When you're in the Wolf Pack, your ability to obey orders becomes stronger.

Chapter 199 The Red Army's Victory! Zhang Fengxue's Position.

"Not coming back?"

Xu Zhijun was taken aback at first, then understood what his son meant, "Not coming back to school?"

"Ok!"

Xu Ge nodded, "Dad, I want to stay in the army, to stay in the Wolf Brigade!"

Xu Zhijun's eyes held a complex expression, yet also a sense of expected relief: "Your mother said last night that you've grown up..."

Actually, when I saw you walking with your comrades, I had a feeling that you fit in so well with them, as if you were meant to be there!

Xu Ge smiled: "Thank you for understanding, Dad!"

"If you don't come back to school, you can still go home to see your parents during your annual family visit leave, right?"

"That's a must!"

"Great! Dad supports you!" Xu Zhijun stretched his hand out of the car window and patted his son on the shoulder.

Xu Ge stood at attention and saluted: "Thank you, Dad!"

Thor walked over and said, "Thank you so much for tonight, Uncle Xu! You should go back and rest first. The exercise isn't over yet, and Xu Ge and I have other things to do."

Xu Zhijun patted the car door: "Where are you going? I'll give you a ride!"

"No need, there's a car here." Thor smiled and shook his head.

Xu Zhijun laughed too: "Thank you all for tonight too, you let this old military enthusiast have his fill of war! Hahaha! I'm off!"

"goodbye!"

Xu Zhijun smoothly shifted gears and sped away.

Thor led Xu Ge to the Blue Army's pickup truck and waved for the driver to get out.

Sun Jun leaned against the railing, smoking, his face expressionless: "That's going too far, trying to steal even a car?"

Thor: "We still have comrades in the mountains, we need to drive to pick them up."

Boom!
A group of men jumped out of the truck bed and surrounded Thor and Xu Ge. The lieutenant in charge glared at the two of them and said, "Let's see who dares to drive the truck away."

Thor remained calm and looked at Sun Jun: "Brigade Commander Sun, are they sore losers?"

"lose?"

Sun Jun casually flicked away his cigarette butt and walked over. "The exercise isn't over yet, the directing group hasn't given any instructions, so who said we lost?"

Thor shrugged: "I don't know, but our boss said that as long as we take you out within 12 hours, we're guaranteed to win."

"I know what Brother Zhang is planning. After getting rid of me, the commander, with his command skills, he can easily lead the troops to break through and then counter-encircle, defeating our Blue Army one by one, right?"

Sun Jun smiled and said, "His plan is very well-thought-out, but there's a prerequisite: he has to be able to guarantee his own survival!"

"Since your Hidden Wolves can come and deal with me, then tell me, can our Arrow Squad deal with him?"

Before the two could answer, Sun Jun looked at Xu Ge again: "New recruit? The way you shot at me just now didn't look like a rookie at all. Have you participated in actual combat?"

Xu Ge turned to Thor: "Who's driving?"

Thor: "I'll drive, it's a manual transmission."

"it is good!"

Xu Ge walked through the crowd, opened the passenger door, and got in.

The Blue Team members were furious: "What the hell are you acting so high and mighty with, you greenhorn? Our brigade commander is talking to you!"

Xu Ge: "The exercise rules state that corpses cannot speak."

Blue Team: ...

Bang!
Thor closed the car door, started the engine, and honked the horn.

Drip!

A group of Blue Team players grumbled and made way.

The pickup truck quickly made a U-turn and drove away along the national highway.

"I bother!"

A sergeant, his face full of indignation, exclaimed, "Are all the soldiers in the Wolf Brigade this uncivilized? So arrogant! Damn it!"

"If you're willing to gamble, you have to accept the consequences. What they said is right; those who have died shouldn't be able to communicate anyway."

Sun Jun watched the pickup truck disappear and said calmly, "Besides, they have the guts to be awesome. Two people chased dozens of us around in the mountains like rabbits. It just shows how useless we are!"

A new recruit operating with the Hidden Wolves? The Wolf Brigade's reputation is fucking enviable!

Inside the pickup truck, Xu Ge said with some concern, "The Blue Army brigade commander just said that they also sent some kind of 'Sounding Arrow' squad to find our command post!"

Thor remained calm: "It's alright, the Hidden Wolves didn't just send the five of us."

