Chapter 27: Iron Blooded Military Soul Seven

  Jin Huang rushed over, tightly hugging her body. "Are you hurt? Where does it hurt?" His large hands moved down along her neck and spine, confirming that all her bones were intact before he couldn't help but yell at her face: "You idiot, are you trying to get yourself killed by jumping down like that? Don't you have a brain, daring to ignore my orders!"

  Lin Ruo Lan looked at his pale face with some confusion, and said in a wronged tone: "You told me not to leave your line of sight, I was just executing your previous order."

  Jin Hao hummed and held her tightly in his arms, "Little fool! I now suspect that your IQ is zero!" He sighed and hugged her tightly.

  She snuggled into his arms and whispered, "Jin Huang, listen to me: for this lifetime, I'm counting on you. No matter if you're in heaven, the human world or hell, don't even think about abandoning me."

  A faint, helpless laugh came from above, "Alright, this lifetime we won't part ways again!" His sharp gaze turned deep and rich, no longer blaming her willfulness. His arms tightly wrapped around her, his cautious attitude as if guarding the most precious treasure in the world.

  Chen Jianfeng hesitated whether to return to pick up Lin Ruolan, when Ma Ping suddenly shouted: "Enemy plane!"

  Radar showed that six armed helicopters in a stepped formation were rushing towards them, and the enemy's reinforcements had arrived. The voice of Jin Huan came through the headset: "You guys hurry up, I'll take her back safely!"

  Chen Jianfeng suddenly felt at ease, he knew this old comrade too well. With Lin Ruolan by Jin Huang's side, she would certainly bring out the greatest degree of his courage and wisdom, and these courage and wisdom would ultimately bring the two people safely back home.

  Jin Hao took a deep breath, as Lin Ruolan's arrival had changed the situation more than he had anticipated. After a moment of thought, he pulled Lin Ruolan up and held her hand, running with her to the bunker at the valley entrance, where he whispered: "Wait for me here, don't leave."

  "Come back quickly, there are so many dead people around me, I'm scared." Lin Ruolan pulled his hand, looking around nervously and answering softly.

  "Do you know what it means to be scared now? Looks like you're not stupid after all." Comfortingly patting her face, Jin Huan said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'll be back soon."

  Jin Huaifei quickly ran into the ammunition depot, replenished his backpack with sufficient ammunition, placed the assault rifle horizontally on his backpack, carried two single-soldier anti-aircraft missiles, and rushed towards the valley mouth with a G3SG. At this time, the roar of helicopters had already been heard from the horizon.

  Jin Huan pulled Lin Ruolan towards the dense forest and ran for about two kilometers before stopping. He pointed to a bush and said, "Get under that and don't come out until I tell you to."

  The helicopter engine's roar grew louder, Lin Ruo Lan uneasily stuck her head out from the bushes to look at Jin Huang's position, he was intently staring in the direction of the valley.

  Six AH-W Super Cobra attack helicopters appeared menacingly above the valley, hovering in mid-air with their thermal imaging instruments searching for signs of life within the valley. Jin Huang said softly: "Lan'er, get down on your knees, hands and feet on the ground, abdomen off the ground."

  "Huh?" Lin Ruo Lan looked at him in confusion, "Wh...why?"

  "To avoid damaging the internal organs." Jin Huan opened the remote detonator, and the six helicopters had re-formed their queue, ready to continue the pursuit. Jin Huan instantly pressed all the green-lit buttons on the detonator.

  A deafening roar, the earth shook violently. The explosion of the ammunition depot ignited an oil depot 50 meters away, a black mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke supported a huge fireball rising from the valley. The intense explosion continued, and the mortar shells in the ammunition depot were blown into the air and exploded in mid-air.

  The ground that wouldn't stop shaking, the unbearable shockwaves, the deafening explosions, the endless screaming of shells flying into the air, the thick smoke that was suffocating, made Lin Ruolan tightly grasp the small tree beside her, closing her eyes and gritting her teeth to endure the fear in her heart.

  The blast sent the six helicopters scattering in all directions, with three of them lagging behind and being hit by successive bursts of cannon fire. Two disintegrated in mid-air, sending countless fragments crashing to the ground. The third lost control, smoking and careening wildly towards the Long Machine, which nimbly banked hard right and came to an emergency stop. A flash of flame erupted from beneath its short wing as two "Hellfire" anti-tank missiles blew its smoking companion to smithereens.

  "Damn, they're killing their own people!" Jin Huan cursed in disdain, kneeling on one knee to pick up the single-barreled missile launcher and slinging it over his shoulder. He loaded the long-range rifle into the scope, pulled the trigger, and a "whooshing" sound was heard as the toxic-tipped missile shot out, spewing flames towards the helicopter, which had just begun to react and avoid, but was blown up in mid-air into a fireball.

  Two wingmen realized there were still enemies nearby, taking advantage of the explosion having stopped, one dived down from high altitude, with short wings flashing firelight, crazily firing at Jin Huan's position. In the chaos, the "Heli" anti-tank missile swooped in, losing its target, and blew two large trees on the left wing to smithereens.

  Jin Huang grasped the single-soldier missile launcher with both hands, and with a swift motion, he knocked Lin Ruolan into the bushes. He quickly reloaded the second missile and jumped up, firing at the helicopter. The enemy aircraft desperately made evasive maneuvers, zigzagging and making sharp turns in an attempt to shake off the rapidly approaching missile. In its frantic movements, it crashed into another aircraft, and the deadly missile struck, engulfing both planes in a massive fireball.

