bullyxtreme Chapter 0080: His body is in Cao Cao's camp, but his heart is with Han?
Chapter 0080: His body is in Cao Cao's camp, but his heart is with Han?
This was at the end of Zheng Yingqi's third month in the guard company.
The guard company is conducting counter-infiltration and decapitation strike operations. The entire guard company is the red team, while Zheng Yingqi's group is the blue team.
The training ground is large—it includes a simulated regimental headquarters. The objective of the exercise is for the Blue Team to infiltrate and sabotage, while the Red Team defends.
"Ban Meng, why do you always target the regimental headquarters?" a staff officer asked Meng Jianguo, puzzled. Meng Jianguo always smiled and remained silent, but the leaders of the regimental headquarters had no objection to this. On the contrary, they would sometimes observe the training. The training process was actually very boring, but sometimes when they looked at the dark face of the guard company commander, the regimental leaders felt very at ease.
This means that Group A has succeeded once again, and Group A's success also means that there is still a loophole in the regimental headquarters guarded by the guard company.
For Zheng Yingqi, who led Group A, each training session like this was mentally taxing. The infiltration, sabotage, and decapitation shown on TV looked easy, but in reality, every success required him to rack his brains and do his best to find the slightest loophole in his comrades' defense.
In the nine training sessions over the past two months, he successfully infiltrated nine times, but only managed to decapitate the enemy three times—of course, each successful infiltration was a failure for the guard company.
By the way, Group A is an elite group in the guard company, currently consisting of four people, similar in nature to a blue team squad.
"This kid, I really don't know what's going on in his head—I really want to open it up and see!" The guard company commander exclaimed to Meng Jianguo beside him, "In the past month, this kid has found so many loopholes in my defenses, which I've been so proud of. He's really slapped me in the face! Sometimes I even want to beg him to go easy on me, his company commander, and give me some face!"
"How about we give him some face this time?" Meng Jianguo said jokingly.
The guard company commander waved his hands repeatedly: "No, that won't do! I was just saying—our guard company is responsible for the safety of the regimental headquarters. If there's any negligence, we have to fix it. We can't just let things slide like this. If we really get beheaded on the training ground as that kid said, how can I, as the company commander, face the leaders of the regimental headquarters?"
In his second month at the guard company, Zheng Yingqi proposed anti-infiltration defense, which mainly meant that the regimental headquarters was a large target and could easily become a decapitation target for special forces in war. The guard company had to ensure that there were no blind spots or loopholes in the defense.
The guard company commander agreed with Zheng Yingqi's suggestion and formed Group A, which was specifically responsible for targeted probing.
Although the result was embarrassing, the guard company commander still enjoyed nitpicking time and time again. It's better to have problems pointed out by one's own people than to have them pointed out by others on the training field.
"However, I think this time, that kid is out of options!" the guard company commander said confidently. This training has been going on for three days, and Group A hasn't found any loopholes yet, and hasn't made a move. Unlike before, when they would be sneaked in every half day or a whole day.
Meng Jianguo remained noncommittal—although he didn't know what Zheng Yingqi would do, he always felt that Zheng Yingqi would definitely find a way!
Is there a way?
If this were Staff Officer Chen's question, he would look through his binoculars at a certain spot—if he weren't the one with the right to cheat as the referee, he would never have imagined that someone was squatting there, and had been there for half the night and a whole day.
That was Zheng Yingqi's sniper position. He sneaked in there last night and then stood there motionless.
"It's over 800 meters from the 'regimental headquarters,' and the visibility is poor. The guard company scouted the area before and decided no one could ambush and decapitate him there, so they abandoned it," said another staff officer acting as a referee. "I don't think he's capable of a one-hit kill—even if it were Meng Ban, I think it would be risky!"
The staff officer who spoke was a referee at the guard company for the first time. He believed that the guard company's defense was already impenetrable and that Group A had no chance at all.
"Let's see how it goes." Staff Officer Chen didn't offer any opinion. After all, he had acted as a referee many times, and he was already amazed by Zheng Yingqi's ability to find loopholes. He wouldn't be foolish enough to express his opinion again until the results were in.
Sometimes the results are really surprising!
Is it risky?
Zheng Yingqi didn't think so. He kept his position locked. He had calculated that there were nearly two seconds between spotting the target and firing. Although he wasn't confident of success, he still wanted to try—in fact, he was at his wit's end and couldn't find a way to infiltrate, so he could only try sniping.
Having suffered so many losses, the guard company now attaches great importance to Group A and doesn't want to be infiltrated again!
Zheng Yingqi truly couldn't find a way to infiltrate, so he had no choice but to try sniping.
The regimental commander, played by Lao Niu from the cookhouse, finally appeared in Zheng Yingqi's scope. Just as Zheng Yingqi thought, everyone has to go to the toilet sometimes, and he didn't believe that Lao Niu could hold his pee!
Seeing the figure appear in the scope, Zheng Yingqi quickly calculated and then pulled the trigger.
In the "regimental headquarters", Old Niu, who was about to reach the toilet, suddenly started to smoke. The hissing sound almost scared him out of his bladder, which he had been holding in at the door.
"What's going on? Is this thing broken?" Old Niu asked, pointing to the cigarette pack on his head. The soldiers of the guard company had dark faces. They were also confused, but their intuition told them that they had been beaten again!
The guard company commander, who had just said that Group A was helpless this time, wished he could slap himself again, while Meng Jianguo next to him was already looking for people with binoculars.
"Good lad, he actually fooled me!" Meng Jianguo found Zheng Yingqi's sniping position and exclaimed in amazement, "This kid's progress is truly remarkable!"
