CHAPTER 82: CHAPTER 81 [SONGGUFENG SNIPER BATTLE (TO BE UNLOCKED)] (3K)

As the command from afar was transmitted.

Shen Yan and Liu Feng felt their brains buzz, as if exploding.

It was wrong, all wrong.

Back when watching the CG, along with this period of training.

Everyone thought that the key to the "Bloody Battle of Sanshuli" was the final sentence in the CG, "Five minutes ahead of the enemy, occupy Sanshuli!"

However... what does the word bloody represent, undeniably.

The title already explains everything.

The troops who had just experienced a battle in Tokugawa, immediately marched 70 kilometers through mountain roads without resting for five minutes, and then had to start fighting.

Shen Yan and his team thought reaching this point meant they were the peak of the Republic’s infantry.

But now, the peak of the Republic’s infantry once again refreshed Shen Yan and the others’ understanding.

The main force quickly started moving.

The special battalion led by Shen Yan also followed the main force, ambushing on the hill.

Looking into the distance.

The mechanized forces of the United States of America, the spearhead, were slowly moving on the main road, tank turrets rotating slowly, with the gunner above observing the surroundings.

The mechanized forces below were getting closer.

Shen Yan gradually held his breath, his gaze fixed on the mechanized forces below, aiming at the gunner on one of the tanks.

Bang bang bang——

After a series of muffled mortar shots, a roar echoed in everyone’s ears:

"Attack!!!"

The ambushing Republic volunteers and Shen Yan and others immediately opened fire, shooting at the soldiers of the United States of America below, catching them off guard, causing a chaotic mess in their ranks.

But relying on the tank’s impregnable armor.

They quickly organized a counterattack, with tank turrets turning towards the hillside, firing shells that exploded upwards, combined with the fire power from the machine guns on the tanks.

The situation on the battlefield instantly changed.

And Shen Yan lay there focusing intensely.

Bang——

A shot took out a tank gunner, but the turret quickly turned, and Shen Yan rolled back to retreat.

Boom!!!

The shell blasted a big pit in the ground, but didn’t injure Shen Yan.

Quickly climbing up, Shen Yan commanded his special battalion to shoot at the tank gunners below in the canyon.

Having been tormented by Simon Hayer, the "White Reaper," for so long, the Seventh Special Operations Brigade was almost full of sharpshooters.

Quickly pinpointing one tank gunner after another, while the Republic volunteers organized teams with Molotov cocktails, throwing them at the tanks below.

The flames from the Molotov cocktails burst on the US tanks but could not halt their advance.

The mortars from the hill continued bombarding the center of the canyon, after prolonged combat, finally causing the US tanks to start halting in the canyon center.

Yet the following tanks stubbornly pushed past the ones ahead, intending to charge directly.

Boom——!

Boom——!

At this moment.

Three Republic volunteer soldiers suddenly dashed out covered in flames.

Two used engineer shovels to jam the tank tracks, the third aimed the Molotov cocktail at the exhaust inlet, causing an instant fiery blast wave.

With the Molotov cocktails thrown and explosives hurled recklessly, one tank after another began to explode.

The canyon road was successfully blocked.

The relentless lead troops of US Army 9th found the tanks in the front unable to move any further, as more piled up.

After several hours of fierce battle, they were forced to retreat.

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The gunpowder smoke hung over the battlefield, below in the canyon tanks burned, the sting of the air biting the nose, everywhere was strewn with broken corpses.

Watching the retreating mechanized forces of the US Army, Shen Yan climbed out from behind cover.

After hours of battle, shells landed close by, making ears ring and hard to recover, shouted vainly:

"Liu Feng! Liu Feng!"

Called several times with no response.

Feeling his arm tugged several times, Shen Yan turned to see.

It was a soldier from the special battalion, loudly inquiring:

"Where’s your battalion commander?"

The special battalion soldier pointed off into the distance, only dense shell craters and charred bodies lying around.

Seeing this, Shen Yan felt choked up, turned to look.

One, two, three.....seventeen.

The special battalion initially had three hundred people, now only seventeen remain.

Yet the battle is not over.

Seeing this area can’t be breached, parts of US Army 9th shifted their route westward to Longyuan Village.

The fighting there had already ignited.

With no time to clean the battlefield, receiving orders, Shen Yan led the remaining seventeen, alongside part of the Republic volunteer troops, tirelessly rushing to Longyuan Village.

While in Longyuan Village, the 113th division’s 337th regiment.

The battle against the US Army armored units has been ongoing for several hours at Longyuan Village.

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Two hours later.

Reality.

Great Xia Federation, North.

Songgel Ice Field.

The Seventh Special Operations Brigade, after waking up from the Virtual Cabin.

Shen Yan called the personnel from Battalion One to gather in the conference room, along with the brigade’s officers.

In the battle at Longyuan Village, he and the remaining seventeen people ultimately couldn’t hold out until the end and were taken out by the bombers from the United States of America.

