With four HK M110A1 and two HK M320 grenade launchers, the second sub-team attacked the barracks beside the main building. They took up a position 50 meters in front of the barracks, and from the cheerful laughter and shadows seen from the windows, it was estimated that there were about 40 hostiles in the barracks.

The formation adopted by the second sub-team was two grenadiers took a kneeling position and a shooter took a prone position. While another shooter knelt behind his three comrades to secure the perimeter behind them.

Blaaaarrr!

Blaaaarrr!

As soon as the first sub-team executed the attack, the two grenadiers from the second sub-team immediately fired a HE round into the barracks. A heart-wrenching scream was instantly heard, but without hesitation the grenadiers fired the second salvo.

Then, as one of the hostiles stumbled out of the front door, the shooter pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The hostile instantly collapsed and stopped moving.

Bang!

The second hostile that jumped out of the window did not escape the shooter's ambush either. He fell to the ground after a projectile pierced his lungs from the side. Several hostiles fled to the backyard, but the second sub-team did not chase them.

The tasks were already clearly divided. The first sub-team would storm the main building and rescue the hostages. The second sub-team would eliminate the hostiles in the barracks and prevent them from moving towards the main building via the front yard. Meanwhile, the back and right sides of the villa would be secured by the third sub-team.

In a raid operation, staying inside the area of ​​responsibility was a fundamental principle. For no matter how neat the coordination was, or how sophisticated the identification method was, moving into the friendly line of fire could still result in fatality.

While flash after flash was seen from the 1st floor of the main building and the typical .338 Lapua Magnum ammunition shouted repeatedly, with full vigilance the second sub-team's personnel surveyed the left courtyard of the villa.

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As not a single report had been received from the two other sub-teams, Sergeant Liam calmly waited for the typical bang of .338 Lapua Magnum ammunition to go silent before he pressed the PTT button.

"Green One, All Green, come in."

[Green Two, Green One, the left-wing is clear.]

[Green Three, Green One, right-wing and tail is clear.]

"Green One, All Green, regroup in the main building, Green One over and out."

Sergeant Liam breathed a sigh of relief before changing channels and once again pressed the PTT button.

"Green Raccoon, Sierra 8-6-0, come in."

[Siera 8-6-0, Green Raccoon, go ahead.]

"All hostages have been rescued. They were extremely exhausted but paramedics managed to stabilize them."

[Received and understood, airlift and air support is on the way, hold tight.]

"We'll wait, Green Raccoon over and out."

Just as Sergeant Liam lifted his finger from the PTT button, the two other sub-teams' personnel entered from the front door. Without wasting any time he immediately greeted them.

"Our task is not finished, immediately build a defensive perimeter, the night is still long."

"" "" "Sir!" "" ""

All Green Raccoon personnel answer calmly but steadily.

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Green Raccoon personnel swiftly built barricades. However, without claymore, explosives, barbed wire, or sufficient time, they could only create simple barricades that surrounded the villa at a distance of 30 meters.

The barricades were built using the bandits' bodies, firewood, tables, chairs, and other flammable materials, then doused with oil lamps found in storage sheds.

The remaining lamp oil then mixed with alcoholic drinks and converted into Molotov Cocktails. After that, they barred every door and window on the 1st floor of the main building by using wooden blocks.

Green Raccoon personnel then took up their defensive designated area. Three personnel were in the 2nd-floor corridor to secure the front door and stairs connecting the 1st and 2nd floor.

Four shooters armed with AWM 338 took up positions on the ceiling, and made small holes on various sides by removing 2-3 tiles. Meanwhile, the rest of the personnel took up positions at every window on the 2nd floor.

After the preparations were complete, the wait then began, and Green Raccoon personnel didn't have to wait long.

As Sergeant Liam poured a sachet of instant coffee into a cup in the kitchen, a radio call came in.

[Sleepy Panda, Green Raccoon, come in.]

Sergeant Liam took a deep breath before pressing the PTT button.

"Green Raccoon, Sleepy Panda, go ahead."

[Be advised, 900 cavalries approaching from the west, estimated to arrive in six, over.]

"Understood and thanks for the warning, Green Raccoon over and out."

After distributing the intel he had just received and setting the outer shooting point at a distance of 1.2-1.4 km, Sergeant Liam returned to his position on the 2nd floor, then enjoyed a cup of hot coffee while standing by the window.

For combatants, pauses between battles were valuable moment. So Sergeant Liam didn't want to waste it.

'A cup of coffee before body count,' muttered Sergeant Liam as he enjoyed what might be the end of his life.

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Sergeant Rodriguez enjoyed a bar of chocolate as he counted the remaining AWM 338's ammunition.

'19 rounds of FMJ, 5 rounds of tracer, and 10 rounds of subsonic.'

In an instant, the result made Sergeant Rodriguez take a deep breath. Unfortunately, the hostages' condition was too weak to travel long distances. Using horses not only would worsen their condition, but also could kill them unintentionally.

Staying as long as possible in the villa's was the only option Green Raccoon had. However, their ammunition was limited and the opposing side might use fire arrows to burn down the villa.

'Well, when it's time to die then you will die. The problem is how.'

Sergeant Rodriguez muttered as he made up his mind to kill as many incoming oppositions as possible before he got killed, and before long he heard Sergeant Liam's voice on the radio.

[Green One, All Green, be advised, 900 cavalries have just entered a 2 km radius on the west side of the villa.]

[Green One, All Green, from now on the communication will go into wide-net mode and immediately take out anyone who enters outer-shooting-point, Green One over and out.]

No matter how sophisticated the communication system, the traffic of radio waves must be managed by using a hierarchy so that unnecessary interference does not occur.

However, in an emergency, the communication channels would be opened as wide as possible so that every personnel could be connected to all friendly channels, even if the communication network would become vulnerable to wiretapping and jamming.

After confirming his radio was in open channel mode, Sergeant Rodriguez and the other three shooters took position in the hole that directed to the west and waited.

Not long after that, hundreds of horsemen were seen from behind their scope. Sergeant Rodriguez and his three colleagues immediately opened the safety lever, then gently placed their index finger on the trigger.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Four deafening sounds broke the silence of the night, and alerted Green Raccoon's personnel that versus contact had just begun.

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