Reborn in 1993, Dark Sea

Watching An Xiaohai steer the boat towards the enemy lines, Zhou Xun frowned: "Xiaohai is too reckless, why did he have to do this..."

"You're not allowed to talk about him like that!" Yan Hong glared at Zhou Xun and said.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Zhou Xun asked, taken aback.

"Wrong, terribly wrong!" Yan Hong said, gritting his teeth as he looked away.

Zhou Xun was slightly taken aback, but quickly figured out the key point: if An Xiaohai simply needed to vent his anger, then he shouldn't have driven them away. Taking them back with him would have given him a better chance of winning, and even if they lost in the end, they could still kill a few more.

However, An Xiaohai ordered them to leave, which clearly contradicted his purpose of venting his anger.

"So what exactly does he want to do?" Zhou Xun asked instinctively.

"He's trying to cover our escape alive!" Yan Hong slammed his fist on the gunwale.

"Wasn't it already made clear at the previous meeting that there is likely an enemy ambush ahead? If we rush in headfirst, their ships are fast and they can break out without much problem, but we will be in danger."

We shouldn't have been with them in the first place. According to the original plan, after rescuing our comrades, we were to escort them to meet up with the four squads that were going to land on the island, and then transfer the rescued comrades and their belongings together.

He never intended to take us on this adventure; it's just that something unexpected happened.

"So he used this excuse to separate from us, and led his men to distract the enemy so that we could break through smoothly?!" Zhou Xun was dumbfounded.

"What else did you think? Look at the operations he's commanded; wasn't he always extremely cautious? Wasn't he always focused on achieving the greatest victory with the least cost? Have you ever seen him act on emotion and insist on fighting the enemy head-on?"

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"We can't leave, we have to go back and help him!"

"Just shut up! Don't make things worse! How are we supposed to help? Charge in, get crippled by the enemy, then have to come back to rescue us, only to be wiped out together?"

"We can't just do nothing and watch, can we?"

"Hmph!" Yan Hong snorted coldly: "Don't worry, he'll be fine. He never intended to fight the enemy head-on. If he were so focused on fighting the enemy, he wouldn't have left the remains of his comrades on his ship."

This guy has never suffered a loss!

This time, he spent so much money and resources, but he failed to save anyone and only brought back a pile of skeletons. It looks like this business is about to fail.

He ordered the four landing teams to transport the seized assets from B1 Island first, which was to break even.

Then, he led us off course and drove us all the way to the edge of the enemy's encirclement before saying that he was going to kill people to vent his anger and ordered us to leave first. This was his second attempt to protect himself; he wanted to break through with minimal losses, while also probably thinking of taking advantage of the situation.

That's definitely what he's thinking, huh!

"Have we veered off course?"

"What else? We should be heading due east, but we're sailing northeast! This guy can only fool you sea newbies. I've been around the coast for years, and he thinks he can fool me?!"

Zhou Xun was startled and quickly took out her compass to check. Sure enough, the two speedboats were heading northeast.

At this point, Zhou Xun finally understood.

The enemy was keeping them trailing behind, not because they couldn't catch up at all, but more likely because they were in contact with the enemy lying in ambush to the east, adjusting their deployments, forming an encirclement, and then waiting for them to fall into the encirclement.

An Xiaohai saw through this, which is why he had everyone split into two teams to break through. In this way, the enemy also had to adjust their tactics, either splitting into two to intercept them separately, or they would have to choose one of the two options.

At sea, it is difficult to intercept without overwhelming superiority, so the enemy will most likely have to choose one of two options. An Xiaohai took the initiative to provoke the enemy, hoping to make them choose him.

"I'm so stupid!" Zhou Xun gritted her teeth and punched the ship's side with a loud bang.

"It's not that you're stupid, it's that you don't understand him. I used to be a complete idiot too, but after hanging out with him for a while, I learned how to think outside the box."

"Hmph, we can't let this guy underestimate us; we need to use our brains too!"

"What ideas do you have?"

"Simple. Didn't he order us to evacuate? Then we'll just evacuate. As long as we get out of the encirclement, we'll have fulfilled his order."

Now that we've completed his orders, it's none of his business anymore!

We found four landing teams, and after ensuring the safety of the transported goods, we took them with us to fight our way back.

With Xiao Hai gone, Lao Fang and I are the highest-ranking, so we're the ones who can give orders! We'll go back, find an opportunity to ambush them, and then run away. We can't afford to suffer any losses; we need to take a bite out of them.

Yes, that's what we'll do!

"Great idea! What are we waiting for? Let's go find them!"

"Yes, we have to hurry, or we'll miss the meat again."

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"God bless us, Gatling gun's effective range!"

"1000!"

"Where are their guns?"

"Estimated at 800."

"Understood. How many bullets do we have left?"

"Nearly 7000 rounds."

"Alright, use half at most this round, and save the other half for a breakout. Xie Dan!"

"Yes, boss."

"You're in charge of deploying floating mines!"

"good!"

"We're ready."

"Brother, what am I supposed to do?" Kunji was getting anxious. He had injuries on his hands and feet and seemed unable to do anything.

