Chapter 302: Trip To Langde Village
Seeing this big brother who had angered Xia Lan while talking to her walking toward him, Da Bao only saw his appearance clearly when he got closer. It turned out to be that big brother who had helped the village dig a well.
“Big brother, is there something wrong?”
There was only Da Bao here, and Chang Ning was walking toward him, so Da Bao didn’t even need to guess to know this big brother was coming to find him.
“If you need help, I can do it.” Da Bao said to Chang Ning.
Looking at this sensible child in front of him, who could imagine he would dare to venture alone into the woods full of high explosives for a little puppy.
Say he’s not sensible? He usually looks quiet and doesn’t make trouble, seeming more sensible than anyone else. Say he is sensible? He dared to run into the battlefield to find the dog, ultimately causing the entire B Group to nearly be wiped out.
“Nothing’s wrong. What Da Bao can do to help now is stay here and not run around.”
With that, Chang Ning took out the parachute cord he had prepared in advance and handed it to Da Bao.
Seeing Da Bao looking at him doubtfully, Chang Ning explained gently and patiently: “This rope is for you to tie the dog with.”
Hearing that Chang Ning wanted him to tie up the little treasure, Da Bao’s face was full of resistance. Ever since the little treasure came to his home, he was no longer lonely.
Every day, the little treasure accompanied him through countless difficult days and nights. To him, the little treasure was like family.
To have him tie up family with a rope, Da Bao was a million times unwilling in his heart.
“Da Bao, I know this little puppy you’re holding has special meaning to you.
But have you thought that not far away is the battlefield where we’re exchanging fire with the criminals seeking revenge on Langde Village.
If you don’t watch the little treasure and it runs onto the battlefield and gets shot dead, what then? So tying it up is for its own good.”
After Chang Ning’s earnest persuasion, the resistance on Da Bao’s face slowly faded: “Alright.”
Seeing Da Bao agree to tie up the little puppy, Chang Ning’s expression relaxed.
It was good that Da Bao agreed. If not, Chang Ning would have had to use some tough measures, even cooperating with the self-righteous Xia Lan if necessary.
That’s still better than the entire B Group sacrificing to save a little puppy. What did it matter if he suffered a little grievance?
Speaking of which, we have to mention Xiao Zhuang dragging down B Group to save the little treasure.
Given the situation at the time, dealing with two hundred criminals was already very taxing. But Xiao Zhuang ran off to save the little treasure just because he didn’t want Da Bao to be sad, which was a bit excessive.
If not for the protagonist halo, Xiao Zhuang would absolutely face disciplinary action upon returning to Wolf Fang. How could he get off scot-free?
“Come, I’ll help you tie it on.”
Afraid Da Bao wouldn’t do it and would wrong the little treasure, Chang Ning took matters into his own hands and firmly tied the parachute cord around the little puppy’s neck.
Seeing the little puppy squirming uncomfortably in his arms, Da Bao felt very heartbroken.
Seeing this, Chang Ning was a bit uneasy and instructed: “Da Bao, you can’t untie the rope before the battle ends, got it?”
Although heartbroken for the little treasure, Da Bao knew the severity of the situation and was sensible, readily agreeing: “Got it.”
Chang Ning ruffled Da Bao’s hair, then tied the other end of the parachute cord to his wrist with a dead knot.
Xia Lan, standing to the side, saw Chang Ning give her a look. Though curious in her heart, she nodded to him to indicate she understood.
Following behind Chang Ning, she didn’t know what he wanted to say to her.
The two walked to the edge of the camp far away, where the artillery fire from the battlefield was still clearly audible and very lively. Although B Group’s plan was very thorough, they still couldn’t resolve over two hundred criminals in a short time.
“After I leave later, trouble you to watch Da Bao and keep him from running around. The battlefield is not far ahead, and it’s full of high explosives inside, very dangerous.”
Still uneasy about the runaway little dog from the original plot, Chang Ning instructed Xia Lan to help watch that runaway little dog.
He was just afraid of plot correction happening.
“Okay, I’ll watch him. You can rest assured.”
Xia Lan readily agreed to Chang Ning’s small request.
“Mm.”
Hearing Xia Lan agree to his small request, Chang Ning then set off for the battlefield with peace of mind.
