Chapter 652: Encircling and Annihilating the Third Legion (4)
In the summer, the Gobi Desert had very long hours of sunshine, and the soldiers slept for only five hours, and set off on their way when the sky was slightly white. Breakfast was eaten on the road, there were various military ration packs, and they could choose their favorite flavors and eat as they went, without fear of eating raw food because they couldn't start a fire.
The only thing that bothered the fighters was the lack of drinking water, and although they each brought four bottles of water with them before they set out, in the scorching Gobi desert the consumption of water was very large. After two days of marching, by this morning, they had no water to drink, so the soldiers who were eating breakfast could only bite their breakfast slowly and chew it with difficulty with their chapped lips. Fortunately, there were many types of rations in the Chinese Imperial Army, because they were too thirsty, the soldiers did not eat compressed biscuits without water, but most of them chose rice sets and canned fruits, and some even ate some sour plums to make saliva secrete more.
Even if the troops advanced at full speed, they only advanced 15 kilometers in two hours, and the troops led by Liang Yichao did not make much progress, even if they could reach the battlefield today, it would be evening.
The Wehrmacht of both corps divided their forces as quickly as possible, intending to destroy the Third Corps once and for all, and in the direction of the Seventh Corps, Brigadier General Baden's troops also encountered the first battle. After two days, the Boston Army cut down trees and paved the road with a large number of people, and finally crossed the Etosha Salt Flats.
Walking through the Etosha salt marsh, Lieutenant General McLean breathed a sigh of relief, it would be better to encounter such terrain rarely, and he would rather walk through the rainforest than enter such a salt marsh again.
What Lieutenant General McLean didn't expect was that the road ahead was not easy, and after re-entering the rainforest, they encountered a sniper unit belonging to the 915th Infantry Brigade. In the configuration of the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces, each regiment has a sniper brigade configuration of 100 people, and each army has a special forces brigade configuration of more than 100 people.
Although the 915th Infantry Brigade does not have special forces, it has three sniper groups that have graduated from professional sniper schools, and after being equipped with jungle camouflage suits and Sniper God 1 system, they quickly disappear into the dense primeval rainforest.
There was a "snap" of a gunshot, and this was already the seventh person who had died in the vanguard group that was at the forefront. The first burst of gunfire caused confusion among the Bostonians, and the sniper who fired the shot had long since disappeared, and with the help of a full-body digital camouflage uniform and a special camouflage suit, he quickly fled into the distance.
"Bastard, Charles is dead. This is the seventh person to have been killed by a sneak attack, and every single one of them is an officer. The commander of the vanguard regiment scolded and shouted, at this time he was already angry, if he was killed in a dignified manner, he would not be angry, after all, every soldier was mentally prepared to be killed from the moment he put on his uniform, but to die in such a despicable sneak attack made him think it was a great shame.
The regiment commander walked to the front of the team with a red face and shouted: "Everyone open up some distance, search forward, and if you meet a stranger, you don't need to ask questions, shoot directly." Now he was so angry that he decided to fight back, but before he could say anything, a bullet flying at subsonic speed hit him in the forehead accurately. In everyone's stunned gaze, the head of the regiment leader exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
"This guy is a colonel, it's a pity you're my thing." Chen Wei smiled and put away the sniper rifle and fled into the distance with his companion Chu Ying.
"Captain Bill was killed." A staff officer ran up to Lieutenant General McLean out of breath and reported to him.
"What? These Chinese were so arrogant that they actually beat one of my regiment commanders. McLean roared angrily with a wave of his arms, but in an instant he calmed down and carefully analyzed the situation, and he found that the officers who were killed were all officers.
With a roll of his eyes, Lieutenant General McClain had an idea: "Order all officers and soldiers to take off their epaulettes and collar badges, subordinates are not allowed to salute when they encounter superiors, and officers try to stay in the crowd as much as possible." A search team was dispatched to search and advance along the flanks of the unit within a kilometer of the flank, and if it encountered a stranger, it immediately opened fire. ”
After all, Lieutenant General McClain was well-informed, and he quickly thought of the key to it, so he took quite effective countermeasures, but those snipers were not ordinary soldiers to deal with, although the death rate of officers was much lower, but the casualties of the search team were not small.
"These guys are very learned." Chu Ying killed one of the search party soldiers and pulled back his rifle. The sniper team is a team of two, they are all very good snipers, usually one person attacks, and the other person covers and prepares to shoot, which is quite reasonable, so that the casualty rate of the sniper team is very low, and the casualties of the snipers are much smaller.
"Don't worry, they'll have to walk through the rainforest for at least five or six days to get to Windhoek, we still have time, it's afternoon now, let's get farther away and get some rest, and come back to them in the evening." Chen Wei smiled and made a suggestion.
