1980, at around 3 a.m. on December 21.

The deep night covers the earth, and insects are extinct in the mountains and fields in winter. Most birds have also been sleeping in their nests. Only bats are still flying in the air, looking for food. From the numbers on the high ground, you can hear the gurgling sounds of owls from time to time, and occasionally you can see them pounce down from the branches to capture the fat figures of mountain rats.

About three kilometers west of Guogen County, a fully armed six-man team formed two triangular arrow formations, one in front and one behind. With the undulating terrain, half-hunched from one mound to another quickly moved from one mound to another. Below the Kevra helmet covered in a camouflage cloth cover, everyone wore black hoodies with only eyes exposed, without any reflection in the night.

Their movements were very fast, and they only moved from one hill to another hidden point for a few seconds. With the combat camouflage and the heavy night color on their bodies, even at close range, they could only see something passing by in a flash. A little further away, and there was almost no one here to see that they were moving.

If you observe carefully, you will find that when they are running, their forefoots fall to the ground first, and there will be an upward recovery action at the moment when they touch the ground, and the heels do not touch the ground to slow down the impact force when they land and avoid making huge noises.

But even during fast movements, they remained highly alert.

Everyone holds a gun with his right hand and holds a guardrail in his left hand. The buttstock is against his shoulder. The muzzle is in a direction consistent with the movement, and is slightly offset according to the front, back, left and right positions in the team, forming a fan shape. Everyone's index finger is placed on the trigger guard ring to ensure that the trigger will not accidentally touch the trigger and get fired when running. At the same time, they can immediately pull the trigger to shoot at the target when they find a situation.

After the search team passed for about two or three minutes, another team of dozens of people followed their pace and chased after them. Their outfits were exactly the same as the search team in front, and they also covered their faces with headbands. They were very careful when moving, and were very careful not to make noises when running.

But they are numerous, and even if they are careful, they still make louder noises when they run. As long as people within dozens of meters are not asleep, they can hear the noisy footsteps formed by many people running.

A group of people rushed to the back of a small earth slope several meters high. At the front, an officer holding a 54 pistol bent his knees slightly, half-squatted and raised his left hand, with his elbows outward, his forearms straightened up, his palms together, and his back facing behind him.

Seeing his gesture, the others quickly stopped, made a warning gesture, and waited for a new order.

Feng Aiguo rushed to the ground with his feet, climbed to the top of the slope quickly, carefully exposed only one head, raised his telescope, and searched for the pathfinding team in front. Deputy instructor Hou Ping was behind him, and also climbed beside him, searching with him with the telescope.

He searched around him, and Hou Ping gently touched him with his elbow and pointed to the side.

He quickly turned the lens and soon found a few faint phosphorescence that was jumping between the soil slopes in the Eight-Time military telescope. These phosphorescences were painted behind the collar of the search team and could not be found on the front, but the large troops behind could find their location through phosphorescence.

The phosphorescence is very weak and can't be seen in a few steps. Only by searching with a telescope purposefully can they be found.

If someone looks very good and sees these beating phosphorescences, as long as they are not experienced veterans, ordinary people will probably regard them as ghost fires in the mountains.

Good boy, run so fast!

Feng Aiguo silently admired them, admired them and was proud of his strong soldiers.

The search team has a arduous task. Whether it can quickly explore the passable roads invisibly determines the safety of the entire army, so the psychological pressure is very high. Moreover, in order not to alarm the enemy, their running posture requirements are extremely strict, and their movements do not meet the human body's own functions. They also have to quickly approach the enemy's position and consume particularly fast physical strength.

Although it is only a distance of one or two kilometers, it is only possible to achieve immediate results if you have to practice it all on weekdays. Most people run according to their movements, either cramps or exhaust their energy, which is impossible to complete.

Feng Aiguo did not lead the team to continue to follow, but was still lying on the top of the slope, crossing the search team with a telescope, looking at the slanted hill hundreds of meters ahead of them.

The north is like Yunnan, and is part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with mountains and few flat lands in the territory.

The fruit root area is also surrounded by mountains, and 90% of the territory is mountains. Even the county is located, it is just a mountain basin. There is only a small piece of it in a completely flat area, with the northwest-southeast as the base, and it is triangular.

There are also some long strips sandwiched from the surrounding mountains, which are considered arable flat land.