Xu Ge immediately remembered that Thor had mentioned that Hidden Wolves had another six-person team, which he hadn't seen when he went there because those six people had gone out on a mission.

"So, the other group of six people from your group also came?"

"Yes, they're better at protecting targets. They're with the brigade commander now, so there's no need to worry!"

"That's good. What's our next step?"

"Pick up Lao Lian and the others, and contact the higher-ups to see if there are any other tasks."

"What about my deputy squad leader and the others?"

"The bodies of the fallen will be handled by the directing team; we don't need to worry about them."

"understood."

. . .

. . .

As dawn approached, the command center was filled with noise.

I don't know where these big shots in their fifties get such boundless energy; they stayed up all night and their voices are still so loud.

The reason for the argument was simple: whether the appearance of that van constituted cheating by the Red Army.

The two groups held opposing views, with one side arguing that an exercise was valid as long as it involved external assistance.

Meanwhile, another group led by Zhao Jiang thought the other side was talking nonsense.

The two groups argued incessantly, neither able to convince the other, and in the end, they had to drag Vice President Lin over to judge the matter.

"You can't accuse the Red Army of cheating just because Sun Jun and his men were killed because of this van!"

Vice President Lin yawned and stated his position directly, "Although I also really hope the Blues win, one shouldn't be so hypocritical!"

"This exercise is designed to closely resemble actual combat. In wartime, which unit doesn't know how to mobilize the masses?"
"Oh, you laughed when the Blue Army was conducting reconnaissance on their own territory with the help of the local people, even praising their good relationship between the military and the people. Now that the Red Army has also enlisted the help of the masses, you immediately can't accept it?"

"Didn't you see that even Sun Jun and his men didn't say anything? That means the Blue Army also knows that they'll receive even more help from the people!"

Vice President Lin's words left the other group speechless.

A senior colonel said irritably, "What kind of situation is this? If Sun Jun and his team had moved to the second stronghold, they could have maintained their advantage. But then a van appeared, and now we can only pin our hopes on the Blue Army team that is searching for the Red Army's command post."

"What's this? This is the Wolf Brigade's people! Queshan is the birthplace of the Wolf Brigade!" Vice President Lin walked out with his hands behind his back. "Anyway, I can't stay up any longer, I'm going to sleep first."

The current situation is clear; the next period will definitely be the time for the Red Army to counterattack.

The situation between the red and blue sides has reversed, and the key to victory now lies in whether the blue team can take down the red team's command post in the shortest possible time.

Yawning is contagious. The other big shots were quite energetic at first, but after Vice President Lin yawned a few times, they all immediately felt sleepy and said they wanted to go back to sleep.

Zhao Jiang stretched and prepared to leave, saying, "Ugh, I'm really tired and sleepy. I'm going back to get some sleep too!"

"Wait!"

The bigwigs immediately stopped Zhao Jiang, saying, "You can't leave this room. You're sleeping in the command center!"

Are you kidding me? This guy has seen the troop deployments of both the red and blue teams. If we let him out now, the blue team is bound to lose!
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. . .

Around 7 a.m., Thor parked his pickup truck in front of a breakfast shop by the national highway. The six of them casually moved a table to the doorway, sat down together, and started eating fried dough sticks and drinking spicy soup.

The diners coming and going in the store glanced at the guns on the backs of the six men, but didn't find anything strange about it.

Thor had previously received orders from command to allow his three sniper teams to operate independently.

Saying it's free action is really just telling them that it doesn't matter whether they participate in the upcoming exercises or not, since these people have already completed the most important task.

The old man ordered a separate bowl of eight-treasure porridge, and from somewhere he took half a can of white sugar and started sprinkling it in, then stirred it carefully.

Others couldn't accept this way of eating, so Li Dongshui, seeing that there weren't enough fried dough sticks, went and brought back a few vegetable dumplings and steamed buns.

Vehicles came and went on the national highway, and a military vehicle would occasionally pass by, but the six men paid no attention to it.

The pickup truck next to them had the Blue Army license plate; others would only assume they were personnel from other units who had just completed a mission overnight.

Xu Ge picked up the last chive pancake in front of Li Dongshui and quickly took a bite before she could snatch it back.

Li Dongshui stood up cursing and went back inside to find the owner, buying more than a dozen items at once.

