The surveillance location posed no issues.

At least in terms of elevation, it provided an overlook of the building where Baghdadi was located.

Baghdadi had very high security requirements.

Typically, he maintained a bodyguard team of at least 30 people. These were his die-hard loyalists, who strongly agreed with his extremist ideology and were willing to follow him with their lives. Battle quality aside, their combat will was certainly commendable.

Song Heping observed through night-vision goggles from the building for a while and quickly sketched a rough terrain map.

Then he marked the position of each bodyguard on the handheld PDA.

It was a habit.

Even with many advanced devices available now, he still kept to the habit of hand-drawing terrain maps.

Although it seemed somewhat redundant, Song Heping believed this to be the safest method.

"It looks like Baghdadi is still inside the building."

Having completed his surveillance, Song Heping immediately conveyed the information to Jiang Feng and the others waiting in the forest outside the town through the radio channel.

"Split into groups and enter, don't make too much noise, I'll meet you at the entrance to the town."

"Understood, we will split into six teams and enter, first meeting you at the southern wall outside the town."

After receiving Jiang Feng's reply, Song Heping packed up his reconnaissance equipment and began to withdraw from the surveillance building.

He needed to go outside the town to guide Jiang Feng and his team inside.

Although the town was very quiet and there were hardly any people on the streets,

He had seen two or three homeless people when entering town earlier. A large group of armed personnel entering would certainly attract attention.

Moreover, no one knew whether these so-called homeless people were actually informants.

Avoiding these individuals was crucial.

During the communication, Song Heping discovered that there seemed to be some issues with the signal here.

It should be said that the tactical radio he used was very advanced, and within twenty kilometers there should not be major communication quality issues; furthermore, this was not a jungle, so there shouldn't be much topographical interference.

Yet just now, he had heard several bursts of static interference noises through his earpiece.

"Test the communication."

"Testing, testing, is it clear?"

Both sides began testing, and each team also carried out test communications calls one by one.

The voice this time was very clear.

The interference had disappeared.

Song Ping glanced at the uneven buildings of the small town and thought he might be overthinking; it's common for communication equipment to have minor issues from time to time, especially since just now the interference was minor.

He began to make his way along the town's roads, avoiding the homeless and heading towards the town's outskirts.

Before long, the groups met under a section of wall outside the town.

"Team leaders, come over to receive your assignments..."

Song Heping called over the leaders of the six assault teams and had them come over to mark the positions and coordinates of the troops deployed around the target building.

This was an essential step before any action.

Today a Falcon Special Combat Team arrived, along with core combat personnel from the company, forming six teams in total.

Gabri was responsible for leading the combat team, and Jiang Feng was in charge of the core action personnel's assault group.

Position and coordinates were quickly marked by the leaders of each team in their PDAs.

At this moment, a sudden burst of static came through the earpiece.

"What's going on?"

Jiang Feng looked around in confusion.

"Does this accursed place have some kind of mines underground? The interference is so intense."

As he spoke, the interference noise disappeared.

"It's gone now."

Hunter said, "Maybe there really is a mine underground."

A shadow of concern crossed Song Heping's mind.

While such sudden interference was not uncommon, tonight it somehow felt off to him.

But time waits for no one.

Now that it was confirmed Baghdadi was inside, they needed to act immediately.

The conflict had to commence here to disrupt Ahmair who's in Iligobadi Town.

With border interception and the attacks on Siria combined, the Central Intelligence Agency's secret operation squads and ISI5 militant commander Ahmair, who were waiting in Badi Town, would mistake this place for the main event and Badi Town for a smokescreen.

If they thought this way, it meant they had fallen into the trap.

There was, in fact, no distinction between the main event and the smokescreen.

If one chose, either side could become the main event.

Song Heping's strategy was to completely mobilize the ISI5 militants, making them carelessly expose their vulnerabilities; only then they would fall into disarray.

Otherwise, with drone support from the Central Intelligence Agency, the assault on Samir would be greatly disadvantaged.

The last light in the building where Baghdadi was located finally went out.

The six assault groups entered their marked attack positions like ghosts; all but one mobile team, and out of the remaining five teams, apart from one fire support team, the other four would launch attacks from different directions on the building.

