867: Chapter 857 Fire!
Fire!
Fire!
867: Chapter 857 Fire!
Fire!
Fire!
Scouts, or spearheads, are certainly the most dangerous.
In fact, the meaning of a scout is akin to being sent to die; if they really encounter an ambush, it is the scouts who will die first.
The existence of scouts is to clear dangers for the main troops behind them.
If they encounter unavoidable danger, better that one or two scouts die than the whole army be annihilated.
War is very cruel.
No matter who is assigned as a scout, that person is being pushed to the most dangerous position.
But there must always be scouts, and Li Jinfang’s greatest significance in the Satan Mercenary Corps was that whenever a scout was needed, he was the first to step forward.
Li Jinfang was Satan’s first scout.
Even Eileen, the only one who came from Special Forces, had to take a position behind Li Jinfang.
As for Lucica, as long as it was in the jungle, she automatically became a scout, taking Eileen’s position and moving alongside Li Jinfang.
The positions should be as spread out as possible so that, in case of an attack, maximum firepower could be brought to bear without interfering with each other’s fields of fire.
After ensuring that the team’s positioning tended towards the rational, Gao Yang walked forward, alone between the scouts and the main force, to make the best use of his thermal imager.
After walking forward slowly for a while, Lucica suddenly spoke in a low voice, “I’ve found bloodstains and footprints.
There are two enemies; they dragged one from the river into the jungle.
Boss, should we pursue?”
Gao Yang’s goal was not to annihilate Iron Madonna’s jungle squad, but to rescue the individuals from Friend of Nature.
Therefore, he just needed to locate Friend of Nature’s personnel and get them out.
If a battle could be avoided, so much the better.
“I’ll search the area.
If we can’t locate the enemy, if we don’t find them, let’s not bother with them.”
After speaking quietly, Gao Yang pointed his gun toward the banks of the river and searched the jungle on that side.
He indeed saw three blurred red dots moving quickly.
There were many obstacles, and it was impossible to shoot.
Moreover, the enemy was moving very fast.
Gao Yang urgently said, “Using me as a reference, the enemy is moving fast towards the northeast direction.
Don’t worry about them; let’s move quickly!”
Lucica and Li Jinfang quickened their pace.
This time, the advance did not meet any obstructions.
After bypassing a bend in the river, Gao Yang and his team moved forward a great distance.
In terms of straight-line distance, it was at least three hundred meters.
Gao Yang could already hear gunfire.
In the rainforest, the sound was somewhat muffled, and at least seven or eight guns were firing intermittently but simultaneously.
“Boss, Little Fly, Big Dog, and Big Bird come to the front to reinforce our firepower.
We’re getting close to the enemy; as soon as we engage, we’ll need Big Dog’s sustained fire for suppression.”
After hearing Lucica’s order, Gao Yang and Frey quickly moved forward, while Glolov and Jansen gathered together and moved quickly to converge with Lucica and Li Jinfang.
Once Gao Yang was near Lucica, she gestured to him with a serious face.
When Gao Yang quietly approached the crouching Lucica, she whispered, “I can hear movement, we’re very close to the enemy.
But we have the river on our left side, and it seems to be another bend in the river.
The plants in front are too dense, we have no choice but to go around.”
After consideration, Gao Yang said in a low voice on the radio, “Friend of Nature personnel, fire two bursts of three shots in succession, with a one second interval.
Let us discern your position.
Snipers, rhythmically fire three shots…”
After Gao Yang finished speaking, he quickly heard the sequence of gunfire.
“AK74, two bursts of three shots, friendly.”
“AK74, two bursts of three shots, friendly.”
“HK416, three round burst, two round burst, enemy!”
“Unable to distinguish the gunfire, three round burst, three round burst, friendly.”
“M21, three shots fired, friendly.”
After each gunshot sound, Gao Yang would announce it aloud, while Lucica listened intently.
After hearing the four friendly gunshots, Lucica did not speak but quickly pointed out five spots on the ground and said urgently, “The closest to us, about forty to fifty meters away, is our friendly forces using AK74s.
I can discern the general location, but it cannot be exact.
Here, is the enemy’s position!”
Gao Yang said quietly on the radio, “We have roughly understood your whereabouts.
We will be there shortly.”
After notifying the friendlies, Gao Yang looked at the points Lucica had drawn on the ground and said softly, “I’ll search with the scope.
Big Bird!
Can the drone be used?”
Jansen whispered back, “No, the plants are just too dense.
There is no space to fly at all.
If we send it out, it’ll just get destroyed.”
Gao Yang sighed and said quietly, “F**k, I hate this kind of blind war.
I would rather it be night, where both sides are blind, than this.”
Muttering to himself, Gao Yang lifted his gun and slowly moved, searching, hoping to use the scope to find traces of the enemy.
Directly in front of Gao Yang was a dense mass of vines.
The hanging vines not only blocked the path but also completely obscured his vision.
He could either go around or he would have to use a machete to clear the way forward.
