Chapter 54 I Will Definitely Choose You! Something is Wrong!
When it was completely dark, Thor got everyone out of the car and quickly walked into the mountain along a ravine at the foot of the mountain.
Bang!
619, who was walking in front, turned on the flashlight.
Thor glanced at the time. "It's 7:20 PM now. We're about 7 kilometers from our destination. We need to reach the border before 9:00 PM to reunite with the scouts from the Eighth Company. Are you two okay?"
Xu Ge took Li Dongshui's AWM and replied, "No problem!"
He was a little surprised. No wonder there was a complete electronic map of the target area in the combat command room. It turned out that some people from Tianlang had already gone there in advance to conduct close reconnaissance.
"Well then, Old Face will take up the rear, and we'll keep the formation and set off!"
Thor waved his hand and the six people started running in the mountains.
Traveling at night on mountain roads was indeed a big test for the two new recruits, Xu Ge and Li Dongshui.
Each of the four Hidden Wolf members was carrying more than twice their weight, but they did not show any signs of fatigue.
Xu Ge was not surprised by this, after all, these people were hidden wolves.
In Ao Xiang’s words, if you want to know what the ceiling of a soldier is, you must come to Yinlang to experience it.
What surprised him was Li Dongshui's performance tonight. The team had been running for almost an hour so far, but this guy never complained of being tired. He gritted his teeth and followed behind him the whole time.
I guess he doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of Thor and the others.
Halfway through the journey, Thor ordered a stop to rest. The four team members immediately drank small sips of water and sat there to rest without moving.
Everyone kept going up, and Xu Ge already felt a little uncomfortable breathing. He estimated that the altitude should be close to 6,000 meters at this time!
Li Dongshui's face was a little pale, and seeing this, the old man reminded him to add some sweetness.
Five minutes later, the team set out again, this time with the clamp as the vanguard, and began to cross horizontally along the ridge of the snow-capped mountain.
The moonlight overhead shone on everyone, casting shadows on the snow like dark clouds passing by.
Xu Ge was observing all the way, and he found that the four people including Yinlang were always paying attention to one direction while moving forward.
No one told them in advance, but they seemed to know what others would do in advance, without any communication, as if it was an instinct engraved in their bones.
Especially the vanguard at the front.
At first Xu Ge didn't know why 619 had to be replaced in the second half. After observing the clamp for a while, he was surprised to find that the scout's physical energy consumption was so great!
The person in the front not only has the largest observation range, but also has to pay attention to his feet at all times. Most importantly, he actually holds the gun with both hands from beginning to end!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Li Dongshui's breathing was already louder than his footsteps. Old Face reached out and took the backpack from his back.
Thor showed no intention of stopping, the team continued to move forward, and the road ahead began to go downhill.
There is snow all year round at high altitudes, and Xu Ge even suspects that no human has ever set foot here. Under the thick snow under his feet is solid ice, and when he steps on the thin snow, his feet will even be shaken and hurt slightly.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down, especially when carrying a load like this. Every time you slide down two steps, you have to jump quickly to stabilize your body.
The three Thors in the front seemed unable to slow down and gradually lagged behind Xu Ge who was in fourth place.
Just as Xu Ge looked ahead again, he suddenly felt something move in the snow more than 200 meters away.
"Something's happening!"
Xu Ge suddenly squatted down on the spot, pointing the SCAR-H in his hand straight ahead, while his left hand subconsciously pressed the headset.
"Don't be nervous, they're one of us!" Wolf Head's voice suddenly appeared in the headset first. "Didn't you see the prompt on the eyepiece?"
Xu Ge was stunned, and then he glanced to the upper left, and sure enough, he saw several white dots flashing in front of him, representing our people.
Li Dongshui, startled by Xu Ge's reaction, rushed forward and was about to take the AWM from Xu Ge's backpack, but was stopped by Lao Lian.
"We're here, come here quickly!" Thor waved and shouted not far ahead.
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. . .
Since Thor dared to speak loudly in this place, it means that this place has been confirmed to be absolutely safe.
Xu Ge and the other two walked over, and a team of people wearing snow camouflage had already begun to retreat in another direction.
"619 and Clamp will go to the first assembly point to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance. Old Face and I will snipe Group One's position. Numbers 5 and 6 will snipe Group Two's position. Once each group arrives, immediately determine their shooting parameters!"
