Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 586 It seems like an old friend has arrived

"Hurry up! My people don't have the patience to wait any longer. If you don't show me your ID, I'll turn you into a hornet's nest!"

Seeing that Song Heping didn't say anything, the guy opposite seemed nervous.

“Rabbani!”

Song Heping finally remembered the name.

"I'm Song! Come out! Damn it! It's you!"

The man under the opposite porch heard Song Heping introduce himself and rushed out from under the porch, waving his hands towards the upstairs: "One of us! One of us! Put down your gun! Don't fire it accidentally!"

Just as he was waving, suddenly a ball of fire flashed from behind the dark window upstairs.

bah—

After a gunshot, a bullet hit the top of the gate's wall, directly knocking off a piece of the wall.

"Fuck me!"

Song Heping rolled sideways and landed behind the concrete doorpost at the entrance.

"Rabbani! You shot me!? FUCK!"

However, he still calmly shouted to Jiang Feng and the others who were already on guard beside the car: "Don't shoot! Don't be nervous!"

Sure enough, Song Heping guessed the situation correctly.

Soon, Rabbani in the yard began to jump up and down and curse: "Who is it? Who fired the gun?"

Then he turned towards the gate and hurriedly explained, "Song! My men are all new recruits. They must be too nervous. Don't shoot!"

"Fuck you!" Song Heping cursed, "Hurry up and tell them to put their guns away, otherwise if my people really open fire, you'll all die!"

After a lot of trouble, Rabbani finally took control of the situation and asked the guards to open the door to let Song Heping and others in.

The two met in the yard.

Song Heping was surprised that Rabbani was in the police station and asked, "Rabbani, when did you become a police officer?"

Rabbani said, "After you left last time, the revolutionary brigade suffered a heavy blow, but my identity was also questioned. It was only a matter of time before I was exposed, so I had no choice but to return to Kandahar. The Americans found me a job in the police station, and I am now the deputy director here."

"Fuck! You're an official now? But you're not doing a very good job as the deputy chief of the police station, with a bunch of subordinates like this."

Song Heping hugged Rabbani and said, "Tell your men to be smarter next time. Don't be so rough. If you meet someone like me, you'll be fine. But if you meet an American, I'll shoot you to death."

Rabbani was working as deputy director here, and things suddenly took a turn for the better.

Song Heping had previously been concerned about whether the police force here would cooperate with his work, but now it seems there is no need to worry.

Rabbani is fluent in English. He used to be an insider for the US military's ISA department. After being exposed, it was most appropriate for him to return to the new government and serve as the deputy director of the regional police station. After all, there are not many people who know English in Afghanistan. The police station needs to deal with multinational forces, so a person who knows English is very important.

It was probably for this reason that he was placed in this position.

"You just said that the Jefferson Group sent you here?"

Rabbani was very curious why Song Heping was here. He always thought that Song Heping was a member of the American special forces.

"Yes, my company signed a training contract with them, and we came here to train you..."

He looked up for the police station sign, but didn't see it. He looked around, but still didn't see it.

But I woke up immediately.

It doesn’t matter whether you hang a sign here or not.

Ata knows it, and the people know it too.

"Where's your director? I need to discuss some procedures with him."

"You've come at a bad time, Song. Something terrible has happened here," Rabbani said. "I'm afraid you won't be able to see the director now."

Song Heping asked curiously, "Dead?"

He meant it as a joke, but he didn't expect Rabbani to say, "That's really possible."

Song Heping was a little surprised when he heard this. Why did things take a sudden turn for the worse? If the director was really dead, who would he contact as originally planned?

"How did you die?"

"I'm not saying he's dead now, I'm saying he might be dead, but no one knows whether he's dead or alive."

After Rabbani finished speaking, he felt that he was being confused, so he quickly explained to Song Heping the cause of the whole thing.

Lieutenant General Charles has been the commander of the coalition forces for half a year. From the moment he took office, he felt that the troops were insufficient, and then he contacted various European countries to send reinforcements here. After three months of coordination, he finally increased the troops.

But he found that the increase in troops did not solve the situation in Afghanistan at all. Although he could brag to reporters that he had taken control of the entire Afghanistan, how many Taliban members he had wiped out, and how he assisted the new Afghan government in establishing a new order and rebuilding their homes, only he knew the truth.

In Rabbani's words, the situation has actually become much worse since Lieutenant General Charles took office.

The coordination among the coalition multinational forces has become a mess. In the past, the US military was the main force, and other smaller countries followed suit. Now that the British army is taking the lead, it is found that those who should be playing a supporting role are still playing a supporting role, and the former main force, the US military, has also followed suit.

Among the multinational forces, the US military has the strongest combat effectiveness, the most comprehensive support system and combat system, including the intelligence system, where the Americans are the only ones to stand out.

The result was that the British found themselves in positions of supreme commander but completely unable to direct the troops.

After six months of delays, the British government felt completely humiliated, and the Americans were constantly putting pressure on it, creating various conflicts. Their message was, "Xiaogou, can you do it? If not, I'll do it!"

The British were unwilling to give in, lacked the ability, and had great ambitions, so they kept pressuring Lieutenant General Charles to do something big within the year to shut the Americans up.

Hence this big operation.

