Chapter Sixteen: Breaking Out of the Encirclement

  At 1:20 in the morning, more than a dozen dark figures quietly approached the campsite of Chen Jianfeng's squad.

  Having undergone rigorous sniper training for a long time, Chen Jianfeng was extremely sensitive to changes in the environment. He almost simultaneously discovered the sneak attacker with Long Fei, who was on sentry duty. He quietly raised his eyelids and observed the position of the sneak attacker.

  A short, crisp knock came from the headphones, and Chen Jianfeng whispered in his throat: "Don't move, wait for them to enter the firing range." The assault team members who had already woken up and were preparing to respond immediately stopped moving, continuing to pretend to sleep, but their hands slowly tightened around their weapons, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

  The black shadow, in groups of three, formed an inverted triangle-shaped assault team, flanking from the southeast direction of the campsite. The front machine gunner held an M60, the assault hand held a SCAR-H, covering the rear assault hand holding a SCAR-L. There were five teams in total, about 500 meters away from the troops at this moment. At the end of the team, there was also a sniper holding an M40, looking for a sniping position. His observer was holding binoculars, staring intently at the troops. This is the standard field assault tactic of the Delta Force! A fierce battle is inevitable.

  "Damn it, what the hell! Where did this group of enemies come from?" Chen Jianfeng cursed in his heart.

  The enemy slowed down, crouching and using the waist-high grass to cover themselves as they moved forward slowly, still about 300 meters away, apparently intending to capture the assault team members alive.

  "Smoke bomb ready!" Chen Jianfeng measured the distance of the sniper's shot and hummed a sentence into the intercom.

  "Launch!" Chen Jianfeng shouted in a low voice, and five smoke bombs were thrown out of the defense circle at the same time. The swirling white smoke immediately formed a smokescreen.

  Chen Jianfeng sprang up instantly, pulled the trigger, and the M82A1 sniper rifle emitted a dull sound. The enemy sniper was torn in half by the bullet. The enemy spotter quickly fell to the ground, and the SCAR assault rifle simultaneously came into position on his shoulder. Before he could pull the trigger, Chen Jianfeng's sniper rifle had already moved into place, accompanied by the muffled gunshot, the spotter slumped softly onto the grass.

  Chen Jianfeng rolled sideways with his sniper rifle, relocating to a new position, and before he even got into place, a hail of bullets had already covered his original location.

  Without the threat of snipers, the position erupted in a flurry of gunfire. Lin Jie continuously rolled and shifted positions, his SVD sniper rifle spitting fire as the thunderous M249 machine gun and the dragon-like G3K micro-assault rifle simultaneously opened up to provide covering fire for Lin Jie and Chen Jianfeng. Ma Ping constantly threw C-4 explosives at the enemy, causing explosions.

  The advancing enemy troops were indeed well-trained special forces, although they were caught off guard, they quickly scattered and rolled forward to hideouts, raising their guns to counterattack.

  Six 40mm grenades flew from the enemy position, "day by day" howling towards the assault team's position.

  "Take cover!" Chen Jianfeng's voice had barely fallen when the whistling sound of the grenade made the team members quickly shift positions.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" 40 mortar shells instantly covered all exposed firepower on the position, enemy special forces opened a sparse skirmish line, and charged over under the cover of five M60 machine guns. The machine gun fire network completely suppressed the team members in their hiding positions, unable to lift their heads.

  "Grenade! Throw!" Along with Chen Jianfeng's shout, five fragmentation grenades flew into the enemy formation simultaneously. Amidst the "boom boom" explosions, although the enemy special forces retreated to a hidden location, they were still hit by shrapnel flying everywhere. The enemy soldiers were very experienced and did not retreat but instead advanced faster using the trees as cover. The M60 and SCARH fired continuously, spewing out flames, covering the accurate shooting of the SCARL behind them, and constantly cutting down large trees with trunks as thick as bowls.

