Abyss Train

Chapter 772 Mission ③: Battle for Highland

Foreword:

War is simple, clean and ruthless.

—George Smith Patton Jr.

  [Military action record number: X·117·50100274]

[Mission code: Sparrow]

[Mission time: October 30, 2033, Western calendar, 19:47]

[Mission content: Our small vanguard has arrived at the vicinity of Danqiu Country in the Axe Mountain Range. We are building a base and conducting corps exercises in the name of a special military operation.]

[On the political front, General Lewis Hamilton, the diplomatic representative of the Transportation Department, and Luo Pingan, the leader of the Blackstone Senate, have conducted effective consultations with the Great Xia Hongfa Temple. The military strikes against the Eternal Alliance and the Danqiu rebels can be carried out as scheduled.]

[Sgt. First Class Maguire Copenhagen, you must answer the call to arms.]

[The Organization Department has arranged a four-week, twenty-eight-day military training for you. Your performance in all aspects is outstanding and you are a qualified medical soldier.]

[The BOSS needs your strength and your sharp sword.]

[The integrated strike and investigation plan of the Seventh Squad is based on the hard work of the Sixth Squad. The Mulan checkpoints in Maling Township of Danqiu State are like two big iron gates. The advance team has fought two encounter battles. The time to overcome difficulties has come.]

[We need Squad 194 to establish a third FOB beacon at Hill 504.365 in Mulan Pass, which is the hill at coordinates on the tactical map, to create opportunities for the artillery team that will approach later.]

[You need to allocate your forces reasonably, with Sergeant Hitchcock as the core leader and Sergeant Buller as the most important combat officer - try to capture Hill 194 and hold on until :.]

[Sergeant Maguire Copenhagen, this is your first frontline mission. May the goddess of luck favor the brave.]

[When the enemy comes within your shooting range, it means you are also exposed to the enemy's shooting range.]

[War is simple, clean, direct, and ruthless.]

On a rainy night, Maguire followed Bullet Boy and walked lightly in a team of three, arriving at a wetland forest.

He had no idea of ​​the direction, nor did he know where he was. When he actually reached the core area of ​​the battlefield, he still felt a beat slow and sluggish - he couldn't get into the state for a long time.

It was so quiet all around that the sound of rain almost drowned out everything else.

All the chirping of insects and the whistling of mountain winds, all the roars of beasts and the sounds of sentry gongs and drums were drowned out by the heavy rain.

"The General Staff and Commander Ke always choose the perfect time to attack." Bullet Boy half-crouched on the bare rock high in the forest ahead, raised his right arm and clenched his fist, asking the team members behind him to stop and remain completely silent. He whispered, "In order to reduce casualties, this is already the third round of attacking the mountain. The previous two harassment operations were too smooth, and the defenders of Guiyi Sect were exhausted. This is the perfect time for a surprise attack when the wind and rain can wash away the pheromones."

Bullet leaned against the ledge, slightly leaning forward, and immediately determined the coordinates based on the direction of the mountain and the trees growing towards the sun. He didn't even think of opening the tactical map to take a closer look - these combat common sense had been engraved into his DNA along with the guidance of the gunsmith teacher.

"Let's go."

Maguire didn't know. He didn't understand why Bullet was crouching and waiting at the edge of the woods. What did these short ten seconds mean to Bullet, the pioneer? In terms of information collection, Bullet seemed to have seen nothing, but had seen everything.

Looking out from the rock platform at the edge of the woods, there is a stretch of dark terraced fields in the depression. They extend towards Mulan Pass. Another 483 meters away, one can find the enemy's outpost, which is a place where everyone is a soldier. It is a sentry post where the young and middle-aged labor force of the villages and towns and the chieftain militia take turns patrolling with weapons.

The intervals between the lights can indicate the density of the troops. When dealing with wind and rain, these mixed patrol teams of militia officers and soldiers move slowly, and their overall status is almost clear at a glance.

The terrain at the valley entrance gradually dropped, and the road near the crater became increasingly difficult to walk on, until finally there was no road at all.

Maguire followed closely behind the bullet, sandwiched between two teammates——

——He was particularly careful, and there was a hand at his side to protect and shield him. That was the bullet's little follower who was always taking care of him.

The follower's code name is Tanghulu, and he is also a local soldier from Daxia who came from the Gate of Wonders. Since the operation began, he has been moving with Bullet, holding Dr. Maguire between his arms. This hand is like armor protecting the Gate of Death, and also like a whip to drive Maguire away. As long as he falls behind and his movement is hindered, Tanghulu will immediately push and lift him, supporting Maguire's waist and arms and sending him forward.

They walked quickly and hurriedly, and when they reached a dead end, Bullet identified the direction, took out a rock pick, hooked it on the crevice on one side of the cliff, and began to climb like a gecko - Maguire looked up and saw that the cliff was more than 50 meters high. According to Captain Bullet, they wanted to climb Mulan Heights, and this was the first step of the surprise attack.

