Chapter 19: Unfair Competition 4

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  Gao Wen instructed Lei: "Tell the others to hide in place and not make a sound, we'll rest here tonight."

  Lei nodded slightly and quietly crawled back, instructing everyone to rest in place, then dispatching two people to take turns keeping watch on the situation across from them. After several hours of observation, Lei discovered that within a hundred-meter range in front of them, there were three hidden sentry posts: one under the pine tree they had seen earlier, one behind a snowbank fifty meters directly ahead, and another hiding in a tree sixty meters to their right-front. He also found that they would switch shifts every hour, and moreover, the enemy's vigilance was extremely low, sometimes even making it possible to faintly hear snoring sounds coming from inside the sentry posts. With two hours left until dawn, Lei came over to Gao Wen's side and asked, "It's been a whole night, aren't you going to sleep for a bit?"

  Gao Wen turned his head and glanced at Lei, asking softly: "Have you slept?"

  Lei suddenly found that although Gao Wen hadn't slept all night, his eyes were exceptionally spirited. He replied in a low voice: "I slept for an hour."

  Gao Wen nodded after listening, and said in a low voice: "It's good this way." He then looked up at the night sky, as it was about to dawn, so there were not many stars left in the sky, making it look even darker. Gao Wen glanced at his watch again, then whispered to Lei: "In 28 minutes, the other side will change shifts. You go and call them all up, we're going to launch an attack."

  Lei called everyone to gather around Gao Wen, who whispered something in their ears and then looked at the crowd, saying: "Now we need two volunteers. I think the Dark Guard under the pine tree on the left front is sleeping again. Later, I'll let you sneak near that Dark Guard when they change shifts, and we'll take out the other enemies while trying to capture the Dark Guard under the pine tree alive. Who wants to be a volunteer?"

  "I'm going, I'm going..." At this moment, four or five people raised their hands.

  Gao Wen shifted his gaze to Lei, wanting him to make a decision. Lei glanced at the four or five people, then pointed at Liu Qiang and Han Guang, saying: "You two are relatively agile, just you two go."

  Liu Qiang and Han Guang, seeing that the task had fallen on their own shoulders, made a ghostly face at each other, then quietly slipped away in another direction towards the large pine tree to the left front. Liu Qiang and Han Guang had just sneaked near the pine tree when they heard the continuous "squeaking" sound coming from the opposite side, it seemed that the opponent's shift was approaching, the two of them lay on the ground without daring to move, lest they startled the snake by cutting the grass.

  Someone who had just changed shifts appeared in Lei's line of sight, and he could still clearly hear the other person's curses: "Damn it, I really don't understand why we're crouching here on such a cold day. We're all going to freeze into ice pops...... Shh, keep your voice down, if the old soldiers and leaders hear us, it won't be good...... I heard that the two top officials upstairs are making some kind of bet, and we're just their gambling tools. If we lose, who knows what punishment we'll face when we get back?"

  Lei Qingyuan shouted to the others: "Zhang Nan, the one in front of you is handed over to you. Li Yuan, the one on the tree to your right is yours. Zhang Biao, Zhang Hao and Wang Bing, you three take care of those three who are changing shifts. The rest of you provide backup, if you find any that have escaped, kill them immediately."

  "OK." Zhang Nan and others replied in a low voice, only to see them aiming their guns at their targets one by one, just like male lions staring at their prey.

  The two changing shifts were getting closer and closer, when the dark whistle on the tree shouted: "Can't you hurry up? I'm freezing to death! What bad luck, being assigned to the top of the tree!"

  "Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me take a leak first," he said, and then one of the people on duty stopped in front of the pine tree.

  The man on the pine tree shouted impatiently: "You're really a lazy donkey grinding and urinating, ah, what thing...", before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pain on his face.

  Just as the sentry on the tree shouted, five gunshots were heard from the mountainside: "Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!" The man who was urinating at the same time yelled out loud: "Damn it, who's shooting my ass?" The others shouted: "Who? Who fired the shot?" "I don't know, it doesn't seem like it was our side that fired." "Are we being ambushed?" "Where are they? Where are they?" "Damn it, you're really shameless, daring to launch a sneak attack!" "If you've got guts, come out and fight me with real swords and guns!"...

  At that moment, the other side's position was filled with shouting and cursing, while the dark whistle who was indulging in a beautiful dream was awakened by the noise. He opened his eyes, got up and asked: "What happened? What... Ah!" Just as he stood up, he found a black gun barrel pointing at him, and at the same time, he felt a pain in his waist and fell to the ground. Immediately after that, his hands were handcuffed behind his back, which made his wrists hurt even more. He struggled hard once, but it only brought him greater pain. A cold voice whispered in his ear: "Be honest with me, or your hands will be useless!" After hearing this sentence, the dark whistle didn't dare to move again.

  The one who caught the Dark Whistle was Han Guang, and Liu Qiang, who stood there with his gun, shouted to others: "Hey! Do you understand the rules? Now that you've all been defeated, what are you still yelling about?"

  The other five only discovered Liu Qiang and Han Guang at this point, and with their anger still simmering, they only thought about avenging the beating they had suffered, without caring about rules or regulations. One by one, they raised their guns and took aim at Liu Qiang.

  "Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang", five gunshots rang out again. The five enemy soldiers each shouted and dropped their guns to the ground, covering their right hands with their left, their faces contorted in pain. They searched around for the hidden person, but no one dared to move again.

  Lei left a few men to keep watch and then went over with three others to help Liu Qiang and Han Guang tie up the enemy soldiers. After confirming that it was safe, Lei and Gao Wen brought the others over. As soon as the enemy saw the shoulder badge on Gao Wen's uniform, they knew he was in charge and called out: "Brother, we're all brothers from the same unit, why are you tying us up so tightly? Besides, we're all dead men anyway, no need to tie us up!"

  Not waiting for the tall man to finish speaking, Liu Qiang went up and gave the speaker a slap in the face with a "slap" sound. He cursed: "Your mother! Do you still know that you are a dead man? Then why did you dare point your gun at me just now!", after finishing speaking, Liu Qiang raised his hand again.