  "Eagle, jackal and Thunder retreat 30 meters to establish a firepower support point, White Fox cover with all your might!" Chen Jianfeng gave the order decisively.

  Long Fei rolled to the back of a tree and hid, Aug "dada" angrily spitting fire tongues, knocking down three enemy vanguard soldiers who were charging in the front. The enemy's offensive speed slowed down.

  The gunfire grew sparse, Lin Jie and Ma Ping jumped out of the bunker, rolling quickly to retreat, Lei Meng hugged the M249 machine gun to prepare for withdrawal, but the experienced enemy troops still quickly discovered their intention, bullets whizzed over to cut off their escape route.

  "Jackals rise explosively!" Chen Jianfeng shouted as he leapt into a thicket.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Ma Ping pressed the detonator, and the 8 American-made steel ball anti-personnel mines and 3 kg of C-4 explosives that had been pre-buried around the defensive perimeter exploded one after another. The enemy was forced to lie on the ground and wait for the explosions to end, as the thick smoke and fierce flames blocked their line of sight. The team members took advantage of the opportunity to jump up and retreat backwards.

  "Mountain Eagle in position!" "Leopard Wolf in position!" "Thunder Duke in position!" the voices reported continuously from the headphones.

  "Covering fire, jackals establish circular defensive fortifications! White Fox, fall back!"

  Ma Ping responded with a fish jump, continuously throwing small packets of plastic explosives onto the surrounding large trees for directional blasting, using the felled tree trunks to build a ring-shaped fortification. Immediately afterwards, three anti-personnel steel ball mines were set up in front of the new defense line.

  Under the covering fire of Lei Meng and Lin Jie, Long Fei broke away from his hiding point, sprinted a few steps, and dove head-first into the fortifications. A string of bullets whizzed past his head as he immediately knelt beside the cover to shoot outward, providing cover for Chen Jianfeng's retreat.

  Chen Jianfeng glanced at the enemy's position as he retreated, and the veteran special forces soldiers on the other side had already recovered from the chaos caused by the explosion, quickly adjusting their deployment. Three enemy special forces soldiers were circling around to pounce on the woods behind him.

  "Want to launch a sneak attack?" Chen Jianfeng sneered, taking aim at an enemy commando who was circling around. With a loud gunshot, the commando's skull was blown off entirely. The opponent was indeed a special forces soldier, and as soon as Chen Jianfeng fired his gun, a bullet came flying from the opposite direction, hitting him in the left leg. Chen Jianfeng stumbled and fell to the ground, losing the cover of the big tree. The enemy special forces soldier immediately raised his gun and began firing wildly at him.

  "Hunting eagle!" Long Fei leaves the hiding point and rushes towards Chen Jianfeng.

  A loud shout came from Chen Jianfeng's headphones: "Get back! Watch your back!" Under the enemy's barrage of bullets, he continuously rolled and moved to the back of a bush.

  The dragon that had already pounced out immediately jumped back to a hidden point, rolling towards the flank and rear of the defensive line, searching with bayonets.

  The M249 machine gun in Lei Meng's hand "rattled" continuously, firing a hail of bullets that turned the four enemy soldiers who failed to take cover into sieves.

  Lin Jie took a quick aim at an enemy machine gunner who was fiercely exchanging fire with Lei Meng, and the SVD sniper rifle in his hand fired. The machine gunner didn't have time to hide, and a burst of blood exploded on his head as he fell to the ground. The enemy special forces immediately slowed down their advance, they all understood the consequences of moving recklessly under the muzzle of a sniper.

  Chen Jianfeng seized the opportunity to jump up, moving horizontally, with blood dripping down his leg and onto the ground. He fired a shot from the M82A1 while sprinting, then fell to the ground due to the strong recoil. The enemy assault trooper aiming at him also fell to the ground, a string of machine gun bullets whizzed past his body, he rolled continuously and ran to the front of the fortification, making a vertical jump into cover, escaping the machine gun's field of fire.

