Chapter 200: Small County Town
After Chang Ning and the others’ identities were confirmed, the corporal took several privates to move the roadblock aside, signaling that they could leave.
When passing the sentry post, the corporal kindly stuffed a few more packs of compressed biscuits to Chang Ning.
“We really managed to sneak through just like that? So simple?”
Ostrich felt it was very unreal. If it was as simple as he had seen, then their previous daytime hiding and nighttime sneaking infiltration efforts seemed a bit ridiculous?
“Where is it that simple?
We could sneak through so easily because we’re all young-looking and tender-faced. Saying we’re students, people can believe it.
Moreover, the student IDs Xiao Zhuang provided us are all real ones that can be checked.
If we didn’t have either of these two advantages, do you believe it? We would’ve been immediately pinned down by that Blue Team corporal just now.”
Chang Ning broke off a small piece of compressed biscuit and washed it down with plain boiled water. Only after the food went down his stomach did he slowly analyze.
That plain boiled water and compressed biscuits were also kindly given to him by the Blue Team corporal.
If he found out afterward that he had personally let the Red Team’s special forces slip right under his nose and even provided them with quite a bit of supply, who knows if he’d be pissed to death?
Chang Ning thought about it in his heart, then felt it was really amusing and laughed in an undignified way.
Xun Ge was right after all—people’s joys and sorrows do not communicate.
“What do we do next?” Xiao Zhuang asked.
On the mountain path, everyone looked at Geng Jihui, waiting for him to make the decision.
The exercise had just begun, right when both sides’ reconnaissance troops were fiercely clashing.
Whether his side’s reconnaissance troops had obtained the Blue Team’s firepower deployment, Geng Jihui didn’t know.
“We’re in radio silence, no radio on hand.
Right now, the specific situation of the Red and Blue Sides is a complete blank—we know nothing.
We need communication equipment to contact Wolf Den.” Geng Jihui thought for a moment and said.
“Radio?
I know where we can get one!”
As soon as Ostrich heard they needed a radio, he immediately came up to Geng Jihui.
Seeing Ostrich’s excited expression, Chang Ning felt it was very unreliable.
Sure enough, as he expected, Ostrich’s idea was the worst possible.
“That sentry post we just passed definitely has a radio. They need to use the radio to communicate with superiors.”
“Paratrooper, I really wonder how you passed the assessment.”
Hearing Chang Ning’s words, Ostrich looked displeased.
“You don’t know how I passed the assessment? Back then, we slept in the same bunk.”
Ostrich’s words made Chang Ning extremely embarrassed.
“Paratrooper, when did I ever sleep in the same bunk with you!”
Rumors spread with one mouth, but refuting them runs your legs off.
If this wasn’t cleared up, people might think he, Chang Ning, had issues with his sexual orientation.
“Alright, can’t you see it’s not the time for jokes.
Put Paratrooper’s suggestion on hold.
Do you have any other good ideas?”
Geng Jihui didn’t reject Ostrich’s suggestion.
They had infiltrated the Blue Team’s defensive line to cause disruption, but it was best to delay discovery as long as possible. Ostrich’s suggestion could only be a backup.
If they attacked the Blue Team’s defensive line right away, what was the point of all their previous painstaking infiltration efforts?
“How about we check out the county town first?” Chang Ning said.
“What to do in the county town?”
Everyone was puzzled.
The county town at the foot of the mountain wasn’t far from the Blue Team’s defensive line, and there wouldn’t be any important Blue Team arrangements there.
Moreover, they didn’t have much money on them, so they couldn’t do much in the county town anyway.
“As far as I know, every county town has its own media channels—some have radio stations, some have TV stations.
Whether radio or TV station, I think with the technology we have, using their media equipment to contact Wolf Den shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Great idea, Chang Ning—how does your brain work? Too smart!
But still a bit short compared to me.”
Ostrich’s shameless look finally made Chang Ning unable to tolerate it anymore.
He now understood why the medic always liked to retort Ostrich—this guy was really infuriating.
After the others sided with him and let Chang Ning punch Ostrich a few times, everyone’s attention focused back on Geng Jihui.
“Do you have any other ideas?”
Chang Ning’s idea was much more reliable than Ostrich’s, but Geng Jihui still didn’t state his position. He was waiting to see if there were other options.
Currently behind enemy lines without intelligence support, their actions felt somewhat restricted.
It wasn’t that without intelligence, Chang Ning and the others in B Group couldn’t do anything.
Certainly, they could go destroy traffic hubs, disrupt the Blue Team’s communication channels, destroy the Blue Team’s logistics transfer stations.
But after destroying these facilities, how would it affect the Red Team’s tactical arrangements?
Special operations ultimately still centered on tactics.
Therefore, they had to contact Wolf Den. If they could get authorization for free action, that would be even better.
“Alright, let’s go to the county town first and take a look.”
Seeing that everyone really couldn’t think of a better way, Geng Jihui adopted Chang Ning’s suggestion.
When B Group’s seven members arrived at the county town at the foot of the mountain, lights were already coming on.
The streets were bustling with people and heavy traffic.
Blue Team patrol soldiers occasionally passed by the roadside on duty.
“Something’s off—why so many Blue Team on patrol.
This isn’t a strategic hub either.”
Several of them sat on chairs by the roadside, baffled as they watched the Blue Team sentries setting up a checkpoint not far away.
Luckily, their county town wasn’t on the front line; otherwise, just the Blue Team setting up checkpoints would cause a huge uproar.
“We’re in for some luck, brothers!” Geng Jihui said with a sly grin.
“This situation probably means a combat unit passed through here.”
“No way, big bro.
If a combat unit really passed through here, us few wolf cubs charging in would barely make a splash—we’d be devoured alive.”
Qiang Zi advised Geng Jihui to drop this unrealistic fantasy.
Since the exercise began, military commanders at all levels in the military region had studied the characteristics of special operations, and their vigilance was no longer as lax as before.
Trying to go in for a decapitation strike without intelligence support would be nothing but wishful thinking!
“Let’s not discuss yet whether it’s as Xiao Geng said. We’ll talk after contacting Wolf Den.”
Chang Ning thought they should first report to Wolf Head. Their side had no intelligence on the surroundings and it wasn’t suitable to act.
“Fine, let’s first find the county town’s official media and borrow some equipment.”
The small county town wasn’t big; walking from south to north on foot wouldn’t take two and a half hours.
The official media definitely had its own office location, generally together with the county town administrators or very close by.
Even without a map of the county town, the seven could find the destination based on past experience.
“Keep it quiet, don’t alert the on-duty personnel inside.” Geng Jihui instructed.
The county town was now under Blue Team jurisdiction. It wasn’t good for them to expose themselves; better to “not fire guns, sneak into the village quietly.”