Before asking Deputy Commander Chang and others, he knew that after Peng Desheng's troops could not lead the attack, they retreated to the southeast and stationed on a hill about four kilometers away from the county town. It seemed that Peng Desheng was still very careful. He was not arrogant enough to camp under the city. Instead, he chose a hill that was easy to defend as a support to build a very layered defense system to avoid being attacked by the city at night.

Although Deputy Commander Chang only drew a sketch without a precise terrain or even the direction, and the shape of the mountains was somewhat deformed, he still understood where it was with the help of several iconic reference objects such as lakes and mountains that were used to tell the location.

Because of the specific terrain, Feng Aiguo has remembered it very clearly on the sand table and large-scale military topography maps made by the military sub-district. Although he had never been here, and the sky was dark and he could almost see his five fingers, he could still find the location where Peng Desheng's troops were stationed.

Peng's troops were only a few kilometers away from the county town, and this distance could be clearly seen with a telescope. Deputy Commander Chang and others used their fingers to draw the location of the camp they set up on the ground in detail. Several warning posts were concentrated on a generally arc-shaped mountain range in the southeast of the county town. It was not twenty meters away, and a small hill adjacent to the mountain range sent a warning post.

Although this small hill is not connected to the mountain range and has a gap of about twenty meters in the middle, it can be judged from its shape that it belongs to the residual line of this mountain range. It has crossed a break of about ten meters and is connected to another mountain range behind it, gradually rising, extending for dozens of kilometers, extending to the top of Daqing Mountain.

The shallow hill that is hundreds of meters ahead of the search team that is northeast-southwest, is the mountain range that is only ten meters away from the hill.

Who knows if Peng Desheng secretly sent a small army to put it here as a cover for the left wing after the night falls. Even if there are no troops on it, it is appropriate to place an observation post on the hill from the perspective of alertness. As long as Peng Desheng is not so careless that he loses his due vigilance, he should leave a night post here.

So he did not rush to lead the troops to follow, but first observed from the rear and saw from a distance to see if there was any abnormality on the mountain as the search team approached.

Anyway, it's only six or seven hundred meters. If the search team is in a hiding position, it will be too late for him to lead the large army up.

The search team obviously thought of the problem. In the telescope, the jumping phosphorescence leap became much smaller, and they rushed forward quickly from the beginning to the state of catching the enemy. As they got closer to the mountains, the team became more and more careful. In addition to the movements of the hidden place were still so agile every time they moved. After entering behind the hidden object, they would stay for a while, observe the movements around them, confirm whether there was any alarming enemy, and then move to the next hidden place.

While waiting for them to approach carefully, Feng Aiguo returned to the back of the hillside and asked the guards to find the combat map sent by the military sub-district from the briefcase. Then he asked the others to form a circle to block possible light, and carefully judged the nearby terrain map with a glimmer flashlight.

The search team took twenty minutes to finally arrive at the bottom of the mountain range. With a clearer understanding of this generation of terrain, Feng Aiguo and others who returned to the top of the slope couldn't help but feel tight. They held the telescope and stared at the beating phosphorescence without blinking, and searched all over the mountain back and forth, for fear that the fire from the muzzle would suddenly appear somewhere.

This mountain range is not very high. From the topographic map produced by the Military Sub-district, it can be seen that the highest point of the ridge is about 250 meters, the northern section is flat, and the slope on both sides is about 20 degrees to 40 degrees. The southern section is very steep, with the slope basically around forty-five degrees, which looks like a ridge, and it is difficult to climb on both sides.

Therefore, the mountain peaks are like blades, so there is almost no place to find a foothold if they are stationed here. Considering that Peng Desheng's troops are not many, the main force must be concentrated in the mountains northeast of the hill, and most of them will not be stationed here. Even if he is not at ease, he will only place a warning post like a small hill, and it is likely to be in a flattering place in the northern section of the mountains.

It means that the phosphorescence of the search team is moving slowly and is sometimes obscured by the terrain, disappearing from sight for a moment before quietly appearing in another place.

Feng Aiguo and others saw that the search team was divided into two three-person groups, one of which was moving forward slowly along the west slope. The other group was always falling dozens of meters behind and did not go hand in hand with them.

This is also a standard cover formation.

When a three-person group in front crawled forward, the group in the back relied on the uneven terrain, set up a gun, ready to attack the sudden enemy at any time, and cover the group in front to retreat.

After the first group is in place and stops, the latter group will set off and come to their side. Then the first group is responsible for the alert, and the second group crawls forward. The two groups will alternately explore the way until they encounter an enemy or complete the reconnaissance successfully.