Eat, eat, eat! Eat until you're stuffed!

Soldiers have big appetites, and the dozen or so dishes were quickly devoured by everyone.

Xu Ge took a sip of soup and looked at Thor: "Cousin, what do we do next?"

"Find a place to sleep first, then go to the battlefield to practice sniping with the Blue Army after you wake up." Thor didn't even look up.

For him, the rest of the time was just garbage time, a good opportunity for the other four to practice their sniping skills.

Just as the six people finished eating and were about to get up and leave, a Jeep pulled up next to the pickup truck.

"wishtoday! Three sniper rifles?!"

Several Blue Army soldiers got out of the vehicle, and one of them, a chubby private first class, walked over and exclaimed in surprise, "Which unit are you from? You must have done a lot of work in the mountains last night!"

Xu Ge recognized the voice and looked up.

Little Fatty's eyes met Xu Ge's, and his expression changed: "Holy crap! It's the Red Army!"

After saying that, he reached for the rifle on his back, and the other Blue Team members were also taken aback, immediately reaching for their own weapons.

Clap clap clap clap!
Everyone only saw a blur before their eyes, and Thor had already put his pistol back into his thigh, while smoke billowed from the helmets of the Blue Army soldiers opposite him.

"Holy crap! What's going on?"

"Oh my god! There's a war!"

The breakfast shop owner and his customers were startled by the gunshot and ran out to see what was happening, only to be stunned at the doorway.

"The pickup truck just ran out of gas."

Thor got into the jeep with a smile, and the others quickly squeezed in as well.

Drip!

To everyone's astonishment, the jeep turned onto the national highway, stepped on the gas, and sped away.

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. . .

"Come on, let me try firing a shot!"

On a mountaintop at the border of Shigunhe and Zhugou Town, Xu Ge took the 201 high-precision sniper rifle from Li Dongshui.

It was a little after 8 p.m., and in the valley below, more than 300 people from both the red and blue teams were engaged in a small-scale offensive and defensive battle.

The Red Army consisted of the Sixth Company and the 75th Army's flanking company, while the Blue Army was an infantry battalion that had been decimated.

After Thor dropped Xu Ge and the other three off in the vicinity, he left with a long face. After Wang Lin contacted Luo Shan over the walkie-talkie, the remaining two sniper teams arrived.

Xu Ge was aiming at a Blue Army captain more than 600 meters away.

boom!
After a loud bang, smoke billowed from another Blue Army soldier next to the captain. Li Dongshui looked at Xu Ge: "Did you hit him?"

Xu Ge: "Almost, I'll fire another shot."

"Damn it! You missed and you're not running? The artillery will be firing soon."

boom!
Xu Ge didn't say anything, and pulled the trigger again.

"Damn! That guy dodged pretty fast!"

"Give me!"

Li Dongshui couldn't stand it any longer, so he snatched the sniper rifle back, aimed, locked on, and fired in one smooth motion.

boom!
Smoke rose from the captain's helmet.

"Move quickly!"

The two immediately got up and ran towards the next sniping position.

Below, the Blue Army's momentum clearly weakened, and the Red Army seized the opportunity to launch an attack, with gunfire erupting.

"The final battle has begun! The final battle has begun!"

Xu Ge ran behind a large rock and stopped, stretching out his hand. "Quick, let me fire a few shots, or I won't have another chance!"

"Are you sure you can do it?" Li Dongshui asked somewhat reluctantly.

"Damn, the Blue team is all grouped together now, you can win with your eyes closed, okay?"

"Only five rounds left..."

"Bring it to you!"

Xu Ge snatched the gun, aimed it, and then pulled the trigger.

boom! boom! boom!
boom!boom!
The battlefield below was filled with smoke rising from the soldiers, and Li Dongshui didn't know whether Xu Ge had hit his target or not.

Xu Ge tossed the sniper rifle back to Li Dongshui, clapped his hands, and said, "We're done shooting, let's go down the mountain!"

"Where?"

"I just saw a tricycle selling things at the bend at the foot of the mountain. I was hungry, so I went to get a bowl of instant noodles."

Li Dongshui was taken aback: "No, you're not planning to go down and help?"

"What help are you offering? Didn't you see the Blue Army has already collapsed?" Xu Ge went down the mountain without looking back.

