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The deep night covers the land, the insects and pigs in the winter mountains and wilderness are extinct, and most of the birds and finches have also fallen asleep in their nests, except for bats still flying in the air in search of food. From the top of the city, the cooing of owls can be heard from time to time, and occasionally they can be seen swooping down from the branches to catch the fat figures of mountain mice.

About three kilometers west of the county seat of Guogen, a heavily armed team of six people, forming a formation of two triangular arrows, one in front and one behind, took advantage of the undulating terrain to move from one mound to another with half their bodies in motion. Under the camouflage-clad Kevlar helmets, all of them wear black hoods that only show their eyes, which do not reflect in the slightest in the night.

Their movements were fast, moving from one hill to another in just a few seconds, and with the combat camouflage and the heavy darkness of the night, even at close range, they could only see something passing by in a flash. A little farther away, it's almost impossible to see anyone moving here.

If you look closely, you will find that when they run, their boots are the forefoot of the ground first, and there is an upward retraction action at the moment of contact with the ground, and the heel does not touch the ground, so as to slow down the impact when landing and avoid making loud noises.

But even in the midst of rapid movements, they remain on high alert.

Each person holds the gun in their right hand and the handguard in their left hand, the butt rests against their shoulder, and the muzzle of the gun is maintained in the same direction as the movement, and is slightly offset according to their position in the squad, forming a fan. Everyone's index finger is on the trigger guard to ensure that they don't accidentally touch the trigger when running, and at the same time they can immediately pull the trigger and shoot at the target when they notice the situation.

After about two or three minutes of the search team, another team of dozens of people followed their pace. Their outfits are exactly the same as those of the search team in front of them, and they also cover their faces with hoods, and they are also careful when they move, and they are also careful not to make a sound when running.

It's just that there are a lot of them, and even if they are careful, they still make a lot of noise when they run. People within tens of meters, as long as they are not asleep, can hear the noisy footsteps formed by many people running.

A group of people rushed behind a small dirt slope several meters high, and an officer in the front with a five-four pistol in front raised his left hand in a half-squat, elbows outward, forearms stretched upward, palms together, palms facing behind him.

Seeing his gesture, the others quickly stopped, made a vigilant gesture, and waited for a new order.

Feng Aiguo threw himself on the dirt slope, kicked the ground with both feet, quickly climbed to the top of the slope, carefully exposed only one head, raised the telescope, and searched for the pathfinding team in front. Hou Ping, the deputy instructor, was behind him, and also climbed to his side and searched with him with a telescope.

He searched around, and Hou Ping lightly touched him with his elbow and pointed to the side.

He quickly turned the lens, and soon found a few faint phosphorescence points dancing between the dirt slopes in the eight-fold military telescope. The phosphorescent light was applied to the back of the collar of the search team, and the front could not be seen, but the large troops behind could find their location through the phosphorescent light.

The phosphorescent light was so faint that they could not be seen at a few paces, and they could only be found by searching purposefully with a telescope.

If someone has a particularly good eye and sees these beating phosphorescences, as long as they are not seasoned veterans, most ordinary people will think of them as ghost fires in the mountains.

Good boy, run so fast!

Feng Aiguo silently admired them in his heart, admired them again, and was proud of having such a strong soldier under his command.

The task of the search team is arduous, and whether or not they can quickly and covertly find out the accessible road determines the safety of the entire unit, so the psychological pressure is very great. And in order not to alarm the enemy, their running posture is extremely strict, and their movements do not conform to the body's own functions, and they have to quickly approach the enemy's position, and their physical strength is particularly fast.

Don't look at the distance of just one or two kilometers, but it is a perfect result on weekdays. Ordinary people run according to their movements, either cramps or physical exhaustion, and it is impossible to complete it.

Feng Aiguo did not immediately lead the team to follow, but still crouched on the top of the slope, used a telescope to pass over the head of the search team, and looked at the long and sloping hill hundreds of meters in front of them to the right.

Like Yunnan, the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with mountains and few flat lands.

The Guogen area is also surrounded by mountains, and 90% of the territory is covered by mountains. Even if the county seat is located, it is only a mountain basin, and there is only a small area of completely flat place, with the northwest-southeast direction as the bottom, in a triangular shape.

There are also some long strips of land sandwiched by the surrounding mountains, which are considered arable flat land.

After asking Deputy Commander Chang and others before, he knew that after Peng Desheng's troops could not lead the attack, it was late in the day, so he retreated to the southeast and settled down on a hill about four kilometers away from the county seat. It seems that Peng Desheng is still very careful, and he is not arrogant enough to camp under the city, but chooses a hill that is easy to defend as a backing, and builds a very layered defense system, so as not to be attacked by the city at night.