Lucica decided to take a detour, but near such natural barriers were perfect spots for ambushes.
If the enemy wasn’t foolish, they could set up an ambush near the obstructive vines and wait to shoot after Gao Yang’s team detoured—unless Gao Yang was willing to go a long way around; otherwise, he had to eliminate the risks before moving forward.
Gao Yang carefully searched for any possible heat signatures of enemies.
He actually spotted a red dot, but after a close look, Gao Yang thought it was just an animal slightly larger than a mouse, and he couldn’t make out what it was from its outline.
After lingering momentarily on the sight of the animal, Gao Yang continued to pivot the muzzle; however, he felt something was off, so he turned the muzzle back and checked again.
Once he confirmed that the heat source was not a human hand or a partly visible head, and indeed an active animal, he then moved the muzzle away once more.
Despite moving the muzzle away, Gao Yang still felt uneasy.
Therefore, for the third time, he aimed at the small animal.
As he saw the little creature, which had been moving around, suddenly start to flee as if startled, Gao Yang’s eyes widened.
Gao Yang aimed at where the small animal had been startled into running, raised his left hand, and swiftly made a gesture indicating danger but uncertainty about the target, then quickly used hand signals to indicate the enemy was about thirty-five meters away.
With vines as obstacles, throwing a grenade was not feasible, and the distance of thirty-five meters was also a bit far.
Li Jinfang hoisted his rifle, gestured, and then aimed the grenade launcher located beneath the barrel at the spot Gao Yang had indicated.
Glolov quietly pointed his machine gun muzzle at the spot guided by Gao Yang.
After Gao Yang resumed a two-handed grip on his weapon, he whispered, “Toad, fire!”
Li Jinfang shot the rifle grenade.
It was too close for the grenade to detonate spirally on impact, and the rainforest’s ground was especially soft; Li Jinfang had to stand and carefully adjust the landing angle of the grenade, hoping it would explode around the thirty-five-meter mark.
Of course, there was also a high chance the grenade wouldn’t hit the primer due to the angle and thus wouldn’t explode.
Driving a snake out of the grass to flush out the enemy, the rifle grenade was the only option left.
After waiting for Gao Yang to give the go-ahead, Li Jinfang immediately pulled the trigger on the grenade launcher.
The rifle grenade finally exploded, blasting close to the area Gao Yang was focused on.
After the grenade exploded, a red dot suddenly arose from the spot Gao Yang had been aiming at, looking like an arm.
Gao Yang barely needed to adjust his aim and immediately opened fire, hitting the raised arm.
But almost simultaneously, a heat source appeared not far from the lifted arm.
Gao Yang’s thermal imager was separate from his scope, but after being mounted in front of the scope, it limited the field of view of the thermal imager.
The heat source was intense, showing up as an almost white spot on the edge of Gao Yang’s thermal imager, to the point that the human silhouette behind the heat source wasn’t very noticeable.
A heat source with such high temperature could only be a very hot flame; no other possibilities existed.
Gao Yang was not clear why there was a burst of fire, but as he pivoted his muzzle, he saw a flash of white light suddenly fill his entire field of vision!
“Flamethrower!”
Gao Yang roared as he dove to the ground, then, accompanied by a scorching sensation on his back, numerous sparks squeezed through the dense vines.
The vines had blocked Gao Yang and his team’s view, but they also saved their lives.
Had it not been for the dense plants, the burst of fire could have burned all of the people in front to death.
They weren’t incinerated by the direct flame, but the flammable liquid sprayed by the flamethrower, propelled by a powerful airstream, still led to many sparks landing on their bodies.
Gao Yang leapt up as if a fire was chasing him—indeed, his backside was on fire.
The plants that blocked the deadly fire stream in front were all ablaze.
After leaping up, Gao Yang slapped his buttocks then immediately dashed out.
Glolov, who was slightly further away and also lying on the ground, had his back on fire, but he paid no heed to the flames and continued to spray bullets into the inferno.
Glolov had no time to roll on the ground to put out the relatively small flames on his back; he had to shoot immediately to suppress the enemy and prevent them from spewing flames a second time.
As the plants used for cover burned to nothing nearly instantaneously, the enemy merely needed to send another wave of fire to ensure none of the first five would survive.
Therefore, Glolov had to endure the burning sensation on his back and use his machine gun to create a wall of life for his comrades.
“Ah!
Ah!
Ah …”
While firing, Glolov let out a loud yell.
Jansen was positioned behind and, miraculously, wasn’t set ablaze.
Seeing Glolov burnt and screaming in pain but still refusing to shift even slightly, Jansen’s scalp tingled and goosebumps formed.
He immediately went to pat out the flames on Glolov’s back.
Fortunately, the flame-resistant clothing Gao Yang and his team wore meant that although burning oil droplets landed on them, it wouldn’t cause their clothing to catch fire.
They were also lucky that no large streams of flaming liquid had breached the barrier.
Otherwise, contact would mean death.
As for now, just a few in front got singed.
None of them were severely burned, but each person in front was alight.
(To be continued.
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