Three o'clock in the morning.
Song Heping was awoken by the buzzing alarm in the camp.
"What's going on!?"
The cook rolled out of bed and hastily put on his coat.
Song Heping quickly dressed, put on his tactical vest, grabbed his gun, and ran out.
He didn't hear any gunfire.
It wasn't an attack on the camp.
"It must be those Seals who've run into trouble."
Song Heping turned to Grey Wolf who had run out of his tent and said, "Go back and listen to the radio, see if there's any news about them."
"You got it!"
Grey Wolf, seeing that the camp was not under attack, relaxed significantly and turned back to his tent.
Within a minute, Song Heping heard him calling out for him.
"Boss, they're looking for you."
"Looking for me?"
Song Heping paused for a moment and then ran back.
It seemed there really was trouble.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have thought to contact him.
Coming through the radio was the voice of Deputy Commander Mist.
"Could it be trouble?" Song Heping thought to himself.
Generally, it's the team leader who is responsible for liaising with external units.
Now it was the deputy making contact.
It must be trouble.
Sure enough, Mist called out through the radio, "Song! Are you there! Are you there!"
"I'm here."
Song Heping muttered to himself.
He was surprisingly not calling the squad's code.
It was a private call from Mist to him personally.
"Song, we need help."
"What kind of help?" asked Song Heping.
"We've run into trouble in the city," Mist said. "Damn it! Someone suddenly came upon the building where we were hiding, and we exchanged fire."
"What's the situation?" Song Heping asked.
Mist's tone sounded urgent, and behind his voice, one could hear intense gunfire and explosions.
"Our situation here is pretty dire, the armed militants have surrounded us, and we can hold on for now, but there are too many of them! They even used mortars and recoilless rifles against us!"
"What about Vincent?"
Song Heping got to the crux of the matter.
Mist replied with regret, "The boss is injured, it's very serious, the squad is under my command now!"
Song Heping asked, "What do you need me to do?"
Mist replied, "Head to the camp command post immediately, they'll arrange for you to get on a helicopter to come support us."
"OK!"
After ending the conversation, Song Heping said to the other team members, "Move out immediately, carry night vision equipment and enough ammunition, and gather in front of the camp command post right away. Hunter, is your M24 still available?"
"It's in the vehicle."
"Take it, we might need it."
"Disaster Star, bring two M72 rocket launchers."
"No problem."
Everyone was unclear about the situation.
But nobody defied Song Heping's orders.
After grabbing their gear, they all hurried to the camp command post.
On the way, Song Heping noticed that there didn't seem to be many US Army personnel coming out of the tents around the camp.
But many tents had lights on.
It meant people were up.