My Military Career in a Parallel World

Chapter 226 An unexpected incident!

New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve.

On this day when the whole family should have been reunited, Jiang Chen and his friends lay in the woods outside an unknown small mountain village on the border for the entire night.

Twelve o'clock in the morning.

In the silent night, Jiang Chen was talking to Li Gang about the arrangements for the evening shift change.

Suddenly, the channel of the walkie-talkie was occupied, and the voice of the group leader Zheng Xingguo came out from it.

“It’s Chinese New Year, and although this may be a little inappropriate, I still want to say something.

Happy New Year everyone! "

Through the connection of the Beidou system, Zheng Xingguo's not-too-late Happy New Year was heard by all the soldiers participating in this combat readiness patrol mission.

Everyone smiled in understanding and silently sent blessings in their hearts.

"Happy New Year!"

It’s very cold on New Year’s Eve, but everyone’s hearts are warm.

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New Year's Day, Spring Festival.

Before dawn, the familiar sound of firecrackers had already begun.

At first it was just one family, but in the end the whole village was filled with a faint smell of gunpowder.

Amid the crackling sounds, Jiang Chen and his companions received the order to change shifts. Ten minutes later, a new team would come to replace them, and Jiang Chen and his companions would get half a day's rest before continuing their patrol in the mountains.

Although everyone was extremely reluctant about this result, they did not show it on their faces.

At least, there is still half a day of rest time, right?

After handing over the post, Jiang Chen briefly described the situation around the village. He also told the soldiers who came to take over the post about the wild boar he encountered in the woods last night, and reminded them to be careful, as the wild boar was quite large and they must not be careless if they really encountered one.

After returning to the rest point, they heated up the dumplings that the kitchen staff had brought yesterday afternoon, ate a little, and then everyone went into the tent to prepare for sleep.

Although I got some rest last night, lying on the straw was not as comfortable as sleeping in a tent.

Today is the Spring Festival, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Jiang Chen decided to be lazy and went back to the dormitory in the camp. He took off all his clothes and lay on the bed, wrapping himself tightly with a quilt and having a good sleep first.

Jiang Chen slept until almost twelve o'clock. When he woke up from the bed, less than an hour had passed in reality.

After waking up, Jiang Chen continued his training since he had nothing to do.

However, compared to the previous training arrangement which focused on physical fitness and supplemented by various military skills, Jiang Chen now focuses most of his energy on learning theoretical knowledge.

Of course, physical fitness is the foundation of everything, and Jiang Chen is very clear about this.

Although at this point, even though he has maintained a good amount of training, the improvement he has achieved is extremely limited, but Jiang Chen still has no intention of slacking off.

The same goes for various military skills. Jiang Chen practices them at least once or twice a day. He doesn't ask for any improvement, but at least he makes sure his level doesn't drop.

Even though folding quilts was the first skill that the new recruits came into contact with, Jiang Chen did not let it go.

The reconnaissance company is good in other aspects, but the requirements for housekeeping are not that high.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but the main reason is that scouts are training almost every day as soon as they open their eyes, and they rarely have time to spare until they close their eyes.

Not to mention, every morning when I wake up I spend more than ten minutes or half an hour slowly making a quilt.

If you have that much time, you might as well go to the playground and run another five kilometers.

However, Jiang Chen knew that other people could put aside their internal affairs, but he couldn't.

Li Cheng had told him very clearly that the military academy had very high requirements for housekeeping, and there would be special personnel checking the dormitories almost every day.

If he doesn't want to go to the toilet or the grass downstairs to find a quilt every day, he'd better spend more time on folding his quilt before going to the military academy.

Reading and studying, practicing various spoken languages, physical training, shooting, fighting... reviewing the skills learned previously one by one, this is what Jiang Chen has to do every day in the dream space now.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Li Cheng, who had returned at some unknown time, woke everyone up. The kitchen team's food delivery truck had already arrived at the temporary camp.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Although the conditions are limited, the food is not bad at all.

Each person gets a portion of braised pork, half a roast chicken, a bowl of kelp and egg soup, and a choice of steamed buns or rice.

After eating and drinking, they would continue with the miserable days of the previous few days.

This is the limit of how far the kitchen team's food delivery truck can reach. Going further in is all about deep mountains and forests, with no roads at all, so don't even think about anyone delivering food to you.