"Medic, are you okay?" Tanghulu didn't urge him, but just asked calmly, "If not, wait here, the captain will pull you up."

"Let's go, I'm from Saladin." Maguire didn't try to be tough, but introduced himself: "The hunting group can climb mountains and cross rivers, I should be able to do it too, we can't delay the opportunity to fight."

This was Maguire's first time climbing a mountain in the pitch-black rainy night. He had received such training in Saladin's medical rescue team, but this time he had no protection - in order to keep quiet, Bullet Boy didn't even use the rock pick much, and used it as a life-saving trump card, not to mention the safe procedures for hammering in rock bolts.

They made almost no sound, like ghosts, arriving on the brightly lit west side of Magnolia Heights.

At the top of the cliff on the west side, Maguire's heart was shaken, and a dark shadow suddenly fell on his head.

——He was almost frightened to the point of screaming, but he held the sound back in his stomach.

Tanghulu was right under Maguire's feet, pinching the medic's ankle tightly, causing Maguire's face to turn pale and his expression to twist in pain.

Until the heavy object pierced through the forest and broke through the leaves, fell into the mud and shattered into pieces, and a muffled sound was heard - bullets came out from the top of the hill and pulled Maguire onto the platform.

The thing that fell just now was the groom who was changing the water and adding food to the horse trough at Mulan Heights. It happened to be the night shift, and the groom became the scapegoat of the patrol soldier. He was caught by a bullet and thrown off the cliff.

Maguire saw the bodies in the woods. At a distance of about fifty meters, his eyesight was very good. He could see the unarmed groom in cloth clothes, with his eyes open. Almost instinctively, he asked in a low voice: "Did you kill civilians?"

Bullet didn't reply. He signed with Tanghulu and raised his index finger to Maguire to indicate silence. His gun was loaded.

Maguire then realized his own gaffe, and realized how naive and careless he was.

——After climbing to the top of the manger shack, there was a towering stand in front of him. This place could observe almost 60% of the land of Maling Township. As an artillery position, it was an excellent location.

Not far from the three people, only about sixteen or seventeen meters away, was the garrison building of the Shanzi Camp of the Danqiu Kingdom, and a lot of human voices could be heard there.

There were torches and electric lights everywhere, and a complex network of muddy roads between the tents and wooden buildings. There were also many fresh and deep footprints, which were the traces left recently.

They were already very close to a firefight with the enemy. In this situation, it was crucial to seize the opportunity to attack first. Being kind to the enemy would be cruel to oneself. No matter how weak the armed forces were, they were not "civilians" - the bullets would definitely not kill a simple groom.

Everyone who came to Mulan Heights and worked for this military outpost was part of the Guiyi Sect's violent machine. They were ready. As long as the barracks officers and soldiers gave the order, every chieftain, militiaman or labor slave could become the general's visible or hidden sentry, and once they took up weapons, they would become vicious enemy soldiers.

This is indeed the case. Everyone in Class 7 knows more about knightly combat skills and the rules of survival on the battlefield than Maguire.

After removing the first sentry in the stable, Bullet gained at least 56 square meters of free space for himself, and the three members of the vanguard group had more time to arrange the route and choose the location.

In just a few tens of seconds, Maguire couldn't even understand the bullet's brief commands. The sign language combined with the symbols of the spirit's form changes quickly released complex information - he had learned this code, but when he really tried to understand it and apply it in actual combat in the complex and dark rainy night, he couldn't keep up with the pace.

Fortunately, the bullets did not include Maguire in the assault.

Tanghulu and the captain's spirit were entangled with each other. After taking off their heavy raincoats, the two of them went their separate ways and turned into two flashes of lightning in the dark night.

Walking along the stone path from the northwest slope of Mulan Highlands to the southwest trail, the enemy patrol team one and three of the Shanzi Camp had just completed the handover, and it happened to be the moment when the three teams walked back to the camp along the outer ring line cliff.

——The bullets seemed to have eyes, and dense gunfire rang out from the hay pile in the pigsty of the barracks.

The psychic who was in the lead had a black panther's head and was also a "divine" general of the Shanzi Camp of the Danqiu Kingdom. This blood-transferring freak did not react at all. His two slender leopard legs and ankles were smashed to pieces. Then his knees became weak and he saw more than 20 patrolling officers and soldiers beside him kneeling down together. In an instant, the whole place was filled with wailing.

Thunder flashed across the night sky. Captain Bullet, crawling on the second-floor roof of the kitchen, tightly grasped the QBZ-191, wiped the water droplets on the sight, and began to cook the flesh and blood of the crazy butterfly with the touch-and-go Tanghulu.

