Chapter 60: The Great Wind Rises (Three)

  Xiao Lie was just an ordinary soldier, far from being a special elite who could achieve the state of oneness with nature under certain conditions, where wind is my friend, forest is my friend, stone is my friend, and earth is my friend. Now he's more like a lone wolf, facing animals tens of times larger and fiercer than him, his heart burning with an unyielding fire, knowing that his comrades were captured while covering for him, for them, for us, he absolutely cannot fail.

  Even if it's death, a lone wolf with no support will still stir up its innate ferocity and fight the enemy to the end.

  "If you don't want to die, then turn yourself into a wolf that has been starving for several days and nights. A hungry wolf dares to challenge animals much stronger than itself in order to survive. If military theory and combat skills are not your strong points, if you encounter an expert, without a sure-win trick, you will definitely die a terrible death."

  Xiao Lie recalled Ouyang Yuan Ye's words, he kept them in mind and slowly comprehended, never having been guided by anyone, Xiao Lie could only comprehend Ouyang Yuan Ye's words through actual combat. Although this was just a drill or a training session, such drills and training were far more valuable than the countless times spent on the training grounds. Here, he didn't know what kind of terrain or enemy he would encounter in the next second, all he could do was to survive.

  "When you encounter a strong enemy, if you don't have enough confidence to defeat them, then you should learn to show weakness and find their weaknesses. When the enemy becomes arrogant, it's also when they start to become careless." said Ouyang Yuanye.

  Xiao Lie saw a soldier coming from the other side of the woods, wearing combat uniforms he had seen before and had interacted with. His heart skipped a beat... T5 has finally arrived.

  Seeing them, Xiao Lie didn't show a flustered expression. His eyes were filled with a calmness. Here, he knew that if he fought against them in close combat, even twenty Xiao Lies wouldn't be their match. Recognizing the strengths of both sides was also a survival rule.

  If someone saw it now, they would definitely be surprised. The current Xiao Lie not only didn't flee in disarray but instead fired a few shots at the opponent to indicate his position.

  After hearing the gunshot, Pei Dongnan immediately determined the location of the sound. Then he saw Xiao Lie standing in a relatively high place. Through his scope, he saw Xiao Lie revealing his white teeth and smiling at them, but that smile looked like an idiot's no matter how you looked at it. Thinking about it, at least up until now Pei Dongnan had never seen anyone who, upon encountering a strong enemy, would intentionally reveal their own position. Such a person was either an idiot or had an ulterior motive. However, looking around at the environment and considering the information he had obtained, he believed that his opponent was more likely to be an idiot.

  Xiao Ran saw that he had attracted the attention of the other party, and immediately ran to the middle of the woods. Although his marksmanship was good, and he also had a certain foundation in mobile warfare, but he himself understood that it would be better not to show off too much if he were to join a real special forces unit. If he encountered an ordinary field army, maybe he could still show off a bit, but when facing truly elite soldiers, he felt that having a few more legs would be even better.

  There was no time or ammunition to set up traps, but one thing he understood was that special forces were more cautious than regular troops. This so-called caution could also be understood as being extremely careful and suspicious if they encountered any movement. He didn't hear this from someone else or learn it from an insider, but rather read it in a pirated book about special forces. Although it was a 10-yuan pirated book, Xiao Lie believed that special forces would indeed be very cautious when marching.

  Although there was no fuse or anything to set up an ambush, of course, no one had ever taught him how to set up an ambush. However, Xiao Lie, who loved reading, didn't forget to put a stone on the road he ran on, or pull out some grass from both sides of the road, and sometimes while running, pick up a branch from the ground and hang it in the middle of the road.

  How can these special elite behind him stop these little tricks of Xiao Lie? But then again, these too obvious marks sometimes still work. When they saw a few obviously man-made stones placed in the middle of the road, the vanguard had to stop and be careful of traps.

  Pei Dongnan was speechless, these seemingly harmless marks had to make him unguarded, but after several times, everyone found that those places that seemed to have hidden dangers were actually nothing, everything was peaceful.

  Rumble!

