Chapter Eleven: Captured

  After two days of rest, Lei Wei gathered everyone together. Since eight people were eliminated during the old and new confrontation, two more people were added to Team A, while Teams B and C merged into one team.

  "Comrades, according to reliable intelligence, a hostile force plans to launch terrorist attacks in multiple cities across the country. Their armed personnel will infiltrate the southern Kala region three days from now. At that time, the old team's main assault squad will be assisted by you, and you must annihilate them completely, not allowing a single one to escape. If they enter the country, the consequences would be immeasurable. Although this is real combat, it is also a training exercise, and the time has come to test your abilities. I disagree with sending you inexperienced soldiers into battle, but you will only be assisting and observing the old team's tactics from the sidelines. If all the old team members are sacrificed, you must take their place. If anyone is afraid of death, now is the last chance to withdraw, but once on the battlefield, there will be no mercy for deserters."

  "No." The team members all nodded firmly.

  "Alright, let's get ready." Lei Wei was very satisfied with the team's performance.

  When the team members received live ammunition, they all seemed quite excited. In peacetime, there are not many opportunities to go into battle, and it is clear that everyone cherished this opportunity.

  That night, a team followed the old team members to the military airport and took a transport plane to the nearest military airport. Then they took a car, and when the cars could not move forward, they marched on foot. After marching for nearly 50 kilometers, they finally arrived at the ambush point.

  At this time, the gap between the new and old teams came out. The old team members were still calm and composed, while the newcomers were all panting and couldn't catch their breath.

  "One team, fall back and set up a firing net on the perimeter. Your clothes are too conspicuous and easy to expose. Assault team, advance in squad formation and infiltrate into the central area, wait for my command before acting." The captain of the assault team quickly gave out combat orders.

  Xie Xiaoshuai also thought it made sense, they were currently in the Gobi region, and the new team members had not yet been issued new equipment, they were still wearing regular camouflage uniforms, and with the old team members' desert digital camouflage, it looked very out of place. Xie Xiaoshuai quickly led a team to disperse irregularly on the periphery and ambush, making them look like plants in the desert from a distance.

  Time passed minute by minute and second by second, a team of greenhorns were all on high alert, thinking in their hearts when the enemy would appear, when the battle broke out in the central area.

  Xie Xiaoshuai could only vaguely see that a large group of people rushed out and quickly subdued the assault team, capturing them alive. Xie Xiaoshuai's palms were sweating profusely - what kind of terrorist was this? This was simply a group of strictly trained professional soldiers! Whether it was tactical movement, teamwork, or alternating cover, it was flawless.

  Just as Xie Xiaoshuai was about to give the order to attack, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. He turned around and saw two people wearing headscarves and desert camouflage uniforms staring at him with their teeth bared, one of whom had a dark dagger pressed against Xie Xiaoshuai's neck, while the other hand held a pair of handcuffs that were waving back and forth in front of Xie Xiaoshuai's eyes. Captured alive, Xie Xiaoshuai smiled bitterly to himself.

  When Xie Xiaoshuai and everyone were gathered together, his brain was a bit dizzy. The old and new teams were all alive, and at this time, they had all been disarmed and handcuffed. It seemed that they had fallen into an ambush, or had they been deceived by false intelligence? Just as Xie Xiaoshuai was thinking about what was going on, he suddenly lost consciousness and was knocked out.

  When he woke up, they had already been taken to an unfamiliar environment. At this time, the sky was already cool, and the sun on his head was baking him like a furnace.

  Xie Xiaoshuai carefully observed the surrounding environment. They and the old team members were separated, like sheep in a pen, surrounded by two iron wire mesh enclosures, with wooden houses on all sides having snipers, eight masked men holding guns guarding them, and one person patrolling around. These people wore black short-sleeved shirts, desert camouflage pants, and military boots, their guns were also varied, including M4, M16, Thompson, AK47, etc. Although these people seemed like a motley crew, Xie Xiaoshuai still sensed the problem: these people were absolutely not ordinary terrorists, but professional troops who had received strict military training. The seemingly wandering people could observe any blind spot, and although they looked relaxed, they gave the feeling that they could launch an attack at any time, their eyes gleaming with a sharp, intimidating light despite wearing masks that hid their facial expressions.

