"Boom-"

After a burst of firelight, the sound of an explosion resounded in the march column, I don't know which unlucky guy triggered the drill mine laid by the blue side, although the mine like a large firecracker did not have built-in marbles and steel fragments, but it still blew up the officers and soldiers in the explosion circle to the back of their horses, and several soldiers were sprayed with white ash all over their bodies because they were too close to the exercise mine.

When Chen Xitong heard the explosion of the mine, he knew that the surprise attack had failed, and he could no longer care about hiding his whereabouts, so he pulled out a pistol from his waist, fired a shot at the sky in front of him, and yelled at the officers and soldiers around him:

"Quick, rush up the mountain, and reward each person with a hundred oceans"

In the face of the huge bounty, the more than 500 officers and men of the Chairman's Guard, who had been in a little sluggish after a long march, rushed up as if they had taken stimulants and rushed up one by one as if they were dying.

This is the sound of a sniper rifle

The officers and men of the chairman's guard were all good at handling guns, and when they heard the gunshot, they hurriedly evacuated to the dense forest, only Chen Xitong touched his thigh and stood there in a daze, it turned out that he had been hit again

This time, the exercise bullet hit Chen Xitong's right thigh, and after the exercise bullet exploded, it left a huge white mark there, Chen Xitong tried hard to support his body, and finally slowly bent down because of the severe pain, bent his waist, and stroked the part of the bullet.

When Chen Xitong reacted and turned his head to see the officers and soldiers of the guards hiding behind a big tree and lying on the grass to avoid bullets, two minutes had passed, and he immediately scolded: "Look at what you see, hurry up and rush up, as long as they seize the intersection in front, it will be victory."

"Bang-"

Another gunshot rang out, Chen Xitong looked at the tree one meter away in horror, only to see a deep bullet hole there, and a wisp of green smoke came out of the hole, and then heard a cold voice from the dense forest above:

"Those who have been killed should lie down obediently, if you don't comply with the rules of the exercise, I will greet you with real bullets and a friendly reminder, this time you have encountered fake mines, but near the ridge we have planted more than forty mines, half of which are real, do you all have such bad luck that you have all encountered fake? Weigh it up for yourselves."

Chen Xitong didn't dare to say anything, he hurriedly glanced at Colonel Zhu Peiji, the commander of the guard battalion on the side, and encouraged him to lead the team to charge, but from morning to now, Zhu Peiji, who graduated from Fenghua and Huangpu in Ningbo, was a little weak at this time, and he didn't know whether he should continue to charge.

You must know that Wu Ming is notorious, when he was in the Lushan Officer Training Corps, the people of the special service group went to find him trouble, but they were ambushed and died, and several people died, which was really not worth it. Now it's a drill, is it necessary to risk your own life? As the nephew of Chairman Jiang, Zhu Peiji is delicate and expensive, where is he willing to throw his life away in this so-called exercise?

The other officers of the Chairman's Guard who participated in the surprise attack were also hesitant in their hearts, and they shrank their heads one by one and did not dare to look into Chen Xitong's eyes......

I don't know when Lu Dao was concerned, the officers and men of the Chairman's Guard, who were carefully selected from the whole army and were supposed to be fearless of death, had already been infected with arrogance and cultivated into veteran soldiers.

The sound of mine explosions coming from the northeast of the main peak frightened Fan Daoquan, the second regiment commander, and for a moment he only felt that his back was cold, and he hurriedly asked the deputy regiment commander Chang Shuxin to take the sixth battalion as a reserve to the back mountain to see what was going on.

The movement of troops on the mountain was suddenly discovered by Colonel Liu Yuanlin, the head of the Red Guard Regiment, who turned around and said to Feng Shengfa, who was looking at the map:

"Commander, there is a change in the troops on the opposite mountain, they seem to have sent out reserves"

"Oh?"

Feng Shengfa snatched the binoculars from the guards, raised them to take a look, and just saw a blue officer rushing towards the mountains in the northeast with people, Feng Shengfa happily slapped his thigh and shouted at the generals:

"Surely our raiding party is in place...... Ladies and gentlemen, success or failure is here, pass on my orders, and launch an offensive on all fronts."

"Yes"

The generals responded in unison, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Feng Shengfa turned his head, full of spirits, and opened his mouth to say to the generals: "Tell all the officers and soldiers that the chairman of the committee will observe everyone's performance on the north peak and south peak of Zhugan Mountain in the south, if we take the main peak of Lotus Mountain with the cooperation of the soldiers who launched an attack on the flank, the chairman will personally award us medals, warriors, use your blood and lives to prove that we live up to the title of the Royal Forest Army."

The order was quickly conveyed to the front.

Regardless of whether it was the Chairman's Guard, the special service regiment or the guard regiment directly under the Central Military Commission, when they heard this exciting news, their bodies, which had just been sluggish, seemed to be full of strength all of a sudden, and they jumped out of their hiding places one by one screaming, roaring and charging towards the Guards, they raised their heads, raised their submachine guns and rifles in their hands, and fired at the front, and the dense bullets "whizzed" over the heads of the officers and men of the Blue Party on the position, causing the pressure on the officers and men of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment to increase sharply.

Chang Shuxin, deputy commander of the second regiment, led the officers and soldiers of the three companies of the sixth battalion into the dense forest like the wind, but saw that Zhang Ying, the chief of staff of the brigade, was bowing and pointing to the front.