The two arrived at the foot of the mountain and, just as they turned the corner, saw Wang Lin and Liu Senlin squatting by the roadside, each holding a bowl of instant noodles and slurping them down.

Li Dongshui asked in surprise, "Why did you two come down here too?"

Wang Lin took a sip of noodle soup: "The battle is over, why aren't we coming down? Are we just staying on the mountain to feed the mosquitoes?"

"Hurry up and eat, or there won't be any left when the others come!" Liu Senlin reminded them.

Xu Ge quickly gestured for Li Dongshui to take out the money, then looked at the shop owner: "Is there any hot water left?"

"Have!"

"Make two bowls of instant noodles, add two sausages and four eggs!"

"okay!"

Two minutes later, four people squatted in a row by the roadside, each holding a bowl of noodles.

Not far away, a group of people were rushing towards them in a great hurry.

"Hey you, buy me a pack of cigarettes!"

Luo Shan snatched the fork from Xu Ge's hand, forked a hard-boiled egg into his mouth, and asked indistinctly, "Where are the others?"

"Bye!"

Seeing Luo Shan roll his eyes in exasperation, Xu Ge handed him a bottle of cola. "Platoon leader, why are you all here too?"

Luo Shan swallowed the egg with difficulty, then gulped down a large mouthful of cola before saying, "The directing team just informed us that the exercise is over."

All four looked over at the same time: "Who won?"

The group of men from the Sixth Company grinned from ear to ear.

"Of course it's us, hahaha!"

"Awesome! Wolf Brigade is awesome!"

"Hurry back to the assembly point, the company commander said a high-ranking officer is coming to offer his condolences!"

"Damn it, I haven't even made my noodles yet!"

"Let's soak some water and eat it dry..."

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. . .

Zhao Jiang was grinning as he handed out cigarettes to the big shots one by one, his smug expression making the others want to punch him.

"Come on, leaders, you've worked hard!"

"Haha, let's have a smoke to relax!"

"The food in our 75th Army is pretty good. What would you commanders like to eat later? I'll have someone prepare a midnight snack, hahaha!"

Just now, the directing group announced the results of the exercise based on the casualty rate and the current situation: the Red Team won.

Vice President Lin stood up, letting Zhao Jiang put a cigarette in his mouth, light it, and glance at him sideways: "Little Zhao, now that the exercise is over, can you finally tell me where Zhang Fengxue is hiding?"

The Blue Army used a large amount of reconnaissance resources to conduct a comprehensive search of all areas from the very beginning of the exercise. They even sent eight teams, including the Arrow Squad, to infiltrate the Red Army's territory, but they still couldn't find them.

"Vice President Lin, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that I don't know either!" Zhao Jiang said earnestly.

Everyone was taken aback: "Even you, the brigade commander of the 75th Army Special Operations Brigade, don't know?"

"Zhao Jiang, you've got a really big heart!" Vice President Lin said, both amused and exasperated.

Zhao Jiang chuckled: "Just tell me, did we win or not?"

Vice President Lin looked at the communications officer: "Go, notify the Wolf Brigade that I'm going to their camp to offer my condolences, and make sure that kid Zhang Fengxue shows up to greet me!"

"Commander, which unit of the Wolf Brigade are we going to?" the communications officer asked.

Deputy General Lin thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the Sixth Company of the First Regiment and see what this Ninth Platoon is like!"

Back at the Sixth Company's camp, when Xu Ge returned with his troops, he found that Guo Yuanshuai and the others who had already died in battle had returned and were eating fruit in the cookhouse tent.

"Each squad and platoon take a headcount. Don't unload your weapons and equipment yet. Rest in place. The commanders will be here soon!" Liu Guoping shouted.

Seeing that everyone had returned, Guo Yuanshuai brought over a few bananas and handed one to each person.

"Ge Bao, I heard that you personally killed the Blue Army commander?" Guo Yuanshuai asked with a smile.

Xu Ge sat cross-legged on the ground, munching on a banana, and nodded: "Squad leader, I was just lucky. At that time, it was just me and Thor who chased after us."

"Well done!"

At this moment, Liu Guoping and Luo Shan, who had finished counting the number of people, also came over and surrounded Xu Ge. "Quickly, tell us the details."