The alarm gong sounded all of a sudden - Bullet didn't rush to fire, but instead turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed at the tower on the southwest side of the Highland Barracks. The night watchman just started shouting, and his head seemed to explode like a watermelon.

The bandit leader still didn’t understand what had hit him, nor did he know how many people had raided the camp – a huge amount of fear surrounded it, and the black panther demon let out a heart-wrenching scream, which naturally caused the surrounding officers, soldiers and militia to lose their courage.

Bullet was not in a hurry to kill the blood-giving monster, and also used this shrill roar as a weapon. He needed more information. Judging from the houses in the camp, there were at least four hundred enemies living here. If the chieftains' soldiers and laborers and cooks were counted, there were more than a thousand people in the entire Mulan Highlands - according to the military system of the ancient feudal forces, all these people were soldiers.

Although this number may seem intimidating, in the past few months of fighting with the Shambhala army, the warriors of the Quick Blade have also confirmed the iron law of the feudal army - when these blood-granting nobles fight, they always treat Homo sapiens as blood and flesh snacks and supply packs. If this mixed army suffers about 30% casualties, the morale will immediately collapse. If the leaders at the regiment or battalion level are injured or killed, their centurions and thousand-man commanders are killed, and the military flags are cut off, the rest of the Tusi militia will immediately scatter like birds and beasts.

The situation of siege and attack has emerged, and the high-value target whose identity can be confirmed has been seriously injured.

——For bullets, the remaining task is the supreme art of military operations, using various violent tools to command the enemy.

The messenger team, which had just changed shifts and were preparing to rest, immediately took up their posts. Upon hearing the signal of the enemy attack, these messenger soldiers rushed out of the cafeteria cursing and ran to the room where the musical instruments, gongs and drums were stored.

A flare flew into the air, and just as the firefly lit up, Maguire saw six balls of rose-colored dark red flames emerging on the hill four kilometers away, indicating that the artillery shells had shattered the center point of the barracks and the marble statue of Lingguang Buddha.

Then came five flaming death rockets. They screamed in the air and turned into a ball of iron rain and steel slag when they landed. The accuracy of the rockets was very low, and there was a risk of accidentally injuring the vanguard team, but the bullet sergeant did not hesitate.

  ——He wants to fight against a thousand people alone? That's a fantasy!

Without the superb shooting skills of the gunsmith teacher, and without the ammunition reserves for long-term combat, calling for artillery support is the simplest and most direct method, which can defeat the fighting will of the Mulan Heights defenders in an instant.

The five rockets landed in various parts of the camp. The shrapnel tore through the foundations of the wooden buildings, and the thermite set the hay and fences on fire, instantly killing more than 30 people - for such a densely populated camp, this was already a saturation attack.

All these things happened within just one minute. Maguire's heart, which had been beating wildly while climbing the rocks, had not yet completely cooled down. It became more intense due to the strong light and sound, and began to feel cramps.

From the high ground to the slope of the valley, short-sleeved men rushed out one after another from the houses. Most of them were able-bodied men captured by the chieftains. They seemed to have heard the "mighty power of heaven" and saw the heavenly fire emerging between heaven and earth. These people ran towards the pass like crazy. Some soldiers with fighting spirit immediately ran to the water well on the high ground to get water to put out the fire.

The soldiers of the first and second shifts who were still resting received an urgent order. They needed at least six minutes to change their shoes, put on clothes, and get their weapons and equipment. They had to integrate and command all the teams to form effective combat effectiveness.

By the time the fire brigade arrived, many soldiers had already finished the first pot of water, and then covered their stomachs with their hands, eyes full of disbelief, and within a minute their faces turned pale and they died of shock.

The chief of the officers and soldiers responsible for Si Yao's security at the well finally came to his senses.

"——Don't drink the well water! It's poisonous!"

By the time the Guiyi Sect warriors came to their senses, Tanghulu had already thrown 16 kilograms of potassium cyanide into the well water. Even if one took a breath of the hot vapor, its powerful toxicity of inhibiting respiratory enzymes could kill an adult within a hundred seconds.

This combination of punches made the enemy troops at Mulan Pass dizzy. In the disorderly chaos and panic, the team that was going to support the Black Panther Immortal was stopped by bullets in the black stone path. He first killed six messengers and left a crazy strong man who was running around beating gongs and drums - where these officers and soldiers were going, people always followed the sound of gongs and drums, and naturally the battle became simple and clear.

The bullets only need to identify the location by sound, change the shooting location and reselect the position, replace magazines one after another, and empty all the firepower.

Tanghulu and the captain cooperated with each other, found the dead body nearby, changed into the inner and outer clothes of the Shanzi Camp, and then put on a rainy raincoat used by boatmen, and ran around to sabotage secretly. With the combined efforts of the two, it only took more than ten minutes - the barracks that seemed to have the advantage of high ground was in chaos with countless casualties.

