107: Special Operations

When passing through Yuling Tunnel, Li Xiao was quite nervous for a moment because Blue Ice Squad was extremely cautious, having deployed nearly twenty thousand troops on the east side of Yuling Tunnel.

Although vehicles ahead were occasionally stopped for questioning, most were let go; fortunately, Li Xiao had collected their weapons in advance, so handling simple inspections shouldn't be a problem.

Four Shadow Special Operations Soldiers, meticulously disguised, dismissed the questioning from the Blue Ice Squad soldiers in just a few words; such rhetoric was a piece of cake for professional Shadow Special Operations Soldiers.

As for the two civilian off-road vehicles that Li Xiao and Zhao Feipeng were riding in, they were passed through directly, which was very lucky.

An hour later, the three vehicles successfully exited the highway and entered the toll station.

The scale of Hengshui was much larger than Xi City, with many surrounding small towns and factory resource areas; the number of surviving players currently exceeded four thousand, three-quarters of whom belonged to Blue Ice Squad.

This was the confidence behind Blue Ice Squad daring to plan attacks on two cities simultaneously; Li Xiao looked at the dazzling neon lights on the streets and the dense crowds, feeling quite envious.

Currently, the tax revenue provided by Xi City to the squad was just over a thousand per day, but looking at the scale of Hengshui, an estimated three thousand a day was a sure thing.

To avoid drawing attention by gathering, the three vehicles chose to stay at different hotels in the city, with Zhao Feipeng choosing a hotel one block away from the City Hall.

Through Li Le's radio, Li Xiao told everyone to rest for the night and start the operation the next day.

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Before dawn the next day, Li Xiao and Zhao Feipeng took the opportunity of going downstairs for breakfast to begin reconnaissance on the Hengshui City Hall.

It had to be said that Blue Dragon was indeed a very calculating person.

Likely worried about a large number of enemies sneaking in to raid the squad headquarters set up in the City Hall, he had stubbornly deployed over a hundred meng hu off-road vehicles around the City Hall, with a garrison force exceeding one thousand.

Furthermore, several machine gun positions were deployed at both the main gate and the side gate; apart from the lack of anti-aircraft weapons, the firepower was already quite intense.

"I wonder if there are anti-personnel mines under those walls?"

Li Xiao picked up a piece of deep-fried dough stick cut by scissors and dipped it into the soy milk in his bowl.

Zhao Feipeng smiled and said, "Looking at the situation, there might actually be some."

After eating, the two returned to the hotel, where Li Xiao assigned a day's reconnaissance mission: the scout squad was divided into pairs to monitor the City Hall, the highway entrance, and the streets in between.

The remaining group went to investigate the location of Blue Ice Squad's military factory, as he estimated that Blue Dragon might often go to check on the military factory, after all, they had just lost three Armored Personnel Carriers.

The four Shadow Special Operations Soldiers remained on standby in the room.

After a full day of reconnaissance, Zhao Feipeng had nothing to show for it.

On Li Xiao's side, he asked about the situation in Xi City, and Liu Nian reported that there was currently no sign of the squads from either direction intending to attack.

The investigation results from Yun Dongliu showed that the battle between Jiantu Squad and Blue Ice Squad had ended last night, with both sides ceasing fire after losing ten to twenty thousand men each, although it seemed Jiantu Squad had been pushed back from over twenty bases.

Under these circumstances, Jiantu Squad had definitely formed a grudge with Blue Ice Squad.

He had originally considered joining forces with Jiantu Squad to take down Blue Ice, but upon second thought, as long as he endured for this period, he would be able to eliminate Jiantu Squad with his own strength, so there was no need to cozy up to them at this time.

Furthermore, he also believed that Jiantu Squad had just been tricked by Blue Ice and likely wouldn't easily trust Li Xiao again.

However, in the middle of the night, Xuan Yu suddenly brought Li Xiao a surprise; this woman had extraordinary methods, having actually hooked a freelance player on the outskirts of Hengshui.

This freelance player had a somewhat pretty-boy air and couldn't resist Xuan Yu's charms at all; soon, she tricked him into revealing that he had a little girlfriend in the outreach department of Blue Ice Squad.

With a little trick, Xuan Yu got that person to ask his little girlfriend to obtain a photo of Blue Dragon.

Previously, Li Xiao had said it would likely take a lot of time to confirm Blue Dragon's true identity, but now they could just compare it with the photo.

After a day and night of staking out, Zhao Feipeng finally discovered traces of Blue Dragon; this big shot was truly cautious—after coming out of the headquarters, he would always be followed by multiple off-road vehicles.

Then, after circling the city a few times, he would leave the city, at which point the convoy would scatter; Zhao Feipeng split the scout squad into several routes to pursue, but none were able to find traces of Blue Dragon.

After hearing Zhao Feipeng's report, Li Xiao said gloomily, "This is too sneaky; how about we just make our move in the city?"

"If we act in the city, we will likely be surrounded by a large number of enemy troops and might not be able to escape safely."

"That's not necessarily true!"

Just as Zhao Feipeng finished speaking, Ling Chao suddenly spoke up from the side, "Why do we have to wait until he gets into the car and then go to such lengths to intercept him?"

"You mean..." Li Xiao turned to look at Ling Chao.

"Boss, didn't you borrow that M21 anti-materiel sniper rifle from the first company sniper Yan Yizhou and give it to Yue Ge?"

"Can't we just complete the assassination during the time the target comes out of the headquarters and gets into the car?"

"Right!" Li Xiao slapped his thigh; he had indeed been overthinking it.

The anti-materiel sniper rifle's lethality against biological targets was two thousand points; even with Blue Dragon's two level ten bases, he would be dead.

Yue Ge was the member of the four Shadow Special Operations Soldiers who specialized in sniping; before setting off, to prevent encountering Blue Dragon riding in a high-durability vehicle, he had borrowed the anti-materiel sniper rifle that King of War had opened from Yan Yizhou.

"But when Blue Dragon comes out of the headquarters, he is escorted by troops; it might take at most ten seconds from the main gate to the car. Are you confident?"

"Not to mention the combat power of our Shadow Special Forces, don't we still have an M20S rocket launcher? Four rockets for area-of-effect damage, that can definitely serve as a follow-up shot."

"Then it's decided!"

Li Xiao confirmed the plan and immediately set to work preparing.

He didn't skimp, either, giving each of the four Shadow Special Operations Soldiers one million hit points directly.

As for the scout squad, they already had four to five hundred thousand hit points per person, so he didn't add any extra, as they were responsible for support and the pressure wasn't high.

Then came scouting the location; the buildings near the headquarters were basically all monitored by Blue Ice troops, and the front streets were guarded.

But the reason Shadow Special Forces were called Special Forces was, of course, that they had special capabilities.

With the help of Ling Chao and the others, the two-man sniping team of Yue Ge snuck into the alley behind an office building on the street directly opposite the headquarters during the night, and then, using the sewage pipe that ran straight up the back wall to the top, they climbed up by hand.

Seeing this maneuver by the Shadow squad, Li Xiao exclaimed that it was awesome; the risk King of War took hadn't been in vain.