He never expected that Zheng Yingqi would make such progress in just three months—while others make rapid progress, this kid is progressing at breakneck speed!
"Stop praising your apprentice. Let's go and find out exactly how he lost this time!" The guard company commander said with a dark face, which made Meng Jianguo chuckle to himself. Old Du had slapped him in the face again. No wonder he was unhappy.
……
The referee had a detailed record of the operation. After reviewing it, the guard company commander went to Zheng Yingqi's sniper position and said, "Old Meng, tell me about this place."
Meng Jianguo climbed down and studied the situation for a while before saying, "We can't directly threaten the regimental headquarters from here, but everyone needs to go to the toilet—this kid is just waiting for his calf to poop. Based on a normal walking speed, he has about two seconds to shoot."
The guard company commander fell silent for a long while before finally saying, "This...this is something that most people couldn't do, right?"
"Xiao Zheng admires special forces. He believes that special forces soldiers are selected from countless elites and possess perseverance, spirit, and combat capabilities in harsh environments that ordinary people do not have. Many things that ordinary people see as impossible to accomplish are precisely what special forces are good at. Therefore, if we talk about decapitation strikes in counter-special operations, we will definitely lose."
"That's true..." The guard company commander gave a wry smile. "These brats, their thinking is still limited to that of ordinary people. Come to think of it, that's what I thought too. Sigh, I admit it, I need to change!"
After saying that, he asked Staff Officer Chen, "By the way, Staff Officer Chen, where is our 'Little Gun King'?"
"He didn't sleep for three days and three nights. He fell asleep in the car as soon as he was discharged. I'm really impressed. This guy just lay there for 14 hours without moving an inch!" Staff Officer Chen exclaimed in amazement.
Another staff officer who had been adamant about the Blue Team's defeat was now completely unwilling to speak; he just wanted to be left alone...
"Hey you, get a few men to take our precious darling back. This kid's exhausted this time." The guard company commander hurriedly ordered someone to send Zheng Yingqi back, and then began to berate the soldiers in the company. In the end, he took the lead and was punished along with everyone else—there always has to be a prize for losing, and Zheng Yingqi jokingly suggested barking like a dog, which became the prize. Now, many people are saying that the guard company has started raising military dogs...
Meng Jianguo was naturally not among those punished. He held a very detached position in the guard company, so when the guard company was "keeping dogs," he went to see his successor.
Zheng Yingqi had fallen asleep on the back seat, snoring softly. Looking at his tired face, Meng Jianguo felt a pang of sympathy and said gently, "I know what you're thinking, but you don't have to push yourself so hard, do you?"
From Zheng Yingqi’s desperate attempts to “find fault” with the guard company, Meng Jianguo knew what Zheng Yingqi was thinking. Although he felt regretful, he felt that soldiers like Zheng Yingqi should shine in the most elite troops!
Unexpectedly, Zheng Yingqi felt apologetic and desperately wanted to make amends—this mentality made Meng Jianguo both happy and angry, angry that Zheng Yingqi didn't cherish himself.
Zheng Yingqi, of course, couldn't hear it; at this moment, he was "in" the Seventh Company.
Bai Tiejun, Wu Liuyi, Shi Jin, Gan Xiaoning, Cheng Yongjun...
Familiar faces were running the five kilometers the company commander had mentioned with him—for some reason, Zheng Yingqi fell behind this time and was dragged along by Bai Tiejun, who was always the last runner.
"I can't go on anymore, I can't run anymore, let me lie down for a while, just a little while," Zheng Yingqi said pitifully. Bai Tiejun shouted righteously, "A man can't say he can't! Get up and party!"
"You son of a bitch!" Zheng Yingqi cursed, and Bai Tiejun shouted back, "I'm the man who almost forcibly kissed the company commander—you dare curse me? I'll strip naked, you believe me?"
Bai Tiejun came up and started taking off his clothes. Zheng Yingqi, of course, refused to comply. He struggled with all his might, and then he heard a cry of pain. The scene he saw became fragmented and filled with endless heaviness. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was lying on the bed, and his classmate Zhao Kuo was lying on the ground looking aggrieved.
"I was just taking off your clothes... why did you hit me?" Zhao Kuo said aggrievedly.
"Um... um... I was still half asleep..."
Zheng Yingqi apologized with a wry smile, but in his heart he thought, "I'll never have a scene like this in my dreams again in this lifetime."
Lying in bed, despite being exhausted, Zheng Yingqi suddenly lost all sleepiness, his mind filled with the 7th Company from his dream. He sighed softly. They say time heals all wounds, but more than three months have passed, and yet he still feels this deeply.
Thinking of the 7th Company, Zheng Yingqi felt heartbroken. What a good company it was, and it just fell apart like that. Now, Xu Sandaizi is still there, like the last ghost of the 7th Company, guarding that place.
Forcing himself to stop thinking about the 7th Company, he started thinking about the future. The guard company was just a temporary stop for him. He was sure he would go to the Old A team when they were selecting people from the T Division, and he was confident that he could also join the Old A team. But Meng Jianguo had been so good to him, and he couldn't bear to treat the guard company as just a temporary stop. So he wanted to take advantage of the present moment to do more for the guard company.
Just like what he's doing now—if one day on the training field, the special forces team fails to achieve a decapitation strike against the 702nd Regiment at the hands of the guard company, then all his efforts will have been worthwhile!
As he pondered, sleepiness rolled in. Before he fell completely asleep, Zheng Yingqi suddenly wondered if he was physically in Cao Ying but mentally in Han.