Chapter 6: The Battle Begins

There is no good or bad, good or evil in war, and the choice of which side is not right or wrong, but the environment in which you live.

β€”The Autobiography of Terry, Vol. 4

Liu Yiming, a senior soldier who went to the top of the mountain to investigate, quickly ran back.

"Sir, the identity of the other party has been determined, it is the 74th Mountain Division of the Empire, and the size is about a whole squadron."

"What bad luck! I didn't expect to meet these guys here, it seems that I can't run away. ”

After listening to the report of the senior private, the second lieutenant officer frowned.

Indeed, just as the second lieutenant officer was worried, among the several units that came to encircle and suppress this time, in terms of equipment and group combat capability, the most elite was the 108th Division.

But when it comes to the quality of the soldiers and the ability to fight in the mountains, then this 74th Mountain Division, which is deployed in the southern rainforest all year round, is definitely the elite of the elite.

As for these subordinates of the second lieutenant, the ordinary soldiers of the former Imperial 704th Division have a big gap with the other side in terms of equipment and soldier quality.

The establishment of the Imperial Mountain Forces, one squadron, six squads, each group had six people.

And now these remnants of the second lieutenant gathered will not exceed 50 people even if they are wounded and disabled, not to mention facing the elite 74th Division 1 squadron, even the 108th Division Squadron, which has never been full, it is estimated that there is not much chance of winning.

What worries the second lieutenant the most is that if the opponent is another unit, as long as he takes his men to drill into the mountains and forests, he may still have a chance to escape, but the other party is an expert in mountain warfare, so doing so is undoubtedly self-defeating!

Time was pressing, and the enemy was approaching step by step, and there was no room for the second lieutenant officer to hesitate any longer.

The frowning ensign turned his gaze to the dead Imperial gendarmes on the ground.

"Liu Yiming, how many imperial soldiers' epaulettes do you have on hand now?"

"Report sir, plus the 23 collected earlier."

"You led a few brothers who were not injured to change their epaulettes, and the rest of the brothers were all ambushed."

Since you can't run away, you have to use a trick. Since ancient times, soldiers have not tired of deceit, and the second lieutenant is ready to take the risk of using the epaulettes of those imperial soldiers to make a fuss.

"Private, now you have two choices, pick up arms and fight with us, or turn around and run for your life."

The second lieutenant officer who had finished the deployment came up to Terry, holding a captured rifle in his hand, and asked Terry with a blank face.

This choice seems fair, but Terry is not stupid, he knows very well that as long as he chooses the second one, he probably doesn't have to run far, and he will be greeted by death.

This is the battlefield, and any mercy will only lead to disaster for himself, and as a rebel officer, Terry doesn't believe that the other party will really be so merciful.

Since it was a "single option", Terry stopped talking nonsense and took the rifle directly from the second lieutenant's hand.

With the cold rifle in his hand, Terry's heart suddenly swelled with blood, a feeling he had never felt before.

"Okay, private, I didn't misread you, as long as you don't die in this catastrophe, you are our brother in life and death, my name is Sean, from now on, you follow me."

Seeing Terry simply take the rifle, Second Lieutenant Sean nodded with satisfaction, and the trust in his eyes increased a little.

"Yes, sir."

Terry's habitual answer, despite the sudden change of identity and the fact that he has truly become a "traitor", but at this moment, Terry's heart is full of passion that he has never felt before, and he does not have the guilt he expected.

Perhaps even Terry himself did not expect that from the moment Private framed him and the military judge declared him a "traitor", the words "loyal to the Empire" had been extinguished in the depths of his heart.

The 74th Mountain Division is worthy of being the most elite mountain warfare expert, and when Second Lieutenant Sean ambushed the undisguised soldiers, the enemy's leading pathfinder team had already made contact with the disguised Liu Yiming.

It is indeed not easy to see through the rebel soldiers after changing their epaulettes, after all, everyone used to be the army of the Empire, so the first step of Second Lieutenant Sean's plan was very successful.

Looking at the imperial soldiers who walked past Liu Yiming and them in a row, the rebel soldiers who were ambushed on both sides of the road were all hidden tightly, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

The vanguard pathfinder force passed, and the follow-up brigade also passed, and just when Sean and the others were about to breathe a sigh of relief, an accident happened.

"Bang!"

A burst of gunfire rang out through the valley.

"Who fired the shot?"

Everyone turned their heads to look at the place where the gunshots were fired.

"I... I... I didn't mean to. ”

A young rebel soldier shuddered, holding a smoking Miller rifle.

"All of them, aim at the enemy, hit me."

Captain Sean just glared at the rebel soldier fiercely and ordered his men to open fire!

Captain Sean's order was indeed timely, and after hearing the gunshot, the mountain division that was moving forward quickly dispersed to both sides of the road and was ready for battle.

Soon the silent valley was filled with the sound of a series of distinct guns firing.

The Imperial 74th Mountain Division was armed with a Miller 621 short-barreled rifle, which was much sharper than the rough Miller long-barreled rifle.

"Chirp"

The hot bullet slashed past Terry's ear, and Terry didn't move, still lying there quietly.

The cold rifle rested against the thick roots, and Terry's eyes were fixed on the front.

Dou Da sweat ran down his forehead, but Terry didn't bother to wipe it off.

The chapped lips bit lightly, but the heart was extremely calm, and the fingers that were lightly pulled on the trigger did not move.

The blur of vision at the beginning slowly cleared, and the target slowly enlarged in the small crosshair.

It was a soldier as young as him, but his immature face had an unusual calmness, half of his head exposed from the ditch, aiming ahead, his hand holding the rifle steadily, constantly pulling the bolt, and shooting calmly.

"Bang"

Taking a deep breath, Terry finally pulled the trigger.

A 7.92mm rifle bullet flew out of the muzzle in an instant, and before Terry could blink, a bright red blood flower bloomed on the soldier's steel helmet.

"Kill an elite soldier and get 2 gold coins."

"Congratulations to the Inheritor for getting the first kill reward, ten gold coins, a body armor, and an M1 Garand rifle."

"Congratulations to the inheritor for comprehending the precision shooting skills and obtaining a copy of the intermediate shooting skills, which will be automatically implanted in the Yanhuang system."

Before Terry could wake up from the emotion of his first killing, mechanical voices in his mind puzzled him.

"Knock Knock"

The sound of the grenadier coming out of the chamber woke Terry, who had already been on the battlefield several times, and of course knew what it meant, so he didn't have time to delve into the voices in his head, and quickly buried his head behind the roots of the tree.

"Boom Boom"

The experience of being cannon fodder several times, this time saved his life.

In a series of explosions, a stray bullet exploded in front of the tree.

Tiny shrapnel "whoosh" shattered the roots of the tree in front of Terry.

In this jungle environment, there is no weapon more lethal than a small grenadier, and this wave of attacks by the 74th Mountain Division directly took the lives of many rebel soldiers.

But a heavier attack was yet to come, and a succession of grenades exploded on the rebel positions.

Despite the shelter of trees, it was not a real fortification after all, and in front of the precise grenadiers of the soldiers of the mountain division, the rebel soldiers were incapacitated one after another.