Chapter 23: Iron Blooded Military Soul Three

  Two patrolling sentries, guns at the ready, slowly and cautiously made their way forward, nervously scanning their surroundings from side to side as they passed by Ma Ping's hiding spot, gradually closing in on Jin Huan's hideout. Chen Jianfeng, responsible for covering Jin Huan's squad, slowly placed one of the sentries' heads in his crosshairs, ready to provide firepower support at any moment.

  Ma Ping flashed out of the hiding point, treading softly to follow the sentry. Lei Meng suddenly stood up on the right side of the dark sentry, his left hand stretched out to lock the sentry's throat, and his right hand's combat knife was thrust into the sentry's ear hole with force. The sentry convulsed violently for a while, then stiffened and didn't move. The remaining sentry was so scared that he opened his mouth to shout, but Ma Ping stretched out his big hand from behind the sentry and swept him up, his left hand holding the sentry tightly, and his right hand crushing the sentry's larynx with force.

  The bodies of two sentries were piled together and thrown into the deep grass behind a tree. Jin Huan waved his hand, and the group continued to move forward.

  A low rumbling sound came through the earpiece, and Jin Huan lightly scratched his fingernail on the headset. Ma Ping and Lei Ming stopped in their tracks. Jin Huan listened carefully for a moment, pinpointed the location of the sound, and quietly made his way over. He parted a thicket of bushes about half a person's height, and an electric generator was working 80 meters away from him.

  "Jin Hao said in a low voice: 'Jackal, make bombs.'"

  Ma Ping quickly and quietly slipped out towards the power generator, starting to make remote-controlled bombs according to the size of the power generator.

  Jin Huang suddenly blew a light breath into the intercom, and Ma Ping and Lei Ming immediately hid in place. Not far away, two patrolling sentries carrying assault rifles walked towards the power generator.

  The sentinel walked past the big tree where Jin Huang was hiding, unaware of his presence. He quietly followed behind the sentinel, with a combat knife in his right hand and his left hand suddenly grasping the sentinel's chin from behind, pulling him into his arms. With a swing of his right hand, the blade cut open the sentinel's throat, and the sentinel immediately collapsed like mud.

  The sentinel walking in front heard the strange noise, holding his gun and suddenly turned around, his finger already hooked on the trigger. Lei Ying sprang up from behind him, grabbed the sentinel's head with both hands and twisted his neck vertebrae hard. Ma Ping caught the rifle that fell from the corpse, and Lei Ying dragged the body to hide it behind the generator.

  Jin Huang and Lei Ming crouched down with their guns at the ready, waiting for Ma Ping to finish setting up the explosives on the generator. Only then did the three of them continue to move forward cautiously.

  "Halt, single target, 90 meters." Chen Jianfeng's warning voice suddenly came through the earpiece, and Jin Huang's team immediately dropped to the ground in the bushes.

  "Locked in, 100%." Chen Jianfeng's voice came again.

  Jin Huang tapped his earpiece three times lightly, a pre-arranged signal for clearing.

  A faint "whoosh" sound, "Clear!" Chen Jianfeng's voice came clearly.

  Jin Huang dodged to the right, stretching out his hand to catch the body before it hit the ground, lest the sound of its fall attract the attention of nearby enemy troops. He dragged the body into a thick clump of grass to hide it, waved his hand and continued moving towards the machine gun nest.

  This time they didn't run into the patrol, and they made their way to the rocks above the machine gun nest on the left. Under the cover of the overgrown vines on both sides, Jin Huan slowly poked his head out from behind the rocks and got a clear view of the entire machine gun nest layout.

  There was a vertical distance of about 1000 meters from his position to the machine gun nest, and the machine gunner and ammunition handler were crouched in the three-sided breastwork of the machine gun nest, holding binoculars and peering through an observation hole, observing the direction of the valley mouth. With the cover of the breastwork, Chen Jianfeng on the opposite mountain top was completely unable to aim at them.

