Chapter 220: Lei Keming’s Trap
Group B’s actions in the Blue Team Heartland were soon laid out in document form on the desks of the Operations Department and the commanders of both the Red and Blue Sides.
The three parties’ reactions to this were all different, and overall, they showed a clear polarization.
The Operations Department and Red Army Command Post were impressed by Lone Wolf Group B, this special forces team established only a year ago, while Blue Team Commander Commander Wen slammed the table in fury after reading the document.
“What are the reconnaissance unit doing? Red Army’s special forces have infiltrated in!
Also tell Lei Keming that I called him here to help, not to watch me make a fool of myself! If he can’t beat Lone Wolf, he should withdraw early to avoid losing face later!”
The officers in the Blue Team Command were all watching their leader slam the table in anger; not one dared to breathe, afraid of being grabbed by the furious Commander Wen as a punching bag and reprimanded—that would be too unjust.
The communicator stepped forward, quickly noted down Commander Wen’s order, and hurriedly turned to leave.
The air pressure around the enraged Commander Wen was terrifyingly low; no one dared to stroke his whiskers at a time like this.
Black Tiger Detachment Command Post, Commander Lei was painting an oil painting.
From his expression, there was no sign of worry at all for Cobra Squad, which had already been surrounded by He Da Dui.
The chief of staff walked into the tent; with things already at a critical point, seeing the captain unmoved and still calmly painting his oil painting, he smiled wryly and placed the Blue Team loss report and Commander Wen’s condemnation next to Commander Lei’s easel.
Commander Lei glanced sideways at them—the report and the condemnation—and instead of getting angry, he laughed: “Leave no chicken or dog? Indeed interesting, I like this team!”
“In one night, the Airborne Division is already leaderless, the logistics transfer station is done for, and there are other logistics losses… This team’s destructive power is huge; we must annihilate them.” The Black Tiger Detachment’s chief of staff was full of worry.
Such a special forces team with astonishing destructive power active on Blue Team’s Territory—if not controlled, the Blue Team would continue to bleed.
As one side weakens and the other strengthens, the Blue Team and Red Army’s combat would slowly fall into disadvantage.
Commander Lei smiled faintly, issuing no orders at all about dealing with Lone Wolf, but instead asked the chief of staff in return: “Can Wolf Fang catch Cobra Squad in the mountains?”
The chief of staff shook his head: “It depends on the situation. If Wolf Fang has precise intelligence support and full cooperation from other Red Army units, spending a lot of time, they can still succeed in blocking Cobra Squad.
After all, no matter how powerful Cobra Squad is, it’s just a special forces team; they are powerless against artillery coverage.”
“So without accurate intelligence support, we also have no way to catch this Lone Wolf team in the mountains.
They have been in radio silence the whole time until now; locking their exact position is really too difficult, unless the Blue Team scatters a large number of teams to search for Lone Wolf.
But this situation is impossible; the Red Army has more than just Lone Wolf as special forces—they also have a large number of reconnaissance units.
Once the Blue Team’s forces here are tied down by Lone Wolf, then the Blue Team’s defensive line will be as good as nothing in the Red Army’s eyes!”
Faced with such a tricky situation, Lei Keming’s mind remained calm.
“So we just watch them wreak havoc?” the chief of staff said through gritted teeth; he had never fought such a frustrated battle!
Commander Lei smiled: “Center blossom creating favorable conditions for friendly forces—that’s the charm of special operations!”
After sighing, Lei Keming asked unhurriedly: “Where do you think they most want to hit?”
The topic changed too quickly; the chief of staff couldn’t keep up with Lei Keming’s train of thought for a moment: “I don’t understand what you mean.”
The chief of staff hadn’t followed his own train of thought, but Lei Keming wasn’t angry; he said calmly: “I mean, if it were you, what place behind enemy lines would you most want to hit of the Red Army’s?”
“Needless to say, of course the Red Army Command Post! As long as you take out the Red Army Command Post, the exercise is won.” the chief of staff said.
“Lone Wolf is the same now.
Order: Open radio communication, expose our command post’s position!”
The chief of staff was shocked: “That’s playing too big, right? We should discuss it with Commander Wen first; after all, it requires multi-party cooperation!”
Commander Lei didn’t reject the chief of staff’s suggestion right away; he wasn’t stubborn and arbitrary—such a person couldn’t have become captain of a special forces detachment.
“Indeed, we should report it; we still need Commander Wen and them to set up a realistic command post.”
“I’ll go right now!” The chief of staff turned and left the tent.
After handling the matter, Commander Lei continued painting, a faint smile on his lips: “Special forces need such bold and reckless young people!
But you’re still a bit short on experience, lacking just a little cunning!
Playing hide-and-seek with you in the forest is too low-level; I like you delivering yourselves to the door.”
In some unnamed jungle, Chang Ning and the other two arrived at the rendezvous point as previously agreed.
“What’s the situation? There’s smoke rising ahead.”
Chang Ning sniffed the smoke permeating the air and discerned that the smoke came from burning dry firewood.
“There are Blue Team’s reconnaissance units appearing around our rendezvous point?”
If it were Red Army people, they wouldn’t light a fire to produce smoke, so Lao Pao’s first reaction was that it must be the enemy Blue Team, not their own people.
This was normal thinking—who enters someone else’s house like it’s their own and acts casually?
Now, for the Blue Team, Group B were thieves—thieves sneaking into the Blue Team’s “home” to cause destruction and steal things.
“Let’s take a look first; even if it’s Blue Team’s own people, they wouldn’t light an open fire in the forest.” Xiao Zhuang licked his dry, chapped lips and said.
Along the way, the three had rested little to speed up.
“Squad Leader, what do you say?”
Chang Ning was also inclined to approach and check the situation first; if it really was a Blue Team reconnaissance team, the three of them could safely withdraw without being discovered.
But now it wasn’t him acting alone; any ideas naturally needed to be communicated in advance.
The previous destruction of the Blue Team’s logistics transfer station in the county town was a lesson; along the way, Chang Ning hadn’t been condemned little by Xiao Zhuang and Lao Pao for having no team awareness!
To this, Chang Ning said he had truly forgotten, and besides, the situation at the time didn’t allow communication with the two—did they think that Blue Team sergeant was blind?
“Then let’s go take a look; stay alert, retreat immediately if the situation looks wrong.”
Lao Pao looked at the two eager beside him, knowing his opposition was useless, and besides, he also wanted to know just who was on the other side.
The three were in agreement; under the premise of not making obvious noise, they slowly crawled toward where the smoke was rising.
In the mountain gully, Ostrich was evenly smearing thin mud on the tin foil-wrapped chicken; it looked like he was making Beggar’s Chicken.
As for where the chicken and tin foil came from, of course from the Eagle Division’s cookhouse.
Looking at the two lumps of mud burning in the pit, Shi Dafan slurped saliva beside him, chuckling: “Looks delicious, Ostrich, your skills are pretty good!”