With the attention of Feng Aiguo and others, the two groups kept moving forward slowly and slowly approaching the top of the slope in the northern section of the mountain range.

During this process, no accident occurred. Whether it was this mountain range or the hills in the northeast, they were all quiet. If the scouts were not invisible and did not alarm the enemy, Peng Desheng would not place a warning on this mountain range.

When the search team successfully reached the top, Feng Aiguo finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the heart that mentioned his heart also returned to his chest. He raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and found that the deputy instructor Hou Ping was also doing the same thing. The two looked at each other and smiled, and everything was silent.

Being a soldier is dangerous, and no one knows when he will fall on the battlefield. Scouts are the most dangerous in the army. They are responsible for reconnaissing the enemy's situation for the troops, often going deep behind the enemy without sufficient cover and moving under the enemy's nose. Any small mistake may be attacked by the enemy wildly, surrounded by heavy troops, and suffered major losses.

During training, Feng Aiguo can also look at them with a peaceful attitude. If he makes mistakes, he will just scold them severely, and then do it again.

But on the real battlefield, there is no chance to do it again.

The price of mistakes is life!

You should know that for the sake of convenience, they only wore combat uniforms, and even the bulletproof vest was cumbersome and took them off, and they were not equipped with bulletproof plugs. No matter how beautiful the combat uniforms were, they could not block bullets. If they were discovered while receiving the enemy's reconnaissance, the chances of survival when the enemy concentrated their firepower to attack were slim.

When the reconnaissance team was climbing quietly, although it was hundreds of meters away, Feng Aiguo was still so nervous that he didn't dare to come out. His palms holding the telescope were covered in sweat. He was ready at any time if the situation changed, he immediately led his troops forward to attack to meet their retreat.

It was not until he saw that they had successfully reached the top and there was no danger that he felt relieved, wiped his palms and wiped away the sweat on his forehead.

Even if you have experienced many battles, the tension when you are on the battlefield remains unchanged.

"They are crazy! They actually have to continue to investigate that hill! They are simply unorganized and undisciplined!" Feng Aiguo's nervousness had just been put down. Hou Ping suddenly violated the battlefield discipline by his side. He immediately raised his voice in his mouth and looked at the direction where the reconnaissance team was.

When he saw it, he was so angry that his nostrils were smoking.

As Hou Ping said, after climbing the mountain range, the reconnaissance team did not return, but moved down the north slope. Judging from their direction, they planned to continue working hard and continue moving forward to the hill ahead to detect whether there were enemies on it.

It's like playing the piano!

He dared to guarantee 100% that Peng Desheng would definitely release people on the hill, and he dare not say a little, but at least one to several fixed whistles, two to three secret whistles, and perhaps there would be some whistles.

After all, Peng Desheng is an old general who is fighting an old war and is at the forefront of combat. How could he be unprepared?

The reconnaissance team's discovery of the absence of enemies in the Qingshan Mountains is already a great achievement, which can ensure that the large army approaches the mountains without any scruples. Then consider touching off the sentry sent by Peng Desheng, or continuing to go around and making the next decision based on the situation.

It's too rash to touch it directly!

Feng Aiguo was anxious and could no longer care about observing the situation here. As soon as the wheel rolled down from the top of the slope, he roared to the guard who came to help him, the third platoon leader roared in a low voice: "Old Huang is too rash. He actually wanted to touch the nose of the enemy's sentry directly. Hurry up, gather the troops and follow me to attack!"

After saying that, he buckled his somewhat crooked helmet and rushed out of the hiding mound, running towards the mountains.

Although the situation was urgent, he was not impulsive to make trouble.

Under his leadership, the troops still covered the obstacles along the road and approached the target as cautiously as possible. When it was still one or two hundred meters away from the southern section of the mountain range, he slowed down to prevent the sound of running quickly from spreading too far and alarming the enemy.

The human naked eyesight can only see twenty or thirty meters at a distance on such dark nights. In the bright full moon, only moving targets can be seen sixty or seventy meters away. Knowing that there are no sentinels sent by the enemy in the mountains, he is not worried that the troops will be discovered by the enemy, but the sound is different. On such a quiet night, the sound of a large group of people running wildly is enough to send two or three hundred meters.

Fortunately, when everyone had already rushed to the bottom of the mountain range and headed north along the mountain, they had not heard gunfire from the hill.

