kingnovel Chapter 446 The difficulty of the mission has increased again
Chapter 446 The difficulty of the mission has increased again
"In this operation, we lost seven soldiers, five seriously injured, and two slightly injured. Comrades from the Ministry of Public Security's special care team..." The team member looked up at the three leaders: "Five killed, one seriously injured, and one slightly injured. Passenger officer Lu Chaosheng was killed by enemy agents. Three enemy agents were killed, and two escaped. We have notified the nearest military sub-district and are organizing a search for them."
The team members closed the materials, Dang Jianjun waved his hand, and he left.
"The casualties are too great. I bear the primary responsibility for this operation..." Dang Jianjun's voice was a little hoarse.
Long Fei was about to speak when Dabao held his hand, stopping him from speaking.
"Don't take responsibility. What is there to take responsibility for? Did you make the plan? Did you raise different opinions? Did they help?"
This mission had problems from the beginning. There were multiple orders coming from different departments, with no clear leadership. You did yours, I did mine. I still don't understand who was in charge of this mission. Anyway, no one told me whose orders I should follow.
Long Fei nodded slowly. "Dabao is right. Our mission is to ensure the safety of experts and researchers, while the special protection team's main focus is to capture enemy spies. Protecting the experts is not so important. No one told us about this contradiction before we boarded the train. This is the main reason for the loss."
Dang Jianjun sighed. "The enemy is too crazy. Why do I feel like they don't want to kidnap the experts, but to kill them? I heard from the soldiers that the enemy agent who pulled the grenade shouted, 'Don't spare a single one.'"
Dabao and Longfei's expressions became more and more solemn. "Leave no one alive?" This meant that they would not kidnap the experts but would directly eliminate them. This would increase the difficulty of protection exponentially.
Dabao said: "Director Long, have you contacted your superiors? What did they say?"
"The superiors' message is very clear: we can strike at enemy spies at any time, but the experts must not be harmed. Our mission is to safely deliver the experts to Western Xinjiang.
In addition, Professor Tang and his wife were too old to take the bus, so their superiors decided to replace the damaged soft sleeper with a new carriage when they arrived at Luliangshan Station.
Professor Tang also re-boarded the vehicle at Luliang Mountain, accompanied by soldiers from the Jinan Military Region reconnaissance platoon. "This time, let's have a head-on confrontation with the enemy to see who has the harder fist!"
Dabao nodded slowly, lost in thought: "There must be spies lurking among the drivers and passengers of this train. Director Long has been keeping an eye on Lu Chaosheng. He couldn't possibly be transporting weapons onto the train. Therefore, someone else must be supplying weapons and equipment to the enemy..."
Long Fei and Dang Jianjun were sucking their teeth. It felt like these enemy spies were like leeks, there was always another crop after you harvested it, and it was endless.
"How about this, let's each do our own thing. I'll be responsible for protecting this carriage, and Director Long and you two will be responsible for everything else."
Long Fei nodded, knowing that Dabao meant that he and Dang Jianjun would take charge of the safety of other carriages. After all, there were not only experts on the train, but also a large number of civilians who needed protection.
There was a knock on the door. Dabao opened the door of the private room and saw Xiao Ke's slightly injured team member standing outside.
He saluted, turned aside, and a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared at the door. Next to him was Xie Jiayin.
The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "Comrades, my name is Yang Jingning."
Long Fei and Dang Jianjun stood up quickly. Long Fei shook hands with him and said, "Hello, Professor Yang. I'm Long Fei. I'm sorry to have startled you."
Yang Jingning smiled and waved her hand: "It's okay, I understand."
Dabao stepped back, and Xiao Ke's team member said, "Director Long, Team Leader Xiao is seriously injured. We are following the instructions of our superiors. The safety of Professor Yang and Assistant Professor Xie will be your responsibility."
Long Fei nodded, said "OK" softly, and then asked: "How is your team leader Xiao's injury?"
The crew member looked exhausted, but still replied: "It's very serious. We've contacted the hospital. We'll get the injured off the train at the next stop. The local hospital will take over."
Long Fei went to arrange a private room for Professor Yang and his partner to rest. Dabao remained silent until Dang Jianjun pulled him aside.
"What's wrong, Dabao?"
Dabao suddenly woke up: "Nothing, has Professor Yang always been on the protected list?"
Dang Jianjun shook his head and said, "This was added the day before the train started. It was an order from the Ministry of Public Security. Professor Yang and his assistant, Ms. Xie, joined Project 741 three years ago. He is a physics professor at National Tsing Hua University and has studied abroad. He has been responsible for peripheral work within the project.
They weren't originally on the list of people going to Western Xinjiang, but somehow they were added. What's going on? Is there a problem?"
Dabao laughed. "I've always felt like there's something fishy about Professor Yang, especially his assistant, Xie Jiayin. She's been quite sneaky. When the attack happened, I couldn't even tell where she was hiding."
Dang Jianjun nodded and said, "If there's any suspicion, we must investigate. Leave it to Long Fei and me. You just focus on the safety of Professor Tang and the others."
After Dang Jianjun left, Dabao closed the compartment door, sat on the lower bunk, closed his eyes and rested, but his consciousness enveloped the entire compartment...
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Late at night, the ancient city of Ping'an was silent. Behind the dark city walls, two gates stood wide open. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ping'an City had abolished individual armed forces, so the gates were never closed.
The crisp sound of horse hooves came from far away and approached. A horse galloped into the ancient city of Ping'an and stopped at the door of a small courtyard behind the lower west gate. The person on the horse jumped down and pulled down the scarf on his face. It was the puppy.
He looked around to see that there was no one around, so he jumped up, put his hands on the wall, and flipped over.
The puppy landed gently on the ground. This was where he and Seventeen lived. He had left all his knives and guns in the car, so he came back to get his weapons.
The puppy took off the door knocker, pushed open the door, turned around and closed it. He walked straight to the shrine, stretched out his hand and moved the lotus seat, and a large rectangular hole appeared in the wall behind the shrine.
The puppy turned around and pulled off a sheet from the kang, dumped the cash, bills, and two large yellow croakers in the hole onto the sheet, then rolled up the sheet and tied it around his waist.
Then he reached out and took out two Guanshan swords with sheaths and inserted them into his back so that it would be easier to draw.
He strode out of the house, looked back with longing, and then jumped out of the wall.
The puppy's eyes were filled with hatred. The moment he heard Seventeen's words, only two words remained in his life: revenge...
The puppy followed the wall and groped its way to Fan's house at Ximen.
A few wild dogs came over and circled around the puppy.
The puppy patted their heads one by one, then pointed in the direction of Fan's house and growled a few times. The stray dogs ran away.
The Fan residence is no longer the same as it was before liberation. Back then, there were so many guests and hundreds of servants and maids. Now it is a new world, overthrowing all the exploiting classes, so the servants have been dismissed.
The only people living in the Fan residence today are the old grandfather of the Fan family and his three sons. However, these three sons are not young anymore, they are all over fifty and have become grandfathers. They are surrounded by a large number of grandchildren. There are a total of 29 people in the Jin family, young and old.
It was already late at night, and everyone was asleep. The Lower West Gate was tightly shut. The people of Ping'an Ancient City had no idea that the Fan family, the head of the Eight Great Families, was about to be slaughtered, leaving no one alive...