King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer

Chapter 329 Fierce Battle

The HK416 equipped with a silencer, using subsonic ammunition, was extremely quiet, and under the roar of the PKM, it basically went unnoticed.

However, the shipyard's complex terrain provided excellent cover for the enemy. After Joe Ga had killed two people, those experienced soldiers roughly located his position.

Immediately, two machine guns fired— one belt of bullets was directed towards Ayu's position, while the other unleashed a wild barrage at where Joe Ga was located.

Joe Ga crawled a few steps close to the ground under the hail of bullets, then pressed his communicator and called out, "Elephant, 2 o'clock direction, 300 meters, on the gantry, two M240s..."

After speaking, Joe Ga dashed out, looked through the sights, and locked onto the general location of the machine gun to lay down suppressing fire.

The machine gunners had chosen their positions very cunningly. The angles Joe Ga could fire from were terrible. Dozens of bullets hit the gantry beside the machine gunners, only one ricocheted and wounded a machine gunner, while the rest missed entirely.

Nevertheless, the sparks that Joe Ga's bullets created on the gantry indicated the direction to Dorian. Another six grenades were fired, battering the machine gunners on the gantry and causing them to tumble and roll.

One of them, in a brave attempt to escape, jumped from the gantry, over 40 meters high, toward a maintenance platform, but he overestimated his leaping ability and ended up in a scrap heap full of metal trash, getting impaled into a bloody mess.

The other was caught by Joe Ga at the right moment and shot in the torso; then, as he ran, he was blasted in the face by a nearby exploding grenade.

On the other side, 'Medic Officer Bird' had taken advantage of the distraction of the enemy's attention and had maneuvered to their flank.

The shrewd Medic Officer Bird waited until he was about 50 meters away before opening fire. The bullets from his AR-15 struck two enemies with precision, throwing them into complete disarray.

These ex-Marine Corps soldiers were all elite, but asking them to fight under these visual conditions was a bit too much for them.

In fact, although they had low-light night vision devices, they were now stumbling even as they tried to run.

Unable to call for air support, the once imperious Marines, who had been formidable in the Middle East, could only try their luck with blind firing and call loudly to their peers at the pier to come to their aid.

As Joe Ga and his team advanced, the middle-aged police force on the dock couldn't stand by any longer. He loudly called his men to force a few pickups loaded with drugs to follow him and evacuate first.

The 'Messenger' was no longer arrogant. He signaled to a few 'armed delivery workers' to put the last batch of drugs into his truck and then started calling loudly...

"Let's go, let's go..."

Bill Heinz pressed the radio and shouted, "Team Three, clear the way for them, Team Four, suppress those damn guys to cover Teams One and Two's retreat..."

With the orders from Bill Heinz, Joe Ga experienced the sensation of being in a hail of bullets for the first time.

Heinz Farm's Team Four from above, using blind but dense fire, covered the area in front of where Joe Ga and his group were located.

They were originally set up to cover the exit, so their shooting angles for further downstream weren't too good.

But the noise was terrifying. Eight automatic rifles and two M249 light machine guns fired at full force. The dense barrage forced Joe Ga to crouch behind cover, halting his advance.

Poor Dorian, while sprinting, gained two scratches and dove into the angle of a steel scaffold. He groaned as he pulled a nail out from behind his butt and then pressed the communicator and called, "Boss, they're pulling out..."

As Joe Ga listened to the bullets hitting like rain, he ducked and dialed his phone, then called out, "Tell the helicopters to take off..."

As he spoke, Joe Ga pressed the communicator and shouted loudly, "Team B, what's your situation there?"

'Spur' responded immediately...

"Boss, they haven't appeared yet."

Listened to Spur, Joe Ga said decisively, "They have many vehicles, but I'm not prepared to let any escape. We must hold them back."

'Spur' was lying in a makeshift dugout trench. He looked at 'Pliers' not far away, giving him a thumbs-up, then nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, boss. We won't let a single one get away."

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Joe Ga had set a timeframe for the enemy to escape by vehicle, but that didn't mean he was going to allow them an orderly exit. These men were very experienced, and as soon as they felt the pressure from Joe Ga's side was insufficient and realized there was an issue with the exit, it would spell trouble.

So as the suppressing fire began to slow down due to the enemy's withdrawal, Joe Ga stood up, turned on his helmet's IR strobe light, and shouted, "King Kong, move closer to the riverbank, avoid the high ground's line of fire, turn on your IR lights for friend-or-foe identification. Let's go, let's go..."

Soon, Joe Ga had regrouped with Dorian and Ayu. The three of them cautiously ran more than a hundred meters through the thick smoke, using a towering ship dock to completely block the line of fire from above, then they opened fire on the open dock 200 meters away.

Ayu's machine gun, as the top weapon, quickly achieved results.

The last pickup transporting drugs was hit by a series of bullets, and the two people in the cab were instantly turned into a bloody mess.