  Ma Ping hugged G3K and shouted as he jumped out from the side of the fortification, sweeping his waist and shooting at the enemy plane's gunner who was chasing Chen Jianfeng with a gun. "Tong!" A bullet grazed his scalp, cutting off a small tree at the waist.

  "Damn it, down!" Long Fei pounced from behind and knocked Ma Ping to the ground. His AUG assault rifle fired almost simultaneously, and an enemy assault hand holding a scarl aiming at Ma Ping's chest was shot to pieces.

  The steel helmet on Lei Meng's head, who was fiercely exchanging fire with the enemy's M60 with his M249, flew off to who-knows-where. A bullet grazed his scalp and burrowed into the mud with a "plop" sound, the impact blowing away all the grass within a radius of over ten centimeters. Fresh blood immediately flowed from the back of his head into his jacket. Lin Jie pushed him aside and took his place.

  Long Fei dragged Ma Ping back to the bunker, cursing: "Bastard, have you had enough? We're facing regular troops now, not scattered bandits!"

  Ma Ping was scolded and didn't dare lift his head, saying in a low voice. "Understood! I will strictly enforce the 'Combat Regulations'!"

  The successive successes of the assault team made the enemy special forces, who thought they were invincible, see red. The two remaining enemy machine gunners in front raised their M60s and continuously swept the cover with fire, forming a crossfire that prevented the assault team members from lifting their heads to return fire.

  "Jackals, rise up!" Chen Jianfeng shouted loudly.

  "Boom!" Ma Ping detonated two anti-personnel steel ball grenades, 3,200 steel balls storming towards the enemy machine gunner like a torrential rain, and with two miserable cries, the M60 fell silent.

  The explosion left the team members' ears ringing, and Long Fei didn't have time to "treat" his own ears. He retreated from the defensive circle, hiding behind a low earth slope, searching for the two enemy soldiers who had circled around them and disappeared from view.

  "White Fox, ten o'clock!" Ma Ping suddenly exclaimed. Before he had even finished speaking, "Rat-a-tat", the enemy launched a short burst of fire, and Long Fei only felt a numbness in his left shoulder. The bullet had pierced his collarbone and flown out from under his scapula.

  Long Fei continuously rolled and dodged, raised his gun to aim at the enemy soldier. Before he could even form a sight line, the enemy's head suddenly burst out with a large cluster of blood flowers, and was knocked down by the impact force of the bullet.

  "Clear!" Chen Jianfeng's voice came through the earpiece. "Bai Hu is injured, Shan Ying takes over! There's still one more target."

  "Understood!" Lin Jie hugged SVD and rushed out, while Ma Ping covered Long Fei as he returned to the bunker.

  Chen Jianfeng ignored his still-bleeding wound, raised the binoculars and moved them inch by inch to search for suspicious targets. "Two o'clock, single target."

  Lin Jie held his breath, and the sniper rifle moved slightly to the right. A figure suddenly darted out, running in a zigzag pattern between the trees, rapidly rushing towards the depths of the thicket. "Bang!" Lin Jie's sniper rifle made a dull sound, and the running target convulsed once before falling to the ground.

  "Clear!"

  "Mutually replenish ammunition, maintain two main ammunition bases! Quickly treat wounds, leave after ten minutes!" Chen Jianfeng temporarily refused to treat the wound, picked up a sniper rifle and stood guard, "First bandage Leigong's package."

  "I'm fine!" Lei Mengmeng waved his hand nonchalantly. Ma Ping helped him clean the hair around the wound and started stitching, while Lei Meng picked up a thick branch and bit it, mumbling: "Hurry up!"

  Lin Jie took out the first-aid kit, gesturing for Long Fei to remove his combat uniform. He pulled out a syringe from the kit, but Long Fei pressed down on it and said, "No need!" As he spoke, he shed his uniform, bit down on the hilt of his military knife, and nodded at Lin Jie to get started.