The operation had been planned. Starting from four cities in the southeast and south, including Ma'ruf, the attack would be launched simultaneously in four southern directions, targeting the Taliban and other large and small resistance groups entrenched in the mountainous areas along the border between Afghanistan and Iraq. This was a seven-day operation, and we were only on the fifth day.

On the previous day, the British army, as the main force, advanced along the line from Shahr Safa to Ma'ruf. After entering the border area, they concentrated on attacking the Ata nest in the mountainous area around Dobagagar Ridge. The US Army's 3rd Division advanced along the mountain road in the direction of Shinkai on the left wing, responsible for flank support and encirclement.

Unexpectedly, when the British army advanced to Maaruf, which was still 40 kilometers away from the Afghan-Pakistani border, they found that the US troops were still in Xinkai and had not set out!

So Lieutenant General Charles called to ask what the 3rd Division was doing. After urging them for a day, the 3rd Division finally came out of Xinkai and began to advance slowly along the mountain road.

On the first day, we hadn’t even advanced 10 kilometers when we stopped to set up camp.

The next day, Lieutenant Charles continued to call and urge.

When the US troops responded, the mountain roads were rugged and they encountered sporadic ambushes by the Ata armed group, which slowed their advance.

On that day, the US military advanced about 20 kilometers and then stopped.

The British army, which had been waiting in the mountains for two days, finally couldn't wait any longer on the third day.

After all, with tens of thousands of troops crowded in the mountains, even a blind man would have discovered this huge British army long ago. Moreover, on the first day of departure from Kandahar, Charles had anticipated that Ata would target him. His purpose was to use these 10,000 British troops as bait to delay the Ata organization so that they would not panic and flee into Pakistan to hide, or even mobilize troops to attack him.

Then the US military took the opportunity to use its air and mobility advantages to directly penetrate the rear of Ata's blocking forces, encircle them and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

The plan is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

At dawn on the third day, the Ata armed forces launched a large-scale attack.

In the mountains, it is Ata's world.

Relying on their familiarity with the terrain and their terrain advantages, they continuously organized mortar attacks to harass the British troops entrenched in the mountains.

On the third day, the British army was passively attacked throughout the day.

In mountainous areas, armored vehicles and tanks cannot play an advantageous role. Guerrilla warfare in mountainous areas requires either the use of helicopters and airplanes, or just walking.

The mountainous areas on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border are basically all caves, and the British Air Force is not as strong as the US Air Force. They tried to coordinate with the US Air Force to come for support, but they accidentally bombed themselves because of the problem of ground-to-air coordination between the two sides.

Within one day, more than one hundred people were killed by accidental bombings by the US military.

From the third day on, the British army was like a fat elephant stuck in a narrow cage, being bitten by flies and mosquitoes but unable to do anything about it.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Charles was furious, but he could do nothing about the Americans' passive resistance and could only mobilize the Kandahar police force.

Because the Afghan government forces had long been taken by the British army deep into the Ma'ruf area to serve as vanguard cannon fodder.

The Kandahar Regional Police Department currently has only more than a thousand police officers. This time, Lieutenant General Charles ordered that all young and combat-capable police officers be transferred from all police stations in the area to reinforce them.

Unexpectedly, after Director Ades took his men to Maalouf, he lost contact the next day and there has been no news of him since then.

"We still don't know whether they're dead or alive, but starting on the fourth day, the British couldn't help but organize a retreat. However, they encountered frantic ambush and harassment during the retreat, and many teams were dispersed. The British left the government troops and police to cover their rear while they fled. The Americans weren't having a good time either. It's said that this morning, after the British retreated, the 3rd Division suffered the same treatment. This time, Ata organized the most powerful counterattack since the war began, with more people than ever before..."

Rabbani spread his hands: "So we don't know whether the director is dead or alive..."

Seeing his indifferent look, Song Heping couldn't help but smile and said, "You kid just wants the director to die. Are you qualified to be the director? I didn't expect you to be so bad!"

Rabbani waved his hands innocently, "How could that be? Is that how you look at me?"

Song Heping smiled but said nothing.

In fact, it would be better for Rabbani to be the director, as it would make it much easier for him to conduct his business.

As for Director Ades, whether he is dead or alive has nothing to do with me.

"You are the deputy director, so it's the same for me to coordinate work with you," said Song Heping.

Rabbani seemed a little embarrassed. "Now we only have a hundred or so people left to defend the base camp. How can you continue the training? I guess we'll have to see how many people can return after this operation is over."

As the two were talking, they suddenly saw the light at the door come on again.

Turning around, I saw a few more Hummers coming.

Everyone became alert and looked towards the door.

The vehicle that arrived was a coalition military vehicle. When the guards saw the people in the car, they didn't dare to stop it and just pushed open the door.

The Hummers filed in one after another and stopped in front of the two men, stirring up a cloud of dust that was very choking.

A US military officer jumped out of the car and shouted, "Who is in charge here?!"

Rabbani had no choice but to raise his hand: "I..."

The officer looked him over, then turned to Song Heping.

"Are you Song Heping?"

Song Heping was very curious about how this guy knew his name, so he asked, "Do you know me?"

The officer said arrogantly, "That's you. Both of you follow me."

After saying that, he pointed at the car.

Song Heping asked, "Where are you going?"

The officer said: "It's a military secret. You'll know when you get there!"

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