Chapter 291 Turtle King, all's fair in war, understand? Immediately afterwards, a dazzling red signal flare, trailing a long tail of flame, shot into the sky from the direction of the No. 2 Battalion's headquarters in the distance, exploding in the dark night sky like a dazzling firework, dyeing the entire sky blood red!
Alarm sound!
The highest-level alarm signaling the end of the exercise!
And that red signal flare! That's a signal that one of the bases has been captured and the command flag has been seized!
This sudden turn of events stunned everyone on the battlefield.
The soldiers of the Second Battalion, who were about to pull the trigger on Jiang Yan, froze.
Jiang Yan and the soldiers of Battalion No. 3, who had been waiting with their eyes closed for news of defeat, opened their eyes in a daze.
Everyone's eyes instinctively turned to the direction where the signal flare had risen—the direction of the No. 2 Battalion's headquarters.
Yuan Bao's hand, which was gripping the flagpole of the Third Battalion, froze in mid-air.
The smugness and cruelty on his face froze instantly, replaced by blankness and astonishment.
"W-what happened?"
Why is the alarm going off?
"The exercise is over? Why? We haven't even pulled down the flag yet!"
The soldiers of Battalion Two looked at each other, completely bewildered.
Just then, the instructor's voice rang out simultaneously on the common channel of all the walkie-talkies on the position:
"Exercise over! Exercise over!"
"The command flag of Battalion No. 2 has been captured, resulting in a defeat! Cease fire immediately! Cease fire immediately!"
"The victorious side—Battalion Three!"
"Repeat! Winners—Battalion Three!"
The victorious side... Battalion Three?
These few words, like a thunderclap from the heavens, resounded in the ears of every soldier in the Second Battalion.
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
You could hear a pin drop.
It was so quiet that the only sounds were the rustling of the night wind through the treetops and the heavy, bewildered breathing of the crowd.
Yuan Bao's expression underwent a spectacular transformation in just a few seconds.
From bewilderment to disbelief, then to absurdity, and finally to a deep, dark blue and crimson.
He turned around abruptly and looked at his fifty-odd brothers who were equally dumbfounded.
"What...what's going on? Did the command make a mistake?!" a squad leader from the Second Battalion stammered, his voice trembling.
"Impossible... Our base... Wolf Brother is still there guarding it! There are still more than a dozen brothers! How could it have been captured?"
"A hallucination! This must be a hallucination!"
A chaotic murmur of disbelief arose within the Second Battalion's ranks.
They were like a pack of wolves dividing up a feast, only to be told that their den had long been raided by another group of hunters, and even their wolf cubs had been taken away.
The absurdity and unreality drove them almost insane.
Finally, Yuan Bao seemed to realize something. He suddenly turned his head, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Jiang Yan not far away, his gaze as if he wanted to devour him.
"It was you! It was you who did this!"
He finally realized what was happening!
From the very beginning, Jiang Yan's desperate defense here was just a ruse!
The real killer move of Battalion No. 3 is not frontal defense at all, but the surprise attack squad that disappeared without a trace from the start of the exercise!
They used their entire headquarters as bait to lure away all their main force, and then...then sent men straight to their heart of the enemy!
In an instant, all the clues came together.
That reconnaissance squad that was completely wiped out...
That intelligence report was riddled with flaws...
Why didn't I listen to Zhou Lang's advice back then? Why was I blinded by anger?
"puff--"
A tremendous sense of humiliation and regret surged to the top of his head. Yuan Bao felt a sweet taste in his throat and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
He considered himself a hunter, treating Battalion No. 3 like a caged beast, toying with it at will.
In the end, he was the fool who fell headlong into the trap and was completely fooled!
From beginning to end, the goal of Battalion No. 3 was neither defense nor a decisive battle with him.
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