The surroundings fell silent instantly. Everyone looked at them with a mixture of envy and pride, waiting to hear what had happened.

"When Thor called me over, all nine of the squad leader's men had already been killed, but it seemed they had also inflicted heavy losses on the Blue Army's guard company. So Thor and I went into the woods to chase them..."

"I only had one grenade left. Thor told me to throw it in the truck bed, but then my dad suddenly did a 720-degree drift and cut off the Blue Team's car!"

"Wow!!!"

A chorus of exclamations erupted from all around.

Liu Guoping exclaimed excitedly, "I didn't know Uncle Xu had helped us so much! Instructor, our Sixth Company must thank him properly!"

Jiang Da said with a serious face: "That's a must! How about this, Company Commander? I'll first write a thank-you letter in the name of our Sixth Company, and then make a banner and send it over along with the bonus and some souvenirs."

“Okay, I agree!” Liu Guoping nodded.

Luo Shan put his arm around Xu Ge's neck: "Well done, kid! You're a hero in our Sixth Company now, even in the whole regiment!"

Xu Ge was so embarrassed by the praise that he quickly said, "I was just lucky, really. You don't know, if the squad leader and his nine men hadn't fought so fiercely, the Blue Army commander wouldn't have been scared away."

They don't know that there are no more of our people in the woods!

"Hahaha!"

The soldiers burst into laughter.

Niu San raised his head and shouted, "That's right! Let me tell you, I was going crazy back then! Do you know what going crazy means? I emptied all five magazines..."

Guo Yuanshuai said irritably, "You still have the nerve to say that? You were the first to die, you almost ruined everything!"

"Squad leader, I was so focused on firing my pistol that I didn't realize the grenade had bounced off two trees and rolled over here..."

Liu Guoping asked, "Old squad leader, how many people did you take down?"

Guo Yuanshuai said calmly, "About half of the Blue Army's guard company."

Holy crap!!! That's awesome!

The soldiers gasped in surprise again.

"stand up!"

Someone shouted, and everyone immediately stood up.

"Hello, Captain!"

"Alright, alright, everyone, take a break and continue resting!"

Fu Qiang hurried over, waving for everyone to sit down, and quickly approached Guo Yuanshuai, whispering, "Squad Leader Guo, can you contact the brigade commander now?"

Guo Yuanshuai was somewhat surprised: "What happened?"

"Deputy Commander Lin is going to lead a team to visit the Sixth Company and specifically requested that the brigade commander accompany them, but we can't get in touch with him right now!"

Did you make a phone call?

"I called but no one answered."

"What about the other number?"

Fu Qiang was taken aback: "Boss, he has another number?"

Guo Yuanshuai took out his phone, walked to the side and started dialing, while Fu Qiang and his group waited in place.

Seeing Guo Yuanshuai quickly make a call and say something, Fu Qiang's expression was extremely sour: "Damn! Even I didn't know the boss had another number!"

Everyone else stood by, suppressing their laughter and not daring to utter a sound.

A short while later, Guo Yuanshuai walked over.

"How is it? Where's the brigade commander?" Fu Qiang asked hurriedly. "Did you tell him that Vice General Lin is coming?"

"said."

Guo Yuanshuai nodded. "He's on his way back now, and his other phone is out of battery."

"No, why can't I reach the radio if my phone is out of battery?" Fu Qiang wondered. "It was working fine when I was giving instructions, but we lost contact as soon as the exercise ended!"

Guo Yuanshuai smiled and said, "That's because he had been using local radio stations to command the troops in order to prevent the Blue Army from eavesdropping."

"A local radio station?" Fu Qiang was completely bewildered. "Where was the brigade commander during the exercises?"

Guo Yuanshuai continued to laugh: "Ask him yourself later! The brigade commander said he'll arrive in half an hour, and told you, regimental commander, to go and chat with Deputy General Lin first."

"Half an hour, right? Okay! I'll go over there and stall for time!" Fu Qiang said, then hurriedly left again.

After the officers left, the people of the Ninth Platoon gathered around Guo Yuanshuai. Xu Ge asked in a low voice, "Deputy Platoon Leader, where was the brigade commander before?"

Guo Yuanshuai's face was full of admiration: "I would never have imagined that the squad leader would set up the command post inside the armed forces department in Queshan County!"

(End of this chapter)