Chapter 12 – Confrontation
Novel Title: 龙血 (Dragon Blood)
Author：水千丞 (Shui Qian Cheng)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 单鸣 (Shan Ming -MC), 沈长泽 (Shen Changze -ML)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
֍֍֍
Just as he was holding his breath and advancing, he suddenly heard an explosion behind him. Shan Ming looked back and saw that there were flames from where their cars were at. For a moment, the light around him was bright and his eyes felt a sting with his night vision goggles on. He yelled, “Get down!”
He jumped sideways and fell hard on the ground. Bullets whizzed past where he had been standing and he could hear the sound of the bullets piercing the air.
He untied the submachine gun from his back and fired at the place full of people. There was gunfire in the forest, accompanied by people’s screams. The MP5 submachine gun he used was a standard weapon of the US Navy SEALS. It was of average power, but the recoil was small and the bullets were fired at a high speed.
It’s a pity that the 30 rounds of bullets were quickly finished. He carried two magazines on his body. After changing one magazine, he rolled into the grass and took cover. The first round of gun battle quickly subsided. They had successfully intimidated the enemy. The enemy did not know their ammunition situation, so they would not dare to advance rashly.
And he only had two magazines left in his hand. He didn’t dare to shoot casually. Under the cover of the grass, he breathed lightly, thinking about his next strategy.
The place where they parked was still burning with flames and gunshots continued to be fired. There must have been a surprise attack there. Shan Ming was a little worried about his little baby, thinking that there must be a quick battle going on there. He will rush back to support them later.
There was a slight movement in the grass next to him. Shan Ming turned his head to see that it was Koski who was slowly crawling towards him.
Shan Ming raised his hand above his head, palm facing inward, directing Koski to cover him. Koski crouched down and pointed the head of his gun forward.
Shan Ming moved forward slowly and Koski followed behind him, keeping a distance of two metres apart from him.
He knew that by now, Jim must have circled to the nearest place to the enemy site at this time. This is what Jim is best at doing. He can blend into the night and go around behind the enemy without anyone noticing. As long as Jim doesn’t have any trouble on his side of the counterattack, the enemy will definitely lose their direction. They will be able to separate the enemy and break them one by one.
Shan Ming held his breath and finally found an enemy kneeling on the ground not far away from him, waiting for them with a submachine gun.
Shan Ming didn’t dare to act rashly. As long as he takes a shot, even if he can kill that person, the enemies nearest to him will definitely shoot in his direction and he has nowhere to hide. He searched for a cover all around and finally found a small rock. He rolled gently behind the rock, aimed his gun at the first enemy he saw and took a clean shot at the opponent’s skull.
There were others yelling something and ran in his direction. Two grenades were also thrown towards him.
Koski rolled to the side of a tree and began to shoot at them coldly. At this time, there was another gunshot from behind the enemy. It must have been done by Jim or another teammate.
Shan Ming rolled on the ground to avoid bullets and grenades. After a burst of gunpowder smoke passed, he shouted, jumped up, and shot wildly at the enemy. The thirty bullets were not wasted on the targets on the enemy ground. It was all worth the shot.
He shot them while running. After finishing a magazine, he hid behind a tree, panting heavily.
There was only one magazine left with thirty bullets. And he has nine bullets in his Browning pistol. After shooting all of these away, he only had the Kukri machete left. He really regretted that he left in a hurry and didn’t bring a few grenades with him.
Although he couldn’t see the situation of Jim and the others, he was basically sure that the enemy was already surrounded by them. He guessed that there were only seven or eight enemies left so the situation was basically settled. After the gunshot, Ayer should send someone to rescue them but he doesn’t know if Ayer is busy with other things right now or not so it’s better not to count on him.
The two sides only rested for more than 20 seconds before the sound of gunshot was heard again. Shan Ming could distinguish that the gunshot did not come from their weapons. It was the other party that fired first and the direction of firepower was concentrated on Jim’s side.
This is a great opportunity. Shan Ming took out his pistol, aimed at the enemy in the dark night, and fired.
After a frenzied sweep, Koski seemed to have run out of bullets so he directly pulled out the three-edged bayonet and gestured for Shan Ming to cover him. Shan Ming thought it was too early to fight hand-to-hand and did not agree with him to go. But Koski was a bold and careless person. He was also reckless in fighting and he was not afraid at all.