Each team of six had long-range firepower support and the suppression of the fire support team, fully capable of holding their ground independently.

Song Heping returned to the small building used for observation, with the mobile team staying close by.

This was a common arrangement in tactical plans.

The commander would direct from a forward position, and the mobile team would deploy nearby. This ensured the safety of the forward command post and allowed rapid support to any team as commanded.

The operation was progressing very smoothly.

With the previous precise reconnaissance, all the teams bypassed any areas that might expose them and quickly deployed into position.

"Team 1 in position."

"Team 2 in position."

"Team 3 in position..."

...

After listening to the status reports from all the teams, Song Heping looked at his watch and said, "We only have 30 minutes. If we can't take them down, it means the operation has failed. In one hour, Siria's border troops stationed at the frontier will definitely be alerted and move out, and the local police will also respond. The operation is secret; there was no prior communication with Siria's military or government, so once the Siria military gets involved, things will become very complicated."

"Received."

...

"OK, countdown starts, one minute, synchronize watches."

All the team leaders began to synchronize watches...

One minute later, Song Heping saw the countdown reach zero on his watch and issued the command: "Attack!"

Hissss—

The command had just been issued when Hunter pressed the trigger on the rooftop.

Because the target building was only a little over a hundred meters away, the difficulty of sniping was virtually zero for someone like Hunter.

After the first shot was fired, a bodyguard on the rooftop of the target building fell to the ground in response.

Another bodyguard, realizing that something was amiss and just lifting his gun, found that he had no idea where to shoot.

Hunter was using an SR-25 semi-automatic suppressed sniper rifle for this operation. Its basic structure is similar to the M16 rifle, with 60% of the parts derived from the AR-15/M16. However, it is fitted with a specialized sniper barrel from the Remington Company and fires 7.62mm bullets, ensuring excellent precision at medium range.

For this mission, Hunter had chosen this rifle considering the need to take out multiple bodyguards quickly with consecutive shots.

Song Heping, observing the battle from behind a window, saw two bodyguards responsible for surveillance on the rooftop terrace fall down one after another without making a sound, and a satisfied smile emerged on his lips.

The previous operation to take out Little Curtis had brought considerable trouble for himself, but the only benefit was scooping up a whole container of weapons meant for Special Forces use from the ISA.

This container of weapons was worth millions and served as some compensation.

"GO!"

The four assault teams, upon receiving Song Heping's command, began to advance rapidly.

Pop pop pop—

Ratatat—

Muffled gunshots came from all directions.

At night, though the low gunshots could still be heard, average soldiers hearing them would be somewhat bewildered, not recognizing what the sounds were.

The bodyguards of Baghdadi were caught off guard and consecutively taken down.

The advance was extremely smooth, and quickly the four teams arrived at the side of the building.

Now, what was needed was to breach and enter.

The courtyard gate was wooden and easy to break through, but there were still a few bodyguards in the yard to handle.

As for the interior, it didn't matter.

Except for Baghdadi, everyone else could die.

A soldier from the Falcon Special Combat Team expertly installed the explosive charge on the courtyard gate, took a few steps back, and gave a thumbs up, whispering, "C4!"

Just as he was about to press the detonator button, something suddenly hit him, and the demolition man's body swayed, collapsing against the wall.

Almost at the same time, Hunter on the rooftop saw this scene through his scope and instinctively rolled to one side!

This was a pure evasive maneuver.

"Enemy presence..."

He hadn't finished speaking when a bullet entered through his shoulder and penetrated his body.

"FUCK!"

He clenched his teeth in pain, cursing loudly.

At the same moment, Song Heping, who was observing, also darted behind the window.

Ratatat—

Intense machine gun fire erupted...

"All teams withdraw and take cover! There's an ambush!"

Song Heping instinctively made the judgment.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Damn it, he had become that doomed mantis!

Who was the oriole?!

Such an excellent concealment!

Song Heping suddenly remembered the electrical interference from before.

Right!

That wasn't normal terrain clutter interference; it was the jamming caused by the other side's high-power radios in operation.

And the enemy must definitely be US Special Forces.

Since both sides were using the same system of radios, sometimes one could detect the other's signals creating faint electrical noise!

All of this now made sense!

Once again, Song Heping's intuition was confirmed.

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