Free Web NovelChapter 2458: Chapter 2434: Harsh Conditions
Liang Dong quickly turned on the walkie-talkie, and hearing no sound inside, he immediately said anxiously: "Mouse calling Head Sheep, the enemy’s Apache has ceased firing, a large number of soldiers have surrounded Antelope, tightening the encirclement. They want to capture alive, over."
"I am already surrounded! Repeat, I am already surrounded, the enemy is very formidable, Antelope’s casualties have exceeded two-thirds, escape is impossible, rescue is unnecessary, I will commit suicide at the right moment, over!"
Just as Liang Dong finished speaking, an urgent voice from Vorvitsky came through the walkie-talkie.
Vorvitsky’s words were urgent, desperate, yet truly calm. He was certainly not panicked, simply resigned to his fate.
"Hold on! Hold on! Cobra, hold on!"
Vorvitsky was not panicked; it was Gao Yang who seemed to be getting anxious, Liang Dong sighed inwardly and muttered to himself, "Who would have thought, Cobra, with that student look, is actually not a coward."
In the brief interval during the conversation between Gao Yang and Vorvitsky, Liang Dong said in a deep voice: "Cobra, I am near you, the enemy’s armed helicopter has stopped attacking. It seems they want to capture alive; you still have a chance."
Having said this, Liang Dong felt he had to speed up his actions. Though he alone could indeed do limited things, even a limited role can have some effect.
What can an assault soldier, a qualified infantryman cultivated by Huaxia, and an excellent Cook Soldier do? Liang Dong himself was considering this question.
Liang Dong’s gun was an HK416. Satan’s current rifles were quite mixed; sometimes the assault soldiers would be unified using HK416, sometimes unified using SCAR-L. But most of the time, unless there’s a mission requiring uniform weaponry, they used whatever they preferred.
The gun Liang Dong was most familiar with was the 5.8mm caliber 95, but 5.8mm bullets were hard to find. Though using the AK family could suffice, Liang Dong still preferred small calibers, and the AK74 was too small in caliber for him, 5.45 bullets’ trajectory was unfamiliar to him.
Having stayed in America for quite a while, Liang Dong would sometimes go to the shooting range for fun, and the most common rifle in America was the AR Gun Family. Thus, Liang Dong was very familiar with the civilian version of the M4 model rifle, leading him to choose an HK416 as his main weapon.
Actually, in mountain combat, there are rarely opportunities to fire at distances as close as two to three hundred meters, so using a 7.62 caliber rifle in the mountains is more suitable. Many in Satan switched to HK417 or SCAR-H, but since Liang Dong’s primary mission was cooking, though wearing a bulletproof vest at all times, never without a rifle slung, carrying a 7.62 caliber rifle would be too cumbersome, so he continued using the HK416.
The gun is a 5.56mm assault rifle, useless at long distances. The bullets, Liang Dong only had four magazines on him. Including the one on the gun, he had a total of five magazines, 150 rounds.
No pistol, no Grenades, no scope on the gun, and no night vision device was brought - on a bright day, who brings that. The only combat-related items he had were a gun and a walkie-talkie; besides that, he didn’t even have a knife.
More frustrating than the disadvantage of having too few weapons, Liang Dong was more annoyed that he was wearing a white robe. Though the bulletproof vest was under the white robe, he had no helmet on his head, just a checkered headscarf, and the only thing he found familiar and accustomed to were the boots on his feet.
The lack of binoculars made Liang Dong feel particularly inconvenient. Looking at the faint shadows of figures occasionally appearing on the mountain in front, Liang Dong scratched his head hard over the headscarf, then muttered quietly: "Damn it! What can be done?"
The only advantage might be that the enemy, in intense combat, hasn’t discovered Liang Dong, who was approaching from afar. But looking at the white robe on him, Liang Dong thought his being undetected might be because the enemy was blind, or they saw him but ignored him, or they simply hadn’t noticed him. However, as long as he continued to approach, he would certainly be discovered.
If Gao Yang were here, he would definitely start shooting at a distance of one thousand meters, catching the enemy off guard from behind, also helping with encirclement and delaying time. But Liang Dong neither had that ability nor the rifle for it.
"Hard work and struggle are the excellent traditions of our army. If there are no conditions, create them to go! Damn it, go all out!"
Liang Dong hid behind a large rock again, then quickly took off his white robe, put it on the ground, and rubbed it hard, whether it was stone powder or mud, rubbed it vigorously onto the white robe.
Turning the white robe black was impossible, but soon the white robe turned gray-black. From a distance, the camouflage effect was quite good; compared to the white robe, the camouflage effect was vastly improved.
Hurriedly putting the robe back on, Liang Dong took off the headscarf, wanting to do the same treatment, suddenly seeing his hand holding the headscarf, said: "Damn it, why so troublesome!"
On a barren black rocky mountain, a bit of white was very eye-catching. An Asian’s hands and face wouldn’t feel significant for those who don’t mind, but for those who do, it was very noticeable.
Throwing the headscarf on the ground, rubbing it in the dirt, Liang Dong gathered up a pile of dirt with his hands, lifted his newly worn robe, then urinated onto the dirt mound, and he did it while squatting.
The worst part was having to mix the mud while urinating.
Liang Dong wasn’t really burdened psychologically, thinking it’s just mud mixed with urine - in war, could this even be called an issue?
Dirt couldn’t be applied to the face, but mud made from urine could. Quick Hand Liang Dong rapidly and evenly spread a layer of the gray-black mud on his face, then applied it to his hands and the exposed ankles from under his robe. The dirt here is actually stone powder, which becomes very sticky after being wetted, so there’s no worry about it quickly falling off. Even if some inevitably falls off, the camouflage effect is still present.
After a three-minute delay, having simply camouflaged himself, Liang Dong immediately changed from an obvious white target to a gray-black mass of an object. As long as he lay still, even in broad daylight, it wouldn’t be easy for the human eye to spot him at a glance.
With everything in order, Liang Dong carefully surveyed the ongoing battleground, estimated the distance, calculated how far he needed to run to reach the line of fire, then broadly plotted a concealed advance route. He crouched, cradling his rifle, stopping every three steps and falling every five, heading towards the enemy’s rear.
