Chapter 300: Life And Death, Victory And Defeat, All On This One Throw!
The primitive jungle environment is complex and conducive to concealment. China Team One was able to achieve almost no deductions in the first three days and three nights of the competition.
But now the number of imaginary enemies has increased tenfold, and the concealing jungle is no longer so concealed.
With hundreds of people in pursuit and interception, escaping is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Not to mention that there is a simple road in the forest. China Team One must pass through it, and it has now been specially targeted, turned into a life-and-death checkpoint.
Not only with sentries every three steps and posts every five steps.
But also multiple blockade lines set up along the way, with dozens of wheeled armored vehicles and off-road vehicles shuttling back and forth, maintaining uninterrupted patrols twenty-four hours a day.
Forget about people passing through this road—even a fly flying by would be shot down.
And at this time, the targeted China Team One did not take a detour to a distant place. Instead, they were hiding in the ditch right next to the simple road.
This is Chen Jun’s Chinese tactic, emphasizing that the most dangerous place is the safest.
No one among the imaginary enemies would have thought that right by the roadside where dozens of vehicles were patrolling back and forth, the China Team One they were desperately trying to catch was hiding.
Captain Chen led the team and lurked under the enemy’s nose for more than an hour without being discovered.
Of course.
The cover of heavy rain and night played a key role.
The commander stationed at the imaginary enemy command post directing operations never imagined that China Team One would go against the grain and play a counter-tactical strategy with them.
They did not accelerate forward to escape and try to shake off the pursuit because of being pursued and intercepted by hundreds of enemies.
Instead, they played a counter-logic move: under enemy pursuit, they did not run but simply hid in a spot first.
Seeing that more than an hour had passed without finding the vanished China Team One, the imaginary enemy commander, in both anxiety and anger, naturally assumed that China Team One had already escaped ahead.
To further compress the space available to China Team One, the imaginary enemy commander issued another order.
He directed the main imaginary enemy force in pursuit and interception to converge overall toward the second half of the cross-country competition, further increasing the density of the search teams.
By using denser search teams to increase the probability of finding China Team One.
Theoretically, this deployment was fine. If China Team One really ran further ahead, increasing search density could indeed compress their space.
Compressing five hundred imaginary enemies into two kilometers, China Team One would have no chance of escaping the encirclement.
Unfortunately.
China Team One did not move at all.
The imaginary enemy main force moving forward overall left no search troops in the rear.
All of this was within Chen Jun’s calculations. He was waiting for this opportunity. Seeing that the imaginary enemy main force had fallen into the trap, he immediately launched action again.
They followed behind the imaginary enemy main force and easily passed the more than four kilometers ahead.
However, the remaining one kilometer was gathered with more than five hundred imaginary enemies personally commanded by the commander. Breaking through here to reach the finish line was the most difficult.
Fortunately, Chen Jun had a countermeasure long ago!
There is a river next to this stretch of road. As long as they could rush into this river and drift downstream to the downstream area, they could reach the finish line upon landing.
“Charge!!”
Chen Jun seized the brief gap of dozens of seconds when the enemy armored patrol convoy shuttled back and forth, waved his hand, and issued the action order.
Cheng Cai, Xu Sanduo, and Wu Liu Yi moved quickly, following behind Chen Jun like arrows off the string, rushing across the road and jumping into the more than 10 meters wide river by the roadside.
Swimming is one of the basic abilities of special operations, and load-bearing swimming was no challenge for the four including Chen Jun.
China Team One drifted more than one kilometer downstream along the river right under the enemy’s nose, leaving only the last few hundred meters to the finish line.
Next, they just needed to land, enter the forest, and pass through the forest to complete this subject.
Just as the four of Chen Jun landed.
Gunshots erupted loudly from the road opposite, and the roar of armored vehicles and off-road vehicles sounded. It was foreseeable that a large number of vehicles were converging toward this side.
Obviously, at this final checkpoint of landing, they were still discovered by the imaginary enemies.
However, it was too late to discover them now.
The four of Chen Jun, who had quickly swum ashore, sprinted a hundred meters in a few strides.
By the time the enemy in armored vehicles chased to the riverbank, only thirty or forty meters away from our team members, Chen Jun and the others had already disappeared into the vast forest.
The other side of the forest was the finish line. Unless they could enter the forest and catch up with the four of Chen Jun.
