Chapter 24: Iron Blooded Military Soul Four

  Three patrolling sentries walked in a line along the edge of the valley towards the ammunition depot. "Action!" Jin Huan shouted, and he and Ma Ping left the cover of the bushes, sprinting forward without stopping. The silenced assault rifle in his hand fired two short bursts, and the first two sentries fell to the ground. The last sentry was frightened by the sudden attack and forgot to sound the alarm. He turned around and ran towards the barracks, but before he could take a few steps, Jin Huan's and Chen Jianfeng's bullets almost simultaneously pierced his head.

  Jin Huang continued to rush towards the ammunition depot, Ma Ping kicked the corpse into the bushes and hurriedly chased after him. The two sentries in front of the ammunition depot were pacing back and forth with their guns at the ready, completely unaware that death was approaching.

  The Longfei squad searched forward towards the mortar position, advancing very slowly. There were no tall bushes in front of the position to hide behind, so they crawled forward through the dense grass, but stopped at a distance of 800 meters from the position. The grass in front had been cut down by the enemy to clear the field of fire.

  Across the artillery position, six sentries were holding guns near the artillery position on high alert. Long Fei whispered to Lin Jie, "Set up a sniper position nearby and provide me with firepower support as soon as contact is made."

  "Got it!" Lin Jie picked up his gun and looked around, immediately jumping into the bushes to set up a sniper position.

  Cheng Xiaopeng suddenly pointed at a hole with a diameter of less than one meter, 200 meters ahead, and said in a low voice: "Look, there's a hole over there."

  The two immediately crawled on the ground, Long Fei lightly waved his hand to signal a temporary halt, "Go take a look."

  Cheng Xiaopeng slowly crawled towards the hole, and before he had crawled out five meters, a steel helmet suddenly emerged from the entrance of the cave, slowly rising. A special forces soldier from Country M held a gun and looked outside for a long time, then slowly climbed to the surface. The two people couldn't help but take a cold breath: "Damn, this is an underground hidden firepower point!"

  "Dragonfly whispered almost in his throat: 'Monkey, get ready to clear out!'"

  Cheng Xiaopeng had already circled around from the left flank, preparing to attack the enemy from behind. Suddenly, a voice came from inside the cave, and Cheng Xiaopeng immediately crouched down low. No one came out of the cave entrance, but the first special soldier who arrived responded with a sentence, then walked into the dense forest with his gun at the ready, apparently going to meet the sentry.

  Long Fei leaped towards the entrance of the cave, his gun pointing inside to prevent anyone else from suddenly crawling out and discovering the raiding party.

  Cheng Xiaopeng slowly approached his prey, to prevent the knife and gun from making a sound, he drew out a plastic bag for assassination from his waist, lifted his toes and sprinted several steps, raised his hand, and put the plastic bag over the sentry's head, pulling him into the woods with force. The sentry struggled in his hands, the plastic bag had become a vacuum stuck to the sentry's face. In the death struggle, the sentry's hand touched the trigger, "Dadada" crisp gunfire echoed far away in the silent mountain valley, exposing his trail.

  "What's going on?" came Jin Hwang's irate voice through the headphones.

  The enemy troops in the valley emerged from behind their defensive works one after another, shouting and asking questions.

  "Bastard, why didn't he kick away his gun first!" Long Fei cursed in a low voice.

  A strange noise came from inside the cave, and the bamboo ladder connecting to the entrance made a series of urgent creaking sounds. The enemy troops inside the cave were preparing to come up to the ground to take a look. Long Fei aimed his gun and swept a burst of bullets into the cave.

  A burst of gunfire and shouting came from inside the cave, a string of bullets flew out of the hole, and the enemy began to counterattack. Long Fei lay prone on the ground beside the cave, reached into his pocket and pulled out two hand grenades, thumbs sent them flying, the safety handles "ding" popped out, he raised his hand and threw the grenades into the cave, immediately rolling sideways to get away from the entrance, a loud "boom" sounded, a large ball of flames poured out of the cave mouth.

