It was dark and windy at night, and the heavy snow fell for several nights, making the whole world turn white. Even though the artillery fire from both sides of the enemy and us had already made the position bumpy and messy, Xinxue quickly buried all the stains, corpses and blood. There was a chaotic and beautiful surroundings, and there was no trace of the battlefield. Of course, except for the light of the searchlights and us who were sneaking towards the enemy's positions.

I took the soldiers to avoid the enemy's searchlights with ease and crossed the 597.9 high ground to touch the enemy's position. Although the enemy's searchlights caused me some trouble and delayed our time, they gave me a reassurance. Because I knew that night vision devices were afraid of strong light, the existence of searchlights means that the enemy's sniper had not entered the position yet. This at least confirmed my first guess - the time when the enemy entered the lurking position, it was a big sigh at two or three o'clock in the morning.

He took out his pocket watch, looked at the time through the snow light, and pointed at the position at around twelve o'clock.

The purpose of choosing this time to enter the position is to ensure that our army can enter the battlefield before the enemy enters the lurking position, and at the same time, it is not too early to let the US troops who have not yet come out to wander around find our traces.

After walking down the 597.9 high ground, I waved to the rear, and the soldiers passed by my position and carefully touched the enemy's position.

It is not the first time that we have entered the enemy's mine array. Wang Xianru has rafted lightnings several times in this area before. Not long ago, our army's artillery fire covered the enemy's positions and detonated a lot of mines, but I was still very careful to let Wang Xianru walk in the front.

The reason for doing this is that we can't afford to lose. Once we are exposed this time, we will alert the enemy and make the enemy wary. If we want to do this next time, it is probably even more difficult. Another reason is that the American mines are very convenient to install, and they can even use large batches of airdrops to lay mines. So it is difficult to guarantee that they will lay new mines in this area.

My worries were obviously not redundant, because the team had slowed down at this time and would occasionally pause for a while. However, the mines were obviously much less than when we lurked before, which made us reach the position where the enemy laid barbed wire without much time.

The barbed wire had long disappeared, leaving only a few wooden stakes and wires stuck in the snow, and when the cold wind blew, the canned box hanging on the wire swayed in the wind, making a clanging sound unwilling to be lonely.

I made a gesture to the soldiers and was about to order the soldiers to spread out and find a favorable position to lurk, but Wang Xianru took the lead and stopped him.

Wang Xianru didn't say anything, and walked around for a while. After a while, a few landmines were raised, and I could only scream a few times.

The inner side of the barbed wire is only a few dozen meters away from the enemy's top position. It is the area where the enemy is active and the lurking position of the enemy snipers. I originally thought that there would be no landmines in this area, but it is obviously not the case.

I suddenly remembered that Wang Xianru seemed to have told me that the more cautious enemy would lay mines on the outside of his activity area before going to bed at night and remember the location of these mines. Wait until dawn the next day, then lift these mines out.

The purpose of this is to cause casualties to the enemy beyond the expectations of the enemy. The second is to provide alert to your own troops to avoid being attacked by the enemy. These Americans must be the kind of cautious ones.

I couldn't help but feel a little worried. This action almost ended up losing all my money because of my negligence.

But soon I felt something was wrong!

If landmines are buried here, what should the US snipers do if they want to enter the lurking position? They must first eliminate these mines before entering the lurking position, otherwise they will still be blowing up their own people? Now Wang Xianru has raised these mines. If the US engineers cannot find the mines, then...

Thinking of this, I hurriedly called Wang Xianru over and whispered: "Don't thunder, put these mines that have been raised to their original location, and don't leave any traces! Assist other comrades into the lurking position!"

After hearing what I said, Wang Xianru looked at me in confusion at first, but soon his face turned from confusion to surprise, and then he let out a sigh of gratitude. Obviously, he also understood the mines he had just raised, which was just telling the US engineers that we were lurking in their positions. So he didn't say much, nodded and re-deployed the mines according to their original location.

The soldiers entered the lurking position one after another under the guidance of Wang Xianru. There were not many mines on the inside of the barbed wire mesh. In fact, the Americans dared not have too many mines arranged in this area. Otherwise, if there were so many that they could not remember where the location was, they would just cause trouble for themselves. So the soldiers did not spend much time easily lurking in the position they thought was suitable for.

