Looking through the night-vision goggles, the place where the hostages were held seemed to be some kind of cowshed, surrounded on all sides by wooden fences about one meter high, easily scalable, hence the need for several armed guards to watch over the hostages.
Although there were guards, their attention was clearly not on the hostages; instead, they were all looking at the people who were eating and drinking in the open space.
In the recon team, Li Pengfei led the way. They circled round and approached quietly from the other side of the cow pen.
The cow pen was not very large, and if the six guards had focused their attention on the hostages, there would have been no blind spots in their field of view. However, as all six guards were focused on the people in the open space, Li Pengfei and his two team members saw an opportunity.