Chapter 65: Hand-to-Hand Combat

"Platoon Leader?" Ma Jun looked around, his face full of panic.

"Don't ask me, I've been killed." The First Platoon Leader's face was terrifyingly dark.

The ground was flat with no obstacles; where did that line of fire come from?

Ma Jun looked around in anger, then suddenly raised his head, his pupils constricting.

On a thick tree a hundred meters away, two figures were slowly climbing down from the trunk.

"Found them! First Squad, catch those bastards!! And the one in the dirt pit too!"

The First Squad's sniper rushed madly toward Feng Yuxiu, who was dropping from the tree, and Cheng Cai, whose face had turned pale.

"Deputy Squad Leader, the Platoon Leader has been decapitated; our exercise is a failure."

"Can't worry about that now. Damn it, so insidious! Catch him!"

It would be fine to lose in a real fight with real blades and guns, but this was a sneaky ambush.

This made them feel a surge of suppressed anger in their hearts.

The First Platoon Leader watched the three figures fleeing wildly with a complex gaze.

Someone in the dirt pit had fired a shot, opening up a line of fire.

It had forced everyone to aim their muzzles at the ground.

The remaining two had climbed the tree at some point, using the dense leaves to fire from above.

From that angle, even the First Platoon Leader standing in the crowd couldn't avoid the line of fire.

"Third Brother, these bastards don't play by the rules; they're chasing us!" Bai Tiejun's face had turned white.

The decapitation mission was over, the First Platoon Leader was dead, so why were they still chasing?

Wasn't this breaking the rules?

Feng Yuxiu said in a low voice, "Didn't you see they aren't firing? Run faster, or you'll get a beating if you're caught."

Hearing this, Bai Tiejun's face turned pale; he let out a shout and ran extremely fast.

Cheng Cai hugged his sniper rifle and skimmed through the thorns at low speed. "Sanduo, running like this isn't a solution. They've stopped following the rules; why don't we run out of the exercise area?"

In this era, people really dared to fight.

Feng Yuxiu's gaze focused. "Where is the Second Platoon?"

Bai Tiejun shouted without looking back, "Landmark 307. The whole platoon is waiting there; they haven't launched an attack yet."

"Bai Tiejun, go tell the Platoon Leader that everyone should launch an attack toward 307. We're going to fish in troubled waters!"

After saying this, Feng Yuxiu turned and ran toward 307.

Cheng Cai was dumbfounded, running wildly and shouting, "Where am I going?"

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"Be careful, keep your voices down!" Shi Jin turned his head and instructed Wu Liuyi and the others.

Wu Liuyi nodded. "Squad Leader, there seemed to be gunfire from the 206 direction just now. Could a fight have broken out?"

"Shh, the Platoon Leader said to take out the Second Platoon first. The First Platoon probably has the same idea. Now the Second Platoon is caught in the middle between two platoons."

The Third Platoon's soldiers walked slowly.

They didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

Only the Second Platoon Leader stood leisurely in place. "Attack and defense, attack and defense. With so few people, attacking is easily disrupted and the losses are too great. Just wait here and play defense."

He stood on high ground, where he could easily see in all directions.

With such terrain that was easy to defend and hard to attack, dispersing his forces would be foolish.

The other two platoons were on flat ground, so they had no choice but to fight.

He was different; if he held his ground, he would win.

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"Platoon Leader!"

Bai Tiejun finally found their group, shouting breathlessly.

Behind him was Cheng Cai, whose face was full of terror.

"Keep it down, which squad is this?" The Third Platoon Leader's face was somewhat ferocious.

"Platoon Leader, the First Platoon Leader has been decapitated, and those soldiers from the First Platoon are chasing us from behind. If you don't believe me, ask Cheng Cai!" Bai Tiejun was extremely precise in military reporting; fearing the Platoon Leader would think he was bragging, he quickly pulled Cheng Cai in to add persuasiveness.

"Ah." Cheng Cai nodded.

Shi Jin and Wu Liuyi were both shocked.

