Chapter 39: Hero (2)

  "Emergency assembly!"

  A long whistle sounded at the base, and the whole base was mobilized immediately. The soldiers put down their work in hand and ran out of the garage to grab their equipment and rush to the playground, where four military trucks with roaring engines were already waiting, and two more were combat-ready vehicles loaded with repair tools.

  "Comrades, we have been training for a thousand days, and now it's time to put our skills into action. I won't waste any more words, the enemy is already here, and headquarters has ordered us to destroy the base and follow the logistics unit of the division to provide support during combat. Doing our job well is the greatest fighting power, do you understand?" Zhang Zhiqiang shouted loudly.

  "Understood." The soldier shouted in unison.

  The destruction base is mainly responsible for destroying scrapped firearms and ammunition in the war zone, but it also handles battlefield firearms and duds. In the past, exercises did not have a destruction base division, but this time Ouyang Yuanye decided to mobilize all his troops. His reason was simple: in real warfare, as long as tactics are used properly, even a small soldier can decide the outcome of the war, let alone the destruction base with two reinforced companies, which is also a combat force.

  Li Yifan was lying on a howitzer, enjoying the rare sunshine. The warm sunlight made him feel extremely comfortable. At this time, he saw a truck coming over and immediately stood up, gesturing to Liu Ye who was on duty.

  When he saw the sentry in front of him, Wei Qidong jumped off the car and handed his documents to the sentry.

  "Monitor, hello, our company commander has been waiting for you for a long time. Please follow me," the sentry said, then led the way forward.

  Seeing the soldiers jumping off the truck, Li Yifan suddenly froze for a moment, and a familiar figure appeared in his eyes.

  "Liu Ye, look, who is that?"

  Liu Ye looked in the direction Li Yifan was pointing and saw the person clearly.

  "It's Xiao Lie." Liu Ye said with certainty.

  Xiao Lie didn't expect to run into Li Yifan and Liu Ye here, the three of them were very close during their time in the new recruit regiment, who would have thought they'd meet again here.

  "How did you end up in a repair class?" Liu Ye asked in confusion: "With your grades, we all thought you went to a good place at the time."

  "Yes, we also think so." Li Yifan didn't quite understand either.

  "Haha, soldiers are like that, taking orders is their duty. But you guys are not bad now, a reconnaissance company, the elite of the entire division." Xiao Lie smiled and said.

  "Hey, isn't this our Xiao Dajianzi? Long time no see! How come you're repairing war chariots or tanks now?"

  A voice came from behind the three, Xiao Lie knew that Yang Xian had arrived as soon as he heard it. When he turned around, he saw Yang Xian holding an 88 sniper rifle in his arms, with a particularly confident look on his face.

  "Sniper?" Xiao Lie said.

  "Generally speaking, third in the whole group." Yang Xian said casually. As for this sentence, he didn't lie, from the new recruit company to the previous company, Yang Xian has been very hardworking, especially in shooting, showing great talent, just last month in the team's assessment, his shooting score was ranked third in the whole group, and then transferred to the sniper squad of Reconnaissance Company One.

  "Ever since I went down, I didn't dare to relax myself, because I was afraid that once I relaxed, you wouldn't be my opponent anymore. But now, I think our bet can come to an end." Yang Xian said.

  "I never thought of competing with you, there's no eternal winner or loser." Xiao Lie said: "The revolutionary work is divided into different tasks, that's all."

  Yang Xian tried hard to find a hint of anger on Xiao Lie's face, but he was disappointed, as if Xiao Lie didn't take the matter to heart at all.

  "This is also, different divisions, at least I'm not incapable of fixing cars and whatnot. By the way, how many times a year do you guys get to handle guns over there? Do you still shoot?" Yang Xian asked with a smile.

  "Haha, none of these matter." Xiao Lie said.

  "I said Yang Da is the first, we admit you're awesome, you're very capable. If you can take out the Blue Army commander with one shot, then you'll be the number one in the whole regiment." Liu Ye said.

  "If I'm no good, then you're even worse." Yang Xian said.

  Seeing Yang Xian's arrogant appearance, the three people suddenly felt that their temper was not ordinary, and they didn't have any conflict with Yang Xian. Seeing Yang Xian's departing figure, a faint smile appeared on Xiao Lie's lips.

  The exercise started at 9 o'clock that night, three hours ahead of the formal time. For the Red Army commander Ouyang Yuanye, he was always the Blue Army in previous exercises, and according to the rules, it was destined to be eliminated. However, because he never played by the rules, most of the time he surprisingly won with fewer troops, defeating the Red Army. But this time, he was unexpectedly the head of the Red Army, and his opponent was only a regiment, while the Red Army was three times larger than the Blue Army. This was unacceptable to him, as he had always been the one who used fewer troops to defeat more, and now someone wanted to use fewer troops to defeat him, giving him a feeling of being humiliated.

