inspire-indiana Chapter 2553 Xiaoxiao Down (11)
Chapter 2553 Xiaoxiao Down (11)
Chapter 2527 Xiao Xiao Down (XI)
Gordon knew that this damn robber was hinting to him that the hostages he released might have bombs on them. This experienced detective knew that this was a common tactic used by robbers.
Many professional robbers often do not take all the people in the bank as hostages at once, because too many people are difficult to manage and more people are needed to watch over them. The plot of dozens of people tied up and sitting on the ground as shown in movies and TV dramas is not realistic.
In reality, the number of hostages is generally around 5 to 12. The specific number depends on the size of the bank, the local police force, and mainly the strength of the local news media. If the strength is relatively strong, fewer people can be sent. Anyway, they will also publicize it as a disaster for five families to put pressure on the police.
The police will cooperate with their actions more when they are under pressure. Anyway, as long as the hostages are rescued in the end, their work has reached the passing line. Whether the money can be recovered or not is another matter. This increases the probability of the robbers escaping.
There are also some rules for releasing those extra and unnecessary hostages. These hostages can usually delay the police for a while. The robbers usually release one hostage every once in a while.
First, the police need to understand the situation in the police station through the person who is released. Interrogation is essential, which will divert their attention. Second, they do not completely trust the person who is released, and they must check whether there are any dangerous items on him.
Because some robbers with more cruel means will let these people be human bombs. As long as this person explodes in the crowd, it will inevitably cause great commotion and attract the attention of the police.
Even the fact that the person who came out may have a bomb will cause panic. The police must work hard to appease it, which can be regarded as achieving the robbers' purpose.
So Gordon's handling is very professional. He immediately blocked the channel for releasing the hostages and took the hostages who had already come out for isolation and inspection. At the same time, he did not tell other robbers that the hostages might have bombs to avoid panic.
But this did cause some trouble for the police, because hostages who usually feel that they have escaped death will not be willing to let the police search them. They feel that they are also victims, why should they be so guarded, and some have even completely collapsed in the high-risk and high-pressure environment. Once they make a fuss, the reporters' cameras will turn around, and the police will be restricted in their search.
Even in some larger bank robberies, the kidnappers will even come out among the hostages, and the police dare not search them carefully, which naturally becomes a good route for the robbers to escape.
Schiller has no time to put bombs on the hostages. He did this just to prevent the people on the second floor from running away. But to be honest, the second floor is so low that they will not die if they jump down without an air cushion. At most, they will sprain their feet. Removing the air cushion is not enough to completely block the hostages from jumping down. It depends on what Gordon will do next.
Gordon took the loudspeaker and came to the balcony where the employees were. He chose to appease the employees with words, but he didn't expect that this trick would really work.
The main reason is that Gordon, as the sheriff who has always persisted in Gotham, has really led the people of Gotham to a new and better life. He has been conscientious in maintaining public order and has never made any mistakes. The public's trust in him is surprisingly high, and has even completely deviated from the trust that the American people should have in the American police, reaching the point where the police and the people are one family.
Gordon told them to wait before jumping, and they really did wait before jumping. The main reason is that they also heard Schiller's broadcast just now. If someone really has a bomb on him, it may not be safe to jump down and be taken to those people.
After most people returned to the room, Schiller began to think about countermeasures. First of all, even if the robbers did have a car to pick them up, it should be parked far away. How to let them pass is a problem.
It is unrealistic to ask the police for a car like in the movie. Schiller dares to bet that if he dares to ask for it, Gordon will dare to install a row of bombs on it. At that time, they will have to go wherever Gordon tells them to go. This city has always treated special cases specially. Reporters are used to it and there is no public pressure at all.
So running away directly is not an option, or slipping away in the open is not an option. Schiller thought about it and realized that there was indeed another way for them to leave the bank, but it was a little troublesome.
Schiller adjusted the surveillance screen again and found that two robbers were about to leave the underground vault. They probably found some movement upstairs and wanted to come up to check.
It was really stupid, Schiller thought. They didn't even know the location of the sniper, but they dared to go upstairs so openly. They would be shot in the head if they came up.
Schiller left the monitoring room, walked quickly through the corridor, and waited at the stairs on the first floor above the basement.
As soon as the two robbers with strange sacks on their heads turned the corner, Schiller grabbed one of them, and the other was knocked down by his companion who had just been thrown over when he was about to draw his gun.
Schiller knocked out the two people who fell to the ground, looked at their body shape and tattoos, and found that they might have been the lowest-level gangsters in the past, and it was basically impossible for them to be professional robbers.
There are several physical characteristics of professional robbers. The first is that they cannot be too strong, or in other words, the team cannot be composed entirely of particularly strong people. One or two of them are enough to carry heavy objects, and the rest are needed to do things like breaking into doors and picking locks, or car chases. They all look like Schwarzenegger, and if they are shot while driving away, they cannot curl up and hide, and they will not survive for long.
