The pilots of the 160th Flying Wing of the U.S. Army are all volunteers with more than 1,000 hours of flight time, and they have volunteered to receive the most dangerous all-weather combat flight training in order to break through the traditional helicopter operation time limit. After arduous training, with the help of night vision devices, it was able to complete covert special operations transport missions at low altitude and high speed in the dark night, so this unit was called the "Night Walker".

One MH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 1st Wing Battalion and two MH-6 special operations helicopters known as "Little Birds" arrived at Kilmoz Air Force Base on C-5 transport planes under the command of Kurt Russell. As regular collaborators of the CIA and the Delta's covert operations, the pilots of the team, Bell and Cotter, have worked together many times and know each other very well.

"The C.I.A. is a moment of unrest." Bell, who was as strong as an ox, shook Kurt's hand fiercely and shook it vigorously. "Still, I'll fly here wherever you need to. Kurt, you're the only one I'd work with in this department. ”

"Because I never yelled at you?" Kurt smiled. "Bell, that's because you're louder than anyone else. Trust me, sometimes I want to yell at you. ”

"I wanted to come because I couldn't stand the damn weather in Afghanistan anymore, and being able to change the environment was like a vacation for me." Bell hugged Kurt affectionately. "We've got your little trouble out of hand, and you'll find me a Tatar woman to compensate for it. I've heard they do a 'sun ride' trick? ”

"Where did you hear all this nonsense?" Kurt looked at Bell amusedly. "Don't touch the women here, they're all ***, and you don't have a good chance of meeting them."

Bell's face changed. "Are you kidding?"

Kurt ignored him and walked over to the MH-60G Pave Hawk.

The black steel monster birds crouching there were intimidating. Kurt has flown this aircraft many times, and what he likes most about this aircraft is that the MH-60G is equipped with an automatic flight control system that keeps the aircraft at a specific flight altitude, allowing the aircraft crew to get on and off the aircraft more quickly and smoothly when using the rescue winch and H-BAR; The two M134 Gatling guns with a caliber of 7.62mm are also capable of providing support fire if necessary. Of course, with the presence of the "Little Bird" MH-6 special operations helicopter, there is no need to worry about supporting firepower at all. The "Little Bird" also has two Gatling cannons each carrying 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and can be equipped with rocket nests depending on the situation, and even after such deployment, the "Little Bird" has the ability to quickly land two or three heavily armed soldiers.

"When will the Chinese come?" Bell asked Kurt suddenly.

Kurt feels one head and two big. "Where did you know we were going to deal with the Chinese?"

"Come on, brother." Bell smirked. "There are no secrets between the fighters, we know who we are dealing with when we come out of Saudi Arabia."

"They're already here." Cole clasped his hands to his chest and looked at Bell with interest. "What? Does dealing with Chinese scare you? ”

"To be honest, I don't know much about them." Bell shrugged his shoulders. "But since we consider ourselves the best soldiers in the world, we have to compare ourselves to anyone else to be convincing."

"Forget it, Bell, the Chinese don't have helicopters, so it's still us who is competing with them." Kurt grinned under his sunglasses. "You just have to throw us where we want to go."

"Between heaven and hell, my crew can send you anywhere." Bell gave a solemn military salute. "It's a knockout game, isn't it?"

"That's right, there are no defeats in this kind of competition, only wins are meaningful." Kurt put away the smile on his face.

The entire crew of the "Scythe" is ready to go into battle at any time. Kurt, Cole, Martin and Lee took turns manning the newly erected communications center, analyzing video and image information from drones flying 24 hours a day in an attempt to locate infiltrators within a 100-mile radius of the Kilmoz base. But for the time being, they found nothing, and there was no sign of anything unusual in this information.

"We can't wait like this, everyone's morale will get lower and lower." Cole reminded Kurt. "We should try to take the initiative, the enemy will not hit the muzzle of the gun himself."

Kurt disagrees with Cole's statement. Although there are various channels to obtain intelligence about the Chinese military, after all, there is no experience in direct confrontation, and the confrontation with the Chinese will be an authentic encounter, and there is no complete certainty for the Americans, who have always emphasized "preemptive strike". "Preemptive strike" emphasizes complete intelligence gathering, but until now, "Scythe" has not received valuable information, and Kurt can only rely on the experience and combat effectiveness of the whole team. It has to be said that in this case, there will be a lot of chance whether you win or lose.

"The best thing to do is for us to go to the guards in charge of the target task and wait for the Chinese to touch the door themselves, but that is likely to alarm the Chinese and make them stop their actions." Moreover, because there is no way to know the direction of the Chinese's attack, this is also passive. Kurt said to his staff. All of you here are precious military resources, and there is no need to risk them for those mercenaries. If it weren't for the orders from above, I wouldn't have cared if those people lived or died. ”

The staff officers laughed.

"A compromise would be for us to send people into the target area and instruct these damned mercenaries on how to improve their defenses, create the biggest obstacle when the Chinese attack, and call in air support. When the mercenaries entangled the Chinese, we gave them a home run in the back. ”

"So who's going to go into the target area?" Lee, a former SAS member, looked at Kurt with interest.

"It certainly won't be you, Lee. No one there can understand your damn London English. Kurt's words drew laughter from his subordinates. We'll let Cole in because he's smarter than any of us. ”

"Cole, are you going to play God?" A former seal member with two whiskers taunts Cole.

"No, I'm playing the angel to give you damned a chance to fight for glory." Cole also shouted back at the seal. "Especially you, Hutter."

Kurt didn't have as much comfort as his men. He suddenly realized that although he had been on missions around the world, China and the Chinese were a complete blank for him, and his impression of China and the Chinese was entirely hearsay. It's not just him, it's all his subordinates. The name of China is familiar to them, but when they are confronted with such a country and its people, they suddenly realize that they know nothing about this ancient country. It's a wonderful deception, everybody knows there's a China, but everybody doesn't know what it means.

But maybe it's no different from Iraq or Afghanistan. When Kurt's feet weren't on those lands, he was equally ignorant of those areas, but when he entered them with his M16 rifle with the mighty U.S. military, they succumbed, at least on the surface, giving the illusion that the U.S. military could do anything, the U.S. government could do anything.

The Chinese are difficult to deal with. But at the earliest, when the U.S. military did not fight with Iraq and ***, people also described those Iraq and *** in this way. All the intelligence and voices indicate that China is the next adversary of the United States, and how politicians deal with each other is not a matter of concern to the military, as long as the military knows what to do when an American GI and a Chinese GI meet in a no-man's land.

As Kurt pondered, Cole came to him with his bags packed.

"What I want to know is, can you be sure that the Chinese have appeared?"

Kotten nodded. "One of their civilian airliners deviated from its course for 20 minutes for no apparent reason, and our satellites monitored the situation. Although the plane eventually resumed normal flight, it used to appear within the triangle of the base, and if you were Chinese, you would also choose this method. ”

He looked at Cole. "Do you know what to do at the last minute?"

Cole raised the M4 carbine in his hand. "Absolutely."