Although the deputy commander had only drawn a sketch and did not have a precise topography, and even the shape of the directions and mountains was somewhat deformed, he could still understand where it was at a glance with the help of several iconic references such as lakes and mountains used to distinguish the location.

Because of the specific terrain, Feng Aiguo has a very clear memory on the sand table and large-scale military topographic map made by the military sub-district. Although he had never been here, and the sky was so dark that he could barely see his fingers, he could still accurately find the location where Peng Desheng's troops were stationed.

Pengbu is only a few kilometers away from the county seat, which can be seen clearly with a telescope. The deputy commander and others used their fingers to draw in great detail the location of the camp they had set up and the location of several guard posts, which were concentrated on a roughly arc-shaped mountain range in the southeast of the county seat, and did not send a guard post on a small hill adjacent to the mountain range 20 meters away.

Although this small hill is not connected to the mountain range, and there is a gap of 20 meters in the middle, judging from the shape, it belongs to the remnant vein of this mountain range. And after crossing a section of more than ten meters, it is connected with another mountain range in the rear, and gradually rises up, stretching for dozens of kilometers, until it reaches the peak of Daqing Mountain.

The strip-shaped shallow hill running northeast-southwest a few hundred meters in front of the search team is the mountain range that is only about ten meters away from the small hill.

Who knows if Peng Desheng will quietly send a small force here after night falls, as a cover for the left flank. Even if there are no troops on it, from the point of view of vigilance, it is appropriate to put an observation post on the top of the mountain. As long as Peng Desheng is not so careless as to lose his due vigilance, he should have a night sentry here.

So he didn't rush to lead the troops to follow, but first in the rear, observing from a distance, to see if anything unusual happened on the mountain as the search team approached.

Anyway, it's only six or seven hundred meters, and if the search team is ambushed, it will be too late for him to bring a large force up.

The question he thought of, the search team had apparently thought of as well. In the telescope, the amplitude of those beating phosphorescent leaps became much smaller, and they turned from rushing quickly at the beginning to engaging the enemy. As they got closer to the mountains, the team became more and more cautious, except that each time they moved to a hidden place, they would stay for a short time after entering the hidden object, observing the surrounding movement to make sure that there was any alarm to the enemy, and then move on to the next hiding place.

While waiting for them to approach cautiously, Feng Aiguo returned to the back of the hillside and asked the guards to find out the combat map issued by the military division from the briefcase. Then let the others sit in a circle, cover out the possible bright light, and use the low-light flashlight they carry with them to carefully study the topographic map of the vicinity.

It took twenty minutes for the search team to finally reach the bottom of the mountains. With a clearer understanding of the terrain of this generation, Feng Aiguo and the others who returned to the top of the slope couldn't help but tighten their hearts, holding the binoculars, staring at the few beating phosphorescences without blinking, and constantly searching all over the mountain, for fear that the fire fired from the muzzle of the gun would suddenly appear somewhere.

This mountain range is not very high, and the topographic map produced by the military sub-district shows that the highest part of the ridge is about 250 meters, the northern section is relatively flat, and the slopes on both sides range from about 20 to 40 degrees. The southern section is very steep, with a slope of about 45 degrees, which is prismatic and difficult to climb on both sides.

As a result, the peaks of the mountains resemble blades, and there is hardly enough foothold for troops to be stationed here. Considering that Peng Desheng did not have many troops, the main force must be concentrated in the mountains northeast of Xiaoshantou, where most troops will not be stationed. Even if he didn't feel at ease, at most he would put a guard post on the top of a small hill, and it would probably be on a relatively flat part of the northern part of the mountain.

The phosphorescent light representing the search team moved more and more slowly, and was sometimes obscured by the terrain, disappearing from view for a moment before quietly appearing in another location.

Feng Aiguo and the others saw that the search team was divided into two groups of three, one of which was in front and slowly moved up the western slope. The other group fell dozens of meters back all the time, not keeping up with them.

This is also the standard cover formation.

When a group of three people in front was crawling forward, the group behind relied on the uneven terrain, set up their guns, and was ready to attack the sudden appearance of the enemy at any time to cover the retreat of the front group.

Wait until the first group is in place and stop, and then the next group sets off and comes to them. Then the first group is on guard, and the second group crawls forward, and the two teams alternate to find the way until they encounter the enemy or successfully complete the reconnaissance.

Under the attention of Feng Aiguo and others, the two groups kept moving forward slowly, slowly approaching the top of the northern section of the mountain range.