After finishing their meal, they packed up the tents they had set up earlier and replenished their supplies before setting out again on the journey to the border.

Li Gang turned on the Beidou individual soldier equipment whose battery had been replaced and checked the patrol route map of their trip.

"Go this way into the mountains..."

Although the Beidou individual soldier equipment in Li Gang's hand looks like a big mobile phone, the actual situation is that not only ordinary soldiers, but even the deputy squad leader Jiang Chen is not qualified to be equipped with it.

Jiang Chen and the others couldn't see the route at all, nor did they need to see it.

Just follow the squad leader.

Their mission is to be a good soldier.

Carrying heavy equipment, a group of nine people entered the jungle.

"Remember to check the ammunition and don't load the empty magazine into the gun." Li Gang did not forget to remind everyone when they were about to enter the jungle.

The fact was exactly as he expected. Someone really forgot to change the magazine and still had the empty magazine from last night's duty.

The place they are going to now is the border, and danger may break out at any time. If they don't prepare in advance, losing their own life is the least, but getting others into trouble is a big deal. Li Gang has no choice but to be cautious.

The first three days of patrolling seemed calm and without any danger, but when we really got involved we realized that everything was not as simple as it seemed.

Although they did not encounter any danger during their previous patrols, it does not mean that they did not discover anything.

Jiang Chen would never forget the bullet marks left on the trunk of a large tree that was broken in half less than 200 meters away from the border.

According to Li Gang's judgment, these bullet marks will not last more than a week.

In other words, a fierce gun battle broke out here seven days ago, and it seemed that there were casualties.

Afterwards, Li Gang reported his findings and everyone received accurate answers from the command center.

As they saw, six days ago a group of drug traffickers tried to enter the country from here, but unfortunately encountered patrolling soldiers and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The final result was that all seven drug traffickers were shot dead, two soldiers from the border defense regiment were seriously injured, and three soldiers were slightly injured.

One of the two seriously injured people died due to severe injuries and failed rescue efforts, and the other seriously injured person had his left arm amputated and is now receiving treatment in the military hospital.

It was because of this incident that the commander of the border defense regiment found Zheng Xingguo and held a joint combat readiness patrol near the end of the year.

After learning what had happened, everyone in Class 3, including Jiang Chen, was shocked.

Especially the new recruits such as Jiang Chen and Lu Xingwang.

Although they used to hear other veterans in the class talk about how dangerous the border was every day, and the company commander and instructor would also bring it up every once in a while, after a long time everyone thought that these were just means for the veterans to scare them, and didn't take them seriously.

But now, everything before their eyes tells them the truth.

The danger is around them and may break out at any time.

After this incident, Jiang Chen dared not be careless anymore, and even wanted to close a blind eye when sleeping, for fear that the battle would start in the next second.

If only everything ended here.

The key is that they made new discoveries during their subsequent patrols.

This time it was not a scene of a gunfight, but rather traces of people and animals walking by.

In deep mountains and forests, where vehicles cannot pass, there are only two ways to transport bulk goods: human or animal power. There is no other way.

Although the traces left on the ground had obviously been there for a long time and there were no new discoveries afterwards, given their previous experiences, how could they dare to let their guard down?

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After walking through the jungle for more than two hours, according to the Beidou map, they had arrived at the first patrol point.

"Take a half-hour break. Jiang Chen, Zhang Ming, Hu Kai, you three will take the first shift."

"Yes!"

After Li Gang spoke, the three of them quickly dispersed to a distance of thirty or forty meters around them, with the other teammates who were resting as the center, and found their own positions to hide and observe.

The others seemed to be relaxed. Some took out their water bottles to drink water, some took out compressed biscuits to replenish their energy, and some leaned on their backpacks to pretend to sleep. Even Li Gang, the squad leader, took out a map and compared it with the route map on Beidou, planning the follow-up patrol arrangements...

But no matter what they were doing, they always held the Type 81 rifle in their hands.

Even Li Gang, who was busy looking at the map carefully, placed his gun in a position where he could reach it at the first moment.

Although their patrol route this time partially overlapped with the previous one, the overall deviation was very large.