There are not many positions we can choose. We must ensure that we are close enough to the enemy so that we can rush to the enemy in the shortest time possible to kill them, and obtain the enemy's equipment in the shortest time to return to our position. But we dare not be too close to the enemy, otherwise, when those US snipers enter the lurking position, they may step on our heads or our butts with one kick...

Therefore, the soldiers tacitly chose positions that looked unsuitable for sniping. Some were shooting dead corners under the rocks, some were protruding edges of craters, and some were on hills. I chose to hide on the side of a tree stump leaning against our position.

But soon after, when the enemy entered the position, I quickly discovered that the position I chose was not suitable, because I suffered a lot from this wrong choice.

Of course, this is all a story.

After Wang Xianru completed the task, he returned along the same route as usual under my command, and the surroundings returned to their original calm again. The lurking soldiers soon disappeared into the dark night, and in the dark air there was only the sound of wind and snowflakes when they fell on the ground.

I held the military spear in my left hand and the pistol in my right hand, and lay silently on the ground, while the sniper rifle was placed in the snow beside me. There is no doubt that military spear and pistol are much more useful than rifles during close combat.

If I were asked to choose the most boring and boring thing in the world, I think I would choose to lurk without hesitation. Because I could just use the simple four words "live and don't move" to cover up the lurking for hours or even dozens of hours. Moreover, lurking in this ice and snow will be a painful torture for any creature, if other creatures will lurk.

Fortunately, the soldiers have always insisted on lurking training, so this is nothing to them. It just makes me suffer as the leader... I am usually lazy because of the identity of the leader, and rarely train with the soldiers in such cold weather. This time I had to go out and suddenly lurked in such cold snow and felt the constant coldness, and I couldn't help but exclaim that I couldn't stand it.

The cold wind with snow powder was like continuous waves, rushing towards me one after another. It was okay if I had the clothes wrapped around me, but my face exposed outside the camouflage was as painful as it was cut by a sickle. My hands and feet were quickly frozen and lost consciousness because they could not move. Only then did I truly realize what kind of suffering the soldiers usually suffer.

Thinking of this period, they had to lurk in this environment for more than ten hours every day, and I couldn't stand it if I lay here for more than an hour. So a sense of admiration arose. Because I can't imagine what kind of spirit is supporting them to persevere, nor can I imagine how much perseverance and endurance it requires.

The temperature should be more than ten degrees below zero! I couldn't help but move my stiff fingers, remembering the first winter I had experienced when I first entered the court, and I had to worry about the coldness of being frozen when I shit, thinking of a large number of volunteer soldiers who were frozen to death because they had no winter clothes, and also thinking of my comrades who were frozen to death on the blocking high ground because of the rain, and thinking of their faces as white as snow after their death, I couldn't help but shivered.

At this moment, a few footsteps came faintly in the darkness. I quickly lowered my head subconsciously and closed my eyes. It is said that some powerful snipers would sense the enemy's gaze at him. I don't know if this is true, but I do feel this way sometimes, and every time it seems to be very accurate.

The footsteps were getting louder and louder. I tried to judge the number of enemies based on these footsteps. The result made me feel relieved that the number of enemies was only five or six.

I am worried about the number of enemies because if there are too many snipers in the US military, we will most likely not be able to kill them all without missing a single one. Although the soldiers I led have two squads, the total number of soldiers in these two squads is only seventeen, including me. Moreover, because we do not have communication equipment and cannot contact each other, it is inevitable that different groups of soldiers choose the same target. So if there are too many enemies, there is a high possibility that some omissions will be missed.

And those US troops are all snipers with night vision devices. If there is a missed result, it is very likely that our army will be wiped out.

But now I can rest assured that there are only five or six US snipers, and seventeen of us can deal with them, so we can't miss it no matter what.

But soon I realized that I was wrong because I found that the direction of the footsteps was all Wang Xianru pointed out where there were mines. So I understood that these were the engineers of the US military. The purpose of their coming to the position was to clear mines so as to open the way for US snipers.

Sure enough, in a moment, another slight sound of snow digging came from the darkness, and soon the footsteps gradually faded away.

The searchlight lights disappeared without a trace with a few light sounds. This made me realize that the so-called special sniper unit of the US military would soon be on the field.

As expected, a loud footsteps soon came from the cold wind. I wanted to raise my head and look into the darkness several times, but I endured it. I kept telling myself that these Americans were equipped with night vision devices and were snipers. The little movement on the position was likely to arouse their alertness, so my actions were likely to kill myself, and even implicate all the soldiers and even the entire operation...

