Chapter 72

Shi Jin adjusted the anti-aircraft machine gun on the vehicle while installing the laser transmitter on it.

Wu Liuyi found Shi Jin, "Squad Leader, the formation for this exercise is so large, will it..."

"Will it what?" Shi Jin glanced at him.

"Squad Leader, let me tell you straight, your personal performance is lagging behind now, and the assessment for squad leaders is stricter than for ordinary soldiers."

Shi Jin frowned, "What do you want to say?"

"This exercise is an opportunity! You must seize it! Don't let go of any opportunity to perform!" Wu Liuyi said somewhat urgently.

Although he didn't know what had happened, he was a veteran.

From the company commander's expression, the movement of the troops, and the continuous exercise assessments recently.

All of this pointed to one thing.

The army was about to undergo major reforms.

There were only two types of such reforms.

Downsizing, reorganization.

"Squad Leader, you must get promoted, you must get promoted!" Wu Liuyi said earnestly.

Shi Jin gave a bitter smile, "If I could really get promoted, why would I still be a squad leader? I would have to go to military school, or if I didn't get promoted, I'd be demobilized. It's the same for you; it means leaving. It means that people are destined to part ways. We've gone through one hurdle after another together, but we're always going to part ways."

"Squad Leader, I beg you, don't say the word 'demobilized'! I beg you!" Wu Liuyi's gaze flickered with panic.

He and Shi Jin were almost third-term non-commissioned officers, and their bond was, in some respects, deeper than that of brothers and sisters at home.

This was a relationship where they could completely entrust their backs to each other.

It seemed that in Wu Liuyi's heart, leaving the army was like dying once.

"It doesn't count for much. Didn't you take an oath when you joined the army? If you don't remember, it's right at our company gate. Go back and look, and you'll know that we've already chosen this kind of life," Shi Jin said calmly.

"It didn't say that in there," Wu Liuyi was angry.

"It said that the things you have to give up are all in there, along with many people you value, and many things," Shi Jin sighed.

"It didn't say it clearly!" Wu Liuyi scratched his scalp hard.

"I will definitely be able to let you stay!"

He turned and left the mechanical position.

Shi Jin looked calmly at the distant hills, suddenly feeling that his eyes were a bit sandy, and subconsciously rubbed them.

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"Third Brother, tell me, will it be a cannon bombardment later, or will we charge up and kill them all cleanly?" Bai Tiejun wiped his rifle and chatted easily.

"Bai Tiejun, I think you should shut up. Although we are the Red Army in this exercise, we can't be careless when facing the Blue Army. Carelessness leads to what?" Gan Xiaoning frowned.

"Carelessness leads to losing your grandma?" Bai Tiejun corrected.

"Fart, carelessness leads to losing Jingzhou!" Gan Xiaoning threw a stone, hitting Bai Tiejun's helmet, which immediately made a dull echo.

"How does Third Brother see it?" Bai Tiejun looked at Feng Yuxiu.

Feng Yuxiu narrowed his eyes and didn't speak.

He had already felt the impending hot blood.

Participating in a battle of this scale for the first time, this was how unrestrained and arrogant it was.

This was the intersection of steel and flesh, the roaring of artillery between slaughter.

It's just that...

"Will there be casualties in the exercise?" Feng Yuxiu asked.

As soon as this was said, Gan Xiaoning and Bai Tiejun were instantly stunned.

"Grandpa, my grandpa, what do you want to do? What kind of question is that? This is an exercise, this is the army, I didn't hear anything," Bai Tiejun was so scared that his face turned pale.

Gan Xiaoning was calm, "Logically speaking, there are, but Sanduo, it's not what you imagine. Casualties would probably be caused by flowing fire or mechanical collisions; it's absolutely impossible for them to be caused by physical combat between soldiers."

"That can be completely avoided! No matter who comes, it wouldn't make sense."

After saying this, the two subconsciously moved away a few steps.

Everyone was in the army, everyone was a comrade-in-arms, this kind of question was too terrifying.

Feng Yuxiu closed his eyes and grabbed some rest; no one knew when the exercise war would start.

Or in what way it would start.

But there was only one point: in the beginning of the war, individuals would inevitably follow the general trend.

Human power could not interfere with a battle of this scale.

"Xu Sanduo, stand up!"

Wu Liuyi stood coldly in front of the three and scolded.

Feng Yuxiu stood up, looking at Wu Liuyi in confusion.

"The two of you go and help repair the armored vehicle!"

Wu Liuyi sent Bai Tiejun and Gan Xiaoning away.

Consequently, only Wu Liuyi and Feng Yuxiu were left in this deep trench.

"This exercise concerns the Squad Leader's future, and you are a natural-born soldier king; you can always find a way to defeat the enemy in one blow during exercises."

"In this exercise, if there is any glory, you must give the credit to the Squad Leader."

Feng Yuxiu suddenly sneered.

Wu Liuyi said in a deep voice, "It's not that I don't let you perform, but the Squad Leader..."

"Squad Deputy, don't say that I can interfere in a war of this scale. Taking a step back, the Squad Leader couldn't accept this bestowed gift."

After Feng Yuxiu finished speaking, he stared at Wu Liuyi, "It would be better to let me see your skills in this battle."

Wu Liuyi was finally stirred up with a sense of struggle.

The signal flares and illumination flares in the distance suddenly shot into the sky, accompanied by sporadic gunfire, which was completely impromptu and did not represent any military signal.

The first green signal flare rose leisurely in the forest at dawn.

This forest area had just been empty and deserted, but the low engine sound suddenly resounded through the sky. The Seventh Company's well-camouflaged infantry fighting vehicles quickly seized the main passages in the forest; they had just looked like bushes.

Now all the guns on the vehicles were aimed at the unknown open space outside the forest.

In the company commander's command vehicle, Gao Cheng was calling through the internal communication system among several armed soldiers: "Attention all squads, all companies will launch an assault in the direction of 453 in three minutes. Our mission is to seize the 034 high ground in the Blue Army's defense zone at maximum maneuver speed to establish a position, and if possible, conduct fire reconnaissance on the enemy's depth. All vehicles prepare, act according to the red signal flare..."

The Blue Army's position had always been quiet! Hong Xingguo guessed: "Maybe they are preparing to fight a positional battle?"

Gao Cheng shook his head and denied: "They won't be that stupid. Our regiment is good at attacking fortified positions."

A red signal flare finally rose into the sky, and Gao Cheng immediately shouted excitedly: "Assault!"

The two company flags of the Steel Seventh Company were raised with great momentum, and ten infantry fighting vehicles shot out at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour.

However, before that red flare had even landed, several helicopters had already climbed from the mountains on the side of the Seventh Company, rushing toward the hill that the Steel Seventh Company was assaulting, arriving later but reaching first.

"Blue Army discovered! Blue Army discovered!"

"Rumble!"

The roar of armored vehicles.

They all rushed toward the Blue Army's direction.

Feng Yuxiu truly felt the vast trembling of the battle at this moment.

Under the torrent of steel, any individual would be instantly submerged by the artillery fire filling the sky and then blown into ashes.

He was waiting for an opportunity!

Waiting for an opportunity sufficient for decapitation!