Shan Ming had no choice but to cover him. Koski crawled fast in the darkness with his back bent. He then jumped onto an enemy. When the bayonet pierced his neck, Koski snatched the submachine gun with sufficient ammunition from his hand. There was another sweep at the enemies.
After sweeping, he threw the gun away and held the corpse up as a cover. He rolled to the side. At the same time, Shan Ming jumped up and emptied his last magazine at the enemy who turned to shoot after hearing the sound.
Then he threw the submachine gun and drew out his Kukri. He jumped up and slashed the neck of the person closest to him in the air.
Koski also desperately brandished his three-edged bayonet, turning the hidden woods into a slaughterhouse.
Shan Ming could clearly feel that these people were not good at combat enough. Although they were well equipped, they lacked actual combat experience compared to them. The entire battle did not exceed ten minutes and the outcome was already decided.
Of the four of them, only Koski was hit by a grenade in the leg while the other three were only slightly injured.
They counted the enemies lying on the ground and all was accounted for. They didn’t have time to continue their search. So they turned their heads and rushed in the direction of where they parked the cars and went back to rescue.
He went back and saw that the enemy had already been taken care of by Ayer and the others. The car that was blown up was next to the car he was sitting in. His car was a bit affected as its body was rolled over.
Everyone was fighting around so no one cared about an overturned car. Only Shan Ming remembered the son he picked up was still inside it.
He hurried to the side of the car. The car window was covered with mist and he couldn’t see what was going on inside. He thumped on the glass, “Shen Changze!”
After a while, a child’s small voice came from inside, “Baba…”
Shan Ming became anxious all of a sudden. He jumped on the car. Luckily, the door was unlocked. So he opened the door and jumped inside.
The child was sandwiched between the seats, looking up at him with a pale face.
Shan Ming moved the seat forward to make a gap. He carried the child out. The child was not injured but his whole body was shaking violently in fear. His face was pale and his big black eyes looked very afraid. The child hugged his neck tightly and buried his small face in his shoulder and neck.
Shan Ming frowned and said, “You idiot. You can’t move the chair by yourself? The chair is not broken.”
The child whispered, “I…I dare not go out.”
Only then did Shan Ming realise that it was not that the child was unable to come out, but he was too frightened by the sound of gunshots to come out. He hummed, “Be a little more brave.”
He jumped out of the car with the child in his arms. He saw that Ayer was already taking care of the aftermath.
Several corpses were lying here and there on the ground. The soil under their feet was oozing with blood, looking scary.
The child only glanced at it, let out a short cry, and buried his face in Shan Ming’s arms. His body trembled violently.
Pell, wearing white gloves, was in the middle of bandaging Koski. He glanced at Shan Ming and laughed, “The little one is frightened.”
Shan Ming curled his lips, “He is too weak. You have to train him harder.”
“No problem. I’m about to let him participate in another autopsy.”
In less than half an hour of the battle, they killed seventeen people in total and captured three. Ayer took them to the woods for interrogation while the others began to pick up the equipment that belonged to these people. They were all good things.
Another hour later, gunshots were heard in the woods. Ayer led the team members out with a cold smile on his face.
They almost cleared up the scene. The overturned car also turned back onto the road. They had one car which was completely scrapped, two people were badly injured and seven people with minor injuries. They had no other losses than these.
Ayer called Shan Ming into his car and told him the results of the interrogation just now.
After their analysis, it can be roughly determined that their client is using them as bait this time. There will inevitably be a large number of real trade goods that will be delivered to the Mexicans through other channels. They are just gun targets.
Shan Ming proposed not to go to the border anymore. They should turn back to the Golden Triangle now to settle accounts with their client.
Ayer is quite conservative. He thought that since they had already arrived here, they should go to the agreed place to have a look. If there is no one to make a deal with them there, the client will not be able to run away when they go back to find him. In this way, they are justified no matter whether it is money or life, their reasons will be more grounded.
Ayer is the boss. So Shan Ming naturally listens to him. After they made up their minds, Shan Ming went back to his car to take a nap for a while.
The sky soon turned dawn and the rain miraculously stopped.
The convoy headed towards the designated point at the border at an extremely slow speed. The trip took another whole day.
֍֍֍
☝🏻Three-edged bayonet
Next update: 2023.–.–
֍֍֍
