Chapter 235: Chicken Soup
Seeing that Xi Wa had made great progress recently, Chen Guotao was quite happy inside.
So he planned to have Xi Wa lead some people to handle the capture of the Red Team in the forest, to see if Xi Wa was all talk or really had some skills.
Anyway, with him watching from the side, nothing could go wrong.
Of course, he definitely couldn’t tell Xi Wa about his plan.
If others found out, they wouldn’t feel comfortable.
Moreover, this plan carried a bit of disregard for the company, and saying it out loud wouldn’t sound good and would damage his prestige in the company.
So Chen Guotao’s plan was to personally take Xi Wa to capture Chang Ning, but during the capture, he frequently asked for Xi Wa’s opinions.
The Company Commander was good at listening to the soldiers’ suggestions, and no one would gossip about it.
Poor Xi Wa still didn’t know that he had been arranged clearly by Chen Guotao.
“Xi Wa, you take a few people and go with me into the forest to capture those few Red Team stragglers. This big show should also be time for the curtain call.
Seriously!
I don’t understand how they arranged it from above?
We’re scouts! Why arrange us to do the work of receiving prisoners?”
The resentment on Chen Guotao was so thick it was about to spill out, and Xi Wa standing next to him could feel it.
Actually, it wasn’t just Company Commander Chen Guotao who was dissatisfied; the entire Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company was filled with thick resentment.
As the vanguard company of the whole regiment, they were top-notch in the Southeast Military Region.
Such a renowned excellent company should go to the most arduous battlefield, and in the midst of blood and fire, add another merit to their already glorious company history.
Now being arranged to do this kind of aftermath work, who could stand it?
But soldiers take obeying orders as their duty, no matter how uncomfortable, they had to hold it in.
This led to the whole company being full of pent-up anger, and they were very eager to clash with the Red Team in the forest.
Xi Wa definitely didn’t dare to question his own Company Commander’s order, so he honestly selected a few top soldiers who trained hard usually and had excellent military qualities to act as Chen Guotao’s guard, and by the way, complete the task of capturing the Red Team.
“What are you going to do?”
The new Deputy Company Commander saw Chen Guotao leading a few soldiers fully armed and stepped forward to ask.
“Go in to capture people.” Chen Guotao answered.
“I’ll go with you.”
Saying that, the new Deputy Company Commander took out a set of equipment and was about to put it on himself.
“Hey hey hey~”
Chen Guotao couldn’t let this fresh graduate young man follow him in to capture people.
It wasn’t that he looked down on him being a student soldier without grassroots experience.
Don’t forget that he also came from a military academy; how could he have such thoughts?
It was purely that if the Deputy Company Commander went with him, who would lead the soldiers?
Someone capable had to be left here to take charge!
Otherwise, if everyone followed him, and something happened in the company, not knowing who to find would be chaos.
He couldn’t be busy capturing the Red Team in front and still have to distract himself with company affairs, right? What if Chang Ning took advantage of his distraction to strike him?
So after Chen Guotao earnestly persuaded with facts, reasoning, and a combo of motivational talk, he finally steadied the Deputy Company Commander.
“Don’t worry, Company Commander, I’ll watch over our company!”
Seeing that Chen Guotao trusted him so much, the Deputy Company Commander felt an excitement of “a knight dies for his bosom friend,” full of motivation.
Even the resentment from the Second Squad Leader’s sarcasm towards him vanished without a trace at this moment.
After soothing the Deputy Company Commander, Chen Guotao led the people into the forest.
But he seemed to have forgotten one thing: Xi Wa had been “killed” by the booby trap set by Chang Ning under the operation of Ostrich and Geng Jihui.
The surrounding soldiers saw that the Company Commander didn’t pursue it, so everyone pretended not to see and tacitly accepted that Xi Wa wasn’t eliminated.
Strictly speaking, they had already violated the exercise rules. If someone discovered and reported to the Operations Department, Chen Guotao would inevitably face punishment.
That was the mildest.
But judging by Chen Guotao’s appearance, he clearly didn’t care.
Punishment?
What a joke!
All around were their own Night Tiger people; who would report their own Company Commander for no reason.
And the Deputy Company Commander, who was most likely to cause issues, had been pumped full of motivational talk by Chen Guotao and was boiling with enthusiasm, so where would he notice that this eliminated soldier Xi Wa had rejoined the battle.
After making the booby trap, Chang Ning gathered with the remaining members of B Group to discuss countermeasures and contact A Group.
But the forest where they were hiding seemed to be under electronic interference by the Blue Team, with very chaotic signals that were intermittent.
“This is B Group, received, please reply…”
The headphones of the radio always responded to B Group with static noise.
The medic looked at everyone’s expectant faces and shook his head dejectedly.
The time left for them was running out; the Blue Team would surely gradually shrink the range and complete the encirclement of them.
By then, once the encirclement formed, they wouldn’t be able to escape even with wings!
“I wonder how A Group is doing?”
Qiang Zi lay on the soft grass, staring blankly at the brilliant starry river in the sky, his face full of dejection.
“If it really doesn’t work, we’ll force a breakout, catch them off guard, maybe a few can escape.”
Xiao Zhuang’s chin rested on his curled-up knee, his expression tense, and even his speaking voice started to become feeble.
Everyone saw no hope at all.
Seeing the team surrounded by loss and despair at this moment, Chang Ning, as the source of all this, felt full of guilt inside.
If from the beginning he hadn’t insisted on following A Group, they certainly wouldn’t have fallen into such a desperate situation.
Now unable to contact Squadron Leader Gao, their B Group was also about to be done for.
Wolf Fang’s most elite special forces team wiped out in this situation—He Da Dui would surely be very disappointed if he knew.
Chang Ning tasted the bitter fruit brewed by his own overactive imagination, that bitterness seeping into his heart.
“Sorry!”
Chang Ning’s sudden apology made the teammates look at him with eyes full of surprise. Clearly everyone was discussing how to break out, and the mood shifted to seeing Chang Ning inexplicably apologizing.
Could it be that the pressure was too much and he drove himself crazy?
Thinking there was such a possibility, the medic’s expression changed abruptly, and he rushed to Chang Ning in two strides.
One hand seized Chang Ning’s wrist and calmly took his pulse.
The strong pulsing from his fingertips told the medic that this was a very healthy body, without any issues.
“Strange, he’s clearly fine, why suddenly start talking nonsense?
Could it be hysteria? But it’s not showing in the pulse?”
The medic was very confident in his medical skills.
His family had generations of doctors; if his skills weren’t up to par, the old man at home wouldn’t allow him to show them, afraid of embarrassing the family.
But now Chang Ning’s condition left the medic unsure.
Seeing that his slight action made everyone so nervous, Chang Ning felt even more bitter inside.
As the culprit of everything, everyone still cared about him so much.
At this moment, Chang Ning felt his eye sockets heating up, as if something in his eyes was about to surge out.
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