Chapter 279: This night, the monkeys suffered heavy losses

The observation posts sent out ahead have surely been hit, and at this moment, watching the enemy retreat, everyone is still feeling uneasy.

Machine gun position.

Squad Leader, our new equipment is really powerful, even more powerful than a night cat's eyes; if we didn't have this equipment, tonight we would……

Yeah, thanks to this equipment! Wen Hui looked at this equipment, no longer contemptuous as before: "Indeed, science and technology are the primary productive force, and also the primary combat power!"

Yeah, that's right, Squad Leader, after I retire from service, I want to go back to school!

Wen Hui looked at Kong Lingjun: "No need to wait until retirement; tomorrow I'll write a report to the superiors. After the rotation ends and we return, we need to improve our cultural level, otherwise…… we simply cannot operate modern equipment!"

Wen Hui also felt a sense of urgency.

Squad Leader, Squad Leader, they seem to be coming up again!

Wen Hui looked at the screen; uh, wriggling heads appeared one after another. This time they were crawling forward, thinking they could fool us?

But we have high-tech equipment!

With that thought, Wen Hui walked up to the machine gun position and pulled the bolt.

Tatatat!

Gunfire rang out again!

The monkeys opposite were completely stunned.

What the hell? Won't you let people live? At least leave us a way out!

Our first waist-bent charge was our fault, we were too careless; this time we're crawling forward, yet you can still see us?

This isn't scientific!

When fighting the Americans, operating like this, even the Americans couldn't detect us! I don't know how many American bases we've sneaked up on and blown up like this!

Now, those crawling ahead are all veterans who fought in the previous war!

Wait! Something's off!

Tatatat!

Tatatat!

The enemy is still using three-round burst fire!

Each burst can take out a veteran!

Seeing the person beside him taken down, the nearby veteran immediately dropped to the ground motionless, trying to evade attack this way; the machine gun indeed turned its muzzle to shoot others, so this veteran kept crawling forward, having just crawled two meters.

Pew pew pew!

A bullet flew in and struck his head; he stared wide-eyed, dying without peace.

How is that possible, how is that possible? Now you can't see your hand in front of your face—how exactly are you seeing me?

Unscientific, this is absolutely unscientific! Only theology can explain it!

Rear.

"Regiment Commander, let's withdraw; our people have already lost half……"

Ruan Deqiang's face was extremely grim; now, not only did he gain no merit, he might even have to take the blame—with so many subordinates dead, someone must bear responsibility.

"You 218 Regiment, you arrived early, so why haven't you gone up yet?" Just then, a voice sounded from outside.

Ruan Deqiang looked over; it was Li Wensheng, the regiment commander of the 444 Regiment, who had always been competing with him for division commander.

"We've been ambushed, suffering heavy casualties; you'd better not go up, wait until dawn to talk about it."

"Ambushed? That's just because your people are weak; our people only excel at ambushing others! If you can't handle it, pull back and let our 444 Regiment take over!"

"Alright."

Our own heavy losses don't matter; as long as the 444 Regiment also suffers heavy losses, when we return we can say it's not that we're incompetent, but that the enemy is too strong!

His subordinates obviously knew this too; without any warning, seeing the 444 Regiment's people, they all rushed up in a swarm!

Ten or so minutes later.

Tatatat, tatatat……

The machine gun fired continuously without pause; amid the gunfire, one could still hear the monkey commander's shouts.

"Charge, charge, don't be afraid, they can't aim, they're just firing wildly! Charge! Ah……"

Hearing those one after another miserable cries, Ruan Deqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Idiot!"

This night, the gunfire hardly ceased!

Wen Hui, of the heavy machine gun squad, went through three barrels! He fired over twenty boxes of ammunition! By the end, his hands went numb; he swapped with Kong Lingjun, then with others……

The monkeys were of course also firing back; from the rear, mortars kept coming in, trying to knock out those fire points, but the first shot's aim was bound to be low; one needed to observe where the first shell landed, adjust a bit, then fire the second shot to hit.

But they had no chance; as soon as they fired a shot, our position would return fire with artillery that was both accurate and ruthless!

These past few years, we've been engaged in artillery duels here; we've already made the monkeys howl like ghosts and wolves, and their elite artillerymen have died off in droves.

Now, the few remaining monkey artillerymen are being rapidly depleted.

Before dawn, the gunfire finally ceased.

Rear, inside the jungle.

"Ruan Deqiang, you bastard!" Li Wensheng roared angrily, even wanting to draw his pistol.

Last night he was still radiant; now his clothes are torn, his face covered with gunpowder dust, his body trembling from anger……

"Old brother, you…… what happened to you?"

"Damn it, my 444 Regiment has been wiped out; it must be you, it must be you behind……"

"I did warn you last night; there's an ambush above."

"It's not an ambush, not an ambush; he's just fighting openly! The night is just like day, clearly without flares…… my men bravely charged forward, dying batch after batch, my men……"

Saying this, Li Wensheng sat on the ground and burst into tears.

Splosh!

He suddenly pulled out a pistol.

This scared Ruan Deqiang badly; he hurriedly ducked, but saw Li Wenwen shove the gun barrel into his own mouth!

"Hey, brother, don't act rashly!"

"You killed all your subordinates and want to commit suicide—what about me? Don't you dare!"

"If you don't die, the higher-ups won't blame me; if you die, I..."

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out; Ruan Deqiang looked at the chaotic scene, utterly dumbfounded.

"Regiment commander, regiment commander, the units that attacked Songmaoling and Balie Dongshan also suffered heavy casualties..." At that moment, a subordinate ran over, his words somehow... excited?

All suffered heavy losses, so... responsibility cannot be borne by them; it should be borne by the higher commanders.

The news was transmitted back to the Second Military Region Headquarters.

Li Weimi was completely dumbfounded.

Eight regiments, three were wiped out, the remaining five suffered over half casualties! And Lao Shan remains in the hands of the Easterners, not even giving a chance to change hands.

"How could it be? Our army is good at night fighting!"

"General, our staff department has organized the recent battle situation, from yesterday afternoon to midnight, we discovered that the enemy's tactics are completely different from what we are familiar with!"

"How is it different?"

"They are using more advanced weapons..."

"What advanced weapons? Could they be as advanced as the Americans' initially? The Americans have been driven away by us! This is totally the excuse of losers!" Li Weimi was very angry.