872: Chapter 862 A Fierce Melee 872: Chapter 862 A Fierce Melee Gao Yang was extremely frustrated because he discovered that the enemy had been trying to capture the members of Friend of Nature alive, which was not good news, at least not for him.
Capturing enemies alive was much harder than killing them, Gao Yang now firmly believed that their numbers were much larger than the intelligence had indicated, much larger.
Otherwise, the Iron Madonna, with only ten people, couldn’t possibly attempt to capture Huan’s group alive.
The simplest reason was that the Iron Madonna didn’t even have enough manpower to guard and transport prisoners.
Whenever there was a battle, it never went according to plan.
For instance, one might believe the enemy had a division of ten thousand men, only to find during the attack that the enemy’s defensive force consisted of two reinforced divisions totaling thirty thousand men.
According to intelligence, the enemy had thirty thousand men, but when the actual battle began, it turned out that the enemy had deliberately set a false target, with their real defensive force totaling only three thousand men.
A battle where a hundred thousand men were deployed to attack, only ended up with them hitting thin air, such happening was not uncommon at all.
Large troop engagements couldn’t be flawless; even more so for a mere Mercenary Group, expecting to face ten and finding twenty, expecting to fight twenty, only to find out the number was right but the enemy was rubbish—such occurrences weren’t even considered surprises.
Needless to say, Gao Yang was going to face more than ten enemies, but, with things having reached this point and when he was just one step away from action, there was no turning back now.
Advancing slowly, Gao Yang raised his fist and spread his fingers.
Then, the line of men quickly dispersed, forming a fan shape and pushing forward.
Gao Yang was now within thirty meters of Huan’s predicted location when suddenly the sound of gunfire intensified.
“I’m hit!”
“I’m hit!”
“F**k, I’ve been shot!”
Almost simultaneously, Gao Yang’s earpiece rang out three times with reports of being shot.
The Iron Madonna no longer tried to capture the members of Friend of Nature alive and indeed, they had taken control of the battlefield.
After the locals started shooting to kill, three people got shot simultaneously.
Once the locals opened fire, Lucica finally located the enemy’s position as the distance had narrowed sufficiently.
Gao Yang’s shotgun began firing continuously, Lucica pointed to a spot, then threw a grenade with a flick of her wrist.
Following that, Gao Yang and his team unleashed all their firepower, unleashing a fierce strafe towards the direction from which the enemy had been shooting.
Lucica pointed in a direction, then Eileen and Li Jinfang immediately followed her and charged forward.
The trio, forming a combat group, had moved forward another twenty meters and just spotted someone attempting to retreat quickly.
They finally came face to face.
Leading the charge, Eileen fired a shot, her body swayed, and she fell to the ground.
The shooting from Lee Jinfang and Lucica also hit the enemy who was retreating rapidly almost simultaneously.
After a brief exchange of fire, the enemy also fell to the ground.
“Tyrannosaurus is hit!
Test Tube!”
Lucica shouted, pulling Eileen back, while Lee Jinfang rushed toward the enemy’s fallen position.
Lucica needed to pull Eileen out to a safe area.
However, not far away, Eileen slapped Lucica’s hand, rolled over, and stood up from the ground.
“It didn’t penetrate!”
After saying this urgently, Eileen also ran towards Li Jinfang’s direction.
Lee Jinfang saw a person lying on the ground, and two more people running towards them from nearby.
Lee Jinfang raised his gun and fired, and the two approaching figures, reacting swiftly, also opened fire at him.
In close-range gunfights, it was a test of one’s nerves; Lee Jinfang didn’t even blink as he fired, his first burst shot exploding one enemy’s head.
The reason for aiming at the head was that Lee Jinfang noticed the enemy was wearing heavy body armor, and he feared his 5.56mm NATO bullets might not penetrate.
Thus, targeting the head was the only option.
As Lee Jinfang gunned down one person, he felt like his chest was being hammered.
Staggering, he decided to crouch down just as Eileen rushed out and shot, knocking the remaining enemy to the ground.
Lee Jinfang and Eileen quickly pounced toward the fallen enemies, but just then, the enemy Eileen had shot at got up again, aiming his gun at her.
However, Eileen once again released a long burst, shooting her opponent dead on the ground.
In a blink of an eye, in just one encounter, both Lee Jinfang and Eileen had been shot, but they had also successfully taken down two of the encountered enemies.
Gao Yang and Frey also arrived at the scene of the intense firefight as Lee Jinfang and Eileen were continuously engaging the enemy face-to-face, they had been rushing over.
Beside Li Jinfang and Eileen, Gao Yang saw a person waving their arm, lifted his gun, and fired, hitting the person who was about to throw a grenade.
The grenade fell and exploded at the feet of the person who had thrown it.
Jungle warfare was exactly like this, either you don’t fight, and you don’t see me, I can’t see you, but once an encounter occurs, when firing at close range, it was almost impossible to have any wounded because it was too close, and survival or death needed to be determined in an instant.