However, they did gain some experience.

As everyone gathered, Shen Yan looked to the Chief of Staff and said:

"Old Qu, has the analysis from the photon supercomputing cluster come out?"

"Wasn’t it said to be an impossible mission before, but this time we had 67 people who made it to Sanshuli."

"This shows that we’re capable of completing the mission."

"Without discussing the subsequent battles, let’s talk about raiding Sanshuli. How do we compare to the Republic Volunteer Army in the ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’?"

Chief of Staff Qu Guang nodded and said:

"The supercomputer compared the real-time data from Zhao Ming’s 113th Division; their average heart rate remained over 160 for 14 hours, and their blood oxygen saturation dropped to 82% while maintaining a forced march."

"Their brainwave activity was 2.3 times ours, which means... if these data were from real people, they were using consciousness to forcibly override physical limits in this raid."

"We can’t reach that level."

"Because we can’t embody the beliefs of the Republic Volunteer Army in the ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’; if the background were set to the Great Xia Federation, our soldiers’ success rate would be slightly higher."

Shen Yan pondered for a moment:

"Only slightly higher?"

"The non-combat attrition rate is too high, nearly four-fifths."

Chief of Staff Qu Guang smiled wryly:

"No one can achieve success without growth."

"We need to undergo certain training to reach the standards of the Republic Volunteer Army in ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’."

"I don’t know what experiences the Republic Volunteer Army went through to forge such a team."

"But for our brigade soldiers, it’s their first forced march at this intensity; previous training didn’t have such intensity, so many couldn’t hold on."

"The previous calculations by the photon supercomputing cluster also considered retaining maximum combat effectiveness, so the success rate was very low."

"But our soldiers’ physical data is better."

"So once the will is honed, naturally the non-combat attrition rate can be reduced."

That’s indeed true.

Compared to the Republic Volunteer Army, the soldiers of the Seventh Special Operations Brigade are physically top-notch, but it’s embarrassing for them to not hold on despite that.

Physically fine, but willpower lags far behind others.

Shen Yan nodded and said:

"Let’s have all battalions go through this process together."

"Afterward, report the names of those who persist to Sanshuli; the ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’ isn’t just about Sanshuli, there’s also Longyuan Village and Songgufeng afterward."

Speaking.

Shen Yan pressed the projection on his wristwatch.

A card and introduction appeared.

[Republic Volunteer Army 38th Army (Pending Unlock)]

[Title: Eternal Army, Peak of Light Infantry]

[Introduction: The troop lineage starting from Pingjiang in 1928, core main force of the field army that liberated ’Three Campaigns in Southern Jiangxi and Four Sieges of Siping’, setting a world record in Earth infantry marching history with ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’.]

[Inherited Tactics: Flanking and Direct Assault (Pending Unlock)]

[Note: Randomly become an operations officer of the 38th Army, can learn the Eastern Lightning Tactics of flanking and direct assault.]

[Inherited Skills: Snowfield Concealment, Night Assault, Close Combat (Pending Unlock).]

[Note: During the Sniper Battle of Longyuan Village, persist for 24 hours to unlock the ’Peak of Light Infantry’ storyline and learn skills like Snowfield Concealment, Night Assault from the Republic Volunteer Army soldiers.]

[Key Battles: [Bloody Battle of Sanshuli][Songgufeng Sniper Battle]]

[Note: In the second battle, follow the 113th Division, complete the 145-mile forced march through snowy terrain within 14 hours, break through enemy air blockade and terrain obstacles, seize the sniper point at Sanshuli and hold until main forces converge, survive more than 48 hours to unlock the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle].]

[Completion Conditions: 145/145 (Raid Sanshuli/Mileage) 8/48 (Hold/Sustained Hours)]

Everyone gasped while reading the card introduction.

The ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’ was followed by ’Longyuan Village Sniper Battle’, and after ’Longyuan Village Sniper Battle’ came the ’Songgufeng Sniper Battle’, this....

Shen Yan scanned the crowd and said:

"For the conditions to raid Sanshuli, first, let’s filter out those who can persist, then form teams to fulfill the second condition, holding Sanshuli for 48 hours."

"Unlock the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle]."

"Inherited tactics, inherited skills, these... let’s take them one by one."

Skills like Snowfield Concealment, Night Assault, are known by the soldiers of the Seventh Special Operations Brigade, but they clearly differ from those in the ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’.

Shen Yan was also quite envious.

Raiding the ’White Reaper’ Simon Hayer’s scenario so many times has significantly improved the Brigade’s overall concealment and shooting skills.

Learning the snow concealment, night assault, etc., dubbed as the ’Peak of Light Infantry’ in the ’Bloody Battle of Sanshuli’, coupled with honing willpower from raiding Sanshuli.

The group of boys under him could each turn into Simon Hayer.

That image....

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