In this process, there were no accidents, whether it was this mountain range or the small hills in the northeast, it was quiet. If it wasn't that the scouts were stealthy and didn't alarm the enemy, it was Peng Desheng who didn't place a guard on this mountain range.

When the search team successfully reached the top, Feng Aiguo finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the heart that mentioned his heart also returned to his chest. He raised his hand to wipe the sweat oozing from his forehead, and found that the deputy instructor Hou Ping was also doing the same thing, and the two looked at each other and smiled, everything was silent.

Being a soldier is dangerous, and no one knows when they will fall on the battlefield. Scouts are the most dangerous of the troops, and they are responsible for reconnoitring the enemy's situation for the troops, often going behind enemy lines and operating under the enemy's nose without adequate cover. Any slight mistake may be frantically attacked by the enemy, surrounded by heavy enemy troops, and suffer heavy losses.

During the training, Feng Aiguo can still look at them with a calm mind, and if he makes a mistake, he will just be severely reprimanded, and then he will have to do it all over again.

But on the real battlefield, there is no chance to do it all over again.

The price of a mistake is life!

You must know that for the convenience of their movements, they only wore combat uniforms, and even the body armor was too cumbersome to take off, and they were not equipped with bulletproof inserts. No matter how beautiful the combat uniform is, it can't stop the bullets. If they are caught in the middle of an enemy reconnaissance, they have little chance of surviving when the enemy is concentrated on the attack.

When the reconnaissance team was quietly climbing, although it was a few hundred meters away, Feng Aiguo was so nervous that he didn't dare to come out, and his palms holding the telescope were all sweaty. He was ready to lead his troops forward as soon as the situation changed, and was ready to respond to their retreat.

It wasn't until he saw that they had successfully reached the summit and that there was no danger that he was relieved, wiped his palms, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Even if you are experienced in a hundred battles, the tension when you are on the battlefield is always the same.

"They're crazy! I even want to continue to scout that little hill! It's simply unorganized and undisciplined! Feng Aiguo had just let go of the nervousness, and Hou Ping, who was beside him, suddenly violated the discipline of the battlefield, and the words he scolded in a low voice were instantly raised again, and he immediately raised the telescope in front of him and looked in the direction where the reconnaissance team was located.

When he saw it, he was so angry that his nostrils smoked.

Sure enough, as Hou Ping said, after climbing the mountain range, the reconnaissance team did not return, but moved down the north slope. Judging from their direction, they intended to continue their efforts and continue to move forward to the hill ahead to reconnoiter for any enemy above.

It's just a mess!

He dared to guarantee 100 percent that Peng Desheng would definitely release people on the hill, and he didn't dare to say how much, but at least there would be one or several fixed posts, two or three secret posts, and maybe a mobile post.

After all, Peng Desheng is a veteran general who has fought an old battle, and he is at the forefront of the operation, how can he be defenseless?

The reconnaissance team has made sure that there is no enemy on the mountain range, which is already a great achievement, and can ensure that the large army can approach the mountain range without scruples. Then consider touching the sentinels sent by Peng Desheng, or continue to go around, and make the next decision according to the situation.

It's too reckless to touch it directly!

Feng Aiguo was so anxious that he couldn't care about observing the situation here, and as soon as he rolled down from the top of the slope, he shouted in a low voice to the guards and the third platoon commander who came to help him: "Old Huang is too reckless, he actually wants to directly touch the enemy's sentry post under his nose." Quick, gather your troops, and follow me all out! ”

After saying that, he buckled his somewhat crooked helmet and took the lead in rushing out of the mound where he was hiding, and rushed towards the direction of the mountain range.

Although the situation was urgent, he did not rush to mess around.

Under his leadership, the troops approached the target as cautiously as possible under the cover of various obstacles along the road. When he was still a distance of one or two hundred meters from the southern section of the mountain, he slowed down his pace so that the sound of the fast run would not reach too far and alarm the enemy.

The human eyesight of the naked eye, in this kind of dark night, can only see twenty or thirty meters at most. In the case of a bright full moon, only moving targets can be seen sixty or seventy meters away. Knowing that there were no enemy sentinels on the mountain range, he was not worried that his troops would be detected by the enemy, but the sound was different, and in such a quiet night, the sound of a large group of people rushing wildly was enough to be heard for two or three hundred meters.

Fortunately, when everyone had already run to the bottom of the mountain and turned north along the mountain, they had not heard the sound of gunfire from the hill.

In the last distance, they were more careful, and set off one by one in a squad, gradually converging on the front, and finally seventy-three people gathered at the foot of the northern section of the mountain range.

