Chapter 263: High Energy! Real-combat Simulation Assessment!
The CQB that left everyone in A Detachment exhausted and frustrated became instantly simple under Chen Jun’s guidance.
All the difficulties were almost effortlessly resolved.
In just less than a week, the CQB training course, which had previously been stuck here or there with abnormally slow progress,
proceeded extremely smoothly under Chen Jun’s leadership, allowing training to unfold in an orderly manner immediately.
Regarding this.
Yuan Lang could only be convinced.
To thank Chen Jun for his help to A Detachment, and also to let Chen Jun offer some opinions to make A Detachment’s combat simulation assessment more mature.
It happened that the annual newcomer final assessment coincided with this time when Chen Jun was around.
Thus, Captain Tie, at Yuan Lang’s suggestion, specially invited Chen Jun to join the director group for guidance work, participating in the early plot design as well as the subsequent combat simulation assessment.
For this “graduation exam” targeted at the newcomers, Chen Jun had experienced it himself in his previous life.
As a direct participant, Chen Jun had sufficient understanding of this simulation assessment and was crystal clear about its pros and cons.
With Captain Tie’s personal invitation to join, Chen Jun was naturally very willing.
So in the following week, Chen Jun worked closely with Yuan Lang to design and deploy the combat simulation assessment training ground.
Overall, although the original design was similar, many details had changed completely with Chen Jun’s involvement.
Chen Jun was confident that his design and modifications would definitely make this assessment more realistic.
For example:
To make this abandoned warehouse look not like an abandoned one, but like a warehouse in use, it was specially renovated.
They even brought in a train locomotive to run for a day, polishing off all the rust on the railroad track.
Some ingredients were added to the simulated poison gas, which wouldn’t cause too severe aftereffects or toxicity, but would make people feel dizzy and nauseous upon smelling it.
The actors pretending to be villains were made to wear chemical protective suits according to standard specifications.
The most easily exposed blank ammunition was upgraded by adding a layer of camouflage outer shell, making the blank ammunition look like real bullets.
…
And so on—there were many such improvement plans. Although it cost more manpower and resources, since this place could be reused cyclically, the expenses were well worth it.
Chen Jun was quite curious.
In the original drama, through meticulous observation plus his rich personal knowledge reserve, the only top student Wu Zhe who saw through the problems with the assessment.
Would he be able to see through it this time!
After the personnel deployment for the combat simulation assessment training ground was completed, those few newcomers who had just joined A Detachment also ushered in their final graduation exam.
However.
This group of newcomers didn’t know.
They were suddenly pulled away by an emergency order in a state of complete ignorance.
The vehicle that took them away was a professional chemical defense vehicle, with several equipment boxes marked for chemical defense inside the vehicle, containing the chemical protective suits issued to them.
Seeing that they were special nuclear, biological, and chemical protective suits, Wu Zhe frowned first.
Something felt off!
Wu Liu Yi, Cheng Cai, and Xu Sanduo also sensed the unusual atmosphere, but hadn’t realized how dangerous it was yet, thinking it was just a field exercise.
After all, since coming to A Detachment, Yuan Lang never played by the rules.
They had already experienced many sudden surprises.
Their ability to withstand pressure was already very strong.
Qi Huan, sitting in the passenger seat with a grim face, fully unleashed his acting skills. After the vehicle started, he solemnly issued orders to the newcomers in the vehicle.
“Level one combat readiness, check weaponry and equipment.”
Hearing Qi Huan issue the level one combat readiness order, the newcomers including Wu Liu Yi all changed their expressions drastically, finally realizing something was wrong.
Level two combat readiness was already very serious in the troops; everyone had to draw weapons and sleep with them at night.
Level one combat readiness was even more so.
That was an order that only appeared in the warriors’ ears when war truly broke out or was on the brink of breaking out.
Over 99% of domestic soldiers would never experience level one combat readiness in their entire military career.
One could see how taboo it was!
And yet, such a unfamiliar thing appeared without any warning today—how could it not make all the newcomers pale and terrified?
