Ace Special Forces in Movies and TV Shows

Chapter 0094: A Ghostly Encounter!

The sky was already beginning to lighten, but the vast grassland still seemed shrouded in darkness. A long column of soldiers continued to advance across the grassland. Although they looked exhausted, their vigilant demeanor showed that they could react immediately should an attack be launched.

This team is Zheng Yingqi and his group.

"What do you guys think those bastards from the Division Reconnaissance Battalion are doing now?" Wang Hui muttered to himself.

Without a second thought, Meng Kai replied, "What can we do? Of course, we'll lie in bed and sleep—unlike us!"

"This is really... asking for trouble!" Wang Hui sighed.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Yingqi chuckled and said, "Is this considered hardship? If you really get into the Old A, I guarantee you'll miss your current happiness immensely."

"Happiness?" The group pondered the word, then looked at their surroundings and their own exhaustion. Could this really be called happiness?

"Everyone here is a top student, so you should understand why we are top students." Zheng Yingqi felt the morale was low, so he deliberately tried to start a conversation.

"Of course, we have to put in more effort!"

"While others rest, we train hard; while others sleep, we train hard; while others brag and talk nonsense, we keep training. That's why we're the best."

The soldiers were saying one after another—Gao Cheng once said, it's not easy to be a top soldier.

Only by working harder than others can you become more outstanding and a top performer.

"You guys remember that competition at the military headquarters that day, right? Why was Old A so outstanding? Even better than us top students? Was it just natural? Hehe..." Zheng Yingqi laughed, "Because they've shed more sweat and blood than us!"

Everyone fell silent. No one is born excellent. The biggest reason why others are more excellent than you is that they work harder than you!

"So cherish the happy times we have now—once we get into the Old A, I reckon that's when the real hardship begins. Becoming a qualified Old A won't be easy!" Zheng Yingqi sighed, but his words also inspired the soldiers, all because of the phrase "once we get into the Old A."

The team regained its spirits and began to stride forward.

Zheng Yingqi and his colleagues wondered if the reconnaissance battalion, who were lying in their tents fast asleep, were really fast asleep.

The answer is... of course not!

As the most elite unit of the T Division, the division's reconnaissance battalion was certainly not stupid. After being repeatedly "humiliated" by Zheng Yingqi, and after failing to find anything by drawing circles, someone immediately guessed another possibility:

"They might be hiding somewhere we've overlooked—the southeast is the direction they must go. Since we can't find them, let's wait for them here. Given their cautious nature, they're very likely to choose to act at night! Let's ambush them!"

"Remember! The 701st Regiment's three-man team!"

"Catch them! Kill them all!"

The humiliated division reconnaissance battalion was determined to avenge their defeat. A company was divided into many small groups, scattered across a large area, just waiting for the audacious trio to come to their door.

A four-man team was monitoring a large area around them. It was the time when everyone was most sleepy, but the four soldiers from the division's reconnaissance battalion were wide awake. They kept their eyes wide open, watching their surroundings, afraid that the damned trio would slip away.

At the edge of sight, a furtive figure appeared. A soldier from the division's reconnaissance battalion, upon seeing the figure, instantly shuddered:

Is it the goal?

One, two, three...

One figure after another appeared, and the soldier counted to seven before realizing that the figures had disappeared.

"It wasn't them..." the soldier muttered in disappointment, then said admiringly, "These guys are incredibly audacious! Facing the encirclement and suppression of an entire reinforced battalion, they dared to assemble such a large force. Ignorance is bliss!"

"Brothers, there's prey to the northwest, seven in number!"

Following the soldier's report, the four quickly assembled. The other three surveyed the enormous group, feeling both disappointed and intrigued.

"Four against seven, a calculated attack against an unprepared opponent—are you confident?" the sergeant in the group asked.

"We're confident! We're the division's reconnaissance battalion! The strongest unit in the entire division!"

"We reconnaissance soldiers exist to defeat the enemy with the few and achieve victory!"

"Easy peasy!"

Hearing his comrades' confident answers, the sergeant smiled and said, "That's right, we're the division's reconnaissance battalion, we should have this kind of confidence. Get ready, aim in order, I'll go first, you'll go second, you'll go third, you'll go last. Let's try to take out four on the first shot, and the remaining three will tremble in fear!"

The four-man team began to aim at their respective targets, and with the sergeant's command of "Fire!", the Type 95 rifles flashed simultaneously.

