Chapter Thirty-Two

  There really are people in this world who are fearless because they have a screw loose!

  That American guy with the surname Mai said many years ago that you must never engage in a ground fight with Chinese soldiers, or else whoever loses will be unlucky.

  It's been so many years, I don't know if someone has forgotten what that Mr. Mai said or if someone ate too much expired feed and got a guilty conscience?

  Some people really want to fight China's military to the death!

  Some grandsons are just so ungrateful!

  They actually set up a forward base right on the edge of China's border, and if you follow the boundary line to judge, that side just happens to be a disputed area. If the border defense army brothers really want to kill them and die with those bastards, I estimate that before they finish fighting, the other side will already be smiling and holding real-time monitoring videos as evidence to spread all over the sky.

  But if you don't hit them, those bastards will occasionally bring a few guys with some big guns and sneak across the border to cause trouble. Sometimes they even step on the feet of our border defense brothers and rush into the country, purely to make you feel sick even if there's no benefit to be gained.

  With just this dead skin stubbornly advancing base, it consumed a lot of the border defense army brothers' strength to stare at it until death, but keeping an eye on this advance base, other places can't help but have some loopholes.

  Especially in the past half month, this group of grandchildren has become particularly rampant for some reason, and even launched two medium-sized armed incursions across the border. The most recent armed incursion injured several brothers from the border defense army!

  This time, it really got the big shots upstairs fired up, and also made every brother downstairs' eyes blaze with anger!

  The horses and men were assembled in order, then came the change of clothes.

  It's pointless to talk about how I changed my outfit, anyway after I changed all the things on me were not made in China, even the field rations were made by Americans.

  In other words, if I were to die and my body fell into the hands of those descendants, there would be no evidence on me that could prove I was a Chinese military officer.

  All preparations were made and Lu Hang's buddies had arranged for several helicopters that looked like Black Hawks. With the lights off, they took us up into the sky.

  At that time, sitting in the belly of the pirated Black Hawk helicopter, I really didn't think much of this mission. Wasn't it just taking over a forward base? My brother Ming's team had twenty-two brothers who were all top-notch fighters, and taking over a broken base was simply easier than a drill.

  From the information we have obtained, there are less than 200 people in and out of that broken base, more than half of whom are non-combat logistics personnel. What a great match for us to fight against?

  That's really giving them too much credit!

  We flew at ultra-low altitude for half a day, and the brothers of the land aviation threw us towards the designated landing point and left. In the dark environment, we immediately divided into two small teams, and in a standard pincer movement, we bypassed the forward base.

  The night scenery on the plateau is still fascinating, if there was a bit of moonlight and less biting cold wind, I think those with literary talent would immediately burst into poetry and compose verses to toast with wine.

  But we didn't have the heart to appreciate the plateau's night scenery!

  We are indeed elite, but we never show off just because we're elite during battles. The vanguard has already been deployed and the brothers in the back are also being extremely cautious, doing everything that needs to be done in a surprise attack with precision and care.

  We hadn't even walked a few kilometers in a straight line distance when the brother who was acting as the vanguard at the front suddenly sent us a message saying that there was a situation ahead and asked us to stop quickly.

  Everyone suddenly dispersed and hid, and the guys in their hands were also tightly grasped with a pair of dead eyes staring at the fan-shaped surface they should control.

  In traditional martial arts, there is a concept called "night eyes", which refers to the ability to see things in situations where the light is dim and visibility is almost zero. In fact, it's quite simple - it's just using the wide-angle visual difference caused by the horizon and the sky to lock onto moving targets.

  Although there is no moon, we can still roughly distinguish the terrain and topography under the dim starlight, especially those objects that are slightly active, which are completely locked in our visual range.

  Right in front of us, there are clusters of dark things moving parallel to us. Judging from the shape and size of these dark things and their speed, it's clear that this is a raid squad similar to ours searching for an ambush site while on the move?

  I just feel a bit strange.

  Judging from the distance between those black shadows and us, even if it's a top-notch expert, it's impossible not to make any noise at all? Moreover, judging from the terrain, those black shadows should absolutely not be advancing along a clear terrain ridge line, if they were ambushed, it would be like being a living target!

  I reckon Kuang Ming Gege has also figured out something. Anyway, after Kuang Ming Gege passed the thing in his hand, he made a gesture to ask the other two old soldier brothers to come closer and observe, while the rest of the brothers prepared for battle.

  I lay quietly in a small depression, watching two old soldier brothers silently crawling towards the black shadows that were getting slower and slower.

