Soldiers' Assault: Veteran Special Agents and New Recruits

Chapter 173 Discovered Something Incredible (Please Subscribe)

They've been infiltrating for most of the day, and haven't made any significant gains yet. For the Ace of Spades team under immense pressure, this is really demoralizing.

Now that a major discovery has finally been made, it's like a shot of adrenaline.

"Calling Team Two, this is Team One. There's a major discovery in CL45, we need to investigate together. You guys come around from the side to observe. Over."

After making the call over the radio, Jackie Chan led a group of people and carefully crept over.

"Group Two received, en route, over."

Wu Zhe needed a little stimulation, so upon receiving the news, he immediately dispatched a large team to the CL45 area.

To avoid being discovered by the Red Army, Jackie Chan dared not get too close and led his team to carefully approach the small hill 100 meters away on the left side of the camp.

He took out the binoculars, opened the dust cover, and then took out two more covers to put the lens back on.

Xu Sanduo and Tuo Yonggang, who were standing nearby, saw this but did not react strangely to Jackie Chan's odd behavior; their expressions remained very calm.

This is a little trick.

Jackie Chan had already taught them these tips during the three-month intensive training course.

The two covers on Jackie Chan's back were designed to be more discreet when in use. A little trick was done: a hole the size of a peanut was cut in the middle.

Due to the principle of pinhole imaging, a telescope with a hole in the lens cover will not be affected in its use.

The observation results are about the same!

With this cover, the telescope can effectively avoid the glare and flickering that can be seen from several kilometers away when the telescope lens is used in sunlight.

If the telescope lens isn't modified, it's easy to expose itself if it's just taken out and used like this.

With the aid of a telescope, the effect is noticeably different.

From a distance of one or two hundred meters, one could only tell with the naked eye that the campsite covered a large area, at least several thousand square meters.

Because of the sparse trees providing cover, and the excellent camouflage, the situation was dire.

It's really hard to tell what kind of camp it is.

However, with the help of a telescope, everything in front of us became clear.

"Good heavens, I just found my son, and now I've found the father too. Did I come here to run into this thing?"

Seeing the scene clearly before him, Jackie Chan couldn't help but mentally complain.

The sixty or seventy tanks, camouflaged to the extreme, were covered with camouflage clothing and tree branches with leaves, and were also concealed by the sparse woods.

This is clearly the main camp of a tank regiment!

As early as this morning, Wu Zhe's second group discovered a tank battalion, and now they've discovered a tank regiment. They're really going after tanks.

Although tank regiments were also the main force of the Red Army, they were indispensable in charging into battle or fighting positional warfare.

Moreover, in all three scenarios provided by the exercise command, the Blue Army had tank damage targets regardless of which one they implemented, and they could only win if they completed them.

However, Jackie Chan's target on this trip was the artillery regiment, and he found that the tank regiment was completely useless.

What a disappointment!

On the battlefield, different types of troops are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining, and they also coordinate their operations with each other. Both sides will take the other's troops into account when fighting.

Before the artillery regiment was taken down, the combined arms battalion dared not make any move.

Intermittent harassment attacks have already begun.

The exercise officially began at 9:00 AM yesterday. Nearly 24 hours have passed since then. In addition to sending out the electronic reconnaissance company to collect information on the Red Army's position deployment from the perimeter, the combined arms battalion has been conducting the exercise.

There has been no actual combat action.

It wasn't until Jackie Chan reported to the Blue Army command that the infiltration operation had been discovered by the Red Army, which had dispatched ground troops to search for it.

The Blue Team launched its first attack this morning in order to distract the Ace of Spades team.

The battle eliminated the traditional direct assault on positions, instead employing a combined arms approach of infantry and tanks, along with air and ground forces, to conduct harassment and mobile warfare against the Red Army's extensive outer perimeter positions.

They don't give you any real positional warfare; they just keep launching harassing feints from the outside.

This continuous harassment and attack from the perimeter not only revealed the Red Army's troop deployments at various positions, but also provided some cover for the Ace of Spades squad.

Otherwise, with no defensive pressure whatsoever, the Red Army would be a huge problem for the Ace of Spades team.

Even if only one-third of the three armored infantry regiments on the Red Army's perimeter were withdrawn to join the search, the Ace of Spades squad would have no chance of escaping.

As long as the Blue Team continues to harass from the outside, maintaining a menacing offensive momentum.

The Red Army dared not move their outer perimeter positions!

Because once the position is breached, the main attack force is the self-contained combined arms battalion with a fast attack pace, which can break through the entire Red Army position within an hour.

The Red Army's positions were less than 20 kilometers deep, and a fully mechanized force could have crossed them in an instant.

If the Blue Army can break through the outer perimeter and enter the abdomen, then the Red Army will become like Princess Iron Fan who ate Sun Wukong, allowing the Blue Army to churn and wreak havoc inside her.

At that time, the artillery regiment, air defense regiment, and helicopter squadron located inside will all suffer.

Even the division headquarters couldn't be saved!

The Red Army was well aware of this stakes, so when they had searched all night without any results, they did not withdraw any armored infantry company.

