Chapter 292: Deciding To Ruthlessly Screw Over The Foreign Devils!!
After flying in the sky for several hours, they finally arrived at the Estonian capital Tallinn in the evening.
Before the competition team departed from the country by airplane, the military had already completed negotiations with the Estonian government and arranged all handover work.
The Chinese Delegation came out of the airport, and there were reception personnel arranged by the Estonian military at the entrance.
Senior Colonel Li Dayong could speak fluent English, didn’t even need a translator, and after meeting with the Estonian side to confirm identities, the delegation was arranged onto vehicles.
The personnel were all arranged on dilapidated trucks, and the supplies were also transported on a rusty truck.
“The reception actually uses trucks, and they’re fucking old ones? Not even a bus.” Chen Jun saw this setup and couldn’t help but furrow his brows.
The other members of the Chinese Team saw this situation and were all full of surprise on their faces.
This specification…
It was indeed a bit unreasonable!
But thinking that Estonia was just a small country with not very affluent national finances, and being able to host an international event was already very difficult, they didn’t think too much about it.
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The competition was selected to be held in the primeval forest, and the event main camp was also set up in the northwest of the Tallinn area, on the south bank of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
It was directly across the sea from Finland, and the scenery was actually quite nice.
But the Chinese Team members had only the competition on their minds, thinking only about how to bring the champion back home, with no mind at all to look at the scenery.
The convoy drove on the road for nearly an hour, and by the time they arrived at the main camp, it was completely dark.
According to the information provided by the Estonian military, the person in charge of this event was a military general named Yawen Santos.
By reasoning…
The Chinese Delegation had come from thousands of miles away to compete, and when formally entering the main camp to check in, the event organizers’ highest person in charge definitely had to come to welcome them.
This was the most basic courtesy.
However, Major General Santos did not appear, and the one who came out to welcome the Chinese Team was just a colonel, who didn’t even explain why Santos wasn’t there.
Senior Colonel Li Dayong had been in a good mood, but seeing this situation, his face fell.
He didn’t need to guess to know.
China, as Asia’s first participating team, was not taken seriously at all by the person in charge, General Santos. In his view, the Chinese Team was just there to go through the motions.
He completely did not recognize the strength of Chinese special operations, so the welcome was just casually handled.
As the regiment commander of the Chinese Delegation, Senior Colonel Li Dayong’s face was extremely ugly, and the team members below, including Chen Jun, were also extremely angry.
“I’m going, what do they mean by this, huh? Just casually sending someone to welcome us?”
“Yeah, we’re a national representative team, it’s clearly written in their information that the person in charge will personally welcome each country’s representatives upon entry.”
“MD, they definitely look down on us, really want to punch him in the face.”
“I’ve only heard in the news before that foreigners like to engage in discrimination, always picking on H people, didn’t expect it to really happen to me, damn it.”
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Everyone in the Chinese Delegation was filled with righteous indignation, with anger more obvious on each face than the last.
The reception colonel clearly saw that the Chinese Delegation was very angry about their reception, but showed no intention of calming the anger.
He even showed a few hints of impatience, casually said a few words, and left.
Leaving only one officer to handle the follow-up.
“As the world’s largest international scout competition, with this kind of courtesy and attitude, it’s really too disappointing, not worthy at all of being the host.”
Senior Colonel Li Dayong vented angrily in his heart, but couldn’t say it out loud.
Because in this late nineties, the motherland had not yet fully developed, and was constrained internationally in all aspects, especially in various international events.
The Chinese representative team being treated differently by the event organizers was something Senior Colonel Li Dayong had already anticipated before departure.
He just didn’t expect it to be this serious, starting to make trouble even before entering the door.
Seeing that everyone in the delegation was very angry, and continuing like this might cause trouble, Senior Colonel Li Dayong thought that being guests away from home, it wasn’t appropriate to stir up issues right upon arrival, so he could only forcibly swallow this breath.
He looked solemnly and heavily at everyone and said: “Although what happened today is very upsetting, as Chinese soldiers, we must show our style, and we absolutely cannot let a dog bite us and then bite back.
I hope you remember now, remember today, and turn this humiliation into power.
In the upcoming competition, carry forward our military spirit, show well the strength of our Chinese soldiers, and use our fists to make them recognize us anew.
Let this group of foreign devils know that our Chinese soldiers are humble but not afraid of trouble, have strength but are never proud, and do not fear any challenge.”