Zhang Ying turned her head and asked dissatisfiedly, "Why are you here?" ”

"The head of the regiment asked me to take a look, there is an explosion here," Chang Shuxin reported in a low voice.

Zhang Ying didn't give him a good look, and snorted coldly: "There is a path leading to the top of the mountain here, if I hadn't gotten this news by chance, the headquarters of your second regiment might have served the whole pot to others." ”

Chang Shuxin looked in the direction pointed by Zhang Ying, and saw that under the hillside outside the dense forest, one by one the frustrated officers and soldiers of the Red Party were out of line, holding guns there and not knowing what to do, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Zhang Ying waved his hand, and Wang Peng, the deputy commander of a sharp knife company, showed half of his head from the depths of the dense forest, and shouted to the red soldiers over there: "This road is impassable, now that our reinforcements have arrived, you better retreat by yourself...... Otherwise, we will be captured."

Soon, there was a buzzing discussion on the Red side, and it didn't take long for someone to slip away, and there were more and more people, and the commander of the Guards battalion, Colonel Zhu Peiji, left without a sound. The officers, who were originally ready to fight to the death, were suddenly dejected and had to ask someone to help Chen Xitong up, and then evacuate down the mountain.

Pang Chunlin patted the mountain man on the shoulder and left, leaving only the mountain man there wailing in pain.

Seeing this, Zhang Ying called Chang Shuxin: "There's nothing wrong here, you hurry up and take someone back now, here I and a group of sharp knives and three rows of brothers help guard it, even if they put on their wings, they can't fly."

Chang Shuxin took people away, Zhang Ying instructed someone to be sent to rescue the mountain people, then he turned around, smiled and said to the nervous man next to him: "Fellow, thank you so much this time, if you hadn't told me that there was still a road here, we would be in danger."

For Zhang Ying's thanks, the man smiled and scratched his head: "It's nothing, in the morning, you gave the family several flatbreads, and my kid and his sister ate happily."

Zhang Ying couldn't help but think, took out five oceans from his pocket, stuffed them into the man's hand, and said with a smile: "That kid in your family is very clever, you can take the money back and buy them some delicious food."

"This ...... How can this work? The man hurriedly excused himself.

Zhang Ying stuffed the silver dollar into his hand, and said with a serious face: "Big brother, take it, you helped us plug a big flaw, avoided us from suffering unnecessary losses, and made a great contribution to us, what is this little money, maybe we will continue to trouble you next."

"Oh well"

The man looked at Zhang Ying's sincere appearance, shook his head, and was finally convinced.

By the time Chang Shuxin rushed back to the main peak position with the reserves, it was a critical moment on this side, and the red side had already broken through the first line of defense and was advancing to the second line of defense.

As the "tick-tock" charge horn sounded loudly, the blue side suddenly joined a battalion of fresh troops, and a large number of submachine guns and light machine guns fired at many officers and men of the red side who were shot and refused to retreat, and the bullets poured out like a storm.

At this point, the officers and men of the red side were also timid, although the bullets in the exercise were not fatal, but at a distance of forty or fifty meters, it hurt very much to hit the body, and several people were hit in the eyes, rolling around on the ground with their faces covered, and it seemed that their eyeballs were bursting.

The officers and men of the three battalions of the Second Regiment fought more and more fiercely, and at this time, the mortar position on the top of the hill sounded the rumbling sound of artillery, and as the white ash flew down the mountain, a round of blocking artillery bombardment fell, and the number of people on the red side who were sentenced to be out of the game increased rapidly, and some even fell down the mountainside in order to avoid bullets, and slipped directly towards the foot of the mountain like rolling stones.

The defeat was like a mountain, and this fierce blow fell, and the officers and soldiers of the red side suffered heavy "casualties", and the rest of the men did not dare to fight desperately any longer, and hurriedly withdrew from the trenches, retreated back to the back of the ridge at the bottom of the hill like a low tide, gasping for breath, and seeing that the surprise attack had failed like this.

In the Red Fang Temporary Observation Post on the top of the bowl green mountain, Feng Shengfa looked at everything in front of him in a daze, and put down the telescope in his hand in a daze, his face bitter.

According to the firepower configuration of the blue side, if it were not a drill but a live ammunition operation, I am afraid that most of the officers and men of the four battalions who went out to attack would have suffered casualties long ago, and even now, the officers and men of the red side, who are exhausted and exhausted, tired and hungry, have no combat strength to speak of, and it is very unwise to force the attack again.

Feng Shengfa sighed, turned around and asked for the opinions of Shi Zude, the head of the special service group, and Liu Yuanlin, the head of the guard group, and then said to the generals:

"Judging from the troops that the enemy has returned to, the partial division we used for the sneak attack should have failed, from six o'clock yesterday morning to now, more than 30 hours have passed, the soldiers are tired and hungry, and their morale is low, and the possibility of capturing the Lotus Mountain Heights is no longer there to withdraw from the battle, we just need to firmly hold the line from Liuduxi Xiaohua Mountain to Wanqingshan and wait for the follow-up troops to arrive."

The generals and colonels of the Chairman's Guard and the Special Service Corps and Guard Corps directly under the Military Committee have lost the courage to forge ahead, and no one has raised any objections to this, let alone pointed out that there is a huge hole in the defense of the Red Side—in the area south of Wanqingshan, the door is open, and the Red troops can enter and exit freely, directly threatening the logistics and supply lines of the Red Side.

The scales of the exercise were unconsciously tilted in favor of the blue side.