The First Platoon Leader stood up directly, not caring at all about concealment, and asked excitedly, "Who did it? Cheng Cai?"

Cheng Cai blinked and glanced at his sniper rifle. "Ah, I was just lucky."

"Good! Worthy of being the Seventh Company's famous sniper! Good!" The First Platoon Leader was overjoyed.

Bai Tiejun frowned. "Platoon Leader, there's also..."

"Don't speak, the people behind are chasing. Everyone, detour toward the southwest and let those First Platoon guys charge toward Landmark 307! We'll launch an attack from the left flank!"

Everyone scattered instantly.

The First Platoon's soldiers plunged down the hillside.

"Squad Leader, why do I feel like something's wrong?" Ma Jun suddenly looked around. "In this terrain, if someone sets up guns on the hilltop, we'll be wiped out."

"Something is wrong. Everyone, retreat slowly, aim your guns at the hillside, retreat!"

"Squad Leader, this damn place looks like Landmark 307, the Second Platoon's position!" Ma Jun shouted in terror.

"Fire!"

Everyone fired at the hillside in unison, ensuring dense fire coverage to ensure no muzzles could be poked out from the hillside.

The Second Platoon Leader smiled. "Too late! Fire!"

The dense firepower finally broke out.

Hearing the sound of the firefight, the Third Platoon Leader smiled. "Now is the time. Don't fire, charge up! Hand-to-hand combat!"

Once the gunfire started, no one cared if the First Platoon had been eliminated.

The Third Platoon swarmed up the hillside.

"Platoon Leader, people are charging up from the west!"

The Second Platoon Leader grinned. "Good, everyone's fired up. Forget decapitation, aim for the Third Platoon Leader!"

The forces of the three platoons converged instantly.

"Remember, unless hit by the Second Platoon's gunfire, the First Platoon's people are already eliminated. If you get hit, ignore them!" The Third Platoon Leader led the charge.

Shi Jin, Wu Liuyi, and the others mixed into the crowd; it was finally time for physical combat.

On the flat ground five hundred meters away, Gao Cheng watched this group of fired-up soldiers with a smile.

"The atmosphere is there; this warm-up is not bad."

Suddenly, an extremely fast figure rushed into the crowd from the side.

He kicked as soon as he raised his leg, and every kick could knock down a soldier who was blocking him.

Gao Cheng immediately became interested. "Xu Sanduo, charging in at this time, what does he want to do? Decapitation? The Second Platoon Leader has a whole squad of soldiers around him."

Firearms were useless now; group combat had begun.

These scouts used their daily physical limits.

Every punch and kick landed solidly.

But they would soon climb up and continue charging.

Technique was drowned out by the crowd; at this time, it was a competition of who had better stamina and who had stronger resistance to hits.

Those with weak resistance to hits would crawl down after one round.

For example, Bai Tiejun, who was pinned to the ground, begged for mercy, "Brother, my leg is about to break, I'm dead, let me go, I promise I won't get up again."

Seeing this, the soldier sneered and took his legs off Bai Tiejun's back.

"Go to hell!" Bai Tiejun grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it over, pouncing and knocking the soldier down.

"Damn it, you play dirty!"

The two continued to wrestle.

"Wu?"

"Don't be like that, Deputy Squad Leader Wu, who doesn't know you're the best at hand-to-hand combat in the Steel Seventh Company? Three against one is fair!"

"Brothers, go train with Deputy Squad Leader Wu!"

Whoosh!

Suddenly, an extremely fast figure darted out from the gaps between them.

The direction was aimed straight at the Second Platoon Leader behind the crowd.

"It's Xu Sanduo!" Shi Jin kicked away the person pouncing on him and shouted in surprise.

Three meters away from the Second Platoon Leader, Feng Yuxiu stepped on the ground and leaped high, kicking into the crowd from top to bottom.

A powerful kick landed on the Second Platoon Leader's chest. Landing, his knees bent, he pressed against the Second Platoon Leader's neck and twisted hard. "Platoon Leader, you've been killed!" ===== CHAPTER 66 =====