Chapter 1385: Little Assistant

Five hours later, the truck convoy drove off the gravel road and entered the plains.

With a squelch, mud splashed. The truck wheels covered in mud rolled over a puddle. This was a small path in the wilderness, full of weeds on the side. Because trucks and tanks had rolled over it for a long time, two very deep ruts were pressed into the muddy road, with not-shallow mud soup inside the ruts.

Sitting on the bumpy truck, Su Xiao's body swayed left and right with the truck's shaking. He had already entered light sleep.

Bang!

The sudden gunshot made Su Xiao open his eyes. The soldiers around him all stood up and leaped toward the back of the truck shed, jumping off the truck.

The truck did not stop. Including Su Xiao, all ten Killing Squad members leaped off the truck and stood on the muddy road full of mud.

The convoy stopped quickly. After one gunshot, all Killing Squad soldiers had leaped off the truck before it stopped and set up a temporary defense line. Some engineers even started digging trenches. The most exaggerated squad had already leaped into the trenches and reinforced the trenches with single-soldier steel plates.

In just 10 seconds, not even one soldier could be seen on the muddy road. There were only 17 trenches, heavy machine guns were set up outside the trenches, and three squads of engineers had already dug the trenches to connect with each other.

"It's deserters."

A loud roar came from the truck in front of the team. Hearing this shout, the Killing Squad soldiers knew what was going on.

Skain jumped down from the passenger seat of the front truck. Looking at the trenches that had already been connected on the ground and the soldiers covered in mud and water, his fists clenched. If he couldn't win a battle with such troops, he could just shoot himself in apology.

"Fill this place in within 10 seconds, extra meal tonight."

After filling in the road, the convoy continued to advance. Su Xiao leaned in the truck shed and continued to rest.

After the convoy drove for 10 hours, Su Xiao could already hear the explosions in the distance. Shell craters appeared on the side of the road from time to time, and he could even see withered corpses hanging on trees.

Around 6:00 PM, the truck convoy stopped in a military camp. This was the camp of the 2nd Army, 4th Division, 2nd Regiment.

Just as the convoy drove into the camp, wails drifted into Su Xiao's ears. A nurse wearing red clothing was holding a white porcelain basin and pouring water. The light red bloody water splashed on the lawn. This nurse's clothing was originally white, but it was dyed red by blood.

There were no regular hospitals on the battlefield. Tents and abandoned armored vehicles were hospitals. Some soldiers with broken hands and feet even received treatment in the open air.

The doctors' treatment method was simple and brutal: if a leg was blown off, saw the leg; if a hand was broken, saw the hand. Wherever it couldn't be cured, saw it off, except for the head and torso.

A soldier wrapped in bandages, with his lower body completely amputated, lay on an open-air bed smoking. Although he lost his legs, he was not desperate. Except for him, everyone else in his squad had died on the battlefield. Compared to the comrades who were blown into pieces of meat, he had already earned it by being able to survive.

After stopping one truck, the convoy continued to advance. Skain wanted to disperse the Killing Squad on the battlefield. Roughly one squad, that is, 10 people, was assigned to one regiment. Every regiment commander passing by requested Skain to leave a few more squads. The Killing Squad was truly too easy to use on the battlefield; no command was needed, and within a few days, enemy commanders might die in battle.

The truck convoy continued to penetrate deep into the battlefield. Late at night, the convoy stopped one truck—it was the truck Su Xiao was in.

Skain was also in the truck shed at the back of the truck. He could have sat in the passenger seat.

"Brothers, I am sending you to the front line. If you want to complain, do it now. Once we arrive, there will be no chance to complain."

Skain took out a cigarette from the pocket on his chest. There were 10 people in the squad, and 9 had the habit of smoking. The Geya Alliance strictly forbade soldiers from smoking during peacetime, provided free cigarettes during wartime, but did not provide alcohol, and strictly forbade drinking.

"There's nothing to complain about."

Saint lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.

"Commander, from the first day I enlisted, I knew that going to the battlefield was not a good job, it was a duty."

Earth, as the only person who did not smoke, sat at the very back of the truck shed. This place was the best ventilated, but it was easy to get shot. 20 minutes ago, the green canvas behind his head was shot through with a hole the size of a fist. This guy stuffed his water bottle into it to avoid leaking wind.

"That's good. Hey~ I have a beautiful princess wife, why do I have to go to the front line with you bachelors? Damn it."

After a burst of laughter, the truck arrived.

