Lieutenant Campbell was prostrate in the wet grass, and the pine branches on his head were still falling from time to time the raindrops left over from the previous night, hitting his steel helmet that was stuck in the grass path, making the same sound as his surroundings, perhaps only the skull with a parachute on his arm, which occasionally made his figure not in harmony with the things around him.

However, this was nothing for Lieutenant Campbell, who had participated in the Normandy parachute as a member of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, because when the enemy found the paratrooper skull on his arm, he promised to turn it into a real skull.

If he didn't have this ability, then he would not have led his paratrooper team to go deep into Lenghuang Mountain to carry out this combat operation codenamed "Predator".

"Goo~~Goo~~"

After observing the surrounding situation and finding that everything was normal, Campbell let out a series of strange birdsongs, and the paratroopers hiding next to him moved their bodies slightly, and turned their powerful automatic weapons around, and in a blink of an eye, they completed the tactical action of alert and cover.

Campbell glanced at it, didn't say much, but put his head into the military raincoat spread in front of him, immediately turned on a small flashlight, and looked at the sketch of the distribution of Chinese artillery positions in Lenghuangshan that he had drawn for nearly a night.

Then he took out a pencil and drew two circles on a simple mountain road that was not very wide, indicating a truck, and then drew an X not far from the right side of the truck, which was the sign of the artillery position.

Looking at the messy and scattered six points on the sketch, Campbell couldn't help but curse in a low voice while breathing a long sigh of relief: "Cunning Chinese!" ”

Campbell's face was still smug, and although he hadn't closed his eyes all night, the satisfaction of the hunter finding his prey still made the corners of his mouth curl into a heartfelt smile.

No matter how cunning the Chinese are, what about them scattering their few artillery positions throughout the Cold Yellow Mountain, in front of the real "predator", even if the Chinese artillery is hidden deep, he will find them, find them, and finally destroy them with the tactical literacy and keen intuition that belongs to the paratroopers alone!

Of course, Lieutenant Campbell also had to admit that the Chinese artillery was indeed a bit strange, because from the results of his close reconnaissance, the artillery used in these six artillery positions was nothing more than the SFH-18 150mm howitzer commonly equipped in Germany during World War II.

As an elite paratrooper who participated in World War II, Campbell is extremely familiar with every piece of German-made main battle equipment, and the SFH-18 150mm howitzer is no exception.

But the problem is that even with rocket range extenders, it is impossible to place positions at such a distance, and Campbell hastily calculated that the average distance between the six scattered 150mm artillery positions from the front of Neutron Mountain is more than 16 kilometers, and the farthest one even reaches 18.4 kilometers.

Perhaps this distance is nothing to the average American soldier, because the M1 155mm howitzer, affectionately known as "Tom Long", can also shoot a maximum range of 18 kilometers with a full charge, so the distance of about 16 kilometers is not too unusual.

However, Campbell, who is familiar with artillery operations, knows that artillery combat is not just aimed at one place and slammed into one breath, but needs to be accompanied by the impact of infantry and other arms to continuously extend the shells fired forward, from the formation of a barrage of Xu Jin, covering one's own attacking troops to strengthen their attack capability.

In the setting of the artillery position, there is usually a advance amount, in other words, a distance of several kilometers away from the real target distance, in order to carry out extended firing, and this distance is usually five kilometers.

It can be inferred from this that the maximum firing range of the SFH-18 150mm howitzer used by China has exceeded 20 km!

This conclusion is amazing, after all, the American artillery of the same type cannot reach this range at all, but Campbell's face does not have too many waves, because he is a paratrooper, a paratrooper who is naturally surrounded and does not panic!

"It should be a problem with the shells!"

Campbell quickly found the crux of the problem, he was too familiar with the SFH-18 150mm howitzer, and knew very well that the performance of the gun alone could not reach such an amazing range, so there was only one possibility, that is, the Chinese made some unknown improvements in the shells.

Thinking of the terrifying light of the scattered flowers on the front of Neutron Mountain, Campbell's bloodshot eyes stared at the truck logo just drawn on the sketch and shuddered slightly, and muttered, "I should get one back." ”

As he spoke, Campbell took the flashlight and carefully looked at the terrain around the trucks, as well as the distance from the nearby gun emplacements, and sketched a general plan in his mind, then raised his arm and looked at his watch, and when he saw that it was about to dawn, he put away the flashlight and got out of his raincoat.

Then he looked left and right, and gestured to the signal soldier next to him, the signal soldier shook his head regretfully at him, seeing this, Campbell frowned, this night he had sent three convergence signals to the Denzel crew, but the figure did not see it, not even a reply signal.

Had it not been for the fact that he had found the wreckage of the L-3 reconnaissance plane and was convinced that Denzel had taken away the spare transmitter and life-saving items, Campbell would have treated them as dead.

Of course, at this moment, Campbell did not regard Denzel and Devero as living people, after all, the main task of this "Predator" operation was to discover China's artillery positions capable of firing white phosphorus incendiary bombs, and to guide the attacking forces to destroy them.

Since the grass was not found, the rabbit did not need to be hunted, but out of respect for the American soldiers, Campbell decided to send a final signal for the location to assemble after the operation, and if he didn't come again, then don't blame him for being hard-hearted.

After making up his mind, he carefully put away the raincoat in front of him after looking behind his back, and at this moment, a sergeant gestured to him, signaling whether to immediately summon standby aviation fire to attack, Campbell looked up at the slightly bright sky, shook his head silently, and signaled to wait.

It's not that he didn't want to blow up those artillery positions at once, but it was Colonel Heidenberg's advice when he received the mission that he had to choose to act cautiously, since China's false targets can deceive aerial reconnaissance, they can naturally deceive their eyes in the dark.

In this case, it is necessary to reconfirm the targets discovered at night during the daytime, so that these biggest threats to the US military can be eliminated efficiently and accurately.

At this moment, a Chinese soldier opened the door of a car and got inside, and then the sound of the engine starting suddenly sounded in the woods, Campbell squinted, patted a paratrooper with a heavy package on his back, and whispered: "Show your red eyes!" ”