Chapter 0122: If only we could have a little bit of humanity!
Chapter 0122: If only we could have a little bit of humanity!
Tuo Yonggang and Lian Hu remained motionless, seemingly obedient, as if they hadn't heard Qi Huan's words.
Habitual scolding, habitual listening.
There was no explanation, and the previous anger had vanished—disappointment had led to indifference.
As night fell, Liu Jiadong's team began their infiltration of the target unit. Having previously observed the target unit's defenses from the shadows, Liu Jiadong's team had a firm grasp on the activity of both visible and hidden sentries, allowing them to easily infiltrate the area.
"Assign targets now." Liu Jiadong gave the order in a low voice. The four men in the group identified the targets, while Zheng Yingqi and the other two provided cover. With a shout of "Fire!", the gunshot, weakened countless times by the silencer, suddenly rang out, and smoke hissed from the tense and vigilant sentries.
Then several figures suddenly appeared not far from them, and the sentries felt so ashamed they wanted to punch themselves.
Without any unnecessary movements, the figures quickly formed a combat formation and charged towards the camp. The weakened gunfire attracted the attention of the soldiers inside, but most of them didn't think they were being attacked, until a lieutenant nervously reminded them:
"It's a silenced rifle!"
But it was too late. Liu Jiadong's group had already stormed in. They calmly opened fire on the camp, "eliminating" everyone they could see, and puffs of white smoke kept rising up.
The fighting was fierce inside the camp, while the three men providing cover outside were itching to fight back. Tuo Yonggang said, "We're always the ones providing cover, cover, cover—why can't we break in?"
Lian Hu said in a low voice, "Stop muttering these useless things. If we could reason things out, we wouldn't be called Old A!"
"Old A..." Tuo Yonggang repeated the two syllables, but the expectation he used to have was gone.
"The gunfire inside is chaotic; it looks like the attack failed. Prepare for backup." Zheng Yingqi interrupted the two, as if rushing to add a footnote, and Liu Jiadong's voice came through the earpiece:
"Prepare for backup."
In the blink of an eye, three figures retreated from the direction of the camp while fighting, with the Red Army pursuing them relentlessly behind them. This humiliating act of being brought so close to them caused the Red Army's anger to overflow.
"beat!"
At Zheng Yingqi's command, the three covering soldiers began firing rapidly. The pursuing Red Army soldiers were like targets, and seven or eight of them fell down in an instant. However, more Red Army soldiers continued to surge forward, and the covering fire intensified.
After Liu Jiadong and his two companions quickly ran past them, the three covering soldiers immediately began to take turns providing cover during their retreat. However, the pressing Red Army made this covering work incredibly slow. Finally, Zheng Yingqi made the decision: "Stop providing cover! Retreat faster!"
At least a reinforced platoon was hot on their heels. The three men ran for a while, but after crossing a ditch, they suddenly disappeared. The pursuers opened fire like madmen, trying to force the vanished men out. After a burst of fire, the officer in charge gave a ceasefire signal, and the gunfire stopped abruptly.
The officer looked carefully through his binoculars, but after searching for a long time, he still couldn't see anyone come out. Clearly, the shooting earlier hadn't been a lucky shot.
"Did you miss?"
The officer nodded and then ordered, "Send a small group to check... The rest of you, take cover and watch out for ambushes."
A three-person team immediately stood up and cautiously crawled over. Just as the three-person team was about to get close, a gunshot rang out.
The three men lying prone did not emit smoke, but the smoke bomb on the helmet of the officer in charge was hissing. The gunshot sounded like a command, and the next second, gunshots rang out from all directions.
Zheng Yingqi suddenly sat up from the ditch. The three soldiers who were lying prone saw the figure rising less than ten meters away and were about to aim when Zheng Yingqi pulled the trigger first, and the three soldiers instantly burst into smoke.
Zheng Yingqi then began firing from a seated position. All targets that appeared in his field of fire became his "kill" targets. Although Old A was ambushing with an absolute disadvantage in numbers, the accurate shooting and all-round fire suppression dealt a fatal blow to this "enemy" who had a full platoon of soldiers in a short period of time.
"Clean up the remnants! Monitor enemy movements! Be prepared to evacuate at any time." Qi Huan's voice came through the earpiece. Zheng Yingqi and his team began to clear out the last remaining "enemies." As the intensity of the gunfire gradually decreased, the results of the battle here were self-evident.
"The enemy has deployed armored vehicles! Prepare to evacuate!" Just as the last few "enemies" were about to be called out one by one, Qi Huan's voice came again. Zheng Yingqi and his men decisively began to evacuate, leaving behind only a few bewildered and desperate soldiers who were putting up a stubborn resistance.
The corpses scattered on the ground thought the battle was over and were dejectedly retreating. The reinforcements who arrived, having failed to catch the enemy, left with indignation, covering the corpses as they departed. But just then, an explosion occurred, and several armored vehicles emitted white smoke.
Then came a burst of gunfire. The attack lasted less than a minute, but it caused more than a dozen casualties. The company commander was almost driven mad with rage. If it weren't for his remaining rationality that calmed him down, he would have angrily ordered his soldiers to chase after these bastards who were like a leech.
This was just the beginning. In the next two hours, the hidden Old A launched eight attacks of various kinds. Some attacks had no effect, but others could easily cause casualties of several or even a dozen men. Just when the company commander realized that the situation was not good, Old A launched a fierce offensive. This time it was not the kind of hit-and-run attack, but a breakthrough from one point to the whole area, tearing apart the defenders' defenses.
The outcome was self-evident—from nightfall to the complete annihilation of the company, it took less than four hours. A total of 22 veterans, at the cost of four casualties, wiped out a full-strength armored infantry company.
During the intense battle, Zheng Yingqi and his men didn't have time to think about these things. When the company full of corpses stared at them with resentment, Zheng Yingqi, Tuo Yonggang, and Lian Hu truly realized the strength and monstrous nature of the Old A.
An entire company was targeted by a special A team and wiped out before midnight—although this had a significant impact on the unit's command, the fighting prowess of the special A team truly shocked them.
"What a pity..." Tuo Yonggang sighed. If this unit could be more normal in terms of camaraderie, how many more soldiers would there be!
The exercise didn't last until dawn. Around 3 a.m., the various groups of Old A began to converge and launched a fierce offensive against the regimental command post. In the integrated air and ground attack, this regiment did not stubbornly defend its brain like 702. After two hours of fierce fighting, it was completely defeated by Old A's tactics of spreading out in all directions.
In the first rays of morning sunlight, the veterans of the A team, having just finished a fierce battle, boarded a helicopter and flew over the battlefield where they had previously wiped out many men. The new recruits looked at the battlefield below, utterly silent. The A team had fought a tough battle against an elite airborne regiment, and although they had won, the new recruits had never experienced such overwhelming dominance. But this time, they had truly witnessed the power of the A team.
An armored regiment was utterly routed, suffering a casualty ratio of 1:26. If it weren't for the extremely high casualties during the final assault on the command post, and the fact that the Old A unit continued its bloodletting tactics, the casualty ratio would have been even more exaggerated.
Most of them shared the same mindset as Tuo Yonggang: how wonderful it would be if such an excellent, powerful, and capable unit could have a little more humanity!
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