Chapter 44: Action! Seeking Recommendation Tickets!

  Under the dense night, Zhang Xinghan and his team of twenty people made their way through the forest, quietly moving down the mountain. The deeper parts of Bao Huashan and its surroundings were all densely forested with thickets of bushes.

  It was a natural battlefield, with dense trees and shrubs providing good cover for the soldiers. Zhang Xinghan led his small squad, weaving through them, and under the dark night sky, advanced about 500-600 meters before discovering the enemy's vanguard.

  Sun Siwei, with excellent night vision, led the way forward. As they were walking, Sun Siwei suddenly sent out two warning signals. Zhang Xinghan immediately raised his hand, signaling his men to stop advancing.

  "What's going on?" Zhang Xinghan held a Zhongzheng cigarette in one hand and quietly crouched down to Sun Siwei's side, asking in a low voice.

  "There's a sentry ahead!" Sun Siwei pointed forward and signaled.

  Zhang Xinghan heard this and looked in the direction that Sun Siwei was pointing, and indeed saw that about a dozen meters away from them on a flat piece of land, two Western soldiers were standing, holding guns and pacing back and forth.

  Zhang Xinghan observed for a moment, the two people's position was not too good, but just right to be able to keep watch on the road down the mountain within an effective range of twenty or thirty meters. Generally at night without lighting or moonlight, if one's visual acuity can exceed ten meters, they would be considered superhuman.

  To the west of the two sentinels was a dense thicket of shrubs, and to the east was a forest.

  The two Western military sentries deployed here are mainly symbolic warning posts, and the distance within 20-30 meters relies on hearing.

  After a moment of silent calculation, Zhang Xinghan whispered to Sun Siwei: "Old Sun, this is just their vanguard, there must be their scouts around here. You and I will split up, I'll go northwest, you go east, and after we've eliminated their scouts, we can sneak past them from the surrounding area."

  "Hmm!" Sun Siwei responded in a low voice, nodded, and immediately quietly moved towards the east forest of the two guards.

  Zhang Xinghan turned around and instructed Zhao Desheng a few words, letting him lead the team to wait in place, while he himself moved towards the thicket of bushes in the west.

  Zhang Xinghan, as a special forces soldier, found this jungle warfare to be a piece of cake. He crouched down and crept forward about 20-30 meters in the grass thicket before stopping to observe his surroundings quietly. Due to the dark night, visibility was low, so Zhang Xinghan had to tread lightly and move slowly, as the hearing of those on night watch should be better than average, at least a little better than ordinary people. If he made any noise, he might alert the other party.

  Sun Siwei had a rather abnormal special ability, which was that his night vision was very strong. This ability seemed to be innate, and at night his eyesight was even better than Zhang Xinghan's, who was a professional soldier with a special forces background.

  So he discovered the anomaly before Zhang Xinghan, and as soon as he entered the woods, he walked less than twenty meters forward. Sun Siwei felt at ease, where two large trees intersected, there was a dense withered grass, you know, how could such a dense grass survive around such a big tree?

  So, Sun Siwei determined that this dry grass was a disguise made by humans. If it were daytime, such a disguise would not be considered clever, but at night when visibility is relatively low, ordinary people would not walk up to it and wouldn't discover anything unusual. However, this unlucky guy just happened to run into Sun Siwei, who had the ability to see in the dark, and could only be considered unfortunate.

  Sun Siwei slung his rifle over his back, drew out his bayonet, and crept around to the other side of the big tree. He quietly made his way up until he was less than three meters away from the clump of grass when the Western soldier on sentry duty in the bushes suddenly sensed someone behind him and hastily stood up, turning around abruptly.

  All of a sudden, a dagger emitting cold air appeared at his neck, and Sun Siwei said in a low voice: "Don't move, according to the exercise regulations, you are now considered killed. First, you are not allowed to make any noise; second, you are not allowed to provide your unit with anything you know or see. Otherwise, I will report it to the exercise command center and give severe punishment! If you understand, nod!"

  The western army's scout nodded silently after hearing this.

  "Get down! Cover your head!" Sun Siwei shouted.

  The Western army's sentry didn't respond, Sun Siwei couldn't help but hurry: "Are you deaf? Crouch down!"

  "Didn't you say I was already dead? How can a dead man hear what you're saying?" The Western Army's scout complained somewhat discontentedly.

  "What the hell is all this nonsense!" Sun Siwei made a knife cut on the neck of the Western Army scout, knocking him unconscious, then dragged him back into the bushes, pressed him to the ground, and made a cover for him before continuing to move forward.

  On the other hand, Zhang Xinghan was still searching for his target. His movements were agile, but he didn't have Sun Siwei's extraordinary night vision ability, so he could only search slowly.

  Zhang Xinghan observed the spot for a moment, didn't find anything unusual, then walked forward about four or five meters. His professional sense of smell, honed over years, picked up an unusual scent.

  He crouched down, carefully observing the grass and trees around him. Due to the dense thickets of shrubs everywhere, it was relatively easy to hide. Zhang Xinghan searched with his eyes for a long time but didn't find anything unusual. However, his keen sense of smell told him that the Western army's scout must be hiding in some corner not far from him. If he moved again, he might startle him.

  Time flies minute by minute, Zhang Xinghan has been squatting in the same place for almost twenty minutes, fortunately his willpower is much stronger than that of ordinary people, otherwise he would not have held on.

  Zhang Xinghan, who was already slightly sweating on his forehead, still searched around him with vigilant eyes. At this time, Sun Siwei had already met up with Zhao Desheng and others, all of whom were anxiously waiting for Zhang Xinghan.

  Just as Zhang Xinghan was getting anxious, with sweat beads increasing on his forehead, a strange noise suddenly sounded, neither loud nor soft.

  Along with the sound, a pungent smell arose and wafted over. The moment the strange noise sounded, Zhang Xinghan immediately locked onto his target, which was in a dense clump of grass less than four meters away from him.

  Within four meters, in the blink of an eye, Zhang Xinghan suddenly sprang up, drew out his dagger and pounced forward with a loud shout.

  The man in the bushes, as if he had also discovered a scene, suddenly flipped over and tried to avoid the sudden danger, but possibly because his judgment of direction was wrong, the direction of flipping came towards Zhang Xinghan.

  Zhang Xinghan didn't hesitate and immediately pounced, but the person below clearly refused to surrender and engaged in a fierce struggle with Zhang Xinghan.

  His skills were good, but compared to Zhang Xinghan, who was from the special forces, he was still a bit inferior. After a few moves, Zhang Xinghan subdued him and pressed the sharp bayonet against his neck, shouting: "I am from the Eastern Army! According to the exercise regulations, you have already been eliminated. From now on, everything you see or hear is not allowed to be reported to your superiors or unit, otherwise I will report it to the Exercise Command Center. Do you understand?"

  "Hmph!" The man was clearly dissatisfied and let out a cold snort, but he didn't shout loudly, which meant that he had already acknowledged the fact that he had lost.

  Zhang Xinghan nodded and let him go, turning around to leave. The man asked somewhat discontentedly: "What's your name?"

  Zhang Xinghan stopped in his tracks, turned around and smiled lightly at him: "I'm Zhang Xinghan!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and quickly walked away.

  "Zhang Xinghan! I remember you, next time we'll have a showdown! If it wasn't for this damn fart sound, how would Zhou Wei have been discovered by you!" It turned out that the man's name was Zhou Wei, a graduate of the 9th class of Huangpu Military Academy, who had performed exceptionally well during his studies and was assigned to the Training General Headquarters after graduation. He is currently a squad leader in the first battalion of the Training General Headquarters.

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