  Jin Huang hesitated for a moment, slowly retreated more than a meter away, took out the static rope from his backpack, tied one end of the rope firmly to his waist, removed the backpack from his body, and said in an extremely low voice: "I'll go down from here and knock him out." After finishing speaking, he glared fiercely at Lei Feng who was about to grab the rope, and gave a low command to Chen Jianfeng on the opposite side: "Cover me for a strong attack, eliminate any unusual movement immediately!"

  Chen Jianfeng aimed the G3SG with a silencer at the sentry in the watchtower, giving a thumbs up to indicate readiness. Jin Huan crawled to the top of the machine gun nest, while Lei Ming and Ma Ping hid in the woods, pulling on the rope to signal their readiness to Jin Huan.

  "Raid ready, three, two, one." Jin Hao said in a low voice. He took a deep breath and dove headfirst down the rocky cliff. At this moment, his entire body was exposed to the outside, if there were enemy troops at the valley entrance who suddenly looked up and discovered him, it would inevitably attract the attack of all heavy weapons. Chen Jianfeng's palms had already begun to sweat slightly.

  Jin Huang tightly wrapped the static rope around his waist with both feet, and the enemy in the machine gun nest focused all their attention on the valley mouth, never dreaming that someone would launch a surprise attack from above.

  The distance to the machine gunner was getting closer and closer, the rope slightly rubbing against the rock startled the machine gunner, he lifted his head in horror, staring at Jin Huang's rapid descent, his mouth agape. Before he could shout out loud, Jin Huang's hand lightly raised, "Whoosh, whoosh" two light sounds, two flying knives with a slight breaking sound, whizzed into the foreheads of the two men. The two enemy soldiers let out a dull hum and fell to the ground.

  "Clear!" As soon as Jin Huan's voice fell, Lei Meng and Ma Ping immediately tightened the rope. Jin Huan's rapidly falling body suddenly stopped, he arched his back upwards, exerting a powerful force from his waist, doing an inverted sit-up in mid-air. His right hand stretched out to grab the static rope, while his left hand pulled out a small package of remote-controlled C-4 explosives from his pocket and threw it into the machine gun nest.

  Lei Meng and Ma Ping quickly pulled Jin Huang back onto the rock, coiling up the static rope, and the three continued to sneak towards the artillery position.

  The Dragonfly team slowly moved to the right of the machine gun nest, the lush plants concealed their figures, but created a lot of trouble, these shrubs and vines constantly pulled at their clothes, making all sorts of sounds.

  Long Fei slowly moved forward, and through the branches of the shrubs, he caught a glimpse of a sentry hugging his gun and constantly yawning. The sentry nodded off to sleep, completely unaware that within 100 meters of him, three deadly "killers" had appeared.

  Long Fei waved his hand towards Lin Jie's sniper position, and the scope on Lin Jie's SVD rifle immediately locked onto the sentry.

  Xu Mingliang flashed out with a combat knife in his mouth, creeping quietly towards the sentry who was dozing off. Three meters away, the rustling sound of leaves startled the sentry, who rubbed his eyes and turned around to look back. Xu Mingliang suddenly pounced forward, his left elbow locking onto the sentry's neck, while his right hand raised high, thrusting the combat knife directly into the sentry's heart through the shoulder joint.

  The corpse of the sentinel was dragged into a thick clump of grass, and Longfeng flew to both wings to observe carefully.

  No other sentries were found, and with a wave of his hand the squad continued to advance. The first machine gun nest on the right flank was getting closer and closer, and the black muzzle of the gun could be vaguely seen in the shooting hole. Long Fei said in a low voice, "Be prepared!"

  This machine gun nest was built relying on the mountain terrain, simply building a thick breast wall on a large and flat rock, and setting up a machine gun became a very valuable firepower point. There is a heavy machine gun in the machine gun nest, with the muzzle facing the valley mouth and the apron. This machine gun nest is much higher than the one on the left wing, Long Fei crouched at the top of the mountain, almost able to reach out and touch the top of the breast wall of the machine gun nest.