Chu Ying nodded: "Okay, let them rest for a while, and wait until the evening to ask them to look good." ”
Chen Wei smiled: "Don't worry, they can't rest, at least I know that Lao Chen's group won't rest now." ”
The two of them marched briskly towards the south, relying on excellent physical fitness, and after two hours of rapid marching, the two had reached a place thirty kilometers in front of the Seventh Army, and it was estimated that it was already dark when they arrived at the slow marching speed of the Boston army that was searching for the advance.
"Let's relax first, there will be a lot of work in the evening." The two stopped by a lake in the middle of a rainforest. Chu Ying took out the alcohol stove and boiled a pot of water, and after the two of them replenished enough fresh water, Chu Ying snuggled up to the big tree and wanted to sleep.
"How do you sleep anywhere?" Chen Wei complained.
Chu Ying leaned against the big tree with his eyes closed and said, "I know you can't sleep, so with you standing guard, I can sleep peacefully for a while, be careful when you move at night, your eyelids fight." ”
"I'm very energetic when I fight, I won't get sleepy, you just go to sleep, I'll find something delicious." Chen Wei ignored him, he felt that he was guarding for his companions and getting some fresh food at the same time, after all, he always ate canned food and compressed biscuits, which everyone would get tired of.
"Okay, we'd better get a few fish, that's perfect." Chu Ying still didn't open his eyes, and after answering a sentence, he fell asleep deeply.
Chen Wei scratched his head and said, "Fishing?" It's a bit difficult, but there's a way to do it. ”
Looking at the surrounding terrain, Chen Wei climbed a big tree, perhaps to compete for the sun, this tree grew obliquely in the direction of the lake, a thick branch has stretched several meters into the lake, only more than a meter high from the water surface, it is an ideal fishing place. With no fishing rod in his hand, Chen Wei searched for something available. As a sniper, he has undergone the most rigorous wilderness survival training, and he is still very good at using local materials.
Looking around, Chen Wei pulled down a thumb-thick vine from the tree, which was five or six meters long. After trying to test that the tree vine was very strong, Chen Wei nodded with satisfaction, he took off his pants, used the tree vine through the nose of his pants, and wrapped it in a circle, and then stretched out three of the tree vines and tied a knot above the pants.
This knot stretched out a long vine, and Chen Wei held it in his hand. Chen Wei then knotted the two trouser tubes and filled the bottom of the trouser tubes and trouser pockets with sand to prevent the trousers from floating on the water, and then made all this preparations, and he carefully lowered the trousers into the water with tree vines.
Due to the effect of sand, the pants enter the water vertically, and the waistband of the pants slowly submerges into the water, and the whole pants become a good net. Chen Wei carefully tied the vines in his hand to the branches, then took out his compressed biscuits, crushed some biscuit residues, and used them as nest materials while they were still within the waistband of his trousers.
Staring at the water tightly, Chen Wei waited intently for a fish to throw themselves into the net. Slowly, the fish became more and more numerous, and they wandered around, gradually approaching the net made of trousers.
"Hurry up, get in." Chen Wei muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the fish in the water, and at the same time gently sprinkled some biscuit crumbs into the water. Gradually, a fish got into its pants, and it soon noticed the sinking cookie crumbs, and the fish quickly ate it.
Chen Wei continued to put a small amount of biscuit residues, and the other fish gradually entered the inside of his pants, seeing that there were already four or five fish, Chen Wei didn't dare to wait any longer, because if there were too many fish, he was afraid that the tree vine would not be able to support such a large weight.
With a strong hand, Chen Wei lifted his pants out of the water with a loud noise, and as the lake water gradually flowed out of the gap in the fabric of his pants, five fat lake fish had been left in the trouser tube, and now all they could do was struggle in vain.
"Great, I can eat fresh meat today." Chen Wei smiled and lifted his pants and walked towards the shore. Seeing that Chu Ying was still asleep, Chen Wei used a military dagger to throw the fish out of his stomach, cleaned up the fish intestines and scales, and then skewered the fish one by one with a branch, and then wiped the fish body with the salt he carried, just inserted it on the ground, and baked it with an alcohol stove.
A thick smell of meat wafted into Chu Ying's nostrils, and he immediately woke up from his sleep. Seeing Chen Wei sitting by the alcohol stove eating grilled fish, he immediately leaned over. "Hey, why don't you call me if there's something delicious." Chu Ying walked over with a smile.
Chen Wei ate the last bite of fish in his hand, patted his already full stomach and said, "Seeing that you slept soundly, I didn't call you." I've eaten enough, and the three fish here are yours, and while the Bostonians haven't come up yet, I'll sleep for a while, and I'll be on your guard." With that, he fell asleep.
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