Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 889: Two-sided attack
The sudden turn of events left the mountain eagle no time to figure out what was going on...

Their best option now is to evacuate; staying here will only lead to them being surrounded.

"Retreat! Retreat! Blood Fox, drive! We're retreating..."

While calling out to his companions, Mountain Eagle opened the trunk of the SUV, stuffed the red-haired woman inside, and then sat down himself. He then attached two safety ropes to the hooks in the trunk, with the other end secured to his belt.

After finishing, Mountain Eagle glanced back at the still unconscious red-haired woman, then pounded on the seat and shouted, "Get in! Get in! We're retreating..."

As he spoke, Mountain Eagle pressed the radio and shouted, "Galahad, do you have a vehicle?"

Galahad on the other end of the radio replied decisively, "We have a car, we'll meet on the highway."

Hearing Galahad's seemingly emotionless tone, Mountain Eagle couldn't help but ask, "Have you finished your work?"

Galahad paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "No, there are still four Knights of the Round Table left. Arthur is still in London, and there are some scores I need to settle with him."

Mountain Eagle, you're interested in the 'White Whale,' aren't you? Let's work together; finding Arthur will lead us to the 'White Whale.'

I just want him to pay with his life…

After thinking for a moment, Mountain Eagle nodded and said, "No problem, let's meet up first, and we'll leave Romania on a Department of Homeland Security plane in ten hours."

Galahad, on the other end of the phone, said with some surprise, "Department of Homeland Security? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security?"

Mountain Eagle felt a slight vibration in the vehicle. He glanced back at Blood Fox, who had started the car and was now moving, and then spoke into the radio: "Yes, Department of Homeland Security, Arctic Fox is now the operations advisor for the Department of Homeland Security's Migrant Group..."

Galahad was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly said, "You're not going to give up? You want to rebuild Arctic Fox?"

While keeping an eye on the convoy in the distance through the crows, and on the Gypsy gang members trying to cross the river in small boats, Mountain Eagle said, "It's not really a reconstruction, the Arctic Foxes still have people alive..."

After thinking for a few seconds, Galahad said, "Mountain Eagle, can you reserve a spot for Robin?"

He's one of the best young men I've ever met. He should be with the best team, not sticking with an old man like me to cling to a dead-end 'Card Knight' team.

After listening, Mountain Eagle asked with some curiosity, "You actually want to continue the Holy Grail Knights story?"

Galahad was silent for a moment, then said, "Gawain and the others are all dead. They deliberately made me kill them."

Now their debts are all settled...

"Mountain Eagle, I learned something from the Arctic Fox: sometimes death isn't the end; the living must carry on the responsibilities of the dead."

Mountain Eagle paused for a moment, then said with a complicated expression, "That crazy old man Lanmarok, as well as Lancelot and Percival, are not dead, right?"

Otherwise, you have no reason to continue insisting!

Galahad said in a low voice, "This is a secret. I hope you will not reveal it until I resolve the issue of the Knights of the Round Table."

The Knights of the Round Table are all outdated old men, and now each of them is heavily in debt. The only way to resolve their debts without implicating their families is through death.

They couldn't refuse the creditor's orders..."

"understood!"

Mountain Eagle nodded slightly and said, "Constantha's ambush was a staged play. Apart from you and Robin, no one else actually died."

The four Knights of the Round Table at the Tyriak Bank actually wanted to die, but only if their deaths met the conditions for debt release in the contract would their deaths be worthwhile!

Galahad said in a heavy tone, "No, in fact, only the four of us old men and Robin survived as Grail Knights; everyone else died."

Lanmarok and his group were also seriously injured, and Gawain and his men, through the 'Sin Eaters' network, sent them to Hungary for treatment.

Galahad paused for a moment, then said in a heavy tone, "Mountain Eagle, Gawain and the others have no feelings for the other Grail Knights, but I can't. I found those people one by one, and I have to take responsibility for them."

I need money, so I need to find Arthur and the white whale...

But Robin is still young; he has his own life to live. He shouldn't be stuck with an old man like me, guarding a Holy Grail Knight that's only in name.

Mountain Eagle cut off communications and turned to look ahead. Elk stood in the middle of the oncoming convoy, holding a TAC-50 sniper rifle and waiting there...

Just as Blood Fox loudly called for Deer to get in the vehicle, Mountain Eagle's tactical goggles suddenly began to vibrate, and the edges started to glow red...

This is an air raid alert from a smart tactical terminal!
Mountain Eagle instantly pulled off his safety rope, kicked open the trunk lid, and shouted, "Get out! Get out and find cover..."

With a roar, the mountain eagle didn't forget to pull the limp woman in red out of the car and drag her down the roadside embankment next to the vehicle.

Blood Fox and his fellow veterans reacted even faster. As they got out of the car, they didn't forget to grab their ammunition bags. They then imitated Mountain Eagle and rushed down the roadbed, tumbling and crawling along the ditch below the roadbed for more than ten meters.

A few seconds later, having found no movement, Eddie called out over the radio, "What's wrong?"

Mountain Eagle had never received an air raid warning, but he knew that the smart tactical terminal wouldn't issue an alarm for no reason.