Instead, they deployed helicopter squadrons to participate in the search, looking for the infiltrated Blue Army forces from the air.

but.

The Blue Team's mobile harassment tactics are time-sensitive; the longer they drag on, the less effective they become.

For every minute that the Ace of Spades team is delayed in finding the artillery regiment, their danger behind enemy lines increases by one point, until they are eventually surrounded and annihilated by several regiments.

It ended in a disgraceful way!

Knowing that the longer it went on, the more dangerous it would be, Jackie Chan was very disappointed when he discovered that it was a tank regiment, not an artillery regiment.

If the goal is wrong, there's nothing that can be done.

We can only keep searching.

After relaying the tank regiment's coordinates to the Blue Army command, Jackie Chan continued leading the Ace of Spades team in their search, completing a crucial part of their mission.

However, not long after starting over, Jackie Chan thought of a possibility.

"The tank regiment is most afraid of armed helicopters. In order to ensure the safety of the tank regiment, the Red Army will definitely make special deployments for defense. Placing the anti-aircraft regiment nearby can perfectly resolve this problem."

Anti-aircraft regiments lack ground combat capabilities and are easily disintegrated under ground attacks, making them ideal for protection by tank regiments.

The two regiments can cooperate to protect each other; the air defense regiment is likely located nearby.

Jackie Chan thought about it more and more and it seemed possible.

Since we're already here, and the anti-aircraft regiment is one of the indicators of victory, it's definitely beneficial to look for it while we're at it.

Jackie Chan immediately relayed his thoughts to Wu Zhe, telling him to be extra careful when searching.

The air defense regiment definitely has air defense radar vehicles. The main reason is that the radar is still operating normally, so the large antenna on the roof of the vehicle cannot be camouflaged or concealed.

With just a little attention, you can see very clearly within a 200-meter range.

As it turns out!

Jackie Chan's conjecture was not unfounded, but rather based on very solid logical reasoning.

Less than 10 minutes later, good news came from Wu Zhe's side: a large campsite had been discovered, and it was confirmed that there was vehicle-mounted detection radar.

Jackie Chan ran over and used binoculars to observe again, confirming that it was indeed the Red Army's air defense regiment.

Even when covered with jungle camouflage cloth, the unique shapes of the Type 85 anti-aircraft gun and the Type 87 25mm anti-aircraft gun can still be glimpsed.

After confirming that it was the Red Army's air defense regiment, Jackie Chan reported the coordinates again.

Battalion Commander Liu Zhongxing, who was stationed at the Blue Army command post, and Yuan Lang and other commanders were happy, but also a little speechless.

The Red Army only had four tactical points in total.

Helicopters are already flying all over the place, and the coordinates of the tank regiment and the air defense regiment have been found. The only thing missing is an artillery regiment.

The only missing piece was the artillery regiment, which happened to be the core objective of Operation Black Sword.

I found everything I didn't want, but I was missing what I did want.

How can this not give you a headache!

Battalion Commander Liu Zhongxing didn't know how to describe it. He could only continue to wait anxiously and sigh inwardly at his bad luck.

Today's scene suggests they haven't consulted the Chinese almanac.

As the leader of the Ace of Spades team and the person directly in charge of Operation Black Sword, Jackie Chan was also at a loss for words, and could only lead his team to continue the search.

And we must hurry!

The increasing density of helicopters overhead indicated that the Red Army was searching more and more areas, and the unsearched areas were rapidly shrinking.

As the Red Army conducts a thorough search, the Black Spade A squad's operational space will be gradually compressed, and it will only become more difficult as time goes on.

This means that the time left for Team A of Spades is decreasing at an extremely rapid pace.

however.

That's exactly what happened.

The more you want something, the less likely you are to get it.

Team A of Spades, with both groups working at full speed, searched for several more hours, and before they knew it, it was almost 4 p.m.

Jackie Chan discovered another large camp, which was the largest camp they had encountered so far.

And we ruled out artillery regiments first!

The campsite covers a large area, but it is not very exposed; in fact, it is quite well hidden, with natural cover.

The reason is that its location is very tricky, situated in a valley right between two steep mountains.

It's somewhat similar to one of those narrow passages between cliffs.

The difference lies in the fact that the central space is much wider, and the width on both sides exceeds 40 meters, which is now occupied by tents of all sizes.

The steep mountain peaks on both sides served as natural shelters, protecting the campsite located in the middle.

Not within the artillery firing angle!

Even if Jackie Chan reported the location to the Blue Army command, the shells fired would not be able to land in the camp, as they would be blocked by the mountains on both sides.

Instead, deploy a large number of armed helicopters, just like when the old A Railway attacked the 702nd Regiment's command post.

This won't work here either.

The Red Army had a dedicated anti-aircraft regiment, and several anti-aircraft guns were mounted on both sides of the valley's exit, clearly transferred from the anti-aircraft regiment.

When armed helicopters arrive in this special terrain, they become easy targets for anti-aircraft fire.

Most importantly...

The enormous field tent in the middle of the camp, three or four meters high and covering an area of ​​over 200 square meters, is enough to highlight the extraordinary nature of this camp.

(End of this chapter)