The choppers were now jetting swiftly over the treetops to avoid radar detection. Bean was surveying the maps and sifting through all the intelligence reports. But Bean had no need to do this because he already knew that the quickest route would be through China flying just west of the capital, Beijing. It was both the quickest and most dangerous route to take. Although completely avoiding China would consume too much fuel because they had just left from East Mongolia, and it would leave the men weary and exhausted.
Bean only looked through the reports to please Suriyawong. The reports were great. It could have useful for hit and run missions along the enemy supply lines entering Russia. They would not cripple them nor force them to retreat. The line would simply stop and wait for reinforcement, which was what Bean, had wanted all along.
He needed as many soldiers away from the capital. China had the manpower but it still cost them dearly to both replenish and protect the lines. His strike force was most effective at rescue missions, even though they did little training in regards of it. His last mission for Peter was assigned to Suri, the capture of Achilles. Well, not so much a capture yet not quite a rescue. More like an invitation to join Peter, as a "guest" one could call it I suppose. But Bean could see the foolishness in his plan to attempt to control Achilles, for one simple reason. You don't use Achilles; he uses you as he did when he was hopping from one superpower to another.
Only China caught him in time and copped on to his technique, and the fact that he was a complete psycho. As for China, well, she is a fool for she cannot and will not control the world.
Well, she may be able to dominate the world physically but what good is ruling a country when ninety percent of its inhabitants despise your move to power. Already there are strike forces just like Bean's being set up all over the world, maybe not as big but just as effective. Most of them are commanded by Battle Schoolers who were rescued by Bean's force and are determined to free their homelands.
Bean looked at his watch and their position on the satellite map. Another two hours and they would be closing in on Beijing. Bean had a contact there, someone he befriended in Brazil, a man by the name of Rio la Muerte but better known as Rio the Reaper. Widely known, widely feared and yet in times like these, widely adored.
Rio was the leader of an underground resistance group who was devoted to keeping china under close surveillance. Any direct attempt from China against the Hegemon and they would storm the officials to give Peter enough time to retaliate. But he agreed to give Bean the distraction he needed to slip by the capital, right under their noses, and move on to Thailand.
Rio would start a mild uprising in the west of the city and raid a prison there. He would use this time to rescue his brother, Mario, or Mar, as he preferred to be called. Mar had with him, in his mind, valuable information that was needed to secure loyalty in the resistance group. It was a list of Chinese spies within his organisation and Mar was needed in good condition. For this mission he chose his most trusted men to escort Mar back to the underground headquarters, which as a result of raids in search of the infamous "Reaper", was often moved around on no set basis so there was no chance of anyone catching them in the process of moving.
Once his brother was free he would wait for the main force of the capitals army to come from the centre and attempt to quell the uprising as quickly as possible. Only the troops would find that the resistance to have dispersed only to appear on the East side of the city. It would take at best, forty-five minutes for the army to traverse the city.
And Bean would have enough time to slip by undetected. He knew the army would commandeer an entire road to traverse the city quickly, so bean was to have it executed at the busiest time possible. When the dayshift ended and the nightshift started. This way the most the army could get would be one lane if they were lucky.
He had a scrambled sat link set up and ordered Rio to begin the attack. It would be now or never.
Sister Carlotta had just popped into his mind. "Godspeed Rio".