Just as he was controlling the crow to climb higher, trying to locate the source of the danger, two small drones swooped down from the sky, whistling as they struck the SUV they had just been riding in… “Boom, boom!”

The drone's explosion wasn't very powerful, but it still managed to penetrate the SUV's roof and explode inside the vehicle. If Mountain Eagle and his crew had been in the car at the time, they would definitely be dead.

At this point, the mountain eagle realized that the crows couldn't see the enemy because there were too few of them, they weren't at high enough altitude, and the enemy drones were too small to fly at high altitudes.

As the drone swooped down, he saw it clearly through the crow's perspective; it was a 'Switchblade 300', a lightweight suicide drone.

The explosion wasn't very powerful, but the discovery still sent a chill down the mountain eagle's spine...

"The enemy has suicide drones. We can't drive anymore. Let's go, head east, there's a forest over there..."

With that, Mountain Eagle pressed the radio button and called out, "Galahad, abandon the vehicle, head east, we'll meet up in the woods over there..."

As he spoke, Mountain Eagle stood up, slung his gun over his shoulder, grabbed the woman in red with one arm, and carried a large bag of ammunition in the other. He sprinted eastward, shouting, "Deer, collect the large-caliber ammunition they left behind. We need to buy time..."

The elk, its arms wrapped around a large TAC-50 sniper rifle, ran while shouting, "I hit both snipers, but they're not dead..."

I found 35 bullets in the car next to me, which was barely enough...

There's another gun in that van in front, and there should be more ammunition there.

"I go……"

As soon as the deer finished speaking, Eddie, the youngest of the old men, sprang up and dashed along the shadows of the trees beside the road toward the van a few hundred meters to the east...

"You go first, I'll join you soon."

Mountain Eagle and the others didn't wait for Eddie. Apart from Mountain Eagle, everyone else had been through non-stop battles, and Blood Fox and Camel were both injured. They needed to conserve every bit of their energy...

Seeing that the mountain eagle was carrying a gun and holding people in one hand and weapons in the other, the camel hesitated for a moment, then stretched his injured shoulder, swallowed an antibiotic, and took the initiative to quicken his pace to act as the vanguard.

Blood Fox chose to stay behind. The old man knew that things probably wouldn't end well today, so he simply used the explosives in his bag to start hastily making IEDs, preparing to give the enemy a surprise when they came chasing after him.

The mountain eagle was too busy to carry anything else. He ran for nearly a kilometer with almost 100 kilograms of weight before finally bursting into a wooded area.

This is a relatively small coniferous forest, so even in winter, it retains some greenery...

To the east of the coniferous forest is a small river, and on the other side of the river are large tracts of idle farmland.

The area is flat and lacks complex terrain for cover; only this coniferous forest can serve as a makeshift shelter.

At this time, there were two enemy forces: one was a convoy coming from the highway, and the other was a gang of gunmen who crossed the river from the Gypsy camp west of the farm.

Mountain Eagle was also confused about what was happening; all he knew was that a tough battle was coming...

To cope with this tough battle, we must make full use of this coniferous forest and the open environment outside it.

Long-range sniping and planting bombs are the best methods. As long as enough time is spent, the situation will be reversed once the refugee group arrives in Bucharest.

In fact, Mountain Eagle could have asked the Romanian authorities for help and had them send special police to relieve the siege, but the sudden appearance of the Bayonet Gang and the determination shown by the 'Stairway to Light' gunmen made him have some doubts.

The people of this country would besiege the government because a mayor embezzled 6 euros...

There's a reason for this being incited, but there's a saying: 'The more you lack something, the more you care about it!'
Mountain Eagle didn't know much about Romania, but he had a habit of thinking the worst of people when he came to a new place.

Therefore, he abandoned the idea of ​​seeking help from Romania and decided to stay here and wear down his opponent.

The situation will reverse as soon as the refugee groups settle in...

While his mind raced, the eagle's hands were also busy. He stuffed the red-haired woman into a large tree hollow, then picked up seven or eight plastic bottles nearby and cut them in half with a knife...

Then he took out several pieces of TNT explosives that he had prepared in advance from his bag, cut the explosives into small pieces with a knife, inserted remote detonators, and mixed them with some pebbles and steel balls, stuffing them into a half-filled plastic bottle.

Because of the location of the explosives, unless you are hit at close range or a vital organ is struck, it is not easy to be fatal.

However, the purpose of this suggestion is to buy time and inflict enough casualties on the enemy, which can also be very effective.

Just as Mountain Eagle had quickly prepared a dozen or so inexpensive IEDs and was about to deploy them, Galahad's voice suddenly came through the radio...

“The gangsters on this side of the camp headed towards the woods. Robin and I will circle around to their flanks and look for opportunities to kill them.”

Mountain Eagle packed the suggested explosives into a bag, and as he rushed out of the woods, he began setting them up, saying, "They have a lot of men. Can the two of you handle it?"

Galahad didn't directly answer the mountain eagle's question, but instead said bluntly, "You'll see soon enough..."

Note their weapons; this group was originally there to escort a methamphetamine factory to a new location, so they have quite a few heavy weapons.

Furthermore, they bribed the nearby police, so no police will come to cause trouble in this area anytime soon.

(End of this chapter)