Chapter Sixteen: The Appearance of the Bald Eagle

  The explosions all around shocked the surrounding defense guard camp. The captain of the guard camp led his men to rush into the central area to check the situation.

  The leader of the electronic countermeasures team, Kang Shaozhuang, was furious and tore off his armband, throwing it to the ground. He shouted: "What's going on here? Xie Pingyang, I'm not done with you yet!"

  "Get me Bald Eagle Team, I'm looking for Xie Pingyang." Kang Shaozhuang picked up the internal line phone and dialed it, almost shouting into the receiver.

  "I am Xie Pingyang, who are you?" The same voice as before echoed from the phone.

  "I'm Kang Shaozhuang, Xie Pingyang what are you doing? A group claiming to be your special forces blew up my electronic countermeasures team, if you don't give me an explanation, I won't let this drop." Kang Shaozhuang angrily questioned.

  "What's going on with my squad? I just got back from a meeting at headquarters, tell me clearly." Xie Pingyang said in confusion.

  "What? You said you didn't know? But just now I contacted you through wireless and it was your voice, wasn't it? You personally confirmed that it was someone you sent." Kang Shaozhuang also became depressed.

  "You're saying there's a special forces team claiming to be on your side that came to support you, and then they ended up taking you down instead?"

  "That's right, it is."

  "Bad, you've been had, it must be the opponent's special forces." Xie Pingyang quickly analyzed the situation.

  "How is this possible? Could I have misheard your voice? Ah! Forget it, anyway I'm already a dead man, I can't communicate with you again or else I'll be breaking the rules." Kang Shao Zhuang gloomily hung up the phone.

  Just as Kang Shao Zhuang had just hung up the phone, another dense explosion sounded outside.

  "What's going on again?" Kang Shaozhuang hastily ran out.

  When he went out to take a look at the situation outside, he was immediately stunned. The surrounding guard camp had just entered the central area when explosions sounded all around, and most people were covered in white smoke. The remaining people frantically searched for places to hide. Meanwhile, twenty or thirty people rushed in from outside, continuously firing their guns. These people's marksmanship was incredibly accurate, basically hitting one person with each shot, not missing a single target. In less than ten minutes, the entire guard camp of five hundred people was completely annihilated.

  Xie Xiaoshuai directed people to quickly clean up the scene and search for any remaining fugitives. He then walked with Lei Wei to the front of Kang Shaozhuang.

  "You're from the Blue Army Special Forces, aren't you? You guys are really something, daring to impersonate our special forces. Are you the commander of this assault team? This way of fighting is truly one-of-a-kind." Kang Shaozhuang said to Lei Wei, after all, Lei Wei was wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia, while Xie Xiaoshuai was only a private first class, so it seemed normal for Kang Shaozhuang to think that Lei Wei was the commander.

  "He's the captain and I'm just an instructor. This operation was his command, nothing to do with me, I'm just responsible for errands." Lei Wei glared at Xie Xiaoshuai.

  "What? A private is the captain? I'm really curious, someone with such great energy can't be a simple unknown person." Kang Shao Zhuang looked at Xie Xiao Shuai curiously.

  "Kang Shu, sorry about this, but we have no choice but to use you as a scapegoat. Who made your family so important anyway?" Xie Xiao-Shuai sneered at Kang Shao-Zhuang.

  As soon as he heard Xie Xiaoshuai's title, a familiar voice, the camouflage paint covering his face obscured the youthfulness of the soldier in front of him, Kang Shaozhuang tried hard to recall who this soldier was.

  "You don't recognize me so soon? Ha! I'm Xie Xiaoshuai!"

  "What? You're Xiao Shuai? Were you the one who was just communicating on the wireless? I said, how did that voice sound exactly like Xie Pingyang's, not even I suspected it. Didn't expect to fall into your hands, no way, your old man had just returned, and there wasn't even an announcement from the team about the appointment, how did you know he was back at Eagle?" Kang Shaozhuang patted his forehead.

  "It's simple, no one else can handle the Bald Eagle except him. I think for such a major military exercise, the leader will definitely let him go back. I'm just taking a gamble, didn't expect it to be true." Xie Xiaoshuai said.