  But why did they catch them instead of killing them on the spot? Are they going to use them as hostages and ask the government for ransom? Unless these people's brains were squeezed by a door, they wouldn't do such a thing. Extract military intelligence? But what could they get from this group of rookies? A bunch of questions swirled in Xie Xiaoshuai's mind.

  Xie Xiaoshuai and the others were locked up for a whole day and night, during which no one took care of them or gave them water or food. The scorching sun in the daytime was like a furnace, baking the earth, with temperatures so high that they were frightening, and the moisture in their bodies evaporated rapidly, causing their lips to crack. At night, the temperature dropped sharply, freezing a group of people who huddled together for warmth, shivering with cold. The low temperature and hunger made their consciousness almost blurred.

  The next morning, a masked man with a holstered pistol at his waist emerged from the largest wooden house. He looked around satisfactorily and walked straight towards them.

  "Now I'll give you a chance to live, just tell me your unit and the purpose of this action, and I'll let you go. There's water and food over there, it can't be too uncomfortable for one day and night?" The man said in a hoarse voice, pointing to the wooden house behind him.

  "Stop dreaming, you won't get any information from us." The captain of the assault team replied immediately, his throat a bit hoarse from not drinking water for a day and a night.

  "Bang!" The man raised his hand and fired a shot. The captain fell to the ground, shot in the chest, with blood gushing out in large mouthfuls, then his head tilted to one side and he was silent.

  "Save face but don't know shame." The man played with the gun in his hand, pointing it at Xie Xiaoshuai as he walked to the old team member's side.

  The whole team suddenly stood up and looked at the old team member with tension.

  "This doesn't seem right. The way he walks and that gaze seems familiar?" At this moment, a thought flashed through Xie Xiaoshuai's mind.

  Watching the masked man swaying from side to side as he walked forward, Xie Xiaoshuai's mind was made up: this person I know, must have seen him somewhere. Xie Xiaoshuai tried his best to recall the people he knew, and finally let out a long sigh, and the hanging heart finally fell.

  "Treat them well." The masked man ordered his subordinate beside him.

  Suddenly a group of people rushed over, took out the old comrades, tied them to stakes and started beating them. They used rubber batons, wooden sticks, and rifle butts, hitting their bodies with all their might. While beating, they said: I'll make you tough, hurry up and confess.

  Xie Xiaoshuai finally had a plan in mind and watched with great interest as the severe interrogation unfolded before his eyes.

  "You guys saw that, they didn't cooperate with me much, so I had to find a way to get them to open up." The masked man walked over to Xie Xiao's side and intentionally lowered his voice.

  "Get lost, stop trying to fool around with me, don't think you can get anything from us. Bring it on if you've got any tricks, I'm not afraid of you." Xie Xiaoshuai retorted.

  "Hey! You're quite bold, aren't you? Believe me, I'll shoot you dead with one bullet!" The masked man aimed his gun at Xie Xiaoshuai and said viciously.

  "Early this morning, if Grandpa frowned, I would write my name upside down." Xie Xiaoshuai pointed to the center of his own eyebrows.

  "Are you really fearless or just blindly arrogant? Who is your captain?" The masked man put down the gun in his hand.

  "I'm the captain, come at me if you've got a problem." Xie Xiao Shuai looked at the masked man with some disdain.

  "I didn't expect you to have some skills, becoming a squad leader as a private and being able to command officers. I'm getting more and more interested in you. Go, bring him to my room, I want to have a good talk with this little private squad leader." The masked man ordered his subordinates, turned around and walked towards the wooden house.