Chapter 1 After One Day

One day later, inland Old Mo, southern region.

In a desolate, untouched primitive forest, Fei Pingsheng led his troops, covered in mud and under the cover of night, moving rapidly.

Because they were to carry out penetrating tactical deployments, speed was essential. They had to rely on their two legs to achieve the efficiency of a car detour.

Before coming, Fei Pingsheng had imagined the difficulty of this mission. But the actual situation was far worse than he had imagined.

Su Tianyu named this mission the "Ghost Gate Pass Plan," which was not an exaggeration at all.

This primitive forest showed no signs of development. Trees, vines, and weeds grew extremely lush, covering the roads.

Moreover, the road was dotted with bottomless swamps, obscured by trees and bushes, making it impossible to see clearly. Every step had to be carefully checked.

Especially after entering here, in order to avoid enemy aerial reconnaissance, they had to march at night. The visibility at night was very poor, which led to heavy personnel losses during their march.

Soldiers often fell into the mud without warning. Before they could react, they were gone, and there was no time to pull them out.

In addition, various wild animals in the forest, as well as a large number of mosquitoes endemic to South America, constantly harassed the troops, making everyone miserable.

It wasn't just the geographical environment that was bad, but also the natural environment.

Because the temperature difference between morning and evening in the Old Mo region was extremely large, and the forest was unbearably humid. Especially in the early morning and evening, the trees were covered with dew.

All the soldiers wore thick military uniforms, and within a few short hours, they would be soaked by these dews.

When they were lying in ambush, they couldn't move. With their clothes soaked, their body temperature would be lost rapidly. The feeling was very painful, as if millions of ants were crawling on them!

In addition, this area was mountainous and in a plateau region, with thin air and extremely difficult breathing.

The entire troop was in an extremely depressed state, facing a desperate situation in a battle against survival.

Under these various factors, many soldiers had developed high fevers.

Although the troops came with antibiotics, antipyretics, and painkillers, etc., in this environment, even if they took medicine, they could not get good rest, and they had to continue to face this environment, so their condition did not improve at all, but only got worse.

The entire troop, burdened with such difficult circumstances, continued to march for another day and a half.

…

On the morning of the third day after the troops entered the dense forest, Fei Pingsheng ordered the troops to rest in place.

A large number of soldiers found relatively solid ground on their own, huddled together, and lay on the ground to rest. Even in such deep mountains and old forests, they were still very cautious, covering themselves with anti-thermal detection cloths to avoid enemy aerial reconnaissance.

Xing Yao, after covering himself with the anti-thermal detection cloth, sat on the muddy ground and took off his thick military boots.

The military boots were full of accumulated water and had been soaked through. His socks were also completely soaked, and his feet had turned white and even began to fester.

Because of prolonged soaking in water and constant marching, the soles of his feet had been worn bright red.

Xing Yao put his boots in the sunlight to dry, and at the same time took out a towel, enduring the severe pain, and repeatedly wiped his feet.

Just then, a shout suddenly came from beside him.

"Damn you, I came first! What do you want?"

"Our Third Company is always better than you in battle, right? Three of my brothers have high fevers, almost forty degrees! Get the hell out of here and let our wounded go in first!"

Xing Yao quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the shouting.

He saw several soldiers pushing each other at the entrance of a cave facing the sunlight, and it looked like they were about to fight.

Xing Yao immediately ignored the pain, put on his wet military boots, draped the anti-thermal detection cloth, and quickly rushed over. He kicked one of the soldiers who was making the most noise.

The soldier was kicked and sat down on the ground with a thud.

Xing Yao pointed at them and angrily scolded: "What the hell are you doing? Rebelling? Get into the cave! Don't stand outside! Hurry up!"

When the crowd saw Xing Yao coming, they dared not say anything, and carried their wounded soldiers into the cave obediently.

"Squeak!"

A dozen huge rats were scurrying back and forth in the cave, not afraid of people at all. Many unknown insects were crawling in the crevices of the cave.

Xing Yao followed in, pointed to the wet cave wall, and continued to ask: "Take a look inside the cave. This place is even more humid, with rats and bugs, is it much better than outside? Damn it, you're fighting over this? If there's a reconnaissance plane in the sky, you'll all be swept away! Thousands of people are playing with you? Control your emotions!"

One of the soldiers carrying a wounded soldier had red eyes and was almost crying: "Regimental Commander, my brother has been burning for two days, he's almost unconscious. I've carried him all the way, he can't hold on anymore."

Xing Yao looked at the unconscious wounded soldiers, gritted his teeth and said, "Call my medic over, and give them my medicine! You guys, find a dry place to lie down!"

The soldiers nodded.

