Ace of the Dragon Division
chapter-560

Chapter 560: Night Attack (Part One)

– At night –

Xu Cheng and his party were sitting at the back of the pickup as Lin Dong drove. This brat did a crap ton of car-racing back in the days, and now it was his time to shine. Tonight, he would also be responsible for picking them up, as well as leading the fleet of drivers to transfer the engineers over to the new territory after they conquered it.

The world of mercenaries was quite complex.

On the surface, in fact, this was no less than the battlefield of the Third World War, because every year, many countries would airdrop their special forces here for military drills, doing mass-scale war training with live rounds. In the process, for one, they could kill the outlaws that escaped to this place from their former countries, and secondly, they could show off their nation’s current level of military.

They would never treat the lives of the mercenaries that dwell here as actual human lives.

After all, the people here usually didn’t have a national identity anymore. It was very chaotic, and there were countless big or small mercenaries, that were in fact, just trying to group up to better protect themselves. This was also why Luo Yi said they should win a few wars to get their name out there, and then there would be more people coming over to join them for their own safety’s sake.

Every year’s military exercise was like winter for those mercenaries or criminals that couldn’t find someone big to group up with. They would have to try to survive year after year, and if they couldn’t protect themselves, they would just be killed during the military exercises like prey being shot down by hunters.

So, more and more people tried to group up and merge together smaller teams, and thus it became like this, where the competition increased as each tried to assert their own dominance in order to attract more talented people into joining.

This was also why not even the King of Mercenaries – Kush, dared to unify this palace. To be frank, this was a public place, a playground for all the powerful nations to train and exercise. Even if Kush were to try unifying and declaring to the world that this was now a nation, those big powerful countries wouldn’t even take it seriously, and they would continue sending their armies in under all kinds of righteous reasons like “pursuing rogue criminals” to try and clean up. In the end, they would still come in and out like this place was their own backyard.

So, no matter how powerful Kush was, he wouldn’t be able to do anything in front of all the superpowers in the world, and he would have to worry 24/7, being terrified of some special forces trying to pull some “beheading” operation to assassinate him first.

This was also why when Xu Cheng had that bold idea, almost no one thought it was achievable. People all thought he went crazy, including Old Grandpa Ye who knew him well.

Luo Yi and Li Wei also didn’t really believe that it could be done, but they liked this kind of thing; they wanted to go back to the “Three Swordsmen” kind of life from back in the day when they fought side-by-side.

The Falcon Mercenary Corp was mainly formed by a group of fugitives from the R Nation, but they were later taken under the wings of the R Nation. Falcon would be provided all the resources, but these guys must help the R Nation government look for crude oil here in the Land of Mercenaries. There would also be some big characters from the R Nation that contract them to help find mineral reserves and diamonds.

Besides the almost inexhaustible amount of crude oil here at the Land of Mercenaries, there was also an abundant amount of minerals, including the world-famous colored diamonds.

So, it wasn’t surprising that the Falcon Mercenaries had large-scale machinery for drilling and mining. It was probably delivered by the R Nation. Xu Cheng also wanted to have the equipment delivered, but it was very difficult to find a way to get them into the land. It was almost impossible to transport by air without a fighter jet escort, and if by land, it would also be too eye-catching and dangerous as they would most likely run into bandits again. When you didn’t have enough influence in this land, it was very difficult to transport things here.

The city Falcon occupied wasn’t bad, as it even had greeneries. It was a thousand times better than Xu Cheng’s dirt houses in the desert. Seeing that there were trees and actually decent houses, the desire for Xu Cheng to conquer this land became stronger

Chapter 560: Night Attack (Part Two)

Looking from afar, he saw that there were about a dozen soldiers standing on the walls by the main gate, facing different directions. There were also four standing by the gate, fully armed.

The team guarding the gate was already about 20 people in size, and looking back on their side, 9 people!

Mario immediately swallowed his spittle and couldn’t help but ask, “Big Brother Cheng, are you sure you want to do this?”

Xu Cheng already left and went to a dark area not far away. He was about a kilometer away from the gate as he hid himself. Hearing his teammate asking this question, he laughed and said, “Didn’t Luo Yi want us to put our name out there? We will take this land and swap out their flag with ours after we are done.”

Chekov bitterly smiled. He was also from the R Nation, and also being in the land for a long time, he knew very well what Falcon had.

“9 against 300, we can’t fight them head on. We can only sneak attack them.” He asked Xu Cheng, “Big Brother Cheng, have you thought about how we are going to defend this place even if we manage to take this place tonight?”

Xu Cheng: “If a team could take down a city with 300 mercenaries, would other people think we only have 9 mercenaries guarding the city?”

Chekov: “But we indeed only have 9 armed guys.”

Xu Cheng: “You haven’t heard of the Empty City Bluff strategy, right? (TL Note: it’s an idiom from ancient China where a person was able to defend the city by just opening the door, making the enemies think it must’ve been a trap) We will take it down first. The annual military practice isn’t going to be for awhile. Later on, when the R Nation realizes it, we would already be expanded, what would we be afraid of by then? Tonight, it’s not just about taking this land, but also to boost all of our confidence. This is our first battle. You guys can find a good angle, and later, when I lure them out, just vent out all of the anger and suffering you guys had to bear over these years on whoever you see. Especially you, Chekov, no need to be polite about it.”

Chekov bitterly smiled. “I do want to vent, but the thing is, if they chase out and come after us… Big Brother Cheng, you really think letting Little Dong go back was a good idea? He’s the only driver we got, how are we going to run now that he’s gone?”

Luo Yi scolded him, “Run your azz, you don’t know Big Brother Cheng. Since we are here, we aren’t going back without victory. The reason he told Little Dong to drive the car off was to cut us off of all ways of retreat and let us focus on taking down the enemy. We will either take this land or report to Jesus tonight.”

“Quiet down, get ready,” Xu Cheng interrupted them.

Then, from the scope, he looked at the situation inside the town hall.

There were several big housing yards, and since it was very hot, most people were out with their tops off. Some were BBQing by the bonfire, and some were playing cards.

Xu Cheng tried to find the leader of the Falcon Clan. After activating his penetrating vision, he found the man in a house. He didn’t have a clear angle to the shot at all, and the wall was too thick to shoot through. So, this target could be dismissed for now, and he turned to the deputy boss of the clan.

He was a big muscular man with a crap ton of chest hair, looking very fierce. He was playing cards, and he seemed to have a hot temper. Xu Cheng saw from afar that he was talking a lot with intense emotion at the card game.

The Third boss in command.

The Fourth.

Almost all the core members of Falcon were locked on by Xu Cheng.

There were five of them in total.

Xu Cheng laid down all five snipers in position, prepared all the ammo. There were 500 bullets, and if he couldn’t kill 300 people with them, it would only mean he sucked.

Gently stroking the sniper rifle, Xu Cheng smiled. “It’s been a while.”

Kacha. With the bullet pumped into the chamber, Xu Cheng took aim at his first target – the second boss in command.

“Too much talking, you can shut up now.”

A loud bang broke the tranquility of the night.