Both sides were converging on the sudden outbreak of the encounter because both had wounded.
To rescue those incapacitated, they had to continuously reinforce their numbers until one side gave up the rescue or was completely wiped out.
As continuous machine-gun fire erupted from an unseen location, Gao Yang and the others threw themselves to the ground, as did Rafael and Tommy who had approached from behind.
Frey threw three grenades towards the direction the bullets came from, while Glolov also initiated counter-suppression, yet neither side had visibility, and the firepower they exchanged failed to inflict damage, merely preventing each other from taking further tactical actions.
After listening to the machine-gun sounds, Lucica took out a grenade.
Just as the hail of bullets swept over her head, she leaped up, threw the grenade with force, and then dropped back to the ground.
Waiting for the grenade to explode, the enemy’s gunfire suddenly stopped.
At that moment, three men from the right side of the jungle sprang out, moving in a triangle formation.
Upon realizing they had lost the suppressing fire from the machine gun, two immediately threw themselves to the ground, while the one trailing behind hadn’t yet managed to drop when Lucica, having picked up her gun again, shot him to the ground.
The scene was chaotic, yet this chaos actually favored Gao Yang and his team as they had just completed extensive integrated training and were at their peak in terms of combat readiness and coordination.
Whether it was the Iron Madonna’s people or the Commercial Alliance’s fighters, they might not be individually weaker than the Satan Mercenary Corps, but their cohesion, having just been thrown together, was far less than that of the current Satan Mercenary Corps.
The gunfire erupted collectively, then ceased all at once, and the battlefield momentarily fell into silence, yet silence didn’t mean the dangers or fighting had passed.
On the contrary, everyone was waiting for a chance to open fire again.
Guns couldn’t be fired indiscriminately; they had to see their target before shooting, and any shot must be lethal, otherwise, the ones who revealed their position with the first shots would be in grave danger.
Everyone was scrambling on the ground, though it appeared chaotic; there was actually a method to it.
They had to reshape their formation based on the positions and characteristics of their comrades’ gunfire, creating a well-distributed firing line with no blind spots that allowed for timely responses to threats from any direction.
The enemy’s three wounded or dead were now positioned among Gao Yang and his companions, and at this point, no one fired at the wounded anymore; they had to remain alive as bait.
Gao Yang was crawling swiftly with a shotgun in his hands, seeking a spot conducive to shooting while also trying to avoid the range of the enemy’s airburst grenades.
The ground vegetation couldn’t strictly be called grass; it was waist-high plants, with hard branches and densely packed little thorns that carved lines across Gao Yang’s face, but he couldn’t stop, he had to keep moving.
Just as Gao Yang was crawling quickly, he heard Cui Bo shout, “Brother Yang, grenade!”
Accompanying Cui Bo’s shout was the sound of a SCAR-H rifle, Bei Gao Yang didn’t know where the grenade had come from or how Cui Bo had seen it.
In a reflexive move to roll away, Gao Yang then discovered a grenade exploding several meters ahead of him.
“Boss is safe!
Bat, fifteen meters to the right, enemy with a grenade!”
Hearing Cui Bo’s report, Gao Yang turned his head to locate Cui Bo, while Lucica and Frey, although separate, threw a grenade simultaneously towards Lucica’s right.
Cui Bo had finally played the critical role expected of a sniper when Lucica and Frey’s grenades forced a person hidden in the bushes to leave their cover, and obtaining a clear line of sight, Cui Bo fired continuously, hitting the man in the buttocks, causing him to sprawl on the ground before Cui Bo shot him twice more, killing him.
Cui Bo did not join the assault team, but instead climbed alone onto a branch of a small tree only four or five meters high.
Hiding in the tree offered rare visibility in the jungle, especially crucial when both sides’ members were intertwined.
Although Cui Bo only gained visibility of the nearby area, he could promptly spot enemies close to the assault team.
After twice providing guidance, Cui Bo was finally spotted, and a burst of bullets came his way, causing Cui Bo to plunge headlong from the branch.
Gao Yang spotted the source of the gunfire, precisely at a blind spot shielded by a large tree that he couldn’t shoot at, but Eileen and Li Jinfang both could hit that position.
As Li Jinfang and Eileen fired fiercely at the enemy’s position who had shot at Cui Bo, Gao Yang got up, stooping low, and quickly ran towards the corner hidden behind the large tree.
As Gao Yang was about to round the大tree, a dark gun barrel emerged first, followed by the right half of a person.
As the person suddenly flashed from behind the tree, Gao Yang fired, but his barrel was seized by the person who appeared suddenly and was lifted upward, and at the same time, Gao Yang let go of his gun with his left hand and grabbed the enemy’s barrel, pushing it diagonally downward away from himself.
Gao Yang’s barrel was seized by the enemy, and he had grabbed the enemy’s barrel, neither could shoot the other.
(To be continued.
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