Chapter 222: Shengdong

The greatest combat value of the jungle is that it provides unparalleled concealment. During the Kosovo War in 1999, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia managed to hide a large number of troops in forests and jungles in order to avoid NATO aerial reconnaissance and strikes. According to NATO's assessment at that time, if ground troops were to be sent to occupy the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it would probably suffer huge losses in jungle operations. It was on the basis of this consideration that NATO did not carry out a ground invasion of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the end. Throughout the Cold War, NATO forces continued to focus on operations in the northern forests of Europe. Even today, Western military experts insist that jungle warfare is inevitable in the event of a future war in Europe.

You know, the last large-scale war that took place in the tropical jungle was the war on the Sino-Vietnamese border that broke out in 1979, a full 30 years ago. And the tragic situation of the US military on the battlefield in Vietnam seems to have been gradually forgotten. However, a recent study by the US Department of Defense indicates that 80 percent of future large-scale military conflicts are likely to occur in tropical jungle areas. And even now, the specter of bushing is still evident around the world – there are still small-scale bush clashes in Colombia, Sierra Leone, Congo and the Philippines. This shows that the problem of combat in the jungle environment absolutely cannot be evaded, and it needs to be taken seriously.

In the jungle, there are advantages and disadvantages, at least those self-propelled firepower and armored vehicles like those in our special operations brigade will certainly not be able to enter, and the jungle will make the weapons and equipment level of both sides tend to return to the same running line -- light weapons, and the maximum limit of light weapons is still a matter of distance. Even with small arms with a range of up to 50 metres, there are difficulties in locating and correcting indirect aiming fire. At the same time, it also makes it extremely easy for soldiers to move in the wrong direction if they misjudge the direction of the first bullet, which can put them in a very dangerous situation.

However, in the jungle, it is impossible to estimate how many troops will be lurking in the jungle. Judging from the density of personnel in wartime, even a small forest or forest with an area of only 2 square kilometers can hide a certain number of military personnel, and a jungle of 5 square kilometers can hide a certain number of military personnel.

Therefore, in jungle warfare, it is safest to win the war with both legs.

After the members of the command group drew a lot of dots and lines back and forth on the ground, in fact, the general battle plan had already come out, if we want to reduce casualties as much as possible in such a jungle area, and successfully break through, we can only rely on our own legs, we must fully mobilize the enemy's forces, for example, let these "hunters" know where our "prey" are, but we can't let them find us.

However, after all, it is not yet a critical moment, and it is absolutely impossible for us to decide to sacrifice some of our team members to attract enemy fire, and then the rest of the team members will take the opportunity to escape from the breakout. Moreover, the "hunters" of our special operations brigade know us too well, know our firepower, and know our combat habits, so even if they reluctantly give up some of their team members to attract the firepower of the "hunters", it is very likely that they will see through it at a glance, and it will be useless. We have to let them know that we have been operating with a whole squad, a full team of twelve members, and perhaps, only in this way, they dare to send most of the "hunters" to come and capture our "prey", after all, there are only twelve of us.

In order to cope with this "hunting" operation, our "Warrior Squad" decided to adopt the tactics of acting as a whole and attacking the west. This requires us to be all twelve members of our "Warrior Squad" from the beginning to the end, whether it is to successfully break through the encirclement of the "hunters" in the end, or to all of our twelve "prey" falling into the hands of the "hunters".

After the action and combat plan were decided, our "warrior squad" immediately began to move in four triangular formations in the direction of coming, so that to a certain extent, our squad distanced themselves from each other in the jungle, so as to avoid encountering "hunters" using "face" lethal weapons, after all, although it was in such a jungle area, the power of "face" lethal weapons such as grenades could not be fully exerted. The fragments and shockwaves of grenades are absorbed by the trees in the jungle to a certain extent, but if we gather more people, the additional damage caused by the fragments and shockwaves hitting these trees should not be underestimated. Of course, in an exercise like ours, even if it is a grenade, it will only have a certain degree of shock wave, and there will be no fragments, but we must also carry out it according to the standards of actual combat.

Our "warrior team" continued to cover each other along the way to search and advance, but the speed of our progress is not very fast, after all, our current advance is not to break out quickly, but just to let the group of "hunters" know that we are now moving in this direction, so at the beginning of our continuous advance, we almost did not encounter any special situation, which really made us feel that our movement was moving too fast, so that the group of "hunters" lost their target, If we continue to move forward like this, I guess we won't have to make any noise, just continue in this direction, and the breakthrough will be over!