  Two old soldier brothers are both fierce men with rich combat experience, holding a dagger and a gun in their hands, they can swagger back and forth in the underworld, but this time I feel that the old soldier brother is also too bold?

  Is Brother Kuangming telling them to come closer and observe?

  How could they just keep crawling towards those dark shadows, and one of the older soldier brothers even crawled right under one of them?

  What's going on here?

  Before I even felt strange, the two old soldier brothers on that side had already stood up and waved their hands at us before running back.

  Without waiting for us to ask, an old soldier brother sat on the ground with a thud and said, "Have you seen a ghost?" I've only heard that mirages are caused by sunlight refraction, how can there be a mirage in the middle of the night?

  The more I climb, the more I feel that black shadow is a parallel shift and what I'm looking at is actually our own battle formation!

  I'll take another careful look at what that old soldier brother said and see if it's really true.

  That long string of black shadows is our scattered formation, it's just a change in visual direction.

  Kang Ming's brother seemed to have a bit of an epiphany and said after thinking for a while that this phenomenon indeed exists.

  The cold climate on the plateau causes the water vapor in the air to freeze instantly, and this brief freezing continues to overlap, as if it were a camera that captures our own shadows. Everyone take a five-minute break and then continue moving forward!

  We just sat in the darkness watching the accumulated shadows quietly advancing.

  To be honest, at that time I could only see a bunch of black shadows in front of me, but I don't know how it happened either.

  I think that must be an illusion. I can actually see clearly that it is my brother Guangming leading us to advance towards the target on the plateau.

  I can even see my own face clearly and I can also see the faces of many brothers clearly. Our faces all look extremely calm and everyone is staring tightly ahead.

  We're on a raid.

  Watching oneself suddenly attack.

  As it approached dawn, the two teams broke their radio silence for a brief one-minute conversation before each finding a place to hide and wait out the day.

  No way, Lu Hang's brother could only try to send us to a certain area and then charge forward. Their radar would probably be able to detect it, and our sudden attack would lose its suddenness, so we wouldn't be able to achieve the expected effect.

  At that time, I was also considered a qualified sentry, so Brother Qiangming felt at ease to let me take the first watch. The other brothers were hiding in some rock crevices and depressions around us, resting and waiting for tonight's action.

  Brother Kuangming chose our daytime hiding spot with some careful consideration. Six kilometers away from the target base, this is just at the edge of the patrol route for those guys inside the base. According to usual reconnaissance, as long as the weather is slightly bad, those bastards will only drive a small patrol car over and take a casual look around, they won't be too meticulous.

  And after dark, the time it takes to cross the six-kilometer straight-line distance is just the patrol cycle of those guys. At that time, a sudden attack will not make those bastards unprepared.

  The weather on the plateau can be said to be absolutely unpredictable, we had just lain down for a short while, and a small snowflake had already fallen onto us. Before those snowflakes had melted a bit, pea-sized hailstones had joined in to torment us, pounding our bodies with a dull ache.

  The worst thing was the heavy rain after the hail, the raindrops were pouring down on us, and the chilling feeling that pierced through our bones made it unbearable. All we wanted to do was get up quickly and move around a bit, hoping to find a place to take shelter from the wind and rain to rest for a few hours.

  It's just not going to work!

  Although this place appears to be on the edge of the border line on the map, and it is a disputed area, if someone were to make a video clip and throw it outside, I'm afraid we would really stir up some trouble!

  Just have to hang in there!

  Cold!

  I finally knew what crime my elder brother, my instructor, had committed on the first night I became a new recruit!

  My clothes were soaked with rainwater, and the cold wind outside was still blowing into my collar, making my body temperature drop rapidly like a thermometer thrown into an icebox. I couldn't last more than half an hour.

  I hadn't even opened my mouth when Brother Kuangming had already jumped up and rushed to my side, saying "No way, no way! If we keep going like this until evening, it won't just be difficult to carry the base, even carrying a teapot will be hard. We need to find a good place to hide."

  I gritted my teeth and glared at Brother Kuangming with a black face, saying "Okay, okay! But where can we go? This area is all barren land, it's impossible to find a sheltered place, right?"

  Kuang Ming brother said that I just saw fresh sheep dung on the ground and new sheep hoof prints, looking at it should be nearby there are people raising sheep living, we should be able to take advantage of this condition.

  A group of brothers quickly scrambled up and I became the vanguard, following the sheep's hoof prints to sneak out. Fortunately, it was just two hours later that we really saw a flock of sheep gathered together, slowly swaying back and forth, eating the moss roots on the ground.

  Maybe you didn't see the shepherd?

  This is ridiculous! The sheep in this place are actually free-range?