The artillery teams and rocket vehicles lurking in the mountains and forests fired only one round of mountain attack support fire before immediately moving away - for fear of being discovered by the psychic elites of the Guiyi Sect.

On the other side, Maguire was still in a state of confusion——

——Tanghulu was covered in blood and slipped in through the small window of the stable like a slippery loach.

"Save me! Save me! Save me! Save save save save save save save save save save!"

The boy's face was scratched, his intestines were exposed, and his body was covered with wounds.

When Lao Ma tried to undress Tanghulu, he discovered that the soldier's personal panacea had been torn by the enemy. Due to the rainy weather, the bottle of medicine did not completely penetrate into the skin, but was blocked and absorbed by the thick enemy clothes.

He was ready to take out his knife and cut open the candied haws's carrying case to rescue them.

——In the blink of an eye, a dark shadow rushed in from outside the stable.

It was another black panther, another blood-giving monster. It became the mate of the Left Guard General in the barracks, and was a fierce and vicious female panther beast.

The monster dug the ground with all four claws and pounced in. One of Tanghulu's eyes was blinded, and there were scratches on his chest and abdomen from the survival knife. Tanghulu was chased all the way by the beast and escaped to Maguire.

Before Maguire could even get into combat mode, he didn't even have a chance to draw his sword.

——The female leopard pounced on the candied haws, rolled the kid into the haystack, and rolled in the mud.

I saw Tanghulu holding the gun and pulling the trigger. There was a fatal wound on his throat. His head tilted to one side and he coughed up some sticky black blood.

The gunfire almost pierced through the waist and abdomen of the blood-giving monster, and went along the heart to the head. Tanghulu missed repeatedly, and the bullets did not completely cover the death gate.

With his strong will to survive, he took out his secondary weapon and broke the female leopard's front paws. The moment his shoulder was freed, he crawled towards Maguire, trying to grab his hair and lift his head high to prevent his spinal nerves from being completely severed and his body from being completely disabled.

Maguire was shocked by such a strong fighting will, but the blood-feeding monster behind Tanghulu was not dead yet, and wanted to attack again. A group of bright red flash butterflies emerged from the steaming flesh and blood, and the ferocious beast's mouth kept approaching Tanghulu.

"Medic, I've called for backup."

"if."

Tanghulu was crawling out while spitting out blood. His trachea was blocked by a blood clot, and he almost squeezed out these words.

"If the rest of the class 7 hasn't arrived yet"

"Don't bother Captain Bullet and don't talk nonsense."

He spoke quickly and urgently, his pupils were dilated and his vision was black.

"He is in his position and cannot retreat a single step. He cannot retreat a single step."

"Medic, run away."

“No time for me.”

There is not much time left for Maguire to make a choice——

——But at this time, there is no need for him, a medic, to make a choice.

According to the combat plan of Class 7, the second echelon will arrive at the battlefield within three minutes after the attack begins.

The Bullet Squad has lit up the map, created chaos, and completed the first phase of the assault.

All Maguire needs to do is to heal his teammates and try to save the lives of every soldier.

——As for the “support” that Tanghulu mentioned, it is not just the support from the later members of Class 7.

The best person to deal with high-level psychics and powerful blood-feeding monsters is Anonymous.

The Grim Reaper wearing a butterfly robe descended from the sky. He stepped on the female leopard's spine and broke it. A flash of light passed by and a scorching dragon roar emanated from the muzzle of the gun. The endless bullets knocked open the skull of the blood-drinking monster, revealing a piece of pink brain matter.

Under the golden-blue Morpho Butterfly Coat's helmet, the V-shaped visor emitted a cold blue light, and sticky black blood splashed on the Morpho Butterfly Coat's steel wire armor. The electronic eye on the visor turned slightly in the direction of Maguire Copenhagen, and stopped for a few tenths of a second, as if a ghostly figure quickly rushed out of the shack and disappeared into the barracks street, as if it had never appeared.

The gunsmith had no intention of fighting. The Bullet Sergeant was fighting one against a hundred and was waiting for backup from Squad 7, but he didn't need any support.

After dealing with the blood-giving monster beside Tanghulu, the gunsmith still has a heavier burden and stronger enemies on his shoulders.

"This is it."

Tanghulu tore off his scarf mask and spoke with a smile in Maguire's arms while spitting out blood.

"That's it. The teacher will definitely come. He is always so quick and always so timely."

"Remember next time, remember to run away first, medic!"

The boy had never seen Dr. Maguire's soul power, but he just felt that the new recruit needed protection.

"The teacher will not let you down"

"When you are in danger, the angel of pride and virtue will come to you."

“Hahahahaha! Hahahaha!”

"Heal me quickly, I want to continue fighting."