He had come specifically to eliminate from the source the factor that nearly caused B Group members to sacrifice, preparing the parachute cord especially and even instructing Xia Lan for double insurance.
If even this couldn’t stop the little puppy from running around, Chang Ning could only say he had done his best. B Group’s comrades were fated to face this calamity.
“What stage has the Forest Wolf plan reached?”
Leaving the shelter, Chang Ning rushed desperately to the battlefield fearing he’d miss the fight. Upon arrival, seeing the battle not over, he finally relaxed and contacted Geng Jihui.
“Chang Ning?”
Hearing the familiar voice in the earpiece, Geng Jihui, focused on commanding the battle, initially didn’t believe Chang Ning could arrive so quickly and thought he had misheard.
“You didn’t mishear. It’s me.”
“You ran really fast.”
The battle situation now had some minor deviations, but no big problem; it was still under Geng Jihui’s control, so he could still crack a small joke.
“You know my level. Piece of cake.
Any jobs for me? Say it boldly, I don’t mind.”
With comrades fighting hot and heavy, Chang Ning itched to join. Upon reaching the battlefield, he asked Geng Jihui for a task.
“The assault team is under heavy pressure. Help the assault team now drive these criminals into the minefield set by Mountain Wolf.”
From the footage transmitted back from the camera, Geng Jihui saw Xiao Zhuang and Qiang Zi starting to struggle against the criminals.
No choice; now this group of criminals was adapting to the battlefield environment and beginning to counterattack.
Ultimately, it was because B Group had few people and the nature of special forces soldiers. Battles like this weren’t suited for special operations to begin with.
“Received.”
After responding to Geng Jihui, Chang Ning said to the assault team: “Evil Wolf, Siberian Wolf, you two watch for friend-or-foe identification. I’m coming over.”
“Assault team received. Hurry over.”
After the assault team’s response came through the earpiece, Chang Ning headed to their position. Without advance notice, he might get accidentally injured or killed by teammates, how unjust that would be.
Upon reaching the battlefield, the whistling bullets and omnipresent explosions made Chang Ning’s blood boil. Because of the night vision goggles, the criminals had nowhere to hide in his eyes.
With Chang Ning’s marksmanship, whoever he saw was one shot, one criminal.
He was doing just that now, even pulling off a perfect firepower suppression to relieve the assault team.
After all, two people in the assault team facing over a hundred criminals couldn’t possibly not be under pressure.
With Chang Ning joining, they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
“Beautiful firepower suppression.” Xiao Zhuang shouted through the earpiece.
“Piece of cake. With me here, output freely.” Chang Ning responded calmly while harvesting another criminal’s life.
While happily suppressing the criminals, his peripheral vision caught several sneaky criminals holding something aimed at his position.
So Chang Ning wanted to turn and shoot. Meat delivered to his mouth—not eating it would make people say he’s ungrateful.
Since the criminals were so eager to rush to their deaths, he’d reluctantly help them out.
Who made him so helpful? He wouldn’t even make the criminals say thanks for this small matter.
All in a day’s work.
But when he saw the weapon held by those sneaking criminals, Chang Ning’s pupils contracted sharply, and his hairs stood on end instantly.
“RPG!”
Hearing Chang Ning’s shout, everyone, no matter their position, shouted warnings to nearby comrades.
After shouting, Chang Ning hit the ground, curling up as much as possible to minimize exposure.
If unlucky and hit by shrapnel splinters, this at least reduced the injured area and saved a life.
After several violent explosions, Chang Ning felt like a million loudspeakers were blaring in his brain, annoyingly chaotic.
The surrounding trees blocked the flying shrapnel for him. Chang Ning wasn’t injured, just had some tinnitus from the blast, uncomfortable like being hit by a stun grenade’s high-frequency waves.
In this negative state, Chang Ning verbally cursed the attacking criminals nonstop while keeping his gun firing until emptying the magazine. Only after no one left standing in front did he stop.
This bit of influence was no issue for Chang Ning; training was usually much harsher.
“Anyone injured? Assault team?”
Recovering first, Chang Ning asked about comrades’ status via earpiece.
“No.”
“Still alive.”
Hearing Xiao Zhuang and Qiang Zi were fine, Chang Ning finally relaxed.
Just rocket launchers? Like no one else has them.
Before the battle, Chang Ning had anticipated this, so the requested supplies list included 40 fire.