  "We launched the attack three hours ahead of schedule, and it was our initiative to do so. Many troops hadn't even reached the defensive line when we started." Su Rongjuan looked at the map and said: "The top won't blame us, will they?"

  "What's wrong with us? This is war, not a duel between knights in the Middle-earth century where we need to agree on a time. War should be unexpected, and we should take out the enemy's main force in the shortest amount of time. Sometimes, we have to admit the importance of superior firepower." said Ouyang Yuanye.

  "Now we've been shelling the Blue Army for half an hour, hope they can hold on. Otherwise it won't be fun." Su Rongjuan said: "Being with you for a long time, even good people will become bad ones."

  "Report, our forward outpost reports that the enemy missile destroyed our entire forward artillery position one minute ago." a communication soldier reported.

  "Hmm? It seems that not only us who don't follow the rules." Ouyang Yuanye said this sentence, feeling like an old fox had bumped into another old fox: "Let me lose a whole artillery battalion at once, find out their location."

  As the distant sound of gunfire echoed, Xiao Lie fell asleep on his bed. When someone called him to get up, he quickly put on his clothes and got in the car. On the way, he received information that one of their artillery positions had been destroyed, and they needed to relocate and wait for orders at another position.

  A whole day has passed, and Xiao Lie is not clear about the advantages of his own side, but from yesterday to now, his own side has lost a artillery battalion and an armored regiment. The enemy seems to have disappeared. This makes him feel the horror of war. If this were in actual combat, then those who lost their lives in the artillery battalion and armored regiment would be considered martyrs. He has seen the feeling of dozens of large-caliber guns firing at the same time, and with tens of rounds fired, a mountain can be flattened instantly. In such an environment, it is unimaginable for someone to think they can survive.

  "What? We can't find their main force?" Ouyang Yuanye asked in surprise.

  "So far, our drones and reconnaissance troops have yet to detect the enemy's main force. The scattered enemies we've found are just two or three stray soldiers." a military intelligence officer reported.

  "Use the tangible to control the intangible, use the intangible to govern the tangible. An old fox is still an old fox after all." Ouyang Yuanye said: "Notify each team to spread their eyes out, if they haven't encountered most of the enemy's front line, don't expose themselves. Once enemy situation is discovered, annihilate them on the spot according to circumstances."

  "Yes."

  After the intelligence officer left, Ouyang Yuanye said to Su Quan: "Immediately activate the second backup plan. From now on, we will separate and the command center will be transferred immediately."

  "We're separating and transferring immediately?" Su Rongjuan asked in confusion.

  "Now we haven't found them, I think they must have dispersed and gone undercover, then once they find our weakness, those guys won't show any mercy. If I'm not mistaken, they'll carry out a beheading operation. So let's split up, can't put all the eggs in one basket."

  "Who wants to carry out beheadings against us?"

  “T5。”

  "Are they that fierce?"

  "As we grow bigger, our weaknesses and vulnerabilities increase. Now they are scattered all over the place. We are like a big elephant, while they are like a tiger. If we engage in a frontal battle, the tiger will die quickly. But if they turn into invisible wolves, no matter how big the elephant is, it will still be pulled down by them. If conventional warfare can't defeat the enemy, then we should use their own methods against them."

  "Monitor, where are we going now? I see their equipment is fine, they don't need ours." Tang Fei said: "Otherwise, let's find a place to idle around?"

  "Huh? Sounds like gunfire." Gu Yu said.

  As he finished speaking, the sound of gunfire which had been unclear at first became clearer and clearer.

  Wu Minghui, along with the reconnaissance company, inadvertently discovered an enemy battalion within their own activity range. He was unaware of how they had managed to do so. Seeing the rows of rocket artillery vehicles, he thought that for those gunners, they would be unable to exert any effect in close combat. In contrast, his reconnaissance company had a natural advantage in close combat. With this thought, he immediately reported the enemy's position and then led his men to sneak up quietly before attempting to launch a surprise attack.

  But he didn't expect that two kilometers away from his opponent, he was discovered by the other side, and a close combat began.

  Liu Ye lay flat on the ground, waiting for the other side's firepower to weaken. As soon as it did, he jumped up and hid behind a tree. He couldn't think clearly either - yesterday afternoon he had been patrolling this forest and hadn't found anything, yet overnight an entire battalion had arrived. But the enemy's firepower wasn't weak either, and in one charge they had pinned down the reconnaissance company, which was skilled in guerrilla warfare, to the point where they couldn't lift their heads.

  "Take out that machine gunner!" Second Lieutenant Yang Xian ordered.

  In the crowd, Yang Xian found the machine gunner who was fighting enthusiastically and pulled the trigger. In the telescope, a burst of red smoke suddenly appeared on the machine gunner's body, with an incredulous expression.