  Long Fei's wound was an irregular triangular penetrating wound, with fresh blood gushing out of the wound. Lin Jie let out a long sigh, pulled out scissors and began to clean up the rotten flesh on the wound, the piercing pain made Long Fei sweat profusely, a small branch as thick as a child's arm was grasped in his hand, the thumb's strength squeezed the branch into two segments, the hilt of the military knife was also bitten with a crunching sound.

  The light was too dim, and Lei Meng, who had finished treating the wound, used a strong flashlight to shine on Lin Jie's stitches. Long Fei gritted his teeth and growled, "Hurry up, are you embroidering flowers?"

  After treating his wound, Long Fei, who was drenched in sweat, looked like he had just been pulled out of the water. He closed his eyes and leaned against the tree trunk to rest.

  Lei Meng took over Chen Jianfeng's sentry position, Ma Ping rolled up Chen Jianfeng's pant leg and shone a flashlight on the wound, saying in a low voice: "The bullet is still inside, we need to take it out and give him an injection of anesthesia."

  Chen Jianfeng shook his head, "I don't want to sleep under the enemy's eyelids, let's take it quickly and withdraw as soon as possible." He said, pulling out his military knife and handing it to Ma Ping, biting the scabbard in his mouth, signaling Ma Ping to take action.

  Ma Ping said in a low voice, "It's coming." He forced the military knife into his wound. Chen Jianfeng let out a muffled hum, and beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead. His large hand grasped the handle of the sniper rifle, causing the gun body to creak. The tip of the knife touched the bullet, and Chen Jianfeng took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Ma Ping inserted the military knife along the bullet body, propped up the bullet head, and forced it outwards. The bullet fell to the ground, and fresh blood spurted out like a fountain. Lin Jie, who had been preparing on the side, quickly applied hemostatic powder with gauze to compress the wound. When the bleeding slowed down, he immediately sutured the wound, covered it with gauze, and bandaged it.

  Chen Jianfeng let out a sigh, and Ma Ping squatted beside him to help him adjust his equipment. Chen Jianfeng's right hand habitually stroked the handle of his sniper rifle, feeling as if something had flashed through his mind, wanting to reach out and grab it, but it quickly disappeared. However, he felt that it was an extremely important matter that he must grasp.

  "My god, this is terrible." Long Fei whispered beside him, "How many special teams did they transport to the country, how did they know we were camping here?"

  Chen Jianfeng took a look at the gloomy forest, "I also find it strange, looking at their appearance, they don't seem to have met us by chance, but rather came prepared, what exactly went wrong?"

  Ma Ping looked around in all directions, "I always feel like we're being stared at, could it be that we've been monitored along the way?"

  Lei Meng and Lin Jie swept the battlefield, and soon they returned with a full load. They threw their weapons and equipment to the ground and began to sort them out. Ma Ping helped Lei Meng pick up his helmet, and when Lei Meng put it on, he accidentally touched the intercom, which emitted a "rustling" sound in the earpiece.

  In a flash of insight, Chen Jianfeng suddenly realized: "That's right, someone has been monitoring us all along." Under the bewildered gaze of his teammates, he removed his headset and turned off the radio: "Everyone be aware, do not use wireless communication! The enemy is using radio waves to detect our location."

  "My god!" The team members immediately removed the personal radios from their bodies.

  "Hyenas, dismantle all individual tactical radios and extract the transmitter parts for later use! Prepare to withdraw."

  Ma Ping quickly dismantled the radio station, took out five transmitters and asked: "Hunting Eagle, how to deal with this?"

  "Pick it up, it will be useful later." Chen Jianfeng inspected the sniper rifle and called on his team members to gather around. "Seal off, vanguard wolves, Lei Gong cuts off the rear, the whole team forms a V-shaped formation and advances in three directions!"

  Ma Ping disappeared into the dense jungle with his gun, and a minute later, two clear bird calls came from the dense forest. This was Ma Ping's safety signal. Chen Jianfeng waved his hand, and the team set off silently.