The already silent atmosphere inside the vehicle became even more oppressive due to this level one combat readiness.
While the pressure doubled for each newcomer, their minds were all puzzled: level one alert means war has broken out, but in this peaceful era, where would war come from?
Under this chaotic train of thought, the chemical defense vehicle ran for several hours on the road.
The chemical defense vehicle that had sped over 200 kilometers in a day finally stopped as the sky gradually darkened, entering a temporary command center.
Here, there were armed troops everywhere, exuding the danger that war had arrived.
The newcomers, exhausted from hours of travel, saw the fully combat-ready scene at the command center, and their already tense hearts became even more nervous.
Their suspicion that this operation was an exercise also became increasingly weak.
And when the newcomers weren’t arranged to rest but were immediately sent to the meeting room for a meeting, seeing the vast dimly lit meeting room already filled with over a hundred special forces soldiers.
And they were all old A’s from Third Company!
On the super large screen right in front, various urgent reports were being played.
Except for Wu Zhe who still found it a bit unbelievable, the other newcomers including Wu Liu Yi and Cheng Cai had already believed this was a real operation.
Thinking that they were about to participate in real combat, everyone’s heart suddenly tightened.
This was the instinct toward death!
No matter how bold you were, or how good your training results were, once it involved life and death, the body would activate its instinctual tension.
This was the body’s most basic self-protection mechanism; knowing to be afraid meant knowing how to protect oneself.
It was just like how standing on the edge of a cliff would trigger the protection mechanism to make you fearful, thereby staying away from the cliff to ensure no danger.
However.
Fear of death is human instinct.
But for a soldier born for war, one must strive to overcome the fear brought by self-protection and turn that fear into the power for combat.
Because soldiers must live toward death, must fight to the death to defend the country and protect the people.
Wu Liu Yi, Xu Sanduo, and the others had been in the troops for over three years by now, and they were all very clear about a soldier’s duty.
So despite the inner tension and fear, it didn’t make them cower.
Instead, they forcibly suppressed their inner emotions and stepped into this command post filled with high-pressure atmosphere, sitting down at the designated positions.
Time in this tense atmosphere seemed to crawl as if stuck.
It was unknown how much time passed.
“Attention!”
With a high-pitched command.
The crowd in the venue, who had all been sitting quietly waiting without daring to speak, stood up uniformly from their positions.
Captain Tie, wearing A Detachment combat uniform, steel helmet, and face paint, came to the front grandstand with an expressionless face.
“At ease!”
The command rang out again.
The over a hundred special forces soldiers who had stood up sat back down uniformly.
“Your company commander is out on official business today; I will take command in his place.”
Captain Tie had a serious expression, with an extremely brief opening remark,
then had the technician play the video, and a reporter holding a microphone making a news report appeared on the large screen in front.
“Audience friends, this afternoon a group of organized anti-social elements hijacked the second chemical raw materials processing plant in the eastern suburbs of our city. They claim to have arranged large amounts of explosives throughout the factory building.
Police arrived at 4 p.m. and are now negotiating with the villains; military troops have also arrived to seal off the area.
We learned from the police that they now hold a large amount of weapons…”
While the female reporter was reporting, various urgent alarm sounds could be heard from there, and large numbers of military police appeared in the footage.
It could be seen that the situation was already very bad, and the chemical plant could erupt in danger at any time.
“Boom~ Boom~”
Suddenly two explosions rang out.
“Don’t film, don’t film, it’s very dangerous; you need to leave quickly.”
In the footage, thick smoke billowed up, and nearby military police immediately rushed over, forcibly interrupting the reporter’s live report.
With the news report abruptly ending, the venue instantly became deathly silent.
The tense atmosphere grew even thicker.
“Because considering the social reaction that publicizing this matter would cause, the news you just saw was canceled before broadcast; the situation I described is unknown to all media.”
Captain Tie’s cold voice broke the silence, continuing in a serious tone: “The chemical plant hijacked by the villains stores large amounts of flammable and explosive chemicals such as phosphorus, nitrate, and potassium, totaling 10,457 tons.
