than before.
"No! We can't sit still and wait for death! This is also the purpose of our return here. We need you to temporarily disband the team. Wait until the allies arrive at night, and then come out to assemble."
The priest raised his head in confusion, as if confirming what Zhou Tang said.
Zhou Tang nodded, "Let everyone spread out and hide! Let the armed forces find no trace of us!"
"There are only two squads left in the armed army, with a total of fourteen people! It seems that these fourteen people can do a lot, but in fact they are limited in what they can do!"
"Because we set up an ambush for them before, they didn't dare to disperse. They were united and couldn't search quickly. We just need to hide! Avoid them."
The priest seemed confused and asked, "Where can we hide?"
Zhou Tang said, "I should ask you this! Or you can ask them!"
One person is short-term, two people are long-term, not to mention there are twenty or thirty people here!
There is always someone who can suggest a reasonable hiding place.
"It's too late! We have to hurry up!"
The priest no longer delayed, got up and walked among the people, proposing to advance this hiding method.
Everyone brainstormed, some people suggested the space under the collapsed church, others said the space formed by the collapsed field hospital, and others thought of the cellars that had been excavated in some people's homes...
The priest immediately made arrangements for those who still had strength and were not injured to return to the church and the field hospital to hide, or hide in a cellar a little further away.
The injured people hid in nearby houses with cellars and storage rooms.
When he turned around, he saw that Zhou Tang and Cheng Mu were missing.
The priest felt a little sad for no reason, but the busy time continued and everyone was still waiting for him.
Zhou Tang and the two found Aiha.
Aiha held the gun and leaned against the corner away from people's sight.
Zhou Tang said inexplicably, "He has always been excellent!"
Aiha raised his head in an instant and looked at Zhou Tang.
Zhou Tang didn't evade anything, "It's not worse than you!"
As soon as these words came out, Aiha's serious expression suddenly relaxed, and you could see that there was a smile on the corner of his eyebrows.
"Yes, he grew up faster than I thought!"
"It's also very interesting that you and him are direct, one is avoiding at the last moment, and the other is..."
Cheng Mu suddenly interrupted their specious words of testing each other's depth.
"The armed forces are coming soon!"
Zhou Tang immediately changed the subject and said, "There are many injured in the survivor team. They can't walk fast. Let's buy more time for them."
Aiha is still willing to do things like buying time.
He stood up and handed the gun back to Zhou Tang and the others, "Let's go! Create some little trouble for them."
Aiha left the house first, followed closely by Zhou Tang and others.
The seventh team leader remained silent throughout the whole process, like a soldier who perfectly obeyed orders.
The eighth team leader sent out the soldiers who were best at reconnaissance in the team.
"Report to the captain, we discovered the existence of survivors at this fork in the road before. If we go all the way to the southwest, we can catch them."
Team 8 Captain looked around sharply and found nothing unusual, "Let's go."
But as soon as they walked into the street, several explosions suddenly sounded, and the crumbling and loose walls of the houses on both sides of the street collapsed directly towards them...
It felt bad, a feeling of being buried.
The eighth team leader could only say sternly, "Back up! Back up! We are ambushed!"
At one point, they were walking in the middle of the street. Some of the houses on both sides collapsed, and some just smashed bricks and stones, which still left them some breathing space and time.
The Eighth Squad Captain was one of them who was not so lucky. Because he was the leader, he was hit by broken bricks and fell to the ground. Before he could protect himself, his legs were pressed down by the big rocks again. He was left to his own devices. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't free my leg.
Several other soldiers were injured, and two soldiers were completely buried under the rubble.
After the explosion stopped, Captain Seven stood up and directed the intact soldiers to remove the rocks pressing on Captain Eight's thigh.
There are still people standing guard around...
"Damn it!" Captain Eight gritted his teeth and held back the pain.
The violent aura in his eyes boiled.
The soldiers were not slow in their actions and quickly dug out the eighth team leader. There were no wounds from his thigh to his calf, but he was severely bruised...
After careful inspection, the seventh team leader breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately arranged for soldiers to dig out the people buried under the rocks.
The Eighth Squad Leader sat on the stone, watching the soldiers treating his injured leg, and came up with a very bold idea, "Don't worry about us, he must be nearby! You quickly lead people to chase him!"
Captain No. 7 has a different idea, "He is in the dark, we are in the light!" These houses will become his weapons against them!
They don't have any advantage now! Forcing them to catch up will only cause their team to be divided! Fall into the trap he set!
They had long guessed that there were at least two helpers around him! And the helper’s shooting skills are not weaker than his!
But the captain of the Eighth Squadron refused to give up, "Don't forget the mission of our soldiers! Even if the road ahead is a cliff, we can only rush forward and not retreat!"
The captain of the seventh team was silent, but this was a meaningless struggle!
The more they struggle, the more desperate they become.
but…
Captain Seven stood up and said, "Everyone who is not injured, follow me!"
He turned around and left, leaving the three injured soldiers gathered around the eighth team leader.
But the eighth team leader said, "You continue digging! Don't worry about me!"
He moved his body and leaned against the wall, holding the gun in his hand very alertly.
Zhou Tang and the others ran away after throwing the grenades. Who would be so foolish as to stay where they were and be caught?
Captain Seven relied on his years of combat experience and perception to lead people to the route where he and those around him were most likely to retreat.
It's just that everyone is a good player, and when good players compete with each other, there are very few flaws left.
Captain Seven led the people in pursuit for a while, stopped, frowned slightly, "Spread out slightly, look for traces..."
Time passed by minute by second, the sun was shining high and gradually setting in the west, but they made no progress!
Captain No. 7 looked up at the sky and felt that the situation was over!
When the armed forces sent bombers to bomb the Inner Asia region in turn, but still allowed him to escape, the armed forces were already defeated!
But there is still a chance to save face!
But eight of their teams entered here, but only a dozen people were left. This was a disastrous defeat!
The priest and the wounded man hid in the cellar under the house, ears pricked nervously to detect any noise coming from above!