Bill Heinz, responsible for leading the rearguard, also didn't give up on the drugs in the vehicle. While summoning his comrades to fiercely shoot back in the general direction of Joe Ga and his team, he instructed one of his men to tie the damaged pickup with a rope and drag it away.

Bill Heinz, with his abundant experience, wasn't overly panicked even when facing a pincer attack from both the river and downstream. He continually directed his men, using a numerical advantage to suppress Joe Ga and his group's advance.

Dorian had run out of grenades on his person and was now attacking with his HK417.

The 7.62 caliber HK417 had a longer range and greater power. Just as Dorian killed an enemy, a bullet hit him in the chest, knocking him violently backward.

"Sniper~"

The bulletproof vest saved Dorian's life, but the massive impact still left him in extreme discomfort.

Seeing Medic Officer Bird trying to rush over to check on him, Dorian kicked away from his position while shouting loudly, "Don't come over; there's a sniper at 12 o'clock. He probably has a thermal imager; boss, I can't see him…"

Joe Galla crouched down with Ayu and then aimed his rifle in the direction of 12 o'clock, beginning to search.

Locating the sniper through the chaos of the docks was no easy task, but Joe Ga's thermal imager was more advanced, and he switched the display mode.

Previously, for precise shooting, Joe Ga had selected 'contour mode.' Through the scope, he saw green highlighted contours one after another. Now he switched to 'full infrared mode,' and the entire battlefield became a blurry and chaotic scene.

However, once Joe Ga adapted, he used the temperature difference between the human body and the surrounding environment to lock onto the enemy sniper's position.

Inside the cabin of an abandoned truck, the sniper was holding a rifle aimed in Joe Ga's direction. Due to the cabin's obstruction, Joe Ga could only make out the rough outline of the sniper's head and arm.

But for Joe Ga, that was enough…

With a muffled "thump" of a gunshot, the sniper in the scope jerked violently and then disappeared from Joe Ga's view.

Joe Ga was certain he had hit his target. Seeing the people on the docks beginning to retreat in an orderly fashion, he simply took out two flash grenades, signaled to his buddies, and tossed them toward the dock…

"Bang," "Bang"

After two blasts from the flash grenades, the mercenaries in the direction of the docks let out a series of uncomfortable grunts. The bright white light damaged most of their fairly rudimentary night vision devices severely, plunging them back into a disadvantage.

At this moment, Joe Ga called out to his guys, "We move, we move…"

"King Kong, suppressive fire."

The four spread out laterally and began advancing and shooting in tactical postures. When they broke through the fog and approached the docks, the mercenaries could no longer hold out.

Up until now, the enemies Joe Ga and his team had killed weren't many, but maintaining a constant tactical advantage instilled great fear in the mercenaries.

They were all retired from the Marine Corps, and they knew who fought like this and how formidable these people were.

Bill Heinz tossed aside his night vision device, painfully rubbing his eyes.

As his vision started to clear slightly, a machine gun bullet hit the neck of a comrade beside him.

The bullet entered from the front, breaking the companion's spine, and bone caused the bullet to tumble, completely tearing open the man's neck.

The first thing Bill Heinz saw when he opened his eyes was his most trusted subordinate's head hanging over his chest while blood spurted over him like a fountain.

The vision impairment from the flash grenade wasn't something that could be recovered from quickly. Bill Heinz looked towards the blurry figures a few dozen meters away, angrily sprayed bullets in one direction, and shouted loudly, "Don't panic, don't panic, cover by sections, cover by sections, retreat, retreat…"

A few brave mercenaries dashed to a row of oil drums, trying to lay down suppressive fire at Joe Ga and his team, but before they could open fire, Ayu's machine gun belt raked past them.

To a machine gun, empty oil drums were only useful for obscuring sight, but Ayu's PKM was still fitted with a thermal imager, making hiding behind the barrels meaningless.

The green tracer rounds with the belt swept past, and three mercenaries attempting to cover their comrades' retreat were instantly shot down.

Three mercenaries trying to use the opportunity to retreat were hit by Joe Ga in the body; bulletproof vests saved their lives, but as they tried to get up, three bullets found their heads. One lucky fellow dodged the lethal attack, with a bullet grazing his cheekbone and carrying off half his facial skin…

As he watched two subordinates' heads explode right in front of him, and another scream on the ground, Bill Heinz gritted his teeth, shot the screaming guy dead, and then crouched down, trying to get out of Joe Ga and his team's firing range with the help of a few pickup trucks.

But whenever he felt like he might escape the danger, bullets would always find him, bullets flying sideways like a death warrant chasing him, giving him no peace for a moment.

Crouched in front of the last pickup truck's front wheel, Bill Heinz watched as two more comrades were taken down. He suddenly pressed his radio and called out, "Team Four, hit the pickup truck with RPG, block them…"

"Sir, there are still our people over there…"

"Follow orders!!"

"Yes sir!!"