Senior Colonel Li Dayong’s words struck deep, making everyone present boil with hot blood.
The anger in their hearts all turned into morale.
They secretly gritted their teeth in their hearts and made up their minds to bring out the best strength in this competition, letting this group of foreign devils know what special forces soldiers really are.
Use strength to beat them all into submission, letting them know the shame of playing petty tricks.
With this sky-high fighting spirit morale, the Chinese Delegation endured the anger of being treated differently and checked into the event main camp just like that.
The Estonian officer assigned to be in charge, being low in position, was instead more competent in handling things.
Not only did he lead the Chinese representative team to the dormitory area, but he also introduced one by one the various facilities in the living area, such as dining, washing, toilet, and so on.
He also briefly explained the rules here, as well as the event’s general schedule.
Finally, when leaving, he brought competition handbooks and gave one to each member of the Chinese representative team, which detailed all kinds of competition rules and matters.
The competition rules for the “Aelna Assault” international scout competition were not many, summed up to a total of seven points.
The first point is competition team configuration:
Each country sent eight contestants, who need to be divided into two participating teams according to the competition rules, and submit the names of Team One and Team Two members on time.
That means the competition is four people per team, and they must compete separately, unable to cooperate jointly.
Why divide the team into two, the event organizers definitely had their reasons for doing so, and Chen Jun’s side wasn’t too clear on the specifics.
Could only guess it was one main team and one sub-team, to make this competition more watchable.
Even if one team is gone, there’s still the other.
Almost all international events follow this rule, with at least two people or groups per project per country.
The second point is competition duration:
This competition adopts an all-the-way race format, incorporating various subjects midway, and the competition teams cannot stop once they start until the end of the competition.
Total time is 4 days 3 nights 78 hours.
No special rest time arranged in between, meaning all 78 hours are competition time, continuously in a moving state.
It extremely tests the competitors’ stamina and perseverance.
Unable to sleep for four days and three nights, yet still undergoing various high-intensity tests.
Most people can’t endure it!
No wonder this competition limits contestants’ age to not exceed thirty years old.
With this super exaggerated competition duration, only young lads in their teens or twenties can endure it; older ones, no matter how strong their willpower, can’t hold up.
The third point is load requirements:
Because it’s long-term combat in the primeval forest with no one able to provide any help, everything needed must be carried on the body.
This includes but is not limited to weapons, equipment, ammunition, and various field living items.
Therefore, the total weight of supplies each team member needs to carry will reach 35 to 40 kilograms, equal to 70 to 80 jin, equal to carrying a slim woman the whole time.
A high-duration competition lasting four days and three nights, yet having to carry 70 to 80 jin throughout.
Not to mention Cheng Cai, Wu Zhe, and others seeing it, they straight up called it a pervert among perverts; even before the competition started, they felt their scalps go numb.
Every cell in their bodies was telling them that this competition really required preparing for death.
No wonder it’s called the death competition without death!
With these set competition rules, it’s just tormenting people to death; even if not dying in the competition, coming through one competition is no different from dying once.
Realizing this competition was even harder than imagined, the Chinese Team felt the pressure on their shoulders double.
The fourth point is marching distance:
All competition subjects in the entire competition added up, the competitors need to long-distance assault a full 150 kilometers in the harsh environment of the primeval forest.
At the same time, during the long-distance assault, they have to avoid pursuit and interception by over a thousand simulated enemies.
The fifth point is technical tactical subjects assessment:
During the assault, they need to follow command, and according to the marching map issued after the competition starts, conduct individual tactical subjects assessments in specified areas and positions.
Including but not limited to beach landing, jungle crossing, battlefield reconnaissance, boat rowing, rope bridge crossing, water obstacle crossing, long gun long-distance shooting, pistol shooting, minefield crossing, battlefield first aid, identifying and using NATO weaponry and equipment, ammunition transport, 6 kilometers load assault, and other 18 technical tactical subjects assessments.
There are 18 projects over the 150 kilometers route, getting first in each project earns one point, extremely testing the competitors’ basic skills.
And the final world champion belongs to whoever dominates these 18 projects with the greatest weight.
The sixth point is control station rules:
There will also be 10 control stations during the competition, or checkpoint points.
Contestants must arrive at each station （ point ） within the specified time, no more than 5 minutes early or late, or points will be deducted.