At the last distance, they were more careful, and set out one by one with the team, gradually gathering forward. In the end, all seventy-three people gathered at the foot of the northern section of the mountain.

This place is only a few dozen meters away from the hill. Everyone held their breath and held their guns even more lightly, for fear of the collision of the metal parts of the automatic rifle making a sound.

Feng Aiguo climbed along the foot of the mountain to the point where he could see the opposite mountain and observed the situation again.

The distance was too close. This time he didn't use a telescope and saw the green fluorescence approaching the top of the mountain. Obviously, the reconnaissance team was not without brains. Their movements were very slow. Every time they climbed one meter forward, they had to stay for a long time. The movements were so slow that if they had not stared at them, they would not have noticed that they had moved forward for a certain distance.

During this process, they did not alarm the possible enemies on the top of the mountain.

This proves that the other party did not pay too much attention to the mountain. It may be because of insufficient troops, or they did not expect that they would touch it from the left back, so they did not place sentries on the mountainside, which allowed the reconnaissance team to successfully touch the place close to the top of the mountain.

But here, they all stopped and did not move forward for a long time.

Feng Aiguo immediately understood: they discovered the enemy! Moreover, the enemy was very close to them, so close that it might be a few meters ahead of them, so they dared not move. As long as they move, even the smallest movements may alarm the other party!

He immediately raised his telescope, crossed the head of the reconnaissance team, and searched up inch by inch. Then, behind a rock five or six meters in front of the team, he found a semicircular thing behind. Although there was no light to light, Feng Aiguo still understood what it was from the front of the round object, and immediately understood what it was - the military cap!

Following the military cap, he could only see a black shadow, and he could not tell what it was. But with the military cap as a reminder, he naturally knew that it was a squat or sitting person.

From the direction pointed by the brim of the hat, we can know that he is facing the reconnaissance team, and maybe he is trying to open his eyes wide and looking at the place where they are lying.

The Investigation Team climbed up from below in a very slow movement, slowly revealing a head and not exposing the target. However, if the whole body is protruded, it will inevitably be recognized by the other party. This is why the Investigation Team is motionless, because they dare not even retreat.

Feng Aiguo quickly retreated and climbed back. He found the sniper Xu Zhen in the on-site army, and his partner, deputy sniper Cao Chengwen, pointed at them and pointed to the silencer they carried. The two of them understood immediately, took off the silencer, put it at the muzzle position of the Type 79 sniper rifle, and then followed him and slowly climbed to a high place.

The position of the reconnaissance team was very unfavorable, with a large height difference between the upper and lower ones. They could see the secret whistle, but there was a rock blocking it, revealing only a hint of scalp. The scout at the front only discovered him from the side after changing positions, but he was also exposed to the opponent's sight and lost the possibility of attack.

And it is almost impossible for others to kill the sentry from bottom to top.

Xu Zhen and the others are in a different position. Although the place is low, from here, you can only see above the neck of the secret whistle, and below the neck is covered by the terrain. But he can change directions, avoid the big stone that is in trouble, and snipe from the side of the secret whistle.

The two of them talked silently for a few seconds with gestures, and then separated.

Xu Zhen lay down on the spot, and the sniper rifle was mounted on a stone, slowly adjusting his breathing, and putting the black circle into the center of the heart.

Cao Chengwen raised his gun two meters away from his left, and pointed it at the back of the whistle in his knees.

The two adjusted for a while, Xu Zhen first pulled the trigger, and Cao Chengwen immediately shot after hearing the sound. The two "puff" and "puff" sounds were only a few seconds apart. The black shadow hid behind the rock and shook, and then disappeared into the shadow with a slight sound of stone rolling.

The sniper rifle equipped with a silencer sounds weak, and the breeze blows across the hill, reducing the possibility of being discovered.

Seeing the secret whistle disappear, the reconnaissance team did not continue to move forward or retreat, and still lay motionlessly on the spot. Xu Zhen and Cao Chengwen immediately took the second bullet and aimed at that direction again. Feng Aiguo even directed the squad that he touched, aimed at the possible location of the enemy on the top of the mountain, and prepared to shoot.

One second, two seconds..., everyone is ready.

There was no change, no one stuck his head out to look at the mountain, and no one shouted loudly. Except for the mountain wind blowing in his ears, there was no other sound.

The reconnaissance team moved forward again, and a few minutes later, they touched the rock where the secret message was hiding.
Chapter completed!