The footsteps were getting closer and clearer, and I couldn't help but feel tighter, because from these footsteps, I could tell that there were at least a dozen snipers in this group of Americans.

What I didn't expect was that as the footsteps got closer, a group of US snipers chose the stump in front of me and lay down, then set up a gun next to the stump...

These Americans may think that our army has not yet entered the lurking position, or that they think that it doesn't matter if we make a little noise on the high ground a hundred meters away, so they sucked coldly as soon as they lay down, and then cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, this ghost weather!"

"These damn red men!" Another American military also responded in a low voice: "We have to crawl out of the warm bed and suffer this crime, and see if I will no longer beat them to make them blood flow like a river!"

"Hey, Tom, how about we Bibi?"

"No problem! See who gets more! Two packs of cigarettes!"

"No problem, you're sure to lose!"

Listening to me, an unknown anger arose in my heart. The lives of the soldiers were just a bet of two packs of cigarettes in the eyes of these Americans. Thinking about the comrades who died tragically under their guns last night, they were even more angry and wanted to raise their pistol and try to hit their heads a few times.

Time passed minute by minute! The Americans seemed to realize that our army was about to enter the position, so they didn't say anything, and the original peace was restored to the surroundings.

At this time, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield. In the white snow, there were no one at a glance. But in fact, there were more than ten people from both sides hidden in it. Although they were close to each other, they did not know each other's location. Our army could not determine their location in the darkness, while the US army did not know our existence at all.

Especially the two US troops in front of me, I could almost smell the tobacco smell in their breath, but I couldn't do anything to them.

"Enemy situation!" At this time, a sniper in front of him suddenly whispered: "Discover the enemy situation and discover the enemy situation! At one o'clock, two enemy snipers, all units should pay attention, all units should pay attention, all rats should exit the hole and then close the net! Repeat, all rats should exit the hole and then close the net!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but feel nervous, knowing that Fan Changxin's troops had begun to act. At the same time, I also unexpectedly knew that among the two US snipers in front of me, the one on the left looked like the captain...

This is the benefit of the US military's communication equipment! They equipped each sniper with a micro walkie-talkie, which was stuffed into their ears and spoken at the same time. Even if they were lurking on the position, they could command other team members to fight together. Although these equipment is not as advanced as the short-wave radio stations that modern special forces have in their ears, for us volunteer soldiers, this can be said to be a day and night talk!

"Stay calm, keep calm..." Every time the US military captain in front of me screamed, my heart couldn't help but suck. Because I knew that Fan Changxin's mission was to attract the enemy's firepower. In other words, the more the US military was, the more he became, the more Fan Changxin had to expose more soldiers to the US military's firepower to attract them to shoot.

"Note!" Then the US military captain began to assign tasks: "The first group, the direction of one o'clock; the second group, the direction of one twelve o'clock; the third group..."

I reported to the fifth group, so I found out that there were exactly ten enemy snipers.

It was about to start the enemy's fire. I wanted to jump up several times to use the military spear in my hand to silently solve the two US snipers in front of me to stop the massacre of Fan Changxin's troops, but in the end I ended up ending.

Because I know that even if I can do this, other US snipers who are connected to the walkie-talkie will soon be alert, and my entire plan will go bankrupt!

"Open fire!"

Finally, I heard the last command I wanted to hear.

The gunshots quickly rang out. The two guns in front of me were very close to me. The "bang bang..." gunshots were almost right in my ears, which made my ears buzz for a while. Fortunately, my ears were tightly wrapped in a camouflage and a cotton hat, so I wouldn't be unable to stand it.

But what I really care about is not these, but behind me...

Because I know that every gunshot and every whistling of bullets may take away the life of a comrade. I really want to look back, but in the end I didn't do that. Because I remembered the purpose of my comrades' sacrifice, which was to allow us to observe the enemy's position.

So I gritted my teeth, endured the hatred and grief in my heart, and slowly raised my head and looked at the darkness in front of me.

I was not worried that my actions would attract the attention of the two US snipers in front of me, because I knew that the active infrared night vision device in their hands emitted a kind of parallel invisible light. In other words, the place they could see was only as big as a disc. At this time, they were shooting at our army nervously, and they could not find me under their noses, let alone I was still behind the tree stump, in the blind spots of their sight.

I took this opportunity to record the positions of the US snipers one by one based on the sparks coming out of the muzzle.

At this time, I hope that ten minutes will end soon.

But it is as long as a century.
Chapter completed!