Only after arriving at the corresponding control station can they temporarily receive the next phase competition mission and learn the location of the next control station.
It sounds very complex, but summed up it’s just one sentence—
Must strictly keep time!
On the battlefield, every second counts, delaying the battle opportunity is a capital offense, control of time must be precise, so keeping time is the most basic quality of a scout.
Therefore, in this international competition that is mainly infiltration reconnaissance with auxiliary assault combat.
All participating teams must strictly keep time, whether hurrying on the road too fast or too slow won’t do; if it’s set for a certain time, they must arrive at the control station at that exact time.
That kind of common approach where many people complete a series of competitions at the fastest speed.
Is completely useless here!
This competition doesn’t seek speed, only accuracy.
Chen Jun had never participated in this kind of competition, and was very curious about this targeted fixed-point competition method, with his challenge desire fully ignited.
He was very much looking forward to what kind of performance he could have under these special rules.
Cheng Cai, Wu Liu Yi, and other team members were the same; seeing how important time was to this competition, they also started planning ahead in their minds.
After all, there were ten control points that needed to be hit exactly on time, which extremely tested the competitors’ stable battlefield control ability.
Not planning ahead would lead to problems.
The seventh point is penalty rules:
This point is very important for competitors; remembering the rules allows fewer penalty points.
Before the competition officially starts, each contestant will be issued 10 penalty slips, each representing 6 points, equal to each having 60 points.
Every time captured by a simulated enemy once, or failing to arrive at a control point on time, etc.
Each time requires handing over one penalty slip and deducting the corresponding points; once all 10 penalty slips are handed over, that contestant is counted as “sacrificed” and must exit the competition.
If in a participating team of four, two have used up all their penalty slips and “sacrificed.”
Then that participating team will be eliminated!
At first glance, everyone has ten penalty slips, equal to ten lives in hand, seeming very ample for one competition.
In reality, it’s completely not the case; when actually using them, they run out very quickly.
Keep in mind the four act together; once something happens, it’s a penalty for all four, that’s four slips at once, and the ten will be consumed very quickly.
Plus, over this 150 kilometers route, there are as many as a thousand imaginary enemies in pursuit and interception.
Equal to seven imaginary enemies per kilometer!
And the participating teams’ marching route is fixed; they must reach one control station before going to the next, with no way to open up their own route.
This means the imaginary enemies don’t need to search everywhere; they just need to guard the route.
For competitors to arrive exactly on time at the next control point, it’s impossible to detour very far in the primeval jungle, dooming the forward route to be very limited in width.
With a thousand imaginary enemies deployed on the route, catching a participating team is really not difficult.
If the competitors don’t use their brains to find ways, they might not even have traveled 50 kilometers before their ten penalty slips are all used up.
If brainless plus bad luck, they might get caught once every 1 kilometer.
They’ll die even faster!
The seventh point is the most infuriating one.
Because this competition is infiltration reconnaissance, contestants cannot directly conflict with simulated enemies and cannot attack any imaginary enemy.
No blank ammunition is issued to each contestant, nor simulation equipment.
Wanting to take out imaginary enemies to pass is simply impossible.
Forcibly attacking will even deduct points!
Competitors can only find ways to detect imaginary enemies in advance, then use their brains to find ways to avoid them.
This also means that for certain key points, like places where there’s only one bridge to cross, the contestants are doomed to be captured helplessly.
Hand over the penalty slip obediently, then pass.
Originally only ten penalty slips, and there might be fixed points in between where you must pay toll to pass, it’s simply an overlord clause.
Chen Jun really didn’t like this passive rule; having to act like rats the whole time was really quite unpleasant.
But this was the event organizers’ requirement; everything must follow their rules, and for infiltration reconnaissance, it indeed cannot expose oneself.
Once you kill enemies in the enemy rear, it will absolutely expose and draw a bunch of enemies to sweep.
This also shows that this competition is indeed based on actual combat.
“Hey~ wait,”
Chen Jun had been quite depressed, but suddenly a flash of inspiration hit, and he excitedly thought to himself: “The rules only say cannot attack imaginary enemies, but didn’t say cannot attack participating teams, or utilize participating teams.
At that time, we can make an article out of this, utilizing these limb-developed but simple-minded foreign devils will definitely have unexpected effects.”
Thinking of being able to ruthlessly pit this group of foreigners, Chen Jun immediately felt refreshed and clear-headed.
He couldn’t help but laugh out loud!