  "Lan'er, look, even God is helping me!" Jin Huan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  The entire valley was flattened by half, the wreckage of six AH-W attack helicopters still burning fiercely in the valley, choking smoke filling the air.

  Jin Huang helped Lin Ruolan up, "We should go, we have to get as far away from here as possible before the next batch of reinforcements arrives."

  "Will there be more reinforcements?" Lin Ruolan's eyes widened in surprise, and she couldn't help but exclaim in a tone that was almost a moan: "My god, how can this go on and on without end?"

  "Got it!" Jin Hao nodded very firmly, gently massaging her stiff limbs, his sharp black eyes quickly scanning her body to confirm that she had no new injuries. "They lost the plane wreckage and also lost two Apaches, they must be furious now. Even if they can't get the plane wreckage back, they will try their best to save face. Let's go!"

  Lin Ruo Lan grasped the large palm extended to her, and with its support, she stood up from the ground. With a determined heart, she followed closely behind this powerful man, disappearing into the depths of the dense forest.

  ……

  Chen Jianfeng and Long Fei pushed the throttle lever to the top, the engine roaring loudly, propelling the Apache like a runaway wild horse towards the border. In the cockpit, Xu Mingliang sat in the co-pilot's seat controlling the machine gun, intently watching the radar.

  Cheng Xiaopeng crouched at the hatch, holding a heavy machine gun and gazing out of the cabin. Ma Ping stood guard on the other side of the hatch, occasionally turning his head to check on Lei Meng and Lin Jie's situation. Mr. Mark huddled in a corner of the cockpit, silent and isolated after losing contact with Lin Ruolan. Lin Jie was in a deep coma, while Lei Meng's face was deathly pale, his eyes tightly closed and motionless. Suddenly, he moved slightly, followed by a mouthful of fresh blood gushing out of his mouth.

  "Fly a bit faster, Leigong is no longer able to hold on." Ma Ping shouted loudly at Chen Jianfeng.

  Chen Jianfeng turned his head and glanced at Lei Meng, then pushed the accelerator pedal that was already on the floor even harder.

  Xu Mingliang suddenly pointed at the radar and shouted: "Look, the enemy plane is gone!" The six green dots representing the enemy aircraft on the radar screen had disappeared. A huge mushroom cloud rose from the distant valley, and all team members silently watched the direction where the mushroom cloud was rising.

  Cheng Xiaopeng's face was covered with tears, he lifted his sleeve to wipe them away, and his face was streaked with black and white like a Peking Opera clown: "It must have been the leopard that set off the ammunition depot, I don't know how they are now?"

  "Don't cry!" Chen Jianfeng shouted angrily: "The cheetahs have rich battlefield experience, they will definitely come back safely!"

  Half an hour's flight from the border, Chen Jianfeng didn't dare to be careless at all, closely watching for any possible safety hazards on the ground. If there were still enemy forces in the dense forest carrying a single-soldier air defense missile, the arduous mission would likely end in failure.

  "Send 'Daybreak' to the old nest in Morse code!" Chen Jianfeng whispered to Xu Mingliang. This was a pre-arranged signal, meaning that the mission had been completed and they would be returning soon.

  As he approached the border, Chen Jianfeng turned on the radio and tuned into the international common channel. A strange and serious voice immediately came from the headphones: "This is the Chinese Air Force. You are about to invade China's airspace. Please turn back immediately. Repeat, please turn back immediately!"

  Obviously, the Apache helicopter painted with the national flag of M country caught the attention of Chinese Air Force cruise fighters and were treated as invading enemy planes.

  "Identify yourself to the air force!" Chen Jianfeng shouted, and on the radar screen behind him, two green dots were rapidly approaching at an astonishing speed - M country's carrier-based fighter jets had caught up.

  Xu Mingliang sent the correct response information and identification code to the air force, and the radio fell into a brief silence, apparently verifying their identities. Two minutes later, two J-10s flew over at ultra-low altitude from both sides of the helicopter, and after seeing the wreckage of the plane hanging under the helicopter, the pilot of the left fighter jet shouted through the intercom to Chen Jianfeng: "Apache, cleared for passage, heading northwest, maintain speed!"

  "Understood! There are pursuers behind us, find a way to intercept them."

  Two J-10s also discovered enemy fighters on radar, rushing forward with a whoosh, "Don't worry, leave it to us!" The pilot laughed and the J-10s performed a provocative barrel roll in mid-air, accelerating to maximum power as they charged towards the enemy planes.

  The automatic navigation systems in the two enemy carrier-based fighters suddenly sounded an alarm, and the red warning lights began to flash continuously. The automatic voice system repeated over and over: "Attention, you have been locked on." "Attention, you have been locked on."

  As the Apache helicopter carrying the wreckage of the plane flew into Chinese territory, in the face of the J-10's continuous provocative actions, the enemy aircraft had no choice but to return and head towards the aircraft carrier anchored on the high seas.

  Xuanle Border Checkpoint next to the Xuanle Grand Bridge, under the belly of the machine, a glance at the armed police border guards on the watchtower saluting the helicopter.

  The task is completed!