Rotting Land: Survive

Chapter 729 - 717: The Guest Becomes the Host (Part 2)

The progression of the situation was much smoother than He Lei had anticipated; having the support of these brothers, how could he not be excited: "Excellent, worthy brothers indeed, it wasn’t a waste of my damn intentions!"

"Brother Lei, just tell us, how should we do it?" Upon understanding He Lei’s true intentions, the subordinates who were initially worried about being killed no longer hesitated, speaking much more fluently than before.

He Lei found a place to sit down and whispered as quietly as possible, "Brothers, if we want to regain control of the warehouse, we have to deal with two groups of people."

"Two groups?"

"Yes, these bastards split into two teams today. But because they did that, it gives us an opportunity to counterattack. One group went early to deal with Liu Fugui and is already on their way back. The other group is the bastards downstairs. We must deal with them before the first group returns. Otherwise, once both groups are together, we won’t stand a chance."

"So Brother Lei, how many people do they actually have in the warehouse?"

He Lei calculated in his mind and held up two fingers, saying, "17 in total, but I already dealt with 3 of them, so 14 left!"

"Damn, only 17? If they hadn’t taken us down one by one, we’d have enough strength to fight them head-on!" a dissatisfied subordinate immediately won support from many others.

"Exactly, they only have 17 people, and we have 24 here, it’s easy to crush them to death!"

"Yeah, dammit, it was just their sneak attack that caught us off guard!"

The words from the crowd made He Lei a bit annoyed; on one hand, acknowledging they got tricked was like slapping his face, frankly speaking, without his inside help, Spring Xiu’s group couldn’t have taken the factory effortlessly.

On the other hand, the saying goes an arrogant army is bound to lose, while a discouraged army may win. He may not be as smart as Huang Yong, but he at least understands basic military strategy.

Now, this group was clearly starting to become overconfident, and that’s definitely not a good sign; history teaches us enough lessons. If they face the people downstairs with this mindset, they’re in for a big loss.

He Lei had to extinguish this kind of thinking in them, he shouted, "Shut up, damn it. Stop showing off, thinking numbers are in your favor, do you know what kind of weapons they have? All type 54s, there are 10 of them in total, but what about us? Apart from a replica 64 and a double-barreled shotgun in the warehouse, there’s just the two I have in my hands now. So do you still think they’re easy to deal with?"

Hot weapons have an intimidating power at any time; it’s just like nuclear weapons between major countries, not necessarily needing to fire, just their presence is enough to make you apprehensive.

Especially for these street thugs, they are even more aware of this. Taking over territories, fighting in gangs, no matter how many people the opponent has, regardless of how much they outnumber us, a single person with a gun can immediately crush the opponent’s momentum.

He Lei’s words effectively achieved his intended purpose, the subordinates, whose fighting spirit was just stirred, were immediately intimidated by the number of guns the opposite side had.

In the dimness, He Lei’s eyes were moving up and down; although the reaction of the crowd was what he wanted, he still didn’t want them to fight with such a downcast mood. He needed them to have that desperate momentum from having no way out, only able to charge forward through a bloody path, so he immediately added, "But though they have more guns, they are still vulnerable!"

"Oh, Brother Lei, what are your thoughts, share with all of us!"

He Lei suddenly understood why Huang Yong deeply trusted and heavily used Liu Fugui, turns out the feeling of using your brain to handle matters is this good; although inside the room it’s pitch-black, unable to see everyone’s faces, He Lei could clearly sense their hopeful gazes on him, which made him very satisfied, he leisurely said:

"Humph, quite simple actually, we use their own way to defeat them. These bastards still don’t know their boss has been wiped out by me, so currently, I’m the biggest in the factory. Soon, I’ll assign them to different floors to do tasks, what you need to do is divide into several groups to take them out. Just like how they dealt with you before, divide and conquer. Understand?"

"Brilliant, Brother Lei, this way we can stop them from grouping together."

"And we can maximize our advantage of having more people!"

"Brother Lei, worthy of being Brother Lei, awesome!"

The flattery from everyone made He Lei feel a bit elated. He grinned and began organizing, dividing the 27 people into 4 small teams, mainly because there were 3 people among them whom he trusted.

Apart from Peng Fei, who was guarding outside the door, there were 3 more inside, of which Qiao Shan was a given; the other two were insiders he painstakingly planted in Huang Yong’s camp.

By painstakingly planted doesn’t necessarily mean he gave them a lot of benefits, on the contrary, without the leverage of their secret dealings with gray incomes behind the group, they wouldn’t have wholeheartedly abandoned the prominent support of Huang Yong to join him, the reckless leader.

But now, the situation is quite different, Huang Yong’s disappearance, Liu Fugui’s collapse, the factory changing hands, apart from staying with He Lei, they had no other path. Moreover, following He Lei still offered a chance for survival, otherwise, they could only wait for death.

However, when He Lei named both of them, it surprised everyone quite a bit, for these two neither stood out nor showed any prominence in the group before, and yet they were picked by He Lei, selected as leaders at this moment.

"Qiao Shan, you’ll lead a team to stay here, Miao Wei, you’ll lead another team with me, Duan Yu, you take a team to the rooftop, the rest follow Peng Fei outside. You can allocate the personnel yourselves later."

"So how do we lure the guys downstairs up here, Brother Lei?" Right, the enemy won’t come up by themselves to be trapped, so Qiao Shan’s question also represented everyone’s thought.

He Lei pulled out a hand-held radio and handed it to Qiao Shan: "Here, take this, later Miao Wei and Qiao Shan’s teams are responsible for taking down the guards I arranged in the stairway, remember, people need to be scattered, surround them at the front and back, don’t let them escape. These are the keys to the stairway, coordinate them yourselves. Duan Yu, once you’re on the rooftop, stay hidden, don’t get spotted by the Guards at the main entrance below. This action is about surprise attacks, so no damn mistakes can happen at any stage, there are 14 of them, I’ll assign each of your teams 3 guys, as long as we successfully deal with 9 of them in the stairway, the remaining 5, humph, won’t pose a problem!"

"Then what about Peng Fei’s team, Brother Lei?"

He Lei thought for a moment: "Peng Fei’s team will stay here for the time being, Qiao Shan, once you’ve dealt with the three you’re responsible for, return to the room to await my next instructions. Everyone damn well clear? If anyone has any unclear points, speak up now, don’t make any mistakes during the action and jeopardize the whole group."

Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke up.

"Good, since everyone understands, let me emphasize once again, the action must be swift and fast, we can’t wait for the group outside to successfully join forces with them, if that happens, well, everyone just clean your rear and wait to get gunned down."

He Lei’s words were somewhat bluffing, after all, Spring Xiu’s group outside was only 7 people, the main group was still in the factory; however, for everyone inside the factory unaware of the facts, his words were a life and death exhortation. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian.com to vote for it, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)