It was only a few dozen meters from the hill, and everyone held their breath, and the movement of holding the firearm was even more slight, for fear of the sound of the metal parts of the automatic rifle colliding.

Feng Aiguo followed the foot of the mountain, climbed to a position where he could see the opposite mountain, and observed the situation again.

It was so close that he didn't use a telescope this time, and he could see the green fluorescence approaching the top of the mountain. Obviously, the reconnaissance team is not without brains, their movements are very slow, every meter they climb forward, they have to stay for a long time, and their movements are so slow that if they don't stare all the time, they don't realize that they have moved some distance forward.

In the process, they did not alarm the possible enemies on the top of the mountain.

This proves that the other party did not pay too much attention to this mountain, and it may be that the troops are not enough, or they did not expect that they would touch up from the left behind, so they did not put sentries on the mountainside, so that the reconnaissance team successfully touched the place close to the top of the mountain.

But here, they all stopped, and for a long time they did not move forward.

Feng Aiguo suddenly understood: they had discovered the enemy! And the enemy was so close to them, so close that it was possible to be just a few meters in front of them, so they didn't dare to move. As long as you move, no matter how small the action is, it may alarm the other party!

He immediately raised his binoculars, went over the head of the reconnaissance team, and searched upwards inch by inch, and then, behind a rock five or six meters in front of the team, he found something in the shape of a semicircle. Although there was no bright light to illuminate it, Feng Aiguo immediately understood what it was from the ducktongue-like thing on the front end of the round object-military hat!

Descending from the military hat, only a black shadow could be seen, and it was completely impossible to discern what it was. But with the military hat as a reminder, he naturally knew that it was a squatting or sitting person.

From the direction of the brim, it was clear that he was facing the reconnaissance team, and that he might be trying to keep his eyes open right now, watching where they were lying on their stomach.

The reconnaissance team climbed up from below with a very slow movement, slowly revealing a head without revealing the target, but if the whole body leaned out, it would inevitably be recognized by the other party. That's why the reconnaissance team didn't move, because they didn't even dare to retreat now.

Feng Aiguo quickly crawled backwards and found the sniper Xu Zhen and his partner Cao Chengwen, the assistant shooter, in the standby unit, and pointed at the two of them, and then pointed at the silencer they carried. The two of them immediately took off the silencer, loaded it into the muzzle of the Type 79 sniper rifle, and then followed him and slowly climbed to a high place.

The location of the reconnaissance team is very unfavorable, and the height difference between the top and bottom is large. They could see the sentry, but it was blocked by a rock, and only a trace of the scalp was exposed. The scout at the front also spotted him from the side after changing positions, but he was also exposed to the other party's sight and lost the possibility of attacking.

Others, on the other hand, would have been almost impossible to kill the sentry from the bottom up.

Xu Zhen and their position is different, although the place where they are located is low, from here at most you can only see the part above the neck of the dark whistle, and the neck below is covered by the terrain. But he can change direction, avoid the big rock that gets in the way, and snipe from the side of the sentry's face.

The two gestured silently for a few seconds before parting.

Xu Zhen lay down on the spot, his sniper rifle resting on a rock, slowly adjusting his breathing, and inserting the black circle into the crosshairs.

Cao Chengwen raised his gun in a kneeling position two meters away to his left and aimed it at the back of the side of the dark whistle's head.

The two adjusted, Xu Zhen pulled the trigger first, Cao Chengwen immediately made up the shot after hearing the sound, "poof" and "poof" The difference between the two soft sounds was only 0.0 seconds, and the black shadow hiding behind the rock shook for a while, and then disappeared into the shadows with a slight sound of stones rolling.

The sound of silencer-mounted sniper rifles is faint, and the breeze blows through the hills, reducing the likelihood of being spotted.

Seeing that the dark sentry disappeared, the reconnaissance team did not continue to move forward, nor did it retreat, but still lay motionless in place. Xu Zhen and Cao Chengwen immediately loaded the second bullet and aimed in that direction again. Feng Aiguo even commanded the group that came up, aimed at the possible position of the enemy on the top of the mountain, and prepared to shoot.

One second, two seconds, ......, everybody was on standby.

There was no change, no one poked their heads out of the hill to look, no one shouted, and there was no sound except for the mountain wind blowing in their ears.

The scout team moved forward again, and after a few minutes, they found themselves next to the rock where the outpost was hiding.

A scout raised his hand and gave a thumbs-up to the bottom of the hill to indicate that there were no enemies—the enemies who had been here had been killed!