"You're in charge of observing and reporting!" An Xiaohai tossed the binoculars to Kunji, who quickly caught them and started observing; this was a job he was good at.

The two speedboats were traveling in opposite directions and rapidly approaching each other.

"Two thousand meters, one thousand five hundred meters!" Kunji kept reporting the distances with his night vision rangefinder.

An Xiaohai looked up at the sky. Not long ago, the moon was bright and the stars were numerous, but now the stars and the moon were nowhere to be seen, and the sky and the sea were pitch black.

But this is a good thing.

huh~

An Xiaohai suddenly heard the sound of bullets slicing through the air nearby. The other side had already opened fire. Judging from the accuracy of the shooting, they should also have a night vision system.

"Ready!" An Xiaohai shouted, jerking the rudder sharply. The speedboat immediately made a 120-degree turn and plunged into the enemy formation diagonally in front.

At the same time, Xu Tianyou pressed the fire button on the Gatling gun, and a bright rain of fire ripped through the night sky and hurtled towards the enemy lines.

Xie Dan, on one side of the ship, slowly released half a box of small floating mines into the sea, quickly forming a nearly 300-meter-long floating mine belt in front of the enemy.

An Xiaohai swerved again, making another 120-degree turn, still heading diagonally ahead of the enemy lines. Any enemy speedboat that dared to pursue would crash into the floating minefield.

At the stern, Xu Tianyou kept firing his Gatling gun at the enemy speedboat, raining fire upon the enemy vessel. However, the sea was too dark to determine the outcome of the battle.

The rain of fire from the Gatling gun also indicated the enemy's target, and An Xiaohai heard the whistling of bullets around him becoming increasingly dense.

Boom!

Finally, an enemy ship struck a floating mine, and the violent explosion suddenly lit up the entire sea surface! Half a box of floating mines had only taken down one enemy ship.

This result is already quite good. The sea is so vast that floating mines, once dropped onto the surface, will spread rapidly with the waves. It's not easy to actually hit an enemy ship; the harassment effect outweighs the damage.

The sudden light made An Xiaohai frown. Under the light, An Xiaohai could vaguely see that there seemed to be two huge shadows on the sea to his left!

"Kunji, look ahead!" An Xiaohai called out to Kunji while turning the speedboat around again to make it easier for the mobility-impaired Kunji to observe.

"Big brother, I see it clearly now, there are big guys up ahead! Two of them!"

"Two ships!? How did they get here?..." An Xiaohai quickly determined his direction, a chill running down his spine. Something was wrong! Something must have gone wrong!

"Kunji, check behind you again, see if it's there?!"

"Okay!" Kunji immediately followed An Xiaohai's instructions and began to observe the area behind them. After watching for a while, he did not find any ships on the sea. Kunji immediately told An Xiaohai about this result.

"What exactly happened?... " An Xiaohai's mind raced. This could only be a temporary adjustment made by the Luo An Command based on intelligence provided by their informant buried in the May Fire.

Based on the timing, they shouldn't be here. Their appearance so quickly must mean they received orders in advance.

Fortunately, the four teams that landed on the island left first, otherwise they might have run head-on into the two ships coming from the north.

"Damn it... something's definitely wrong. How did the enemy figure out our movements?"

An Xiaohai glanced back at Xu Tianyou, who was bending over changing his ammunition box. His Buddha-face necklace had fallen out of his collar, but he quickly stuffed it back in.

"Damn it! I planned everything perfectly, but I still overlooked him!" An Xiaohai slammed his fist on the rudder in anger, a sense of lingering fear rising in his heart.

Fortunately, the special operations team was incredibly capable, completing all their missions in just half the time and evacuating ahead of schedule. If they had followed the original plan, wouldn't they have been completely surrounded and defeated?!

Hey!

An Xiaohai was furious.

Just then, several more explosions came from the east, and several more fireballs lit up on the sea, like fireflies suddenly flashing in the darkness.

This is troublesome...

That should be the floating minefield that Uncle Xiao Hei set up not long ago, specifically to deal with the speedboats lying in ambush to the east. The fact that it detonated ahead of schedule means that the speedboats to the east have also been dispatched in advance and are encircling them.

"What should I do?... " An Xiaohai thought rapidly. Right now, it seems there's only one gap to the south, but is that really a way out?

An Xiaohai glanced back at the southern sea; it was dark and gloomy, and he could not see anything.

Just then, everyone heard a strange shriek. An Xiaohai's hair stood on end. They had opened fire!

Before everyone could react, a violent explosion occurred less than 50 meters to the right front of the speedboat. The explosion sent water flying everywhere, and the shockwave caused the speedboat to shake violently. Kunji was caught off guard and was thrown into the air. He was stopped by the side bow and then slammed heavily onto the deck with a miserable groan.

"Hold on tight! Tianyou, stop hitting him!" An Xiaohai shouted and decisively pressed two buttons, immediately starting the other two high-powered engines that had been idle.

An Xiaohai slammed the accelerator to the top, and the four high-horsepower engines instantly boosted the power to their maximum. Under this powerful thrust, the speedboat's bow lifted, and it sped off like an arrow towards the northeast.