continues!”
10. Surgery
It was easy to win fights in the movies. In the movies, the enemy was always stupid and cowardly, and even if not cowardly, would not be able to hit a barn door with short range AK47 shooting. In the movies, everything worked without problems.
The reality was always different and not for the better, and Bronson didn’t expect anything good coming from this job – hoping just to escape all the shit with as few losses as possible. They would seize the big burning warehouse, where the fight was occurring, although between whom was unknown. It was necessary to carry out this operation in the middle of a gangster city, where every second inhabitant had a gun. They had no information about the enemy, no information about the object, they were just ordered to go there and grab the cargo as soon as possible.
Their helicopters flew over the favela so low that they almost knocked down satellite dishes, with the gunners looking for possible threats, and powerful speakers broadcasting the voice of the local authorities. Taken into custody and forced to cooperate, the drug lord ordered citizens not to leave their houses and not to resist the military.
In the city this threat, backed by the roar of helicopters and the sirens of armored cars, worked well, and they didn’t have to open fire. But outside the port gates the fear of threat clearly lost its strength and Bronson’s group met with machine gun fire, initially inaccurate. Cartel fighters defended the main gate, and they didn’t dare to enter any further, so Bronson ordered his men to kill anyone inside. He remembered the instructions not to leave any witnesses.
Gunners laid down a hail of lead, for a short time crushing the resistance, but when the column of armored vehicles entered the territory, the shooting started again. The bandits were shot at out of the windows and roofs of burning buildings. One of them had an RPG and didn’t miss. The shooter was immediately killed, the but rocket-propelled grenade flew a hundred meters and stuck the second Humvee, giving no chance to the bulletproof armor or crew behind it. The armored car crashed into a pole at full speed.
Machine-guns weren’t enough, and Bronson used drones as well, destroying enemies with missile attacks. The final clearing out took about two minutes and then there was no resistance – Chief gave the order to land. Black Hawks landed on the unloading area, already occupied by the Marines. Fighters were leaving the helicopters, carrying bright red fire extinguishers, which had been requisitioned on the base. Fire-fighting equipment now would be more useful than rifles and machine guns, when it came to the hardest part of the operation.
“Chief, we’ve found a fire truck. It’s being driven over here!”
The city had only one fire truck, and Bronson’s men were searching for firefighters to force them to head to the port and begin to fulfill their duties.
“Can you stretch the fire hoses?!”
“There is no water; a pumping station was burned down. We’re carrying pumps from the base, and will get sea water!”
Covering his face with a hand from the unbearable heat, Bronson looked at the wall of rising fire. The target was somewhere in the central hall, and at this moment all sides were covered by fire.
“I didn’t hire for firefighter here!”
11. Surgery-2
Withstanding the elements, be it water or fire, is much harder than dealing with human beings. Fire can’t be forced to retreat and surrender, fire will fight to the last, blocking the path to the target and striving to devour the precious cargo. Bronson and his men weren’t professional firefighters, they didn’t have the relevant skills and equipment, and they only had an order telling them to get the cargo out of hell. The transmitter worked properly, so it was clear the cargo remained in the central hangar, a concrete sarcophagus shielding it from the fire, but because of this protection, they