“Mountain Wolf, we were hit by RPG. Bring the 40 fire and show them who’s boss.
Otherwise, these bastards think that’s all our combat power.”
Since he had powerful weapons, Chang Ning wouldn’t swallow this insult; he had to vent it fiercely.
“Received, coming right away.”
After receiving Chang Ning’s message, Lao Pao immediately grabbed his weapon and rushed over.
Seeing Chang Ning and the others knocked down by the rocket launcher, the criminals’ morale soared, and they launched a counter-breakout against Chang Ning and the assault team.
Didn’t they see their comrades killed by Chang Ning at first sight?
Probably not, after all, this group of criminals didn’t have night vision goggles.
Or maybe seeing Chang Ning and others downed boosted their confidence.
Whatever the reason, the criminals charged over with guns raised anyway.
Seeing the aggressive criminals rushing at him, even battle-hardened Chang Ning felt the pressure double instantly, very tricky.
Two fists can’t beat four hands; one bullet kills one enemy.
With so many enemies suddenly appearing, even someone as fierce as Chang Ning could only temporarily avoid the edge.
Fortunately, Lao Pao arrived timely. A rocket launcher with a long tail flame plunged fiercely into the criminal group.
After the explosion, it inflicted huge casualties on the criminals.
Chang Ning and the assault team seized the opportunity to pour firepower on the criminals who had tried to breakout earlier.
Enemy momentum reversed instantly; this was the difference between trained and untrained.
Someone like Chang Ning, even under fierce attack, could turn the tables if he seized the slightest opportunity.
But these criminals were different. Even if they gained thousands of advantages, they couldn’t instantly destroy Chang Ning and the assault team’s defensive line.
After seizing the opportunity and reestablishing firepower suppression, Chang Ning and the assault team left the criminals instantly without advantage, forced to speed madly on B Group’s pre-designed road of death.
When the criminals were driven out of the minefield set by Lao Pao by Chang Ning, about fifty or so still survived.
Seeing Langde Village so close, they nearly went mad, sprinting full speed toward the village, not even noticing no one was there.
Only because they knew that once inside Langde Village, grabbing villagers as hostages might give them a chance to live, given Huaxia armed police’s style.
But the criminals’ wishful thinking was doomed to fail. This empty village was the grave B Group had carefully prepared for them.
“Everyone run fast! We can survive once inside Langde Village!”
Driven by survival instinct, the criminals’ escape speed rose another level. Their all-out flight made it seem they wished for two more legs.
Too busy fleeing, the criminals didn’t notice Chang Ning and others deliberately slowing their footsteps.
While B Group slowed, they didn’t forget to shoot at the fleeing criminals. The sporadic gunfire behind even more stimulated the criminals to ignore observing their surroundings.
They even overlooked the airplane engine noise in the sky until successfully entering Langde Village, when they realized no one was there.
Unfortunately, they realized too late.
The armed helicopter had arrived, its machine gun barrel gleaming coldly aimed at them.
That was the light symbolizing death.
It was over…
The pilot pressed the fire button, and the helicopter’s machine gun mercilessly took the sinful lives of the criminals.
When the helicopter ceased fire, the sky slowly turned white.
The sky brightened.
“Whew~
Finally over.”
Seeing the criminals meet justice, Chang Ning felt much relieved.
He was very happy because under his intervention, B Group fought a beautiful battle with no sacrifices.
“Everyone, anyone injured?”
Chang Ning carefully observed his comrades with black and white patches on their faces; the thick gunpowder smell on them assaulted the nose.
Actually, he was most worried about Xiao Zhuang and Qiang Zi; the previous rocket launcher had been aimed at them.
Because of him, the combat plan differed greatly from the original plot.
Xiao Zhuang and Qiang Zi bore the heaviest part in this mission: herding over two hundred criminals to the designated spot.
It wasn’t herding two hundred pigs; criminals would resist during the drive.
Without Chang Ning arriving in time to help, those two would definitely have been injured.
Overall, this battle was quite dangerous; B Group nearly failed to achieve the all-members-uninjured feat.
“Shouldn’t we notify the villagers?” Xiao Zhuang asked.
“Better wait a bit.”
Geng Jihui, looking at Langde Village now turned into a sea of fire, rejected Xiao Zhuang’s suggestion.
