Chapter 274: Chapter 272: Awkwardness in an Instant

Han Daqing’s body stiffened, woodenly turning around to look at the surroundings, everyone, including Qian Xiangjun beside him, were looking at him as if he were an idiot.

Han Daqing’s dark face suddenly burned, turning into a purple-black pig liver color.

Qian Xiangjun pulled Han Daqing aside, flashed a smile, and said, “Company Commander Ling is indeed formidable; she is a role model for all of us, we should all learn from her, hahaha…”

With these words, everyone once again looked at Ling Chengyan with a hint of dissatisfaction.

There was an old saying: War does not need women.

Women’s naturally weaker physical strength also led to, from ancient to modern times, soldiers being almost exclusively male, even though modern armies have female soldiers, they are mostly in medical, communications, and cultural posts, while field troops remain almost entirely male.

This formed a fixed perception, war does not need women. Even seeing women on the battlefield would be severely criticized, What business do women have meddling in matters of war?

But today, a woman not only became a battalion-level commander on par with them through her own ability but also achieved outstanding performance in practical training, taking the lead, how could the usual arrogant men swallow this?

Ling Chengyan glanced at Qian Xiangjun, said indifferently, “Different sister units are responsible for different directions, facing different problems, today’s score is our luck, once on the battlefield, all the brothers need to cooperate to achieve greater victory.”

What she said was sincere, yet received little echo; Ling Chengyan did not take it to heart, turned to look at the leader above, after receiving a nod, continued, “In this mission, we happened to encounter several tripwires and booby traps, brought back some items, and drew blueprints of those that were not brought back, we’ll present them for everyone to examine.”

From this live-fire training, it can be seen that the main tasks of the Special Service Company are likely reconnaissance, precision strikes, and so on; these tasks require infiltration into enemy lines, even deep behind enemy lines, and smoothly passing through minefields will be a major challenge and danger for all Special Service soldiers.

Tripwires, as the name suggests, are a type of mine triggered by strings, when a person encounters the wire while moving forward, it triggers the mine explosion, causing casualties.

Booby traps are even harder to detect and clear than tripwires, often installed in very secretive and cunning ways, making them almost impossible to find, once touched, they cause casualties.

This time, other Special Service Companies did not go deeper, one major reason was a large number of mines in the war zone, which were very intimidating.

Thus, upon hearing Ling Chengyan’s words, everyone immediately forgot their previous thoughts, spirits invigorated, eager to see the mines and blueprints.

Ling Chengyan had someone bring in the mines and blueprints, everyone immediately rushed forward to inspect them. Only Qian Xiangjun and Han Daqing were left awkwardly behind, wanting to go forward but feeling embarrassed.

In the end, personal safety is paramount, Qian Xiangjun left Han Daqing and squeezed into the crowd.

Finally, the leader summarized: “In future training and combat, communicate more, exchange what you have, complement each other, the saying goes, three cobblers make a great strategist like Zhuge Liang, we are the finest Special Service Companies, already elite troops, united, we can form a stronger combat force and achieve greater victories.”

Two days later, the Special Service Company received a special mission again, this time, they each received a specific target for enemy reconnaissance.

Ling Chengyan’s team received the mission to go behind enemy lines to a small village. This village had previously been an enemy command post; according to prior reconnaissance intel, this village may still hold significant supplies, including weapons, ammunition, food, and more.

Ling Chengyan’s team had already reached behind enemy lines last time, and from afar they had seen the small village, with previous experience, this time the advance was much smoother, within two plus hours, the team reached the positions between the two armies, as it was still early morning, lighting was too bright, Ling Chengyan ordered everyone to hide in dense forests, waiting for nightfall.

It was now summer, and being in mountain and wild forests, mosquitoes were abundant, during their advance everyone was surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes, let alone lying still in the grass, they were practically offering themselves up to the mosquitoes.

Geng Wei used the grass as cover, wiped his face with mosquito repellent, turned back and gave a thumbs up to Ling Chengyan.

Thankfully, the company commander prepared these repellents, otherwise, the mosquitoes alone would have almost been able to bite them to death.

Ling Chengyan glared at him, whispered, “Careful to stay hidden.”

The modern battlefield is not like ancient times, even with the naked eye, high-powered binoculars can see several kilometers away, let alone observe people.

They were already in the enemy’s firing range, if exposed, not only would the mission fail, but all twenty-one lives of the squad risked ending here.

Finally, the sun set, and night completely covered the land.

Ling Chengyan’s Special Service team got up, bending low, keeping their heads down, trying to hide their bodies in dense bushes and grass as they stealthily moved towards the target village.

When only two hundred meters away from the village, suddenly, a meteor streaked through the night sky, piercing the sky canvas.

Ling Chengyan gave a low command: “Lie down.”

Special Service members heard this, without hesitation, all fell flat into the grass.

Almost as soon as they lay down, the meteor rose into the sky and exploded, bursting into dazzling light, instantly turning the night sky into daylight.

Ling Chengyan looked at the grass and bushes ahead, once chaotic, now sharply clear, even seeing the veins on the leaves clearly.

Flares fired in several rounds, Ling Chengyan’s team stayed motionless in the grass for a considerable time.

Suddenly, Ling Chengyan’s eyes widened, a slender thumb-sized snake unexpectedly appeared from the grass, crawled onto Geng Wei’s leg, and slithered along his leg up into the gaps in his shirt.

Her pupils contracted, fingers curled, gripping a stone pressing against her palm.

The flare’s brightness dimmed, surroundings darkened again, Ling Chengyan was ready to raise her hand to toss the stone to strike off the snake, when another round of flares climbed into the sky, the just darkened grass and bushes lit up again.

Ling Chengyan held her hand still, instinctively clutching the stone tightly between her fingers, gaze fixed intensely as the small snake crawled into Geng Wei’s collar.

Her teeth held her lip, almost cracking.

She feared Geng Wei being bitten, encountering danger, more afraid that Geng Wei, if bitten, would panic uncontrollably exposing their position, which would almost mean doom for their team.

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