"Correct." The elder said, "I don't seem to have mentioned that the two people who were taken hostage are the captain of Ying Sun and a military doctor." He dispatched Ying Sun with the intention of assistance.
Just as he expected, his words came as a shock to the others.
If the hostage inside was the captain of the Ying Sun special forces team, perhaps they were not entirely passive, and if so... they still had a chance to turn defeat into victory.
The reason the elder dispatched Ying Sun was their understanding and coordination.
If it were Ying Sun, they might know what their captain would do in such a situation, and furthermore, they could pass on some information from outside.
It goes without saying that the phone call made by the elder was filled with high hopes; if this situation were resolved by his soldiers, he would indeed owe them a favor.
This kind of favor is the most difficult to repay, but compared to the tens of thousands of civilians, nothing else was important.