Xing Yao looked at the ashen-faced crowd, paused and said: "Don't let me see you arguing again! Hear me? Everyone's situation is the same, including me! Everyone is gritting their teeth and holding on, your military achievements are not for bullying your own people at this time."

"Yes!"

After speaking, Xing Yao limped out of the cave and returned to the area where he was hiding.

He had just returned and was struggling to take off his boots.

Beside him, Lao Qian, also covered with an anti-thermal detection cloth, lay on the ground, glanced at him with some concern, and whispered, "Xiao Xing, we can't keep going like this! A third of our soldiers have high fevers. We definitely can't hold on with just our bodies. Why don't you go talk to Chief of Staff Fei and discuss it with him to see if there's any way to solve it?"

"Hiss..."

A piece of rotten flesh fell off his foot, and Xing Yao grinned, enduring the pain, and said: "He has a fever himself, do you think there's any way? In this environment, with no village in sight and no support, it's useless to look for anyone! We can only hold on with our lives, and grit our teeth to get through it!"

Lao Qian was silent for a while, then sighed: "Okay, then I'll go around and do some work for the soldiers."

"Go ahead."

"Don't force yourself, put some medicine on..."

Lao Qian exhorted, draped the anti-thermal detection cloth, and left here with his back hunched.

…

In the three days since Fei Pingsheng left, Su Tianyu, according to his previous tactics, organized several tentative attacks. The scale was much smaller than before, but the heat of the war was maintained.

At the same time, he also secretly adjusted the positions of the troops several times, constantly changing the positions of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Old Mo government army, the People's Army, and the Blackwater Legion.

At this moment, on the front-line battlefield, Su Tianyu was observing the battlefield in the distance where the battle was taking place. After a while, he suddenly put down his binoculars and turned to ask, "Where's Xin Xiaodong? Has he been notified?"

Dai Quan, wearing a military uniform, stood beside him and immediately said, "He's been notified, Tan Mingchao will separate from him immediately."

"Okay..." Su Tianyu nodded slowly: "It's been three days, I wonder how things are going over there..."

…

Dragon City, inside a certain underground warehouse.

Tan Mingchao, with a sallow face, put on his coat, slowly got up, and said to Xin Xiaodong: "Since the order has come down from above, there is no banquet in the world that doesn't end, we're leaving."

Xin Xiaodong also stood up, pointed at him and said, "Before the supplies were delivered, you ate all my stock... Remember, you owe me a drink!"

Tan Mingchao smiled: "When the guns stop, I'll drink you to death!"

Xin Xiaodong also laughed, then his expression became serious, and he gave Tan Mingchao a military salute with a snap.

Tan Mingchao also returned a military salute, turned and left here with his men.

…

Old Mo region, Red Hat Army command base.

A group of staff officers stood in the combat command room, their expressions somewhat silent.

After a long time, the chief of staff looked at Bahia Qiao and said to him: "Your Excellency, this matter is indeed very abnormal! Their attack intensity has been much slower than before. Moreover, the opposing troops are constantly changing positions, I really don't understand what they are thinking!"

Bahia Qiao stood at the window with his hands behind his back, also lost in thought.

In the past two days, according to the feedback from the front-line battlefield, the attack intensity of the Old Mo Allied Forces has not been as strong as before. What makes him very puzzled is, with Dragon City in danger, why has the attacking sharpness of the Old Mo Allied Forces, as well as his opponent Su Tianyu, suddenly decreased?

He doesn't know much about Su Tianyu. Because his previous opponents were Santos and Zhao Weihu.

Suddenly replacing him with such a young commander, he couldn't quite figure out the other party's strategic intentions.

Thinking of this, Bahia Qiao turned around and said slowly: "No matter what their intentions are, Old Mo is definitely the central battlefield. If they want to win this war, they must fight out of Juarez Town. So, we just wait quietly."

The members of the staff nodded.

Bahia Qiao paused, and then told his chief of staff: "Notify the command headquarters of the First District Navy and Air Force, and let them increase their detection of the surrounding unmanned areas. You personally keep an eye on this matter, it is very important!"

The chief of staff immediately replied: "Yes! I understand!"

Bahia Qiao looked out the window again, his mind plunged into contemplation. He also couldn't understand why a young man without experience in large-scale war command would serve as the supreme commander of the Old Mo Allied Forces.

…

At the same time, Generals Xin Xiaodong and Tan Mingchao separated and began to implement Su Tianyu's final battle plan, brewing a retaliatory large-scale counterattack.

Two days later.

Yu Mingyuan secretly sneaked into a city in the First District, walked into a small coffee shop, he turned his head and looked around, and saw a person sitting by the window, wearing a hat, mask, and a trench coat.