Schiller took off one of the people's hoods and took a look. It was a brown paper bag with a cross drawn on it. It might have been picked up from some breakfast restaurant.
Schiller originally wanted to put on the robber's hood, but he found that the position of the eyes of this DIY hood was completely inappropriate. He could only take away the gun from the robber and wake up one of them.
"Now listen to me, do you see the second office in front? Go in and hang out by the window."
The man was a little confused, but looking at the black muzzle of the gun in Schiller's hand, he could only raise his hand and said, "Okay, don't shoot, I'll go right away."
The man pushed open the door of the second office. It was a large office. It looked like there should be people inside, but because there was no balcony, those who wanted to jump ran to other offices.
The robber walked to the window, and Schiller stood at the door and stared at him with a gun raised. The robber walked past several windows one by one. When he was about to reach the third window, Schiller called to stop.
Under Schiller's direction, the robbers moved around the two windows on the far left.
"Is it okay?" the robber begged: "The sniper will blow my head off!"
"No, at least not now." Schiller said: "Don't you look out the window? How can a sniper target you?"
The robber turned around and saw a huge sycamore tree outside the window. Although it was already autumn, the leaves had not completely fallen off. The leaves of the sycamore tree were already very dense, and the gardeners hired by the bank took good care of them. To be precise, it was probably Pamela who was hired, so the tree grew large and lush.
Although the robber was frightened, looking from the outside, his figure was completely looming among the leaves. More importantly, because the leaves were too dense, he could not clearly see the situation of the hostages in the house. If the attack went wrong, the robber would not be killed. Fortunately, it would be troublesome if the hostages were hit.
The sniper orders given by Gordon were very conservative and did not mean to kill the robbers at all costs, so the snipers did not dare to act rashly and reported to Gordon as soon as they discovered the robbers.
Gordon went up to the roof to check the situation and found that, as the sniper said, it was difficult to aim with the tree there.
Those who jumped down also began to describe the situation inside and summarize their information. Coupled with the surveillance of the previous road, Gordon found that this group of robbers was unexpectedly large, perhaps six to seven people.
Generally, the number of robbers will be limited to five people, because they can just take a car to leave. Once this number exceeds this number, they cannot evacuate in one car. When they come, they come with four people in the car and two or three people on foot.
However, according to the people who jumped down, they only saw a suspicious figure upstairs - in fact, this suspicious figure was Schiller, but the employees did not know Schiller and thought he was with the robbers.
Moreover, Schiller moved very quickly, and the employees could not see clearly. They only said that the man was quite tall and moved quickly.
The robber Schiller was pointing his gun at was about the same height as Schiller, about 1.87 meters tall. He was dangling among the leaves, and neither the sniper nor Gordon could see his specific size.
Gordon knew that if the other party used the most traditional cutting method to open the door of the vault, it would require a lot of people to keep an eye on it.
Unlike directional blasting, where you press a button and just rush in to get money, directional blasting requires long preparations in the early stage and requires extremely professional technical means, while cutting does not require much preparation in the early stage. The process is relatively long and requires There are many things to operate.
Either there were similar talents among the robbers, or they would simply kidnap a technician. Gordon speculated that this group was the latter, otherwise there would not be so many of them.
Moreover, it can be seen from the images in the surveillance camera that these people do not look like professional and technical personnel, but more like gangsters who have a hot head, which makes them more likely to be kidnapped.
In addition to helping with the operation, they also have to watch the hostages, which means that most of them will be held back. There are probably only one or two people watching the hostages on the second floor, or even just one person.
It would be much easier if you were alone. After killing the robbers on the second floor through sniping, you could forcefully rush in and rescue all the hostages. With the robbers gone, the hostages would definitely not be able to escape.
The problem now is that Gordon needs to make sure there is only one robber upstairs, because if he fires, he can only fire one shot. If all the enemies are not eliminated after one shot, the remaining one will definitely attack the hostages.
At this time, Schiller's deliberately lowered voice sounded on the radio again, and he still asked the police to cooperate. However, Schiller was not there now. This was a recording he had left before.
Gordon didn't know this. He thought there was still one person in the control room, so now there were only five people left on the other side, minus the kidnapped technician, and there were four more people.
Either two are underground and two are on the second floor, or three are underground and one is on the second floor.
Gordon prefers the latter, because judging from the time, the fact that they have not yet evacuated proves that the cutting machine they use is not very advanced and requires more manpower.
It is only right for one to watch the technician and two to operate the machine. If one watches the technician and operates the machine, the possibility of problems is very high, and then there will only be one left upstairs.
Although he was not completely sure, Gordon did not lack the decisiveness to gamble at critical moments. He immediately ordered, "Cut down the trees blocking the view and snipe the robbers on the second floor!"