There was nothing they could do about it. They were not familiar with the situation here in the first place. When they set out before, they landed directly by helicopter rappelling. After that, they ran in the woods for three days and three nights, and had no idea where they were.

After a short rest, the patrol route will naturally change when setting out again.

Of course, this is not a big problem for scouts who spend the whole day in the woods, not to mention that they are now equipped with the Beidou positioning system.

The half-hour break passed quickly, and we were ready to hit the road again.

The combat readiness patrol seemed ordinary, just walking around here and there, and seemed not as good as their usual training in the barracks.

But the reality is that you have to keep your spirits up at all times here.

Jiang Chen is slightly better. With the help of the golden finger, his physical fitness is almost the same as that of the veteran. He can also use the dream space to restore his spirit and physical strength at any time.

The other new recruits who had just joined the company were in a miserable situation.

In particular, Zhang Meng, who was also assigned to the reconnaissance company, almost suffered from mental breakdown after several consecutive days.

Time was of no use on the day of rest. All he wanted now was to find a safe place without insects and have a good sleep.

God knows what he has been through in the past few days.

The south is different from the north. Animals here basically do not hibernate, and even if they do, the time is very, very short.

In the past few days, Zhang Meng has seen countless poisonous insects such as scorpions and centipedes.

On one occasion, when he just woke up and opened his eyes, he saw a green poisonous snake hanging on a treetop less than two meters above his head, staring at him and spitting out its tongue.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng grew up in the rural area of ​​​​Xiangxi and has a certain resistance to these poisonous insects and snakes. If it were any other recruit, he would probably jump three feet high in fear on the spot.

In this way, Zhang Meng finally made it to New Year's Eve and received the order to rest. He thought that this combat readiness patrol should be almost over.

However, they did not expect that on the next day, New Year's Day, after resting for half a day, they received the task of embarking on border patrol again.

Then, it was another three days of nightmare journey.

Seeing Zhang Meng with his head hung down and his eyes dull, the squad leader next to him couldn't help but laugh.

This new recruit is so unlucky that he has to deal with a combat readiness patrol mission right after joining the company.

Moreover, this is not just an ordinary combat readiness patrol.

The reconnaissance battalion also carries out combat readiness missions at regular intervals, but the duration is generally not long, at most three to four days.

However, this combat readiness mission has lasted for seven days from the beginning to now, and so far there seems to be no plan to announce the end of the mission.

Not to mention that he was a rookie, even an old soldier would not be able to withstand running in the wild for five or six days in a row.

So, if this isn’t bad luck, then what is?

However, although he said this, he was very optimistic about this new recruit named Zhang Meng.

After running around like this, without going into details, at least I can take off the hat of a rookie now.

Actual combat is always the fastest shortcut for soldiers to grow and the best way to temper their will.

After this experience, Zhang Meng was not completely transformed, but he was not far off.

Especially in terms of willpower, he is definitely no worse than the veterans who have been in the army for three or four years!

Just when he was thinking whether he should give this kid some extra effort to transform him into a qualified scout soldier as soon as possible after returning, a hurried report suddenly came from the headset hanging on Zhang Wei's ear.

"Squad leader, there's something wrong. We found fifteen unknown people 250 meters away from the 8 o'clock direction. They are heading towards the border...

Among them, four... no, six of them were carrying guns!!!"

As soon as the voice sounded, Zhang Wei recognized who the owner of the voice was. It was the soldier they arranged to observe the periphery.

After the other party finished explaining the situation in one breath, Zhang Wei's face suddenly changed and he immediately issued an order to prepare for battle.

"Everyone, get ready for battle!"

At the same time, Zhang Wei took out the Beidou individual navigation and positioning equipment on his body without delay and reported the situation here to the combat readiness command.

"Mm, these bastards, they just suffered a loss and yet they dare to come out and die?!"

As the deputy squad leader of the team, Li Hua cursed while keeping his hands moving. He picked up his gun and led people to provide support immediately.

Although it is still unclear who the people on the other side are and what they want to do, no matter where they came from, the fact that they carried guns in our country and tried to cross the border is enough to send them to death by stepping on sewing machines.

Now that I have come across it, there is no reason to let it go.

After receiving the order from his superiors approving the action, Zhang Wei immediately made arrangements, commanding his nine team members to deploy and form a firepower network on the enemy's route.

The battle is imminent!

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