As Thor spoke, he swiped his fingers across the combat tablet a few times, and a bird's-eye view of the current location immediately appeared on everyone's eyepieces, with three locations already marked.
Xu Ge knew that this was a real-time image from a high-altitude reconnaissance drone. He looked up at the night sky, but even with his eyesight, he could see nothing.
"What are you looking at? You're so surprised you could see a stealth drone!" Thor patted Xu Ge. "Let me ask you two one last time, do you have any questions?"
"no problem!"
The two answered immediately.
"Okay, let's go!"
After saying that, the four team members immediately dispersed and ran in different directions in groups of two.
Xu Ge: ???
No, just ran away?
Are you really not going to care about us anymore?
Beside him, Li Dongshui also looked very nervous. He took his AWM from behind Xu Ge and held it in his arms, and asked quietly, "Xu Ge, what should we do next?"
"What else can we do? Go snipe position 2!"
Xu Ge glanced at the location marked on the eyepiece, stood up and began to walk down the mountain towards the right front, "Since we're here, let's do it!"
More than ten minutes later, the voices of Thor and Clamp were heard in the headset one after another.
"Sniper team, take position!"
"Strike team, get in position!"
After waiting for a while, seeing that no one was talking in the channel, Lei Shen asked again: "Sniper Team 2, where are you guys?"
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui were climbing the snowy mountain with great difficulty at this moment. Hearing the call, he immediately pressed the microphone: "Sniper... Sniper team two will be in position immediately!"
"hurry up!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two of them used their hands and feet and finally climbed over the slope, and quickly ran towards a wide open space halfway up the mountain.
"Sniper team two is in position!" Xu Ge reported immediately.
Li Dongshui patted Xu Ge and pointed at the eyepiece: "Xu Ge, everyone knows our positions."
Xu Ge took a look and found that it was indeed the case. The six dots were scattered in three directions.
It turns out that Thor knew that the two of them were climbing a mountain but still deliberately asked about it. Damn it!
"Establish a sniper position immediately and calculate the shooting parameters." Thor's voice sounded again.
Xu Ge didn't want to pay attention to him. He put his gun on the ground and started taking things out of his backpack.
Li Dongshui replied, "I understand," and immediately started to draw his gun.
Xu Ge put the anemometer and rangefinder aside, took the monocular and began to look down the mountain. Combining the instructions on the eyepiece, he soon saw the target building at the foot of the mountain diagonally opposite.
"Two o'clock direction, at the foot of the mountain." Xu Ge adjusted the direction of the gun and said.
Li Dongshui immediately began to observe through the scope and soon hummed, "I see."
With the rangefinder and anemometer, combined with a compass, Xu Ge quickly calculated the current shooting parameters.
"Target the main entrance of the building, distance 755, depression angle 31, wind speed ignored."
After Xu Ge finished his report, Li Dongshui immediately began adjusting his scope, wondering, "Xu Ge, why do I feel like we're the farthest away?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Ge took a look at the electronic map on the eyepiece and immediately found that Li Dongshui was right.
Not to mention the locations of 619 and the clamp, they were about 350 meters away from the target building, but Lao Lian's first sniper team was obviously closer. Xu Ge estimated that it was about 550 meters away.
"Thor, No. 5 calling!" Xu Ge pressed the headset.
"explain!"
"Why are we so far apart?"
"Because you two are good at shooting."
"Cousin, can you tell the truth?"
"The truth is, it's safer to stay far away, and the enemy can't reach you."
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui: . . .
"Damn, if they had known they would put me here, why would I have brought a grenade launcher?"
Xu Ge was furious, "Why did Thor look at me weird when I said I wanted to bring this thing?"
The grenade launcher installed on his gun has a maximum range of 400 meters and cannot hit the target at all.
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. . .
Ever since Thor expressed that the two of them were just there for show, Xu Ge felt completely relaxed.
During the waiting period, he studied the monocular telescope for a while, and took the rangefinder to take pictures everywhere. With the help of advanced mental arithmetic skills, he could now calculate the parameters almost the moment the data came out.
Since he was bored anyway, Xu Ge marked targets in all directions, including the opposite mountain top, calculated the shooting parameters, and asked Li Dongshui to memorize them all.
"Xu Ge, is it necessary for us to calculate so many positions? Maybe we don't need to fire a single shot tonight." Li Dongshui said.