Just as I was secretly thinking about it, the members of the reconnaissance team who were at the forefront of the way suddenly ran back towards us quickly. "Brothers, there are traces of activity in front of you." The member of the reconnaissance team said to us as he dressed lightly.

Hearing the words of the member of the reconnaissance team, these "prey" of our "warrior squad" couldn't help but show a smile on the corner of their mouths. "Let's go, let's go!" One of the members of the command team also smiled slightly, and then said to us.

When we scattered to the place that the reconnaissance team had said, we carefully examined the surroundings, and sure enough, in this area, there were a few places in the bushes where the grass was not easy to detect, and it was clear that such a situation was at least the traces of the presence of more than one combat team here.

Seeing this scene in front of him, a member of the command team pointed to the "Night Vulture" and Lao Pang, and the two of them immediately understood, and immediately left quickly with the members of their own group.

The "Night Vulture" is from the sniper team, and Lao Pang is from the fire support team, and the two of them quickly ran away, which is basically preparing us for the back road.

After the rest of our team members waited in place for a few more minutes, the member of the command team raised his hand to look at the watch on his wrist, looked up at the surroundings, and then said to the rest of our team members: "Brothers, check the weapons and equipment, I estimate that there will be someone ambushing us not far ahead, everyone be careful for a while, don't fall in love, withdraw immediately after the exchange of fire, and assemble in Area 3." ”

After listening to the rest of our team members, they all made an "OK" gesture to the members of the command group, and then began to check their weapons and equipment, and after we finished checking, the fire support team Lao Pang and they also rushed over, the members of the command team took a look, and then nodded at them, and the fire support team also nodded in response.

After everything was ready, the eight members of our "Warrior Squad" immediately began to continue to search and move forward, walking a distance of about 400 meters, when we advanced to the front of an open field, the first combat team composed of the command team and the reconnaissance team immediately stopped, and then immediately squatted, one of the team members stretched out a hand, made a move to stop advancing, and we immediately squatted down.

"Look ahead." A member of the command team deliberately lowered his voice to us. Hearing his words, we also looked in his direction one by one, and what was shown in front of us was the open field, almost unobstructed, there was no object that could be used as shelter, and the distance was not very short, on both sides of that open field, one side was the grove where we were hiding, and the other side was also a grove, and no matter which side of the grove had a common characteristic, that is, the bushes were very dense, in such a grove, Not to mention hiding one of our special operations squads, it is not impossible to hide a platoon, or even a company.

"I've seen it all, how do you feel?" The member of the command team waited for us to look at us for a short time, and then said to us with a smile on his face.

"There is an open field ahead, there is no place to make cover, if it were me, I would ambush a force in front of that open field, as long as someone intends to pass through this open land, then basically as long as the ambush troops open fire, the people in this open land will basically have no chance of survival." One of the team members listened to the members of the command team, and then replied to him thoughtfully.

"Yes, the grove ahead is a great place to ambush, but anyone with a bit of a brain will ambush their troops there, so it's almost certain that there must be 'hunters' in the grove ahead." The member of the command team nodded at us, picking up his binoculars and taking a closer look at the grove in front of him. After observing for a while, the member of the command team slowly lowered the telescope in his hand, and then said to us while pulling the handle of the assault rifle in his hand: "Our plan can be implemented." ”

Hearing the words of the member of the command team, we all nodded to him, and then silently pulled the handle of the gun in our hands, and then we were all ready to attack.

Lao Pang and the fire support team of the three of them also unloaded their backpacks at this time, and then began to take out some gunfire grenades from their bags, as well as a few gunfire detonation shells. When everything was ready, Lao Pang and the others glanced at us, and after seeing that we all gave them an "OK" gesture, they glanced at the two members of the command team.

"Hit!" Suddenly, the command group shouted loudly, and in an instant, several grenades flew in a parabola towards the grove on the other side of the open field, and the guns in our hands were also fired at the same time.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Three grenades exploded in the woods just after our gunfire rang out, and almost at the same time several wisps of yellow smoke rose up in the woods, and then the muzzle flames flickered in the woods. Judging from this situation, sure enough, there were really troops hidden in the grove in front, and according to the number of yellow smoke and the number of muzzle flames, the number of people really did not seem to be small.

Since we didn't find out where the people in that grove were in advance were, our original intention was to let the "hunters" know that we were breaking through in this direction, so we were almost blind shots, and we could only let the "hunters" on the opposite side judge our number from the sound of gunfire and the density of firepower, and we did not specifically reveal our location.

After firing for a while, the magazines on our guns were almost empty, and at this moment, the members of the command team said to us: "Brothers, after firing the first magazine, immediately retreat to Area 3!" Smoke grenade cover! ”