  After a loud explosion came from the earpiece, Pei Dongnan couldn't hear his vanguard's response anymore. He suddenly realized that his two vanguards had "fallen" and he had to be careful. Gradually, he began to admire his opponent. Everyone has a kind of mental inertia. If you see a very beautiful box on the road, when you first see it, you will think if there is something inside, so you open it and find that it's empty. You feel disappointed and may even scold others for putting nothing in it, making you pick it up in vain. If you walk a few more steps and see the same box again, you might think maybe this one has some good stuff inside. Of course, the second box will disappoint you too, then the third, fourth, and so on. Maybe the first, second, and third boxes still give you hope, but by the time the fourth or fifth box appears, you may have become numb to even the most beautiful-looking box. Some people are not like this, they will open a few more boxes. But eventually, there is also a time when one becomes numb. At that moment, the problem arises - maybe the next box has something good inside, but due to habitual numbness, you might miss this opportunity.

  When Pei Dongnan saw that two of his subordinates had fallen, he gave the order to continue advancing. At this time, the soldiers who were re-appointed as vanguard had to be careful and would slow down their pursuit speed whenever they saw something unusual, as if Xiao Lie was deliberately letting them know about his actions.

  But Pei Dongnan did not know that the trap Xiao Lie had just set up was the last bomb on his body. Although no one had ever taught him how to set traps, he knew where he came from - a demolition unit that dealt with all sorts of explosives every day. Even if he was an idiot, he could make a simple trap like this: just pull out the safety pin of a hand grenade and bury it in a place where the enemy would pass by. When they stepped on it, it would explode. If he couldn't even do something so simple and without any technical difficulty, then he thought he might as well sweep the streets. Xiao Lie knew from the start that he wouldn't be able to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy, but he also knew that at least psychologically, he could put some pressure on them. So he took a route of pretending to set up various fake traps, waiting for the enemy to become numb before making his move.

  Pei Dongnan finally found the two "killed" vanguard soldiers, and his expression became richer. The two "corpses" lay on the road, breathing heavily, their chests rising and falling. They looked at him with a strange gaze, as if they had died unjustly, wanting to say something good but unable to speak. Of course, their weapons had been taken away by someone. What's more, their clothes had been stripped off, revealing their sturdy abdomens. And on those abdomens, several small stones were placed. The intention of their opponent was very clear: he had abused the "corpses" of his comrades.

  After seeing the new vanguard make a safe gesture, a T5 pulled his "corpse" comrade, and the "corpse"'s eyes showed an incredible gaze. Before everyone understood what was happening, a puff of smoke rose from under the corpse, representing an explosion. The previously kind-hearted T5 suddenly widened his eyes, but it was too late. He saw that there were bullets tied to the hand grenade, which looked like a super-explosive dumpling. Everyone knew what this meant: if this hand grenade exploded on the battlefield, its effective killing radius would be 10 meters, and the bullets tied to it would increase the explosive power exponentially.

  Too careless! Too careless! Too careless indeed!

  After seeing this scene, a faint smile appeared on Pei Dongnan's face. He became more and more interested in his prey. Perhaps others didn't know, but he knew that the person they were chasing was just a small soldier who had walked out of the logistics unit, and hadn't received systematic combat training like those in the field army. If new recruits were counted, then he was just a young boy who had just learned to hold a gun. Moreover, it was impossible to expect to find someone with comprehensive military quality in a secondary logistics unit. If such a person existed, they wouldn't be staying in the logistics unit.

  If even a new recruit like Xiao Lie can ambush T5, then he's worth pursuing. When he thinks the opponent is interesting, he doesn't let his guard down. If it was luck once, what about twice, thrice? Pei Dongnan still remembers this little soldier named Xiao Lie, who during the last exercise, started a solo charge with just one rifle, broke through T5's defense line without any support, and then rescued his squad leader in plain sight. Maybe that was just luck. But less than two days later, he and his squad leader launched a surprise attack from behind enemy lines, with Ouyang Yuanye as the bait and Xiao Lie as the attacker. His performance at this time made people think deeply. Even so, after the fact, some people still thought that luck played a bigger role in these two events for Xiao Lie and Ouyang Yuanye.

  But this time when he was able to hang T5's vanguard with a tricky move, Pei Dongnan didn't think that Xiao Lie relied on luck every time.

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