  "My dear, can you make some more noise?" came Chen Jianfeng's teasing voice from the headphones.

  "No problem." Long Fei had an expression that seemed to say he wasn't finished yet. Since he was discovered, Long Fei decided to launch a strong attack.

  The explosion of the grenade made the sentry at the artillery position extremely tense, holding his gun and firing indiscriminately, several gunners rushed to their positions in large strides.

  "Boom! Boom!" Lin Jie's sniper rifle fired two consecutive shots, and the two artillerymen were knocked to the ground. The artillery position was immediately thrown into chaos, with the soldiers stationed there holding several light machine guns and firing blindly in all directions.

  A shell from a mortar gun flew over their heads, blowing to smithereens a large boulder 200 meters away from Lin Jie. This was just a test shot; the gunner began adjusting his aim, and the next one might land right on top of them.

  At this time, the whole valley was in a mess, with shouts of "assemble! Assemble!" and officers' inquiries everywhere. Groups of soldiers stumbled out of their tents, and the neat M-country helicopter pilots had already run to the helipad to prepare for takeoff. The mortar gunners began to adjust the direction of the barrel, turning it towards the top of the cliff.

  Chen Jianfeng's sniper rifle fired in succession, and several helicopter pilots fell to the ground with their heads down, leaving behind two corpses, covering their wounds and running into hiding points with their waists bent, temporarily giving up the idea of taking off the helicopters.

  The sentinel guarding the ammunition depot looked up at the back mountain with his neck raised and mouth wide open, Jin Huan seized the opportunity to rush forward, after two short shots, the sentinel was shot down to the ground, blood and brains flowed all over the place.

  "Jackals, go in and set the explosives!" Jin Huan made a swift leap, jumping into the bunker in front of the ammunition depot door, gun at the ready, aiming at the enemy army outside that had become a chaotic mess.

  Ma Ping raised his gun at the door tied with iron chains and fired a burst of bullets, then kicked open the large door with a loud "bang" and rushed into the ammunition depot carrying a large package of C-4 explosives.

  Jin Huang and Ma Ping's whereabouts were also discovered, the enemy shouted: "The ammunition depot was attacked! The ammunition depot was attacked!" The officers quickly gathered their soldiers, holding guns and rushing towards the ammunition depot.

  Inside the machine gun nest, Lei Mingliang set up a heavy machine gun, and "rattling" bullets poured into the valley like water. The soldiers in the valley did not expect that the machine gun nest had been occupied, and they were caught off guard, with deaths and injuries everywhere. The officers could not restrain the panicked soldiers, who fired their guns into the air, shouting loudly for the soldiers to regroup and charge towards the ammunition depot.

  The artillerymen in the valley were the first to wake up and turned their barrels to attack the machine gun nest. "Boom! Boom!" Two 100mm mortar shells, one fell on the cliff in front of the machine gun nest, and one hit the top of the machine gun nest, falling down like a rain of stones, "Ding Ding Dong" hitting Lei Ming's steel helmet. The two did not dodge or flash, shooting down from above without stopping, the infantry in the valley were suppressed and could not lift their heads, scattering and hiding while wailing and howling.

  "Eagle, artillery fire!" The Dragonfly squad on the mountain top began a fierce assault on the mortar position.

  "Boom! Boom!" Two consecutive explosions, Lin Jie's 40mm grenade launcher silenced an enemy mortar!

  After a brief silence, the artillery position erupted in a flurry of gunfire. The enemy troops held their weapons at the ready, firing intermittently as they charged towards Long Fei's squad! Artillery shells whizzed overhead with a deafening "whoosh", and the enemy closed in rapidly.

  "Grenades! Two volleys! Throw!" With Long Fei's low shout, six grenades flew out of the formation at the same time. Amidst the "rumbling" explosion sounds, several white smoke explosions from the grenades rose into the air, followed by continuous cannonball explosions.