However, this was impossible.
The imaginary enemies were not special forces soldiers. Their advantages lay in vehicles and numbers, while individual soldier quality and ability were far inferior to the competitors.
It was impossible to catch up with China Team One in the forest, and there was no way to drive vehicles into the forest.
Everything was already over!
The final result was that China Team One, under the pursuit and interception by as many as more than five hundred enemies, relied on Captain Chen Jun’s experience and tactics to engage in a battle of wits and courage with the enemy.
Plus the outstanding performance of the three team members, with superior strategy and bravery, they broke through the enemy’s heavy blockades, winning first place in this single subject for China Team again.
The imaginary enemy commander was originally very angry and wanted to dig up China Team One three feet deep.
But when China Team appeared like heavenly soldiers and generals, suddenly near the finish line not far away, and reached the finish line in one go to get full marks.
The imaginary enemy commander was completely convinced!
Impressed by China Team One’s formidable strength, he acknowledged that China Team One’s strength indeed surpassed the Europe and America teams, with no more unwillingness or anger.
Because China Team One performed excellently in this project, completely subduing all doubters.
It showcased the might of China’s special forces soldiers!
Even the various large and small newspapers in Estonia couldn’t miss such explosive big news, rushing to report it extensively on the same day.
They all praised the Chinese special forces soldiers for their exquisite skills, brave and tenacious style, and firm willpower.
Strong beyond belief!
Carlos, the chairman of the Sixth Company competition organizing committee, was also shocked by the strength of China’s dark horse, tightly gripping the hand of Li Dayong, the regiment commander of the Chinese Delegation.
He excitedly and admiringly praised: “The Chinese special forces soldiers created a miracle. I congratulate you.”
From being completely unwelcome before to now being surrounded by delegations from various countries, hearing all sorts of good words until his ears went numb, and even highly praised by the organizing committee chairman.
This before-and-after change was simply dreamlike, making Li Dayong’s mouth grin wide.
Originally, by Li Dayong’s own estimate, even if he shouted loud slogans before coming that they must bring the competition championship back home, in his heart, getting into the top three would already be very satisfactory.
After all, domestic modernized special operations had just started, lagging behind Europe and America by more than twenty years.
And China was participating in this kind of international world special forces competition for the first time, with absolutely no major competition experience or foundation, inherently inferior to Europe and America countries.
Who would have thought that aiming for an apple ended up hugging a big watermelon.
Such an unexpected joy.
Li Dayong felt like he was dreaming.
From this moment on, no matter how poorly the subsequent subject competitions went, Li Dayong could foresee that he was guaranteed to take off this time.
The military rank he thought had reached its end in this lifetime would probably advance a few more steps upward.
The things he once dreamed of were coming into reality.
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Estonia is a country mainly based on forestry, with forest coverage exceeding 75%.
The host country selected the competition area in a region with dense forests, continuous swamps, rugged roads, numerous obstacles, and extremely harsh conditions in all aspects, precisely to test the special forces soldiers of various countries.
The competition rules are strict and ruthless.
Facing harsh geographical environments and conditions, the team with wisdom, courage, and strategy, the one that performs nimbly on the spot, the one that can endure more hardship, will hold the initiative.
And not fearing hardship and not fearing death is one of the core spirits of our army.
It is precisely with the spirit of not fearing hardship and not fearing death that China Team can conquer the harsh environment and demonstrate our army’s heroic and tenacious combat style in the competition.
Shocking the Europe and America delegations and the organizing committee, instantly making the name of China’s special forces known.
With China Team taking first again in the six-kilometer cross-country, China Team has become the unquestionable favorite, and the remaining competitions are receiving extra attention.
And China Team is playing with increasing confidence, with their potential fully stimulated.
Results are getting more brilliant one after another!
When entering the flying knife throwing competition project, China has had the craft of hidden weapons since ancient times, and the Chinese team members did not disgrace their “ancestral skills.”
China Team One’s captain Chen Jun and China Team Two’s Qi Huan took the field as representatives.
Both were calm and steady in this subject, fully applying the skills learned in the troops, standing firm at a position 15 meters away.
“Swish swish swish.”
Three flying knives flew out in succession.
The three flying knives thrown by both did not miss or fall off target; all were extremely precise, piercing into the red circle of the human target.
Being able to precisely hit one or two flying knives, nine out of ten competitors on the field could do it.