  The machine gunner is smoking a cigarette, while the ammunition bearer holds the cartridge belt with both hands and gazes out at something in the valley through the observation hole.

  Cheng Xiaopeng signaled to Long Fei that he would take the lead, and Long Fei nodded. Cheng Xiaopeng flipped his wrist, revealing a combat knife hidden behind his waist. With lightning speed, he plunged downwards. The moment the machine gunner heard the wind above his head and looked up, the sharp blade of the combat knife pierced straight into his skull through his eye socket. The machine gunner let out a muffled groan.

  Cheng Xiaopeng's momentum didn't slow down at all, his right hand lifted the combat knife that had already been pulled out from the machine gunner's head, and he pounced towards the ammunition handler who was just about to open his mouth to shout. His movements were as swift as lightning, his left hand covered the ammunition handler's mouth, while his right hand, stained with blood, raised the combat knife and thrust it straight into the ammunition handler's heart.

  "Clear!" Cheng Xiaopeng whispered, leaving a small package of C-4 in the machine gun nest. He jumped up and grabbed onto the rock, Long Fei and Xu Mingliang reached out from either side to pull him up.

  The soldiers exercising in the valley and the sentries on duty did not notice the battle taking place at the top of the mountain, and continued to exercise as usual.

  "Lei Gong, Deng Pao, immediately enter the machine gun nest, pay attention to the enemy's movement in the valley at all times. The hunting eagle is approaching me, and the jackal is preparing for a parachute drop!"

  "Got it!" Lei Meng and Xu Mingliang immediately ran to their firing positions, Ma Ping pulled the rope to help Lei Meng into the machine gun nest.

  Chen Jianfeng looked to his right, Yang Xinxin's squad was hiding very well. He gestured to Yang Xinxin: "Stay in place." Then he picked up the sniper rifle and quickly moved towards Jin Huang's position with his waist bent.

  Jin Huang retreated a few steps, lying down side by side with Chen Jianfeng who had caught up, and whispered: "Set up a sniper position here, clear the living obstacles in our assault direction."

  "Understood!" As Jin Huang's body moved, preparing to stand up, Chen Jianfeng suddenly grabbed his arm: "Be extremely careful!"

  Jin Huan smiled at him and quickly ran to Ma Ping, who had already tied one end of the rope to a thick tree trunk that two people could hug together. The other end slowly descended along the mountain wall into the valley below. He pulled the rope hard and whispered: "Leopard, I'll go first."

  "Stop nagging, pull the rope tight! Once I land, follow up immediately!" Jin Huan snatched the static rope and walked to the edge of the cliff, pulling the rope taut. "Hawk, take out the sentry on the watchtower! Leigong and Dengpao, be ready to provide firepower support if we get stuck! At the same time, prevent the helicopter from taking off!"

  Chen Jianfeng's gun muzzle pointed at the sentry on duty in the watchtower, the sentry in the scope looked around boredly, turned a circle on the watchtower, and suddenly he seemed to see Ma Ping's static rope hanging down, took two quick steps, leaned against the railing of the watchtower facing the cliff, and his expression changed from surprise to horror. Just as he opened his mouth to shout, Chen Jianfeng pulled the trigger. "Puff!" A soft sound, the bullet flew out of the barrel at high speed, instantly knocking open the sentry's head.

  "Target eliminated!"

  "Down!" Jin Hao shouted in a low voice, tightening the static rope. He kicked his legs violently at the edge of the cliff and slid down silently to the bottom of the valley. As soon as he landed, he knelt down in the grass with his gun at the ready, searching around. No enemy had noticed his arrival, everything was normal. He tapped lightly on the earpiece, and before long, Ma Ping quietly slid down the rope to the ground. The rope was shaken slightly, and Chen Jianfeng, who was guarding above, immediately pulled the static rope back, lest it be discovered by the enemy ahead of time.

  After observing for a while, Jin Huan waved his hand, and the two of them, taking cover behind the grass, moved stealthily along the edge of the valley towards the ammunition depot.