  "What? You didn't have a grasp on it either, using me as a test stone? What if your dad doesn't get transferred back, won't my entire squad be wiped out?" Lei Wei jumped up as soon as he heard Xie Xiao Shuai's words.

  "Who told you to wink at me? Don't I have no other choice?" Xie Xiaoshuai said shamelessly.

  "Old Xie has raised a good son, I didn't expect you to grow up so quickly. I'm really envious. Unlike my own son, who spends his days idling away, you must help me educate him well in the future." Kang Shaozhuang's face was full of admiration.

  "Let's talk about it later. We still have things to attend to now, so I won't keep you any longer." Xie Xiaoshuai took Lei Wei and walked away.

  After the deployment was completed, Xie Xiaoshuai led the team to retreat into the jungle and hid on a mountain about one kilometer away, where Wang Jizhen observed the situation across. Xie Xiaoshuai let Lei Wei withdraw first and return to the base, letting him wait for orders at any time, and as soon as there was a situation, he had to take off immediately by helicopter to gather at the designated location, while the Sha Hu Xiao team members rested and prepared for battle, with Wang Jizhen and Cai Hua She taking turns observing.

  An hour later, several off-road vehicles appeared in Wang Jizhen's sight.

  "There's something going on," Wang Jizhen said in a low voice.

  The members of the desert fox squad all scrambled up, picked up their guns and observed in all directions, showing a high level of vigilance.

  "Captain, they've really come, three assault teams, six vehicles. Are all of Eagle's elite forces here?" Wang Jizhen observed and thought to Xie Xiaoshuai.

  "It won't be, Bald Eagle won't be so rash without a clear situation, Xie Pingyang won't fight a battle he's not sure of." Xie Xiao Shuai was chewing on a wild grass at this time.

  "Zhang Jialin, Li Gang, you two get ready to follow. Chen Hongjun, you go ahead and detonate the explosives and grenades. Wang Jizhen, you cover us. If Chen Hongjun is discovered, make sure he's not surrounded. Yin Zhilin, call Gong Mao and have him bring the plane over. Let's move."

  Xiao Shuai's order was given, and several people started taking action.

  The Bald Eagle team drove their vehicle into the central area of the Electronic Countermeasures Corps.

  "Colonel Kang, what's going on? Your men have been completely annihilated?" A major who led the team saluted Colonel Kang.

  "Look for yourself. Don't talk to a dead man." Kang Shaozhuang took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and took a big drag.

  The lieutenant colonel awkwardly ordered his subordinates to gather intelligence everywhere, while he himself went around.

  "Report. Captain, no signs of anything, clean getaway, nothing valuable found at the scene, not even an eggshell was left behind." A lieutenant reported in.

  "It seems that our opponent is not simple, this time we have something to play with. Organize and prepare to enter the mountain, see if they left any traces?" The lieutenant colonel commanded the lieutenant.

  "Boom!!!!!!" The lieutenant's words were cut off by another intense explosion.

  At that moment, all the people of the Bald Eagle team fell to the ground, covering their heads with both hands and lying on the ground. With the explosion, several grenades landed on their cars and rolled under the seats, sticking firmly in place. No one noticed this situation, but Kang Shaozhuang seemed very calm, he knew that Xie Xiaoshuai had buried something when he left.

  It was originally a smoke bomb, and Xie Xiaoshuai didn't think of using it to wipe out the Bald Eagles team, but five or six unlucky ones were affected by the explosion of the bomb, and thick white smoke emerged from their bodies.

  "This kid is too sinister, everyone has left, and he actually came back with this move, I don't know what expression Xie Pingyang will have after knowing that this is his son's masterpiece?" Kang Shaozhuang looked at those bald eagle team members who were usually arrogant and now had their heads hung low in shame, and his mood also improved.

  "Let's withdraw, at this rate, I'm afraid we won't find anything useful." The lieutenant colonel was also left looking disheveled.

  The Bald Eagles team got on the bus and left in a cloud of dust, while behind them, far away, a civilian business car was following, with a black dot hovering hundreds of meters above its head.