The earlier explosions were just demonstrations; I think you all understand the severity.
Even without explosives from the villains, the highly toxic gases released from combustion alone would be enough to turn this city into a ghost town henceforth.
If those poison gases drift with the wind, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Even more tricky is that the villains haven’t made any demands yet; citizens are undergoing emergency evacuation, and surrounding troops have been deployed.
The action team dispatched from our base has now arrived at the scene; we hope they can resolve this crisis. If they fail…”
Captain Tie deliberately paused here, heightening the dangerous and tense atmosphere.
Then he continued: “Your Third Company is now the backup team; chemical defense equipment has been delivered. Be ready to act at any time.
I now order: Third Company remains here on standby. No one leaves for any reason, including sleeping, eating, or even going to the toilet.”
After speaking, Captain Tie went behind the large screen, which was the command room for this operation.
Then a logistics squad came in, distributing a boxed meal and a bottle of water to each warrior, along with the necessary chemical defense equipment.
Seeing Captain Tie say so, almost all the newcomers no longer doubted.
They all realized a major battle was about to unfold, and in such a dangerous place like the chemical plant, they might die inside if it exploded.
The intense tension brought by death made all the newcomers unable to help but feel panicked and uneasy.
To dispel this strong unease, each newcomer was comforting themselves in their own way; the vast command lobby was exceptionally quiet.
Some began to eat quickly with heads down, trying to eliminate tension by eating and drinking their fill.
Some were like the night before an exam, frantically recalling in their minds all the techniques learned, all the weapons and equipment handled.
Just to cram at the last minute, even if not fast, at least bright.
Some were still trying to make a final struggle, still seeking flaws in it.
Wanting actual proof that this was still an exercise.
The representative was Wu Zhe!
Unfortunately, when Wu Zhe took out the issued magazine and removed the bullets inside to check if they were blank ammunition to confirm it was an exercise,
he found that the issued bullets all had bullet heads, meaning they were real bullets.
This made his heart sink sharply.
“Could it really be a combat operation?”
No matter how much Wu Zhe didn’t want to believe this time, the facts right before his eyes forced him to accept it inwardly, and his heart tightened involuntarily.
However, compared to Xu Sanduo and Cheng Cai at this moment, Wu Zhe’s emotions were actually the steadiest.
Xu Sanduo, thinking of bullets killing him, no longer had his signature silly grin on his face, only a completely expressionless one left.
This meant he was extremely nervous!
Although Cheng Cai kept saying he wasn’t afraid and even came over specially to comfort Xu Sanduo.
And instructed Xu Sanduo: “In that place, there are only targets you hit and targets you miss; no good guys or bad guys—remember that.”
In reality, his heart was panicking to death right now; the calmness on the surface was all pretended.
Because he even choked on his water, showing how chaotic his emotions were.
Wu Liu Yi was the only one among Steel Seventh Company’s Three Musketeers whose emotions were as stable as Wu Zhe’s; his single-mindedness made his thoughts very straightforward.
He didn’t even think about whether he would die; his mind was filled with only one thought—
First real combat operation; absolutely cannot disgrace Seventh Company.
Under this tense and uneasy atmosphere, time soon reached bedtime at night, and everyone had to unpack their backpacks to sleep.
Spreading mattresses on the ground or tables became everyone’s beds.
Not so particular!
The other old A’s in Third Company slept soundly because they had all gone through this before and knew very well it was just a large-scale acting performance.
Only those few newcomers undergoing the test tossed and turned, unable to sleep at all.
They finally managed to fall asleep in the latter half of the night, but hadn’t slept long when, just as the sky was brightening, the lobby door was pushed open by Qi Huan.
“Get up, change into gear, prepare to depart—hurry up.”
With Qi Huan’s signature loud roar, all the warriors who were resting jumped up nimbly and began donning equipment at the fastest speed.
The newcomers were especially startled into a shiver.
Realizing their backup team would also be thrown into the battlefield to fight armed enemies.
The shadow of death suddenly loomed, hearts leaping to their throats.