Zheng Yingqi was in the third position in the team. Although he would say a few words from time to time to boost everyone's morale, he never relaxed his vigilance towards his surroundings. At this moment, he had just teased Ma Xiaoshuai. There was no other way; he was a cadet soldier, a future officer. If he didn't tease him now, it wouldn't be so easy to tease him later.

Just then, he sensed something was wrong and instinctively said, "Lie down!"

The soldiers instinctively obeyed Zheng Yingqi's command and all lay down.

This sentence was spoken almost simultaneously with the order to fire from the division reconnaissance battalion sergeant—a bizarre scene unfolded: as soon as the trigger was pulled, the person on the other side went down, and the first shot, which was supposed to be foolproof, completely missed!

bang bang

As the gunshot rang out, the people who had fallen to the ground almost wanted to worship Zheng Yingqi.

"3 o'clock! Distance... 230 to 280 meters, target four!" Zheng Yingqi quickly reported the location, and at the same time, everyone began to fire suppressively at the location where the gunfire was flashing.

"Boss, what's the plan? Should we encircle them?" Wang Hui asked.

Zheng Yingqi objected, "No, the situation here is unclear, we can't engage them head-on! I'll cover you, you guys retreat first!"

If there were only four opponents, Zheng Yingqi would definitely want to fight them, but how could there really only be four people on the other side? Even if there were four people on the other side, their reinforcements would definitely be in the double digits or more, and continuing the battle would only result in giving away kills.

"withdraw!"

Wang Hui and his men evacuated immediately.

The four members of the division's reconnaissance team had a feeling of seeing a ghost.

"Damn, how is that possible? They went down the moment we fired? Are you kidding me?"

The soldiers of the division's reconnaissance battalion stared dumbfounded at the flashes of the returning gunfire, feeling as if it were unreal. It was supposed to be a sure thing, so how could the enemy have dodged it so easily at the crucial moment?

"Take them down! Our men will be around in ten minutes at most—I want to see how they can react this way in advance!" The sergeant gritted his teeth, feeling utterly bewildered; this was simply too outrageous!

"Oh no, they're trying to escape!"

"Stop them! Don't let them get away!"

The sergeant shouted decisively and began intercepting and firing at the dark figure in the distance.

The retreating figures of Wang Hui and his men attracted intercepting fire, forcing them to take cover on the spot. This was exactly the opportunity Zheng Yingqi was looking for. He stared intently at the spitting gunfire, conjuring up images of people shooting from a prone position in his mind, and slowly adjusted the muzzle of his gun based on the simulated figures.

Bang

The Type 85 sniper rifle in his hand emitted a crisp firing sound, and the firing point he had targeted was instantly extinguished.

He quickly switched the gun and fired a shot at another location. Then, Zheng Yingqi rolled over with the gun in his arms. Sure enough, the next moment, gunfire flashed in the distance—his previous shooting position must have attracted retaliatory fire. Judging from the flashing gunfire in the distance, his second shot had not hit the target.

"Retreat immediately!"

Zheng Yingqi did not fire again, but instead shouted at the six people who had been intercepted.

Wang Hui and his group seized this rare opportunity and started running. The other side also saw the figures and sent two people to intercept them again.

Seeing this, Zheng Yingqi sneered and muttered to himself, "Just waiting for you!"

Raise the gun, aim, bang!

After a gunshot, another person was "killed"!

After finishing his shooting, Zheng Yingqi immediately took cover without lingering. The gunfire nearby flickered for a few seconds before stopping—it seemed the opponent was also a skilled fighter, firing rapidly for a short while before dodging away.

"Bye-Bye!"

Zheng Yingqi knew at once that there was no more chance, so he slowly retreated. After retreating more than twenty meters, he decisively turned around and ran as fast as he could.

The sergeant in the reconnaissance battalion team, after retaliating by emptying his magazine at the last disappearing figure, collapsed to the ground.

There were two unfortunate souls beside him, still smoking, staring blankly into space.

"Squad leader... what's going on? We... we seem to have been ambushed?" Another "surviving" soldier swallowed hard. He didn't understand. They were the ones who ambushed others, so how come no one on their side died, while two of them were "killed in action"?

"What the hell!" the sergeant cursed under his breath. He still couldn't understand how the other person had dodged the seemingly foolproof first strike!

(I corrected the typos during the day—but I can't find them now...)