Xu Ge said with a straight face: "If I tell you to remember, then remember. If you forget, I am the team leader between the two of us now!"
"oh!"
Although Li Dongshui knew that Xu Ge made up the story about the team commander, Xu Ge had already proved his level of observation skills with facts in the previous two operations. Therefore, Li Dongshui did not object too much and took note of it seriously.
After more than half an hour, Xu Ge started yawning out of boredom.
"Didn't they say the target would come at eleven? It's already time... Hmm? Something's happening!"
Xu Ge suddenly picked up the monocular and looked down. Just now, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something moving at the door of the target building below.
Seeing Xu Ge's reaction, Li Dongshui immediately lay down in front of the sight to watch.
Suddenly, a group of people walked out from the entrance of the building below, led by a middle-aged man wearing a white turban.
"Attention all teams, target number two has appeared, and target number one may be here soon!" Thor's voice sounded at the right time.
Xu Ge held up a monocular telescope and began to look into the distance along the path in front of the building. With the help of his "dog eyes", he soon discovered a small square object moving towards him two kilometers away.
"Thor, at your eleven o'clock direction, 2,100 meters away, there is a car coming!" Xu Golmali said.
There was no response in the channel for a while. After a long while, Lei Shen's annoyed voice sounded: "Damn it, it's night time. More than 2000 meters is beyond the effective range of night vision goggles. I can't see!"
Xu Ge stopped talking.
Li Dongshui looked over in surprise: "Xu Ge, can you really see that far?"
"I have a telescope!" Xu Ge shook the monocular in his hand.
Li Dongshui was stunned: "Don't you think the Thunder God has it?"
"Who knows?"
Five minutes later, Thor's voice reappeared: "Attention, everyone! A car is coming!"
Everyone stared down.
Soon, an off-road vehicle stopped at the door of the building. A man with braided hair got out of the car holding a little girl, and there were five or six people accompanying him.
"619, confirm the target immediately!"
"Target confirmed, target number one has appeared and is talking to target number two!"
In Xu Ge's sight, Yusup hugged his brother-in-law, who immediately held the little girl in his arms and rubbed his face against hers affectionately.
Afterwards, the group began to walk inside, but the little girl stayed outside to play with a woman.
On the eyepiece, the light spot representing Thor was rapidly approaching the position of the assault team. Xu Ge knew that they were about to take action.
Li Dongshui looked at the little girl through the scope and said, "This child is in good health. She's not afraid of altitude sickness even though she's wearing so little in such cold weather."
"Don't look at the little girl, look at the target building. What if they really need our help?"
"oh!"
Li Dongshui asked again, "Xu Ge, you said that the chief instructor and his men will attack directly later. They shouldn't attack the little girl outside, right?"
"Do you think they are born killers?"
Xu Ge said unhappily, "As long as that little girl doesn't interfere with the mission, I will definitely not attack her."
"What if it affects you?"
"You're a real stickler, aren't you?"
Xu Ge thought of what Lei Shen asked Ao Xiang when he came back from Qiangtang, and turned to look at Li Dongshui.
"Let me ask you, if you could only choose one between the little girl and the chief instructor, who would you choose?"
Li Dongshui: "This question is too extreme. I won't choose it!"
"I can tell from the looks of it that you're not suitable for Hidden Wolf." Xu Ge said unhappily.
Li Dongshui was unhappy: "Then let me ask you, if you can only choose one between me and the little girl, who would you choose?"
Xu Ge didn't even think twice: "I will definitely choose you, is there any need to ask?"
Li Dongshui stopped talking and continued to lie in front of the sight.
Xu Ge knew that Thor and his men would attack in about ten minutes, so he subconsciously looked at the target building below while observing the three-dimensional map on the eyepiece.
As he was idle, a series of previously measured data flashed through his mind. Suddenly, two of the data caught Xu Ge's attention, namely the height of the opposite mountain and the slope at the foot of the mountain.
Ever since his mental arithmetic ability reached an advanced level, Xu Ge's sensitivity to data increased again, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
The mountain in front of him was 430 meters high and had a slope of about 15 degrees. A series of formulas appeared in Xu Ge's mind, and he wanted to try to find the point that felt wrong.
When his eyes once again swept over the buildings below, he suddenly had an idea and immediately pressed the microphone:
"Suzaku Suzaku, number 5 calling!"
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