Chapter 0074: The Purpose of This Confrontation
Chapter 0074: The Purpose of This Confrontation
The statue, worth 22 cents, was brought back bound like that.
Hong Xingguo was shocked, and he reprimanded Zheng Yingqi:
"What...what have you all done? Xu Sanduo and Zheng Yingqi are messing around, are you just going to mess around with them?"
"Reporting to the instructor, I heard that special forces have special training for dealing with prisoners of war. The exercise is not over yet, and we are bringing him back like this. What if he enters our position and causes damage, resulting in mutual destruction? That would be a real problem!" Zheng Yingqi argued.
Yuan Lang, standing to the side, casually wiped his mouth and stretched his wrists, which had been untied.
Hong Xingguo didn't get the expected reprimand. Without a suitable way out, he could only continue scolding. Gao Cheng, barely suppressing a laugh, sincerely apologized to Yuan Lang, saying, "Commander, I'm truly sorry. This kid judged me by my own petty standards. I will definitely punish him severely when we get back!"
"He knows quite a bit, he even knows we have targeted training for prisoners of war." Yuan Lang said casually, which was considered an excuse for Zheng Yingqi. Then Hong Xingguo treated him as a distinguished guest and invited him away—it was quite high treatment for a prisoner of war to be treated like this.
After Yuan Lang left, Gao Cheng kicked Zheng Yingqi, cursing, "What kind of tricks are you up to? I don't know! You're too audacious!"
He, Gao Cheng, was only a captain with a salary of 130 cents, and he wouldn't dare to disrespect the captured 220 cents. He never expected that his soldiers would actually tie him up—damn, that's so satisfying!
Zheng Yingqi, who had been kicked back by Gao Cheng, received the warmest welcome from his comrades, even better than Xu Sanduo, who had captured the lieutenant colonel—it was so satisfying, so damn satisfying!
However, at this moment, Yuan Lang was casually inquiring about certain things in front of the soldiers of the Seventh Company. For example, he was asking about the sniper he had killed, the sniper who had escaped from his gun, why some of them were carrying the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, and who the person who was thrown up was...
Then he wrote down a few names: Xu Sanduo, Zheng Yingqi, Cheng Cai...
Yuan Lang would never admit it, but today he decided to ask the battalion commander to give the 702nd Regiment three spots in the next selection of soldiers...
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The Red Army Command Post, also known as the 702nd Regiment Command Post.
Wang Qingrui and his officers looked at the jagged red and blue markings.
It's a mess, a complete mess!
From the very beginning, the Blue Army, which was supposed to be on the defensive, disrupted the battle. The Blue Army's proactive attacks put the Red Army, which was planning to attack, in a dilemma. Wave after wave of attacks and unpredictable raids further trapped the Red Army's attacking units in a situation where they could neither advance nor retreat. The 702nd Regiment, which was scattered, had obvious advantages in manpower and heavy firepower, but could not make use of them.
Three green signal flares brought the exercise to a close before nightfall.
The verdict is a draw.
It's not about attacking!
The 702nd Regiment, which is supposed to be the attacking force, has not launched a single decent offensive. To this day, the Red Force's command post has not even been determined, and the casualty ratio across the entire front has reached 15 to 1!
The worst part is that the attacking side was forced to defend!
"We lost!" Wang Qingrui did not agree with the director's decision, but instead set the tone for the exercise. The officers in the command post looked ashen. This battle was a humiliating defeat, a shameful defeat!
Almost at the same time the score was tied, a helicopter emerged from behind the mountains, so much so that an air defense soldier instinctively raised the anti-aircraft missile launcher in his hand—it almost got fired!
The helicopter landed directly at the entrance of the command post, and a group of officers dressed no differently from frontline soldiers jumped off the helicopter and headed straight for the well-camouflaged command post tent.
Their familiarity with the 702nd Command Headquarters was comparable to that of the 702nd Regiment Headquarters.
The regimental guards were on high alert against these men, the very ones who had tormented them for a whole day and night!
Without a doubt, they were officers from the Special Forces Brigade, Old A.
Leading the group was none other than Tie Lu, the captain of the Old A battalion. Tie Lu entered the 702nd Regiment's command post and, in an unwelcoming atmosphere, walked towards Wang Qingrui without any guidance. He knew his position very well!
Wang Qingrui looked at Tie Lu, reached into his cigarette case, took out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth. He didn't intend to offer one to the uninvited guest across from him. Tie Lu didn't mind and took one for himself. He even used Wang Qingrui's lighter to light his cigarette. Wang Qingrui grabbed Tie Lu's hand, dragged the still-burning flame to his cigarette, and lit it.
The officers of Old A and 702 stared at each other in disbelief, stunned—the two big shots were acting like children bickering!
Taking a deep drag on his cigarette, Tie Lu broke the silence first: "You're intentionally using your command post as bait?"
"Um."
"I've been tricked!" the railway worker said in frustration. "Taking away your command post would have been a complete victory, but once war breaks out, how many complete victories are there? I should have destroyed your supply lines!"
Wang Qingrui smiled and said, "I have a question. I've been looking for your command post. It's definitely not as heavily guarded as mine. If I can destroy it, I'll win, but I haven't been able to find it—can you tell me where your command post is?"
How many people does Old A have in total? Despite being outnumbered, Old A launched an offensive that put 702 in a dilemma, but its command post was bound to be stretched thin.
Railway smiled enigmatically, and just as Wang Qingrui was about to explode in anger, he said, "Right in front of you, that helicopter outside, is my command post!"
"Flying all the time? No fixed location?"
"Keep flying!" the railway confirmed.
Wang Qingrui pressed further, "Just one helicopter?"
The railway knew he was asking further questions and confirmed again, "With just one helicopter, I can instantly contact any of my individual combat personnel and attack any of your nodes!"
"How many people are in your command post?" Wang Qingrui felt a toothache; how many people could fit in a helicopter?
"Nine of us, including myself."
Wang Qingrui looked at his command post. The massive command post had nearly a hundred full-time personnel connecting more than a dozen nodes from the command post to the front line. There were more than nine departments in this tent alone, as well as a huge sand table, a wide variety of equipment, tens of tons of camouflage materials, and massive defensive fortifications that had to be hastily built by the engineering company.
"This is my command post. I used it as bait, I had no choice," Wang Qingrui said with a wry smile. "Your mistake was in tactics, and you won't repeat it. My mistake was in the combat mechanism and organization. To correct it, it will take three, five, or even more years. A draw... haha... I'm the loser!"
"This is the purpose of this confrontation!" the railway said.
Wang Qingrui smoked listlessly, and this time he gave one to the railway staff.
The officers in the room were all frozen in place, unsure whether to offer a self-criticism or continue to put on airs. The officers of 702, however, sensed the impending storm brewing in their silence.
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