But precisely hitting all three flying knives in the bullseye, among the nearly one hundred competitors remaining after elimination, only three achieved it.
Chen Jun and Qi Huan, along with one Estonian team member, thus earned the title of “Flying Knife Kings.”
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The four days and three nights competition is not only a contest of physical strength and skills, but also of perseverance and willpower. Only persisting to the end can lead to victory.
Otherwise, even after walking ninety-nine steps, falling at the last step is failure.
With the flying knife project ended, the competition entered the final stage.
The storm seemed endless, testing the competitors’ physical strength, and even more so their willpower and perseverance.
Seeing only the last competition subject remaining—
Crossing the death battle line!
The contestants need to brave the pouring rain, after already persisting for three and a half days and three nights, with energy and physical strength nearly exhausted, still complete a subject equivalent to a twenty-kilometer forced march.
For the contestants, the difficulty was indeed a bit excessive.
The final elimination wave began to erupt.
Some Europe and America contestants fell into heavy enemy encirclement, were captured multiple times exceeding the standard, and fell at the last checkpoint before success.
Some couldn’t hold on midway and, to avoid dying on the competition road, chose to withdraw back to the main camp.
Others’ foreign military leaders were full of anger, aggressively protesting to the international referees, stating they could not endure such cruel competition.
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One participating team after another was eliminated, with various wonderful scenes playing out in succession.
Only the Chinese team members were all without complaints or regrets, remembering the oath made before going abroad—to bring the championship back home, strongly supporting their spirits to continue struggling on the field.
Even when the Love Army imaginary enemy commander “cheated” by ordering the use of “big brother” and “walkie-talkie” and other communication tools.
Allowing imaginary enemy units to report situations to each other faster, concentrate troops to pursue and intercept China Team members, trying every means to prevent China Team from seizing the championship.
The imaginary enemy commander admired China Team, but admiration is admiration, and acknowledgment of strength is acknowledgment.
In this competition run by Europe and America countries, he still couldn’t overcome that bit of selfishness in his heart, wanting to keep the championship trophy in Europe and America countries.
If the championship was taken by the first-time participating dark horse, not only the imaginary enemy commander couldn’t accept it, but the host’s officials couldn’t either.
Therefore, even using illegal means, he had to keep the championship.
And Chen Jun knew China Team was being targeted, but his heart had not the slightest timidity, only persistence for the championship.
Persistently relying on the “GDS” navigator in hand, finding each task target point as required.
Then using methods like visual estimation, binoculars, arm-length ruler, and other makeshift ways to accurately grasp the marching distance, approaching the goal step by step.
As the main team, China Team One was striving, and the deputy team China Team Two was not falling behind.
Qi Huan, Wu Zhe, Tuo Yonggang, and Ba Te Er, the four fully played to their respective advantages, using wisdom and bravery to evade waves of “enemy” pursuits and interceptions.
With only the last competition project remaining, no one wanted to fall here.
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China Team One sometimes marched swiftly, sometimes sprinted running, sometimes the four split up, sometimes merged back together.
It could be said each showing their own special prowess, with the goal of passing through the battle line.
Complete the last competition project and bring the championship home.
But when Team One entered a crossroads area surrounded by mountains on one side, forest on one side, road on one side, and swamp on one side, the biggest crisis of the competition so far arrived.
Suddenly, clear enemy activity appeared from the mountain, forest, and road directions.
In Chen Jun’s mind, he could picture the Love Army imaginary enemies like Japanese devils in movies on a big sweep, yelling “baga” while encircling them.
The only direction without enemy activity was straight ahead on the road.
This road, though without enemy activity, had extremely deadly danger.
Because under the nearly day-long rain, the water in the swamp ahead had reached halfway up the calf, looking at a glance like a vast lake.
So it was impossible to predict whether stepping down ahead was a swamp pit or solid ground.
One wrong step, and a person could be in the mud pit.
With no way forward, pursuers on the other three roads, it was almost a dead end.
Cheng Cai and the other two were all anxious.
And the remaining time was not much.
If they continued staying here, in less than five minutes, the imaginary enemy army would surround them, and China Team One would really be impossible to escape.
Chen Jun looked at the left, right, and rear, then finally at the heavily crisis-ridden swamp ahead.
His brows furrowed deeply, eyes profound.
It was time for the choice!