  The enemy troops in the artillery formation were bombed to exhaustion, and in the intervals between the gunfire, their voices calling for support could be heard.

  "Monkey, set up the machine gun and fire!" Under the cover of the smoke from the hand grenade explosion, Cheng Xiaopeng suddenly stood up, with three 200-round ammunition chains wrapped around his body. The M60 machine gun in his hands was shaking wildly, spitting out a half-meter-long flame tongue, and the bullets were happily shouting as they rushed towards the enemy.

  The enemy hiding behind the mortar and Cheng Xiaopeng's intense crossfire, delaying time waiting for the arrival of support troops.

  "Flashbangs, grenades, throw!" Long Fei shouted. Three flashbangs and three grenades flew out of their hands towards the enemy position at the same time. A strong white light accompanied by scorching shrapnel rushed towards the enemy without any regard for life or death, and a miserable cry erupted from the enemy's position.

  "Eagle shield, monkey follows me to charge in!" Taking advantage of the enemy's brief blindness, Long Fei stood up and rushed forward, Cheng Xiaopeng closely followed behind. The two men did not make a sound, one machine gun and one assault rifle continuously spitting fire tongues, fiercely sweeping across the enemy army. The hit enemies convulsed violently and died in the hail of bullets. The enemy was caught off guard, and soon there was no more gunfire on the position.

  The remaining enemy gunners struggled to crawl to their posts, attempting to make a last-ditch resistance.

  Lin Jie picked up the SVD and ran back and forth, firing. The last two mortar men died under his gun.

  "Sweep the battlefield, set up explosives!" Long Fei jumped up and ran towards Chen Jianfeng's position, shouting as he ran: "White Fox Squad, mission accomplished!"

  "Alright, seven packs of medicine, remote control explosion!" An Hao's explosive horse Ping carried two light machine guns from the ammunition depot and dragged an iron box full of bullet chains to Jin Huang's side.

  Jin Huang picked up a machine gun and swept it to the side, knocking down several enemy soldiers who were circling back. The direction of the dark fort was always gloomy and silent, without making any sound, which made him feel uneasy in his heart, not knowing what kind of trick the enemy was playing.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillerymen in the valley began to continuously fire shells at the machine gun nests on the cliff, causing rocks around them to fly everywhere. The stones of the breast wall were stripped away layer by layer, and fist-sized rocks bounced wildly inside the machine gun nest!

  The machine gun nest is in imminent danger, Jin Hua lies behind the bunker and sweeps while observing the road in the valley, "Jackal, what's the farthest effective distance for remote-controlled explosions?"

  "2,800 meters."

  "Give me the detonator, we can't blow it up now, or it will destroy the plane wreckage."

  Taking the detonator handed over by Ma Ping, Jin Huan gave a low command: "White Fox Squad, enter the valley and occupy the helipad. Jackal, follow me to outflank the dark fortress and take it down!"

  "Lei Gong and Deng Pao retreat from the machine gun nest, move towards the mortar and take it out!"

  "Roger!" "Roger!" The reports came in one after another through the headphones.

  The Dragonfly team swooped down into the valley, guns blazing as they charged towards the airstrip. The three of them laid down a withering crossfire that scythed back and forth across the enemy troops. The enemy lines collapsed, men running wildly to find cover, their screams and wails filling the air. The government forces in the valley were decimated, completely losing their ability to fight.

  "Rat-a-tat-tat!" The machine gunner in the dark bunker yelled and opened fire, the sound of gunfire accompanied by a dense rain of bullets, immediately pinning down the team members to the ground. They fired non-stop with all their might, two machine guns locked down the apron, while another two machine guns wildly swept towards Long Fei's squad and Jin Huan's squad, the entire shooting mouth was chaotic.

  Intense firepower pinned the squad members to the ground, they rolled and shifted positions to return fire at the bunker. Every shot would bring back tenfold bullets. The impact points got closer and closer, the assault team was completely suppressed.