Boom, boom...

The roar of shells landing came from one kilometer away. Several planes flew over from above. One of them had just flown out about half a kilometer when it encountered an anti-aircraft gun attack. Half of the fuselage was smoking black and falling downward.

"Here, here, and here, must be taken down before 12 o'clock, let the tank division in the rear catch up as soon as possible."

A middle-aged man wearing a tattered military uniform with his face covered in mud stood in front of a wooden table. He was the commander of the 2nd Army, 4th Division, 12th Regiment. Unlike the wars in movies and TV shows, this commander had no command post; his command post was a wooden table and six soldiers carrying radio stations.

"Gana, how is the war situation?"

Skain stepped forward without pleasantries.

"You're here. Not very good. Those blue-eyed bastards ambushed the 17th Regiment last night. We must occupy here and here before 12 o'clock, otherwise we will be surrounded."

Skain looked at the map. The situation was indeed not optimistic. The positions of the 17th Regiment and the 12th Regiment were adjacent. Now the 17th Regiment had retreated five kilometers. In this way, once the Sun Kingdom's army drove back the 8th Regiment behind the 12th Regiment, the 12th Regiment would be surrounded in a spoon shape.

One must know that it was the tank unit that drove back the 17th Regiment. If half-surrounded by the tank unit, even if the 12th Regiment was not wiped out, it would have to peel off a layer of skin.

"Clear."

Skain turned back to the passenger side of the truck and took out a sniper rifle about 1.3 meters long from the passenger seat.

"Your gun."

Skain threw the sniper rifle to Su Xiao. Su Xiao caught it with one hand and was surprised to find that this was actually a gold-quality sniper rifle.

【MR-24 Sniper Rifle.】

Origin: Geya Alliance · 3rd Military Factory

Quality: Gold

Category: Medium Sniper Rifle

Caliber: 7.62mm

Capacity: 5 (Single shot)

Durability: 120/120 (Firearm made of spiral steel)

Attack Power: 134 ~ 198 (Attack power using white gunpowder bullets)

Equipment Requirements: Strength 50, Agility 40, Stamina 40, Firearms Basic Skill lv. 35 or above.

Equipment Effect 1: 15x Optical Scope (Passive), Aiming Correction +10%, Ballistic Adjustment +12.

Equipment Effect 2: Spiral Steel Ballistics (Passive), Bullet Penetration +19, Stability significantly improved.

Rating: 400+ (Gold equipment rating is 310 ~ 400)

Introduction: The perfect combination of spiral steel and white gunpowder allows it to hit targets 3000 meters away, provided you can see the enemy.

Price: Usage rights only, cannot be sold or transferred.

Su Xiao pulled the bolt of the MR-24 sniper rifle. Although this was not a new gun, it had been maintained very carefully.

"Bai Ye, telling you an unfortunate piece of news, your observer died in battle half a month ago. There is no suitable observer in the Killing Squad for the time being, so you can pick any observer in the 12th Regiment."

Skain's gaze turned to Gana, the commander of the 12th Regiment. Gana thought for a moment and agreed.

"I don't need an observer for the time being."

Since Su Xiao started using a sniper rifle, he had never cooperated with an observer, or rather, he was a sniper + observer all by himself.

"Since that's the case, I'll pick for you."

Skain seemed not to know what refusal was.

At 2:00 AM that night, in the trench on the front line.

This trench was about two meters wide, with one side full of spiral steel plates. Mud could not block bullets, and spiral steel plates were essential for building trenches.

"Due south, 180 degrees, 680 meters, wind speed 3..."

A female voice came from the pitch-black trench.

"Shut up."

Bang!

The bullet left the chamber, and the enemy 680 meters away was shot in the head.

"Next enemy, south direction, 173 degrees, 570 meters, wind..."

"Shut up."

Su Xiao pulled the trigger, and the enemy in the night vision scope was shot in the head.

"Next next enemy, south direction, 171 degrees, 620 meters..."

"You, give me, shut up."

"Pfft..."

"Hahaha, let me laugh for a while."

Bang.

The bullet penetrated the night and drilled straight into the enemy's skull.

"Next next next enemy, south direction..."

"..."

Su Xiao pulled the trigger. He wasn't surprised that the Geya Alliance had female soldiers; gender equality had long been established here, and it was perfectly normal for women to go to the battlefield. What he couldn't figure out was why Skain had sent him a female scout. Even more annoying was that this female scout wouldn't stop talking.